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Speaker 1: You know they've got some of the data, additional data

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Speaker 1: much what we know about Sam Banker Freed at this point,

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Speaker 1: although there's some additional information out there about just who

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Speaker 1: was getting the money, right, that old old important thing

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Speaker 1: to keep in mind. Follow the money. This is from

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Speaker 1: the Twitter account unusual Whales, which is verified, and he

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Speaker 1: has the money here from mister Sam Bankman Free. This

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Speaker 1: how the LIB media is now finally finally deciding that

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Speaker 1: people who got the money, because they kept saying Republicans

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Speaker 1: got the money too. Who's the Republican Okay, hold on

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Speaker 1: a second, Yes, there was some money given. You can

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Speaker 1: stalwarts as Lisa Murkowski for Senate. HM. Almost like they

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Speaker 1: he allegedly defrauded out of billions of dollars. And there

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Speaker 1: According to the Daily Mail, here a quarter of Congress.

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Speaker 1: But when I looked at unless the data that I

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Speaker 1: is then we should endorse that objective and stop behaving

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Speaker 1: as though we sort of want a victory but not

428
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: a total victory. Either we want rushed to lose or

429
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: we don't. Yeah, it is kind of wild to think

430
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: about about where we are headed here. Are you optimistic?

431
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: You just wrote this, this entire book looking at the

432
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: direction that our censorious culture has gone. You talked about

433
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,959
Speaker 1: maybe the political pressure, the banded Boston angle, and some

434
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: of that maybe starting to filter into Netflix. We certainly

435
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 1: saw the biggest and most successful hit of the summer

436
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: across many different age groups was Maverick Top Gun or

437
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 1: top Gun Maverick, I should say, which had almost no

438
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: woke related commentary inside of it. Are you optimistic that

439
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: we're coming through the tail end of this or do

440
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: you think we have a bunch more years left? I

441
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: think we have years left, but I am optimistic that

442
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: we've reached peak woke. That is a great example of this,

443
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: not because it's anti per se, it just is in

444
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 1: pro It didn't advance any of the themes of this,

445
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: you know, it didn't have this plotting didactic narrative, which

446
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: is very puritanical. That has to have modern contemporary mores

447
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: forced on you, and that can't be subtle because you

448
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: can't be trusted with some Maverick did not come out

449
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: as a pan sexual member of the France community yet

450
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: that yeah, who knows. But yeah, I do think we're

451
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: coming out of the end of that, and I'm optimistic

452
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: about that. And I'm optimistic to a degree about the

453
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine. I don't know how that ends, and

454
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: it might not end in a way that the West

455
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: would see is satisfactory. But I certainly I don't think

456
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: that Russia calculated properly the degree to which NATO would

457
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: respond in a sustained material way to its aggression. I

458
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: was surprised by the response and the cohesive response, because

459
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: the Russian strategy has always been to break NATO's alliance,

460
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 1: and that would be to test the frontier, to force

461
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: Paris and London in Berlin to contemplate a real war

462
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 1: with Moscow for Talin, and the assumption on Moscow's part

463
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 1: was that the NATO would blink. I don't know if

464
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: they think that anymore. I certainly don't think that anymore.

465
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: So there is some benefit to come out of this

466
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: in the form of a very reinvigorated, cohesive Atlantic alliance,

467
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: which will certainly stay Russia's hand in the future. That

468
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: also means we probably our adversaries have misjudged us, and

469
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: we've probably misjudged them. So there's a lot there's a

470
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: lot more misjudgment coming. Check out No Rowin's book The

471
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: Rise of the New Peorgians Fighting Back against Progressives. War

472
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: on Fun. We are all fighting the war on fun

473
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: because we want to have fun here. Thanks so much,

474
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 1: No appreciate it. Thank you guys. Take care of Florida

475
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: Governor Ryan DeSantis. You played in the Little League World

476
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: Series as a kid up in Williamsport, right, That's right,

477
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: And it was the type of thing where we at

478
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season in Dunedin, Florida, our motto

479
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: was WWT. We wrote that on the bottom of our hats,

480
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,959
Speaker 1: and that was for we Want Taiwan because Taiwan at

481
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,199
Speaker 1: the time was the juggernaut and they would win the

482
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Speaker 1: Little League World Series. I remember not and you know it.

483
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: Then it then came out years later that you know,

484
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: they were winning twelve year old Little League World Series

485
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: with fourteen year olds. But nevertheless, that's just the way

486
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: it was, and so that was kind of our goal.

487
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: So we started from the district tournament, sectional state Southern

488
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: Regional back then was Texas all the way to Virginia

489
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: in the entire southeast at thirteen states, and there were

490
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: only four American teams that would make it back then,

491
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: and so that was a huge, huge undertaking and we

492
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: made it and we didn't end up playing Taiwan, but

493
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: it was it was a heck of a ride. And

494
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: just as now as a parent, and yeah, my kids

495
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: are five, four and two, So the two olds have

496
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: played t ball. Okay, they both like it and they're

497
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna want to do it probably going forward.

498
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: But you do appreciate how much the parents have to

499
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: put into these seasons. I mean, we were practicing every day.

500
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: You're traveling around the state for all these tournaments, and

501
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, all our parents had to work

502
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: and do all that stuff. But you basically go along

503
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: for the ride, and so you don't really have summer

504
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: vacation plans when you're in the heart of Little League

505
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: summer baseball in the road to Williamsport preach it. I'm

506
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: in the middle of that right now. Now, I'm curious,

507
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: do you still have VHS tapes of that run? When

508
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: was the last time you watched something from your Little

509
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: League World Series team? You guys, ever have any reunions

510
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So I went last year. They

511
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: asked me to come for the Dunedin Little League closing

512
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: ceremonies and that was the anniversary. So this is twenty

513
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: twenty one. It was the anniversary of our Little League

514
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: World Series run. And I when they asked me to

515
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: do it, I'm like, yeah, man, I can't believe it's

516
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: been twenty years. So like, no, no governor spent thirty years.

517
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, time flies. But so we

518
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: had some of my teammates were there and we were

519
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: able to do that and then we were able to

520
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: speak to obviously all the current players and the families

521
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: and whatnot. So that was a neat thing. And that

522
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: was the same fields that I played on back when

523
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Back then we had Duney National,

524
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: which is what I was. You also had done Eed

525
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: America and they've since added those. That's just one little

526
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: league now. But it's interesting. When I was eleven, uh

527
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: Dunney National we lost in three games and we were

528
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: out so very quick All Stars and Nope, you didn't

529
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: have really much of a chance. But Dunney American was

530
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: one game away from william Sport they lost in the

531
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: Southern Regional Championships, and that kind of gave us the

532
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: notion that, hey, maybe we can do it when we're twelve,

533
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: and so we ended up doing that. But we had

534
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: dunned An American one game away from going in two

535
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety and then Dunny National my team made

536
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: it in nineteen ninety one, So pretty incredible for one

537
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: relatively small municipality. I think, by the way, you also

538
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: played at Yale. And if I'm not mistaken, George Bush Senior,

539
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: wasn't he the Yale baseball camp captain as well? Am

540
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: I wrong? Or is that an overall? He was? He

541
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: was the Yale baseball captain in nineteen forty eight, and

542
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: so he had already served in World War Two and

543
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: then went to college after that, And back then Yale

544
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: would go to the College World Series. You know they were.

545
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: They were a good program. But the most iconic picture

546
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: in the history of Yale athletics is Babe Ruth coming

547
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: to Yale field to get an award from the Yale

548
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: baseball team in George Bush forty one gave Ruth the award,

549
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: and Ruth he died within like a year, so that

550
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: was like one of his last public appearances, and so

551
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: that's something that's kind of reverberated. Now. I was the

552
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: baseball captain in two thousand and one there and it

553
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: just so happened to be Yale's three hundredth anniversary. So

554
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: they did this big jubilee in the spring to kind

555
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: of celebrate that, and Bush forty one was kind of

556
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: the featured speaker, so he was in town for that

557
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: and he asked to come and meet with the baseball team.

558
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: And so I was getting ready to go out to practice.

559
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: So Yale Field is not on the Yale campus. You

560
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: kind of got to take a bus. It's in West Haven, Connecticut,

561
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: and so you go. They'd run buses from the athletic

562
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: department out there. So I'm getting ready to go on

563
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: the bus, no different any other practice. The athletic director

564
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: yells from me. He's like, hey, are you are you

565
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: going to go out to practice again? He said, get

566
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: out the hurry up pretty But I'm like it was weird.

567
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: Why would you do you care with it? So people

568
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: are like, ask give me about practice, like it was

569
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: this big deal. Well, I get out there to the

570
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: field and there's all these guys with suits and the

571
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: earpieces in kind of like in the bullpen area, and

572
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: I'm looking at myself. I'm like, this is really where it.

573
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: So my coach called me over and he's like, listen,

574
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: he's like, you see those guys out there with the suits,

575
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: their secret service agents. George Bush forty one is here.

576
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: He's like, you tell all those guys before he comes here,

577
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: do not drop any f bombs in front the former president.

578
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: And so I was like, okay, I but he came

579
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: out and basically just started, um, you know, talking about

580
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: you know, our season and everything like that. But I

581
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: thought that that was really that was really nice of

582
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: him to be interested in coming out there. And this

583
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: is a guy that obviously had had done a lot

584
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: in his life, and he was a really nice guy.

585
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: And at that point, you know, I was somebody. You know,

586
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: I was a blue collar kid from the Tampa Bay area.

587
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: I end up there playing baseball, but I had never

588
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: really met anyone that was that was that well known,

589
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: and so it was kind of an interesting thing. But

590
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: since I was the captain, I welcome him. The Yale

591
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: field introduced him to the team and we had, you know,

592
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: we kind of had a Powwell session there all the

593
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: way back in two thousand and one. Are there pictures

594
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: of that or video of that? I don't think I've

595
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: seen it. You know, it's interesting. There definitely our pictures somewhere.

596
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: So it was the local paper in new Haven, the

597
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: New Haven Register was there and they were taking pictures.

598
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: And so I remember after that happened, one of the

599
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: guys at the athletic departments like, you need you should

600
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: get that picture. Send it to him. He'll sign it

601
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: to you and give it back. But you know, I was,

602
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: I was graduating, I had all this stuff going on,

603
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: so I just never did it. So so they are

604
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: out there somewhere. They may not be on the Internet,

605
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: but but they're definitely there, probably within the newspapers archives

606
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: there you go, apb, I bet we've got people who

607
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: could track that down. We'll see if we can find

608
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: somebody out there to define that. Now, by the way,

609
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: how would you assess your baseball if you were a scout?

610
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: What would you have said about Ron Decantis college baseball player,

611
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: how would you have assessed your game? You know, I

612
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: mean I was a good Division one player. I think

613
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: I had three thirty six my senior year. I always

614
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: hitting him. I was a four year starter. I always

615
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: hit in the middle of the lineup, third, fourth, fifth,

616
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: I stole I think my coach. Actually, I had him

617
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: come when I was running for governor and I had

618
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: him do We did a rally and I had a

619
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: bunch of people just speaking. People I knew from the

620
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: military or congress would say, hey, you know, Congressman to

621
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: Santa's great guy. Here's what I know about. Well, he

622
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: spoke about about coaching me and everything, and he had

623
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: the crowd in the palm of his hand. He's like

624
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: five hundred activists down in Boca ratone and he said,

625
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: now listen. People asked me, it was a good player.

626
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: Here's what I'd say. I calculated his career stats, and

627
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: I calculated Bush forty one's career stats, and Congressman to

628
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: Santis hit one hundred points higher than George Bush forty one.

629
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: And everyone started to happen about that. So seeyeh, it

630
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: was fun, but it was interesting. The guy that succeeded

631
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: me as captain of the Yale baseball team was a

632
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: fellow named Craig Breslow, who was a left handed pitcher

633
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: from Trumbull, Connecticut, and he got drafted I think like

634
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: the fifteenth twentieth round. He got released after year or two,

635
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: but then he got hooked up with an independent ball

636
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: He started throwing in the low nineties, hands up in

637
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: Double A with the Padres and Lo and behold. As

638
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: a left handed pitcher, throw in ninety two, you know,

639
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: you're one call away from the big league. So he

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Speaker 1: ends up in the big leagues a few years after

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Speaker 1: he graduates from Yale, and he ended up playing twelve years.

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Speaker 1: Fast forward to me getting elected to Congress in twenty twelve,

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Speaker 1: and people know that I'm friends with him, and they

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Speaker 1: know that we played together. So these these reporters would

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Speaker 1: ask me. They're like, yeah, your friend Craig Breslow playing baseball,

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Speaker 1: you know for I think he may have been for

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox. Then he's like, he's like, why didn't

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Speaker 1: you play in the major leagues. I was like, if

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Speaker 1: you think I was good enough to play in the

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Speaker 1: major leagues, and I would choose Congress over the big leagues.

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Speaker 1: You're nuts. I mean, of course I wouldn't be in

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Speaker 1: Congress if I could do it so, but it was

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Speaker 1: interesting to be able to see that, and he ended

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Speaker 1: up having a really good career, and I think, other

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Speaker 1: than Ron Darling, he probably had the longest pro baseball

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Speaker 1: career of anyone that has played at Yale,