WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.040 The bizarre part of Schindler's list is as Stanley Kubrick said, 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:08.359 only Steven could make a movie at the Holocaust that 3 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:09.400 has a happy ending. 4 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.640 He got a funny joke for it. What about the 5 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:14.119 other colla? 6 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:16.320 He was a little older. You know, you look like 7 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:19.480 the Marlboro man. Oh yeah, but maybe I'm saying that, 8 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:21.359 you know, because he smoked a lot of Marlborough's. 9 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:24.199 Uh you know, like a subconscious type of thing. 10 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:25.559 Oh yeah, that can happen. 11 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:26.600 Yeah. 12 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:28.600 Hey, they said they were going to the Twin Cities. 13 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:31.879 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that useful to you? 14 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:45.399 Oh you betcha? Yeah yeah. 15 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:47.880 Well it's the middle of August, It's the middle of 16 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.840 the Democratic Convention, and it's glop culture. I'm John pon 17 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.920 Horts in New York with Rob Long also in New York, 18 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:59.439 Hi Rob, Hi, John, and Jonah Goldberg in Washington, d C. 19 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.000 Hi, Joe, Uh hey, John? How are you? 20 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:09.640 I am? I am ready to take the field with 21 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:14.560 coach Walls. I'm inspired. I'm going to start a gay 22 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:21.319 club that he can be the faculty advisor of. I'm 23 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:21.560 going to. 24 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.159 Mow out of town. 25 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.519 The Federalist is just going to quote John Fodor saying 26 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:28.959 I'm going to start a gay club. 27 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:33.640 Yeah, I'm going to mow his lawn when he's out 28 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.680 of town. And I'm going to ignore the fact that 29 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.079 for the last eighteen years I've been a working politician, 30 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.879 because that's of no interest to anybody when it comes 31 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:48.040 to politics. As the vice president of the United States, 32 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:52.519 I will be America's best small town assistant coach. 33 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:57.000 Ever. Well, actually it's a pretty good definition of vice president. 34 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.400 By the way, Well, you know you got to point there. 35 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.359 I mean, he might have cracked the code. What do 36 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:06.799 what should you be doing a vice the United States? 37 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:09.919 You should be coaching Little League or something, or you know, 38 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:12.759 be as faculty advisor to some high school club. 39 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.240 Hey, by the way, since you mentioned vice president, this 40 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:20.039 is something John and I both talked about back during 41 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:24.240 the Bearisma. I No, this's not on here. It's like 42 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.800 either a commentary or text or whatever. But like, so 43 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.280 you guys like talk to when I'm not around. 44 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.319 Lives outside of this podcast. And didn't we invite you? 45 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:35.240 Didn't you know we had. 46 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.840 I didn't get ye. Remember we were talking about on 47 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:41.240 the bat do you have. 48 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:43.319 What do you guys? 49 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:43.879 Wait? 50 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:50.680 Wait, wait you guys, but I oh, I meant meant to. 51 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.199 I think it went to your junk like junk. 52 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:57.599 Yeah, like a kick in the junk what it is 53 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:02.199 club that John started. 54 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:10.000 We were talking about how like these guys in Coazakhstan 55 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:12.840 or wherever they kept thinking. They kept talking as if 56 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:16.199 and so did all of the Republicans trying to get 57 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.919 the goods on Biden talking about the vice president being 58 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:24.680 the second most powerful politician in America. 59 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:26.599 Had the scam, right, that's right, I heard a scam 60 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:30.680 of the Biden crime family. Right, is that they seduced 61 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.840 morons outside the borders of the United States, and the 62 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:37.520 thinking that the vice president States had any power. It 63 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:40.240 was like I have my brother ten million dollars. Sure, oh, 64 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.080 here you go, here's ten million dollars. 65 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:47.280 But we are very lucky we have the vice president 66 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:49.039 of the United States in our pocket. 67 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:55.120 I've been hearing this about uh Kamala Harris all week 68 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:58.759 from like various sort of slate queen boosters. She's the 69 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:03.960 second most powerful person in America, and it's like she's 70 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:04.639 not even the. 71 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:08.680 Twentieth most powerful person in America. That's what's interesting. No, 72 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:11.919 it's it's like in every cabinet secretary has more power 73 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:13.800 than the vice president of the United States. 74 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:14.280 Well. 75 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:17.279 Also, it's not to get to encroach too far into 76 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:21.319 commentary territory. But Schumer this week did that thing again 77 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.560 where he talked about himself being the highest ranking Jew 78 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:26.560 in American history. 79 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:27.839 It's just it's just the. 80 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:33.439 Way he says it, like, yeah, like he broke he 81 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.680 was elected, he was he. 82 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:40.839 Of the of Like he's elected by twenty six people. 83 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:43.800 Basically he's also he also says it, just which is. 84 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:49.519 More than elected than elected Kamala Harris has had more 85 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:53.800 votes cast for him in the caucus of the Senate 86 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:57.319 than Kamala Harris as yet had cast for her in 87 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:58.360 a presidential bid. 88 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.199 Yeah, but the cent a majority leader is not a 89 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.800 constitutional position, you know, like, uh, it's not in the 90 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:09.120 line of succession for the president. It's just this like 91 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.199 who says that the governor of Pennsylvania isn't a more 92 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.680 powerful sure politician or the governor of Minnesota. 93 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.079 Yeah, for that matter, I do. 94 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:25.199 Like it's the highest ranking Wow, that's you know, you 95 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:27.639 know I talk about Lemons lemonade. 96 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.600 All right, can I just read you something from the 97 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.839 Times of Israel last night? This is so, of course, 98 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:38.399 as we're talking. There's still this fantasy that there's going 99 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:40.959 to be some kind of a ceasefire hostage deal that 100 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.519 is not going to happen, which has basically been pushed 101 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.800 by the Biden White House and base. What Israel has 102 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.720 done in responses to go, sure, sure, whatever you say, 103 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:56.959 Sure we agree, we agree with you. Let's make a deal, right, 104 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.839 because of course Hamas is not going to agree to anything. 105 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.079 But here is the lead of the Times of Israel story. 106 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:07.439 Prime Minister Benjamin Anaho spoke with US President Joe Biden 107 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:10.519 by phone on Wednesday's efforts to reach a hostage shield 108 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:14.240 floundered after recent optimism that breakthrough was in the work. 109 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.480 So remember that the reason that we had this optimism 110 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:19.040 is that, among other things, Joe Biden, in his speech 111 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:24.199 on Monday night, said I wrote a peace treaty, which 112 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.319 you know is like what he write the Treaty of Ghent. 113 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:29.480 I mean, I know he's old enough to have written 114 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.160 the Treaty of Ghent, but I mean he wrote a 115 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:39.680 peace treaty. Anyway, here's the second paragraph. Vice President Kamala Harris, 116 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:43.920 the Democratic presidential candidate, also joined the call. According to 117 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:47.199 the White House, During the call, Biden quote stressed the 118 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.839 urgency of bringing the ceasefire and hostage release deal to 119 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:54.759 closure and discussed up Timington, Cox and Cairo to remove 120 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:57.639 any remaining obstacle. The White House said in a readout 121 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.279 of the conversation, So why am I this up? Because 122 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:08.040 Biden is on some bullshit call with Nett Yellow and 123 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.480 she's saying we got to steal done, and Bibie's going okay, 124 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.600 and Kamala Harris is on the phone going we must 125 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.399 be unburdened by what has been and being again said 126 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:22.879 what is done? Because they're just trying to say, okay, 127 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:27.759 you know what, she's on the call. She matters, She's 128 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:30.959 really really important to this here. 129 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.079 It's always the problem with the vice president running. 130 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:38.839 You know who wasn't on the call, Kamala Harris. I 131 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.519 would wager money Kamala Harris was not on the call. 132 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.639 The way when you listen to the convention, then I'll 133 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.920 stop ranting. The way you listen to the convention. It's 134 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:53.519 like I've known Kamala Harris for twenty years, my friend 135 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:56.279 Tim Walls, and you know that most of these people 136 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:59.519 have literally never met each other. They're like doing the 137 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:02.920 duet with Frank Sinatra where they're in the other studio 138 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:06.439 singing the duet with Frank Sinatra, who was like lying 139 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:11.120 on a gurney because he is basically near death. They 140 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.399 don't know Kamala Harris. They don't know. 141 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:15.800 They were at a conference with her once. That's usually 142 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:18.680 what it is. I've been friends with her since the 143 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:23.680 Democratic Attorney General's Association meeting that I had a twenty 144 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.879 minute speech I gave and then left. We both waited 145 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.680 for the same elevator. Yeah, yeah, And I was angry 146 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:32.279 because I didn't know who she was and why was 147 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:33.360 the elevator not just for me. 148 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.080 I've told you, I told you, Yeah, I told you 149 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.039 as a kid that I got trapped at an elevator 150 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.240 with Art Carney, didn't I And I told this story. 151 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:40.600 I can hear. 152 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:43.759 Yeah. My friend Michael lived in the same building as 153 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:45.759 Art Carney in the elevator. He got in the elevator. 154 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:47.440 It was ten thirty in the morning. It was like 155 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.080 Christmas vacation. The elevator broke down. Arc Corney was in 156 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:53.279 the elevator. Don't worry, boys, Everything's gonna be fine. And 157 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:55.840 he was reeking of gin like at ten thirty in 158 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:59.200 the morning. So it's kind of sad. It's like that. 159 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:03.279 It's like, oh, then then I could then accept our 160 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.960 Carney's oscar. That's what this is like. It's like my 161 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:07.799 friend Carneys asked me. 162 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:10.039 A lovely man. 163 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.039 Yes, I feel that way. 164 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:17.559 I feel that way. That two I had two encounters 165 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:19.960 and two people I don't really know. I mean, uh, 166 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:25.240 Jennifer Aniston and Jake Jillenhall. These are separate encounters. But 167 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:27.759 in both cases, I was waiting outside of a restaurant. 168 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:29.240 Jake Jillenhall story I think I might have told you 169 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:32.679 already is actually quite sweet. Is outside of the restaurant 170 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.159 in Malibu with my dog. We had just been going 171 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.159 to beach and so that I think it was heat 172 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.279 that I know she go the dog. I was wet 173 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:41.799 and kind of you know, and I was getting a 174 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:43.840 muffin and coffee, and Jennifer Aniston came up and said, 175 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:45.559 oh my god, your dog's beautiful. And I said, oh, 176 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.279 don't careful because if you get too close, she's gonna shake, 177 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.799 and she's covered in sand and seawater. And then Jennifer 178 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.320 and said, I don't care. And then she went up 179 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:57.000 to my dog and she was wasty to my dog. 180 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.559 That was our full, full, real personal encounter which I Ranison, 181 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:02.600 who I now, by the way. 182 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:04.399 Is one of your closest friends. 183 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:06.759 Love and adoor and I will I mean she she 184 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:08.720 really could do anything. And I'd say, let taste. Let 185 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.200 me tell you a story about Jennifer and Aison you 186 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.840 may not know, and then I'll tell them that. So 187 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.320 you know, that's that's how it happens. That is that's 188 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:17.679 how it's supposed to work. You know. The small I 189 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.240 had a friend who worked was an intern is a 190 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.840 million billion years ago for Senator Alan Cranston, who was 191 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:27.840 the Center from California for many years. Apparently truly a 192 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:31.360 loathsome character, but whatever. And his his job as an 193 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.559 internet was Kranton was giving a speech somewhere at one 194 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:39.720 of these DC ballrooms and he's get to give the 195 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.039 speech and then he had to go, and the elevator 196 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.360 was in the back of the room, right, so the 197 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.039 elevator opened up the ballroom. And his only job, my 198 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:51.440 friend's only job was at this point in the speech, 199 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:55.200 you need to press for the elevator and you need 200 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.639 to hold the elevator here because at the end of 201 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:00.960 the speech, the senator is going to walk down from 202 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.200 the ballroom, shake hands and then get in the elevator 203 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.039 and go. What you don't want is for him to 204 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:10.240 wait at the back of the room after the applause, 205 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:12.559 awkwardly waiting to leave the room. So you just got 206 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:17.120 a whole the elevator, which he forgot to do. And 207 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:21.240 so Grantson gave the speech and there was applause, and 208 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:22.759 it is the great and he made his way down 209 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.679 the aisle and he said he saw then he saw 210 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.000 on the senator's face that there was a problem, which 211 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:29.759 was that there was no elevator there, and he began 212 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:33.399 frantically pressing the down button, you know, like, and then 213 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:37.919 there was that awkward five minutes of course, where he 214 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:40.519 the intern in Cranston stood at the back of the ballroom. 215 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:44.080 As the person said, well we like to thank Senator 216 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:48.759 Cranston for the wonderful speech. To thank you again, Senator Cranston, 217 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:50.960 everybody took turned around quietly and then kind of waved 218 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:55.720 and smattering of applause. It was great. So I don't know, 219 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:57.080 I don't know how that was relevant, but it's made 220 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:57.639 me think what. 221 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:02.919 Horrible passive encounter of you had with somebody that is 222 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:04.039 incredibly memorable. 223 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:06.440 I don't think we're going to go there a good 224 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:07.600 green room, have about. 225 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:08.120 A good green room? 226 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:12.159 Yeah, well, I have a good elevator story, which. 227 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:15.240 Well, so this will be the third elevator story. 228 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:20.120 Yeah so, which is one of the most underappreciated Cold 229 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:26.080 War thrillers, the third Elevator. But the it's not about me, 230 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:33.000 but Alan Keys, Like we I love stories about bad bosses. 231 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.000 I'm kind of just certain kinds of stories I love. 232 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.000 I love stories about people who are terrible clients for 233 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.759 their lawyers. I always get entertained by that. And I 234 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:48.919 love stories of just really horrible self involved bosses. And uh, 235 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.440 this is a now thirty year old story. But back 236 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:55.759 in the days of what was it National Empowerment Television whatever, 237 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:57.600 I think Alan Keys had a show there. 238 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:58.759 It was one of those things. 239 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:04.240 And he and an intern are getting on an elevator 240 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:08.960 and Keys goes in first because he's Alan Keys, and 241 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:14.399 he's standing by the button panel in the elevator and 242 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:16.720 the intern is in the far corner of the elevator 243 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:21.720 and Keys turns to the intern and says that button's 244 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:27.879 not going to press itself because it was the kids 245 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:31.159 job to press the lobby button in the elevator, and 246 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:34.679 he couldn't be bothered even though he was closer to it. 247 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:38.519 It's weird, though, that I sided with Alan Key. It's 248 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:39.080 a little weird. 249 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:44.759 It's because you, Okay, that is an amazing That is 250 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:50.720 an amazing story. I I bad boss stories are are 251 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.440 in fact, utterly, utterly fantastic the best. 252 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.279 I have so many John McLaughlin stories, but I don't 253 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:00.639 feel like it's my face to trap victim because of 254 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:02.600 what didn't happen to me. And I have plenty about 255 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:04.320 Robert stories. But Ben wasn't. 256 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:05.279 It was he was. 257 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.320 He was not a great boss, but he wasn't that 258 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:08.080 kind of boss. 259 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:11.360 It wasn't maligned right yeah right yeah, something in a 260 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:16.360 bad place necessarily. Yeah. So, uh, this is a so 261 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.879 I made fun of Tim Walls. Here's what I was thinking, 262 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:25.320 Tim Walls. Coach Walls. You know, he had the he 263 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:29.399 had the the ex linebackers behind him at the stage 264 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.000 and so wonderful and he was their coach and all 265 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:34.759 of that. So a friend of mine, who was a 266 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:39.639 successful comedian, text me and said, when did it become 267 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.519 the case that we were supposed to stop hating the 268 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:50.000 high school football coach. Every nerdy person in America hates 269 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:55.600 the high school football coach John Goodman in the nerds, right? 270 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.000 Is the high school foot is the college football coach 271 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.960 who kicks the nerds there dorm right? I say it's 272 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.519 probably Kyle Chandler in Friday Night Lights. 273 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.639 I think that's what That's what I would say, Yeah, maybe, yeah, okay, 274 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:09.559 But it is interesting because he's such a I mean 275 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.240 there's I mean, I would I would love to get 276 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:15.200 I mean, they didn't have them. If there are any 277 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:20.279 transcripts of those meetings where the football coach was sort 278 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:25.679 of asking inappropriately awkward questions to the gay kids, So 279 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:27.840 let me ask you a question, Well, which you want 280 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.200 to use the girlfriend? Which you want to use the boyfriend? 281 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:32.399 I just come, I want to know. I just know. 282 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:34.720 It was like, you know, just trying to be an 283 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:38.360 ally in this weird awkwardness. So if you worth hearing, so. 284 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:42.600 I am my peeve and I may write about this, 285 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:47.960 so whatever. But Waltz has this thing. He's now said 286 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.159 it five thousand times. It's clearly his stump speech thing, 287 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.000 and it clearly polls. Well blah blah blah blah. 288 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:52.279 I'm not. 289 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:56.519 I don't even disagree with it on the merits. I 290 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.919 just think it's not actually true of his governing style. 291 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:03.320 But he said night in Minnesota, we have a golden rule. 292 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.519 Mind your own damn business. Now, if I was going 293 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:13.000 to list the states where that frame where, like if 294 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:15.000 you did a blind test and you say, okay, what 295 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.840 state has an unofficial model mind your own damn business? 296 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:20.240 You might say New Hampshire, you know, live for your die, 297 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:26.320 might say Wyoming or Texas, Vermont. You would not say Minnesota. Right, 298 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.399 that's the land of passive aggressive. 299 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:32.080 Boy. 300 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:32.720 You got a lot of. 301 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.320 Groceries there, eh, you having a party? 302 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:36.600 You know. 303 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.679 It's like That's the thing about Minnesota is like it's again, 304 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:43.080 I am trafficking in stereotypes. 305 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:44.600 I've heard from people to as, you're. 306 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:50.440 Not trafficking in Minnesota and Wisconsin have a call to 307 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:54.480 call themselves. Historically the two most progressive states yeah in 308 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:57.799 the country in the twentieth century, like the Progressive movement, 309 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:01.600 the Progressive Party was a party in Wisconsin. Robert LaFollette 310 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:07.119 the Progressive candidate for the Wisconsin's president right and Minnesota 311 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.480 was dominated for the first eighty years of the twentieth 312 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:14.680 century by a party called the Democrat Farmer Labor Party 313 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:23.039 that was the most left wing state party. Yeah. Culture, 314 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:25.880 I don't even know you believe mine's I know, culturally, 315 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:27.119 I mean. 316 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.839 Like Scandinavians, like in Sweden. I believe it's still the case. 317 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.960 You can look up anybody's tax return on the web. 318 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:37.839 You can find out what your neighbor's made. 319 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:38.200 Right. 320 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:40.640 It is just a cultural thing to be in each 321 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.440 other's business, and it's just not like mind your own 322 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:46.160 damn business. Is just not a Minnesota model? 323 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:51.000 Is that using the word damn? Look I am I 324 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:54.720 am half Minnesotan. My mother was a Minnesotan. My mother's 325 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:56.000 family's from Minnesota. 326 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:58.119 You can tell you have that you kind of a 327 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:03.279 buncular folks neighborliness, your fondness, lyrificentater tots gave it away. 328 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.880 Oh you know, I say, I say Tennis Shua's and 329 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:10.000 I say, Pap, would you like some pop? Aren't twotoned? 330 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:12.000 I'd be really happy. 331 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.039 We know you just moved in here to the to 332 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:16.119 the co op on the upper west side, but the 333 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.160 padorance is down the hall. We're having a kind of 334 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:21.440 a coffee cake thing. We'd love to have you join us. 335 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:24.880 Oh yeah, and you know what they don't do. What 336 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:30.119 my family didn't do was curse. They did not see 337 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:35.759 mind your own DM business. That all that sounds? So there? 338 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.279 I that is the accent. What are you talking about? 339 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.559 I'm not watching Fargo. That was the accent that my 340 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.759 mother strangled out of her body. 341 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:48.079 You got you very Fargo Fargo. 342 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.440 I was always very upset and my sister Ruthie, who 343 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.640 doesn't even better Minnesota, acts very upset that Fargo came 344 00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:02.000 along because we were the possessors of America's greatest Minnesota accents. 345 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:05.960 And then the Cohen brothers from the Twin Cities came 346 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:11.240 along and made that a cultural phenomenon and ruined our bit. 347 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.359 It was like my bit I could slay with a 348 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.279 Minnesota accent, and then Francis McDorman and they all accents, 349 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:23.000 total sleigh. And yet then it became like, oh, you 350 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:24.039 just saw Fargo. 351 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:26.319 It's like, yeah, well that does happen. 352 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.720 That was my bit and they stole it, and I'm 353 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.559 still bitter. It's like thirty years later and I'm still bitter. 354 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:36.400 Alrighty then already, well. 355 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:38.200 Now maybe I should talk about Shopify. 356 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:42.000 Sure, well, yeah, since you're already into. 357 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:49.440 Yeah, I want to talk about point of sale rab Okay. Look, 358 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:54.279 what's something that works so well that it is basically magic? 359 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:58.680 You know, air conditioning, noise canceling headphones. 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Was the best, was the 388 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:23.880 best moment, and I think in a convention that was 389 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:27.400 Tuesday night the best moment maybe ever at a political 390 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:31.799 convention in terms of the when they want to entertain you. Yeah. 391 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:35.480 Also, was there the recreation or I actually say the 392 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:38.519 reinvigoration of that thing which I've always loved. The whole 393 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:40.880 point of the conventions is the roll call vote, because 394 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:43.079 every state gets to like wear a funny hat, and 395 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:47.519 Idaho the Potato state, and it's always great, and so 396 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:50.799 they kind of like they kind of adjusted it. I actually, 397 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:52.720 I mean I even say this about the r n C. 398 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:57.799 Was that after a year of the COVID I mean 399 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:01.759 or one cycle of those terrible COVID conventions which didn't 400 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:05.160 work and didn't seem you know, just seemed sad. It 401 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:08.400