Roderick on the Line

00:00:00 ◼   ► hello John how are you hi Merlin a la [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► lune man i gotta work on something [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► what do you recommend what do you think [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► what would you how would you like your [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► name son it's not really as my name [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► isn't as single as your name like that [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► man is like like asking for christmas [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► present right i should come up with [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► something [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► well i don't know i mean that people [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► have tried to give me theme music I've [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► always felt like the best theme music I [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► ever had a butter was on tour one time [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► and butter one of those little 99-cent [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► keyboards in a thrift store and it had [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► it had like 10 presets on it [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► preset buttons like that play little [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► themes and one of them just said [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► oriental top equation congratulations [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► John that's a new record it would be 54 [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► seconds to ping phone when you press the [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► button is the keyboard a little a bit [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► keyboard just went did and so I carried [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► that keyboard around on tour her like [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► three weeks and every time like before I [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► would enter a room I would just put the [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► whole keyboard through the door and push [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► the button did it tonight after like a [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► month of that how much feed her that [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► horrible will sit down let's straighten [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► someone's heart it was so great because [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► it was one of those jokes that that [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► stopped being funny and then got really [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► funny and then got really funny and i [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► love this i just wish i had a half but [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► like like that music everywhere i go i [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► used to one of that's like that today [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► they called a soundboard we go to a page [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► and you can make Arnold Schwarzenegger [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► noises of the big lebowski always were a [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► vest you know that by the plate sad [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► trombone or uh oh yeah yeah yeah exactly [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► something like that are bong ironing [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► like I want I don't want I you gotta be [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► honest with you I don't think of myself [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► as a distant dishonest person I don't [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► have an entire affected like fake [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► audience but i would like the [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► opportunity to punctuate my own not that [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► funny jokes with the south [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► effect ah uu there's a part of you that [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► wants to be a morning DJ it's a very [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► very small part that the probably [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► dropped a lot you hear great morning DJ [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► though I could be a morning DJ it's i [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► don't mind getting up early i don't like [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► driving fingers you could have been a [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► morning DJ I got it I could have been a [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► lot of things John our age group we [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► really have to transition from talking [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► about things that we want to do or could [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► do start talking about things that we [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► could have done that big transition I [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► could've been in the Special Forces yes [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► i am now no longer eligible for the [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► Special Forces I should have listened to [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► my bowling coach because he told me [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► something that sticks with me to this [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► day [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► go ahead ask a question with a question [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► at this point you probably coach John [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► you can't have a bowling team without a [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► coach up not only I'd like to get back [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► let me strike that it wasn't it was not [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► a bowling team was a bowling club right [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► ok so he was a booster club leader [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► bowling i was employed club not a lot of [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► laser that's good way to put it i mean [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► yeah i think you regard himself as a [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► coach you have one of those little those [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► creepy little MIT where when you're [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► serious bowler you know you know this [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► creepy little things that like bowler [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► guys we're not know you're not about a [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► glove [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► it's a kind of club but it's a really it [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► looks like a swimming glove-like hit the [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► web its web [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► I just I've never seen somebody wearing [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► one of those who didn't look a little [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► bit like a discount supervillain when [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► i'm at what I'm wondering is does that [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► give you an unfair advantage in the in [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► bowling the only higher fare advantage [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► is what mr. trapani taught me which is [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► starting when you're young he would say [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► he was also graphics is also the [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► graphics teacher the graphic ret AP [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► history so that doesn't look like Jabba [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► the Hutt mr. Dallison what up boy you [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► wouldn't like you know I'm gonna make a [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► note card about AP History I'm gonna [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► make an original arcade derek [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► congratulations John up saying what [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► 16-17 history [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► let's come back to mr. Ellison what I [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► contain this quickly and we shoulda said [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► what was his advice mr. data center mr. [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► at your panty mr. trepanning mr. trapani [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► rights on two cars just don't forget [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► don't listen [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► his wife was the the Dean of girls so it [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► seems like some kind of racket to me mr. [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► japani us eighth grade when I really [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► like graphic arts you know where you're [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► like learn to use a compass and [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► protractor and make with the [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► orthographic orthogonal what are they [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► called the 3d looking drawings you know [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► the cube the mysterious 3d cube so yeah [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► perspective and perspective [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► well in a sense the capital p you [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► learned a kind of respect i learned a [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► kind of perspective kind of perspective [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► you can get in pasco county in 1980 and [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► mr. training said he would say ruefully [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► ruefully he would say I think from the [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► tri-state area [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► I'm guessing he wasn't really he said it [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► with roo with that kind of love you make [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► a lot of room and he said he said [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► ruefully he said any shaky-shaky was [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► roomful rueful yeah like room yeah and [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► he shake it shake his bearded head and [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► he'd say guys i really wish i had [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► started doing this when I was 14 he says [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► because bowling is one of those games [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► where if you started if you guys took [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► this seriously he was super nice [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► he said if you stick with this and you [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► do this a couple three times a week you [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► could go to the show you could go to the [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► show you go all the way to the top play [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► with the big boys wherein the wearing [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► the metal cleats homeland and he said in [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► he said look that's the thing now you [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► know I i inferred inregister active [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► everything that's true of tap dance [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► that's not true that's not you I mean [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► that's the dental professional secret [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► she started young when she started on [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► all that exciting tsui you I don't think [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► that's true football I think you have to [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► be a pirate case I think you got to be a [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► little bit [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► oh no I mean you certainly have to be [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► big but but that's self-selected to be [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► gay [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► not really i don't think i don't think [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► that's a prerequisite [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► ok let's get me they can perfectly dog [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► fighting who [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► good point um no I think I mean some of [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► that stuff is self-selecting calling [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► that Gulf of a coffee try really hard [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► coffee get good i bet you do get good [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► yeah that's a lot of I mean there are a [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► lot of things that you can't get good at [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► no matter how hard you try if you're um [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► motard who right i mean that's that's [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► good but I don't think I wish we had [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► that word [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► there's two words you and i love that we [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► just can't use [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► a two there's two very special words [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► that most artists is his offensive it [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► isn't any cricket John that's like you [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► know what you really want to say if you [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► have if you have parties like calling [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► somebody a maggot [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► tap quick little maggot quit acting like [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► a magnet for a mag are such it's just [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► such a fag butts so Maggie you could say [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► you could say flame tarde you could say [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► you could well you can't say float art [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► because that's a girl I know but you can [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► put tired at the end of anything and [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► it's it's automatically offensive is [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► horribly offensive anymore into the [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► harmful that's the only ppl just like [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► two winners in Canada you should have a [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► medical procedure more often this is the [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► John this is the John you know I think [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► if you keep it fresh [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► I'll do all the clown tardy dicked hard [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► ground hard on the fucktard you don't [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► look at me a clown tarde [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► look II know that from you as fuck [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► staying I never and I was a kid I've [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► never heard that before [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► well fuck spain i mean is there a lower [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► thing tantrum a stain [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► yes and forum that's right Santorum fans [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► have a channel when I do not want to [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► talk about tea party you don't want to [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► talk about politics and mr. sharp and [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► mr. Schmidt was rueful he was good man [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► he was what you don't want to get a [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► giant jar Drew he had ruined i don't use [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► the first bedroom yeah yeah Louisiana [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► sauce it's got flour in it or through [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► this a little of that Louisiana sauce [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► that leaves your friends manuscript [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► names on it easy and resolved through [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► the baby kangaroo and winnie the pooh [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► all through short for roofie a rifle all [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► but they ready you're having a stroke [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► alright here's a link to the first 1i [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► have today mr. miss her panty was [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► supervising Minister Mr detlefsen I was [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► not in AP History I'm not you cannot be [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► a nice teacher if your name is dead love [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► some know in that awful it used to just [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► you're born pretty you get a cold sore [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► just saying that out yet listen deadlift [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► shrimp seem like a nice guy [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► deadlift shrimp that left shrimp [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► he was a basketball player back in the [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► old days [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► back in Seattle had a basketball team [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► well the Sonics that's right and wear [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► this wear this all here we go again now [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► wear this on it so don't tell me they're [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► in Iowa know Oklahoma City Hall for the [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► love of Christ that makes me angry John [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► and I hate sports you know this about me [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► i hate sports but I only thing I hate [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► more than sports is people who like [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► sports and people who can suffer the [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► idea of a regional name going to a [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► different fucking place is so goddamn [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► woman semi and now they're called like [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► the the Oklahoma City gold stars or the [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► Oklahoma City like just like a sex thing [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► there likes the sunshine rainbows now or [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► something and get their name they have [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► one of those expansion names I don't [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► care about sports either now but all the [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► new teams like the old teams have names [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► that that I don't know maybe it's just [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► because they're old Utah Jazz don't get [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► me started on Utah Jazz Utah Jazz that's [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► terrible it doesn't make a lick of sense [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► what the what the hell is and what the [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► hell is a like a Oklahoma City sunshine [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► rainbow that's no name for a basketball [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► team at the Panhandle state that that [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► state does have a pan and it's one of [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► the few states that she called the [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► panhandlers the Oklahoma panhandlers you [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► know Alaska has a panhandle to that we [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► call the past she said really called me [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► i want that little less a little Wang at [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► the bottom right well there are two [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► wings as the recent events and away [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► ok is it is kind of the peninsula [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► archipelago it's an archipelago the [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► great when I go to a good luck just so i [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► could say that sounds awesome [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► now here's the thing about mr. Dallison [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► I never had AP History I was inclined [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► toward history [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► yeah we're we're truly truly the the one [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► point in disguise mention this before [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► another program but the the teacher of [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► the class who was a coach that was some [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► it was no no this is mr. i don't know i [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► think having a borrowed name [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► oh ok but this guy my class this guy [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► actually one day said that as part of [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► this treaty the Indians would get the [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► native americans we get that two-fifths [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► of the land or forty percent whichever [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► was more so that was a good class now my [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► friends name had AP history which is [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► advanced placement history that's right [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► and mr. detlefsen was famous for two [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► well if it was just a hard class in [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► general but at he has floundered 23 no [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► no sorry it's just down back to Sam [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► class a p.o this guy like Jabba the Hutt [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► right is in the racket with his wife and [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► he mr. Dennison superclass any I think [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► he did to every semester 2 20 page [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► papers you know i don't think i ever [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► wrote one 20-page paper in high school [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► that's not normal for high school get [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► you ready for this your second 20-page [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► paper this is i believe the day before [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► like christmas break or whatever you [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► know one thing also mr. Ellison demanded [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► the AP History always be 4th 4th period [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► right so that you could take his test [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► through lunch [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► yeah what a tough ass ok so you gonna [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► happen but the second 20-page paper was [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► I was ninety percent of your grade [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► oh no no this is a giant giant party or [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► great to get this December whatever 21st [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► you go in there 22nd whatever you go in [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► there is no schools always out by [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► December 18 sorry i was already fly [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► should check this day before christmas [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► starts christmas break you go right [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► there i tried a put your 20 page paper [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► on my desk [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► yes be you got your final or semi final [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► though you have to take now [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► yeah i'm gonna put it down in front of [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► you but this is a real this is a real [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► blue book you ready for this yeah [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► discuss World War two [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► that's the question how fucking great is [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► mr. detlefsen discuss world war two [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► exactly take as long as you want [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► I I would have taken that test all the [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► way through lunch i'm going to get [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► through today you'd still be sitting [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► there would be could be writing writing [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► on your rear in World War two [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► if you could get a degree in world war [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► 2i would have I would have a PhD you did [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► would be no cold war without warranty [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► John and I have to tell you that with [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► heavens i don't even know where to start [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► with that state now at the time that was [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► merely one of those like I don't know [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► you know the kinds of stories you hear [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► those stories again like the teachers [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► with the paddles with the holes in them [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► this is one of those things but this was [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► real sure and will be history in the AP [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► History at tracks the kind of teacher [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► who justifies any manner of sadism by [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► saying that they are preparing you for [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► college I'm preparing you for this is [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► what its gonna be like in college i'm [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► preparing [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► so it's the first time it's the first [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► time in your school career if you can [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► call it that somebody actually makes [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► good on that bullshit promise that [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► they're not going to treat you like a [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► kid next year [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► ya hear that you have their fucking [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► preschool only time we get the 2nd grade [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► they're not gonna treat you like a kid [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► anymore you're going to use sharp crayon [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► use cursive you know but of course then [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► it's just a bunch of bullshit about [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► standing in line I can't tell anybody I [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► think I think discuss roll or two is [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► maybe the greatest bluebook question of [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► all time [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► it's wonderful and separates the men [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► from the boys the wheat from the chaff [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► what you what I maybe you what I would [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► not have known then that I know now is [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► you just have to write for something [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► really fucking awesome about an aspect [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► of that right you don't have to go like [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► and then this happened and then because [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► you're sexy like you don't have to just [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► spit out everything you know you have to [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► write something coach it fits in the [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► book like I do that now right [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► well that's that's what's true about all [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► essay questions I mean they're just [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► looking for you to be you can you can [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► you can you can show that you have a a [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► canada language yet but de menezes madam [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► tuba if you can show that you you have a [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► deep knowledge of it of a topic by just [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► kind of skating across the top of it if [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► you if you write with confidence but [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► that's the problem in high school you [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► can't you can't count on you can't count [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► on even ten percent of the kids being [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► able to write imagine imagine like for [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► example I don't you know this stuff at [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► me but imagine a lead that was something [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► like you know whatever with 20 million [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► dead and that it happened he would [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► imagine if you 1500 you see I'm already [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► i'm already off to think that's it and [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► go back to the train car like you got a [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► book and now you say who wrote a guest [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► with the Cold War beginning to get the [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► two sides these great allies broken [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► apart who would have guessed this all [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► began back in this train car this all we [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► get him on a summer day in 1939 [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► hehe that's not nothing was that was [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► Versailles quick [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► don't overthink it what the treaty of [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► versailles know the place with the [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► fucking mirror is John 3 verse i was [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► nineteen nineteen nineteen community [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► center Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► president teddy roosevelt no was real [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► Wilson Woodrow all of course he's on the [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► money what money [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► woodrow wilson on he's on a hundred [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► thousand dollar bill haha up the Woodrow [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► well that's why all the rappers are like [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► yo give me the woodys give me the [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► Wilsons hope it's all about the Wilson I [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► hope I'm right about this [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► yeah yep google it hundred thousand [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► dollar bill Woodrow Wilson is on the [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► hundred-thousand-dollar built like a [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► light John they're not a lot in [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► circulation [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► well imagine feel how bad you would feel [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► if you lost that if I lost that bet [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► well no no I mean not you have already [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► lost the bet but I'm saying if you happy [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► dont know what it's been a good year [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► I'm just gonna go get well see that [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► those bills are four banks those bills [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► are four banks only terrible and during [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► the gold standard having a hundred [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► thousand dollar bill Woodrow Wilson is [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► on the hundred-thousand-dollar bill [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► yeah that's pretty cool if you were to [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► land on the three-dollar bill you why I [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► oughta [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► hey there they don't let those hundred [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► thousand dollar bills out and this is [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► the thing that's very front hold them up [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► to the light in Europe they have 500 [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► euro bills that are in that are in wide [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► circulation 200 euro bills 500 euro [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► bills again it's like a grand 500 euros [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► know it's like six hundred dollars that [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► this is Europe your ear open yeah okay [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► I'm but but there but we have five [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► hundred dollar bills here but you can't [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► you can't they won't give them to you [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► letter concerning the 20 the 10 to 20 [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► because of the 80s McKinley President [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► McKinley's a five-minute Bill now you [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► got me thinking about this crazy about [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► who there's a website that i was on very [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► recently that tells you how much your [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► coinage is worth if you melt it down [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► just for the melt weight of the metal in [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► the coin [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► I do not want to know that for pennies [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► with me so angry [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► it's pretty nuts for pennies it's costly [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► doesn't cost like two cents to make a [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► penny [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► oh it's I think Penny's are worth more [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► than to sense now [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► nnw stealing copper pipes [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► Jesus Christ what is wrong with this [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► country John what you know what we need [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► is that was still in copper pipe for a [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► long time [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► everybody's always trying to steal your [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► comfort wipe the hard it's a copper pipe [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► problem but no here that this this [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► website i'm gonna do is i'm gonna plug a [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► website it's called coin solution COI n [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► Fla tion dot-com conflation and it will [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► tell you the melt value of your coins [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► yeah it's really really really really [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► cool I don't say this often [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► John but this is what are the resources [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► at those fat cats in the government do [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► not want you to know about that's [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► exactly right so just like a 1964 [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► quarter 1964 quarter a is worth like [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► well it's so worth like four dollars [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► four dollars and and thirty cents in [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► just in silver weight have you find one [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► of those if you find in 1963 quarter in [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► your pocket jam and you think like oh [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► yeah that's probably worth something [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► they're still using that pre-embargo [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► silver at that time pre-embargo silver [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► yeah what you want to get a van or [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► something like that you know before the [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► you know I you know Kennedy Kennedy [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► stocked up on Havana cigars before the [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► embargo you know that right [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► oh and Margo silver mhm that's one way [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► of putting it [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► whoo voice is really amazing 95% copper [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► look at that now you know Nicholas a [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► carcinogen you know that right well if [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► you smoke it [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► boom how do you do it put in my nose [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► yeah I said I use them as a suppository [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► I stick a roll of nickels up there you [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► can find a five-set suppository [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► somewhere i don't think so [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► well no not now that nickels worth a [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► dollar fifty is a simple this is a [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► fucking upside-down society you know mr. [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► dad listen I would we should get in [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► touch with him and find out what he [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► thinks of this discuss melted coins [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► don't talk about mr. Devlin some he [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► sounds like a real [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► part ass he was he was huge [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► I got kicked out of AP History know this [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► is when your mom was to confess anything [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► special school you know this was a [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► scandal to kick you tell me about it [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► well so [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► ap history right here you're supposed to [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► get college credit if you if you get a [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► good grade in AP History you can i'll [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► give you credit for when you college [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► really take that isn't that kinda like a [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► like a like a traveler's checks if I [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► think if you go to Princeton they [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► probably don't care about your AP [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► History exam but uh but maybe you know [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► what the University of Alaska Anchorage [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► maybe you can skip freshman history or [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► something i think at the University [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► self-weight clip out the first two years [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► trying to call its automatic junior but [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► in my case I i was in this history class [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► and and I had long long since stopped [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► paying attention in school and I i was [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► taking a makeup exam out in the hall and [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► I had my history book in the little the [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► little rack that was attached to my that [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► was bolted to my wheelchair desk combo [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► thing and and at a certain point in the [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► test i looked down and flip through the [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► pages and try to look see if I could [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► figure out when the war of 1812 was or [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► whatever the hell question he was asking [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► and he can heat the teacher was out in [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► the hall and he came around the corner [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► and saw me cheating they're cheating [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► scandal and he gave me an F and was and [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► he actually cried real tears like you [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► were one of my favorite students and [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► you're cheating and just I couldn't [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► believe that you would do such a thing [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► it's a betrayal of the hearts awful [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► education and and betrayal of of you [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► you're betraying yourself and all this [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► terrible stuff it was just like a real [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► burden of guilt and shame for my [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► cheating scandal which was me looking [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► for flipping through the table of [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► contents of my history book alcohol it's [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► not a waste [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► eating though right it was cheating is [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► cheating all right it was changed is [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► that your calendar and I think history [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► class but in any case am at the end of [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► the senior year I've told you this story [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► I didn't have enough credits to graduate [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► because i graduated last in my class in [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► high school you graduated last in your [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► class I was like absolutely last in my [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► class I had the idea 1.2 cumulative GPA [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► through four years of high school I i [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► was i was out on the light nice grouping [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► on the list of graduating seniors they [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► were like 25 guys 25 people who had [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► higher GPA than i did that were actually [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► held back and not allowed to graduate [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► couple that died [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► there's a horse dick they called me in [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► but the principal and the guidance [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► counselors and the teachers were they [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► they they called me down to the office [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► and they were all there and they said [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► look we talked about it and we don't [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► want you to come back so here you'll see [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► here in AP history that you you have an [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► F but we're going to award you the [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► credits and we're giving you some credit [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► for your extracurricular activities [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► kompong you know you don't anti social [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► promotion that you'll see over here in [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► column B that's saying and so [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► congratulations good luck Godspeed to [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► you got a diploma [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► oh yeah and and and the thing was that [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► the student the student body knew that I [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► didn't have enough credits to graduate [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► though the word leaked out in the month [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► up coming up to graduation and so it was [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► already a scandal it was you know buzz [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► buzz buzz you know Rogers not going to [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► graduate buzz and so right up until the [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► day of graduation it was it was still [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► that mean like it was still a a matter [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► of contention some people are saying no [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► of course he's going to graduate some [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► people were there people are betting [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► cases of beer back and forth [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► and then and then I i walked at the [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► ceremony and when they called my name it [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► was like it was he heard in the hole [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► because it's the graduations in the big [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► auditorium you know you heard them like [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► 75 raspberries across the room like [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► think they're like John Roderick just [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► people all through the hall making [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► raspberries and Leslie faculty parking [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► their little air horns it was a it was [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► it was kind of rude actually but that's [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► how it played out and there's so much [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► wrong with that on every level [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► I just that is really sick yeah did they [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► let you do that and that's the way [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► that's the way that's how it goes [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► is it stopped yeah exactly i'm gonna see [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► being a real nuisance I've heard about [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► some of your customer service problems [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► in the past but even the faculty John [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► and it wasn't like they said oh you're a [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► good kid they give you a little Chuck on [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► the shoulder and say good luck at [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► Gonzaga or whatever like this is this is [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► going to be that that'sthat's really [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► that'sthat's a holocaust John they [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► should never let you graduate that's [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► ridiculous [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► ya know there was there was nothing [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► about it there was like oh you you nut [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► it was very much like don't come back [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► I I mean I completely understand and I [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► think I mean I see my position was I [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► wasn't that bad but I i see the other [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► thing was at our graduation everybody [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► went to graduation now how fucked up is [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► this this is this is very lucky in a [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► closet kind of thing you go to [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► graduation you sit there they call your [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► name you gotta go like even if you [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► failed out you still have to walk know [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► all that's cruel and if you didn't [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► because you know that would strip the [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► seating right so you can be brutal they [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► hand you a case with a blank case [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► there's no deployment and it looks like [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► you got to play over there is no [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► deployment no way but but you're but [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► people know all your friends know maybe [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► I did not know until I looked inside [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► whether i would have a diploma [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► wow I was I was right out i was right on [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► the edge for all I know is a clerical [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► error but like I said I felt two classes [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► was a senior i was i should have [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► graduated but it not somehow it happened [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► i think i was taking like geometry and [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► 12th grade you know I it's a bit sad [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► that's a busted-ass system you know I [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► mr. debt listen now that that's a guy [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► who could really turn things around you [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► know San mm no I don't because I don't [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► be honest detlefsen could turn around [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► see what I i don't know i mean i don't [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► have systems broken but ok so i'm not a [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► conversation with a girl today on the [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► phone [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► wow they marked my calendar a business [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► conversation in a business capacity NPR [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► right and this girl got the Irish epr no [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► no she's in you know she's some in some [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► music business capacity let's just say I [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► and halfway through the cover you know [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► she works at an office where I have I [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► have business dealings they're in town [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► not in Seattle [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► okay and I said that to a halfway [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► through the conversation was like hey so [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► have we met before and she said my don't [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► know and I was like oh oh did I ruin [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► your life [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► that's weird um are you sure you don't [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► know I would think that you working in [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► an office that deals with musicians [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► would know if you had met me but ok [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► that's fine and so we talked a little [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► bit more we got to the end the [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► conversation I said well thank you very [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► much for your help and she said yeah and [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► then there was a long pause and I said [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► okay then bye [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► and she was like oh my and it felt like [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► I was I felt like I [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► was in I like I was in Teletubbies land [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► and I'm a and this is a we're talking [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► about real money this girl and I what [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► we're having [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► grabbing the this is like high-powered [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► business convo it isn't about agreeing [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► to do things about agreeing to do think [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► that's serious stuff [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► yeah I was giving her verbal [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► authorization for 24 to make some money [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► that's a strange way for someone on that [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► call to talk yeah and she's talking to [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► me like that to Teletubbies thing and [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► you could tell from her voice that she [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► was in her tool in her twenties but [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► potentially in her early twenties and I [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► imagine maybe that she was wearing some [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► some skin tight jeans and maybe some big [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► white sunglasses but even and end up [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► like a Palestinian scarf but even so her [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► phone her phone etiquette was so [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► off-the-charts in the wrong direction [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► bad but it made me think that the that [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► it was ultimately the fault of the [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► American schools who but more than that [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► like further evidence of this thing that [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► we're always talking about this that the [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► end times that as represented by like [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► like the the sweeping waves of fake [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► autism that we call me call youth [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► culture now [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► yeah you get a resolution to this no I [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► huh [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► I wasn't even sure that we had hung up i [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► SAT and stared at my phone for like 30 [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► seconds I was like is that we are we [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► done [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► I've had a lot of conversations with [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► people that go like that in the last [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► five years and even excluding the fact [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► that i don't like talking on the phone [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► and I talk too fast [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► I i I've often say this to people i will [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► actually sometimes say that people are [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► you checking your email right now [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► oh because I can I mean I know I talk a [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► lot it can hear that he not be taught be [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► listening em up [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► uh i ah yeah um oh my ok I think I think [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► that's awesome crazy know that right [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► there ok so you like that huh did you [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► hit with a sock full of pennies like [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► what's going on little was that for a [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► long time I carried on all phone [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► conversations while playing a computer [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► silent you see how much he says it keeps [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► you in the right zone for a phone call [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► yeah yeah but then I realized that no [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► that's false i was too much of me was [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► being used up I was not actually I was [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► not actually in the phone conversation [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► as much as I needed to be [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► I cannot do it John i might as well be [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► like driving on a highway and trying to [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► chopped green peppers [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► I cannot do it's so obvious and i'll [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► actually stop and say things like and I [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► should not try to do two things at once [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► yeah I mean you know I I you know John I [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► got on with you i think it could be the [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► schools i think it every step of the way [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► this is messed up i think you are both [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► examples of white people who got to [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► graduate from high school that should [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► know i think that's ridiculous [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► yeah i mean all of my teachers were [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► really almost all really stupid some [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► more awesome my drama teacher my drama [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► teacher was amazing she was great [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► on the one hand we did we clearly did [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► not do what was asked of us who and so [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► in that sense should not have been [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► allowed to graduate from high school [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► because we did not perform the tasks but [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► on the other hand i personally I feel [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► like I never should have even gone in [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► the front doors of high school thing is [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► to say they used to say that you know [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► what separates us from the Soviets and [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► say you know the Soviets they go in and [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► buy whatever some great doesn't matter [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► i'm sure they're making it up anyway [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► they go in and they pluck you out of [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► there and give you a test and not [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► everybody gets this nice education [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► you're getting when they're 14 you would [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► be like learning how to work a lathe at [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► this Brides and I don't know if that's [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► true or not but i kinda wish i had that [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► I don't need to shoot a dog into space [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► without any contingency plan for the [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► dogs ever coming back this is why we [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► lost the Cold War was our fear shooting [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► dogs then we lose the cool [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► I you know you're the expert ya know why [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► I'm talking with you i wish the Soviet [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► system in a slightly more improved way I [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► had been there to benefit me I think [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► they should have looked for people who [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► are riding ASEAN their folder you know [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► and we're talking how to work out a [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► lathe and we're a little heavy [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► I think you're saying are you saying [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► that you'd be happier right now like [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► working a metal press somewhere I don't [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► know what kind of work does he do [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► here's the thing here's one of the got a [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► lot of people don't like there's to hit [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► about America [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► okee do you know why they give people [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► the s80 you know this [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► SATs are according to keep the black man [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► down right right i mean so hard for now [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► and just go to absolute know the reason [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► that they do it as i understand it is [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► that of all of the like like I don't [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► know like fucking chicken bones they [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► come up with to the sky decide how you [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► will be quote unquote successful in [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► college and let's be honest it's not [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► like you get out of secondary school and [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► suddenly everybody's really smart like [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► it's a whole big broken system and but [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► supposedly SATs are the single best [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► indicator of success in college I don't [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► know if that is true that's what i was [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► told at the time and that's what you [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► have to take the s80 because they can [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► look at stuff like your essay or they [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► can stuff your grades in your community [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► blonde again this is 25 years ago so i [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► don't have to still the case but that [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► was that was the thing but success in [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► college is no indication of success in [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► life [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► yeah but if you don't go to college your [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► life is going to be a lot harder so if [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► you don't do that s80 well did you [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► graduate from college [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► yeah yeah you got a college diploma uh [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► yeah how come it's not hanging [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► prominently on the wall of your living [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► room I was ready right here by my [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► divinity degree and I yea well you have [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► a degree in divinity [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► well you know I actually hate that I was [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► all made up I i do you have a diploma i [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► am a mail-order Minister like everyone I [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► know that sir but I have a friend who [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► lives near the Universal Life Church [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► there's an actual building [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► yeah the guys pickup truck is full of [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► pamphlets apparently anyhow just go down [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► there i'm a universal life barely keeps [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► a lot of money around the house stuff [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► why I up [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► well you know I never graduated from [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► college hang on i thought i thought you [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► had a master's degree i'm a college [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► dropout huh yeah [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► so you got you got you got socially yeah [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► you gotta antisocial yun socially [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► promoted out of high school and you [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► didn't graduate from to colleges [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► yeah right are you did not do a thesis i [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► have more than enough credits to [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► graduate probably easily i don't want [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► your stupid diploma fuck you you know I [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► just have never it's much more like yeah [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► I haven't filled out the paperwork to [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► graduate in London after looking to ask [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► you anything about this John it just [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► makes me feel like I still gotta hand in [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► the game you're saying you didn't fill [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► out a form and therefore after your [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► family paid all that money for you to go [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► to college you are not college graduate [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► because you didn't go to the registrar [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► one day [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► well I'm is more complicated it's a [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► little more complicated there's several [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► days I didn't but the registrar but but [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► never got much of that administrative [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► bullshit there was that in college there [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► was so much at least my school was so [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► poor state school there was a lot but i [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► had i had i lucked out and really lucked [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► out they ask you to leave [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► what are you gonna ask me to leave but [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► my first day at the University of [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► Washington to Gonzaga was on a quarter [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► system [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► I'm sorry comes and goes on a semester [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► system and the u-dub was on a quarter [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► system [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► okay right so the credits don't don't [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► all transfer it or if they don't they [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► don't transfer straight across [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► uh-huh and so that's just a tat a good [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► slashed weird school that's not unusual [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► at all my school would hardly give you [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► any credit for anything because they're [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► not even that we don't have that class [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► here just work better than all those [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► other really end up nowhere within this [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► they were just like oh you gotta who [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► from a what [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► well maybe we'll give you a quarters [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► worth of credit for that semester [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► classes he knows again intellectual [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► pawnshop [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► absolutely so I show up at the guidance [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► counselor's you know the big guidance [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► counselor office where there's wait it's [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► a waiting here it's like a it's like a [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► bus station waiting area there's 60 kids [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► waiting all who've taken a number and [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► erotic their doors on either side [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► they're probably 15 or 20 different [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► guidance counselors and it's just like [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► your number gets called [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► and you go in the door of the next [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► available guidance counselor who will in [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► the next half-hour decide decide your [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► fate in college and also your this is [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► going to be your guidance counselor for [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► the rest of your time here like this is [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► a person you're going to see over and [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► over again and i'm sitting in the lobby [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► and I'm just like a god I'd it i hate I [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► hate everything about this and and [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► because of that whole business with [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► Gonzaga where they were like what we [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► won't include your permanent record with [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► you you know if you go now we won't we [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► won't send all the disciplinary files [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► along with you I had no proof that they [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► had not done the witness protection so [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► I'm sitting in the lobby you know kind [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► of like bouncing my feet back and forth [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► just kind of like okay i hope this goes [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► well and I get called into the office of [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► this time cancer who is a a woman she's [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► about four foot eleven she has a Dorothy [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► Hamill haircut she probably weighs 96 [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► pounds and NPR Toback and she has an NPR [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► tote bag and she's this darling little [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► pixie of a lady who uh who was an [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► attorney for many years and then [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► transitioned into this role of the [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► University of Washington guidance [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► counseling I'm not sure why I never did [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► figure out why and she brought me in and [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► SAT me down in the chair and we started [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► talking [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► the conversation got very flirtatious [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► and she came around the desk and sat [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► down in the chair next to me and said [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► let's see what we can do and she went [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► through my gun sagar credits and she was [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► like oh well we don't have this but we [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► don't have this class here but here's [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► what I'm going to do we'll just call it [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► the next highest level class and we'll [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► just say that you have credit for all of [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► and she took my two years at Gonzaga and [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► she translated that into me being [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► halfway through my junior year what with [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► a major in Russian lit and a minor in [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► art to double minor in like ancient [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► greek and philosophy is going to check [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► that and I was just like tell me more [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► and then she asked me out on a date come [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► on [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► yeah this sounds like a pass forum it [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► was incredible and we went out for like [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► several months while you were [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► matriculating I was 22 [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► she was 38 and she was she held my [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► future in the palm of her hand literally [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► and literally that wasn't all she held [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► in the parliament who and she she would [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► use that sometimes to get me to do [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► things in the romance exhaling sexy pic [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► this to she would remind me of the power [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► that she had not over his future [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► it was a total may September reverse [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► sexual the the reverse of what you [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► normally think of as the sexual dynamics [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► power dynamics is she really had me not [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► exactly under her thumb but if I step [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► that allowed chi she applied sort of [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► pressure and she was a tiny little pixie [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► of a gal and but had no compunction [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► about like giving me the giving me the [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► business [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► bring me the riot act what'd she say it [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► overtly or was like wow you know [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► three-ring binders can have papers fall [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► out like well yeah exactly that type of [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► thing and one time called my mom she [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► couldn't get ahold of me [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► oh that is so creepy called my mom was [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► like this is John's guidance counselor [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► I'm concerned about his well-being [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► do you know his whereabouts that's [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► insane [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► my mom you know god bless her just smell [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► the fish richest melt smelled something [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► fishy right away she was like what [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► whoo-hoo [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► this why are you calling me here and [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► really gave her like kind of scared her [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► in the opposite direction like this is [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► highly inappropriate that type of thing [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► and she never did that again but uh but [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► yeah eventually the relationship ended [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► kind of disastrously but not before not [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► before all those papers have been filed [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► let's just say I waited until all the [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► paperwork has been filed and was stamped [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► and sent off to the to the great [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► warehouse in the sky but uh but you know [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► it was a fairly was an eye-opening [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► relationship for me as it as a young man [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► because you know you're not you don't [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► usually get into those kinds of scrapes [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► you think you're the only one [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► well I certainly was her her cause she [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► mad she might have people behind other [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► doors that year [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► well she devoted a lot of time to me i [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► did there wouldn't have been a lot of [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► extra time for free time for her to have [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► other undergraduates but um you think [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► she did a lot of mentoring over the [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► years she she certainly she certainly [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► mentored me and a you know Marilyn I [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► have to say as a young man I had a [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► tremendous charisma which he gave with [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► that unlike now now I think you would do [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► it can you categorize me as a as a [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► grotesquerie but at the time i was [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► sitting in an unflattering office [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► lighting you can really pull it off at [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► the time I you know I used to wear [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► sweaters a jauntily draped across my [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► shoulders who huh [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► I you know I was one of those guys that [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► were Levi's that had been dyed a [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► different color so they were just [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► regular Levi's they were had a purple [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► tint to yourself you're selling past the [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► clothes I don't know how she could that [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► I had a lot going on but anyway that's [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► another example that John I mean what a [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► fucking travesty that's ridiculous [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► it's it was it was another in a long [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► line of incidents or another in a long [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► line of of a of happenings where I [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► walked away saying well the next guy the [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► next guy in her office is probably going [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► to get [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► he's probably going to get his bed [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► short-sheeted because she just gave away [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► the farm to me and you know the next kid [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► that comes in is like I've got these [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► transfer credits from wazoo and she's [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► just like nope sorry [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► start over so I I have to imagine that [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► it's just it's not precisely like a [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► sales kind of position but what credits [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► they take it certainly going to affect [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► the school's bottom line on some level [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► I'm going to make this mercantil but if [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► you take a ton of credit for stuff [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► you're not only other undercutting your [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► selling short me in a almost the true [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► sense of the word you're selling short [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► your own academic credentials but you're [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► also harming revenue like she basically [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► you should have gotten shit you should [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► wait for two more years of school like a [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► man right that's great that's ridiculous [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► yeah that ought yeah it's super [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► frustrating [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► well especially especially since i [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► didn't i ended up still didn't graduate [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► yeah you don't you should do you should [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► you should look her up on facebook and [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► maybe maybe she can move a couple things [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► around while which you know probably [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► purple i do should be 55 or so [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► well let's see i was 22 then and I'm 42 [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► now so she would be 58 that's a nice [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► that's a nice time to hear the phone [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► ring when you're 58 sure remember me [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► died Levi's hey remember me [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► mhm i don't know i think we would I [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► think that if I think about the way we [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► left it I think we would pick right back [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► up where we stand outside our window [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► with a boombox up i'm sure she kept her [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► figure [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► yeah too bad you couldn't the the [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► amazing thing is that those people wield [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► so much power the registrar and I mean [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► the capital R registar school the person [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► who headed up that whole administrative [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► department looks like the girls at the [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► DMV that you know the song alcohol gets [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► the other gals the gals of the DMV is [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► actually the last time i went to the DMV [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► yeah every single person I dealt with [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► was a guy you sure absolutely positive [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► food and make them do all the work [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► there was there was there was a whole [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► string of guys but then i was getting at [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► that top-secret driver's license so what [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► you're getting at [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► no wait a minute was there more [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► favoritism for you here I got a [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► top-secret driver's license I didn't [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► tell you about this driver's license and [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► I got let's follow up on I'm gonna hear [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► but tell me about that they got driver's [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► license is now in washington state that [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► function as like set as a like junior [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► varsity passports so you can cross over [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► land any over land border into America [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► from Canada or Mexico plus any arrival [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► in America from a ship if you're on [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► board a ship this sounds so made up [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► no no Andy state government is allowed [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► to give you federal clearance [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► yeah you can use this driver's license [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► now the game is not that is not real if [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► you arrive if you arrive either by land [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► or by sea it sounds like something you'd [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► buy on like a sheet of like like scored [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► Avery sheets like a cheap business cards [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► come up but just that sounds ridiculous [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► it's a real thing and it's good that my [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► the driver's license is embedded with [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► all those biometric information and [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► let's not forget setting but that's what [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► he said and they make me carry it in a [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► in a tin foil chief so that people can't [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► scan it when I walked through public [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► places [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► also it's got a Darth Vader like this [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► letter heart-rending are fit on it and [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► they're like no you gotta carry in this [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► to file tin foil wallet small wallet now [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► catch I really sincerely hope this is [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► true and washington state is I think the [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► first state or the only state that has [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► the special advanced driver's license [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► and it was a real watershed moment for [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► me as a citizen because for many years I [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► didn't have any government ID at all and [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► I i issued citizenship know you're born [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► in the United States and then because I [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► because I did not want to be complicit [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► in all the and all the master nations of [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► citizenship I don't shoot frustrating it [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► makes what makes you frustrating is is [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► not only that you get off easy on this [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► stuff but you do it by a fucking [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► avoiding paperwork like everybody hates [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► paperwork but somehow you've managed to [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► come up cobble together this little [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► broken lifestyle of yours [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► based on talking to ladies on the phone [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► and getting favors from people with [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► pixie cuts i have no idea this is [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► everything you're describing is [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► completely inscrutable you get a special [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► license in attend sheath fucking [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► Washington really like before you sing [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► before Virginia gets that [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► yeah you tell me Washington gets that [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► yeah there's any state if there's any [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► state just two states that you get that [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► Maryland and Virginia that would make [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► sense because I know what's that [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► senators yeah we don't we don't let them [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► have them but Washington is way ahead is [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► because the number of crossings in [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► canada and the boat stuff we have a lot [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► of crossing so we have a lot of boats at [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► crossings but also we're just were more [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► forward thinkers here so I went and I [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► got this thing but they make you they [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► make you go through all this extra extra [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► blue because it's a because it's this [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► official document because you have [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► screen screening and stuff they screen [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► you yeah yeah that yeah yeah yeah just [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► doesn't make any sense because i kept so [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► I kept everything because I didn't have [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► an ID for so many years I used to get I [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► just get picked up by the cops and they [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► would they'd find out i had no idea and [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► half the time they just chase me just [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► let me loose but in any case in any case [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► so I'm something I'm gonna find out how [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► much this is true it's gonna be so sad [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► I've been this line and they're scanning [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► my eyes and they're taking these [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► three-dimensional photos and they're [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► saying like all now we're going to be [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► able to the machines in airports are [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► gonna be able to identify you by your [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► you know by your biometric ality and I [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► was standing there thinking like kind of [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► going through all this stuff that I used [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► to think was all big brother [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► One World new world order you know like [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► alien Overlord george bush / nice [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► chillin the Trilateral Commission [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► internationalist kind of stuff stuff [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► that you only believe if you're smoking [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► a lot of pot for not sleeping and the [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► orb oh and I and here i am voluntarily [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► submitted to all this new world order [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► type of the type of extra [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► extra data gathering and I just didn't [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► mind it at all I just shrugged it off [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► and I said that's right i'm not some i'm [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► not some you know the retreat in taxi [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► driver i'm a i'm a superspy i'm not a [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► super spot but there's just so much [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► wrong with that [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► I you know and I so so maybe the [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► administrative first thing about [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► everything we're describing it all [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► involves some kind of intervention or [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► ignorance or other stuff mostly [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► intervention in ignorance on behalf of [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► someone who's basically a bureaucrat [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► think about all those things where you [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► have no business being cleared for [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► anything that doesn't make a lick of [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► sense [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► I don't know how you got a loan that [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► doesn't make any sense I just an evening [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► of sitting around with you would tell [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► somebody that you are not qualified to [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► to have the keys to anything that's the [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► terrible i dunno my credit scores it's [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► like 840 is that good I think so [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► ok but it's weird I mean it's so we have [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► the registrar school there's a librarian [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► the librarian was also the person a new [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► college was the person who also [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► inspected your physical thesis to decide [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► whether is it affected your physical [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► thesis [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► yes speculum worse worse because you had [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► to turn into copies of your thesis right [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► it could be there is the version that [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► had been cleared by your committee and [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► your sponsor after baccalaureate but [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► you're done right good to go and make [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► two copies of itself via Jenkins is out [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► the injections remember her name [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► oh I'll never fucking forget her name I [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► never forget the name of any [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► administrator who crosses me that all [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► right here a few drunken of the Jenkins [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► bigley and and so-and-so since she would [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► inspect it every single graduate that [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► wasn't me there's like I think slick [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► some like 60 people in my graduating [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► class hundred people and different you [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► mean she would sit there with a ruler to [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► measure the margins because one of those [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► copies was bound and and put in you know [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► they keep a thesis on file looks like [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► but I want to try to get at is the [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► administrator bureaucrat that worked for [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► the parent University of my 500-person [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► school was in a position to decide who [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► was going to graduate from the Florida [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► honors college based on her little [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► drugstore [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► ruler so if you didn't do anything wrong [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► do anything wrong if you were like an [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► eighth of an inch or 16th of an inch [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► over on this one-page letter printed a [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► little bit that you get out of the [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► drawer over and start over and start [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► over [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► now luckily now and I was just coming up [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► in the age of the computer so this was [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► most of us were I mean I brought my mac [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► everybody did but I mean the five hours [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► before was all typewritten on a selected [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► well you know dr. Bates she said that if [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► you had more than actually know the [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► thesis guidelines were if you had more [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► than three erasers or corrections on a [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► page you had to retype it and so take [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► the bait if you took databases class [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► like three years before i had arrived [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► there you would have she would make you [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► redo the whole paper if she made a [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► correction on it you have to turn it [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► back in this is so in like the early [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► eighties people had to retype 20 page [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► papers [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► rawr seriously that's about 25 page that [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► runs into serious dough but it's just [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► like he's all trying to say is this john [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► whether it is your testicle this man at [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► the DMV whether it is the idiot is scan [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► your eyes and gave you the clear pass [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► you know whether it is [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► yeah the this whole like family so [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► broken people who let you leave the [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► building at all in high school and in [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► these people who are who are letting you [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► throw in the script these are all [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► bureaucrats and administrators the [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► person decides to pull out a line the [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► TSA person bureaucrats bureaucrats all [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► bureaucrats isn't it insane how much you [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► got brakes [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► well I still want a bureaucrat decided [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► or however you could be thwarted you can [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► be thwarted at any time by a bureaucrat [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► interrupting your anti bureaucratic [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► rains I hurt your anti bureaucratic and [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► get some water if you if you ever travel [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► to any of the former Eastern Bloc [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► countries but particularly the ones in [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► the sort of belarus ukraine bulgaria [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► romania orbit you and and let's be [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► honest idea when you will very very [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► quickly and I an exempt Poland and the [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► Czech Republic from typical this all [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► those hope slovakia i think is in this [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► category hungary not i don't have a [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► single acquaintance male female or [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► otherwise who like saying the name of [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► Eastern Bloc countries the way that you [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► do but in any case if it's a satellite [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► country John's going to mention [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► remaining I don't have any friends ever [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► said the word romania except for you [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► well remaining is a wonderful place let [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► me highly recommended except for this [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► one thing which is that the [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► bureaucracies in those countries have [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► completely broken down and when you when [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► you travel to places like that and you [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► see what it is like when people are [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► living in a you know in a world without [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► bureaucracies who you realize the [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► bureaucracies are what separate us from [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► the beasts that that in in these places [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► where where a car either corruption is [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► rampant who or where the system is [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► broken down totally and it's just a sort [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► of it he is years cultures go-go's [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► Farrell he realized that oh my god the [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► recourse to the law that bureaucracies [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► allow us that we can avail ourselves of [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► these multiple layers of even if you [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► have to fill out a thousand forms just [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► the fact that you'd that the form is [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► there and that at a certain point you [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► have some hope that someone will read [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► the forum and feel obligated by their [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► job to take the form seriously to [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► consider your problem [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► it is such a gift you will have to bribe [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► bribe your alderman to go and find out [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► which person probably lost it right or [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► you don't have to bribe the you don't [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► have to bribe the people to pick up your [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► garbage you don't you mean there are [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► places in the Eastern Bloc is full of [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► this where you're walking down the [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► street and you like everywhere isn't [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► true in like a in the Central America [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► and Mexico anything like some places it [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► varies it varies but it's particularly [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► it's particularly noticeable in these [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► places because there used to be such a [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► tremendous bureaucracy people relied on [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► the bureaucracy for everything and then [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► the bureaucracy went away and people [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► don't have the self reliance or they [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► don't have the they're not they don't [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► have been they did there isn't a sense [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► of like well if I sweep in front of my [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► store and the guy next to me sweeps in [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► front of his store then we have at least [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► a clean sidewalk for the for the front [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► of these two stores and that'll help [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► business people will come our customers [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► will come in the sidewalks will be swept [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► you know the in these places where that [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► mentality that the word bureaucracies [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► took care of all of that for four [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► decades and then went away [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► there's just a sense of like the the [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► future sense of futility pervades the [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► whole culture so it's you get these [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► people they're like well why should I [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► sweep in front of my store [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► what good will it do like when you start [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► sweeping in front of your store maybe [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► the guy next to you will sweep in front [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► of his door and they they look at you [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► like you're crazy and go well no if I [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► sweep in front of my store that i'm a [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► sucker now the guy next to me is just [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► going to sweep his garbage over here you [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► see you see missing manhole covers [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► throughout that area and you know it in [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► Central America or whatever you know a [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► lot of a lot of the rural areas you know [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► they don't have that they aren't built [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► to the same sort of urban standard that [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► you'll find in Kiev but we walk down the [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► street and all the manhole covers are [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► missing you like what happened this is [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► incredibly dangerous like you can fall [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► into one of these and and get hurt [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► well yeah but the but the the the [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► manhole cover itself was worth a certain [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► amount of scrap metal and somebody just [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► grabbed it and there wasn't anybody to [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► replace it and so you just got open [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► manhole covers all over the place like [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► talk about really having to watch where [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► you walk and it's because whoever's job [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► it is up the up the line at the Ministry [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► of missing manhole covers that person [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► doesn't feel like there's no penalty [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► when he doesn't go out and replace them [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► because there's no form to fill out to [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► say the manhole cover in front of my [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► store is missing line and then the the [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► guy it is theoretically if this exists [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► if there's a bureau of manhole cover [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► replacement comes out here budget comes [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► out of his budget [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► he's got a process the form that you [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► know 332 stroke dear whatever and [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► replacing Malcolm that's gonna come out [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► his budget he might be selling those [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► himself for the melt value absolutely so [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► so uh it's not very much [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► you don't spend very much time in places [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► where the bureaucracy doesn't work [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► to come back here and thank God for that [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► stack of forms but more than the stack [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► of forms thank God for the for the [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► moment the many levels of administration [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► that always are almost always end [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► somewhere where there is accountability [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► ultimately there's a person whose job [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► really is at stake [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► who will hold everyone else accountable [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► so that the people don't just take your [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► form and say that's nice and they like [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► their cigar with it [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► yeah now they're ultimately even if it's [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► your Congressman yeah ultimately you can [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► ready reach your Congressman John it's I [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► mean it's yes it's that is certainly [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► better i would just like to say that for [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► somebody who didn't graduate from [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► college you are an extremely articulate [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► apologist for for bureaucracy but [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► believe ticket to the congressman like [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► you gotta be you gotta know if you you [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► gotta be like John rather he got no Ted [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► Stevens well I don't you just walked in [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► there and go we want a new manhole cover [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► you don't want you don't waltz into a [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► congressman's office absolutely not you [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► say I demand satisfaction brought in [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► there but know what I mean if you are a [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► dedicated letter-writer you can [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► accomplish a lot in the world [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► what what what people like us [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► what what what people like us [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► don't want to go to the to the Father [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► who we are often we often feel for [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► dinner frustrated and people that don't [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► have the education to know or to be able [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► to compose a letter or toward to know [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► that that is possible they also are [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► kinda disadvantage but this is over [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► helps to be like your sister [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► old people are like your sister is great [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► customer service in the sense that they [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► have nothing better to do and and done [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► that she's like this necessarily but [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► they will grind you down and they will [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► they will follow up on the phone call [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► they will stay on hold they can do their [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► they could do watch their stories while [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► they're on hold not to talk about the [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► Tea Party is this is why they have been [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► so tremendously successful they don't [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► represent a majority of Americans but [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► they are made up entirely of people that [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► are willing to write 1,000 letters to [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► their congressmen and their local [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► alderman these are the people that are [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► willing to learn Robert's Rules of Order [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► and disrupt town meetings and ultimately [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► the reason that they have power is that [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► in America there is a process by which [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► the elected office holders are [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► accountable the bureaucrats are [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► accountable the system actually for all [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► of its for all of its waste is [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► incredibly effective relative to like [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► almost anywhere else in the so glad you [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► don't know my phone number because you [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► would be texting me i would just say you [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► know what I'm done here because you're [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► wrong i'm done here [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► well you're not completely wrong but [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► like so many things that's the problem [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► is that you're at your most wrong [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► there's so many things where you can [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► truly help people i know what you think [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► you taught me this might mean you taught [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► me this it sounds like something you [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► would say well what kind of thing you [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► are well that are that when you go [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► somewhere you learn a lot about what [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► made the city beat built yeah right [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► somewhere else i think you said this and [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► other mountains are the water like oh [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► it's because of the railroad that's why [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► this town exists or like so now I've [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► learned that anytime something is near [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► water there's probably a pretty good [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► chance that they decided to you know put [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► the steaks down there because that would [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► be a good place and where they stayed [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► there was that would be a good place for [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► trips to come into or something like [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► that right is that none of that was [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► probably you right that's and that is a [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► theory that are not a theory that is a [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► principle that I use all the time it's [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► you know once you learn that about what [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► you ve you take that it is blown my [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► curiosity up and I have to be honest [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► with you it is totally changed [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► everything they never taught me and my [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► stupid high school that one paragraph [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► has made asking questions about things [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► so much more interesting to me and what [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► i recommend to people is that it if they [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► if you start with your city and you look [TS]

01:02:42 ◼   ► at your city in the context of of the [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► geography and the way the city interacts [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► with the with the whatever waterway it [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► is that is the main waterway where the [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► railroads come in where the you know [TS]

01:02:56 ◼   ► where the natural resources and the well [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► I mean in our communication services guy [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► has a million this could be where they [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► built the chips like what you know what [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► I mean like where is not just that where [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► the ship's came in but in our case you [TS]