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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

8/30/18 A&G Hr. 4 The Crony Express Boondoggle

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Crony Express project has gone from bad to worse. On this episode of Armstrong & Getty, Joe details the many, many ways in which tax payers were duped into voting for the ill-fated rail project.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's talk about vision.

0:15.4

And when I say vision, I'm not talking about some guy doing a lasex surgery in a van

0:19.7

down by the river.

0:20.8

I mean, looking at the future and doing something positive to affect it.

0:25.3

And that's why I was happy to hear Governor Brown's vision for High Speed Rail.

0:30.4

That is from the original ad campaign to pitch the bullspit train.

0:36.7

The crony express, the regular speed train, the brown doggle.

0:41.6

That's comedian will thirst.

0:44.4

For a long time, we'd get hired by various big government spending programs to it.

0:50.9

A dryly regular guy in somewhat amusing way gets you to vote for S that you should never vote for.

0:58.0

We actually worked with Will briefly in our long career Jack and I.

1:02.9

Jack will be back soon.

1:04.2

He's without today.

1:05.2

Take care of the family, but one score and no years ago.

1:11.0

The Armstrong and Gettyshow began.

1:12.5

And at one point, we worked with Will Durst, who was a hell of a nice fellow.

1:17.0

Never found him terribly funny.

1:19.2

The only other Will Durst thought is that I would be willing to write all sorts of dryly

1:27.4

funny, regular guy crap for you if you want to hire me.

1:32.2

I'd prefer not to work in favor of things that are abhorrent like gigantic government spending

1:39.2

that's utterly needless and incredibly wasteful.

1:42.1

Give me another chunk of that commercial, my God, because let's get into the nitty-gritty,

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