AHOY!: The Joe Sestak interview

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🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Attention, skippers. There is an Admiral on deck. Former U.S. Congressman, retired three-star vice admiral, and current candidate for Democratic presidential nomination Joe Sestak sat down with us in Iowa. In this special bonus episode, we discuss China, the world bank, Iran, medicare and the VA, and which boats are the best boats.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, it's your chopper for the week.
0:03.9	It's Matt Will and Virgil here broadcasting from Des Moines, Iowa.
0:08.9	And what do you know it?
0:10.1	We went to the state fair yesterday and we won a candidate that is the ever tricky fourth
0:15.6	milk bottle, nailed it with the softball.
0:18.6	And we now have with us in the living room, Joe Sestak, former congressman, former admiral
0:24.7	and current presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination.
0:28.6	Admiral.
0:29.6	Thanks for having me aboard.
0:30.6	I'm looking forward to the questions and the great discussion.
0:33.7	Well, okay.
0:34.7	I'm going to start off with maybe kind of a silly one, but I was hoping you could help
0:39.3	adjudicate a debate that we've been having amongst ourselves over the last couple days.
0:43.5	Over the months.
0:44.5	Over the months now.
0:46.6	All of us have agreed that, you know, were we required to join a branch of the arm service,
0:51.2	it would have to be the Navy, right?
0:53.1	Absolutely.
0:54.1	And I said, if I joined the Navy, I would want to be on an aircraft carrier or a destroyer.
0:59.2	That agrees with me.
1:00.2	Virgil says he would prefer to be on a submarine nuclear submarine.
1:04.3	And they're all nuclear.
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