This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, October 27th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

American Republicans, Conservatives in particular, once held the ideas of Barry Goldwater as their North Star.

Today it's hard to say that conservatism is doing particularly well.

Keenly aware of this is Jeff Flake, a Republican U.S. Senator from Arizona. He spoke at the Cato Club 200

event in Laguna Beach, California.

Thank you, Peter. I don't want to say anything after that. I'll just leave.

But I do appreciate that introduction.

I have always appreciated Cato for so many things.

I'll get to some of those.

But I appreciate you for having this event the montage

here in California and so close to Arizona but yet so far in terms of

topography and water. My wife Cheryl, sitting right in front of us,

Cheryl is a Californian, Northern California.

We met on the first day of college for Cheryl,

but just after I'd returned from a Mormon mission in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

We met on the beach in Hawaii.

BYU has a nice campus on the beach in Hawaii.

EYU has a nice campus on the north shore.

And I don't remember much about school there,

but we met on the first day.

And seven years later, actually, we went back to that same spot that we married and had two kids by that time and we reminisced about meeting there on the beach and then we drove up to the school. This is unfortunately a true story.

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