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🗓️ 23 May 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Glenn Thrush, back with Off Message Podcast after a week off. I apologize for that. |
0:18.3 | We had five guests, count them five, fall through in the course of a couple of days, so I decided to chuck it. |
0:24.5 | Well, I want to talk about Donald Trump. I know that's a unique approach. Nobody ever does that anymore. |
0:32.6 | It's an interesting week for me. My father on May 24th would have been 85 years old. He died in 2010 after, |
0:40.8 | I'd say, a five or six year battle with Alzheimer's, so really I haven't seen him be himself for |
0:46.8 | about 10 years. But I got to thinking about Trump voters, and there are a couple of them in my |
0:53.2 | extended family. And I came to the |
0:56.4 | realization this week that it's pretty possible that my father would have been a Trump voter. |
1:02.3 | He ran a small business in Brooklyn, an ice cream store that went bankrupt in the 90s. |
1:08.7 | And for the years leading up to that, |
1:12.4 | the business wasn't really doing that well. |
1:14.0 | And a little bit of a background. |
1:17.0 | My dad was a pretty solid Democrat, |
1:18.1 | kind of a labor guy, |
1:22.3 | had supported mostly Democratic presidents, |
1:23.4 | did not like Ronald Reagan. And then in the early 1990s, |
1:25.4 | when the business was going bad |
1:26.7 | and things were not working out for him, |
1:29.6 | I noticed on his nightstand Donald Trump's books started to appear, including Art of the Deal. |
1:39.6 | And he had never really liked Trump much. And I remember talking with him back then saying, |
1:44.9 | why the hell are you reading these Donald Trump books? And he said, I want to figure out kind of how to turn around the |
1:50.0 | business, and I need a little inspiration. And this guy seems to be really energetic. He was also |
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