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Neither party's agenda really aligns with who its coalition is today.

It was the dumbest speech I have ever seen in my life of covering politics.

When people walk into a voting booth, at the end of the day, they do say,

I really should vote for someone smarter than me.

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podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. It's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I've been trying to get my guest, now author, an actor Rayne Wilson, to do the show for a while.

But being his schedule and my schedule, it's been kind of awful. He's here finally, of course, we know him as Dwight from the office.

He managed to get Dwight to write the forward to his terrific autobiography.

The book is called The Bassoon King, My Life, and Art, Faith, and Idiocy.

And all those apply.

First of all right, and thanks a much for being here.

Thanks for having me, Elvis. I'm glad I got to come down and sit in this basement with you.

Before we shouted this place for good.

But one of the things I think is so wonderful about the book is it manages to be sensitive and funny so much at the same time.

And at what point do you find that that note was so easy for you to strike in the writing of it? You know, when I was pitching the book, I told the editors, Dutton, the nice people

You mentioned quite prominently in the book of you.

Yes, yes, because they were, they were tied to the Nazis in a very interesting.

Bertelsmann used to be a Nazi publishing propaganda company in Ellen's half of the world's publishing. Anyway, I'm not

going to go there. I told them, listen, it's going to be 85% funny and it's going to be 15%

profound or trying to be profound. So, because something that was important for me to talk about

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