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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

The Armstrong & Getty Show 9AM 9/6/17

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Sacramento's Talk Station

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0:00.0

I want to get to you'll never be famous and that's okay.

0:27.1

I read in the New York Times which I thought was really good.

0:30.6

So maybe we'll do that in about 10 minutes or so.

0:34.0

It finishes with a couple of paragraphs from the novel middle march by George Elliott

0:39.4

which I've never read but is I just read it and it was devastating.

0:44.3

So we'll pass that along in about 10 minutes.

0:46.9

Really?

0:47.9

It's a novel or is it a novella?

0:50.1

One of my all-time intellectual heroes, Chris Hitchens said, I don't want to talk to anybody

0:54.3

who hasn't read middle march.

0:55.9

And then I thought, well, I guess he can talk to me.

0:57.9

Well, you're dead now so it's not going to happen anyway.

0:59.2

I guess I can't talk to him.

1:00.2

Wow, wow, what's the rough plot?

1:02.6

Boy, me, it's girl.

1:03.6

I mean, better for it at the end.

1:06.4

It's over come to the end.

1:09.1

It fits in with the, you'll never be famous and that's okay.

1:11.7

It's two people who wanted to live like these grand consequential lives and one figured out

1:18.9

that that's not the way to go and one didn't and that sort of thing.

1:25.2

Interesting.

1:26.2

And just living your regular life is the best you can hope for and the easiest way to be happy.

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