This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, and we love your story.

Send them to Our American Stories.com everyone has that one

funny friend the wise guy the one that's mastered pranks as clever comebacks or pulls humor out

of the strangest situations maybe well just maybe if you're lucky you're one of them but we all know

at least one and they have the best stories. Today's wise guy,

Duncan Scott, hails from the great state of New Mexico. When I was elected to the state

Senate in New Mexico in 1992, I was on a path of politics. But after I served four years in the state senate, I concluded,

while it was an incredible honor to represent the people who were in my district, it was an

absolute waste of my time. I was a Republican. New Mexico is a heavily blue Democratic state,

so whatever Republican principles or philosophy I brought to the state Senate,

it was dead on arrival.

An educated monkey could have sat in my chair,

and it would have made no difference whatsoever for the arc of New Mexico history.

Music for the arc of New Mexico history. When I did the Pointy Hat bill, it was obvious to me that if I proposed serious legislation,

it wasn't going anywhere.

And the Pointy Hat bill was really to address the insanity defense plea. So I thought

that satire and humor was a better form for getting out the idea that the insanity defense

is way overused and inappropriately,

then drafting some technical change on the rules of evidence

that nobody would see and would follow Silibe if they read.

Your listeners will have to go back to the summer of 94,

and some will be alive.

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