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We've gotten desperate.

It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

Before I get to the desperation of the One More Thing podcast, I will tell a story I've told on the Armstrong and Getty radio show a couple of different times, but I think it fits in with the looming government shutdown, which I don't care about at all.

It's just a fascinating story from one of Bob Woodward's books several years ago when Obama was president.

We were facing a government shutdown, and Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner could not come to an agreement on some terms to avoid the government shutdown.

And the person trying to put the deal together was Rahm Emanuel, who you may know was Obama's chief of staff, became the mayor of Chicago and I think has a decent chance of becoming the Democratic nominee for president and the next president in the United States.

Anyway, Rahm Emanuel is in the room when Nancy Pelosi and and Boehner are saying,

we're at an impasse. There's just no solving this problem. There's just no solving it.

We're going to have to have a shutdown. And they decide they're going to go home. And Rahm Emanuel says, hold on, hold on. Before you go home, just Nancy, write down the lowest number you're willing to take. And then he said to Boehner, write down the highest number you're willing to take. And I don't know what the numbers are. It doesn't matter. But they were like, Nantys was like four and his was like six or whatever.

And he said, how about it?

And Ramamaniel said, okay, how about if we do five?

And they looked at each other and said, yeah, I'd go for five.

I would too.

And that's how they settled it.

Just pointing out that sometimes it's just that basic and moronic and

and and didn't nobody had it hadn't occurred to anybody to do that i guess i just thought that was

fascinating right right well that's why arbitration is a thing.

Because if you get the two parties just dealing with their S on their own,

they'll never do something that calm and obvious.

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