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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Weird Performative Melodrama

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2 of A&G features "a dark day for the Senate"--proof that politics is a melodrama. Plus, Jack expands on his home owner's insurance predicament. Joe Biden sounds bad on the campaign trail, a best-case scenario following the election and good news/bad news on the vaccine.

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0:00.0

My deepest, greatest and most abiding sadness tonight is for the American people and

0:28.9

what this nomination will mean for their lives, their freedoms, their fundamental rights. Monday, October 26th, 2020, it will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231 year history of the United States Senate.

0:50.9

He almost, you know, he almost got his voice to break up there. Yeah, we're in some strange times, man. The performance art that goes on in politics nowadays, we have to act like everything is a horror. Everyone's Hitler. It's so crazy. Yeah, it's funny in acting, whether on the stage or in movies, the whole my hero thing is gone. It's now realism. That's that's the crap.

1:20.9

In politics is gone the other way. Now it's these weird, performative. What do you call it with snidely whiplash and a gal on the railroad tracks? Melodrama. It's all just this hypersteroidal mellow drama. My real concern is for the American people. I think we're fine. And what this is going to do to their lives and what sense? Hey, just a point of order there, Mr. Minority Leader, sir. Did you notice that when Roberts got appointed, Roe v. Wade didn't go away and gay people weren't shoved back in.

1:50.9

The closet and what was the other one? Oh, you know, coat hanger abortions in the resume. Do you notice when corsets took to the court that still didn't happen and then Kavanaugh, no, it still didn't happen. But now you're telling us with ACB, it's going to happen. Even though she said specifically is not going to happen. I just the.

2:11.4

Democracy is a terrible idea. They had line being Amy Coney, Barrett is now a Supreme Court justice. She is who's ah, who's ah.

2:20.5

So there you go. That's fantastic. Oh, one more thing I was going to mention because I mentioned last hour about insurance. We get I lost my homeowners insurance.

2:27.8

It's my belief. They're looking for reasons to drop people because of fire damage. And then I've got a friend who lost his businesses insurance. It is his belief that they're looking for reasons to drop people because of all the

2:38.4

Windows mashings and writing and stuff like that. Right. That they're trying to get people on much more expensive policies. Well, the numbers, the amount of money lost to vandalism and looting and writing and the rest is just mind boggling.

2:52.7

I got a letter saying you've had too many claims that that number that was too many was one right that one of most one. We got this letter. I got.

3:00.8

I got dropped year dropped years ago. I learned that asking a question about a claim counts as a claim. Wow.

3:08.0

And then when they actually made a claim, the asking about asking a question about it earlier counted as one. So then you had to the actual claim then is a separate claim. Well, so if I ask about one now and decided not to do it, that would count. Right.

3:22.2

And then like two years from now, I make a claim. So I've got to. Yes. So you can get dropped clearly. This all sounds criminal. It's yeah. Well, I just I will. Well, all right. Here's here's the consumer response.

3:34.9

Number one, carry a high deductible as we were discussing the highest you can afford. Because if you make a claim, you will probably be dropped. But when it comes time to make a claim,

3:45.6

soak the blank out of them. So come push it, push it hard. I would never suggest you commit insurance fraud for that is a crime. And they have rather aggressive investigators to look into that.

3:59.3

But don't try to be nice to them because they're not going to be nice to you. That reminds me, we worked with the sales guy years ago. And other sales guy got his home broken into a bunch of stuff stolen on of his garage.

4:12.2

And the other sales guy who was a criminal more or less said, oh, here's what you do. I've done this before myself. You make a list of all the things that you had in there. And you tell them they're all they all got stolen. And you said, I got I got a check. I claimed I had motorcycles and a jet ski and all these different things. Wow.

4:26.8

And I got a huge check out of the on I thought what kind of a scumbag would do that. And I still think that sure, but too wrong.

4:33.3

Don't make a right. No, definitely not. But if you ever, if you pay your insurance your entire life. And then you make one legitimate claim and they drop you.

4:45.1

My level of that's really unfair dropped drops quite a bit. I would never do that. But

4:52.4

I think that's incredible. But I've known insurance was like this my whole life. The first time I ever I ever I need to

4:58.1

I'm sorry. I'm trying to concentrate on what you're saying. But I'm just I'm terrified that my Ferrari will get stolen out of my garage. Where my Ferrari is. Anyway, go on. Where one keeps Ferrari. Right. Of course, that's where my Ferrari is.

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