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00:01:19.000Give sweet somethings to your long-distance love.
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00:02:17.000Alexander Ocasio-Cortez got in a Twitter fight with my business partner Jeremy Boring last night.
00:02:22.000Jeremy made the point on Twitter that I had made yesterday on the show because we steal from each other on a routine basis.
00:02:27.000That's why we make great business partners.
00:02:29.000He made the point that she is in fact not a victim while she has been claiming to be a victim and cheering herself for being a woman in Congress.
00:02:36.000And she tweeted something back about how The fact that she is the only 29-year-old bartender in Congress means that Congress is just not representative, which makes no sense at all, by the way, because if we were just to take a demographic breakdown out of like 500 people, how many are 29-year-old bartenders?
00:02:55.000I don't think the demographics work out that way.
00:02:57.000Also, it doesn't make any sense to suggest that the American Congress is supposed to be broken down demographically akin to the American population, because we have majoritarian voting in the United States.
00:03:08.00053% of voters in the United States are women, which means that if women voted as a bloc, everyone in Congress would be a woman.
00:03:14.000So, that's not how voting works, that's not how representation works, but AOC doesn't know things.
00:03:19.000But she has great fashion sense, and she can make stuff in an instant pot, and she's sassy.
00:03:45.000You're unbelievably afraid of the future.
00:03:47.000Like, if people would just think, like, about 20 years, like, down the line, then they would know that, like, this is what we have to, like, do.
00:04:16.000It says, this is a massive transformation of our society with clear goals and a timeline.
00:04:21.000The Green New Deal Resolution, a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War II to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and create economic prosperity for all.
00:04:32.000It will move America to 100% clean and renewable energy.
00:04:37.000Create millions of family-supporting wage union jobs.
00:04:40.000Ensure a just transition for all communities and workers to ensure economic security for people and communities that have historically relied on fossil fuel industries.
00:04:47.000You mean like all of the industries in the United States?
00:04:52.000It says, ensure justice and equity for frontline communities by prioritizing investment, training, climate, and community resiliency, economic and environmental benefits in these communities.
00:05:02.000Build on FDR's second Bill of Rights by guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security.
00:06:18.000We must get to zero by 2030 and lead the world in a global green new deal.
00:06:22.000Now, again, this is forgetting the fact that all of the developing countries are providing the vast majority of actual greenhouse gas emissions on planet Earth and that they are increasing their emissions even as we cut our emissions.
00:08:05.000So we're going to destroy the entire economy.
00:08:06.000We're going to guarantee jobs to everyone who is unwilling to work.
00:08:09.000We're going to guarantee full scale health care, higher education and housing to everyone who is unwilling to work or unwilling to do anything.
00:08:15.000But that's an investment in our economy and society.
00:08:42.000Okay, she says, we invested 40 to 50% of GDP into our economy during World War II and created the greatest middle class the US has ever seen.
00:09:00.000You know what we did during World War II?
00:09:01.000We took every male in the United States between the ages of 18 and 45, and we put them in barracks, and we had them live off rations, because we were in the middle of a war.
00:09:11.000The economic growth that occurred in the aftermath of World War II was not caused by government expenditure.
00:09:15.000Government expenditures decreased after World War II.
00:09:18.000She says the interstate highway system has returned more than $6 in economic productivity for every $1 it cost.
00:09:23.000You know what would happen, by the way?
00:09:24.000Everybody always loves to talk about the interstate highway system.
00:09:27.000You know what would happen if there was no interstate highway system?
00:10:04.000There's a bunch of frequently asked questions here.
00:10:07.000And she says, Why 100% clean and renewable and not just 100% renewable?
00:10:12.000Are you saying we won't transition off fossil fuels?
00:10:14.000Yes, we are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases.
00:10:18.000Anyone who has read the resolution sees that we spell this out through a plan that calls for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from every sector of the economy.
00:10:25.000Simply banning fossil fuels immediately won't build the new economy to replace it.
00:10:29.000This is the plan to build that new economy and spells out how to do it technically.
00:10:33.000She says, we set a goal to get to net zero rather than zero emissions in 10 years because we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.
00:11:40.000Well, she says that there won't be cap-and-trade because that assumes that there's such a thing as a market, and we don't like markets, so no.
00:11:45.000So, how is she gonna do any of this stuff?
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00:14:21.000That's when we racked up lots of federal debt right there.
00:14:24.000It says the Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments and new public banks can be created to extend credit.
00:14:30.000Oh, so we'll actually even create banks run by the federal government to lend to the federal government paid for by the federal government with dollars that don't yet exist that we will get from other countries or will inflate our way.
00:14:48.000She says, There's also space for the government to take an equity stake in projects to get a return on investment.
00:14:52.000So it won't just be the banks lending out, the federal banks lending out to capitalistic companies to build all this green new energy stuff.
00:14:59.000We will have direct ownership in all of these things.
00:15:01.000We will nationalize the energy industry.
00:15:10.000Again, back to my wife and the jewelry.
00:15:11.000This is me saying to her, so how much is it going to cost you?
00:15:13.000for it but what we will do with our new shared prosperity my favorite line of the whole thing so great so i mean really again back to my wife and the jewelry this is me saying to her so how much is it going to cost you listen listen to me okay this This is not an expenditure.
00:16:31.000It says invest in infrastructure and industry to sustainably meet the challenges of the 21st century.
00:16:36.000Clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all.
00:16:41.000Promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of frontline and vulnerable communities.
00:16:47.000We're also going to stop racism with this, by the way.
00:17:04.000Like, it's almost hard to believe that this is a thing that she actually is suggesting, right?
00:17:10.000She suggests in this plan that there's a bigger plan that's also been put out, I believe, online.
00:17:17.000And in this plan, she also suggests that we are going to get rid of cars, and we are going to get rid of airplanes, and replace it with trains.
00:17:29.000So NPR has a summary of the Green New Deal, and at the bottom line, and at the bottom of this summary of the Green New Deal, it says, a guaranteed job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security for every American.
00:18:11.000Work with farmers and ranchers to create a sustainable pollution and greenhouse gas free food system that ensures universal access to healthy food.
00:18:17.000Totally over... This is the best part.
00:19:36.000I'm sure this is going to go over great guns.
00:19:39.000And we're going to be spending What trillions of dollars presumably to build high-speed trains from like in Japan Japan is the size of what it's smaller in California in Japan So she's talking about doing this across the country So every time I go from LA to Washington I think we should just get listen if we are really committed to the Green New Deal.
00:19:56.000We need covered wagons That's what we need.
00:19:58.000We need covered wagons and we need oxen not farting oxen just oxen We need fart-free oxen to take us in covered wagons across the country on high-speed trains.
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00:23:24.000All right, so the party of science that says green new deal, paid for by nothing, and also Babies don't exist.
00:23:32.000Now is making the case, I kid you not, that men and women are biologically the same.
00:23:37.000Not that gender is a social construct, disconnected from biology, but that biology suggests that men and women are exactly the same.
00:23:45.000None other than another fresh face of the Democratic Party, so fresh, so face, Representative Ilhan Omar, Democratic Congresswoman from Minnesota.
00:23:55.000She has now recommended that the Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison, investigate USA Powerlifting for barring biological males from women's events.
00:24:08.000A myth that men who identify as transgender women have a direct competitive advantage and copied Keith Ellison on the letter with a recommendation that they investigate this discriminatory behavior.
00:24:20.000Omar sent her letter on behalf of J.C.
00:24:22.000Cooper, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman and whom Omar identified as one of her constituents.
00:24:27.000She signed the letter on January 31st, although it only became public on Tuesday after Cooper posted a picture to Instagram.
00:24:35.000It said, In fact, just last month, a Minnesota jury awarded Ms.
00:24:56.000Christina Ginther $20,000 after the Independent Women's Football League refused to allow her to participate because she is transgender.
00:25:03.000I urge you to reconsider this discriminatory, unscientific policy and follow the example of the International Olympic Committee.
00:25:09.000The myth that trans women have a direct competitive advantage is not supported by medical science, and it continues to stoke fear and violence against one of the most at-risk communities In the world.
00:25:20.000So, in powerlifting, biological men who identify as women do not have an advantage over biological women who are women.
00:26:04.000You gotta admire the security of knowing that no matter what idiotic thing you say, the media will defend you.
00:26:11.000I mean, how secure do you have to be to put out stupid ideas like this and know that the media are going to continue to call you a democratic fresh face filled with great ideas for the future of the country?
00:26:21.000Putting out ideas like this and knowing, full scale, that the blowback is only going to come from conservatives and from people in media who don't happen to be motivated leftists, which is like five people.
00:26:32.000I mean, that's gotta be just a charmed life, doesn't it?
00:26:35.000Those of us in the conservative commentariat, we spend every waking minute thinking about where the next attack is gonna come from, from the media, because this is what they do on a routine basis.
00:26:43.000Every conservative politician thinks this way, too.
00:26:45.000If you're a Democrat, basically, life is a musical.
00:26:48.000You're walking around, people are dancing in the background, usually they're Washington Post reporters.
00:26:53.000Every so often, Tom Hanks pops out of the woodwork to give you an endorsement.
00:27:20.000And there is no— Here's the thing about being on the left.
00:27:22.000There is no Overton window for the left.
00:27:24.000There is no idea that it's too wild for the left to actually wrap its arms around and embrace, if only for a moment, have a one-night stand with.
00:27:33.000So on the right, the Overton window is really small, and the left helps shrink the Overton window, so that if you say things like, Western civilization is superior to other civilizations, this may be outside the Overton window.
00:27:43.000But, if like Farhad Manjoo, an opinion columnist at the New York Times, you write a column called, Abolish Billionaires, then total, that's inside the Overton window.
00:27:57.000This article says, Last fall, Tom Szoka, editor of the essential blog, HmmDaily, it's not that essential, nobody's heard of it, wrote a tiny, searing post that has been rattling around my head ever since.
00:28:07.000There's not a lot in there, so, I mean, once there's, like, a thing in there, it just kind of rattles.
00:28:11.000Some ideas about how to make the world better require careful, nuanced thinking about how to best balance competing interests, he began.
00:28:24.000You can liquidate them and take their wealth.
00:28:26.000That'd be one way of getting rid of billionaires, but that's not what they're talking about.
00:28:29.000What they are talking about is kneecapping the wealthiest among us.
00:28:31.000This is the language in the New York Times.
00:28:33.000A billion dollars is wildly more than anyone needs, even accounting for life's most excessive lavishes.
00:28:39.000It's far more than anyone might reasonably claim to deserve, however much he believes he has contributed to society.
00:28:44.000Again, you don't seize wealth for yourself, you idiots.
00:28:47.000You don't become a billionaire by saying, you know what?
00:28:49.000Today, got up in the morning, decided I'm gonna be a billionaire.
00:28:53.000And then you just go out and you steal people's wallets until you're a billionaire.
00:28:57.000That's not how being a billionaire works.
00:28:59.000Unless you're a socialist, in which case you could do that, right?
00:29:01.000I mean, if you're like Hugo Chavez, you can make yourself a billionaire just by seizing everybody else's wealth.
00:29:05.000So, I guess for socialists who believe that all economics is a zero-sum game, the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting other people.
00:29:12.000But for those of us who live in a free market world of free exchange and mutual labor exchanges, You become a billionaire by engaging in lots of voluntary transactions with people who want the thing you are providing.
00:29:27.000Now, what makes transaction one different morally from transaction one million morally?
00:29:31.000What, really, what is the moral difference between Burger King selling its first hamburger and Burger King selling its one millionth hamburger?
00:29:41.000But for the left, with every incremental sale of a burger that makes the people who own Burger King richer, it becomes a less moral act to sell the burger to a willing customer.
00:30:48.000No wonder people voted for Trump just to stop this nonsense.
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00:32:09.000We will get back into the stupidity of abolishing billionaires.
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00:33:57.000That's how millionaires and billionaires are created.
00:33:59.000Is that the earth just belches them forth.
00:34:01.000Like the Uruk-hai from Lord of the Rings.
00:34:03.000Just sort of the earth opens and Mark Zuckerberg springs out.
00:34:06.000Now if that were the case, I too would be horrified.
00:34:09.000But that is not actually how billionaires are made.
00:34:11.000He says, Much of my career has required a deep anthropological inquiry into billionairedom, but I'm embarrassed to say I had never before considered the idea that if we aimed through public and social policy simply to discourage people from attaining and possessing more than a billion in lucre, just about everyone would be better off.
00:34:27.000In my defense, back in October, abolishing billionaires felt way out there.
00:34:30.000It sounded radical, impossible, maybe even un-American.
00:34:33.000But it is an illustration of the political precariousness of billionaires that the idea has since become something like mainline thought on the progressive left.
00:34:40.000Yes, it does demonstrate that you are all nuts, that you have all lost your freaking minds, that whatever moral fiber you had has been Crapped out and it flushed away into the sea.
00:35:02.000She just says it's immoral for a society to have billionaires.
00:35:05.000Also, we're going to need these billionaires to turn over a bunch of their money every year and continue to produce all of that money so that we can pay for all of my garbage programs.
00:35:13.000Farhad Manjoo says, Now, has he even made the case why they shouldn't exist?
00:35:16.000Now, has he even made the case why they shouldn't exist?
00:35:24.000Or is it just like, I don't like that people have lots of money?
00:35:26.000So far, I have not heard any case why billionaires should not exist, because you have to make a case that billionaires should not exist, while at the same time maintaining that free market exchange that betters everyone who is involved is good.
00:35:38.000You cannot have those two things at the same time.
00:35:40.000Either I am in control of my labor and my time and my goods and my services, or I am not.
00:35:43.000If you suggest that it is good for me to do all of those things up to the point where I make a lot of money, then what you are really saying is that it is not good for me to do all of those things beyond a certain point.
00:35:52.000The transactions become a net negative beyond a certain point.
00:35:55.000Which closes down productivity, which prevents free exchange, which makes goods and services more expensive.
00:36:11.000First of all, this is billionaire abolishment.
00:36:13.000He means abolition could take many forms.
00:36:15.000It could mean preventing people from keeping more than a billion in booty, but more likely it would mean higher marginal taxes on income, wealth and estates for billionaires and people on the way to becoming billionaires.
00:36:23.000Those policies ideas turn out to pull very well, even if they're probably not actually redistributive enough to turn billionaires into sub billionaires.
00:36:30.000Well, shock, when you pull idiots about whether to take other people's money, everybody's like, yeah, and most people are kind of idiots.
00:36:59.000But on a moral level, no, you shouldn't take away Jane Fonda's money, even if she's a disgrace to her fame.
00:37:05.000More important, says Farhad Manjoo, aiming to abolish billionaires would involve reshaping the structure of the digital economy so that it produces a more equitable ratio of the super-rich to the rest of us.
00:37:14.000Inequality is the defining economic condition of the tech age.
00:37:19.000A few superstar corporations, many in tech, account for the bulk of American corporate profits, while most of the share of economic growth since the 70s has gone to a small number of the country's richest people.
00:37:30.000Also, you get a lot of great stuff, and you, Farhad Manjoo, get to write for a living on a computer provided by somebody else, on a program provided by somebody else, using an internet that is, presumably, you're sending your columns in via Google.
00:37:47.000Ocasio-Cortez put it in a conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates, I'm not saying that Bill Gates or Warren Buffett are immoral, but a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don't have access to public health is wrong.
00:37:59.000I love that he quotes that and then he has to say in parentheses, she meant hookworm.
00:38:42.000That is Peter Singer's actual position.
00:38:44.000We should definitely take his advice on destroying billionaires, taking away their wealth, and preventing economic growth that has accrued largely to the world's poorest.
00:39:10.000So he quotes Peter Singer, and then he quotes writer Anand Garadharadas, who I've never heard of.
00:39:16.000He says, many billionaires approach philanthropy as a kind of branding exercise to maintain a system in which they get to keep their billions.
00:39:22.000So in other words, if a billionaire gives charity, it's inherently bad, unless they have intent.
00:39:26.000So now we're going to explore their intent, but we're not going to suggest that billionaires themselves are bad, generally, without exploring their intent, but they are bad generally without exploring their intent.
00:39:37.000And then he says his second expert on the subject is Tom Steyer.
00:39:40.000OK, Tom Steyer is a Democratic idiot who has tried multiple times to launch a run for presidency, but no one wants to hear from him because he is terrible.
00:41:00.000I mean, what do you say to the base root immorality of all of this?
00:41:04.000The idea that you're going to completely restructure people's lives against their will because you know better than they do, and in the process make people poorer.
00:41:11.000Because let's face it, if you start creating disincentives for people to become rich, they are not going to want to do the work to become rich.
00:41:17.000So you want to abolish billionaires and also make it free not to work.
00:41:22.000None of this is going to go wrong in any way.
00:41:24.000Okay, meanwhile, let's get to the political controversies of the day because these big ideas, I think, are in fact more important, but the political controversies of the day remain.
00:41:32.000Virginia continues to be a disaster area with the top three Democrats in the Democratic Party enmeshed in controversy.
00:41:37.000You've got Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Who was in a blackface controversy from 1985 and that was directly after saying he's fine with killing babies.
00:42:03.000And then you've got the Attorney General Mark Herring, who came forward and said in 1980, when he was 19, he dressed up as a rapper and darkened his face to do so.
00:42:11.000By his own standard, he said that Ralph Northam had to leave.
00:42:13.000By his own standard, he has to leave too.
00:42:14.000But none of them are going to leave because the idea that this is a deep matter of principle goes out the window of a Republican were to actually take that slot, which the next person in line is a Republican.
00:42:47.000So, Elizabeth Warren, yesterday, got herself in some trouble because it turned out, over the last couple of days, that she'd actually filled out official forms claiming that she was a Native American.
00:42:55.000Then yesterday, she says, well, maybe I identified as an American Indian on other applications.
00:43:01.000Hmm, just as we have suspected, Senator Warren.
00:43:05.000It's important to note, I'm not a tribal citizen, and I should have been more mindful of the distinction with tribal citizenship and tribal sovereignty.
00:43:16.000And that is why I apologized to Chief Baker, and why I've made a very public apology.
00:43:23.000It was based on my understanding from my family's stories, but family stories are not the same as tribal citizenship.
00:43:33.000Okay, and then she was asked, well, did you do this on other forms?
00:43:55.000Frankly, that seems to me a lot worse than what the Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring did when he dressed up as a rapper in 1980.
00:44:01.000I am finding it amusing that all of these members of the left media are now suggesting that dressing up as a celebrity who was black is a very bad thing, but Joy Behar can stay, Tom Hanks can stay, Sarah Silverman can stay, Jimmy Kimmel can stay.
00:44:16.000All these folks can stick around, even though they all did this.
00:44:18.000They can all stay, but Megyn Kelly had to lose her job because she might have mentioned at one point the actual reality that there is a difference in intent between someone who dresses up as Diana Ross and Al Jolson singing Mammy in blackface in a minstrel show in 1917.
00:44:32.000So, Megyn Kelly said a thing, Joy Behar did it, and showed it on air in 2016, no problem.
00:44:38.000No, there's no double standard with regard to these things at all.
00:44:41.000And meanwhile, Amy Klobuchar, who was kind of the great moderate hope for people who are not insane in the Democratic Party, she's already getting slammed with oppo.
00:44:50.000At least three people have withdrawn from consideration to lead Senator Klobuchar's nascent 2020 presidential campaign, and have done so in part because of the Minnesota Democrat's history of mistreating her staff, according to the Huffington Post.
00:45:01.000Klobuchar, who plans to make an announcement about a potential presidential bid on Sunday in Minneapolis, has spent the past several months positioning herself to run for president.
00:45:09.000She's beloved in her state as a smart, funny, personable lawmaker and has gained national attention, but...
00:45:14.000Some former Klobuchar staffers, all of whom spoke to Huffington Post on condition of anonymity, described Klobuchar as habitually demeaning and prone to bursts of cruelty that make it difficult to work in her office for long.
00:45:24.000So, we bid a fond farewell to Amy Klobuchar before she even launches her campaign.
00:45:29.000Everything is going great inside the Democratic Party primaries.
00:45:31.000All good stuff all the way across the board.
00:45:52.000That will shake up the race a little bit, but it is pretty obvious this is going to be a vicious primary, and that will make it really amusing to watch.
00:45:58.000I mean, I'm looking forward to that part, aren't you?
00:46:00.000Alrighty, time for some things that I like, and then we'll get to some things that I hate.
00:46:16.000It's called Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
00:46:19.000If you can't see it, you can look it up online later or subscribe and then you'll be able to see it.
00:46:22.000It's a picture of a man standing over a valley with fog all the way into the distance receding.
00:46:29.000And this is sort of the idea that human beings have the capacity to reach a summit and then gaze out over the misty recesses of the universe.
00:46:37.000And we can't fully understand it, but it's our idea, it's our job to try and know.
00:46:43.000That is an idea that is steeped in biblical thinking.
00:46:45.000Now, there's a lot of folks who think that the Enlightenment was a complete break from biblical thinking, that it was a rejection of the Bible, it was reason over revelation and all the rest of that.
00:46:54.000There was an Enlightenment that was sort of the French Enlightenment, and then there was the Scottish slash British slash American Enlightenment, which continued to hold fast to the generalized values of the Bible, the idea of human beings having free will, the ideas of human beings have a duty to explore the universe, the sort of Francis Bacon, Thomas Aquinas ideas that you were supposed to merge the sort of Francis Bacon, Thomas Aquinas ideas that you were supposed to merge science with a belief in and And it's that view that has characterized the West.
00:47:20.000This piece, I think, is maybe the best characterization of the view of what human beings are in the West.
00:47:26.000In fact, I love it so much that I had somebody paint a riff on it for me, except using this as the basis for a biblical painting of Moses standing over the land of Israel right before his death, before God takes him.
00:47:39.000God chose him the entire land of Israel, so I had this painting done with Moses looking over the land of Israel and seeing the future sort of recede into the distance.
00:48:04.000Now, you know how much I enjoy Beto O'Rourke as a candidate.
00:48:07.000What I enjoy most about Beto O'Rourke as a candidate is that he never really progressed beyond being the douchebag in high school who would strum three chords on the guitar and all the girls were like, and he'd be like, watch this, stairway to heaven.
00:48:33.000Now his struggles generally consisted of growing up pretty powerful and wealthy, going to an Ivy League college, and then having to find himself, yeah.
00:48:54.00023 and searching, with an Ivy League degree that could not pay rent, Mr. O'Rourke subsisted as a live-in nanny on the Upper West Side, with a futon in the maid's quarters, watching over a wealthy family's two preschoolers.
00:49:04.000Yes, clearly, this is a man who has suffered.
00:49:07.000Clearly, this is a person who has overcome obstacles like his girlfriend leaving to go to France.
00:49:12.000And also, His punk bandmates breaking up with him.
00:49:19.000By late 1995, Mr. O'Rourke had fallen into the deepest depression he can remember.
00:49:23.000He worked for an uncle's tech business because it was a job.
00:49:26.000He spent nights alone, listening to his cassettes because it passed the time.
00:49:29.000Little bit of a sad case, Mr. O'Rourke said.
00:49:33.000More than two decades later, long after what his friends describe as a quarter-life crisis, Mr. O'Rourke has arrived at a midlife crossroads of enormous consequence, with revealing parallels to his time in New York.
00:49:43.000Forty-six and searching, after a narrow Senate loss in Texas last year that propelled the former El Paso congressman to Democratic stardom, he has been driving around the country, alone, introducing himself to strangers, deciding if he wants to run for president.
00:49:57.000So there's a long piece about how it parallels his time in New York.
00:50:00.000When he'd like sit in his room and look at his posters on the wall of his favorite punk bands and then strum the bass line to Smells Like Teen Spirit and just sit there and sing to himself and think about life and the existential possibilities of death.
00:50:19.000He has described himself as stuck in and out of a funk.
00:50:23.000He has compared the present reckoning to moments of rootlessness in the city when he last found himself out of work.
00:50:28.000I just didn't ever want to feel like that or be in that place or that position again.
00:50:32.000So that lately has felt kind of strange.
00:51:28.000By college, friends say, Mr. O'Rourke had settled on the outlines of an identity that would last, a rebel in moderation, more puckish than unruly.
00:51:34.000He said he chose Columbia in part because of the financial aid package, and in part because he looked up to his bohemian uncle, Mr. Williams, who had tapped into New York's music scene.
00:51:43.000Before that, Mr. O'Rourke had attended boarding school in Virginia, largely to create some distance from his father, a political obsessive who did not understand his son's musical leanings.
00:51:54.000Beto was a nickname from El Paso, owing to its border town bilingualism, and he played the guitar, establishing himself as the school's gentle punk rocker.
00:52:05.000When a bandmate in a group called Swype adopted a belligerent performance persona, telling crowds they were listening to angry Swype, Mr. O'Rourke protested from the stage.
00:52:12.000He was like, we're no, we're not, we're not angry, the band member Alan Weider said.
00:52:15.000It made him very uncomfortable, that I was mean.
00:52:18.000Offstage, Mr. O'Rourke was a prolific dabbler, straddling disparate orbits.
00:52:22.000He was socially conscious, but not especially political.
00:52:24.000Other than whatever kind of politics were being talked about in Fugazi, a former roommate said.
00:52:29.000He often kept to musicians' rollicking hour.
00:52:31.000He liked to drink beer, but not in the Brett Kavanaugh sense.
00:52:34.000Oh, you mean like the sense where you drink beer?
00:52:39.000He says he was an English major skilled enough with computers to introduce roommates to the culture of early 1990s chat rooms, once pranking a girlfriend by posing as a romantically interested woman online.
00:52:48.000I kind of had a boyfriend, the girlfriend Catherine Raymond recalled typing back to the person she didn't know was Mr. O'Rourke as he sat in an adjacent room.
00:52:55.000Then she heard a shout through the wall.
00:52:56.000What do you mean you kind of have a boyfriend?
00:52:58.000Now, if a Republican did that, that would be called toxic masculinity.