mencken fellow p.j. o'rourke. as i've said before, i sort of grew up with p.j.. when i was in college, the most popular magazine on campus was national lampoon, which he edited. i still remember quite a few funny bits, but i can't quote any of them because they all involved drug abuse and stereotypes, and they're all illegal now. [laughter] he then moved on to "rolling stone" where he was the foreign affairs desk chief which was totally cool because they paid him to travel wherever he wanted, a although why he wanted to travel to places like beirut and religious right retirement village was always kind of mystifying. and then as he moved out of the rock and roll stage and into the age of sober reflection, he became a correspondent for the most serious magazine in america, "the atlantic monthly," and he wrote seriously about medicare reform, social security reform, campaign finance reform and other serious, adult topics. and now as he moves into the age of worrying about retirement and college tuitions, he is editing a magazine on finance and investment. you may j

mencken said, were in that man's pockets. and so willkie seizes on the fifth ballot -- >> we are now down, david, to five minutes. [laughter] so he loses the election. >> he does lose the election. and in losing the election, he makes a speech that was extraordinary on armistice day in which he says that the loyal opposition is a concept that we must abide by. and that is that a great party is a party that must be a collaborative party. not an opposition for the sake of opposition, but for the sake of consensus and of balance and of control. the loyal opposition concept, of course, if anybody reads willkie's words, would say we are a far cry from even the possibility of such a political phenomenon today. >> roosevelt, after willkie dies in 1944, says that he was a godsend ask that -- and clare boothe luce compared him to a global abe lincoln. >> at that point she did. she would change her mind -- >> yeah, she changed her mind. >> -- and say this man was guilty of global baloney. >> but after he lost the election, he supported

mencken always make the most ridiculous, stupid case possible to a position that i would, in fact, take essentially. >> sit down, you're drunker, -- you're drunk. >> any people who identify as nonbinary like to ask the next question. all right, no? [inaudible conversations] >> it's just a talking stick now. >> oh, thank you. it would seem that if we can believe what we've been reading recently, a brave new world is almost upon us with intelligence and robots doing massive numbers of jobs currently that people are being employed upon. what -- for example, if four million truck drivers are replaced with self-driving trucks within the next ten years, how to you see those people being ine corporated into the -- incorporated into the, into the economy? would they be given bullshit jobs or -- >> whether people who face technological employment, ground up for dog food. >> right, okay. i find it really fascinating that everybody or feels that the prospect of the elimination of drudgery is now a problem. [laughter] and and so my standard answer to this question is, okay. for the last 30, 40 year