Horatio Alger
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Oct 31, 2026
Vin ScullySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Take another look.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the old Horatio Alger, but on the ground ball.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Schmidty thinks that Carlton's going to be there, and he just isn't.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hardly looked.
Kathryn VercilloHOST
And that has been a story that is running through our work history as Americans.
Kathryn VercilloHOST
And certainly something that I have constantly, um, been bombarded by, um, Horatio Alger helped, not the word I really want, but facilitate that flip of the meaning of the word bootstraps.
Kathryn VercilloHOST
His novels from the 1860s and 1870s often told stories of poor boys who rose through pluck.
Kathryn VercilloHOST
I love, I do like that word, pluckiness, who rose through pluck, hard work and good habits.
Chris RiversGUEST
That's insane.
Scott ParkinHOST
I think listening to you talk about that is how many Einsteins are born in the wrong zip code I think about that film Good Will Hunting which is a kid who's like an Einstein who's born in the wrong zip code but still is able to make it out but I feel like that is the sort of the Alger Hiss, up by your bootstraps, American mythology that everyone likes.
Scott ParkinHOST
That's a lefty movie.
Scott ParkinHOST
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, they named Chomsky and Zinn and all of that.
Scott ParkinHOST
But it's still, it's an Alger Hiss, in many ways, it's an Alger Hiss story.
Scott ParkinHOST
And I think Americans are really still, even though that was 100, 200 years ago that those stories emerged, that Americans are still bought in with that.
Chris RiversGUEST
Totally.
Lyndsey CoatesHOST
going to affect them.
Lyndsey CoatesHOST
And that leads me to my next point was that Craig in that episode brought up the, where we had talked about the Horatio Alger story, the pull yourself up by the bootstraps and that kind of thing.
Lyndsey CoatesHOST
I didn't go back and listen to that episode where he references that, but I think he was just making the point that Democrats don't believe in that anymore.
Lyndsey CoatesHOST
And I think I may have said probably not, but I want to correct the record right now that I, I don't necessarily believe in the...
Paulina PinskyGUEST
Because, you know, when I was a self-pitying drug addict, I was like, well, why is this my life? You know? And I think part of why I'm experiencing this is because...
Paulina PinskyGUEST
Being famous is the contemporary Horatio Alger model.
Paulina PinskyGUEST
It's the contemporary pull yourself by the bootstraps.
Paulina PinskyGUEST
And if you're famous, you'll be rich and you'll be happy.
Pablo TorreGUEST
Yeah.
Pablo TorreGUEST
I was wondering like what kind of like Horatio Alger story involves the Cheesecake Factory? Yeah.
Pablo TorreGUEST
Like I'm not like I would rank various.
Pablo TorreGUEST
I'm like more of an Outback guy.
Lee MerrittGUEST
Okay.
Lee MerrittGUEST
So my dad who grew up, he was kind of a Horatio Alger story.
Lee MerrittGUEST
I mean, he grew up dirt, poor farmer's kid, you know, didn't have a dime to rub together, worked his way through college and then dental school.
Lee MerrittGUEST
And then he ended up opening his dental office the day the banks closed for the depression, so that didn't work out.
Vin ScullySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Take another look.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the old Horatio Alger, but on the ground ball.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Schmidty thinks that Carlton's going to be there, and he just isn't.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hardly looked.
Vin ScullyHOST
Take another look.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the old Horatio Alger, but on the ground ball.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Schmidty thinks that Carlton's going to be there, and he just isn't.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hardly looked.
Vin ScullyHOST
Take another look.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the old Horatio Alger, but on the ground ball.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Schmidty thinks that Carlton's going to be there, and he just isn't.
Joe GaragiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hardly looked.
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