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Hey. There it's Jbl on the Secret

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0:41

from from the world. That we

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talked about Chris a new new

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Down the nobody had to get something

1:01

genuine. Really good up. Okay,

1:04

Mike Johnson. Oh yeah, did

1:07

something really good. So did.

1:09

Have one color any of a subtle. I saw this,

1:11

I saw his statements or he said and it

1:13

was a little I mean more self aggrandizing for my

1:15

taste but correct. He was like I'm going to do

1:18

the right thing and I'm not going to live in

1:20

fear and they want to go after me for that's

1:22

fine but like we're going to do this And so

1:24

I was like. Yeah. An Angle

1:26

Johnson who I don't like. It isn't It is

1:29

very good. It's. It's

1:31

it's three aid bills. It's

1:33

Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel. And

1:35

then it's an even better

1:37

tic toc bill. So.

1:39

It's a tick tock bill which

1:41

pushes the. Pushes

1:44

the deadline for sale out to i

1:46

believe it's nine months and then gives

1:48

the president another ninety days to extended

1:50

in case there are negotiations pretty close.

1:53

You know, when they hit the deadline.

1:55

It's just a better version of that

1:57

bill. and It's

2:00

good and Mike Johnson, look you and I don't like

2:02

Mike Johnson, but we got to say that people do

2:04

good. Of course. They do good, right? Yeah, definitely. Wouldn't

2:07

it be great if Mike Johnson did this sort of thing all the time?

2:09

Yeah. And if more Republicans were

2:11

willing to put their careers on the line for the things

2:14

that were right, it was great. I

2:16

was really hopeful. I thought, because I thought to myself, this

2:19

is a moment that

2:21

makes it so that if you squint your

2:23

eyes real tight and

2:25

start imagining, you're like, yes,

2:28

this is what politics can

2:31

look like when you have

2:33

two parties which are basically

2:36

semi-healthy governing parties.

2:39

Right. Right? Like this is what it's supposed to

2:41

look like, kind of. And you know what to

2:43

get to give credit? Kevin McCarthy did this on

2:45

the debt ceiling. Remember? And

2:47

we gave him a lot of credit for that and

2:49

he got stuff. That's how we got to pose to them.

2:52

The problem is that that's how we got to pose.

2:54

Yeah. We got stuff for Republicans, right?

2:56

In the same way that in the

2:58

Senate, who's the Republican negotiator in the

3:00

Senate for immigration? Langford. Langford,

3:02

right? Langford went and worked and did

3:05

a bunch of stuff, and that's what

3:07

we want. Yeah, and then Trump backed

3:09

over him on the bus. Right. And

3:11

McConnell went as well. Can

3:14

you tell me, is there anything,

3:16

these straight aid packages, is there anything on

3:18

immigration in them? Well,

3:21

I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene is

3:23

trying to put an amendment

3:25

in on immigration that I can't god. A

3:27

real one or a poison pill

3:29

one? Well, I think she wants like space lasers on the

3:31

border. I'm not kidding. Cool.

3:35

Like there is actually a

3:37

space laser amendment that she's

3:39

working on. It's amazing. But

3:42

I want to throw out

3:44

some more people who did

3:47

really good on this. Joe

3:50

Biden. Over

3:53

the last few months. Well,

3:56

no, but listen. I'm just kidding. Over the last

3:58

few months. I'm just kidding. Biden chose

4:01

to leave these doors open

4:03

instead of trying to make

4:05

Republicans pay a political price.

4:09

And. He could have a file.

4:11

All Biden cared about was the

4:13

scoreboard. P. Could

4:15

have made it harder. For.

4:17

For Johnson to do this and made

4:19

a more painful for Johnson and he

4:21

didn't and then I want to go

4:23

and throw it out to Hakeem. Jeffries

4:25

aimed democrats he him the house because

4:27

they did something which has never. Happened

4:30

before in the history of the Us

4:32

Congress. Which. Is that they

4:34

bailed out the majority on the rules

4:36

committee and in order to make this

4:39

thing happen because you had a bunch

4:41

of republican defectors who chip Roy and

4:43

Tom Massey and is one other I

4:45

forget who who who just weren't gonna

4:47

go along with As and the you

4:49

had to change a rule in order

4:51

to make this this process go forward.

4:54

And the democrats could have again,

4:57

if all they cared about was

4:59

politics. And letting the republicans like

5:01

languish in disarray. Right? They could have

5:03

egg that on, but they chose to

5:06

govern And so you have. You.

5:09

Know lead to. Some. Republicans and

5:11

the democratic President and the

5:13

Democratic leadership all acting. In.

5:16

Responsible governing ways, which is is good

5:18

like me, just say this is good,

5:20

this is what it is supposed to

5:22

look like he I can is. That's.

5:25

True, and I am. I'm very happy about it and

5:27

I don't know why you're taking the after se and.

5:29

The A Bomb! Where's your euphoria? You know

5:31

why? Because there's a little bit of me. It's like America

5:33

will. Always. Do the right thing once it's

5:35

exhausted. All other options. Is

5:38

a quote somebody said months as it

5:40

just feels like I'm in the Ukraine.

5:42

Is it so late? Ah and like

5:44

to thank god we're doing it. but

5:46

we have. And people have died because

5:48

of people. Have died and we have

5:50

did. It's like I am mom. I'm

5:53

glad that some other republicans have

5:55

basically like figured out, but man

5:57

did it take. Them.

6:00

Fiddling while Rome burned for.

6:02

I. Don't out the last six months. Yeah,

6:05

maybe it's former not figure three of

6:07

low expectations on my part. Yeah,

6:09

but. But. Yes, I'm happy.

6:12

Skyn. Oh come on the news. In a

6:14

you think Johnson keeps his job. Yes,

6:18

I think the damsel bail him out. And.

6:20

I think the republicans who wanted. To aid for

6:22

Ukraine, well support him. What

6:26

do you think? The. The.

6:28

Downstream effects of democrats bail and

6:30

him out on a speakerphone are.

6:34

Ah, I think that's and in

6:36

the best effect would be as

6:38

he Hakeem Jeffries struck up a

6:40

decent working relationship and they together

6:42

isolated Marjorie Tailoring. Here's the thing

6:44

to keep. Jeffries doesn't. Want the speaker

6:46

jobs? There's like a lot of people. Who

6:49

are com like fantasy politics like couldn't

6:51

take and I like to. Get

6:53

a governess. I know he doesn't

6:55

want this. ah he wants to What

6:58

these? It's the like will they in

7:00

the short term? Could they worked together

7:02

and do some things and like. I

7:05

think that's fine. Team

7:08

Jeffries has been a pretty impressive

7:10

leader so far. A mouse.

7:12

We're gonna want to anoint him the next.

7:15

Nancy Pelosi. But. So

7:17

far he will. We had grown up your

7:19

side of make things happen Lot of things

7:21

I'm struck by with said democrats is how.

7:24

Like the voting. Ah

7:27

voting democrats, the democratic Coalition

7:29

is in disarray. Point is

7:32

is ah mad at each.

7:34

Other over Israel and Gaza is

7:36

frustrated about. Ah, and a

7:38

number of things. And yet, the

7:40

Democrats in Congress has managed to

7:42

be. With the exception

7:45

of a few receipt or

7:47

to leave Ah said that

7:49

everybody. Has basically hung in there. And

7:51

my. Father. Marching

7:54

Orders which is which is what Nancy

7:56

Pelosi is sort of guest was was

7:58

that she could wangle. That. Desperate

8:00

conference into something resembling. A

8:02

meaningful coalition. And he seems to

8:04

be tracking with that. To. He's

8:06

a military the of happen but

8:09

seems pretty impressive so far. So

8:13

there was what else happened. Oh tim

8:15

have Ross douthat on of our guest

8:17

oh have not was a thing with

8:19

them and oh god tell me what

8:21

you think you haven't listened Our. Boys.

8:25

Ice I mean I read, I know what

8:27

the hiding focus groups. Once I got. Out

8:29

of the thing is is else but i'd

8:32

is is on my dessert menu somewhere for

8:34

a when i as and that tell me.

8:37

I mean I I don't want to

8:39

tax the readers patients here because I

8:41

have both written about this. Him

8:44

in a newsletter and we talked about it.

8:46

A little bit of the back end of

8:48

the next level not gonna tongue.for like seven

8:50

months about. It. Now tell me this.

8:52

So I knew he was going have Ross on. Did

8:55

you get blindsided by the city To give you a

8:57

heads up? And he told me on Monday.

8:59

Aca. Am one of the of

9:01

Ross on. Tuesday. I.

9:06

Saw eight Years like we did it out.

9:09

this is he he was going out where

9:11

I. Regret. I love the

9:13

Tim has different tests on

9:16

different want to. See.

9:20

The thing that I found interesting

9:22

about it. Is. That.

9:25

I. Believe that Ross is a

9:27

shy trump or. Okay,

9:31

Mean. I think he's one of these

9:33

people who we heard all about my

9:35

twenty sixteen yeah, who you know won't

9:37

say out loud that he's. He's.

9:39

Voting for Trump is Gonna Vote For Trump. He.

9:42

Our you know and don't want to

9:44

tell the mana pollster calls him up

9:46

yeah surveyed doesn't want to be saying

9:48

you know he'll say to a robot

9:50

but not to the person doing the

9:53

app him and for a few reasons

9:55

one of which is. He.

9:57

Talks almost exclusively.

10:00

The about the bad things

10:02

Joe Biden has done but

10:04

doesn't seem to have any

10:06

criticisms of. Trump

10:08

himself. Yeah, mean there there.

10:10

There's a generic. well, he's

10:12

corrupt. But. That

10:14

said, ah, and in fact he has a

10:17

long list of things that he thinks are

10:19

were very good outcomes of the Trump years.

10:21

And. And said

10:23

something to to tim the

10:26

really blew my my hair

10:28

back. She. Said.

10:30

The. Tim's sim set him up was like

10:33

hey what if I had some tea

10:35

and Twenty sixteen and I had said

10:37

we'll have a global pandemic and then

10:39

Trump will lose the election by seven

10:41

million votes and then he will ah

10:43

you know refused can see it and

10:45

I'll send a mobbed the capital and

10:47

try to overturn it. Ah you know

10:49

you would you would have in twenty

10:51

sixteen have told me that I was

10:53

crazy. It can't be that bad wouldn't

10:55

you and rocks. His response was oh

10:57

no I thought it would all be

10:59

much. Much goes. Ah ok

11:01

well that's insane But also he wrote

11:03

the wrote the peace There will be

11:05

no killed. Of

11:08

course, like both of our have

11:10

been, I was twenty twenty Ross

11:12

business, Twenty six, Team Ross our

11:15

share. Okay, and so Ross's position

11:17

was that. Ah, the Trump years

11:19

were way way better than he

11:22

had feared they would be. And

11:26

as I was not I thought the soup. I.

11:29

Had to rations. My first reaction was I've

11:31

never heard anybody say that. right?

11:33

Nobody. nobody says his of it's Hump years

11:35

I thought it was really really bad. That

11:37

turned out to be not bad at all.

11:39

But then I wrote another lot of people

11:42

who say that and those people are like

11:44

Jd Vance and Match Slap. My.

11:46

Those the the people who are now

11:48

on the Trump train didn't. Do.

11:50

Sales And so Ross's the

11:52

position He's i think trying

11:55

to. To. Us

11:57

signal to people. Is.

12:00

I thought Trump would be terrible. But.

12:02

Actually, Trump was really was pretty

12:04

good. Ah, But

12:08

I still won't vote for him this

12:10

time. wink wink. Which is

12:12

so funny. Actually, it's a it is an

12:14

interesting proposition sending. For most of these people

12:17

who defend Trump, we actually know that sort

12:19

of behind the scenes, like they'll vote for

12:21

Joe Biden, right? A lot of the National

12:23

Review crowd or whatever they like, they don't

12:26

actually want Trump. Ah, they don't actually think

12:28

you'd be okay even though they defend him

12:30

publicly. Whereas your rights. Ah, that door. that

12:32

makes sense. To. Me about to very strangely one

12:35

of things he talked about was to him

12:37

was he was like, you know, oh you're

12:39

being alarmist about it from second term. You

12:41

know you have to believe that it from

12:43

second term would be totally different from a

12:45

first served as a first term was. you

12:47

know he was very weak and disinterested Me

12:49

couldn't do anything bad and bubble the law

12:51

and you know I don't see any reason

12:53

to believe that. He would be different him

12:55

a second term and like and Sir Tim was. Simplest

12:58

get going out of his mind to

13:00

enlist the reasons why. Trump would

13:02

be different in the second time. I wasn't sort

13:04

of one. grip. The. Premise of and I. Actually,

13:08

things like the two things like

13:10

his vice President. Saying.

13:13

That he's unfit for office like they're

13:15

they're alive Young Things like General Millie

13:17

saying that tower. Yeah.

13:19

With one month to go that the most

13:21

important thing that the army could do was

13:24

make sure there's a peaceful hint of her

13:26

power. It just seems to me that they

13:28

were a number of warning signs from people

13:30

who don't sit behind keyboards in New Haven,

13:33

but who act yeah, we're in Washington dealing

13:35

with the President on a day to day

13:37

basis who believed did they were significant existential

13:39

danger for the liberal order. Just me, And

13:43

will ever asked tweets out some

13:45

truths or sell thing from Trump

13:47

and those. Yup, the seems like

13:49

more the first term to me.

13:52

So. She's You know he was interested in

13:54

the idea of it's what Trump is projecting

13:56

right now is no different than what we

13:58

saw the first time. Many turned out the

14:00

first time wasn't that bad. And.

14:03

So I just with the logic of that

14:05

position is and song for trump. He

14:07

just of what he wants he would say the

14:09

what did he say he was gonna do as

14:11

like he's not for trump what has he said

14:14

He wasn't sure what our yes so hard to

14:16

tell. Sarah

14:18

it's so far as I mean but

14:20

this is the best part do the

14:22

best bucks to Tim was trying to

14:24

like level set any like aren't to

14:26

students their ranks of the last four

14:28

presidents. Best to worst. And

14:32

Ross refuse to do it to spend five minutes trying to

14:34

get him to do it. And Russia's

14:36

wouldn't do it. And. The

14:38

reason is. The only

14:40

be only possible reason for it is because Ross

14:42

believes that Trump with the best presence of the

14:45

last four. You know,

14:48

What other reason could there be? That

14:50

he didn't wanna say trump is the worst. Now.

14:53

He's clearly he said are bush was the worst. Dabian?

14:57

Yeah, That.

15:02

Does. Not blaming. Really

15:04

any know I like I'm I'm a

15:06

hundred percent on board with some having

15:09

rough on i think Tim Little having

15:11

people on that he wants to like

15:13

argue s and instead you know challenge

15:15

there's I think it is the best.

15:17

Ah but I think that Ross Douthat

15:19

is am. A complete

15:21

Sony ends ah. To

15:24

the Thera saying that not mean. Yeah,

15:26

but like I'd as his dad. A facade

15:29

of the As. I

15:31

are now. I. Pay

15:33

like. I try very hard not to read him

15:35

because I don't think it's useful. It

15:38

is it mean the one. Just.

15:40

Between us the one thing that I

15:42

wished him would have asked him. Was.

15:45

Whether or not Ross believes

15:48

the people who read his

15:50

column regularly. If

15:53

they. If they

15:56

have a clear view of reality

15:58

or not. From. Having

16:00

read him. Like. What is the value

16:02

he adds? Do they understand what has hacked

16:04

was happening the real world around them? more?

16:07

For. Having and the minutes because as

16:09

that's my big be flights I just

16:11

think if you read Ross. You.

16:14

You get dinner. Yeah. Even

16:16

are dumber summers the wrong word? You

16:18

are less tethered to reality. Yeah.

16:21

Cause he's wrong about almost everything.

16:23

right? And out it's.

16:26

It's wild eyed. I did write something

16:28

else. I wrote a Simon taking i've

16:31

run Overtime As weak as said. Jim

16:33

says Mom passed away late last week

16:35

and I saw that was. Very

16:38

them Yeah am. Feel

16:40

safe and a hard to. Their. Families

16:42

and I had a rough few

16:44

months am in the and anyway

16:47

I on Wednesday. I

16:49

wrote. Navy.

16:51

My masterpiece. Maybe the best

16:53

thing I've ever written. I

16:55

didn't get it. I did get it

16:57

added. see like serio writing overtime like

16:59

what is as. But.

17:02

You didn't read it. I skimmed it. Did.

17:04

You read the Wednesday one. This. Is

17:06

it was the one about ah at your

17:09

Life Will Soccer that Trump's I saw that

17:11

you as a you are also a Trump

17:13

Social. In a shareholder right, but didn't

17:15

read that bit because I wrote the entire

17:18

thing in Trump's voice. I

17:20

did not get that. I just skimmed it. I

17:22

will. I was good. I wasn't allowed to look at my phone

17:24

and I just saw it and I was like are Jbl. Three.

17:26

Months when applause. this. At

17:29

the Twenty Seven Fifty Eight March and I'm going

17:31

to give you dramatic reading because I didn't have

17:33

it just slipped. Give the dramatically like got a

17:35

five hour pull it up to to be able

17:38

to give it the dramatic reading In that the

17:40

reason. The. Reason I are I

17:42

am biggest. I. Mistakenly

17:44

turns the comments off. For.

17:47

Overtime. And. So nobody

17:49

was able to leave comments telling

17:51

me how brilliant I was an

17:54

atheist. i

17:56

am not normally needy for pass

17:58

on the fannie sir It's

18:01

true. I'm not that needy. I'm a little... okay. Alright,

18:05

you know what? Fine. I am a little needy. I

18:08

can... You deserve all the pats. You deserve all

18:10

the pats. I don't deserve all of them. But

18:13

on this one, this one,

18:15

I felt like I deserved the pats. Alright,

18:18

here, I'm gonna read you. So what I

18:20

was doing was I was riffing on... a

18:22

Washington Post did a

18:25

piece on

18:29

truth social shareholders who

18:32

had sunk their entire life savings into

18:34

this stock. Awwww. And they're

18:36

watching it go from 90 to 17. Yeah.

18:41

And one of the things that was

18:43

interesting is none of the people the

18:45

Post spoke with were bitter

18:47

about it at all. And they

18:49

were just like, yeah, we're just gonna buy more. Is

18:52

that Diamond Hands? Is that what Diamond Hands is? It's

18:55

really buy the dip. Ah. Anyway.

19:00

I am a proud shareholder of DJT, and

19:02

since the stock debuted on the big board, some

19:05

beautiful, historical, very special things have happened to it.

19:07

And then I showed the graph of the stock

19:09

going down. Stock go down. Yeah. How

19:12

could your favorite president's stock be down so terribly?

19:15

I'll tell you why. It's the socialist elites, just

19:17

like the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. They're

19:20

trying to crush Trump, but it won't work. The

19:22

other day I was talking with a famous

19:24

stockbroker, very rich, very smart, one

19:26

of the biggest names in stocks. And he

19:28

said to me with tears in his eyes, Trump's stock is

19:31

bigger than either the Google or the Facebook. The people

19:33

need to buy it. It's

19:35

true. It's true. And

19:37

I go and I quote a bunch of things.

19:39

There's this guy, Jerry, who's in

19:42

the Post piece, who is a he

19:44

owns a company that does tree removal. There's a picture

19:46

of him. He's like a 65 year

19:49

old guy with a chainsaw. Me again. Jerry

19:52

is a big guy, uses a chainsaw, very big chainsaw,

19:55

maybe the biggest chainsaw ever made And

19:58

made in America. Chinese

20:00

Chainsaws A Maid in Manhattan was

20:02

a great film. Jennifer Lopez, J

20:05

Lo. The. Movies Falls in love

20:07

with Voldemort. Not a nice guy. But

20:10

he has money perhaps even early investor

20:12

and through social may be used to

20:14

time turner and way it goes on

20:17

in this in this vein and. I

20:20

just think it's. It's.

20:22

The Best Thing I've Ever written. Was.

20:24

Race Signs and made in America. Yes,

20:27

Well. How you want an

20:29

app also said see poll they

20:31

have fly ball the isn't it

20:33

though. flashback last bedside you can.

20:35

you can applaud me right? The

20:37

post costs one guy on True

20:39

So Self, the one guy from

20:42

True Socially who had lost ah,

20:44

seventy one percent of his portfolio

20:46

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