Barry Weiss
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976 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Do you think there's something so bleak about the phrase, make America great again?
I know, but the assumption is that it's not great.
But if we have to make something great again, it means it's not great.
And I would add most progressive. I agree with that. But if you wind back the clock, eight years ago, 2016, this very weekend, Donald Trump gets up and delivers one of the bleakest speeches I've ever heard an American political leader give, the American carnage speech. You remember that speech.
I think one of the great paradoxes of American life right now, I'm sure you saw yesterday there was another heavy booster rocket that SpaceX sent into space and got caught by these, I guess what you could only describe as chopstick arms. We live in a country where that is possible. And I know Blue Origin, the new Glenn made it. It was like an incredible week for space.
And yet you look at California. And entire neighborhoods are being burned to the ground right now. There was not water in some of the hydrants or in one of the key reservoirs. Explain this to me.
But is that just government? Like, is that just the nature of bureaucracy?
Versus private enterprise? Or is that just really, really poor lawmakers in that particular state?
That guy's pivot makes Mark Zuckerberg look like a tortoise. Like I'm getting whiplash. Like all of a sudden the LA times, which being run by his literally communist daughter is now he's all of a sudden like team Maha. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen.
But how do we get the heavy booster chopstick arms vibes into government? Like anyone that's been to the DMV wants to kill themselves.
Wow. Eating McDonald's?
Oh, that was the famous picture?
I feel like you guys forced him to do that.
Wow. Big Mac or?
What's your impression of Elon Musk, and do you think that the bromance between these two alphas, these two arguably strongest men in the world, is destined for a blowup, and when do you think that's gonna happen?
One of the early blowups between the Musketeers and the Bannonites was over this H-1B visa issue, high-skilled immigration. Where did you fall in that debate?
This is really a D.C. drama.
But don't you think there's actually a core philosophical disagreement that can't be squared? Here's what I mean. It's a question of what leads to the most human flourishing for Americans. On the one side of the argument is the perspective that let the free market do its thing. If we let Elon Musk or Meta or whoever, any of these companies, work with whoever is the best and most efficient
economically speaking, talent, that will ultimately lead to the best for everybody. And then there's this other view, this sort of nationalist, populist view that is very compelling to a lot of people, which says, no, we have to look out for our own people first, even if it means retraining people in slightly less efficiency for these companies. I don't see those as being harmonious.
You kind of have to pick one.
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