Derek Thompson

My real question here is, of all the things to focus on, why are you focusing on this?

By the way, for folks who don't know at home, Larry Ellison, Ellison the elder, is also on the buying party that got TikTok.

So I co-authored a book called Abundance.

You co-authored an idea with Matt Iglesias called Big-Ass Truck Abundance.

What is that?

Brooklyn Walk-Up is the big-ass truck is a funny sort of cultural translation from Arizona to Brooklyn.

I'm doing my best here.

I'm so interested in this idea.

I mean, we only have 10 minutes left.

I could do an hour on this, but there's really something that I think you hit on with big-ass truck abundance.

It's not SUV abundance.

It's not minivan abundance.

There's a celebration of- Success.

Exuberance and extravagance that isn't embarrassed of extravagance.

What I think is cool about this idea that doesn't have sufficient articulation, I think, of the Democratic Party yet, is that...

You know, Democrats are in danger, I think, of developing this reputation of like tall Pompey syndrome.

Like you've got local Democrats who are against gifted and talented programs.

You've got Democrats talking about the rich who often do terrible things.

You've got Democrats opposing billionaire wealth taxes, which in many cases I think might be worthwhile.

And yet when you pull it all together,