John

What impact is this having?

Not so much on Donald Trump, who said he's not running again, but on the Republican brand.

It's just one thing after another, after one failure after another, one dismissal after another of these cases.

Now they're going after.

An American hero, Mark Kelly, with a guy like Pete Hegseth on the other side.

Again, I'm just baffled by the political moves they're making.

The politics actually comes back to Ratner's charts.

All of this, all of this, going after Mark Kelly, going after James Comey, all the failures.

As opposed to if you're a voter.

What about me?

What about that the inflation is still 3%?

What about that there are less jobs?

And the more he's doing these stunts, these failing stunts, the more people are reminded, no, I don't think he can walk and chew gum at the same time.

And when it ended, I was okay.

In 2024, my best friend of 46 years, Anne, died of ALS.

We spent much of the prior three years together realizing her bucket list.

And during that time on a trip to Uruguay, we listened to one of your episodes on Stoicism and agreed that it was the closest description of the type of philosophy we had both tried to live and were especially living during the time of her illness and decline.

It gave me great comfort.

I think it gave her great comfort.

But after she died,