Walter Kirn
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1,232 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 24 Nov
Walter Kirn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do they not yet know how Trump works? Have they not yet cracked his algorithm? Every week, every few days, in case we run out of outrages, Trump does something that I call throw the media a chew toy. This is a chew toy. It allows them to sit by the fire and bite, lick, slobber at some non-issue. which causes total distraction while he does something like end a war.
Now, we'll be talking about this Qatari plane all week, I can tell you. And by the end of the week, we'll find out that the Ukraine-Russia war ended or something while we were on our... You know, slobbering over our chew toy. But but, you know, so in a way, it doesn't matter the specifics because they're always outrageous to be a chew toy. It has to sort of be borderline bad taste.
And is it legal and is it constitutional? And in some ways it has to be gauche, too, because it's Donald Trump. Right. I mean, the plane has to be over the top. People will be looking at, oh, my Lord, you know, solid gold toilet paper holders. Yeah. First of all, he's going to guarantee more attendance at his library if he gets that thing parked in back than any other president in history.
He may also not have to build a whole wing on it. People will just it's a 747. People will just use that as that could be the library. It could be the library. But it gets us talking about issues that in a weird way, in the same way, remember how he did an AI or somebody did of him dressed as the Pope a week before we got an American Pope?
And it got us talking about the Pope and thinking about it in all sorts of ways. And just because that was the chew toy that week. It was that AI of the Pope. And then it gets us ready for the main course. Now, gutter, whose name I can never pronounce.
You know, it's going to be in the news and part of a lot of negotiations probably coming up. It's for better or for worse, a power player in the Middle East than in the United States. And suddenly we know who it is. We know what gutter is. Most Americans without this plane wouldn't, They still can't place it on a map, and they still can't pronounce it. Look at me.
But at least they're aware it exists. Yeah, and they're aware it exists suddenly. How interesting is that, Megan? Yeah. I'll make a prediction. Two weeks from now, for reasons other than the plane, gutter will be in the news, but Americans will already recognize that they're talking about a country when they hear that.
And Megan, that's what I first thought too. What he's really doing is he's trolling Boeing. You can't finish your damn planes. And he just trolled Boeing in the past. You can't get your astronauts down off your space stations. They're a mess. Why do we have to keep bailing you out? This is really aimed at Boeing.
That was like a satire, like Running Man or something like that, where they have everybody in the game show where somebody dies. Brought to you by Pfizer. And not just by Pfizer, because I always look at the subliminal message. Brought to you by the oval blue pill that Pfizer is famous for, Viagra. I mean, in other words, that's the subtle message there. Pfizer helping America.
you know, get it on. But I mean, that is a helpful drug.
Well, here's the thing. It's been pointed out that pharmaceutical advertising isn't really to the customer because you and I can't go out and buy those things, can we? We have to go through a doctor. Those are influence ads. Those are ads meant to own the media so that in the general flow of events and issues, Pfizer's lobbying and Pfizer's agenda are at the top of the news.
The fat shot.
I thought he was talking about Pritzker the whole time. Me too.
That's what I was picturing.
Yes, exactly. Well, Trump has that magical ability to put pictures in your head, even if they're not the ones that are intended. That's so true.
like when he said it didn't work and he took sort of shots at it and he said his friend's neurotic he um painted a picture that's just indelible and and uh i don't think america now has a better comedian salesman troll and politician than donald trump he's taken all four hats
Well, if I don't have any thoughts on tariffs, that means I'm the only person in America who doesn't because we had more experts grow up overnight on tariffs than almost any other issue in my lifetime. So you were humble enough to say, I don't understand what this has all been about since the beginning. I sort of understand it. My job is to educate myself on these things. And I'll say this.
Have you ever negotiated anything? Of course you have, Megan. You've negotiated salaries. You've negotiated contracts, book contracts. Even I have done that. And at the beginning of negotiations, a lot of things are said that cause people to go, oh, no, it's going to break down. This is going to destroy everything. I won't get a book published at all.
Oh, I won't get in the movie if I play too tough. But negotiations are the beginning of a game and a rough game when it involves China and the U.S. and trillions of dollars. That we're doing it at all is a plus. You know, that we're examining this at all, that we're at the table, that we're playing this rather rough, you know, contest, I think is good. Number two.
Both Trump and China have one thing in common. They like to save face. It's thought to be a perennial feature of certain Asian cultures that saving face is almost more important than actually winning things. And in Trump's case, being able to brag and thump his chest and beat Donald Trump is also very important.
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