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Will Sommer

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The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

I don't know a ton about it, but it is sort of another, it's just like another like really weird thing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I mean, Gorka, as you said, at this point, it's like, oh, thank gosh, the adults are in the room. Right. Gorka's here. And that's how I felt, you know, amid everything else. I mean, Gorka is another, it's good to do him after Bongino because Gorka is like another like classic mad guy, but in kind of like a more gentlemanly way, an old world sensibility.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I mean, Gorka, as you said, at this point, it's like, oh, thank gosh, the adults are in the room. Right. Gorka's here. And that's how I felt, you know, amid everything else. I mean, Gorka is another, it's good to do him after Bongino because Gorka is like another like classic mad guy, but in kind of like a more gentlemanly way, an old world sensibility.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I mean, Gorka, as you said, at this point, it's like, oh, thank gosh, the adults are in the room. Right. Gorka's here. And that's how I felt, you know, amid everything else. I mean, Gorka is another, it's good to do him after Bongino because Gorka is like another like classic mad guy, but in kind of like a more gentlemanly way, an old world sensibility.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

You know, obviously we know he has, in the last administration, there were all these questions about his ties to kind of like quasi-Nazi European groups and did he get a medal from one of them or what have you. But these days, you know, he too was in talk radio. I mean, it's a sign, I think, you know, we're talking about the second administration versus the first Trump administration.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

You know, obviously we know he has, in the last administration, there were all these questions about his ties to kind of like quasi-Nazi European groups and did he get a medal from one of them or what have you. But these days, you know, he too was in talk radio. I mean, it's a sign, I think, you know, we're talking about the second administration versus the first Trump administration.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

You know, obviously we know he has, in the last administration, there were all these questions about his ties to kind of like quasi-Nazi European groups and did he get a medal from one of them or what have you. But these days, you know, he too was in talk radio. I mean, it's a sign, I think, you know, we're talking about the second administration versus the first Trump administration.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

of how things have changed that in the past, you know, five years or so, I think Gorka has kind of presented himself as like somewhat of a voice of reason. I mean, he had this like really long running feud with QAnon people where he was like, you're not cases and this kind of stuff. I mean, so it's still, I would say disturbing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

of how things have changed that in the past, you know, five years or so, I think Gorka has kind of presented himself as like somewhat of a voice of reason. I mean, he had this like really long running feud with QAnon people where he was like, you're not cases and this kind of stuff. I mean, so it's still, I would say disturbing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

of how things have changed that in the past, you know, five years or so, I think Gorka has kind of presented himself as like somewhat of a voice of reason. I mean, he had this like really long running feud with QAnon people where he was like, you're not cases and this kind of stuff. I mean, so it's still, I would say disturbing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I sent him a very nice email. I think maybe it was a story about his feud with QAnon, and I sent him an email. And then a few hours later, I was just sitting around, and he called me. And I'd never talked to him before, and he said...

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I sent him a very nice email. I think maybe it was a story about his feud with QAnon, and I sent him an email. And then a few hours later, I was just sitting around, and he called me. And I'd never talked to him before, and he said...

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I sent him a very nice email. I think maybe it was a story about his feud with QAnon, and I sent him an email. And then a few hours later, I was just sitting around, and he called me. And I'd never talked to him before, and he said...

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

it is will summer and i said yeah and he said stick your head in a bucket full of eels and i was just i was so shocked that i had to have him i said can you say that again like i need to get that quote down and he said stick your head in a bucket full of eels and i thought really nothing of it i said okay well that's a little weird and then he played it on his show and he played it as sort of like kind of a crank yanker situation where he sort of said i i had a clever little call so it's he's an unusual guy it's the counter-terrorism chief of america

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

it is will summer and i said yeah and he said stick your head in a bucket full of eels and i was just i was so shocked that i had to have him i said can you say that again like i need to get that quote down and he said stick your head in a bucket full of eels and i thought really nothing of it i said okay well that's a little weird and then he played it on his show and he played it as sort of like kind of a crank yanker situation where he sort of said i i had a clever little call so it's he's an unusual guy it's the counter-terrorism chief of america

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

it is will summer and i said yeah and he said stick your head in a bucket full of eels and i was just i was so shocked that i had to have him i said can you say that again like i need to get that quote down and he said stick your head in a bucket full of eels and i thought really nothing of it i said okay well that's a little weird and then he played it on his show and he played it as sort of like kind of a crank yanker situation where he sort of said i i had a clever little call so it's he's an unusual guy it's the counter-terrorism chief of america

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I mean, just just jumping off the 1789 thing. I mean, it is fascinating that we just have these situations and where, you know, people with connections to the administration or with the ability to sway the president are just sort of really have their pockets. They're saying, hey, you know, come on through if you want to butter up to me, you know, donate to my VC fund.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I mean, just just jumping off the 1789 thing. I mean, it is fascinating that we just have these situations and where, you know, people with connections to the administration or with the ability to sway the president are just sort of really have their pockets. They're saying, hey, you know, come on through if you want to butter up to me, you know, donate to my VC fund.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

Yeah, I mean, just just jumping off the 1789 thing. I mean, it is fascinating that we just have these situations and where, you know, people with connections to the administration or with the ability to sway the president are just sort of really have their pockets. They're saying, hey, you know, come on through if you want to butter up to me, you know, donate to my VC fund.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

The Bloomberg article is interesting. Basically, I guess the pitch is that this is kind of the anti-ESG, this is the anti-woke capital situation. But I think in practice, as you said, it's interesting that there are companies having these massive funding rounds, and then also Don Jr. is coming. In terms of the crypto stuff... I follow like crypto world relatively closely.