So we like talking to Jake Coste of the Weekly Standard about, you know, what's going

on in the world politically and that sort of stuff. And so Joe said during the commercials

there, what do you think we ought to ask him? And I just, it made me hang my head. I

went, like, do you want to go first? I says I says to him, right? This with my head.

I just thought, you know, the stories that are big, I just, I don't want to talk about

the Philadelphia Eagles. I don't want to talk about the Russia investigation. Sure, as hell,

don't want to talk about Paul Manafort. Jake Coste is a historian journalist to analyst

writes for the Weekly Standard National Review. He has written a number of terrific books

and has a brand new one out yesterday as I understand it. The price of greatness, Alexander

Hamilton, James Madison, the creation of American oligarchy, which is a super interesting sounding

tone about the relationship between government and business from the beginning. Jake Coste

joins us. Hello, Jay, how are you? I'm great. How you guys doing? We're exhausted and

beleaguered. Thanks for asking. So is there anything in the headline that doesn't make your

high knee tired when you think about it that you'd like to talk about? No, it's, it's,

uh, it's, it's a strange and stupid time to be alive. A strange and that should be the

title of a new book. That's your next book. It's a strange and stupid time to be alive.

These were the strangest of times. These were the stupidest of times. Anyway, what do you mean?

Well, you know, it's just, uh, you know, we're just caught in the whirlwind of Donald Trump

all the time. And I, I, I think he's, uh, you know, kind of making everybody crazy. Uh,

and I just, it's just a strange thing to see, um, you know, Democrats going full impeachment

or at least the rank and file and the leadership trying desperately to hold them back off of

this. And it's like, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, you know, you can't, it,

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