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The Michael Steele Podcast

A Moment of Clarity: "Let's start with the chickens because you're next!"

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele discusses Elon Musk's role in firing federal employees and how Trump is failing to address the price of eggs and rising cases of Bird Flu. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, move those routers there.

0:04.0

Oh, hey, it's me, your data center.

0:06.0

And as you can hear, I'm making some big changes in here,

0:09.0

because AI is making some bigger ones everywhere.

0:12.0

So I took a little trip to Nokia.

0:14.0

Super fast routers, optical interconnect, fully automated,

0:18.0

the whole data center networking portfolio, and they deliver.

0:22.3

That's them.

0:23.4

Hey, Nokia, right on time.

0:25.9

Get your data center AI ready.

0:28.0

Someday is here with Nokia.

0:31.9

And now for a moment of clarity.

0:36.5

More eggs, please. More wasn't about no damn eggs.

0:37.8

More eggs, please. More eggs, please. More eggs, please.

0:43.2

I want to pick up on Eddie's point there, Everett, because I think what is lost is the impact on the men and women who make up our federal workforce.

0:53.5

We know that there are pins in agencies that haven't been filled.

0:58.0

So yeah, you don't have to fill those.

1:01.0

Those dollars can go back into the budget and be spent on other things.

1:05.0

But when you have people doing their jobs, as both you and Eddie have noted,

1:10.0

my dad was a federal employee based

1:12.2

out of Cameron Station in the Department of Defense, right? I worked in both the congressional

1:18.4

side of the federal government as well as the Naval Research Laboratory. As a young kid,

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