Welcome to the Charles C.W. Cook podcast, episode 25, quarter of a century, looked at in a particular way.

I just got back from the beautiful state of California.

Really is a great state.

Really is badly run, though.

Since I made my request for more questions,

I've received lots of cues

that in good time will most definitely receive

associated A's. But this week, I've decided to

forego the Q and the A and the color supplement and even my monologue, and instead turn over the

whole show to Jennifer Rubin, who is going to tell us all about how the recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius

makes the case for Joe Biden in 2024. No, not, not really. Really, I've decided to turn over the whole

show to Shakespeare, or at least to the discussion of Shakespeare, and to do so

with no less than Daniel Hannan, who you may know from his Henry V like role in sticking it to

the French, among others, and getting the United Kingdom out of the European Union.

Shakespeare once said that talking isn't doing.

It's a kind of good deed to say well, and yet words are not deeds.

Which, well, which tells me that Shakespeare never had a podcast.

Clever guy, no doubt, but he never had a podcast.

But do you know who does have a podcast? Other than me, that is? The Competitive Enterprise Institute,

and that podcast is rather well timed in my view. Because as Americans deal with rising prices, record inflation and fears of a looming recession, President Biden's Federal Trade Commission,

under the direction of Chair Lena Khan, is pursuing anti-consumer, anti-competitive measures against American industries, thereby

killing innovation and threatening America's dynamic 21st century economy.

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