Hello and welcome to the Buller podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller.

A few live programming notes tonight after Donald Trump's address to the nation, some combination of your

Bullwark faves will be live on YouTube and Substack. Maybe me. We'll see. Check it out.

I will definitely be live tomorrow night at about 8 o'clock in the east where I'm continuing

my streaming experiments. It's just me alone. I'm vibing out. I'm having an orange

wine. I'm answering your questions. So come join us on YouTube or substack for that as well.

That is Thursday night about 8 o'clock in the east. All right, we got a double header today

in segment two. It's the mayor of Scranton page Cognetti, who I think had my favorite launch ad of the cycle.

So I'm excited to talk to her.

She's running against a Republican who's a pretty big dweeb.

So it should be a good conversation.

But up first, welcoming back, co-host of the podcast, Serious Trouble with Ken White. And now, I was on this a couple weeks ago, Central Air with Megan McArdle and Ben Dreyfus. He also writes on Substack at Very Serious. It's Very Serious Josh Barrow. How you doing, sir? I'm doing well, Tim. Thanks for having me. It's April Fool's Day. I'm not a big April Fool's Day guy. I don't sense that you are either. No, I find tricks unpleasant.

Yeah, that sounds like. him. Thanks for having me. It's April Fool's Day guy. I don't sense that you are either.

No, I find tricks unpleasant. Yeah, that sounds right. We're also tomorrow, I guess, if you're listening to this on Thursday morning, it's the one-year anniversary of Liberation Day. And so that's a good thing also for us to Mark. And we're going to get into the economics of the war. But first, we just have a couple of news items. We've got to touch on what's happening with Iran. Or maybe there are news items, I guess. That's probably what we should talk about. Trump has a speech tonight at 9 o'clock. At the time of this taping, we don't exactly know whether that is him cutting and running, him escalating. You know, him both., him debuting, you know, a new wing to the White House. Maybe it's not even about

the war. Maybe he just is going to do a PowerPoint presentation about the different types

of marble. We'll have to see. He has a bleat this morning that says this, Henri Die.

Iran's new regime president, much less radicalized and far more intelligent than

his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a ceasefire. That sounds good.

We will consider when Hormuz's straight is open, free and clear. Until then, we're blasting Iran

into oblivion, or as they say, back to the Stone Ages, I should note that Iran's president,

Masoud Peschkin, I think of that right, has been president since 2024. So they don't,

they don't actually have a new regime president. I don't know what he's talking about there.

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