Lights! Camera! Tariffs!
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hope for the best. |
| 0:08.0 | Expect the worst. |
| 0:10.0 | Some drink and pain. |
| 0:12.0 | Some die of thirst. |
| 0:15.0 | The way of knowing which way it's going. |
| 0:19.0 | Hope for the best. |
| 0:20.0 | Expect the worst., for the best, expect the worst. |
| 0:22.5 | Oh, for the best. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | Today is Tuesday, May 6th, 2025. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm John Pudhord. |
| 0:31.4 | It's the editor of Commentary Magazine. |
| 0:33.1 | With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi, Abe. |
| 0:36.4 | Hi, John. |
| 0:39.7 | Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. |
| 0:46.5 | So I think we'll very quickly dispense with or talk about them dispense with the Trump plan to put 100% tariff on all movies made outside the United States. |
| 0:59.6 | First of all, it's impossible to tell what it means that a movie is made outside the United States. |
| 1:05.5 | They can be financed here, but film partially outside and partially here. |
| 1:10.2 | And there's a lot of German tax incentives and tax shelters that mean that movies are |
| 1:18.3 | incorporated outside the United States that you would think of as being entirely American. |
| 1:23.4 | Ed Epstein wrote a whole book about this. |
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