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Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of, oh, yeah, the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media.

We've had a pretty good run lately, not necessarily consecutive, but a pretty good run of AEI colleagues on here of late.

And we figured we'd really press our luck, try to help regress to the mean of quality as gently as possible.

And so we have the director of the economic shop at the American Enterprise. I'm sure it's got some fancier title than that. You know,

Edmund Burke warned about how the age of wholesomeness had ended and had been replaced by the

age of sophister's economists and calculators.

And we figure that they need representation on this podcast as well.

So Michael Strain, welcome back to The Remnant.

I'm sure this is a, this is like,

you're like Matthew McConaughey and a hammock drinking a beer on the beach these days, right? Because everything's just going great. The winning is like, this is, you're like Matthew McConaug and a hammock drinking a beer on the beach these days, right?

Because everything's just going great.

The winning is nonstop.

I'm, uh, uh, really enjoying the winning.

Time to close up shop.

We've, we've, we've, we've done all we can.

We don't need, you don't need to go full Scott Linsicum on all of this, but in importance and relevance in the grand scheme of things, how,

if you're at a family reunion and your cousin says, okay, so how big a deal are, is this

tariff stuff? What is your general answer to that? You know, I think it's a, I think it's a pretty

big deal. I mean, maybe answer this in a few

different ways. You know, a lot of people are going to want to know what's this going to do

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