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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Rick Wilson & Tim Wu

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson examines Trump’s indefensible pardons. Tim Wu details his new book The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political

0:10.4

headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:12.9

And a new Harvard poll puts Trump at a dismal 29% approval among young voters.

0:19.2

We have such a great show for you today.

0:21.6

The Lincoln Project Zone, Rick Wilson, joins us to discuss Trump's indefensible partons,

0:27.6

and we'll talk to Tim Wu about his new book, The Age of Extraction,

0:33.1

how tech platforms conquered the economy and threatened our future prosperity.

0:38.7

But first, the news.

0:45.0

So, Molly, you may have heard on the Sunday news shows, Scott Bassett loves to talk about how he is a farmer. He's no longer a farmer. Aw, what happened? Well, Molly, I don't know if you've heard

0:51.3

what this economy is not very good for a soybean farmer like Scott Bassett.

0:55.2

Yeah. So you know what happened?

0:57.3

He sells the soybean farm because everybody's getting out of this economy and out of this market because it's about to go very bad from Scott Bassett's stupid decisions.

1:05.3

I'd be real curious to know who he sold it to and how much they overpaid.

1:10.5

I could see like Trump World tends to and how much they overpaid. I could see, like, Trump world tends to get

1:13.2

really good offers for things they're selling. And I just am very curious as to why, if that makes

1:19.7

any sense. Like, why do people love to buy things from Trump world? Why do foreign countries love to give Jared money to invest? Why? I mean,

1:31.5

it's just so interesting that these people are making so much money now. It's odd. Why?

1:39.3

Well, if there's one thing I know, it's really just so sad to me that he's not going to be able to talk about this on the Sunday shows.

1:45.6

You know, it's worth just for a minute pulling back and thinking about Scott Basson,

1:51.3

who is now ultimately out there defending some pretty stupid moves that our government has

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