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

We have a double header today. I had Talman Smith, who's a New Orleans, who writes about economics on to talk about the

purges of the Fed, the attempted purge police a cook at the Fed.

But there's been so much news, so much dark news.

I like to bring on this guest for comedic news.

But in this case, we're going to find his sensitive side.

It's the managing editor of the bulwark, Sam Stein. How you doing, man?

I'm good, man. How are you?

I am well, all things considered. We got a bunch of news we've got to get to.

So yesterday, a shooter opened fire during morning mass at a Catholic school in Minneapolis,

killed two children, injured 17 others.

The shooter is identified as a 23-year-old, likely trans or trans-identifying person, Robin Westman,

who killed themselves.

They left behind a trail of insane conspiracy, theory, addled videos, and writings don't really map on any ideological

spectrum i know you did a video on this yesterday but just kind of after 24 hours just wondering

what your reactions are or if you have anything new to say about this uh american groundhog day

tragedy and that's it it's it's that it's it's a, it's groundhog day.

It's so, it's, it's so customary in our social fabric at this point that its lack of

extraordinaryness is like the defining feature for me.

I mean, I just, I've been through this so many times journalistically now that, you know,

I remember the first time, or one of the first times

that, you know, you kind of hustle in the newsroom,

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