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Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 357, Terminal Empire Hallucinations, featuring Mike Rothschild.

As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky, and Travis View.

I'm checking the calendar right now, and it seems as though the old world is dying while the new world struggles to be born.

And that means if the Albanian Italian philosopher Antonio the new world struggles to be born. That means if the Albanian

Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci is to be believed, now is the time of monsters. And we're here

to unpack some of the violence lies and absurdity of this particular moment of the interregnum.

That includes the shooting death and smearing by federal agents of another person in Minnesota,

the White House manipulating photos using AI,

Cash Patel treating the FBI like his personal hype house,

and alleged time travel by the late Charlie Kirk.

And here to join us to talk about it all is journalist Mike Rothschild.

Mike, it's a pleasure to have you back.

Pleasure to be here.

You guys are my personal hype house.

And you, us. And we ours. And then here. How's everybody doing? Doing all right. You know, every time we talk, something horrible happened. But, you know, such as the nature of our jobs. Yeah. That's what we call my, when it's not just like one weird thing popping off, but it's like three or four horrible things like all at once sort of in rapid succession, that's when you know Mike's coming on the show. Yep, yep. It's great. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, I think I have this, you know, pervasive sense of dread that, like, gets worse by the day. But like, other than that, I think I'm doing okay. Yeah, I have found myself, like, pretty radicalized, like, these last couple weeks, like, in a new, in a new way. I don't know if I should be saying that out loud on a, on a show that the government could potentially listen to and find me.

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