Trump Accounts, Musk Backs Down, College and LLMs

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Mike, Trey, and Tim open with a look at one part of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that could have some bipartisan support - the plan to give every child born in the US a $1,000 investment account. From there, they turn to Elon Musk, who issued a sort of apology for some of the things he said about President Trump, as well as a lawsuit alleging Musk conducted a “brazen scheme to bribe Wisconsin citizens to vote”. They close by considering Tim’s recent Substack post about how he’s changing his teaching to deal with LLMs and the broader issue of what LLMs mean for higher education and democracy. Check out Tim on Substack and X The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Mike’s Substack: What Fresh Hell is This? Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.8	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Barronowski.
1:22.6	I'm joined today by my not one, but count them two conservative counterparts, Oklahoma Christian University of political
1:29.3	scientist, Trey Arndorf, as well as University of Austin economics professor Tim Kaine.
1:35.5	Trey and Tim, great to have you guys back for the bonus show.
1:39.0	It's good to be back. I didn't know that Trey was a conservative. I thought I was just very
1:43.1	convincing last time. Well, well, Trey was a conservative. I thought I was just very convincing last.
1:51.6	Well, well, Trey's history is, you know, we've batted this around.
2:00.2	I would say that Trey is a libertarian who's not necessarily that much of a conservative anymore, exactly. But Trey, I don't know, I'm putting words into
2:03.5	your mouth, but I get to sense you're like more of a Paul Ryan era pre-Trump conservative.
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