Episode Transcript: #767 - Mike Baker
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Yes! And we're live. Mike Baker, how are you, sir?
I'm doing very well, thank you. Very happy to be here.
Thanks for coming back, man. Appreciate it.
Are you kidding? No.
Good to see you. This world's in chaos. We need to talk to a rational man like yourself who's got the inside scoop.
I have never been billed that way before, but thank you. That's a bonus.
In this irrational world, your rationality, you're what's deemed a rational man now.
Yeah. We've been lowering the bar, haven't we? We've been lowering our expectations.
We were talking before the show started about the current cover of The Economist that has Donald Trump dressed up like his Uncle Sam, and it just says, really?
It's perfect. And it's what you want to say to everybody who has jumped that chasm.
I understand that everybody's upset. People are angry, for whatever their motivation.
So they get jonesed up.
This is it. Look at that fucking cover.
Look at that.
This is what we're down to.
That's brilliant.
But how do you get from, okay, he's entertaining, and I understand that.
Everybody wants to be entertained to some degree.
But how do you get to the point from saying it's entertaining to leader of the free world?
And that's the part that I can't understand when I talk to people who are absolutely supporting him.