meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Search Engine

DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

Search Engine

PJ Vogt

Society & Culture, Business, Technology

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

There’s a new president of America, and he’s doing a lot of things. How do you decide what to pay attention to? A story about reporters focusing on one mysterious line item during the DOGE headline storm, and where that led. Bobby Allyn Support Search Engine To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

0:04.8

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.

0:12.5

Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.

0:17.5

From startups to scaleups, online, in person and on the go.

0:22.0

Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.

0:24.5

Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.

0:32.6

Music So here's one of those questions that might actually be too big,

0:59.8

or at least unanswerable by another person.

1:03.1

I am really struggling in the early days of the second Trump administration

1:06.9

to figure out how much attention to pay to what the new federal government is doing.

1:11.6

I keep asking myself what, if anything, I learned the first time around.

1:16.6

Back then, many of the stories I focused on ended up not mattering much.

1:20.6

There were things that seemed maximally outrageous, but which later were supplanted by much more outrageous things.

1:26.6

The first Trump presidency made everyone in American life more deranged, more crazy, including me.

1:33.0

And the second time around, I personally have just felt like a person who maybe once got too drunk

1:37.5

and now has a chance on their second night out to try to adjust.

1:42.4

Maybe.

1:43.6

But it's difficult.

1:45.2

One of the main facts of life in a Trump presidency is that the president is very talented

1:49.8

at making your phone buzz.

1:52.2

If you own a smartphone, you have this feeling that even if you don't understand what's

1:56.2

going on in his office or his mind, that you are umbilically attached to his nervous system. Actually,

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 26 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from PJ Vogt, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of PJ Vogt and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.