Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

I'm your host Tim Miller.

We got a proper Louisiana thunderstorm brewing outside my window.

So, you know, if you get a little audio accompaniment of some thunderous noises, well, I think that's just

appropriate for all the storm clouds we got on the horizon that we will be discussing here at the show.

It's Monday.

So, of course, he's editor at large of the bulwark and author of our Morning Shots newsletter.

It's Bill Crystal.

How you doing, Bill?

Fine, Tim.

And if we lose Tim, I'll just talk.

You know, it'll be no problem at all. It'll be one of the greatest Tim Miller podcast, actually,

you know. A crystal monologue. I had many people bragging about Bill Crystal Mondays at the New

Orleans Book Festival this weekend. It was nice to see folks out at the New Orleans Book Festival. So, you know, if you thought you were going to get demoted, I don't think it's happening. I think we think we are stuck with

each other. Did you sell a lot of books at the New Orleans Book Festival? Actually, no,

because they sold me out very quick, which was nice. So they didn't, I don't think that our mutual friend, Mayor Landrieu, Mrs. Landrieu, the Isaacs, they didn't realize what they,

you know, what they had with me as far as, as far as book sales is concerned.

You know, it takes a while. The locals are the last to kind of catch up to true celebrity.

You know, they still think that former Mayor Landrieu is kind of a more important person than Tim Miller,

but they'll, in New Orleans, but they're, they'll learn. That is true. I would not try to outshine

the landers. Okay, much, much, much to discuss. I'm kind of reluctant to have this as the first topic,

but I think that we should do it in the right context. And that is that Donald Trump was on a call

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