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610 CKTB| Binger-in-Chief: Trump's Cinematic Statecraft · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Right now, though, another great voice in the show. Every Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: we love talking to John Lidkey. Good morning John, Good
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  Speaker 1: morning Gene. Now I really like this today. You have
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  Speaker 1: a whole new take on the Trump is a showman thingy. So,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm right, you've come to the conclusion, and I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to hear this. I've been looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: You've come to the conclusion that Trump is literally pulling
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  Speaker 1: policy right out of Hollywood movies and scripts.
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  Speaker 2: Explain, lifted straight from the silver screen, Gene. It is
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  Speaker 2: easy to see Donald Trump as a showman in chief,
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  Speaker 2: but I think you know, might be more apt to
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  Speaker 2: call him the binger in chief. It's a bit of both.
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  Speaker 2: He sees things on TV, he consumes it, he processes it,
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  Speaker 2: and then he turns it often into you know, and
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  Speaker 2: he treats Hollywood movies like their intelligence briefings, that's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: And then he turns these things into policy. So let's
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  Speaker 2: just I've got I've got the movie stub tickets here
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  Speaker 2: to show you out.
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  Speaker 1: Yell first, go for it. I've been looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: this all day.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just look at through the lens of crime
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  Speaker 2: and punishment. So there was the movie The Perch. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure that you're remembering. Yes, the whole idea was of
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  Speaker 2: one day of full violent crime, government sanction and that's
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  Speaker 2: the end of it. Well, in twenty twenty four, in September,
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  Speaker 2: Trump actually proposed quote one rough hour to be able
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  Speaker 2: to deal with it all. You know, that's just one example. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: how would I give you one that's closer to today?
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  Speaker 2: Right now, we keep hearing about Donald Trump talking about
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  Speaker 2: invading Greenland. Well, here's something really interesting. When he first
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  Speaker 2: started talking about this, it was in August twenty nineteen. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the movie Greenland was actually announced in May of twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: so that had already been ruminating. In the movie Greenland.
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  Speaker 2: The plot of it, of course, there's an asteroid, it
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  Speaker 2: comes down, it destroys the whole earth. But in Greenland
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  Speaker 2: there's these big, old underground cold war nuclear bunkers that
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  Speaker 2: could save all of humanity. So that could have been
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  Speaker 2: the first reason that you thought about it. Why are
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  Speaker 2: we hearing about Greenland right now? Canadians might be remiss
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  Speaker 2: because we don't have the theatrical release. Greenland two actually
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  Speaker 2: came out on the ninth, Just on Friday of last week.
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  Speaker 2: There might be here. There might be a reason he's
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  Speaker 2: talking about this. But okay, that's just two. But two
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  Speaker 2: is not anything that we can base anything on. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to them, go to the next one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Couple of years back, Donald Trump tweeted a rumor about
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  Speaker 2: ranchers in the South of America finding prayer rugs on
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  Speaker 2: the border, implying that there were Islamic terrorists crossing from
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  Speaker 2: Mexico into the United States. A lot of people went,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the plot of Siicario Day of the Salado
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  Speaker 2: that came out in twenty eighteen. It was a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good crime movie, but again directly lifted from screen. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there's more, though there is. Mark, let me. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to stop. We've just watched him conduct all of
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  Speaker 2: these narco boat attacks, of course, leading up to the
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  Speaker 2: amazing takedown of the Venezuelan leader Maduro. What if I
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  Speaker 2: told you that was pretty well the exact plot of
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  Speaker 2: the Tom Klant's adaptation, Clear and Present Danger, Remember that one, yes, yeah, yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't keep going with this, okay, yea. When it
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  Speaker 2: comes to memes on his social media, that's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit easier. But he used the sanctions are coming as
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  Speaker 2: an appropriation of the Game of Thrones tagline Winter is Coming.
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  Speaker 2: But this one might be my favorite. Quite frankly, we
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  Speaker 2: hear Trump often talk about Hannibal Lecter. Yes, why would
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  Speaker 2: he bring this guy up? Well, it's usually when he
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  Speaker 2: is discussing political asylum. What's probably happening here is that
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  Speaker 2: when he hears political asylum or seeking asylum, he immediately
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  Speaker 2: thinks insane asylum, which brings him back to hand of elector,
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  Speaker 2: which is why we end up hearing about it. It's
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  Speaker 2: just wild. You know, one, two of them might be
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  Speaker 2: a coincidence. Three, we're getting to something. Four or five.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've established a little bit of a rule here. Gene.
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  Speaker 1: I love this.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's mind boggling. Now, listen, it's all fun
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  Speaker 2: and gains, right, and we can joke about this, but
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  Speaker 2: like when we actually like think about this, Like, the
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  Speaker 2: issue is he's treating the situation room like it's a
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  Speaker 2: writer's room in Hollywood. He wants a season finale. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't care about diplomacy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, something just dawned on me while you were
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  Speaker 1: giving us this fantastic explanation, you know, Jaws. It was
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  Speaker 1: its fiftieth anniversary or something like that last summer and
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  Speaker 1: it was re released. And remember last summer, Trump was
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  Speaker 1: out talking to audiences and he was talking about electric
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  Speaker 1: boats and if they sank, well what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're right, I do you remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Well? And as somebody from the nine oh five points
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  Speaker 1: so texting in this morning, the texture says, Trump is
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  Speaker 1: always said it's central casting. I forgot that.
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  Speaker 2: I am so glad that that texter just brought that up,
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  Speaker 2: because that was the next thing that I wanted to say.
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  Speaker 2: He says that all the time because he you know,
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  Speaker 2: he runs Patent on his private plane. This was said
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  Speaker 2: before he became president. I presume he still does it now,
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  Speaker 2: but he runs it all the time on his plane
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  Speaker 2: because he loves the character Patent. He loves how the
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  Speaker 2: actor looks the part. He says all the time, he
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  Speaker 2: thinks that that is central casting. So yeah, we aren't
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  Speaker 2: being led by strategy. We're being led by the Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: release calendar as well as the costing department.
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  Speaker 1: And he wears makeup, and he wears makeup.
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  Speaker 2: He knows well, I wouldn't say he knows how to
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  Speaker 2: do it, but he wears the makeup, Geene, he certainly does,
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  Speaker 2: but we really need to start hastening ourselves. Is the
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  Speaker 2: President getting his intelligence from the CIA or just from
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  Speaker 2: the the bottom of a bucket of popcorn. We've got
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  Speaker 2: to actually start to figure out what the implications of
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  Speaker 2: all of this are for this really tumultuous world that
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  Speaker 2: we're living in. It might be fun for him to be
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  Speaker 2: watching this on the screen, but we're all living it
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  Speaker 2: while watching it on our screens.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, a movie that the theatrical companies have
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  Speaker 1: held back but will be released shortly is a movie
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  Speaker 1: called Coyote Versus Acme, and it's a movie about the
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  Speaker 1: coyotes suing Actme because every time he tried to catch
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  Speaker 1: the road runner of the y Acme products would fall
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  Speaker 1: apart and fail. I wonder what Trump will do have
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  Speaker 1: to rewatches that movie.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but hopefully nobody gets any thoughts about
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  Speaker 2: his products, which typically tend to fail as well.
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  Speaker 1: Litcky, I got a hand it to you. This one
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  Speaker 1: was brilliant. I just love this today. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Gene, You're so welcome. I can't wait to speak
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  Speaker 2: with you next week.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks so much. John Litcky with a brand new
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  Speaker 1: take on Trump and if you really think about it, ah,
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  Speaker 1: he's hit on something big. I love it.