Your new book comes out when?

This fall.

This fall… It always gets “pushed back a little bit” [air quotes] ya know. This week, teased him last year when he took off two months in the Mediterranean to “write the book” [air quotes]

I got more writing done during that than I have since, these podcasts are, are incessant.

Why do you want to get involved in elective politics seeing what this fiasco is?

Why I want to get involved in elective politics is, the answer is, that’s where the problem is. As I have tried to follow the trail to understand what’s gone wrong here, it’s, it’s like a spiderweb, it goes everywhere, but at the core is the fact that we have really we have a compromised government right now run by the administrative state.

Are you gonna run for office?

I, I would be better positioned I think to help the administration..

As a senior member of the Trump administration?

As a senior member of, of the new administration, if it’s Trump, I would be honored…