Political Playlist Happy Hour

As the episode title suggests, these appear to be just a few of Donald Trump's favorite things, though it's unclear if anyone's home upstairs. But fear not, Michael and Anthony are home and well at the Playlist bar, hear for another happy hour to break down the Paramount Warner Bros merger, some theories on David Ellison being poised for a presidential run in ten years, the politician on our playlist Congressman Brian Jack who's fighting for a federal film tax credit, and Congresswoman Sara Jacobs who's clapping back on Trump offering up LA and SD as tribute to Iran for nuclear annihilation. It's all nuts, or in America these days, it's just Tuesday.

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Playlisters, hold onto your pens — literally — because we're headed to Texas. This week Michael and Anthony break down the wildest Senate race in the country: indicted, impeached, alleged pen-thief Ken Paxton vs. viral progressive James Talarico, and why a race Republicans were supposed to win in a landslide is suddenly anyone's game. We get into the ugly primary between Talarico, Jasmine Crockett, and Colin Allred, the attack ad using real security footage to roast Paxton (you read that right), and what it all means for the fight for Senate control. Then, the politician on our playlist: AOC — is 2028 buzz more than just buzz, and does the math actually work? Pour a drink, Playlisters, this one's a lot.

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It's week three of the bro-cast, as Michael and Anthony discuss How To Talk About Trump TV and the latest ban on the free press by the President. What did CNN, MSNow and Politico ever do to this guy? Well, it turns out, they didn't write enough nice things about him. So they've been booted from the White House. And then surprisingly Fox News and all the other TV outlets joined them in solidarity to boycott coverage. THEN, the White House just magically released "Trump TV" streaming app. It does feel like weird reality show nightmare but we break it all down. We then discuss the Politician On Our Playlist, Republican Mike Lawler, who's in perhaps the closes mid-term race of the bench.

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Week two with the Playlist Bros, as Michael and Anthony discuss How To Talk About the sudden AI Panic! Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sounded the alarm for the need to slow down AI development and something crazy happened...all the other tech bros agreed! Well, sort of...they all agreed AI is developing way too quickly, but we must compete with China and they're not regulating themselves. So how do we do it?

Later on the episode, we segue to the Politician On Our Playlist this week: Congressman Wesley Hunt, of Texas, who's been tapped by Trump to serve as US Ambassador in Saudi Arabia. He'll need a Senate confirmation first, but those guys seem to be giving a rubber stamp on everything.

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On this Episode of the Happy Hour, Anna begins her highly anticipated maternity leave, handing the keys to the Playlist Ferrari--err Mini Van--over to Michael and Anthony. But fear not Playlisters, they come out of the gates swinging, with a breakdown of How To Talk About Pete Hegseth's continued and troubling purge of top Generals at the Pentagon, the latest being the incredible 4-star General Chris Donahue. This is no doubt depleting both our military capabilities as well as morale, but it doesn't seem like Pistol Pete is going anywhere, and speaking of which, neither is that war in Iran. Then we discuss the Politician On Our Playlist, and of course, Anthony had to over-achieve and pick two: Marie Glusenkamp Perez of Washington and Jared Golden of Maine.

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