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Secret Podcast: A Cage Fight for America's Soul

5/29/202625 min

Full episodes of The Secret Podcast are available to paid members of the Bulwark, on Apple Podcasts, Substack and YouTube.

Sarah and JVL talk about the ongoing meltdown of Trump’s Freedom 250 event; the inappropriateness of putting a UFC cage fight on the White House lawn; John Cornyn’s sudden understanding of what Trump is; and Bari Weiss’s murder of 60 Minutes.

It’s a good show / short show because we’re both playing hurt today, so forgive us if we’re not at our most dazzling.

Clips

UFC as American Avatar?
Cornyn’s Late Awakening
UFC vs. Mainstream America
“UFC Is Crypto” Analogy
Profane Twitter Clapback

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

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  3. JVL· Host0:43

    Hello, everyone. This is JBL, here with my best friend, Sarah Longwell, and the two of us are coming to you today sick, playing hurt, playing through the pain- Mm-hmm ... to produce content for you, our family.

  4. Sarah Longwell· Host1:01

    I don't know how you got sick. I got sick at doing, at the live shows, man. Going cross-country, doing the time change, and then, like, I hugged, uh, I wouldn't give it up. I wouldn't change anything about it.

  5. JVL· Host1:11

    Yeah.

  6. Sarah Longwell· Host1:11

    But I did hug maybe 1,000 people, and so, you know, somewhere in there, I picked up a bug.

  7. JVL· Host1:16

    [laughs] So I don't know if we have this in the budget, but I was thinking, could we set up one of those plastic, like, contaminant tents- Yeah ... for these things, so that when we, when we do meet people, I could be

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