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Last Friday, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker debuted his new podcast, \u201cYou Can\u2019t Recall Courage<\/a>.\u201d I volunteered to listen and report back so that other people wouldn\u2019t have to be subjected to it. I ruined a perfectly good happy hour at Genna\u2019s on this. Consider it my public service for the week.<\/span>\n

0:00<\/h3>\n

A 10-second understated jazz\/hip hop riff start us off. This will turn out to be the high point of the podcast.<\/span>\n

0:10<\/h3>\n

Walker welcomes us. It takes less than 10 seconds for his voice to crack awkwardly. This will happen throughout. He informs us that later in the day, from 3-6 p.m., he\u2019s filling in for host Mark Belling on Milwaukee\u2019s conservative talk radio station. I wonder how anyone could do three hours of this.<\/span>\n

0:40<\/h3>\n

There are a couple of attempted jokes about the size of the Democratic presidential primary field. It is not clear that Walker understands how jokes work.<\/span>\n

1:00<\/h3>\n

The theme for the next 20 minutes, Walker says, is \u201cpay raises and property taxes.\u201d But I am relieved to see the podcast is only actually 18 minutes long.<\/span>\n

1:10<\/h3>\n

Walker teases that he\u2019ll close by talking about Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is reportedly delinquent on last year\u2019s property taxes. For now, Walker pivots to the topic of Congressional pay raises, which he proudly notes was the subject of his most recent weekly column for The Washington Times<\/em>. (It is worth mentioning that The Washington Times <\/em>was founded by a Korean anti-Communist religious cult leader. It\u2019s still owned by that cult and has been a lead driver of numerous conspiracy theories, most recently that of Seth Rich in 2016<\/a>.)<\/span>\n

\"Alexandria<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

1:40 through 13:07<\/h3>\n

Predictably, Walker wants to talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is an advocate of congressional pay raises because she believes it would disincentivize unethical behavior like insider trading on the part of representatives. Unpredictably, it is the \u201cAlexandria\u201d part of AOC\u2019s name that Walker has the greatest trouble pronouncing.<\/p>\n

Walker imagines an alternate reality in which AOC is a Republican and is thus the butt of late-night comedy jokes. As it is with Donald Trump, anger at the media\u2019s supposed unfairness to Republicans will be a theme.<\/p>\n

Walker quotes AOC\u2019s defense of congressional pay directly. What she said makes perfect sense. Walker calls it \u201cconvoluted\u201d and offers to walk us through.<\/p>\n

I pause and stare at the Capitol and wonder why I said I\u2019d do this. I order another drink.<\/p>\n

Walker discusses the three \u201cfundamental flaws\u201d in AOC\u2019s argument. The first two do not have any particular relationship to her argument, but they do give Walker an opportunity to complain about \u201cObama\/Biden\u201d ballooning the national debt. He also beats his radical new hobbyhorse \u2014 convening an unprecedented Constitutional Convention that would strip the federal government of significant powers and give them to the states. Anyone who has closely observed Walker\u2019s career should know that his vision of a good government is a dead government.<\/p>\n

His discussion of the third \u201cflaw\u201d in AOC\u2019s argument begins by starting to address the core of her point. But it quickly devolves into a detailed, minutes-long discussion of budget balancing and a touting of Walker\u2019s own record on this. This belief that good podcasting means granular policy speak delivered by a man who\u2019s not so much uncharismatic as anti<\/em>charismatic suggests that Walker does not understand how podcasts work.<\/span>\n

\"Mandela<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

13:08 through 16:45<\/h3>\n

Walker returns to the $2,000 and change Barnes reportedly owes in 2018 property taxes. When asked about this last week, Barnes said, \u201cThe check is in the mail.\u201d For some reason, this quote strikes Walker as incredible. He blasts the media for not covering the story more, saying that if Barnes were a Republican, it would be news \u201cfrom coast to coast.\u201d Precisely why this very minor story of a public official being marginally late on a minimal amount of taxes should be national news is unclear. It is worth noting, however, that Walker\u2019s fan base is mostly comprised of middle- to upper-aged white people and that his ire in this podcast is focused almost exclusively on two young people of color.<\/p>\n

Walker links this story to Wisconsin Democrats\u2019 efforts to raise taxes. (A raise they\u2019ll use to restore funding to the myriad infrastructures and public services that Walker throttled and starved). His argument appears to be that their effort to rebuild Wisconsin has no credibility now. This is an incoherent political thought.<\/span>\n

16:46 through 18:12<\/h3>\n

Walker lets us know that we can look forward to this every Friday. For some reason this is followed by an anecdote about a recent speech he gave in Burlington, Vermont where 400-500 protestors showed up. He lies and says this is because Bernie Sanders told them to come protest. There are many similarities between Donald Trump and Scott Walker. Their sense of their own victimhood is one.<\/span>\n

18:13<\/h3>\n

\u201cAs always, continue to fight for freedom,\u201d Walker tells us by way of signing off. He asks us to tune in each week. I do not recommend doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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