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Arthur and Jalen react to Jake Tapper's appearance on New Yorker Radio Hour (5/17/2025).

🔥 Topics we cover:

• Jake Tapper's "holy smokes" moment: moderating a presidential stroke in real time

• The "Politburo" presidency: how Donilon and Ricchetti ran Weekend at Bernie's government

• George Clooney raises $30M, Biden doesn't recognize him—Obama watches his legacy die

• 200 sources suddenly singing after the election: Washington's oldest dance revealed

• Why Biden's family doctor refused cognitive testing (spoiler: he knew)

• Jill Biden as "protector": the most powerful First Lady in history by default

• The wheelchair discussion—planning post-election reality while hiding pre-election truth

• Robert Hur tells the truth, gets destroyed; Tapper waits for book season to cash in

• Kay Granger collecting congressional salary from a dementia facility

• How Trump recognized a gift and just got out of the way

• Dean Phillips gets "defenestrated" for breaking ranks too early

• The seven vs. eight hours of sleep defense: when your excuses become admissions

• From "we beat Medicare" to bestseller lists: monetizing the constitutional crisis

• Why the house always wins and Tapper learned to bet on both red and black