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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Monday, January 17th, 2022. I'm John

Puntowicz, the editor of commentary and we are all here today executive editor A. Greenwald

Hyab, Ajahn, senior writer Christine Rosen, Hyakristine, Ajahn, and from the balmy Caribbean

to the snow packed central New Jersey associated with no Rothman Hynell. Hi, John. It's pretty

stark transition. You went from being like on a catamaran in the sun to like driving

white knuckle down 95 trying to get home. Yes, very afternoon, right? Yes, almost close

78. For 78. You would that goes for every year is the highest goalie is east west, right?

May the very ill, ill considered decision to attend a kid's birthday party an hour away

and yeah, just like you said, white knuckling it down a highway for an hour last night.

And pretty blinding snowstorm. Unfortunately, this morning we get up and it's just all

ice. So listen, or while you're listening to this, I am muscling my way up the driveway

as we speak. Yes, yes, Noah is both a producing the podcast, shoveling and ID icing the driveway.

And I put up like making a frittata like that's the kind of that's the kind of Monday morning

that Noah does that's typically I would say right with a little bit of work, right? Okay,

so of course, a lot of us were, you know, sort of found ourselves in that classic old position

that we haven't been in quite a while glued to cable news and bouncing around on Saturday

because of the Colleville, Texas hostage taking at congregation Beth Israel, which of course

ended with a SWAT team rescue of the four hostages, one of them being the rabbi Charles

Scythan Walker. From what we know, the SWAT team, you know, they spent like 12 hours talking

to the hostage taker, Amalik Akram. And then at some point, they probably must have determined

that there was no larger conspiracy going on or that there were we know that his wife wasn't

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