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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. You are listening to this

or the official date of this podcast is Wednesday, August 17th, 2022, but we are in fact

talking to you as we are talking to each other just after 10 p.m. Tuesday night, August 16th. So

this is the Commentary Magazine Podcast after dark. We're letting our hair down. We're, you know,

we're in our smoking jackets and we're got our pipes out. I may have already faded into some

smooth jazz by now. There's some, I was about to say. I'm wearing a crown. I just want to be

not wearing a crown. There's some sunny Rollins. Maybe your Stan Kenton, depending on, you know,

where you go with your smooth jazz. And, uh, and we're just going to hang out here for a while.

Well, our schedules were very, um, conflicted tomorrow. So this was the best we could do.

Really the first time I think this has ever happened. This is not our first commentary. No, it's not.

It is not. We did a couple during the pandemic at the, at the, really at low water marks during

the pandemic in order to find some new life to breathe into our dead society. But here we are. Of

course, I'm talking about executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyab. Hey, John, I say hey, when it's

commentary after dark. Hey, and I'm going to do the quiet storm, which is the, which was the

night time FM DJ format in Washington. It was very popular in the 1980s when I was

a young man and say, now we have media commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hey, Christine.

Hi, John. And of course, associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans.

Noah Rossman. Hi, John. So Noah, we got an email that you, we didn't get an email. I got

an unsolicited direct message over Twitter from someone the other day who said, stopping mean to

know your obnoxious. So I am resolved in this mellow condition that I, if I have been

mean to you, I'm here to make amends. I'm not going to be obnoxious. I don't quite, it was,

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