Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.

Today is Thursday November 16th 2017. I am John Pudhoritz, the editor of

commentary magazine, the 73rd-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis,

political, property, and cultural criticism from a conservative

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magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year. With me as always a green wall,

our senior editor, hi Abe, hi John, and Sorobamari, our senior writer,

Hi Sorob. Good morning John. Noa Rothman still on vacation so he will be back

with us next week. I'm just going to do some business here and say that I need you

guys to go to iTunes and put up some reviews because I'm very annoyed, I'm very

very humiliated, very upset, Jonah Goldberg's remnants started only a couple

of weeks ago. He has like 650 reviews. We have 300 reviews. I have already done a

Twitter poll in the last day trying to establish who is a better tweeter,

Jonah or me, Jonah, put up a whole bunch of dog pictures and has run away with

this thing in the most illicit possible fashion and he can't have everything.

He can't be the commentary roasty of 2017 and the number one bestselling author and have more

reviews on iTunes than the commentary magazine podcast. I beg of you go to iTunes and leave a review.

I would love it if it were positive but even if it's negative I just got to rack up some numbers

here. Just rack up some numbers because let's face it, you can't just have a charmed life like

Jonah and get away with it. That's all I'm going to say. It's just enough already. It's enough

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