Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh, can I please have your attention. Can I please have your attention? Go Jigga! Greetings your listeners, this is Jonah Goldwerk, host of the Remnant podcast, brought

to you by the dispatch and dispatch media. I hope

everyone is having a grand interregnum between Christmas and New Year's. I hope

everyone had everyone who celebrates Christmas who had a wonderful Christmas

everyone who celebrates Hanukkah had a wonderful Hanukah.

To all of those proud atheists out there, I hope you are taking what satisfaction you can from this cold immaterial world

as the earth continues its rotations around the sun. Speaking of which, this is, I believe, the last,

I'm pretty sure, in fact, this is the last,

ruminant, solo remnant of 2023. From the feedback I get, I think this was kind of the year where it kind of took off for people.

Either I did something different or they got what I was trying to do or some mixture or some something I'm

don't know. My wife still hates it. I still am very self-conscious about it,

but I am very grateful for the positive feedback. Why don't we start with just some rank punditry

because it's what I've been talking about in our Slack channel at the dispatch

and talking to my wife about this morning.

I'm recording this Thursday morning yesterday

yesterday which if my calculations are correct was Wednesday

Mickey Haley at a New Hampshire which I think is relevant

town hall meet the candidate kind of thingy was asked what

she thought caused the Civil War and I think there's a general consensus everywhere that it was a bad answer.

There are disagreements out there, a brewing about why it was a bad answer.

Well, don't come with an easy question or anything.

I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run.

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