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Can I please have your attention

Thank you

Greetings to listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg close to the remnant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media comes the dispatch.com to check out all our wares

We just passed a major milestone for us 100,000

What we call free listeners people who are unpaid but subscribers to our free stuff and we are coming up on 25,000 paid members, which is great

Depends how you do the math a little bit, but either it's no matter how you do it. We're

four five times more than what we expected to have in terms of paid members in the first year and we really grateful to everybody who's

Who's who've come on board? Okay, so getting back to the tradition of using the pandemic as an excuse to get people we wanted on for a very long time finally on

And this one is a pretty lame one considering I could have just walked down the hall and slapped them in the back of the head and said come on my podcast

We have my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute

Up until recently my my immediate boss at the American Enterprise Institute, but then I was

Traded away for packet smokes do you've all of in the shop?

Ryan streeter Ryan welcome to the

Remnant

Thanks for having me, Joan. It's good to be with you and greetings to your most loyal fan base

Because the people who are listening when they saw who was on today they surely said Ryan who but I love Jonas

I'm listening anyway

Thanks for having me on and actually if you had walked down the hall that would be weird because then you'd be in my house, so we're

Yeah, well during the pandemic. That's true and and and I apologize to

To listeners because this really should be done on video because one thing among the many things that are known about Ryan is that he

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