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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the memorandum of understanding between U.S. and Iran, the joy of seeing Europeans explore America, and what's wrong with the modern definition of poverty. Show notes: —Thursday’s Boiling Frogs —Marc Caputo's interview with Trump —The Iran War Is What Trumpism Looks Like —The Iran Peace Deal Is What Trumpism Looks Like —A German discovers a Bucc-ee's —Jonah on Elon Musk —Trump comparing himself to Mao and Stalin —Cliff Asness on affordability —Buy Dispatch merch The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.3	I'm going to. Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
1:21.1	Can you digger?
1:33.6	Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
1:44.4	It is quite early on Friday morning, June 19th. Who knows what events of the day will do to the relevance of anything I'm about to say today? I am wildly over-caffeinated for this early in the morning,
1:47.8	but I figured I needed to be because I had to do this very early in the morning
1:51.1	because I agreed to do inside politics on CNN at noon,
1:55.4	which blows up my day.
1:56.9	And for some reason, I also agreed to record the Saturday show of Casey Hunts at the arena.
2:04.6	So I don't honestly know what time it airs on Saturday, but it'll be, if you're listening to this on Saturday,
2:10.5	you can see me on CNN and you'll see me very tired.
2:14.4	I had to go to Baltimore last night, didn't get home till like 11, then I had to take
2:20.2	the beasts out. Then I had to take the beast out this morning around five, and we're just going to
2:27.0	force my brain to work properly this morning. Before we get behind the paywall, I meant to talk
2:33.2	about this last week. I told people I was going to talk about this last week, and I didn't talk about it last week.
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