Bug Juice and Bugouts

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Today’s hodgepodge of a podcast takes up our personal histories of summer camp, Joe Biden’s speech on Afghanistan, the conversion of COVID into a seasonal flu, and bad documentaries. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.
0:13.5	Today is Friday, July 9th, 2021.
0:15.9	I'm John Pudhort, the editor of commentary.
0:19.2	Today is Noah Rothman's last day off.
0:21.0	He'll be back on Monday with me as always executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
0:25.6	Hi Abe.
0:26.6	Hi John.
0:27.6	And senior writer, Christine Rosen, high Christine.
0:29.5	Hi John.
0:30.5	Okay, we're going to we're going to we're going to mix things up and start with an anecdote.
0:34.2	I just learned literally 45 seconds ago that Christine Rosen, new Alexander Solzhenitsa.
0:42.2	Well, I wouldn't say new.
0:44.8	Yes.
0:45.8	We were talking about camp summer camp experiences and I had the great good fortune to go to a
0:50.8	wonderful place called Kinnehaven Music School in Vermont starting when I was 11.
0:56.2	And the only other kid who was that age at the camp that summer was a piano player named
1:01.5	Iggy as he was known.
1:03.1	So Iggy and I were sort of became friends.
1:05.5	Iggy of course was a prodigy which you could you immediately learned about him because when
1:09.5	he played the piano it was like a dream.
1:11.2	I was not a prodigy on the bassoon so I was not up to his musical caliber but we would
1:15.6	have concerts and people's parents if they lived in the New England area would sometimes
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