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We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Dishinsky, culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com. Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts.

Now, today's guest, Christopher Rufo, is the author of America's Cultural Revolution, how the radical left conquered everything.

It's a really, really interesting, highly recommended. Before we get to that, I just want to say thank you to everyone for your comments last week.

We had some great guests, some big guests, Kim Strassel, Liz Wheeler. It was just a great lineup, and we have a really good lineup heading into the fall.

So over the next month or so, and then as we get into the post-labor day time, it's now the election cycle. It's the 2024 cycle. We're like a month out from the first debate, which is crazy.

It's hard to believe because it feels like we just did this. Of course we did, but it's only been a couple of years. So we're going to get back into the election cycle groove back into the swing of things. So I just appreciate everyone listening.

And whenever we have an audio glitch, I always like to jump on and warn you first. This one is kind of funny and kind of an embarrassing audio glitch.

A lot of people know, so Federalist Radio Hour used to be taped every single day in a studio before the pandemic. Since the pandemic, especially during the pandemic, there was no way to get into a studio.

And Federalist Radio Hour is one of the longest, I assume it's one of the longest running conservative podcasts. I've never actually crunched the numbers, but that's thanks in no small part at all to Ben Domenic being a visionary and understanding where this medium was going and putting so much time and energy and so many resources into it.

So we take audio quality very seriously, always have, but you probably know that I run a journalism training program during the summer months. It's a national journalism center. We work with 20 interns party young America's foundation and place them all over.

And so in the summer, sometimes I have to record on the go. So I've been recording on the go with this great little microphone that I got, but it's a we're just having some technical issues with that. So I got another microphone and long story short. Actually, this is just long story long. I really, I've been like rambling for a couple minutes now, but you know, it's I think it's a sign of respect to your listeners.

You know, as somebody who listens to podcasts, I know how important is especially listening with headphones. But in this case, I got a new like travel microphone and part of the system that I have where I was recording was working. And so in this microphone.

Then another actually then another glitch happened as we were recording. So we had like a perfect storm of errors. And this is after like actually prepping a lot for Christa, come on, because he's such a great guest in the book is so good. But you will hear me breathing over Chris talking because for it.

And it's just for a lot of different reasons. If you know what audio is, you know, the importance of having multiple tracks going, you know, the importance of monitoring the audio and working on the different tracks as you're recording. So I won't get into the details of it. But basically, there was an issue with recording two separate tracks. And you could just really hear me breathing. That's why I said some bear say this is picking up like every breath and just like amplifying it that I take. So on that note,

we, this was just a really good conversation with Chris. His book is excellent. And so we wanted to get it out to you all. But I do I promise you this is the last time. And you can hold me to account for this. So last time you'll have an audio glitch. Usually when that happens, I'm able to re record or do something to that effect unless there's like a real time crunch. But I promise you this is the last time you'll have an audio glitch on federalist radio hour.

Because we're putting a lot into making sure that doesn't happen a lot of resources, a lot of effort. And one of the cool things about federalist radio hour also is that we have never had like a professional podcasting staff. The federalist is tiny. You'd be surprised to know how small our staff is. And so we all just sort of pitch in on the audio side on the podcasting side.

It's just it's so cool. And I love that about us. And you know, that's where I think our podcast is like closer to a lot of folks, you know, closer to a lot of folks in that it's

like a lot of people are like, you know, it's not this like big corporate operation in Manhattan, you know, where you have bosses, you know, overseeing what said or whatever else. It's it's pretty raw and organic. So on that note, I just want to thank everyone for listening. And give you a little update. But please enjoy this conversation with the one and only Chris Rufo.

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