Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday, May 17, 2018.

I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of the 73 year old monthly of intellectual

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magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year. Go to iTunes, leave a review. What's

it going to kill you? It's going to kill you to do it. I also want to point out

that Jonah Goldberg claims that I talked too much both on this podcast and on

the podcast we share. And I want to point out that Jonah Goldberg has a podcast

that begins with him speaking alone for 20 minutes in a total monologue. So I

I just don't know that this is a fair criticism and you don't want him to win.

You don't want him to win this battle. So leave a review for us and then go and

leave a review on his podcast site, the remnant that points out that he speaks

a lot. That's all I'm saying. If you want to, if you want to, you know,

participate in this long running battle that is like the Iran or rock war in

which in the end you're going to be, you're going to want both of us to lose.

I just think and with me as always, a greenwald or singer editor, I want you to

both win. No, Rothman or Susie thater. Also Rob makes a very similar critique of me.

So he is somehow. Well, he's not. Rob Long on on the

glob culture, but does not speak as much as Jonah and I do. That's true because

he comes in, he waits his turn and then he drops some insult and either it's

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