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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Jonah Goldberg analyzes the strategic chess match between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin before diving into the federal takeover of D.C.’s streets and the president’s takeover of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Show Notes:—Kevin Williamson's Wanderland on postmodernists—Jonah's G-File on postmodernists—Megan McArdle in the Washington Post on crime—Grayson Logue for The Dispatch: “What’s Next for the Bureau of Labor Statistics?” The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—click here. 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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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

0:18.0

Can you digger?

0:27.5

Greetings to listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast.

0:31.8

I realized I didn't bring my water down here.

0:34.3

I just have my coffee.

0:35.3

I do a two-fisted beverage thing.

0:38.7

This is not interesting information, but I don't want to go upstairs if I don't have to because it'll upset the animals.

0:43.5

I'm recording on Thursday, August 14th, at 3.22 p.m. I know I say this a lot, but I'm exhausted.

0:52.0

I had to do CNN this morning.

0:55.0

It's the Audi Cornish 6 a.m. show.

0:58.8

And I think I probably talked about this before,

1:01.0

but one of the things that just sort of drives me crazy

1:03.0

is the way I have a similar problem

1:06.2

when I have like really early morning flights is I set alarms

1:10.3

and really good at waking up early,

1:12.0

like on a normal day, like on a Saturday when I don't have to get up, I will still wake up

1:15.9

at like 5.30, quarter to six. So it's not the waking up in the morning thing, but the overhang

1:21.9

of the obligation, you know, the fear of missing a flight or like not getting to the studio at the appointed time

1:30.1

makes me sleep really badly. I sleep fitfully. I constantly, whenever I wake up, I look at the

1:35.4

clock and I'm like, oh, crap, will I be able to fall back asleep? And the fear of that is

1:42.1

what keeps me awake more.

1:44.4

So whenever I do that show, I feel like I took a red eye from California or something

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