Gweeningsteer listeners this is Jonah Goldberg host of the remnant pod-cathed

it.

We're making up for a long overdue thing in part because we're getting some

feedback from people who miss Jack Butler and they miss his quirky weird

slightly serial killer vibe. The sort of intense nerdiness that you know

what is it that Dr. Evil says the something of the the madness that only the

damned lament or something I can't remember but we all know that Jack one day

will wake up in a pool of blood and not his own and and so since that's a hard

niche to fill we decided not to try and instead we're bringing in one of our

crack star reporter writers at the dispatch and perhaps the oldest young man I

know and you Edgar and you're welcome aboard welcome it thank you for having me

it's great to have you you are also a Hillsdale monster yeah yeah definitely I

worked for Jack at the at the college paper a little bit yeah but that's you

know so it's like at least you're a member of the Hillsdale mafia right right

right what is like if you had to say among

righty Washington journalist hill types what would you say is the core number of

the Hillsdale mafia right now oh my goodness well they're they're so diffuse right

I mean the only the only real way to to to get a head count is to go to say the

the Kirby Center Christmas party or something like that and even that is taking

place on on multiple floors of a building with a lot of flow up and down it's

I mean it's in the hundreds right yeah it's a good it's a good number of people

most of those people were in the politics department at Hillsdale and so

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