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Greetings dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg and this is another exciting edition of the

Remnant Podcast. We're going to try and make it exciting because I'm like a lot of podcasts out

there that pander to the lowest common denominator. We believe in doing some of the heavy lifting,

public policy conversation that no one else will be doing. Our home was podcast. All that stuff

in episode 11 that we did not have running. We have here an old friend of mine. I was trying to

remember when I first met him because he's sort of the classic DC think tanky policy gnome type.

We have Brian Reedle who's now at the Manhattan Institute. You were a senior fellow.

A fellow senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. And like many a scholar at the

Manhattan Institute, you actually don't drive into the Manhattan Institute for work.

No, I work out of my basement office. Yeah, I have one of those. Yes, it's very nice.

But formally with Portman's office, formerly on the hill, formerly at Heritage and you're

and I say I can't hold a job. I say this with love. You're a budget geek.

Like when Paul Ryan is sort of like I don't get the math, get me the Reedles. You're one of

these people who comes in and does math stuff and budget stuff. And since we just had I wasn't

supposed to be here today, we sort of had a family crisis that required me to stay in town.

I figured I'd get another podcast out of the way. And then the budget news came out last night.

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