Okay greetings dear listeners this is Jonah Goldberg of the Remnant

Podcast making his I don't know if it's widely anticipated return but certainly

narrowly anticipated return after various travels on the road and family crises

and whatnot which we don't need to get into and I am extremely fortunate to have

here my friend and one of the most famous and celebrated historians alive

today I think is fair to say at least in the English language I can't speak for

all those farcey historians Neil Ferguson Neil welcome to the remnant

thank you Jonah I think we should have you listeners imagine that we're in a

smoke-filled bar drinking scotch well I think that actually wouldn't take that

much effort for us I have the scars in my bag but this is kind of a vacuum

sealed room and I could get quite smokey quite quickly but I'm glad to go to

the Scotch shortly so before we get started and I have no idea where we're

going to go when we're doing the soundcheck for this they asked us to say

something into the mic and you you rattled off four Latin phrases what were

they? Conceptiokulpa Narski Pena Labovita Nikesimori which translates as

conception is sin birth is pain life is work and death is inevitable I saw that

inscription on a a painting in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge many years

ago it's a 17th century Italian painting I think entitled The Triumph of Death

and I thought that's it that's the human condition it couldn't be put more

succinctly and and I've I've often had occasion to point this out to my

children when they're complaining sounds like you're similar kind of dad to

what my dad was my dad often would pull me aside when I was a little kid and

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