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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Episode 17: Genes, Gin, and Government

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Charles Murray comes to the Remnant with the wisdom of a decades-long career and now 75 years of life for a fascinating conversation with Jonah. They cover the bases . . . if your bases are social science, the future of America, and whether there can be such a thing as a “vodka martini.” The … Continue reading Episode 17: Genes, Gin, and Government → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Music

0:29.5

Greetings dear listeners. This is another exciting episode of the Remnant Podcast.

0:34.0

We're actually doing two this week because we missed one the week before and I just kind of felt like we should get our groove back on.

0:43.0

And so today we're going to have my long time friend, colleague,

0:50.0

quasi-mentor, often-scolting role model or advisor Charles Murray.

0:59.0

And we're going to talk about a bunch of different things.

1:02.0

We actually recorded the interview a little earlier.

1:04.0

So I'm recording this intro afterwards. So I know what he says.

1:08.0

I don't want to give away too many spoilers, but we do cover the important issues from Martini's to bullfighting and also the meaning of human existence.

1:15.0

So it's, you know, it covers a few things.

1:18.0

And then we talk, we talk for a while.

1:22.0

And then afterwards me and Jack Butler and Michael Pratt are going to catch up on some other stuff.

1:30.0

So this is going to be a bit of a long podcast, but you got the whole weekend to listen to it.

1:35.0

And one of the things we want to work out is what my, what the official closing sign-off catchphrase for this podcast could be.

1:45.0

And I have a bunch of contenders.

1:50.0

I asked people on Twitter for suggestions and it was like drinking out of a fire hose.

1:54.0

So we're going to cover some of that.

1:56.0

And oh, and so it's weird because we're doing two podcasts this week.

2:00.0

And technically tripping was the advertiser for the one with Michael Rubin that we did the other day.

2:07.0

Michael, Jack, what did you think of the Michael Rubin interview?

2:11.0

I was intimidated by the surfeit of knowledge that he displayed.

2:16.0

Yeah, no.

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