Greetings dear listeners. This is John Goldberg. This is another edition of the Remnant Podcast.

I am a little revved up and overstressed and overworked and I just raced in here and everything

was up and ready and go. So we're just going to jump right into it. But first I need to

say this week's episode of The Remnant is brought to you by as often as the donors trust.

We'll talk a little bit more about that later.

I don't know if this is going to be a rank pun on tree podcast or if it's going to be some

sort of strange hybrid. But I have with me here to help me figure that out my friend. And

in fact, AEI colleague Tim Karney, you are also the opinion editor of the Washington Examiner.

Exactly. Commentary editor to be precise.

Commentary editor. Not the editor of commentary. That's very different. I can tell you in

John Pador's apart in many different ways. And you are in many ways my old boss Ben Wattenberg's

dream because you have now doubled tripled your total fertility rate.

Yep. Well, not at 6.6 yet, but at 6 kids. So yes.

Nice. Nice. So you can have your own. There can be a Karney basketball team.

Yep. With reserves. Yeah. Excellent. Okay. And for listeners who don't know Tim,

Tim went to St. John's and we are not going to get too deep in the weeds here, but St. John's in

anapolis, which is one of whenever the final Straussian purge comes, that place will probably

be just to be burnt to the ground, right? Yes. Yeah. You are not in fact a Straussian.

Let's not talk about that in front of the public. No. Okay. Normally, exoterically, you would tell people

you I am not a Straussian. I do not subscribe to sort of the certainly to any branch of

neoconservatism, I would say. Right. And you are sort of a libertarian traditionalist kind of thing.

Yeah. Becoming more traditionalist, the more especially the more kids I have.

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