Greetings dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, another edition of the Remnant Podcast.

I'm doing this from the Placial, almost Versailles-like offices of National Review in New York City.

I'm in the midst of, they don't really do book tours per se anymore.

It's like a media tour.

I apologize in advance. I am mentally extremely frazzled.

I find this stuff more stressful than I used to.

But I should also not be complaining because things are going well.

We went as high as six on Amazon's bestseller lists, which meant that it was great.

I was taught- first of all, since I don't have Jack here today, instead I have Michael Brendan Dourity, my colleague from National Review.

Hi Michael.

Hello Jonah.

People call him MBD. What do they call you on the editors? Nitorious MBD? Is that it?

Yeah, that's what Rich says.

Yesterday, as it's a Tales from the Tour, before we get into these weighty issues, I did CNN.

Friends with Jake Tapper, and he was great to have me on his show.

Part of the problem with doing these shows on this is, I'm not getting a lot of love from Fox for various and sundry reasons.

Part of it is they kind of have a policy. They don't like people using the network just to hawk their books.

You have to tie it to News of the Day.

Martha McCallum, I'm a big fan of. They gave me the exclusive first interview for the book on Monday night or Tuesday night, whatever, some night this week.

I had three minutes to tie the themes of suicide over the West to Kanye's tweets in support of this girl from some train point group or whatever.

And then I had to go on Kennedy and tie the weighty themes of suicide over the West to the DNC's lawsuit about the 2016 election.

And then yesterday I do CNN, and I had to try to get it into, at least Jake really tried to play along.

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