Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

Americans play to win all the time.

I wouldn't give a hoot-and-hell for a man lost and laugh.

Greetings dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, the host of the Remnant Podcast.

As you might have guessed, I'm here in the World Headquarters of National Review in New York City.

I had to be here for a Fox thing I'm a Bob and realized I had to do a podcast today or I wouldn't get one done this week because of, well, because of court hearings and whatnot.

I came into the offices today and I had forgotten that it's intern season so the place is just crawling with them.

They're into everything. I took some yogurt out of the fridge and I had seven kids from Yale in it.

I just recorded an episode of one of NR's best niche podcasts called The Editors.

I managed to finagle someone from that podcast to be on this podcast.

Now here's the thing. I was, and so by the way that means ladies and gentlemen there will be no Jack Butler this week.

He'll just have to stay handcuffed to the radiator.

But so I had this opening here in New York City to do a podcast and I got in touch with some people.

I won't name who let me down, who disappointed me.

But one of the people I reached out to was comfortably smug on Twitter.

For those of you who don't know, comfortably smug is a secret Twitter or is it anonymous Twitter account from a very funny guy who's very good at trolling and whatnot.

And you're never quite clear how serious he is about whether or not he wants Tommy Lauren to be president or whatnot.

But one of the things that he is passionate about is how much he hates Marco Rubio.

And so I was listening to an editor's podcast a few weeks ago and this guy Luke Thompson who clearly is like up to speed on the podcast.

Up to speed on the politics stuff the way smug is seems to share some of the sense of humor starts going on about you know from hell's heart I stab at the about how much he hates Marco Rubio and how much he has no qualifications to be a carbon based life form and I was like, I figured it out.

But I asked smug if he could be on he said he couldn't because he was in California and then I asked Thompson if he could be on and he said yes.

So this is the best piece of evidence yet that they're not the same person so by way of that Luke welcome aboard to the remnant podcast thanks for having me Jonah.

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