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Greetings dear listeners. This is another exciting, well we'll see if it's exciting edition of the Remnant Podcast.

This week's episode is brought to you by Charles Crout-Hammers. Things that matter, we'll talk about more about that in a little bit.

It is also brought to you by, and this is not really brought to us by, I'm just supposed to plug it and I'm glad to, and I'll get to this too later.

The fifth annual William F Buckley Prize dinner, which will be in Chicago on October 18th. I'll give you more details about that.

I will be there as well the entire sort of cannonball run cast of stars of national review.

But today we have a very special guest in almost every sense of the word special.

We have one sunny bunch. You may know him from such podcasts as the weekly substandard.

An occasional guest and you're like the producer of Wright and Writer?

Yeah, I b****. You're the bleeper.

I'm the bleeper.

Yeah, and I make sure the microphones are in semi-working order.

Okay, so, and I first met you, I think when you were still at the Washington Times, is that right?

Maybe even before that at the weekly standard.

Maybe.

Maybe at the weekly standard.

Okay. All right.

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