If you had come to me in the Finch Hill, then this comrade will and your daughter would be suffering this very day.

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

I'm feeling extra remnant today because I am talking to you from behind the steering wheel of our battered rented RV in a municipal parking lot in San Point, Idaho, the lovely brisk morning.

I am joined from Washington by my San Troopanza and Emuensis, Jack Butler.

Before we go on, people have been complaining that you pronounce that word incorrectly. It's Emuensis. They're more silly words in it than you have been saying.

I'm a believer in economizing as much as possible. It's the correct Esperanto pronunciation.

They're interested in economizing. We should move on to new speak then so that words lose all their nuance.

Yes, yes. We're heading that way. So, from people who don't know, I've been on a family vacation with my lovely wife and daughter and our two very entitled dogs, Zoe and Pippa.

We've been blazing across the country and our family truckster. Our first night on the road, we slept in a truck rest stop in Baloid, Wisconsin.

I'm just trying to follow in the footsteps of George Will and live life the way he does.

Since then, we've been a bunch of places and we are heading to Oregon, Oregon today.

I'm going to the Oregon State Fair and then we're... Is there a lot of dysentery in Oregon?

Well, that's the... have you ever played Oregon Trail?

I've never played Oregon Trail.

Yeah, that's the disease that everyone dies of, dysentery.

Okay. I did not know that.

At least in the 19th century?

What age do you play this game?

I played it with a version of it more updated than the one that the meme comes from.

I don't know when I was like eight to 12 years old.

It's how I learned all of my survival skills.

Interesting. Interesting.

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