Welcome to episode 77 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast.

I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year.

I got this book for Christmas.

It's a wonderful historical artifact,

and I thought I would start this week's podcast

by reading a few excerpts from it.

Then I'm going to talk to Jonah Goldberg

and Michael Brendan Doughty separately about whether or not we should try to absorb Canada into the United States, if that would be a good idea.

And then to Michael about why he's not so appalled by the idea of invading Greenland, which was a conversation started on the

editor's podcast this week, two days ago, to be precise. I should say, those of you who don't

know the editors podcast, that's the other podcast I'm on. It's twice a week. It features Rich Larry, me, and then a rotating

cast of Jim Garrity, Noah Rothman, Michael Brendan Dyerty, and others. You can get it through

wherever you get this podcast or a national review.

Before we start that, though, I want to tell you about this book.

My brother-in-law got me for Christmas.

It really is astonishing.

He found it in Barnes & Noble.

It's called Kamala, her historic, joyful, the word joyful is highlighted,

and auspicious sprint to the White House. It's by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida,

and it is something that you would put in a time capsule.

I don't know how it got published.

It does say at one point that the book obtains irrespective of whether or not Harris eventually wins,

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