This is gold. I hope you keep this.

Greetings, Galois Nures. This is another exciting edition of the

Remnant Podcast. I am back from Hawaii. I am neither tan tested nor ready to get

back into the grind of things but we're going to do it anyway. The last two

podcasts of last year apparently left some bad tastes and some people's

mouths because people were hoping for more wankery and instead we did movie

talk and rank punditry. So we are going back into the thick of rank wankery by

bringing in a we've never actually met at least we don't think we have. I think

that's right. But I fell a part of the National Review family to Zernogsden

and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, our second Manhattan Institute

scholar I believe, or in cast the author of I'll hold it up for everybody to see

the once-in-future worker a vision for the renewal of work in America. Welcome

on. Thank you so much for having me. My pleasure. Where do you call home? I live in

Western Massachusetts middle of nowhere. On purpose? Yes it is a delightful place to

raise a family and you can barely get to a city if you try. How far away is

Boston? Two hours. Okay. Real Western Massachusetts. Not the people who live in

like Worcester and Clayton there in Western Massachusetts. Or the people who live

in Westchester and think they live in upstate New York. None of that here. And so

you are a senior fellow? Yes. The Manhattan Institute. And you were policy

director for Romney twice around or once around. Once and only domestic policy

director. Okay. So you weren't the one who said that Russia was our number one

geopolitical photo. I cannot take credit for that. No. Anyway so you've you've

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