Greetings dear listeners this is another exciting episode of the Remnant Podcast. I'm a little

better rested than I was last week and we're actually in the studio instead of a

cacophonous conference room with Orrin Cass. That's right there's going to be

alliteration this week and if you're listening to this at National Review

Online that's great but if you could subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play,

Fred's Shrimp Shack and podcasts that would be great too. So this week we have

not really tied to much of anything. Someone we've wanted to have on for a long

time and I just wanted to do a second podcast this week so I basically just

grabbed them off the street. We have Michael Strain who is the vice president or

director of something something of economics at AEI What's Your Title? Dining

services. Yeah, other than that. Director of economic studies. Director of

economic studies. Okay and so you're like you're technically a suit here right?

I wear suits sometimes. No but I mean like you you're your management. I'm

management. Okay. Alright so everyone take that into account when you hear the

lack of difference I have for Michael here and so you went to Harvard right? Cornell.

Cornell! Oh it's it's a voyager who went to Harvard. Yeah okay okay. Did you go to

the part that's Ivy League? Yeah yeah okay. It's split down the middle. Yeah

because were you so for years I've talked about the great Harvard Cornell

rivalry that everyone at Cornell knows about knowing that Harvard does. Everyone

at Cornell does know about it. So we try to keep things relatively civil here but

you are free to express yourself in any way you wish but earlier this week on

Monday we recorded a podcast with Orrin Cass on his book and in part because

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