Good morning and welcome to Bonjino Report Early Edition.

I am your host of Vita.

And today I am joined by a very special guest, John Daniel Davidson, who many of you may not know I actually worked with him

at the Federalist. He is one of the most incredible writers. I just have to tell you guys, if you go

to the Federalist.com, you look up John. He has some of the most readable but thoughtful pieces.

And also, to you Protestants in the chat, John and I were the only two of the only

Catholics. I guess Sam was a Catholic when he was there too, but two of the only Catholics

at the Federalist. And so we had a little alliance of the Catholics versus the swarms of Protestants

at the Federalist and it was a lot of fun. So John, thank you so much for being here.

Thanks. Thanks for having me, Evita. Yeah, we, our Catholic numbers are now sorely lacking at the Federalist.

I'm standing nearly alone against the Lutherans now.

It's tough out there, but you know what, but we do, we were always reminded by, I think

it was Sean Davis, who always said, no sectarian wars in the chat.

We're not allowed to fight about that here.

That's right.

Yeah, we got to train our fire at the real enemy here.

Exactly.

Well, John, I wanted to have you on.

I've been actually wanting to have you on for a while, but you have a difficult schedule because you live in Alaska and I live on the East Coast,

which makes the time difference pretty hard to figure out. We figured it out. And I wanted to

have you on really because your book, Pagan America, had a massive impact on me last year

when I read it. I feel like for it for my whole life, but I think even older Americans

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