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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The Columbia encampment is shut down and the students who occupied a campus building are charged with burglary. A mile north of Columbia, cops are attacked by protestors, who are promptly zip-tied and thrown into an NYPD bus. Order is being restored, but for how long? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:07.0	the worst.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome. Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday
0:29.2	May 1st. 2024 yes it's May Day and things happened last night that I wish would happen every May Day and had
0:39.7	happened during the May Days of the 20th century, but we will get to that in a minute with my colleagues here.
0:45.6	I'm of course John Poth Hort's the editor of Commentary magazine with me Abe Greenwald
0:49.9	executive editor. Hi Abe. Hi, John.
0:53.0	Well, those things may happen every day this may.
0:56.0	Fair enough.
0:57.0	But May Day is, of course, a special, is the special communist holiday.
1:01.5	So seeing communists roused it is is just a gift it's a gift
1:10.3	a gift to the senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi Seth.
1:14.3	Hi John and yes it's a historically accurate. That's exactly and of course back from
1:22.0	vacation Washington commentary columnist Matthew
1:25.9	Conetti hi Matt hi John and I just want to say in the Zoom chat you will see my
1:30.4	list of demands before I leave the podcast today. I expect those demands to be met.
1:37.6	All right, I'm sending you, I'm going on Uber Eats. I'm going to send you an Aye Bowl. Yes, please. And you know, maybe a beyond.
1:46.4	Make sure the banana is individually packaged. There are people here in AI who don't like the bananas. We need to keep them separate.
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