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Greetings, your listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

No, you were not listening to this at 1.5 speed. It's just that I've just spent the last 25 minutes dealing with technical issues beyond all mortal Ken in a hotel with plumbing issues without beyond all mortal Ken.

And I'm very excited about this podcast today. People back in the day used to call me the Necromancer because for all sorts of reasons that it was a prison nickname. We don't have to get any details.

But I am in fact re-embracing that nickname because I have brought back from the dead, someone who was dead to me.

None other than David French occasional guest on advisory opinions and New York Times columnist. Oh, David.

Hey, Jonah, I feel like Lazarus after Jesus said Lazarus come forth. I'm tottering out of your own personal tomb. You put me in, dude.

First time that has been quoted on the Remnant.

So first of all, just how's it going at the times? It's going well. It's going well. I've written. I've gotten a few columns under my belt. I'm.

I just realized, of course, the biggest organization I've ever belonged to is the US Army. But in the private sector, the times as the biggest company I've worked for by miles.

I had no, I really didn't have a grasp of how big it was logged on to Slack and it said something like 5,000 members, which is, yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of people.

But no, everything's going well. People have been fantastic. Very welcoming. Yeah. I've enjoyed working with the team so far. It's going great.

So you know how in like the US Army, I think the rule of thumb, you'd know this better than I would is that for everyone, combat soldier, frontline soldier, they're like eight.

It's somewhere in the logistics and back. I could swear that the near times, I thought the number was that they had something like 1,500 reporters.

So do you think the ratio, the sort of support to combat as it were ratio is greater for the New York Times than it is for the US military? We're about the same.

I don't know. I mean, there's a good group of people supporting. And then there's, you know, the times is a big media enterprise just beyond the actual newspaper itself.

So you've got like a wire cutter, which is the, like the times version of consumer reports and you've got the whole food part of the times and you've got games that like there's a, there's a whole universe here.

And the kind of the fun thing is you, you all go through the same orientation. Everybody goes through the same orientation.

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