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Ladies and your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch

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So we were well out of the month of August, which was, uh, we sort of fell over backwards into calling it counter programming month.

Now that we're past Labor Day, which is the traditional start of campaign season and politics and people are, kids are back at school, we figured we were long overdue for some truly rank punitry.

And there's no one the audience demands more when the subject

is rank punditry than our own beloved Christopher Starwalt of News Nation, the Sunday show,

the Hill, my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute. Dispatch contributor. Dispatch contributor,

of course, of course of course and a recognized

but off-brand charapidist in North Dakota. So with that, so it's it's it's no longer pressing

news of any sort, but you know, there's some stories that, there's some stories that take up the imagination

in the, the, the chattering classes for a while.

And I think the one voice that I missed in this important conversation that was going on

about a month ago was yours.

And so I'm, I'm curious, what did you make of the whole cracker barrel, palozo?

Yes, you've come.

The Ask a Fat Guy from West Virginia category of questions.

First, let me say, I watched you, I heard you all throughout August being high-minded, highfalutin, going about

talking to Europeans and experts and whatever. And you know what? I was like, I was like a guy

who owns a donut shop. And I'm watching your social media and you're like posting workout videos

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