Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday, September 29th, 2023.

I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

a greenwald high Abe hi John Matt connetty and Christine Rosner out today. So we are very

pleased to have in their stead are Hollywood commentary columnist. Executive producer of

six television shows seven television shows I apologize and my dear friend and co host

of the global podcast Rob Long. Hi Rob. So John hi John. Hi Abe. Now I was wondering

why you asked me here. Now I realize because everybody else canceled. We we wanted to have

you here anyway. Okay. And we have now we have several reasons to one of the accident

been for you. Right. One of them of course is that you are the person that we know best

who was involved in the labor action of 2023 the WGA strike resolved earlier this week.

That's number one. Number two you have a blockbuster magnificent piece in the October

issue of commentary that attempts to explain the wild and unprecedented box office success

of the film's sound of freedom. Right. That's number two. And number three as it happens

you are though you are no longer you were longtime Californian. Therefore we're represented

for many years by the late Dianne Feinstein who died this morning at the age of believe

of 90. And so you your experience of her as a constituent. Yes. She is by now makes

you a unique voice here on the commentary. So could you could you talk to us just for a

minute about your your experience as a California voter of let's say increasingly minority

status. Well, I always minority really when I move back as a grown up I will say this that

I lived in northern California grew up in the California for many years. And my impressions

of Dianne Feinstein are sort of indelibly suddenly being called into the whatever room

we were in. I don't know why I was in seventh grade or something. And maybe eighth grade

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