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Greetings, dear listeners.

This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media.

I am recording this at a weird time and a strange place.

I'm doing an event, a speaking event tonight at Bowden College in Maine, and I'm at the Hotel

Brunswick, and it is Thursday afternoon, a little before 2 o'clock.

Apologies if there's been major news since I recorded this, but anyway, this is the moment, this is the window I have. Where to begin? It's a, it's not been a fun week. The packing up stuff is happening in earnest. I'm having to get rid of hundreds of books, which really I hate doing, even though, you know, some of the books, it's's are not that emotional to get rid of i just

don't like throwing away books and the hassle of trying to figure out where to donate them to

and all that it's just it's a bummer the harder part is there's all this stuff that i grabbed you know either when my dad died or when my mom died, that I just

didn't want to go through, but I also knew I didn't want to throw away. And I can't, in good

conscience, given the logistics of this thing that we're doing, I had to start going through

some of it and weeding wheat from

the chaff or whatever, separating the wheat from the chaff. And it's just, you know, it's the kind of

thing. You could spend an hour on one file folder. You can spend an afternoon on one file folder or one,

you know, giant box of pictures, or you could spend a minute.

And it's just sort of brutal.

And so, like, there's some things, obviously, I'm going to keep lots of, you know,

interesting stuff from my dad's business.

You know, it's funny.

So he, at some point, I think I'm going to do, if I can, if I can curate it properly,

I think I'm just going to do a whole special podcast for my benefit as much as anybody else's

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