Welcome to the first commentary magazine podcast of the new decade.

The new year. It is the new year. It's the first one.

We did do all right. We did. We did. We did one Thursday January 2nd.

And then on Friday January 3rd. So this is the this is the third.

Oh my god. I don't want to tell you guys how old I turned this year so that you

should understand that I am on the down. I am on the down swing here.

Okay. It's the third commentary podcast of the new decade in the new year.

Happy new year to everybody listening. It's just been a really long year so far.

It's true. And that's true. And so I am John Baudhorz, the editor of commentary.

By next week I will not be able to remember my own name. So I will leave it to others to

mention it with me as always. A Greenwald senior editor. Hi, Aime. Hi, John.

Associate Erdogan Rothman. Hi, Noah. And in Washington, the very

demeanor sound alike in Christine Rosen. Hi, John. Apologies to our listeners for my voice today.

See? Isn't that amazing? She sounds exactly like demeanor. I'll get some more about last night.

Voice over work. We're saying almost fire. To be fair, Christine lives just a few blocks from the

fictional bar in St. Elm. That is true. I walk my dog by that by some of the old places where they

film that movie all the time. Yes. So there you go. So she can start talking about her step monster.

So not to break up the levity here, but apparently we are in the verge of World War 7.

We're just like World War 3 Friday and I think basically as the days have progressed,

we are now somewhere around World War 7. So the fallout continues from the killing of

Kasam Soleimani in Iran. The fallout all being entirely people screaming in terror about what's

going to happen since nothing has yet happened in an retaliatory response. The conduct of the

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