Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday, July 21, 2022.

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

Aik Wremel, hi, Ed.

Hi, John.

Media commentary columnist, Christine Rosen, Mike Christine.

Hi, John.

And associate editor Noah Rossman, hi Noah.

Hi, John.

Three data points to plot on a graph.

Dave Chappelle, the brilliant comedian and maker of jokes and bits about the madness of the

trans regime, taking over America.

Of course, created a stir when his netflix special the closer came out shockingly last week,

shockingly in many ways.

The closer was nominated for an Emmy for best comedy special, which was very surprising,

seemed to herald possibly a shift in the way this stuff was going to be handled.

And then yesterday, first avenue, the prime, the premiere music and entertainment venue

in Minneapolis, the home of prints, which we'll get to a little later, canceled a Dave

Chappelle show saying essentially they needed to do better because he shouldn't be performing

at their venue because he's a bad person.

The second data point, the people who invented the real world ground level version of JK

Rowling's fantasy game, Quidditch, which appears in the Harry Potter novels as the sport

of wizards in the wizarding world, announced yesterday that they were changing the name

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