Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday January 21st, 2020.

I am John Pudhord, the editor of commentary with us again today following a brief

vacation senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine. Hi John. Welcome back you

were you were you were off somewhere sunny, but you you you show no evidence on our

zoom video here of any kind of a a tan. So I guess you are a

pian heritage conspires against me ever tanning so okay there you go I myself go to the

beach and I'm like a mummy so I I'm with you on that also with us executive

editor a Greenwald not tan at all. No but have the same same problem. Same problem but

not not that you've been anywhere near the sun. No yeah you can't get tan in your

apartment anyway. Yeah yeah and no you you know Rothman associate editor you you

have a sort of swarthy demeanor but I don't know whether that means that your skin is

comparably swarthy. No it's just my general swarth it's sort of an olive

complexion. You have all the complexion so I take vitamin D supplements. So my my

late sister Rachel who had olive skin she could lie in the sun for six hours

without moving. Enjoying the feeling of the sun on her skin and I could last

six seconds before diving you know under a tent so I used to think that there

was something more like that there was something wrong with me that this was the

case that somehow it just showed that I was a whim and that I didn't understand

the you know there was everybody felt about sun the way I feel about sun that

actually people can enjoy the feeling of the sun on their skin which I don't

which I don't have but but I took me a while to understand these so understand

these differences and I'm sure this is really thrilling to everybody who wants to

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