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20X, 2021, I am John Potthorz, the editor of Commentary Magazine.

I want to thank all of you who heard me yesterday and went on to iTunes and left us some wonderful

reviews.

Please, if you didn't do it yesterday, please do it today.

It really helps us, not only helps us feel good, even though there are some that say,

I talk too much and that's kind of, you know, if you're hurting my feelings, but fine,

I talk too much.

But if you will happily do that, you can help us improve our position in the iTunes store,

get more people to subscribe and give you bragging rights and having been here first.

I also want to tell everybody that we are working on the merch that I talked about earlier

in the week and we should have a store opening up on our website where we're going to be

selling some t-shirts, sweatshirts, masks, onesies, bibs with some of your favorite comments

on the podcast.

But please, go to iTunes, leave us a five star review and I hope I therefore satisfied

the implications of, as always, Associate Editor-in-Authman, Hainoa.

Hi, John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen, Hi, Christine.

Hi, John.

Senior writer, I'm a executive editor, A. Greenwald, hi, A.

Hi, John.

Okay, as we begin talking about what we're about to talk about, I want to make very clear

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