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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday November 4th 2021.

I'm John Pudhord's the editor of commentary with me is always executive editor

a dream wall pie ape and John associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi, John and

senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John and joining us today are

old friend, Chris Steyerwald Fox News analyst, a supreme for many years now a

scholar at AEI, the American Air Force Institute, a colonist for the dispatch

and co-host of the Friday podcast in state wretches with our other friend,

Eliana Johnson from the free beacon. Chris, how are you today? I feel like I'm

starting to get slightly rested. I thought that with the Virginia results

that I would not I was I was sort of I'm not going to care about watching this.

This is my first time not decision desking an important election and more than a

decade and I'm really going to live it up. But man, I am a junkie as the

you got to be like 645 and I was like getting the gold sweats and I had

I had I gave in and I set up a fake in a very pitiful fashion set up a fake

war room in my office to watch the returns come in and I'm ashamed. I'm I'm

proud of you. I am proud of you for for refusing to give in to the notion

that your past habits were somehow sinful. In fact, they are indicative of

somebody who takes the sorts of things that you've done for a living.

So seriously and that the habits of behavior and mind that you followed were

very valuable and worthwhile. So let's let's try to deploy those

in this fashion. Everybody who listens to this podcast probably heard us yesterday

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