Jim Geraghty, COVID Watchman

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jonah continues the great Remnant tradition of allowing senior National Review political correspondent Jim Geraghty to dispense genuinely unique and fascinating observations about current global issues. And what better time could there be for that than right now? During a moment in which even Americans’ feelings about a global health crisis break down along partisan lines rather than facts on the ground, Geraghty’s brand of succinct investigative reporting is a breath of fresh air. Show Notes: -Jim’s newsletter, The Morning Jolt -Latest updates on the lies that China has told -Tom Cotton talks about China re-closing movie theaters -Shortage of chemical reagents required to make COVID tests -Jonah’s column about Booker’s “moral imagination” -“Good luck” -Draft Cuomo 2020 -Yamiche Alcindor/Trump weirdness -DonorsTrust.org/dingo

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0:00.0	Greetings dear listeners.
0:26.8	This is John Egoelberg of the Remnant Podcast.
0:29.8	The Remnant is brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:32.2	Go to the Dispatch.com for all of your coronavirus update needs and maybe some other things as well.
0:40.1	And today's episode is brought to you by our friends at Donors Trust.
0:47.0	And we are breaking with a string of maiden appearances on the Remnant to go to one of the
0:55.6	crowd favorites for reasons that historians will be debating for generations to come.
1:02.0	My old friend, former colleague, current friend still, Jim Garrity.
1:07.6	Jim, welcome back.
1:08.9	Jonah, I would say it's good to be with you, but I'm not really with you, at least not in the physical sense.
1:14.4	This, everybody's doing podcasts from home these days.
1:17.2	This is, you know, the other night I saw Jimmy Fallon doing the tonight show, Mom.
1:21.5	It is a weird new realm of entertainment and public discussion where we get to see exactly what everyone's homes look like.
1:30.5	Yeah, I'm actually doing this in my wife's home office, which is packed to the gills with stuff because we cleaned out the attic.
1:40.5	Because we were going to redo our daughter's room before she came back from Spain and then she came back from Spain.
1:44.9	And now she has to live in the guest room, which is also packed with stuff.
1:49.1	So it's, it's not great for viewing, but I did the Glop podcast the other night from my back porch while smoking a cigar and that went over pretty well.
1:57.5	So that was pretty cool because we did that on video, which was kind of fun.
2:02.1	So I feel like I'm not alone in this, but maybe I'm a little on a different page than you because my women folk have been out of town.
2:13.3	And I've been alone for the last 14 days or so. And, but I see other people, other men making reference to this on the Twitter is why do you think it is so difficult for men and I'm including myself in this to shower on a regular basis when under home quarantine.
2:33.3	So you're truly socially isolating, Jonah, you are not around with any other human being.
2:40.3	I for better or for worse, the kids, I'm in Virginia, the kids are home from school. They've been out of school since March 12.
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