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Thank you.

That would be John McWhorter over there.

How you doing, John?

I'm good. How are you?

I'm doing all right.

I am Glenn Lowry.

This is the Glenn Show.

Every other week, John McWhorter and I talk about this and that,

and we're talking this week.

He is a professor at Columbia University and writes for the New York Times, and I am a professor

at Brown University and host of the Glenn Show. So here we are, John. What's that, man?

What's new?

Well, I guess because we're talking on the day after Trump and Vance yelled at Zelensky in the White House,

I've been thinking about that.

And there are intelligent people who have said that if you look at the whole interview,

Zelensky had it coming, that he had not really been a very good diplomat in the conversation.

But I think nothing hardens what happened during those last 10 minutes with the tone,

with the recreational anger.

And I must admit, I don't know if we should go here, but I found myself thinking, once again,

is it really a derangement to think that there is a special circumstance when that man is in office?

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