Music

Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today.

It's Tuesday June 22, 2021. It's the day after what I'm reliably informed by many

amused listeners who emailed to tell me what an idiot I am that of course yesterday

was the summer solstice, not the verbal equinox, not itatis.

I don't know. We were throwing around Latin words and I should have known that it was the

summer solstice because I am a moderately educated person and that is really not a

hard thing to know but I didn't and so thank you for correcting me continue to do so because

I basically we sit here we talk five hours a week.

This is the thing that amazes me about when Rush Limbaugh died and there was all this

talk about how horrible Rush Limbaugh was and how terrible he was and I think his last

years you know when he sort of became when he became this you know Trumpian, Trumpier

than Trump guy.

I wasn't that thrilled with him but the fact that he talked for like 30 years, three hours

a day, five days a week and that all people could do was dig up.

He said this in 2003. He said this in 1997.

He had this one sentence that was really outrageous in 2014.

This guy must have spoken tens of thousands of words a week in public for you know,

I speak five hours we all speak together, five hours a week and I don't know how many

dumb stupid things I've said that are erroneous and illiterate and factitious and so you

know these people who do this it's very impressive which also gives me a moment to wish a happy

birthday to George Will you know who was turned 80 or turned 80 in the last couple of weeks

...