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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday, January,

July, 2018. I think I was hoping it was January because we've been living through the horrendous heat wave here in Chicago as where I am as in New York with my colleagues.

I'm John Pujot, the editor of commentary. My colleagues being of course senior editor Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe.

Hi, John. Abe just to give you a sense of how hot it was in New York this weekend,

Abe sat inside and watched Ingmar Bergman's movie about the plague, the black death, the seven seal.

That was the way he commemorated. To refresh a nice refreshing bath in the plague.

See, some of you go into a pool when it's hot, Abe watches Ingmar Bergman movies about the black death.

Also, with us in New York, Saurav Mahmaris, senior writer, high Saurav. Hi, John.

I don't know what he did. He went to see hereditary and scared the Jesus out of himself.

Oh, yeah. I can't see it because it's too scary.

I had a fit of hysterical laughter from the tension. I mean, I'm telling you, this is a,

this is a scariest movie in the generation.

Okay, so that's the good way to keep me from seeing it. And Noah Rothman, our associate editor,

Noah has two little kids in New Jersey and I'm sure were they splashing in a, in a, in a kitty pool?

We have a kitty pool. We didn't bust it out this weekend because we have a new set of parent friends who have a real pool.

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