Little Green Men

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Stranded without a guest in beautiful Springfield, Illinois, Jonah is forced to record another Ruminant, and the result finds his mind drifting from place to place like a wayward spy balloon. After a brief foray into dirigible-based punditry, he quickly turns to protectionism and Biden’s “Buy American” mantra, providing some extended thoughts on why both are so annoying. From there, his ramblings fall into an uncontrolled tailspin, covering everything from NIMBianism to René Girard and, finally, the incomparable Cronut.

Transcript

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0:00.0	...
0:20.1	Attention, gentlemen.
0:22.6	Greetings, dear listeners.
0:30.2	Sorry.
0:31.2	I'm making that sound not because I'm Michael Barbaro, but because I recorded a couple minutes
0:37.0	of this podcast and then realized that the microphone was not on and nothing was recording.
0:43.1	So until aliens catch those sound waves and reconstruct them, ions from now, all of that
0:50.9	will be lost to history and it's a tragedy.
0:53.8	Actually, that's a good place to start.
0:55.9	Aliens capturing sound waves are radio as if you've ever seen the movie contact with
1:01.8	a Jody What's her face and Matthew McConaughey.
1:06.7	Come on, why can't I remember Jody What's her face is named?
1:10.3	Foster.
1:11.3	I am sorry.
1:12.3	It's that kind of morning.
1:13.3	Actually, I should back up.
1:15.0	I am in Springfield, Illinois, not the birthplace.
1:22.4	Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, but the home of Abraham Lincoln.
1:26.9	I came out here on Lincoln's birthday, which was last night, which was also Super Bowl
1:32.2	Sunday.
1:33.2	And I am staying at the Abraham Lincoln hotel.
1:38.3	It's a hotel with a tradition of existence.
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