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This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch

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I am recording from what has turned into much too much of a working vacation and a pretty, well, I shouldn't say I'm pleasant one.

I've had a great time when I had the time to have a great time.

I'm in the Adirondacks with some dear friends and colleagues.

A lot of it has been great.

Chautauqua was great, but my wife couldn't come at first because of a book deadline project.

And then the situation with Zoe has just gotten worse and worse and worse.

So I think I'm going to leave early to go be with her.

Zoe's back in the vets.

For listeners who for some reason don't know, Zoe is one of my two dogs.

Love her dearly. And she just basically hasn't eaten in nearly a week. She's losing weight, and they can't figure out exactly what's wrong. And I don't want to talk about it too much because I'm not ashamed to say I'll start crying. So I don't think this is the end. I certainly don't. I certainly hope it's not the end. But if even some of this is due to sort of the trauma and stress from her dental surgery, me being gone exacerbates that, then I got to stop being gone. So I'm probably going to leave my daughter here, who I wanted to spend more time with, drive back to D.C. tomorrow. At least that's's the plan there's a whole bunch of logistical

issues involved about vehicles and how we get my niece who's also here to the airport and it's just a

real bummer so if I sound like a bummer I apologize and if I sound self-pitying that's not the point

it's a bummer so there you have it I. I'm a dog guy. I love my dog.

It makes me sad.

But, you know, there's nothing I can do right now. And I will try to be of good cheer and not dwell on this any further. I just thought I should say up front for level setting purposes. I'm also recording this. Just keeping the full disclosure going late on a Friday, on a Thursday afternoon,

because everything was zigging and zagging between work stuff I had to do, even though I missed

the Wednesday G file, it's mostly sort of behind the scenes, work stuff, meetings, phone calls,

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