Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.

Now I have to look up the date because I'm so adult. It's Thursday, July 18th, 2019. I am the adult John

Pudhoritz, the editor of commentary, the 70-odd-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, political

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magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year, with me as always, senior editor Abe Greenwald

Hi A. Hi John. Associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi John. And in Washington, senior writer,

Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John. So I just want to make a point at the top that we've

been having some technical difficulties connecting to Christine on remote. And so there may be a point

at which we will have to sort of end the connection and Christine will drop out of it. If that

happens, I will let you know otherwise. We'll go on as planned. We have no plan. We have no plan

for the show. So we can do the Elvis Costello concert thing and spin a wheel and pick a topic.

You know how Elvis Costello would put, I shouldn't mention Elvis Costello because he's a supporter

of the Boycut Investment and Sanctions movement. So the hell with him. But he did have a concert

thing where he had like a wheel of fortune thing and he would spin it and the song would come up

and then they would play the song. So we could do the impeachment thing. We could do sender

back. We could talk about the Apollo space mission. We could talk about stranger things.

Three. We could talk about what else do we have to talk about? There's a through line through

all of them. Yeah, which is which is woke. Right.

Tommy Bastard. Yeah. That is. So I do have a column today in the New York post about stranger

things three. If you haven't watched stranger things. They haven't. We're saving it. Okay, I'm

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