Hi everybody, this is Jonah Goldberg and I have taken over the dispatch podcast because

we are going to do a special Steven Jonah two year anniversary of our first post kind of thing.

And so stay tuned.

Okay, so I was tempted to do a sort of poll.

Outer limits, I control the vertical.

I control the horizontal.

Do not try to adjust your podcast, but that's like a really deep cut pop culture reference

in it has no place on this august and very serious podcast that we're about to do.

So Steve, good to see you.

It's been literally minutes since last week.

That's been out.

Why don't you start off by explaining why in fact we're actually doing this thing this

way.

So today, well actually today is Wednesday, Friday, the day that we're publishing this will

be the two year anniversary of our first post at the dispatch.

So we decided that rather than bringing a newsmaker or do a traditional Friday dispatch

podcast, we would talk about what we've learned, what the experience has been and why we

were so crazy to do this in the first place two years ago.

Yeah, and a little to be fair also a little what's next, you know, in this grand

adventure, fair amount of what's next.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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