Oy, Such a Bad Week

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Trump in Helsinki cozying up to Putin. Trump on with Tucker Carlson threatening the viability of NATO. The possibility of an American ambassador being somehow presented to Russia for questioning. These all happened after our last podcast. We try to make sense of it without crying. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	music
0:24.4	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday, July 19th, 2018.
0:29.6	John Pudhor, it's the editor of commentary the 70-some-odd year-old monthly of
0:34.6	intellectual analysis, political, probity, and cultural criticism from a
0:38.6	conservative perspective. We ask you to join us live. We're not asking you. We are
0:45.0	offering, making an offering that you can join us live July 30th, Monday July 30th
0:51.3	at 6 p.m. at the Comedy Cellar and Greenwich Village for the first ever live
0:55.6	recording of the commentary magazine podcast for details and to buy tickets go to
1:00.7	commentarymagazine.com slash live podcast. That's commentarymagazine.com slash
1:08.2	live podcast and I can actually say this without parity they're going fast so you
1:16.1	better log on and do it if you want to do it. We have about 200 tickets to sell
1:21.7	and they're going. So commentary magazine me joined by senior editor Abe
1:30.7	Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Give us your Comedy Cellar voice. This is my
1:36.7	Comedy Cellar voice. Killer. Associate or Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. I'm not
1:43.9	going to ask you your Comedy Cellar voice. I could ask you to tell a joke like
1:48.7	the Comedy Cellar but I know but we don't work blue here on the commentary magazine and
1:53.6	all Noah knows are the filthiest jokes. That's not true. Is true? I know a couple of
2:00.2	you know some dirty jokes but you know cleaner jokes. I do try to work clean. Okay. I save
2:04.6	all my dirty jokes from my two and four year old. And of course senior writer,
2:11.8	Sara Bammari who as a relatively recent and very passionate Catholic convert of
2:18.6	course I think you would be uncomfortable. You feel guilty telling a dirty joke
2:24.9	would be my guess. Probably. Probably. Okay so and I don't like dirty jokes to be
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