Yes, God, God. So welcome to

to Plodcast episode 75 good to have you here. Thanks for coming along.

Most of you are probably riding in your car.

Hope you don't mind if I hop in the back seat and have a little visit, right?

So one of the things I do, keeping myself current, keeping myself abreast, is I subscribe to a number of magazines.

And my routine is to, I let the magazines accumulate,

and when I have a stack of them that's sitting there in my study at home

on a Saturday. I will just sit down and take the stack and work through all the magazines at one go. That's how it usually happens. And I, and I, I, I subscribe to various

magazines. I won't list them all, but let me just give you a few of the political magazines that I subscribe to.

I subscribe to National Review.

I subscribe to Chronicles.

I subscribe to the Weekly Standard Citizen, for example.

And the reason I'm bringing this topic up

is the Weekly Standard is one of them that I subscribe to, and as you may have seen in the news the weekly

standard founded by Fred Barnes and Bill Crystal is being shuttered, I think by the end of the year.

So the weekly standard is no more.

And I want to talk a little bit about this. Now there the president,

for example, did a little cat calling when when the weekly standard folded.

Bill Crystal is probably you might regard him as the Prince of the Never Trumpers.

So he was a conservative spokesman who couldn't abide Donald Trump

and just was Never Trump and stayed never Trump year.

So, and for many people who are, the people who are on the Trump train and have sort of asked Donald Trump

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