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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Rank Punditry You Can’t Refuse | Interview: Chris Stirewalt

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel swampy? Well, do ya punk? We hope you do, because none other than the kingpin of news himself is here to malodorously pontificate on the fusty, fetid sewer that is the 2026 midterms. There ain’t no ninja turtles in these tunnels. Chris Stirewalt joins Jonah Goldberg to hold forth on the Maine primaries, the Los Angeles mayoral race, election fraud claims, Donald Trump at the New York Knicks game, America 250, Todd Blanche, the decline of moral political norms, Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes, and our changing news landscape.  Show Notes: —Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

0:18.0

Can you digger?

0:27.5

Greetings, dear listeners.

0:29.1

This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the...

0:31.5

You're okay there, Chris?

0:32.9

Yeah, I'm just feeling your energy, the positive energy.

0:35.8

I got to force it through here.

0:54.2

Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media. I was saying the other day, because we had all this, all these, like, authors of these things with the books and the ideas and whatever. And I was like, you know, we haven't done rank punitry in a while and some people miss rank punitry.

0:55.3

And, you know, there's a lot of stuff going on in politics stuff that we should like have

0:59.5

words about.

1:00.1

And so when that is the case, who else do we go to other than my, my dear friend and

1:06.7

fellow sandwich either, Chris Starwell?

1:09.5

Now, Chris, I should let you know, just on full disclosure.

1:12.4

So I'm in New York. I came up to New York because CNN had me come up to tape, participate in like a

1:21.5

taping of this new show that that's sort of rolling out called confessions and obsessions or something like that.

1:30.0

And I had to like make a confession and reveal an obsession.

1:34.5

I had to give them two of each actually.

1:36.5

And then you go on and you're on with these other people.

1:38.7

I was with, you know, Alyssa Farah Griffin.

1:41.7

Right?

1:41.8

Is that it?

1:42.5

That's correct.

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