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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Ruminant raises a predictably peculiar question within its opening moments: How can rodentology help us understand the first Republican debate? Jonah’s answer may surprise you, but what’s more surprising is that it connects quite naturally to another of the week’s hot topics: the debate over what America’s role should be in the war in Ukraine. With plenty of vim and slightly less vigor, he dedicates most of this episode to exploring what form American foreign policy should take, and why we must remember that Putin is the villain in this conflict. Show Notes: - The Remnant with Michael H. Parsons (rat guy) - The Dispatch Podcast on the debate that didn’t matter - A post-debate Dispatch Live - Jonah breaks down the debate with Chuck Todd - Tevi Troy: “Moderators Have Ruined Presidential Debates. Let’s Get Rid of Them.” - The Remnant with Luke Coffey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?

0:22.0

Greetings dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg host the Remden podcast brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

0:34.0

It's not just a dessert topping, it's a floor wax.

0:38.0

Okay, so so much going on, where to begin?

0:44.0

Okay, I'm recording this Friday morning and exciting news. We got a PIPA, a new shipment to tennis balls, but we'll save the important stuff for later.

0:55.0

Last night Donald Trump was arrested, arraigned, whatever you call it in Georgia.

1:04.0

Maybe I'm just jaundiced and dead inside, but I just didn't find it riveting television or any all that interesting, right?

1:12.0

And it's like the constant sort of, what does this mean? What does this mean?

1:16.0

Feeling airtime stuff was, I thought, pretty boring.

1:21.0

I'm not saying this stuff is important, obviously it's important. I write about a lot, I talk about it a lot, and all this kind of stuff.

1:26.0

But I don't know, I just thought it was really not worth all of the live coverage just to have Trump give a bogus statement in mug shot.

1:37.0

I will say, you know, on the important stuff, there is no way on God's green earth that if Donald Trump is 63, which I believe that he weighs 215 pounds.

1:49.0

Apparently, they don't weigh you in, it's not like, you know, the weigh in a boxing match, this AIDS just fill out some forms.

1:57.0

And I say this as a guy who is 63 and who still looks very much like a before picture for some weight loss ad campaign.

2:06.0

But I just know he's not 215 pounds. Muhammad Ali, when he was sort of in his prime, was like 216 pounds.

2:14.0

I know what I looked like when I was two, last time I was 220, which was a few years ago, and I'm heavier than that now, and so is Donald Trump.

2:24.0

I don't think this is the kind of thing, we shouldn't make this sort of like the birth or, you know, the equivalent of the birth or thing where people get obsessed about it, but it's a lie.

2:32.0

I just think it's fundamentally obviously a lie.

2:35.0

And as a, as a fat American, I take offense to it.

2:41.0

All of the debate stuff, I'm sure everybody's sick of the debate, punditry, I just want to make two or three quick points on it.

2:48.0

Well, I'll see what the third one is, there are only two in my head.

2:50.0

First of all, I did truck Todd's podcast yesterday, and in analogy, I couldn't run with for, you know, his inside the beltway mainstream corporate media podcast is one I am free to indulge here.

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