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can I please have your attention.

Can I please have your attention?

Can you digger? Go Jigga! Jigga! Greetings dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host to the Remnant podcast brought to you

by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media. So, normal... to the around here and counter programming, which is one of the reasons why we released the Robert

Door Podcast yesterday, but every now and then the gravitational pull of events become so strong that even light must bend to it and so too must the remnant.

And so we are going to do a special episode today with a first

time guest Damon Linker who writes a fantastic sub-stack called Notes from the

middle ground. Some of you may recall that he did, we did a sort of

of a dialogue, old school dialogue a couple weeks ago, which feels like a billion years ago, because I remember writing the last installment for it

the day of the presidential debate. We'll put links to all of that in there. He's also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and senior

writer at the New Republic and but we've never I don't think have we met? I don't think we've ever met in person yeah and I also should say I'm not a

senior editor of the New Republic that is not true it's fake news well I internet says it's Well, that's, that's, that's impossible to imagine that the internet had

something wrong on it. Yeah, I mean I used to, I was a contributing editor to the

New Republic before I, in a big huff resigned when they fired Frank Fower and Leon

Weasel tear back in 20, I guess, 1450.

I remember that to do. And I'm glad you're not at the New Republic now because I don't think it's a very good magazine right now and so no no it is it is never recovered from that event and now I am free to say so because I love the old New Republic.

You know, it was very influential on me, you know, the 80s, 90s, New Republic.

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