Ruminating by Remote

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

As we close in on the end of the year, Jonah’s rumination proves to be a pretty sizable roundup of all the news that has been fit to print throughout the week. In addition to discussing attempts to relitigate the series of unfortunate events surrounding Jeffrey Toobin, the inaccuracy of our current Cold War metaphors in regards to China, and the ongoing conflict over wealth inequality, Jonah also finds the time to dip into several classically nerdy topics. Such subjects include the accidental genius of bad Kung Fu movies, how They Live isn’t nearly as Marxist as the academy would have you believe (and the fact that they try to prove that it is “just helps to prove how dumb Marxism is”), and how David French’s taste in films has made Jonah a nihilist. Show Notes: -This week’s G-File -Fatman -Caddyshack … II? -The fight scene in They Live -Kurt Thomas in Gymkata -Jonah: Farce as Tragedy -Adorno: “Thus one no longer learns to close a door softly, discreetly and yet firmly. Those of autos and frigidaires have to be slammed.” -The origin of the “alien visitor” thought experiment -A chin-stroking (so to speak) piece on Jeffrey Toobin -Pleasantville -This week’s Remnant with Matt Continetti -Jonah’s “New Cold War” column -This week’s Remnant with Scott Winship -The success sequence -Remnant Episode 100 with Thomas Sowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.1	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.4	Can I please have your attention
0:18.4	Thank you
0:27.4	Greetings, your listeners. This is Joan of Olberg host of the Remnant
0:31.8	Podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media
0:36.3	Go to the dispatch.com to get all the stuff I keep hectoring you to get
0:41.2	So I'm gonna stop hectoring and just say please go to the dispatch.com and you can find all sorts of
0:45.9	original stuff that's not in the newsletters and plus you can
0:50.1	See all the stuff you're missing if you're not a paid member of the community and
0:55.3	And you'd help our end-of-year numbers which would be great and you'd be doing a nice thing and
1:01.0	You'd be helping yourself and
1:03.4	Every time you become a paid member of the dispatch and angel gets its wings or something like that
1:08.8	Okay, so
1:10.3	I wrote the g file on the early side today and I'm a little worried that it's not very good
1:15.0	I don't know I mean, I think the ideas are good in it, but I don't think it's necessary sometimes
1:20.0	You know
1:21.5	Sometimes when you're right for yourself, which is what I usually do with the g file you sometimes
1:27.0	And up spilling out a bunch of notes for something that
1:33.4	Could be something really good and then
1:37.5	Other times you think that you wrote something really good and
1:40.8	And people don't like it and then other times you wrote something that you think isn't really good and people really do like it
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