‘Stranger Things' in Ukraine and America

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Today’s podcast ranges unusually from the coming release of the last hours of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things—and its welcome embrace of anti-Communism—to the expansion of NATO in the wake of the war in Ukraine and why Joe Biden can’t figure out how to take political advantage of the one thing he’s actually done well. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	music.
0:24.4	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.2	Today is Thursday June 30th, 2022.
0:31.7	I am John Puthworth, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor,
0:37.2	a brainwalt high A.
0:38.5	Hi John.
0:40.0	Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen, high Christine.
0:43.5	Hi John.
0:44.5	And associate editor, no, Ross Manhainoa.
0:47.2	Hi John.
0:47.9	Look, we could talk about January 6th.
0:50.4	We could talk about the war in Ukraine.
0:53.0	We could talk about the surge in coronavirus illness.
0:59.4	And maybe we will.
1:01.4	But clearly the most important thing on the horizon is the tomorrow, July 1st, the final
1:07.7	two episodes of Stranger Things are coming on Netflix.
1:14.3	We can take everything very seriously, but I think we need to acknowledge that I believe
1:20.0	all four of us, there are two episodes, they're like two and a half hours long each.
1:27.6	This is going to take up a considerable amount of time on our weekend.
1:32.1	Does anyone wish to dispute this fact?
1:34.2	No, although I will say I have a kid at sleep away camp already with who's not who's
1:39.6	going to have to wait to see it because he doesn't have any way to see it.
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