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Greetings to your listeners is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media

Very excited about today's show though. I may not sound it because I'm a bit under the weather and we had a

The dispatch staff sort of retreat thing at my house last night and

That didn't help make me it was fun time, but didn't make me feel better. So I may be handing the

Gas pedal to are always a brilliant and effulgent guest

fan favorite and many quarters my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute

Matthew Kuntnetty Matthew welcome back to the Remnant. Thank you for having me Jonah

I'm curious which quarters. I'm not a fan favorite in and I would like to visit those quarters and have a stern talking to them

Um, you know the problem when you have a diverse audience is that if you always get positive feedback for everything you do and you also get

negative feedback for everything you do and

The I have this long drawn out theory about how many a career has been ruined or many reputation has been ruined by people listening too much to

The biggest fans and I can give you many many examples of that so when some people say hey enough with this conservative

intellectual history, nerdery, you know bring back the guy who runs the stake-em-twitter account

I'm like no, I'm gonna have continuity on here and you're just gonna have to deal with it. So

It's a pleasure to be here great great to have you all right

So we'll do the rank punditry first. I think it's because it's I mean everybody's already had their say on Virginia and New Jersey, but

um

That doesn't mean we can't do more of it. So

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