Taylor, Travis, and the Totalitarians

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast looks at the relationship between superstars Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce and expresses both annoyance at their omnipresence and disgust at the effort by MAGA to turn their relationship into something pernicious and evil. And speaking of pernicious, what about the latest American "peace plan" as laid out by Thomas "I Talked to a Cab Driver" Friedman? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the words.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. We made it. We made it through January.
0:29.4	It is Thursday, February 1st, 2024. I am John Pothor, the editor of Commentary magazine. With me as always,
0:36.1	executive editor A Greenwald. Hi, Abe, Habe.
0:38.8	Hi, John. Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Cottonetti, I'm at.
0:43.0	Hi John.
0:44.0	And media commentary columnist Christine Rosen,
0:47.0	Hi, Christine.
0:48.0	Hi, John, you're going to regret saying that
0:49.0	because there's an extra day in February this year
0:51.0	because it's a leap year.
0:52.0	So on February 29th we need to
0:53.9	revisit your enthusiasm for February. Fair enough. Now I just read I have to say a
0:58.7	really wonderful piece in the Atlantic by my and our old friend David Brooks about negativity and the nature of pessimism
1:08.6	overtaking particularly young people in the United States.
1:12.1	So I want to be cheerful today. I don't want to be, I don't want to contribute to this crisis atmosphere in which no one and nothing in America works and and everything is terrible so I'm just
1:24.8	gonna start by saying that Billy Joel issued his first single in 17 years it's called
1:31.9	turn the lights back on I just listen to it and it is
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