Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021. I am John Pudhord. It's the editor of Commentary

Magazine with me as always. Executive editor, A. Greenwald, Hi Abe.

Hi John. Senior writer, Christine Rosen, Hi Christine.

Hi John.

And associate editor, Noah Rossman, Hi Noah.

Hey John. Conventional opening, returned, perfect execution. We stuck the landing,

hands all around. Guys, I want to read you an email we got yesterday and then sort of reflect

on, on, on, do a little meta podcast discussion. Okay. So, hello all. I listen to your podcast

every day, typically among my slate of listens, typically first among my slate of listens.

Six months ago yours was my favorite podcast, I recommend to others, but of late your fixation

on teachers unions and Andrew Cuomo have become unbearable. How can I possibly recommend

a podcast whose hosts endlessly wallow in their private obsessions, far beyond any real

news value, you may even lose me as a listener soon. It's a bigger country and it's a big

country in a bigger world. You can offer your listeners so much more than this repetitive

sludge. PS2, John, your terrific thinker, but the biggest tell that any particular argument

as weak is that you slip into erecting straw men and mockery. It's juvenile. So, this

is the email. I don't want to talk about the, you know, particularly insult to me because

he's erecting a straw man and I and and and doing personal insults that I consider that

juvenile. But I didn't want to talk a little bit about this question we, we, we reflect

on as we think about doing this, which is, are we talking too much about the teachers?

Are we talking too much about the teachers because Christine and Noel have school-aged

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