Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Wednesday, June 7, 2023. I am John Puthord's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor a greenwald hi Abe.

Hi John media commentary columnist Christine Rosen high Christine.

Hi John.

And Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute and our Washington commentary columnist Matthew continuity. Hi Matt. Hi John.

6 p.m. yesterday I go out with my dog and the sky is a an ochre yellow and my eyes stung and I was having a little bit of difficulty breathing. I do not have respiratory problems nor am I a hypokondriac. I've never smelled anything like the smell ambient smell in the upper west side of Manhattan, which as I think.

Everybody knows is the result of winds blowing from the north down from hundreds of miles away. It is crazy. I don't think there's any news particularly accepted people in my elevator my building are like well it's climate change you know that's the sort of the that's not the all purpose answer for anything like oh it's raining hard climate change there's there's there's a forest fire.

In Quebec climate change fine.

Is there anything larger to say about this or just like everything is just crazy all the time now I have a couple of thoughts.

None of them really all that serious but the first is you're absolutely right climate change is basically now a synonym for the weather.

Oh it's it's sunny it's hot it's that's climate change it's cold we have getting a lot of snow that's climate change it's kind of a meaningless term and that's separate from the actual scientific questions which you know I do think there's evidence that the.

Earth has been warming slightly human activity may be involved in some of it even if you acknowledge those two things that doesn't necessarily lead to we need to.

A race human civilization or call 200,000 cows as they're planning to do in Ireland you know the climate change crusaders have been killing the birds with the wind turbines now they're killing the whales the beach whales are showing up they're coming after the cows now I mean it's endless.

So that's that'd be my first point the second point is the news you know what what are we doing sitting here on this podcast it is time to write this movie up.

And sell it for a billion dollars to daily.

Water of the innocent.

Yes the daily wire movie studio well I've been pushing this coverage at the free beacon for years and I think Andrew styles is at work on a piece on that what's happening in Ireland which is you know this leaked report from the Department of Agriculture in Ireland saying that they would be calling the dairy cows 200,000 and it's led to a big.

Upper or in Ireland because you know what did the cows do they didn't do anything and plus there would be dairy issues arising from it so yes I agree it's a big story keep your eye out for it the other thing I'd mention is as you were out there John.

You know.

Gasping for air briefly the New York Post published this story about NYC's drug themed vending machine cleaned out of crack pipes overnight quote they should restock and it's about a public health vending machine in Brownsville.

That was basically basically stocked by the New York City Department of Health with drug paraphernalia including free crack pipes lip balm and Narcan.

Add by 1 p.m. the New York Post reports a drug prevention program worker was staring starting to read stock the machine with more drug test strips Narcan and condoms predicting the vending machine could be need to be refilled maybe twice a day depending on which items go quite quickly of course the one item missing is inhalers.

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