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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday December 1st 2021.

I am John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary magazine. I feel bad because yesterday I

began pitching you guys about donating to commentaries part of your end of your giving without

realizing that yesterday as my mailbox filled up every 10 seconds with one or another

schnaur that yesterday was officially giving Tuesday which is like cyber Monday or black Friday

or something and is now this is now an internet thing and that the day that I wanted to talk to

you about this and try to convince you that commentary of 501c3 nonprofit was worthy of your support

annually as you consider your your your end of your charitable donations that I was doing so

on a day when you would be hearing from 12,000 other people and I know how incredibly annoying

that is and I really didn't understand that was what was happening so I apologize for filling

your brain with the same you know a cup shaking that everybody else was doing and I will

for bear for the next couple of days except to say if you want to do this go to commentary.org slash

donate and that's that's all I'm going to say about that today with me as always executive editor

a greenwald hi Abe hi John senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine hi John and associate editor

Noah Rothman high Noah hi John so interesting developments in the omicron crisis

the WHO first of all we appear to have a grand total of 44 cases in Europe

in Europe all of Europe which reminds me of the yesterday we're representing the as it was

the publication date of a male 95 year old male Brooks's memoir all about me and it reminds me

saying something like there are 95 cases in Europe reminds me of the 2000 year old man saying he

loves his favorite place through on vacation is Europe because and he says I keep a locker in Europe

so in Europe where the 2000 year old man cubes a locker there are 44 cases of COVID across the entire

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