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August 31st 2022 I'm John Fodhore it's the editor of commentary magazine reminding you that it is only two and a half months until the blowout all star unprecedented commentary roast or 12th roast annual roast of barit this year of Barry wise it's not our 12th roast of Barry wise who would have been three years old when we started the roast if this were the 12th annual roast of Barry wise.

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rockman last day was vacation will be back tomorrow with me as always executive editor a greenwald hi a john media commentary columnist Christine Rosen high Christine and joining us today for the first time my oldest friend.

Hudson Institute senior fellow author of the political teachings of Jesus.

Todd give me give me give me more titles. Sorry. Oh, how about the heroic heart greatness ancient heroic heart right and a former editorial page editor of the Washington times former editor a policy review Todd Lindbergh hi Todd.

I was very emotional day for me you want to know why yesterday I dropped Todd and I met first day at the University of Chicago Mead House I was in room 237 he was in room 239 maybe.

Okay, yesterday dropped my daughter off at Williams College for her first day as a freshman in college and I am delighted to say it is a beautiful town and of course one of our favorite commentary contributors Michael J Lewis is a professor of art at Williams College so I feel that at least in that one.

I'm a realm she is in good hands, which is not necessarily something you would say about a young person at college in 2022 anyway so it's weird day for me to be welcoming talk to the podcast as it just

causes reminiscences of dare I say 44 years ago 44 years ago is when we started feel like Todd needs to spill some dorm stories from University Chicago some at some point here in the podcast.

I do what I called upon to do absolutely yes.

We have the worst dorm store is we were we were so we did things like we made up.

$10,000 pure mid categories like what show pen hour would say on Saturday night that's the kind of thing that Todd and I did during college wild and crazy I am not kidding we are idea of a big night was some

the love boat fantasy island on television on Saturday night and that was that was the satellite nine to eleven.

You started out with a little you know just like a like an amuse bush with the love boat and then you went into the high drama.

Fantasy island I mean my god we were lame like few few people have ever been lame well we did turn on a little bit during our during our last year we were got into the

theatrical in precario and musical comedy writing business with all sphere story.

Yeah story of a war that breaks out between well and here's where it's going to go nerdy again between the University of Chicago and Harvard University over a point of dispute and interpretation the first book of Plato's Republic.

And the battlefield is in Kentucky. Saul Bell will make a cameo appearance.

Alan Bloom then known pretty much only to Todd and me made a cameo appearance five years before the closing the American mind and high jinks ensued anyway.

So I got nothing but I will tell you.

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