Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday September 5th.

2019 I am John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary with me as always a green

walled our senior editor hi a hello John no arosman our associate at our

high knowa hello John and in Washington senior writer Christine Rosen

high Christine hi John so I'm violating all the rules of broadcast because if

you listen to talk radio over the last 30 years you know that the way that

people be ordinarily begin shows is to say we've got so much to get to I just I

don't know how we're gonna get to it all in time I've got a pile here and so

exciting I just hope you know we can get to everything in time so basically for

the second or third time in a row I have no idea what we're gonna talk about

dirty little secret of talk radio is they only say that when they don't have a

full plate oh really okay no no no actually comes from the world of talk

radio you're chewing up the quarter hour well okay so so we have a we have a

meta idea of a topic so the topic is why didn't we watch the CNN climate

change the six hour CNN climate change marathon climate yesterday climate

pollution which I think began at five and ended at 11 if I have this

correctly with I will submit in an answer please we all value our mental health

okay well that's a okay so is that it then we just go on from there a

babe a bar I would say that this office is most skeptical climate change

skeptic I think needs to weigh in here only this offices I you know I'm I take

a special place in city wide I think yeah I think part of the reason is that

it's such a static issue at this point too in terms of where everyone stands

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