Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday, October 28, 2021.

I am John Puthwarts, the editor of commentary magazine.

I just want to quickly say that we have been talking about the same subject, not that you

don't do the news anyway, but we've been talking about the same subject, how what's

going on with Biden and the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill and all this

for days and weeks now and months if you count the summer.

Our podcast conversation started to feel to me like the second scene of the most nihilistic

play that Shakespeare ever wrote, Troyless and Crescita, which is set during the Trojan

War and the second scene is all the Greeks outside the gates of Troy having the same conversation

that they have been having now for 10 years as they try to figure out how to breach the

walls of Troy which they can't do so they're just sitting there and Odysseus gets up and

starts, you Lissie starts gets up and starts talking and you see everyone on stage just

like you said it already we heard it already 5,000 times so I thought we needed to bring

in.

Our friend Matt Contnetti, our Washington commentary columnist, free beacon columnist, founder

of the free beacon A.E.I. scholar to freshen us up a little bit so that we don't say the

same thing we said yesterday in the day before that before that.

Hi Matt.

John.

Joining Matt and me and as they are every day that same crew of Greeks sitting outside the

walls of Troy, executive editor A. Greenwald Hyag.

Ajahn.

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