Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast presided today.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018 by me, John Pajoritz in a condition of partial

laryngitis and a post-Disney cold. So I hope you will forgive the Margaret Sullivan

like tenor of my voice. And if that reference doesn't mean anything to you, I could

also say Joan Greenwood. And if that reference doesn't mean anything to you, then I

got nothing. I have almost nothing else left for you. But with me as always, a Green

Waller senior editor, Hyah Ab. And associate editor, Noah Rothman. Hyah Ab.

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you just stop there are other things you could be doing like watching a movie with John

Greenwood or Margaret Sullivan. So, yes. You sound like Henry Kissinger.

I sound like Henry Kissinger. Okay, well, that's that reference I understood. I do not

I do a bit of I have because I'm doing a pretty good nation I can do on but so only

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