Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is September 18th, 2017.

I am Noah Rothman with me is commentary magazine senior editor Abe Greenwald high Abe I know

a John putt Horits is out and the commentary magazine podcast crew is in dire

straights today actually Abe I think is the only one in good shape right now I

had an absolute miserable disastrous weekend having on Friday evening on

Martini deep I will confess making popcorn for my wife and spilled all the

boiling vegetable oil out of the popcorn bowl and onto my foot and had to go to

the hospital and have second to reburns and have a very miserable weekend

limping all over the place which I am still doing you know it's so horrible

about that now because he told me no it told me about it before but now hearing

it again the worst part is that it sounds like you were on your way to such a

lovely night it was it was very nice I had a nice drink we had a hot teeny movie

was going to be involved there was a movie didn't get to see the movie right yeah so

yeah I ended up in the hospital briefly and gotten a little bracelet and came out

and I've been putting lotion all over what looks like you know a very bad

dinner it's truly truly a bunch of leftovers it's really quite gross well if I

can compete for a commentary listener sympathy I lost my kindle last night

oh that is tragic terrible terrible more expensive than what I had to deal with

yeah well yeah if I haven't decided to replace it but yeah but anyway very very

very genuinely sorry to hear about you're suffering so listeners you can

feel bad for all of us John has escaped this he is somewhere else having a good

time but we are not here to discuss our miseries we're here to discuss the

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