Welcome to the Dispatch podcast.

I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by David French,

Jonah Goldberg and for his Dispatch podcast debut,

Michael Renault, our deputy managing editor,

although it turns out his real name is Michael Scott.

So we will be referring to him as assistant

to the managing editor for the rest of this pod.

We've got plenty to talk about.

We're gonna start with inflation and Joe Biden's speech

this week on potential price controls,

moved to the state of the evangelical church,

how it has shaped the Republican party and vice versa,

abortion, Chuck Schumer's latest vote

for Democratic senators.

And finally, a little discussion of the abolitionist

John Brown, his birthday was May 9th.

Let's dive right in.

Michael, I want to start with you.

Just tell us a little bit about where we are on inflation.

What has happened in the last month

as we've been focused on some other topics?

So if you're paying attention to the numbers

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