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Today we have one of my favorite people in the whole world returning. She is creeping up on the five-time gold jacket.

And I want to, I'm going to, I'm actually before I introduce her, I want to, I want to preface something as I want to, I want to test our guests feminist credentials.

I often refer to a Abie's daughter of real clear politics and a Punditri extraordinary as the lovely and talented at Abie's daughter.

And I get blowback from people on Twitter saying that I am being sexist and demeaning and condescending when I refer to her as lovely and talented.

Now I know that Abie knows that it's coming from a good place in my heart, but Abie, welcome to the Remnant and tell me, do you feel oppressed or triggered when I refer to you as lovely and talented?

Which word would you like me to cut out?

I like to regale my male colleagues with compliments of their loveliness and talent.

So I don't really understand that, but I also, I crossed an age mark years ago where even when old men would drill at my neckline and tell me that I looked very pretty, I decided that it was great sort of benefit of middle age that you could take those compliments without being accepted.

And you would be I was sure I assure them actually bluntly that I don't sue so the lovely and talented is a high honor and it's always a high honor to be with you.

I really wouldn't listen to the peanut gallery on that one, Jonah.

I find it to be sort of like that rare sort of 0.5% of feminist types, not quite the people who dress up in cosplay with handmaid's tail costumes, but just shy of that who take offense if you open the door for a lady or if you stand up when they walk into a room and all these things that my father made me do.

And if I had a son, I would make him do, but to me, plus it has the benefit of being true, you're lovely in your talent, so there you go.

Thank you. I think the the woke sorts have taken us a bit too far.

So, you know, we could actually we could bind together into a single volume, all of your appearances on the remnant and just call it why we can't have nice things.

But why don't for this chapter, why don't we start with something that you wrote, we'll put in the show notes for real clear, where you're, which is your home.

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