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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHartRadio.

My guest today is Noam Bloom, CTO of Commentary Magazine and producer of the Commentary

Magazine podcast and the ambitious

crossover attempt podcast. I know I'm so nice to have you on. Hi, Carol. How's it going?

Good. The ambitious crossover attempt. How ambitious and how much crossing over do you do?

Well, it's the, yes, my podcast, I know it's a, it of a name, but basically, basically when my co-host, Jen and I were thinking about a podcast, we just thought about how, especially online, everything crosses over into itself and nowadays, especially, and memes that have nothing to do with politics bleed in and out of politics and

controversies that have to do with movies intersect with things like geopolitics in strange ways

now. And it's a podcast where we try to kind of cross over all of these topics. And we're especially

interested in things that kind of fill all of those boxes.

I love it. Do you have like specific topics that you seem to return to again and again?

Well, these days, a lot of it has to do with negative trends, social trends online and how a lot of society and discourse is harmed by some of these

negative trends for sure. That's definitely, I think, it would be a theme of our conversation today.

For sure. Yeah. How did you get into this thing of ours? Well, that's a good question. I've known you so long. I knew you when you were Ben Shapiro's father. Yeah, exactly. Well, and so, you know what? I think that also kind of leads into the first question that you sent me about what it is that I'm proud of in my life. Whoa, whoa. That's in the last 10 minutes. You don't

jump the gun here. No. Okay. I'm already, I'm already breaking the rules. Yeah. What do you think

this is? This is chaos over here. We have a system. Because it is sort of tied into my life story

in the past decade. And I mean, I kind of, because I came to the states to study sound

engineering and music production, in the early days of podcasting becoming a thing that you could

just do, the biggest bottleneck to people was still the technical aspect. Everybody had a microphone,

everybody had a bunch of opinions, but nobody

knew how to record themselves exactly and where to upload it. And so that's where I came in.

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