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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Thursday, August 26,

2021. I am John Pudhord, the editor of commentary with me as always executive

editor, a Greenwald Hyade, senior writer Christine Rosen,

high Christine, and associate editor Noah Rothman,

hi Noah. Welcome back John. Thank you. I just want to read you guys an email

that we got. I've been I was out the last three days. I just wanted to read you an

email from a reader named Peter who said the following, I just wanted to say

how much I've enjoyed the podcast this week with Noah Rothman as host. In fact,

I originally found this podcast by searching Noah Rothman's name on Apple

podcasts about a year ago after hearing him as a guest on the fifth column

podcast. I really think you should keep him as the host who seers the

conversation and reads ads, etc. instead of John as a model. I highly suggest

listening to the reason roundtable because they structure their conversations

well with four people and no one seems to monopolize the podcast as much as John

frequently does. And on the reason podcast, Catherine is the editor in chief,

but she is not the host either. Thanks for considering my feedback. I thought

Noah you did a great job and I want to know why I should not heed Peter's

advice and and and surrender the hosting baton to you. Well, I'm sure we can

talk about this offline in more detail. Peter, thank you very much for the

kind note, but I respectfully decline. John makes this look a lot easier than it

does. I don't know how anybody talks at length about anything after the last

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