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Today I am joined by one of my favorite writers, one of my favorite journalists and I'm so lucky

that he is in fact a colleague of mine and indeed a senior editor at the Federalist, that would be the one and only John Daniel Davidson, whose first book, whose new book, pagan America, is actually out today.

So John is going to be all over. You're going to see him in

different places popping up, hawking his book, but we are very lucky that he

stopped by Federalist Radio Hour on release day.

So John, first of all, congratulations

and second of all, thanks for coming on.

Hey, thanks for having me.

It's very, I wouldn't miss this show of all the shows. This is the most important one. Yeah, they'd be pretty messed up dude. I know I would get in trouble with our boss. That's true. That's true because also the book I've been so excited about this book for a long time not more excited than you John

But I've been really excited about it because I'm not that excited about it anymore

It's almost like well Yeah, you're probably really bored of your own work at this point.

But you're tying together a lot of different themes that other people have kind of written

about individually or separately but you kind of synthesize them in this overwhelming this overarching theme of pagan America.

That's exactly what it sounds like.

And I actually thought a good place to start

would be with your introduction, which

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