Ladies and gentlemen,

Can I please have your attention?

Can you digger?

Greetings to listeners.

This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch

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It is January 2, a little later in the morning than I would like because it's a workday

for me. Let me just start off by saying, I think maybe it's because of lots of people having

kind of more downtime than they planned on over the holidays. Or maybe it's because it's the end of

the year and people are feeling, you know, sentimental or retrospective. Or maybe it's because it's the end of the year and people are feeling, you know, sentimental or retrospective.

Or maybe it's because most of the competing podcasts for my listeners' ears went dark over this period.

But I've just got a remarkably nice amount of encouraging email from people.

And I always struggle with the idea of maybe I should just do a mailbag

section on this thing and read from people but like then you get this kind of like you know effect

that people are writing to be read out loud rather than just writing to me so um also I'm just not

super organized about this kind of stuff so but I do read them. I do appreciate them.

I owe some of you thoughtful replies.

That's one of the problems is sometimes I will get really long, thoughtful replies from people and about something I said or didn't say or something I wrote.

It feels more, to use a colloquial term, dickish, to write a thanks, I appreciate it, note,

than to convince myself that I will take the time to write a more thoughtful response.

But some of these emails I get from people I can make into columns or book chapters in terms

of how I would respond to them. And this has been a problem for me for 25 years. And so I feel bad about cursory responses because it sounds dismissive. I feel really bad about not responding. I just haven't figured out a balance. So some of you know who you are, and I apologize in advance,

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