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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Trump Speaks and Sinwar Might Break

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast evaluates the Trump press conference yesterday and whether he met the moment, and considers whether things have taken a potentially startling turn in the Middle East. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hope for the best.

0:07.0

the worst.

0:09.0

Expect the worst.

0:11.0

Some drink champagne, some die of furs.

0:14.0

A-a-furs.

0:15.0

The way of knowing which way it's going.

0:19.0

Hope for the best expect the worst.

0:22.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

0:27.0

Today is Friday, August 9, 2024. I am John Puthoritz, the editor of Commentary magazine.

0:34.4

We have some technical issues today, perhaps suggesting that this might be a good time for us

0:39.7

to take a little break and we are in fact absent horrible nightmarish world events next

0:45.3

week going to be doing pre-taped special podcasts from Monday through Thursday so they're pretty great.

0:55.0

We make some recommendations about great speeches, great memoirs, great science fiction, some other things.

1:04.0

So that will be a next week's podcast entertainment,

1:07.1

assuming the world doesn't force us

1:09.5

as it did a couple of weeks ago

1:10.9

to end that plan and come back live to talk about how everything was going

1:16.6

to hell in a hand basket.

1:20.5

And by us, I mean, executive editor,

1:23.2

a Greenwald, Haim.

1:24.8

Hi, John.

1:25.6

I don't even know if I said us.

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