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See you again!

Greetings, you listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

Got a crazy day today. We're recording two podcasts back to back. And we have something of a fan favorite.

Certainly a personal favorite mine. Back in the virtual Remnant studio, you may know him from such podcasts as Glob, or Zinc in You, Partners in Freedom.

He is the editor of Commentary Magazine. He writes movie reviews these days for the Free Beacon. He is a columnist for the New York Post.

He and I are in Vitterit Text Message Conversationalists. John Podhoritz, welcome back to the Dispatch.

Thank you so much. You say I'm a fan favorite, but you know, all I hear is like, oh, this is Chris Starwaltz on, this is 87th appearance.

Here's A.B. Stoddard. I just had her on last week. I haven't been on in like five years. That's how much of a fan favorite I am.

You are on at the beginning of the pandemic. And the thing is it's just like, I'm on a podcast with you twice a month.

Twice a month. So I agree. I agree. I just I love the thought of being a fan favorite. And I just hope that it's one of those things like when we were kids TV guide with occasionally have like a listing about somebody, you know, on Manics or something. And it would say something like

a Dean Jagger makes a rare TV appearance. Guest starring on this episode. It's something like that. Like some actor who had won a supporting Oscar, supporting actor Oscar in 25 years earlier.

And he was only making a rare appearance on television because he was so either hard up for money or he was such a drunk no one would hire him. But that's so in this case, it's like, I'm making a rare appearance.

Yeah, but here in that case, it's sort of like, do I eat cat food or do I do this episode of Manics exactly.

I think you're going to say like, is there were shows from our youth where it wouldn't have surprised me. I don't know that they did, but like like Robin Williams on Happy Days was kind of like a fan favorite.

He's like more coming back for you kids more for more was a more and Mindy was a spin off from Happy Days. You Philistines.

We kind of had a weird little technical glitch there and we stopped recording for a second, but you were about to say something about more for more.

So that was where Robin Williams came from, like Robin Williams, I read this biography of Robin Williams and he was a street performer in San Francisco.

And people in Hollywood sort of knew he was this, you know, in Provisatory Genius, but no one knew what to do with him. And he tried out for laughing. That's a new laugh and didn't get it.

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