Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

Can you digger?

Greetings, new listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the

Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

I just want to open up with full disclosure, apologies, Mayacopa, whatever.

We recorded this beginning of last week.

So lots has happened.

So there are a couple little references that might seem dated.

But since we're talking about big sweeping things on a lot of different fronts,

I don't think anything here is obsolete.

It was a very interesting conversation with a really interesting guy,

which brings me to my second apology just up front.

There are small number of obsessives out there among you.

You know who you are who insist that every podcast end with the phrase,

no, you won't.

This is a podcast.

That did not happen this time.

I just want to tell you now,

it's a particularly upsetting thing

because today's guest has just an absolutely fantastic Australian accent,

and it would have been great to have,

but I was running late for a flight.

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