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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Watching the American Right Rip Its Face Off | Interview: Chris Stirewalt

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Jonah Goldberg invites Nuke LaLoosh LARPer Chris Stirewalt to discuss the biggest political gaffes of 2025, debate whether House Speaker Mike Johnson is a human in a lizard suit or a lizard in a human suit, and name the most punchable faces from the past year. Show Notes:—Jonah's interview with Rahm Emmanuel The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

0:18.0

Can you digger?

0:27.5

Ladies and your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Comcast,

0:30.9

brought you by the dispatch and dispatch media.

0:33.4

I'm recording this on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.

0:42.4

That giant clock is ticking down to the end of the year.

0:48.7

And I promised you, amidst all of the counter-programming podcasts that we have been doing of late, that we would get back to the greatest, the purest, the sweetest, the most super fentanyl like of rank, rank punditry possible.

1:00.1

And impossible not to do that without a friend and colleague, Chris Starwalt, of the American

1:08.2

Enterprise Institute, the Hill, the Sunday show on News Nation. Dispatch contributor.

1:13.4

Dispatch contributor, although I've been hearing murmurs that you're not hitting your deadlines,

1:18.9

so I'm calling you out on public. So welcome back to the remnant. I must say, every time I was like, man, this is too highbrow.

1:29.9

Your highbrow has been really good, right?

1:32.3

That's what's really been annoying to me is that I'm like, it's too highbrow.

1:37.8

Because I listen to every interview and I'm like, he's staying in the rarefied air.

1:44.0

And yet you've delivered each time. And of course, this embitters me because I wanted to see you fail. But here we are. So the one that you're going to really like, I don't think it's aired yet, is the, and I know you know who she is because we were at an event where she spoke together, the Lindsay Shervinsky.

2:01.6

Oh, yeah.

2:05.9

I'm interviewing her next month, so I want to hear yours so I can steal it.

2:07.1

Yeah, she was money.

2:12.5

She made the best case, again, I'm sorry for people, this is a semi-spoiler.

2:22.6

The best anti-original originalism, constitutional originalism case from a historian that I have heard in many a moon.

2:23.4

Okay.

2:27.2

She basically just lays out the Constitution. The founders didn't start running the country in strict accordance to the Constitution when the founders were still alive,

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