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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

While Jonah flees the oppressive heat of Texas, Sarah Isgur takes control of the Remnant with weird and wonderful results. She’s joined by Jonathan Swan of Axios, and her uncomfortably personal lines of questioning—which cover kangaroo meat, childhood crushes, and the pains of immigration—may discourage him from ever returning. Serious conversation is also mixed in on the midterm elections, which raises a number of questions: How are Trump’s picks likely to perform in November? What will our parties look like in 10 years? And are campaign staffers dragging Democratic politicians to the cultural left?

Transcript

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0:00.0

No, ladies and gentlemen, can I please, have your attention?

0:23.1

Welcome to the remnant.

0:29.6

I am not Jonah Goldberg.

0:32.4

As you may already be able to tell, this is Sarah Isger.

0:35.6

I am the host of the dispatch podcast, which maybe you've heard of or advisory opinions

0:40.3

that I co-host with David French.

0:42.1

Jonah has left and he must have run out of all the better options.

0:46.2

So here I am.

0:47.7

It's my first time hosting, so I decided to invite a buddy that I see all the time.

0:52.8

He's kind of my neighbor.

0:54.5

Our children are betrothed.

0:56.3

We'll get to that later.

0:57.9

But it's Jonathan Swan from Axias.

1:00.4

Thanks for coming, Jonathan.

1:01.7

Thanks for having me.

1:03.3

Jonathan, just in case a bunch of remnant listeners don't know a lot about you, you're

1:09.1

Australian.

1:11.3

And you came here and you married an American journalist.

1:14.2

That's pretty much what makes you famous.

1:16.3

There's an Emmy award in there and some other stuff.

1:18.6

Wait, you're saying that the fact I married Betsy is that it makes me famous?

1:22.5

That's why you're here.

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