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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday April 21st, 2022.

I'm John Pottox the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

a greenwald hi-a. Hi John. Associate editor, Noah Rothman, hi Noah. Hi John.

And senior writer, Christine Rosen, hi Christine. Hi John.

Okay guys, we have literally not talked about what we're going to talk about.

I thought maybe we would just have do this podcast as an example of how

completely unprepared we are for when we do podcasts in general. We sort of talked for a couple

of minutes beforehand and then we decide what we're going to talk about. And then half the time

we don't even get to the topics that we're thinking of talking about, that's how organized we are.

So guys, what should we talk about today? Think of it like the Jack Benny show or so one of

those shows about like what goes on behind the scenes at a show we are now behind the scenes at the

commentary magazine podcast. What should we talk about on the podcast today? I ask.

What do we got going on? Mary O'Pill or Mary O'Pill, okay. That's the

revelations in the book about Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell.

Right, the Trump book by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, right? Okay, so we got the

revelations. We got Mary O'Pill. Noah, what do you got? I got nothing.

You got nothing was I just know it was up all night. So I started prepping when you stood

high Noah. Yeah, there we go. See that's really what we have of course we have though

people are complaining to us that we're talking too much about it. We have of course the Justice

Department announcing after 40 hours that they are going to sue to overturn the the judges decision

on Florida on the mass mandate pretty much for the reason that the CDC needs to keep its powder

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