Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcasts.

Today is Wednesday, April 5, 2023. I am John Poghord, the editor of Commentary Magazine.

If I sound different, it's because I am talking to you from a hotel guest office in Chicago, Illinois,

where I have traveled for Passover. And we will be discussing Chicago, Illinois at some point later.

In the podcast with my colleagues here, Executive Editor, A Greenwald Hyam.

Hi John. Media commentary columnist Christine Rosenhyk Christine.

Hi John. And Washington commentary columnist and Christine's colleague at the American

at a Presbyn Institute, Matthew Kahnetti Heimatt.

Hi John, and I have to say I like the voice. It's appropriate to the moment because it sounds like

you've really finally gone prepper. And you are in the undisclosed location.

And the crushing morocity has finally brought you to this point where you are abandoning

American civilization for an undisclosed location in Chicago.

I see blocks of gold and I see water, you know, water purification tablets in the background.

Yes. It's all looking good.

Tell me one good reason why crushing morocity should not be the mood of this podcast today.

I would like to hear one aside from the fact that, you know, we have our health, you know,

we love our children. I believe the children are a future because this is a very bad,

yesterday was a very, very bad day in all respects. And not just because I was delayed in

an airport for eight hours trying to get out of LaGuardia. So my mood may be affected by that,

but mostly what I did through the wonders of the internet access to spectrum, cable,

my spectrum, cable account was sit and watch as Trump drove from the cameras were outside

Trump tower. And then the cameras channel two's cameras in New York were poised on some office

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