Welcome to Current Affairs.

My name is Nathan Robinson.

I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine.

And returning to the program, once again, we are joined by a friend of the show, the host of the superb.

If you haven't subscribed to it, if you haven't listened to it, you must, because it is superb.

They really mean that. Uh, on fucking the Republic.

It's Max. Welcome back, Max. Nobody gives an intro like you.

It just doesn't happen.

I bring the energy.

And so, you know what?

I hate so many podcasts are just everyone's so low energy.

Like, you know, those red scare girls where it's like, are you even awake?

Like, are you, how, barely conscious?

I need to get into your algorithm. I need to

unpack the world in the mind. It's just, such sleepy affairs. We do showmanship around here. My God.

Hey, I have to start with a thank you. And this is me on behalf of all of Left New York for the piece that you did on Andrew Cuomo,

the exhaustive piece that we put in our newsletter that we put in, that you did on Andrew Cuomo.

Excellent, profound, and I wish I could just put it into every New Yorker's brain.

As I was writing that piece, I'm not a New Yorker.

I've spent maybe a total of about two weeks in New York in my entire years of life.

I respect New York.

I like New York.

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