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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday March 28th, 2022.

I'm John Pottoward, see editor of commentary. We are just nine days away from our live podcast in Palm Beach, Florida on April 6th. Go to commentary.org slash live podcast for details.

I got I got my colleagues here going to be with me in South Florida on April 6th. I got executive editor a Greenwald high a John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine. Hi John associate editor Noah Rothman high Noah. Hi John and joining us today.

Washington commentary columnist American Enterprise Institute scholar and author of the almost out the right.

Go order at Amazon Barnes Noble from your independent bookseller wherever find books are sold. Matthew Contanetti hi Matt.

Hi John, I guess my ticket to the live commentary podcast recording was lost in the mail because I have not yet received an invitation.

And I am bursting with excitement for the event. I'm bursting with excitement for you to listen to the event.

That's the answer.

Because, but you know, we'll a dance scene or it's going to be there. And it should be a great great thing commentary or commentary.org slash live podcast.

Why am I tongue tied I'm tongue tied because the craziest thing that has ever happened in my 60 nearly 61 years on this planet happened last night.

And one of the biggest movie stars in the history of the world. Owing to the bizarre rebuilding of the Oscar set happened to be five feet away from the host, made a joke about his wife.

So he was able to stand up walk on to the stage with two steps.

Walk up to Chris rock and slap him across the face in front of the entire planet earth and then scream having done this then scream obscenities.

When he got back to his chair, when he got back to his seat.

And I think we're going to have a big green wall. We'll tell you that my deeply considered philosophy about America in the 21st century is grounded in part in the last jaw dropping spectacle event at the Oscars.

Six years ago, I think five or six years ago when Warren, Betty and Fade on a way, miss announced the winner of best picture said that it was Lala Landrider than moonlight and is able to tell you this then was the generator of my theory that nothing in America.

Works anymore that everything broke down that like the things that you could rely on for being clockwork at the very least like announcing who wins best picture.

That was going to happen and when it didn't happen it's sort of connected with all kinds of things to suggest that somehow the good working order of American society had broken down here.

And this is something else. This is something about the good working order of American civil society and the question of whether or not famous people rich people, respectable, whatever you want to call them really do believe that they live and play by different rules and that the world will judge them differently by the way they want to act.

And we watched a felonious assault live right in front of us and Chris rock decided not to press charges and will Smith sat down he got up 10 minutes later and cried about how tough his life is.

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