Hope for the best.

the worst.

Expect the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

No way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst.

Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Wednesday, February 28, 2024.

Of course this would be the last day of February, but this is 2024 a leap year and so we got a wonderful

extra day tomorrow full of fun frolic and those people who are born who can claim that they

are five years old when they're 20 years old and it's the

central plot device of the Pirates of Penzance and now we're going to introduce

our panel of course executive editor A Greenwald not in the Pirates of Penzance.

Would that be right?

I didn't get a high, but okay.

Hi, Christine Rosen might have played in the pit at the Pirates of Penzance at her school.

Did you in fact, Christine? Hi, John, we did not do any Pirates of Penzance to a secular,

but yes, I was in the orchestra pit often as a child and probably true

excessively secular for senior editor Seth Mandel hi Seth I'm John I myself was never in the

Pirates of Penz but yes the plot is that Rayf Rachstra who is freed from his

indentured servitude to the pirates has is born on leap day and therefore rather than being 21 is in fact five and therefore you know is his

contract that remains pending and he is a person of such incredible honor and fidelity to his to his

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