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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast. Today is Thursday. November 9th, 2017.

I am John Podhoritz. The editor of commentary magazine The 73-year-old monthly of political analysis,

intellectual probity and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. Join us at

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1995 for a digital subscription, 29.95 for an all-access subscription, including our beautiful monthly

magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year. With me, as always, senior editor, eight greenwald, hi,

John. Associate editor, no, Rosman, hi, Noah. Hi, John. And increasingly normalized

senior editor, Sorob Amari. Hi, Sorob. Hi, John. This is a third time.

We can't normalize this and yet it is normal. We must now say it is normal that Sorob is on the

podcast. Guys, Tuesday night commentary held its eighth annual roast in New York City,

300 people present to watch Rob Long, Steve Hayes, Brett Baer, Rich Lowry, and Jonas Old

Friends, Scott McClucus, Tease and Humiliate, and bring him down a few pegs. It was a pretty

great night and we'll have one again next year. I don't know who the roast is going to be, but we'll

let you know and you guys should think about attending even though it's a hefty price for a ticket,

but it is a benefit. And when we get the some of the when we get our audio back,

maybe over the next couple of weeks we'll play a little bits of it if we can figure out A,

how to play something on our podcast, which we've never done before, and be if it'll make any

sense out of, you know, in context. Anybody, the feeling in the room, I would say 14 months after

our last roast, which was before the 2016 election, was I would say interesting in that the room

was reasonably divided between people who were interested in thinking well of the president to

the extent that they could. This time around? Yes. Eli Lake coined a term I like. There's a lot

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