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Now, ladies and gentlemen, uh,

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could I please have your attention? Can you dig it?

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Greetings, dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of The Remnant Podcast, brought to you by The Dispatch and Dispatch Media. While I'm not recording early in the morning, in fact, I am recording at twelve forty-three on Thursday, July second, the date that John Adams thought we would be celebrating American independence, because Dispatch staff is gonna start scattering tomorrow for the holiday weekend, and I wanted to be helpful by getting this done early. So who knows what's gon- what news is gonna break on Friday, but you've been warned. I should also just tell you, like, I know everyone likes to complain about DC heat and humidity and all that kind of stuff, but I'm different. I've always hated it. I hate really hot weather. I hate really humid weather. It depresses me. Some people get seasonal affective disorder with win- with winter and darkness and all that. I get really sort of languid and sort of depressed and cranky with hot weather. In DC right now, it's like a Rangoon brothel during the rainy season with no air conditioning. It's just dank, Barton Fink's armpit gross. Where to begin before we get to the dreaded paywall? You know, I was looking... I, I don't go there often, but every now and then I'll look on the Apple Podcasts, uh, reviews of The Remnant. You know, there's always some really trollish stuff from people who've never,