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Unable to resist the allure of rank punditry any longer, Jonah brings his trusted election sherpa, A.B. Stoddard, back to the Remnant for a journey through the depths of human depravity (or, more specifically, the burgeoning 2024 election). They kick things off with a discussion of Trump’s arraignment—and what it means for the primaries—before delving into the logistics of a Biden reelection campaign. Afterward, they touch on a variety of subjects, including the prospect of a Kamala Harris presidency, the Wisconsin Supreme Court election result, and Trump’s deadly habit of juggling chainsaws.

Show Notes:

– Trump’s speech at Mar-a-Lago

– A.B.: “Why (and How) Biden Should Decline to Run Again”

– A.B.: “Will DeSantis Rescue Republicans or Let Them Down?”

Trump’s indictment has left serious journalists everywhere scrambling to cover the developing story, so of course, Jonah’s response is to arrange some radical counter-programming. He’s joined today by Jazz Shaw, a Navy veteran and Hot Air’s weekend editor, for an out-of-this-world discussion of UFOs. In this eagerly anticipated follow-up to last week’s episode with Avi Loeb, Jonah and Jazz tackle all of the most pressing questions facing the ufology community. Why do pilots keep spotting UFOs? Is the government competent enough to hide big secrets? And what’s so special about cows?

Show Notes:

– Spacing out with the New York Times

– Pentagon receives more than 350 new reports of UFO sightings

– 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

– The National UFO Reporting Center

– Jazz’s YouTube channel

– The Remnant with Avi Loeb

– Skinwalker Ranch?

– Ball lightning?

– The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Charles C.W. Cooke, Jonah’s go-to Remnant cheap date, makes an unplanned return to the program today due to a scheduling snafu. (No interns were harmed for their incompetence in the making of this episode.) With another tragic mass shooting in the headlines, Jonah and Charlie take the opportunity to discuss how such incidents can be deterred and whether it’s possible to stop them through legislation. In light of recent controversies, they also offer a few philosophical musings on free speech. And no, Charlie doesn’t have a cough drop lodged in his throat.

Show Notes:

– The Editors on the Nashville shooting

– Charles: “Therefore What?”

– Is the juice worth the squeeze?

The truth is out there, and Jonah may uncover it on today’s Remnant. To boldly go where no pundit has gone before, he’s joined by Avi Loeb—Harvard astrophysicist and author of the recent book, Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars—to discuss UFOs and our place in the universe. Together, they endeavor to answer all of the most pressing questions about alien life: How should we approach the study of interstellar objects? What role does the government play in scientific inquiry? And most importantly, when can we expect the sweet meteor of death to strike?

Show Notes:

-WATCH: Jonah Goldberg interviews Avi Loeb

– Avi’s webpage

– The Galileo Project

– Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

– Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

– Paper claiming ‘Oumuamua is a “water iceberg”

– Avi’s response

Live from the mean streets of midtown Manhattan, Jonah delivers a fiery and excessive—but mostly peaceful—Ruminant. After opening with a discussion of how—much like the government—Donald Trump will never love you back, he turns to the outrage provoked by the cancelation of a West Texas A&M drag show. From there, he gracefully dances between topics ranging from the ridiculous “cult of youth” to Ron DeSantis’ tepid approach to foreign policy, before finally settling into a deep discussion of what patriotism really means. 

Show Notes:

– Our niche legal podcast discusses the Trump indictment…

– …and so does the Dispatch Podcast

– Wednesday’s LA Times column

– The Skokie case

– West Texas A&M president cancels a campus drag show

Unprepared, scatterbrained, and guestless, Jonah returns to the AMA format on today’s program, releasing Guy, his immigrant majordomo, from the grimy basement where he normally resides to field an unusual assortment of listener questions. Things get off to an innocuous start: There’s some shameless plugging of Jonah’s books, a hefty digression into the various strands of conservatism, and a rambly assessment of the recent controversy at Stanford Law. But though the latter half of this episode features no discussion of cruises, it still offers its fair share of bizarre images, one of which may forever change Jonah and John Podhoretz’s friendship.

Show Notes:

-WATCH: Jonah’s AMA

– Wolfram & Hart

– David Oshinsky: “Heil Woodrow”

– Yuval Levin: “Redeeming the Miracle”

– Sarah Isgur interrogates Jonah on Dispatch Live

– The Remnant with Philip K. Howard

– Skijoring