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Hello, everybody. This is Glenn Lowry, and you are tuned into The Glenn Show. I am with John

McWhorter, my conversation partner every other week here at the Glenn Show. John's a professor at

Columbia University, and he writes regularly for the New York Times.

I teach at Brown University, and I am John Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

So, welcome, John.

Back. Welcome back.

Yes.

Great to be here, Glenn.

I should tell our audience that if I seem a little bit less than 100% today,

it's because, believe it or not, my back hurts.

It's like Glenn skim it to me.

And so I'm on some muscle relaxance and stuff.

And on top of that, I have a bit of a cold,

which means that if I sneeze, it hurts my back, that sort of thing.

So that's why I seem like I don't want to be here.

I do want to be here.

I'm just a little less than myself.

We're so glad you're here, John.

Thanks for enduring the sufferings necessary to show up.

One must.

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