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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Monday, May 2nd, 2022. I'm John

Puphurtz, the editor of commentary magazine with me is always executive editor

A Greenwald Hy-Ape. Hi John. Associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. Thank you.

And Christine Rosen is out today. And so joining us in her stead, commentary

contributor, heterodox thinker parks, the laws, professor Wilford Riley. Thanks

for coming on again here on the commentary podcast.

Talking to you live from Kentucky, I believe. Yeah, I'm actually in the middle of a move

right now. I'm moving, I'm in the capital city, Frankfurt, as versus Louisville. So you

can see the boxes and so on behind me as we move into this house here.

Oh, well, congratulations. Noah just planted trees at his new house. So there's a lot

of newness and Fred spring. And so if it's spring, of course, a young man's fancy turns to

extremely neurotic hysterical writing and thinking about the evils of having ever

decided to attend the White House correspondence dinner. I cannot tell you the stuff that came

out after Saturday night before Saturday night during the event on Saturday night and then

after Saturday night about how scared and terrified people were at the dinner at the as they

were sitting at the dinner by the it's like they could feel the COVID creeping up their

arms and sneaking into their nostrils. Jada you one of New York magazine saying this is

like a horror. They're the horror of sitting here. I can't even begin to tell you Washington

State's own 1970s disaster movie says Michael Schaeffer of Politico. I feel deeply ashamed

my friend said his piece begins the hallway was narrowed the ceiling was low. The line

was meandering toward the door to the ballroom carrying 2600 revelers on an unknown number

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