We Need to Crack Down on E-bikes | Ruminant

Coming off of a discussion about 9/11 on the DisPod, Jonah Goldberg is feeling ruminative and somber. Accordingly, he has decided to address one of the most important foreign policy issues of our century: the cheese-eating surrender monkeys. That’s right. Freedom fries forever, baby. And if that’s not exciting enough, The Dispatch’s legendary Francophobe-in-chief doesn’t stop there, taking up the Texas Trumpapalooza, the Media Research Center, Abdul El-Sayed, pinkwashing, the Muslim-Queer alliance, progressive Jews, Justice Antonin Scalia’s brilliant take on the Constitution, lawless e-bikes, and video podcasting. Show Notes: The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things. The podcast transcription below was generated using artificial intelligence and may include occasional errors or misspellings. Music 0:02 [instrumental music] [groans] Ladies and gentlemen, uh, Music 0:17 could I please have your attention? There you dig it. [crowd cheering] Jonah Goldberg 0:28 Greetings, dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media. Today is the anniversary of the release of the Spider-Man cartoon, like, 67 years ago or something like that. Or, no, 1967, I just, just saw. And I've got the earworm of the Spider-Man theme music in my head, which is probably not helpful. I also just finished a long conversation for the Dispatch podcast about 9/11, 25 years later, which I will grant you is probably the... Jonah Goldberg 1:05 not even probably, is definitely the far more important anniversary. But I'm wildly over-caffeinated, caffeinated and sleep-deprived, and I'm recording this on Thursday, September 10th. Got to record it today because of a backlog with stuff, and we have to edit my conversation with Ben Sasse tomorrow. Just keep that in mind, you know, with Trump-a-palooza tonight is even dumber Jonah Goldberg 1:28 and, um, more pointless. I cannot make reference to it because it hasn't happened yet. But the first night was, was very, very dumb, and, um, we can get to that in a second. Me and David and Mike Nelson and Steve, we did, you know, an hour and 20 minutes on 9/11 for reasons that I kind of get into in the Dispatch podcast, and you'll-- if you've already listened to that, because that will come out before this comes out, you'll know some of the reasons. I'm-- I, I find the last 25 years, in some ways, Interactive transcripts are available to Premium members. Join to follow along with the audio. Join Now More We Think You’d Like