Welcome to the VE Day 75th anniversary edition of the sheltered-in-place non-essential Mark Steyn Show, with a few thoughts on how we got from there to here, plus the latest developments in United States vs Flynn, a poem for Mother's Day, Corona and consumption, and a punk-ska-rap-Latin-Europop finale.
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