In our latest Need to Know, Mona and I talk about Iran, of course. Next to this topic, almost everything else is trivial. But we do take up other issues — including Indiana, and the Arizona-ization it is now undergoing. (This week, I coined a verb, “to Arizona.” It means to make a state a pariah state, the object of hatred by all right-thinking, or left-thinking, people.) We also talk about Senator Menendez: He was indicted while Lois Lerner and shady others have not been. Hmmm . . .

Mona wants to engage in some speculation about Harry Reid, who has announced his retirement from the Senate. I gladly join her in this speculation. Was he really roughed up by a piece of exercise equipment? I tend to accept the explanations people give me, but, as I said a moment ago: Hmmm . . .

Near the end of our conversation, Yuja Wang, the young Chinese pianist, comes up. (I once wrote of her, “Dresses like a stripper, plays like a goddess.” Neither thing is true all of the time, but both things are true some of the time.) The podcasts ends with her playing of Mozart’s Rondo alla turca, in the gloriously souped-up arrangement of Arcadi Volodos, the brilliant Russian pianist.

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