Attention Ricochet Podcast Fans
Blue Yeti ·
Aug 25, 2010 at 2:25pm
Attention Ricochet Podcast fans: This week, we're going to try something a little different. Peter and Rob will be opening the floor to questions, suggested topics, and comments. Ask them here in comments or tweet them to us at @Ricochet. We'll be recording tomorrow morning from 8AM to approximately 9AM Pacific and we'll be checking this post and our Twitter stream continuously during that time. And yes, at some point in the near future, we will occasionally live-stream the podcast and be able to take questions in real time. But not tomorrow. Baby steps, people.
Edit: We weren't going to have a guest this week, but we're happy to announce a late-breaking booking: author and columnist Shelby Steele. Submit your questions for him below.
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Jun '10
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It kind of depends on who you'll have on the panel this week. If Claire's on, it would be interesting to hear her take on being back in the states, culture/shock adjustment, stories, etc.
Of course, it doesn't really matter what you talk about, I'll be listening anyway.
May '10
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I agree with Jim -- the free association is the best part.
But for me I'd like to hear Peter and Rob talk about Ricochet, the enterprise -- how it's going, what you can see that we can't see, how your independent investors are feeling about it and how we'll know when you are ready for a hard launch and what we can do to help.
I think some mid-term predictions could be fun, as well as races you think we should watch.
Finally I would love to hear Peter talk about life inside the White House well into a presidency and based on his own experience what he imagines is going on right now in the speechwriters' room (do they have a room?)
Aug '10
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Jim Chase: It kind of depends on who you'll have on the panel this week.
Yes, who's on this week?
Jun '10
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The five to ten best conservative non-fiction and fiction works.
Aug '10
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Some time should be spent on the elfin russian cobblers that haunt Berlinski's jetlagged dreams.
Klavan's worries about life imitating art and Seven Days in May.
And all those matchbooks without area codes............
May '10
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I like it when Jonah is on and the Star Trek and other pop culture topics fly around. I liked the meandering, stream of consciousness flow that happened last time Jonah was on.
Jul '10
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I'd like to hear you discuss the origin of the word "skank".
Jul '10
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Please, please - no callers.
Callers are the worst thing about talk radio. If they were interesting, they'd have their own shows.
Aug '10
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Kenneth: Please, please - no callers.
Callers are the worst thing about talk radio. If they were interesting, they'd have their own shows. · Aug 25 at 3:44pm
I think Kenneth has a point. Questions taken in e-mail or comments would probably be more coherent and waste less time. Ordinary people tend to freeze up when put on the spot, so even callers who start out with a good question in mind can end up dithering lamely and wasting time.
May '10
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Hmmm. I get what Kenneth and Midget Faded Rattlesnake suggest about no callers, but am not sure I agree 100%. I'd definitely enjoy hearing from some of Ricochet's regular conversationalists... Trace Urdan, Andrea Ryan, Duane Oyen and several others are fascinating to read and I think they could easily hold their own with Peter and Rob. Maybe in their areas of expertise whatever those are? Dave Carter would be great to hear from also.
Jul '10
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Yes, along those lines, I would definitely like to hear what you guys are reading lately, and what books you would recommend to us Ricocheters. Doesn't have to be new stuff, as far as I'm concerned, or even explicitly conservative, as long as it's got the Ricochet vibe. (We do have a vibe, don't we…?)
May '10
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Jonah G is originally from NYC, but no longer is; why isn't there at least someone, one solitary NYC luminary to contribute to your show? I'm not complaining to Ricochet; I'm posing the question as why there seems to be no such person; did all the proto-center-right people figure it out and get out of town?
May '10
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As noted previously, I fear that Ricochet, when it has too many California guys, might just tip over and capsize. Much like Guam.
Jul '10
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Steele thinks one of the big things wrong about this country is white racial guilt. Get him to talk about that.
Aug '10
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As a professor and keen observer of campus life, I wonder what Mr. Steele thinks about the utterly exhausted, bankrupt, ossified multi-culti clap trap that continues to be fed to undergraduates as if it were groundbreakingly new and exciting. The same consciousness-raising stuff is handed out like it is still 1986. Is there no tipping point when people just become bored with this stuff? My own sense is that the undergraduates are increasingly so--they've heard it all before by the time they get to college. But it is still depressingly pervasive and dominant--inside and outside the classroom--resident advisor training, etc.
At some point I'd also like to hear from a foreign policy expert on the podcast--maybe a Fouad Ajami or Marc Gerecht on the GWOT.
Love the podcast--makes jogging tolerable!
May '10
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You might have addressed this before, but are you planning on producing a Charlie Rose/Crossfire-type right-of-center TV show on a major network? FOX maybe? If so, when?
May '10
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Hmm. Not hold our own, but perhaps manage what Vanderbilt alums think of as a "moral victory".
Jul '10
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Caller:
Uh, hi, Rob? Peter? And hi, Jonah!
Oh, Jonah's not there? Well, whoever. Listen, I think you guys are really great.
Especially you, Jonah!
Anyhoo, I don't want to take too much of your time, so let me get right to it. Because time's a wastin' (chuckle).
So let me just say that what I called to say is sort of the same thing that caller from Rapid City was talking about - or maybe it was the guy from Ogden, Utah?
It's hard to remember in such fast-paced show...
But, honestly, you guys are great.
Especially Jonah.
So what I called to talk about is...if Michelle Bachmann and Nancy Pelosi were in like an Ultimate Fighting cage-fight, who do you think would win?
I'll just take my answer off the line, OK?
Personally, I think Michelle Bachmann would win, but maybe not...
And I just want to say to Jonah that you're a national treasure.
Honestly.
Aug '10
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Does Shelby Steele have any thoughts on the relationship of elitism and victimization?
To me, the elitist definition of success is so narrow that most people won't be able to achieve it, so when we're wedded to an elitist definition of success, more people will feel like failures and hence victims (as it's hard to blame oneself for falling short of such narrowly-defined success, and the temptation to blame someone else for thwarted expectations springs eternal), even when there's a lot they can still achieve with their lives.
But even if I don't know how to put it, I sense there's a deep connection between elitism and victimization, and I'd be interested in what Dr Steele has to say on this topic.
Jul '10
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How can the Dems turning on eachother even remotely for a nanosecond go good for them? Do they not even see the double standard? How fake is the real world up on capital hill anyhow?