Ricochet Podcast #57: How About A Sweater?
Blue Yeti ·
Feb 16, 2011 at 5:39pm
Our pal Mark Steyn returns for a rollicking podcast and we cover everything from Egypt to Ireland's boom to Rob's sexual harassment class. Then, Sally Zelikovsky -- who has the unenviable job of heading up the San Francisco Tea Party -- joins to tell us about life deep behind enemy lines. We wrap things up with conversation that winds from Chet Baker to Charlie Sheen, in which Rob details the actor's unique stimulus plan for shoring up falling home values. Two words: Porn House.
And on that note, let's go the links:
- Mark Steyn has been writing extensively on the events in the Middle East at SteynOnline.com. This piece, Pharaohs and Fairy Tales is a good place to start.
- Mohamed Atta was the leader of the 9/11 hijackers. He was born on September 1, 1968 in northern Egypt. It's impossible to know what his political leanings might have been had he'd been born ten years later, but it's an intriguing line of thought. Discuss amongst yourselves.
- The poll Peter Robinson refers to is here.
- According to Hitler historian (that's a real job?) Alan Bullock, "Hitler came to office in 1933 as the result, not of any irresistible revolutionary or national movement sweeping him into power, nor even of a popular victory at the polls, but as part of a shoddy political deal with the 'Old Gang' whom he had been attacking for months...Hitler did not seize power; he was jobbed into office by a backstairs intrigue." Duke this one out in the comments too.
- Phyllis Chesler's blog with the photos of the female graduating classes of Cairo University is here.
- Here's the NPR's story on climate change in the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati. It does look kind of damp. By the way, according to Wikipedia, The name Kiribati is the local pronunciation of "Gilberts", derived from the main island chain, the Gilbert Islands. And Mark is correct, they were in fact known as the "Gilbert and Sullivan Islands." Tuvalu is a neighboring island nation that used to be called Ellice Islands (not be confused with Ellis Island in New York harbor). Tuvalu made a bunch of money selling its .tv web domain through GoDaddy a few years ago.
- Shopping for that perfect gift for that hard to please friend or relative? Consider The BBC Complete Sound Effects Library which comes on a hard drive for the bargain basement price of $4,999. What a deal!
- We've linked to Martini Shot, Rob Long's weekly commentary on show business many times before, but what the heck, here it is again. His pledge week pitch for this year isn't up yet, but here's the one from 2006.
- Ricochet member Aaron Miller pointed out Jim Geraghty's post about Obama's budget strategy here.
- Here's Peter interview with Gary Becker on Uncommon Knowledge.
- Michael Lewis wrote a terrific piece on the Irish boom and bust in the current issue of Vanity Fair. You can read it online and unlike the print edition, you won't smell like a perfumery afterwards.
- Rob's Ricochet post on his forced sexual harassment education is here.
- Here's the website for the San Francisco Tea Party. Yes, there actually is one.
- Novato, CA is located north of San Francisco in the heart of Marin County. Very, very blue.
- Photos of the marching Deficitettes may be seen here. Thanks, Sally!
- Mark is correct yet again: American Taliban John Walker Lind grew up in San Aselmo, CA, which is in between Novato and San Francisco.
- This magazine cover makes Peter Robinson wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night.
- Mark didn't care for the Eminem Super Bowl ad and had some tough love for the city of Detroit. He got some nasty email from the Motor City.
- Mitch Daniels' CPAC speech is here. He wowed 'em. Ann Coulter's sanguine prediction about Romney and Christie is here.
- Chet Baker was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer. Baker established a large following, based in part on his matinee idol beauty, emotionally remote performances, and well publicized drug habit. He died in 1988 after falling from a second-story window of a hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He didn't look like a matinee idol towards the end of his life. The Folks Who Feel Jazz, a blog devoted to jazz, has a very thorough biography.
- Don't miss Mark Steyn's great essay on Rodgers and Hart's standard My Funny Valentine.
- Romano Mussolini was a talented jazz pianist who died in 2006, who just happened to be the son of a fascist dictator.
- Charlie Sheen gave his pep talk to the UCLA baseball team.
- According to this post on TMZ, Charlie Sheen has in fact expressed interest in starting a "porn family" and he wants the "actresses" to all live in the same house. It's not clear whether or not he actually went through with the plan. Regardless, that sounds like a sitcom Rob ought to pitch. If only he hadn't taken that sexual harassment course...
- Kamofie & Co. is the Venice, CA jewelry store (the white building) from which Lindsay Lohan allegedly stole a necklace. Fun fact: the former headquarters of Ricochet South is directly to the right of the store.
Music from this week's episode:
- This Is Why We Fight by The Decemberists
- My Funny Valentine by Chet Baker
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May '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #57: How About A Sweater?
Seriously, these podcasts are too good to be true.
@Lilium, Someone needs to cut a 90 minute track composed exclusively of Steyn rants - those ones when he perceptibly shifts gears, slips the surly bonds of conventional interlocution and absolutely goes for it. The left has Bill Hicks. Finally, the right has Steyn.
Re: Ricochet Podcast #57: How About A Sweater?
Don Tillman: Guys,
It must have taken an awful lot of self control not to title this podcast "A Bevy of Hookers". · Feb 21 at 12:09pm
It took much more not to title it "Porn House."
Sep '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #57: How About A Sweater?
Kyle Mcloughlin: Seriously, these podcasts are too good to be true.
@Lilium, Someone needs to cut a 90 minute track composed exclusively of Steyn rants - those ones when he perceptibly shifts gears, slips the surly bonds of conventional interlocution and absolutely goes for it. The left has Bill Hicks. Finally, the right has Steyn. · Feb 21 at 11:11pm
Sorry, you mean Mike Stain, right? Which raises the important question for Blue Yeti: How would you get a Stain off the Mike?
Re: Ricochet Podcast #57: How About A Sweater?
Depends what the stain is. Generally, the BY recommends bleach. Lots of bleach.
May '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #57: How About A Sweater?
If the Yeti makes 'em, I'll be there.
Kyle Mcloughlin: Seriously, these podcasts are too good to be true.
@Lilium, Someone needs to cut a 90 minute track composed exclusively of Steyn rants - those ones when he perceptibly shifts gears, slips the surly bonds of conventional interlocution and absolutely goes for it. The left has Bill Hicks. Finally, the right has Steyn. · Feb 21 at 11:11pm
May '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #57: How About A Sweater?
Lilium: If the Yeti makes 'em, I'll be there.
Kyle Mcloughlin: Seriously, these podcasts are too good to be true.
@Lilium, Someone needs to cut a 90 minute track composed exclusively of Steyn rants - those ones when he perceptibly shifts gears, slips the surly bonds of conventional interlocution and absolutely goes for it. The left has Bill Hicks. Finally, the right has Steyn. · Feb 21 at 11:11pm
Edited on Feb 22 at 11:12 pm
Feb 22 at 11:10pm
Maybe the Yeti could loop Mike Stain's epitome du jour, the photos of the female graduating class of Cairo University in 1959, 1978, 1995 and 2004, as the refrain, overlaying a Timberland beat. That story is like cowbell. Just can't get enough.
Edited on Feb 23, 2011 at 2:54am