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It’s always great fun when our good pal Pat Sajak stops by for a visit, and today’s show is no exception. Along with America’s most beloved TV icon (his words, not ours), we cover the latest in communicative diseases, Leon Panetta and the plethora of books coming from the Obama administration, Pat’s memory of Joan Rivers, baseball (pretty sure this one’s a Ricochet Podcast first), is searching replacing learning, Rush Limbaugh vs. Rob Long, then a rage, rage, against the modern day smart phone, and finally, what does Peter Robinson have in common with a currently running Amazon TV show and a Dustin Hoffman/Sidney Pollack classic comedy? The answer may surprise you. It sure surprised us.
Music from this week’s episode:
Walk On the Wild Side by Lou Reed
The opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.
Dude looks like a lady, EJHill.
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Whilst making artful use of the boa to hide the wrinkles on my neck, EJ, you’ve toned my arms considerably.
I am, once again, in your debt.
@Yeti: I haven’t even started to listen to the podcast but am, as always, enamored with the choice of tunes. :)
As I sit here and grade student IB History essays, I’m struck by the woe expressed at the loss of traditional convenient myths. I hope our commentators here are joking, or exaggerating.
These are myths. Not historical events in which we might debate the finer details and interpretations, but myths. If the the subject of discussion was the Noble Savage, we might be less charitable and call it a lie. I may find the lesson of a historical anecdote appealing or useful, but if it has little or no basis in fact it doesn’t belong in a curriculum.
Historical arguments supporting our ideologies can be found without relying on a fake narrative.
Peter in drag has replaced Bob Hope in a hippie wig as the new standard of comedy gold. A Milton Berle for a new generation.
Walk on the Wild Side? Does this mean we get to see Rob, Peter, and James shave their legs with a Harry’s razor?
Small quibble with Pat re: the elimination of Columbus Day . We aren’t really so much ‘going’ in that direction, it’s more like we are being shoved in that direction by the remorseless, relentless, aggression of the left. They are always at war while we just want to be left alone. Thus they always get their way eventually. We have lives to lead.
America has a line of defense against Ebola not available to Africans. We call it winter.
While Lou Reed’s classic is certainly an appropriate musical send off, surely the right choice was, “Lola”. I mean sometimes the obvious choice is the right choice.
Come visit me in California sometime and tell me more.
It’s a great, great song and I love The Kinks. But I’ve used it several times, and fairly recently. Have never played “Walk On The Wild Side.”
Outstanding, 5 minutes in and we get a truly stealthy segue!
By saying recently that he knew immediately Benghazi was terrorism, doesn’t that damage Clinton? She told the parents of one if the attack ‘ s victims–to their faces–that it was all because of a YouTube video, right?
Timothy Patton: Historical arguments supporting our ideologies can be found without relying on a fake narrative.
I very much agree. I’ve always thought it very silly to rely on the lie of George Washington and the cherry tree to encourage truthfulness. (Perhaps it was an early argument for truthiness.)
Baseball/sports and transvestites? Please this not what I want to hear. I listen to hear your views on current events
She has already carped somewhere about being forced to carry Obama’s water on that.
Wow. Just heard my voice at the beginning of the podcast. My voice is worse than I thought. Don’t you pity the people that have to listen to it all the time? And they do have to listen to it all the time: I don’t win debates; I just talk you to death.
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Peabody Here:By saying recently that he knew immediately Benghazi was terrorism, doesn’t that damage Clinton?She told the parents of one if the attack ‘ s victims–to their faces–that it was all because of a YouTube video, right?
She has already carped somewhere about being forced to carry Obama’s water on that.
Doesn’t show leadership or independent thinking on her part.
That’s Vol. 5 Number XXXVII.
I listen for Peter’s legs.
Hey, Peter is our new myth. Or was that miss? In any case, Peter is my new hero – a man supremely confident of his own masculinity.
Nah, don’t be hard on yourself. Sounded fine. Hearing a recording of one’s own voice is always a shock.
I’m thinking membership drive:
With Sajak on, the podcasts are over before they seem to start. Topics? Who needs topics?
Some of the discussion drifted into the territory you’re decrying, but my interpretation was that they were mostly using “myth” in the anthropological sense, which is neutral regarding the truth or falsehood of the story, and is only concerned with the way the story is used to shape and justify a culture.
From the closing moments of the podcast:
Listening to the podcast during my commute, I was smiling on the freeway like a fool. I hope the funeral procession next to me didn’t get the wrong idea.
Good choice. I was thinking “Dude Looks Like a Lady” myself . . .
Music from this week’s episode:
Walk On the Wild Side by Lou Reed
The bass line on this song is awesome. But it gets even better if you know how they pulled it off: Herbie Flowers playing an acoustic and an electric bass:
That’s awesome, Don. Thanks so much for posting it.
Forget the boa. Come on the NR Cruise, and you can borrow my wife’s mink coat . . .
This year, Columbus Day falls on my birthday– the very day Bill Mazeroski hit the World Series-winning home run for the Pittsburgh Pirates. My Dad still waxes nostalgic that he was in the waiting room watching the game at my debut, sighing, “Those were the days!” So yes, it’s a holiday.