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Ricochet Podcast Question Time!
Good people of Ricochet, lend us your Qs!
For this week’s flagship podcast, our world famous (right?) hosts will be answering the questions. And they’ll be coming from you. Unfortunately Peter is off this week, but are there any inquiries you’ve had for Rob, James and Charles Cooke – who’s subbing for Mr. R? Whether you’re wondering about their take on hot button issues or their thoughts on culture; maybe you’d like to know about what they do when they aren’t podcasting, or how they got into their line of work. If you wanna know, we wanna know that you wanna know.
Hit them with your best shot in the comments to hear their answers this Friday, July 15th.
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Establish dominance. One side has to convincingly win 2 or 3 elections in a row.
Charles, what is your favorite firearm and why?
Rob, is there anything at all to the claims that Hollywood is hiding an actual culture of child abuse? I’m hoping you can bat this one right out of the park!
Poorly worded, for sure. What I was trying to say is that laws on the books have been ineffective in preventing mass shooters from getting guns. To me, this suggests either a failure to fund enforcement or poorly crafted (i.e., politicized) legislation—or both. Are the procedures the problem? Or the legislation as conceived? IOW, might it be a good idea to audit the system at hand before slapping more on?
But that wouldn’t be Doing Something.
The end of public schools. Private schools with regs setting minimum requirements, money following the students. I grew up in a good public school system and recognize its past accomplishments, but it has been captured by bureaucracies and unions.
Three greats: S. J. Perelman, Raymond Chandler, and Anthony Burgess.
I have, and they’re astonishing. It’s not just the images, it’s the ancillary data that gives us info on the composition of the galaxies, and from what I hear the eggheads are drooling thick ropes of saliva over the spectro charts.
More to come on the podcast, I hope.
I do, but on the other hand, I work for a newspaper that is not only surviving, but launched a quarterly glossy magazine. This is totally contrary to industry trends, but we’re doing it, and it’s very popular with the readers. We had an editor who was all about the internet, as the position required, but he was also a deep lover of traditional papers, and said we can excel at both. Advertisers loved the idea. We’re three years into it, and it’s going great. I write a local history feature for the last page in the book.
I miss carrying around a sheaf of journals in my backpack to pull out and read on the bus or over dinner. I like having access to nearly everything on my iPad. It’s not the same.
Mostly I miss the weekly or monthly or fortnightly thrill of seeing the new issue. Everything now is a long smear of stuff with no signposts or mile markers.
Unrequited advice: hold your nose and vote for the Republican nominee. The larger game is keep Chuck Schumer from being Senate Majority Leader again. The Turtle has multiple faults, including not being aggressive enough against the Left, but Schumer is an abomination who should be in jail for threatening Supreme Court justices.
@Clavius, is this poster correct that Sony is for sale?
Some are, and that sounds like one that’s climbing on the slab with a tag on its toe. Too many papers were bought by chains or investor groups that hollow out the staff, run wire, limp along, then perish. It’s not inevitable because of the internet; in many countries, tabloids are still popular, because print has a tactile, serendipitous aspect the internet cannot reproduce. (Its version of serendipity is distraction, which is not the same.) The problem at the top of the industry: monocultural ideological newsrooms. At the bottom: no resources and a disregard for the atomic-level news of the community.
Most of the problems of the industry are self-inflicted, and the solutions to getting readers back are not mysteries. But the younger demo has lost the habit, and the older demo is dying off. The future for most papers, alas, is digital only, and their sites will be ugly and dull.
I think I can channel Charlie here: “Long answer, nooooooo. Short answer, no.”
Oh, I want to take that one on the show, especially since I just had dinner with a farmer.
I did reschedule. Or rather, last March, Daughter texted and said hey we have those tickets, any chance we could go over Spring Break? She had college friends doing a semester abroad, and wanted to visit. Well. Well. Yes, of course. So I booked the flights, and off we went.
It was the best of all possible worlds. We had three days in London, during which we hit our favorite museums and the one we’d been holding in reserve; we ate at our favorite Indian restaurant, walked around at night, hit the pubs. Then we took the East Anglia line north to our beloved seaside town in Norfolk, stayed with a dear friend, finished our collaboration on a 10-ep podcast about her famous mother, drank in the local every night, took Mabel the dog to the shore, and had a marvelous time. Then back to London, and into the skies. It was, start to end, perfection.
I’m just banging these out in case we don’t get to them on the podcast, which always happens.
Who’s going to copy them to the show post when it comes out?
According to Sony CEO – No.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-not-for-sale-1234960009/
However I think it is, Sony’s entire business case for owning a movie studio has collapsed now that there will not be another media format war to fight. Sony bought Colombia Pictures for support during the battles of Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD war. Now that everything is digitally streaming its just no longer needed.
Its my assessment that Sony Pictures is for sale.
But if you have the kinda cash on hand to buy Sony Pictures, you could easily build your own probably at much lower cost in Nevada or New Mexico.
Thanks, James!
At least one of the recent shooters was a mentally disturbed young man who was groomed – some say by FBI handlers -to become a shooter. He owned guns bought and paid for by someone other than himself – as he did not have access to the thousands of dollars they cost. And he was driving around in a pricey vehicle as well.
Also there is this report from the Buffalo News about the may 14th shooter in NY: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/authorities-investigating-if-retired-federal-agent-knew-of-buffalo-mass-shooting-plans-in-advance/article_bd408f18-dd39-11ec-be53-df8fdd095d6f.html
The guy in Buffalo qualified to be caught by their very strong red flag laws. It didn’t work.
They don’t even fill up the NICS system.
I heard a retired FBI executive talk about this. He said that the solution is to stop defunding the police. You need more police. You need better run police departments. The other thing he said was when you have an event, you need to have cop on the roof so the psycho can’t take the high ground.
If you listen to John Lott enough, it’s obvious we need more concealed carry and zero gun free zones.
Education is a “non-public good”. It’s a textbook example of why the government can’t central plan non-public goods even if they are a good idea on paper. It happens every time.
Just cut a check to the parents and the aggregate value will go straight up. I guarantee it.
Personally, I think this is one of the big disadvantages that Republicans and libertarians have. Peoples eyes glaze over if you talk about actual public goods, but it’s a big deal.
I knew you would be the one to ask. I love that you interact on the site.
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I am upset over it, not because of what ricochet did, but because our judicial system allows itself to be used by the left to engage in lawfare against the right. Let Charles CW Cooke weigh in on that re our 1st Amendment.
Not really. We pay for their service and the price didn’t go up.
Seems like it will have to, one way or another – maybe buying “ghost” memberships – if we don’t want it to go away.
Everybody needs to remind themselves to have enough money to afford lawyers and lobbyists somehow.
The cost of fighting would have been more and they would have lost. You need to study up on lawfare. The fight for innocence is the punishment. Even when you win, it breaks your bank. Shame goes to the legal system that allowed the outrageous dollar amount.
I wonder if Peter, James, Rob, and Charlie realize that, in terms of the wider population, they are all part of the elite. I’m sure it doesn’t seem like it to them, but just check their incomes and assets/wealth against national averages etc.