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How Did You Find Ricochet?
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It led to my remembering how I found Ricochet a few years ago. I was watching Uncommon Knowledge on YouTube and Peter Robinson was interviewing John Yoo; they talked about something called Ricochet and I wondered what it was. A few more videos and the constant mentioning of the site came up and I decided to come here. I started listening to podcasts and became hooked pretty soon after.
It might help The Powers That Be find more members if they learn why you joined the club. Share your stories here.
If nothing else, I would love to hear more peoples’ “finding stories.”
Published in General
Hillsdale College online course in Western Civilization, one lecture by Professor Paul Rahe. His bio mentions that he posts on Ricochet, so I checked it out. It only took me a few minutes to decide to join, and I urged Hubby to join too. That was in December of 2012.
I was hanging out around NR mostly when they started it. I would listen to the podcasts. Eventually joined.
“Turned left at Greenland”
Actually, I don’t remember, but it had to be 2011….
I heard Rush mention Ricochet during his program some years back.
via National Review Online
I think from National Review. It was only a podcast back then – each one ended with the sound of a bullet ricocheting and Peter Robinson saying, “Ricochet – coming soon.” Been a member since the beginning.
I read Mark Steyn on a regular basis, and his website had a link to a ricochet podcast on which he was a guest. Liked the podcast, liked the site, and joined in September 2012. Maybe TPTB should have Mark Steyn on more often 🙂
From when I used to read National Review Online.
I fairly sure it was from some reference from NRO (National Review Online), however the details are lost to the ravages of my memory, probably right next to where I left my glasses.
The G-File.
I used to really respect Jonah.
Back then I was listening to Hugh Hewitt, especially Thursday nights when he had Mark Steyn and some writer from Minnesota who was pretty good too, plus I was over at NRO’s Corner regularly. Someone somewhere mentioned that there was going to be a podcast, and I found it, listened, liked it, and subscribed. The site itself was just a “Coming Soon” announcement. It just built from there. I lurked and decided that I’d be joining eventually.
Also from NRO, via podcasts.
Either from NRO or Instapundit.
I really have absolutely no memory of how I found it. In my head I have been here longer than the site has existed.
I lurked contentedly until I was compelled to refute a obviously wrong opinion on a trivial topic and could only do so by joining. Now I’m sorta hooked.
Via The Anchoress, in 2010.
I do not remember but it was probably tied to something I read by or about Ms. Berlinski.
I found Ricochet in 2015 through the podcast that Jay and Mona used to do. I found that podcast on NRO.
Like @philo, I don’t remember the mechanism, nor the content, only the author: Ms. Berlinski. On the Interwebs I’d not often seen such beautiful, intellectually honest, interesting writing. I must have asked the Brown-eyed Beauty to write a check, or whatever the equivalent thing is that we do nowadays.
We still have writers of that quality, and they are what keeps me here. We have some jackasses, too, of course. But the battle for shelf space in this grocery store, between the fine writers and the jackasses, is even. If the latter win, I will need to find a new grocer. If none exists in the Worldclouds Netweb, I will take the tarps off the long-abandoned sailboat build, sharpen my rusty old Stanley block plane and fire up the DeWalt Random Orbital Sander, and when she’s finished drag the tub to the Jersey Shore this summer and see if she’ll float.
I don’t remember. I took a look at it and put it away. Maybe I signed up, because my profile says I signed up in May 2012. But I didn’t come back and do anything with it until March, 2013, when I made my first comment. I doubt I was lurking in the meantime.
exjon twitter comments by way of iowahawk twitter comments by way of perhaps Twitchy?
I had been watching UK for about a year, which, other than NR’s Armond White was about the extent to which I had any familiarity with conservatives. I would stay up late watching old episodes and eventually I stumbled upon this interview:
I really enjoyed Dr. Rahe and decided to look up his published works online. There wasn’t much in the way of non academic, inexpensive pieces – which is one of many travesties that make me shake my head at the whole conservative “movement” – but there was one place where I could find a couple free articles he had written.
And…. whammo! I found Ricochet. It’s wild to think that this was at least 4 years ago.
The moral of the story? (Or a moral of a story): @peterrobinson ought to plug his baby more on Uncommon Knowledge. Had I heard about it there, I’d have raced over much sooner.
Edit: Also, where the heck has Dr. Rahe been?
Make Ricochet Rahe-ish Again!
I found it last year searching the internet for an alternative to Irish mainstream/social media. I found the Daily Wire at the same time. One of the first people I remember reading were Gary McVey and Titus Techera (I could be spelling that wrong). I like that it’s not all politics here.
I really like how we have a lot of comments from people who I dont get to see post as much.
I discovered Uncommon Knowledge in grad school and would binge listen to episodes after everyone else had left for the day (I was something of a night owl back then).
On one episode, Peter’s two guests were Rob Long and Mark Steyn, and the topic was New Media. Peter introduced the topic by mentioning that Rob and Mark were teaming up to launch a new conservative website with a unique concept. Rob and Mark politely pointed out that Peter was also a founding member and could dispense with the “you guys” schtick. That was enough to make me hunt down the site and join.
My understanding is that Steyn was one of the original founders (together with Peter and Rob), but left shortly thereafter under mysterious circumstances. As he seems to do with most of his professional relationships save for Rush.
I came through Instapundit flogging the podcast a lot back when that’s all there was, before there even was a site.
My sister read a book called “Menace in Europe” by @claire Berlinski and mailed it to me. I found it fascinating so I looked her up to see what else she had written. She was an editor for Ricochet, in addition to being a journalist and had written other books, which I also eventually read. I’d never heard of her or Ricochet, so that’s how I found Ricochet, and I’m glad I found both.
To go all the way back, it started with Rush Limbaugh. He talked about this web site called Drudge Report, so I visited that site regularly. I don’t know if they still do it, but Drudge used to have a list of links to several dozen conservative writers and I knew I liked Jonah Goldberg when I would see him on TV, so I clicked that link and read several pieces by Jonah. In one of them he mentioned that he was a guest on a podcast called Ricochet and there probably was a link to it. I loved the podcast, downloaded more of them, started looking at the Main Feed and on April 7, 2011 @lidenscheng and I both gave in to Rob Long’s pleas and signed up. Of course, I didn’t know her for years to come, but LC discovered that we both signed up the same day.
I gave up on Rush Limbaugh and Drudge Report a couple years ago, but I’m still a fan of Jonah Goldberg and Ricochet.
Same here.
Having Peter out there on youtube might bring more people here if there currently is a way to insert the mention of Ricochet at the intro section of each youtube Pete’s in.
Over the last 6 months, I have had acquaintances suggest I catch an interview of this guy or that one. So I go off to youtube and there is Peter doing the interviewing.
He is among the best of all interviewers. Doesn’t insert himself into the discussion ad nauseum like many others do. Asks inventive questions. Gives the listener the feeling that the person being interviewed is the most interesting person on the planet.
As for me, in a moment of boredom, August 2017, I decided maybe there was a community of people that would accept this world weary former Dem in their midst. I googled “blogs” + “republican” and Ricochet came up. The one thing I had not anticipated was that this place would become so important to me.
I saw Rob on Red Eye so many times, and each time Gutfeld would say he was the founder of Ricochet.com. I don’t know why I finally realized I should go see what it was, and why I didn’t do it sooner, but I finally did in 2015.