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The stars aligned this week and we discovered that all of three of the men of GLoP (that’s Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, and John Podhoretz) were all in the same city that never sleeps at the same time. So, we convened a special in person podcast at the sumptuous offices of Commentary Magazine. A few of today’s topics: the Conservative media industrial complex and what to do about it, Westword, Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize, and GLoP fixes Twitter. See you on the high seas after the election, everyone.
We’re walking here, @EJHill.
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OMG this is one of the all-time best Photoshops! Great to see you all in New York last week (the debate party) and Tuesday for Live Law Talk. See you in Fort Lauderdale.
Love, me
I’m going to do my part to thwart the “Conservative media industrial complex” by not buying Jonah Goldberg’s next book and hoping it does as poorly as the last one.
BD, you mean the one that was an instant NYT bestseller? That one?
I remember you saying on a GLOP podcast that you should have listened to your publisher when he/she told you to give your last book a different name because “Tyranny of Cliches” was too blah and it had hurt sales.
I can’t in good conscience buy your next book and help perpetuate the alleged “Conservative media industrial complex.” I’m agreeing with you.
While I love their humor, the guys couldn’t find a minute or two to talk about Hillary?
Naw. You’re sort of being a jerk (or at least sounding like one). It’s true the book didn’t do as well as I would have liked and the title was a mistake. But by any objective metric it was a successful book. As for my next one, it’s not aimed at the choir anyway. If you don’t want to buy it, that’s fine. But you’re not making the clever point you think you are.
I bought both the e-book and audiobook versions of your last two books, so I really don’t consider myself an anti-Jonah. But do you really think you are the right messenger to rail against Conservatism Inc.?
I haven’t listened yet. That’s what cross-country flights are for. But… Isn’t Commentary, National Review and Ricochet all part of that conservative media complex? (And we are all trying to move the subscription needles here, aren’t we?)
The conservatives do need to be more Army and less Marine Corps. We need numbers of people to create a majority force, not challenge potential voters to see if you are “conservative enough to be one of us”.
I too bought audio and book versions. Both Lib Fash and Cliche’s. Watched and re-watch YouTubes (College speaking engagements). Special Report…. I hope I can get some of those fond feelings back some day….Jonah will sell books just fine because they’re great books, its all my loss.
Was making Rob and John look like giraffes in the picture some sort of sop to the Troy demographic?
It’s okay, Jonah, I’ll just buy two.
Guys. Audio. Kept having to turn it up to hear Rob, only to be interrupted by Jonah’s bellowing gigglecackle, which I usually enjoy. This whole set up reminds me of the Geeks that I would party with in High School. The one’s that got good grades, but knew how to make mischief from nothing. Jonah’s joyful gigglecackle is the what really brings home those adolescent memories. I just can’t enjoy it when it seems as if he’s doing it directly in my ear.
I had to quit listening because the audio volume, at least in the first fifteen minutes, was so erratic.
It’s the pose. Bent at the waist, they are literally “sticking their necks out” at the camera.
Besides, without saying anything derogatory about our hosts, they are not exactly lithe dancers in their late twenties. I do what I can to keep proportionality.
In China, giraffes are very popular. Even among the Muslims.
I know, I was just making a joke at Troys expense.
Yeah, sorry. It’s been a tough week at the Hill bungalow. I shouldn’t read the comments when I’m dead tired. Getting on a plane to go cross country and still worried about the pup. Not conducive to rational thinking.
OMG . . . when I saw the podcast picture, I thought it was a Village People tribute!
BTW, the cowboy (Randy Jones) went to my high school . . .
Apologies for the audio, folks. Not our usual setup and there was a learning curve. We’ll do better next time (on the boat).
The first 20 minutes of this had me cracking up on the subway this evening. And it had been a long day. Thanks for the laugh.
I don’t know what to say when a GLoP analysis of the good robot/bad robot dialectic fails to mention My Living Doll other than I’m very, very, very disappointed. And, of course: Potzers!
Agreed. The volume for John and Jonah was OK but Rob sounded like he was whispering in the next room. I would have this podcast would have the best chance at great sound quality…
*Circumcision check*???
Join Ricochet so they can afford a microphone for Rob Long.
you wait two weeks for Glop and then you cant hear it…makes one angry.
This is why I haven’t bothered listening to this podcast for quite a while.
Come on, folks, it’s just fun listening to them bounce off each other with their randomness.
I know. I know. I know. We’ll make it up to, I promise.