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This week on this very sedate and polite episode of GLoP, the boys pass the talking stick and chat about the shutdown, Stormy Daniels, a movie you haven’t seen in a while and are reluctant watch again, and yes, some LIVE coverage of the Oscar nominations!
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Maybe the Pod-person can tell us how many people he’s blocked on TWTR and FB….
Not for being abusive, but just for disagreeing with His Highness…
It will be Streep. Can’t wait for her speech telling us how courageous they all are. Next year she will be giving Weinstein a Lifetime Achievement Award.
So “Pod-person” isn’t abusive? Why do you care if he blocked you?
Jonah! Don’t scare Daniel Day Lewis into keeping his promise to not act again! He’s my favorite actor.
It was around 2006 when NRO was still a place I went multiple time a day instead of never that I tried to debate immigration with JPod in the comments. His response to me in the face of millions of illegal immigrants whom GWB was trying to amnesty was, “I will never be for immigration limitations because of the ‘Exodus’ (the ship with Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler, not the 2nd book of the Torah…waaaaaaaait…..maybe???… no. I understood him at the time). And his debate style was rude NYer ad hominem (not unlike a certain President): “You must be a lot of fun at parties.” He helped birth Trump by standing against reasonable immigration policies, and he’s getting all the Trump he deserves.
Rob. How do you solve a problem like Rob-ia? He is such a likable human being…except when he talks about politics. Well…until today…at least the first part of the podcast I’ve listened to so far.
It’s hard to talk about things that are obviously true that concern DJT with Never Trumpers, isn’t it? Welcome to our world, Mr. Long. Go listen to the first ten or so “Commentary Podcasts” now and see who’s dangerously out of control between DJT and them.
With respect to “The America People choose this conflict/deadlock in Congress”: Mr. Long, you do political economy so badly. There is no American People…Jonah should be able to fill you in on the fascistic vein in such thinking. Most of the Republican base out here in Flyoverlandia keep voting for Republicans to try to get all things a VDH would want from government, and most of the Democratic base vote for Walter Mondale or BHO’s vision of society…and some number of people have no fixed party or sets of beliefs but flip back and forth based on all kinds of feelings about the caricatures presented to them in media, about their employment and economic shape, how their bosses, neighbors, co-workers, etc. represent the archetypal Fat Cat Republican or the Union Thug Democrat (and they hate that guy and vote against HIM), etc.
That ain’t no “American People choose.” That’s competing visions that have different abilities to win in different kinds of elections based on the nature of the types of voters attracted to each political vision and the things that get the mass of relatively uninformed voters out to some elections and not others.
But, if Rob were to think about the real, complex reasons that elections swing back in forth in such a way that when combined with our Do-Little-to-Nothing-Easily Federal structure result in gridlock and muddling, how could he scold The American People for getting what they chose and deserve?
I didn’t “choose” Trump in the primaries; I chose Cruz**. It was pretty clearly a coordination problem exacerbated by first-past-the-post elections.
**and, I imagine he would have lost the General because he doesn’t come off as likable person on TV to that middle portion of the electorate
Wow, lots of complaints about this GLoP. I’m going to chalk it up to Goldberg not getting enough of the talking stick. Or maybe he’s all talked out from The Remnant?
Nah. All those people who voted for Trump to stop Hillary (and THE SUPREME COURT!!! voters) would have voted for Cruz and there wouldn’t have been a Never Cruz. I would have voted for Cruz and I wanted Rubio. I didn’t vote for either of the 2 miserable choices we had.
But, it is less likely that a Free Trade Ideologue would make the appeal for using government policy to encourage domestic employment instead of doing the standard “Free Trade always and everywhere makes our lives better….’and who cares if someone is employed in Podunk, Ohio’ [Ben Shapiro on….somebody’s podcast recently…I think Joe Rogan]” Mainstream Conservative schtick that would NOT have won WI, MI, or PA…and possibly not Ohio. This is a long and complicated…dare I say “nuanced”?….discussion, but whether it is ideologically correct, economically correct, Rights-of-Man correct to have virtually tariff-free importation of manufactured goods (along with what had been unrestricted immigration of manual laborers), it has helped to lose Presidential elections in the middle of the country.
Yes, Bastiat put The Tariff alongside Slavery as twin sins of the American Founding…in what he finds an otherwise admirable state. But, you know what is really destructive of human liberty? The Income Tax, the IRS…and the vast majority of the federal bureaucracy. The nation developed quite well under the Republican Tariffs at the end of the 19th.
Jonah always liked to throw out the “every civilization is continually invaded by barbarians; we call them ‘children.'” You know what civilizes a man? Work. All the welfare programs in the world do not civilize humans like productive work….in fact, they are on the whole destructive of civilization…they barbarize the recipients and their children.
Yes, the robots are going to take all the jobs away!!!!!!!! But in the meantime, adjusting laws, regulations, and policies to INCENTIVIZE domestic production and domestic employment of citizens* – NOT giving jobs, paying rent seekers, selectively placing trade restrictions only on politically connected sectors (e.g. Ag), selectively lowering taxes – is a popular program that sets up a virtual cycle of organic civilizing of citizens and making them more productive and less dependent on government handouts. Lowering the corporate tax rate was a great step towards making production in the US more attractive.
In my experience in a major manufacturer, the decisions to move products from Indiana, Ohio, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina to Mexico were made for marginal cost reductions….a few percent here and there overall improvement because of the lower labor rate.
I voted for Trump because #responsibility
*because as much as the “smart” people like to talk about how much better immigrants are than lazy, stupid, drug-addled Americans, we’re stuck with each other.
Yeti,
You used to list the closing song in the podcast description. If I recall correctly, you even had an iTunes link. (Though, I may be making that up.)
Is it possible to resume that practice? I really liked that song and I would have bought it on the spot. Now I’m gonna have to tap my phone about 10 more times, dagnabit!
Great podcast! (But of course!)
But Rob — you seem to think Academy voters were frozen in amber back in 1958. They weren’t. You’re forgetting that the low-budget Progressive fave Moonlight won Best Picture last year.
And Slumdog Millionaire won a few years before that.
The Academy, like most of the Hollywood intelligentsia, is not only Progressive, but has adopted a decidedly indie vibe. (Just look at this year’s nominees!)
Which is why either the popular “woke” screed Get Out or the Red State-bashing Three Billboards will be taking home the gold this year.
It’s Dark Star by Crosby, Stills & Nash:
https://youtu.be/XLMuRuwAWts
I’ll start listing the songs (never did it for this show, but I will now).
Sen. Mark Warner is insufficiently socialized to operate effectively under TSCP (Talking Stick Communication Protocol)? Wow. That would have gotten you drummed out of Indian Guides back in the day.
That’s an interesting insight. I always wondered how he had insulated himself from the invasion force that he didn’t understand concerns about illegal aliens. We should be able to discern between refugees and illegals in our immigration policy.
My ears must have been playing tricks on me. Dissing Kolchak, The Night Stalker? Un-bah-lievable.
I haven’t listened yet. Does JPOD actually shut up when he doesn’t have the talking stick?
Hardly dissing Kolchak. Just remarking on how it departed from journalistic reality. In the same way a top-flight adventure like the original Lethal Weapon (1987) departed from actual, realistic police work.
Great intro.
Ugh. You guys couldn’t be more wrong about West Side Story, which is 100% perfect.
I’m glad they find each other’s teenage boys’ locker room talk and gutter-brained humor so amusing. Hard to take them as serious cultural commentators, especially when they find Trump so disgusting.
I’m guessing you didn’t listen to this episde? Rob apparently took a road from Damascus last week. He’s a new man. @roblong I am totally sympatico with your statement that the media’s unrelenting silliness on Trump is enough to force my hand as well. At the YMCA, the Monday morning before the shutdown ended, was a breathless headline on the Cuomo CNN morning ahem, news, show, on how the shutdown would cause untold deaths because of this flu going around. I couldn’t contain my amusement, to the detriment of my woke companions.
This is not a very likable trio, particularly Mr. Podhoretz. To each his own.
Mr. Podhoretz, please remember this prediction The Post will win Best Picture and mock Mr. Long (and Mr. Goldberg) freely when it loses.
Lighten up, Francis.
It would be hard to take them seriously as cultural commentators if they didn’t find Trump so disgusting.
But these guys never drop the F bomb or even venture beyond PG-13 territory, so you can’t seriously tell me you’re offended by their rhetoric. Are you a time traveler from the Victorian age?
to @roblong, et al. Just wanted to mention, the reason for the “buzzing” sound when seeing some older movies (and it can happen to older TV shows too) is because of audio compression, AGC (Automatic Gain Control), etc. Basically when the regular audio track goes quiet, the equipment being used to process the movie into a DVD or Blu-Ray disc, or to show it on TV, automatically starts turning up the volume in case there’s a quiet sound you might otherwise miss. When it gets up to the maximum volume setting, you can get the buzzing sound, until characters start talking again or some other sounds come up to trigger the compressor/AGC into turning the volume back down.
Also, regarding some previous podcasts, just in case nobody else thought of it already, I think @roblong was also wrong about Charlie Rose. He didn’t parade around naked in front of young women because he thought his 70-plus-years-old bag of bones would be attractive to them. No, it was because he felt so powerful and would be able to do so much for them professionally – or maybe just keep them from being fired even if they deserved it? – that they would “kneel before Zod” DESPITE his bag-of-bones-ness.