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This week on GLoP, some thoughts on the events in Charlottesville, and whether or not the statues come down, and a peek behind the gown of big time TV network standards and practices. Consider yourself warned.
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I’m sorry to scold, but Rob needs to spend some more time on his English history. Edward Confessor was of the Saxon line, although he did follow kings of the Scandinavian line and spent a lot of time at the court of Normandy, so it does become rather complicated.
More importantly, did John deliberately quote from the musical 1776? I really need to know (for my own pathetic reasons).
This was hilarious. Would be even better if Podhoretz could not talk over other people so much,
He has gotten better. ;)
To be charitable, he was probably drunk.
The random mention of Arthur suggests the original thought got Shanghaied, which happens a lot with discussions of English history of the period mostly because it’s a mystifying collection of petty kings with funny names, obscure bishops with funny names, a couple of poets, a bunch of Welshmen going WTF, some Jutes going “hey, are we chopped liver?”,and the occasional Scots soccer hooligan actually just off the boat from Ireland. There’s so much “Caelwin, of whom we know nothing, was son to Cynric, of whom we know considerably less,” it’s sort of like Jefferson said of the Trinity “no honest man can say he understands it.” And that said, Jonah is right, The Last Kingdom rules.
Charlottesville and Middlebury are not at all the same. Ever. No skiing in Cville. Football rules the fall. Cville is sundresses in the spring on hot girls or drunk dudes with fratty hair in khakis and ties. Cville itself may have SWAG professors in Volvos, but in Albemarle, Louisa, Orange, Staunton… F-150 drives past you with the CSA flag under the gun rack. That doesn’t happen near Middlebury. Bernie Sanders happens near Middlebury.
Jonah looks a little too cheerful in the graphic for this podcast.
Outstanding Podcast. You really should come out with a transcript for some of these shows or right columns based on some of the points you made while recording. Bravo.
No, Skybalon, you win the math award. You are the only one who knew that JP mistook the median for the average. JG recognized an error, but he then mistook the median for the mode.
While on the topic of the mode, in French, my son just got a t-shirt with the following:
So after listening to Ricochet podcasts for a year, I finally joined, in the hopes that one day they could afford to have Lileks do all the sponsor segues. ;) This one cracked me up:
Rob: “Two asses diverged in a yellow wood. Oh, no, that’s the wrong one!”
John: “But guys! Guys, guys, guys! Can we talk about our new sponsor? RXBAR. I think we should talk about our new sponsor, RXBAR, because, uh, it’s time.”