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This week, Lileks is on vacation so we asked our good friend Larry Kudlow to sit in his chair as we welcome the Manhattan Institute’s and Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley to the show to discuss the events of the last week. Yes, we also cover the presumptive nominee, and Larry makes a valiant effort to convince one of the hosts to support his candidate. Was Larry successful? Tune in to find out.
Music from this week’s podcast:
What’s Goin’ On by Marvin Gaye
The brand new opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.
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3.0 has some… Er… Limitations. Here’s this week’s art outside of the embedded player.
Yeah, I will be making some adjustments to that, EJ!
Is there a way to directly download this?
I haven’t listened yet but the odds are not good. First my heros are taking a week off during the battle for 2016 and then you inviting the “anything to keep the stock price high guy to the program”. Disappointing. However, compared to Nice and BLM it is just another sign of decline.
Thanks, Max! I thought those symbols were Peter’s halo.
I think it’s sweet that Kudlow seems to believe that he’s been able to talk Trump into backing sound policy.
I don’t have time to listen right now, but I want to log that this was a perfect opportunity to use “Turning Japanese” in the podcast, and I’m sad you missed it.
No, thanks.
Kudlow’s last appearance was embarrassingly awful, and I have no desire to be subjected to that nonsense again.
Keep your wits, Rob! I’m looking forward to a better lineup next week.
I thought Kudlow was great, and should be on the podcast more often. He makes the most persuasive and reasonable case for Trump I’ve ever heard. He’d be a concession to those members who think the editorial slant of Ricochet is excessively anti-Trump, and also someone around to at least keep us #NeverTrump’ers intellectually honest.
My only objection to this podcast was Peter’s assertion that reaction to 3.0 was overwhelmingly positive and that he’d only heard “two and a half” complaints about it. So I guess the #3 most popular thread on the member feed escaped his notice?
Here’s a summary of what Kudlow said Ryan.
Another fine show. I of course missed Lileks’ wit and erudition, but Kudlow did an okay job of sitting in… even if at times he sounded more like an advance man for Trump than a Ricochet co-host.
Seems like being a Trump supporter these days is very like being a Maytag: You’re either washing or spinning. It’s pretty unbelievable, actually.
And finally, Jason Riley was so good (he always is) that I wish his segment could have been longer. Hope they’ll have him back soon.
“James is out. Who will they get to fill in those smooth, velvet tones I wond…. oh.”
Kidding aside, Kudlow is a good co-host. It’s an interesting dynamic to have opposition to Trump, tepid support of Trump/opposition to Hillary, and full-throated support of Trump on the same show. It was amusing to hear the “no, no, that was Trump 6 months ago, not Trump today” line of defense on economic policy.
I enjoy Kudlow and agree with him on many things , but can we stop with the verbal tic of always adding the mincing, cringing caveat of expressing admiration for MLK when talking to a black person. It’s unnecessary, tiresome and condescending. I understand it comes from 50 years of being beat over the the head by the press with the racism cudgel but if you always mentioned Moses to Jews or St Pat to the Irish it would only underscore that you actually are thinking in ethnic group terms rather than individual.
It sounds like Felix Unger trying to avoid the word midget.
I like Larry Kudlow a great deal, have liked him for years. However, he has become a shill for Trump, and, as such, has lost a lot of his credibility. He has repeatedly “reinterpreted” Trump’s statements in an effort to make them reasonable and thoughtful when they were, in fact, anything but reasonable and thoughtful.
At this point, I do not believe anything Trump will say in the convention that contradicts things he has said throughout his campaign. The fact that he will be reading a speech from teleprompter written by someone else does not mean that once in office that he will actually do what he says he will do or uphold the views he espouses at the convention. The mere reversals, almost on a daily basis, demonstrate that Trump has no core principles, and, therefore, will do whatever his mood calls for at the time. Once free from the need to get elected, he will show all of the same attributes we have seen in our current president, i.e., patent dishonesty and a complete disregard for what he promised to support.
It’s moderately interesting to listen to Larry Kudlow express his unfounded faith that there’s something presidential lurking inside Donald Trump. The fact that they can wind him up and play a speech out of his mouth doesn’t persuade me that he’s any different from the man who said (and didn’t apologize for saying) that his rival’s father was complicit in the Kennedy assassination, simply because the father gave an enthusiastic speech for his son.
That being said, I’ve heard it all before — and have stopped listening to Larry’s Richochet podcast, because it’s always the same.
I guess you were short-staffed this week, but you let Larry filibuster about Trump for what seemed like 5 minutes of Jason Riley’s time when Riley had much more interesting things to say.
For me, there are four icons in the upper right of the embedded player. One is a down arrow pointing into a tray. I click on that, a new player window opens and starts playing. I pause it, right click on the play symbol, save audio as, and accept the suggested file name. Most any browser will have similar behavior. I’m using Firefox on a Windows 7 laptop.
Precisely. I’ve always thought Kudlow insightful too. Hard to imagine what’s gotten into him. Seems like some kind of personal loyalty has overwhelmed his judgment. I don’t see any resemblance between Kudlow on Trump and Trump on Trump. Kudlow seems to be seeing what he wants to see rather than what’s there.
Indeed it is. There’s an episode of the British “Office,” where Ricky Gervais’s character goes to ridiculous lengths to persuade a black co-worker that he’s not a racist. At one point he walks up and out of the blue asks the guy if he saw a Denzel Washington movie that was on TV the night before. When the guy says no, Gervais says something like, “Oh it was fantastic. Denzel’s a genius. But he’s not my favorite actor of all time. You know who is?” The black guy shakes his head and Gervais, almost triumphantly, says, “Mr. Sydney Poitier.”
Then he smiles and walks away.
I like both Denzel and Sydney. Does this make me British? :-D
/not a racist
He said on his podcast that when he (Kudlow) was down and out, Trump was kind to him. Personal loyalty and gratitude is all well and good, but the fact that Trump was kind to a business pundit doesn’t prove that he’s competent to rule (and my impression is that he means rule) the nation.
The question for our time is this. Which Trump can we rely on to appear? TelePrompter Trump or Twitter Trump? My answer is that TelePrompter Trump is a mask he puts on. Twitter Trump is a window into his soul.
For me, questions about Trump’s “reliability” or “dependability” or the fact that he’s such a wild card miss the point.
Once Trump started braying about how Bush and Cheney deliberately LIED us into the Iraq war…
Once Trump said that McCain and thousands of other U.S. POWs were unworthy of his respect because “they got themselves captured” (Dear God!)…
Once Trump started repeating “I don’t know David Duke” five or six times as a way of weaseling out of condemning Duke’s support…
Once Trump stated flat-out that a respected U.S. jurist was incapable of being fair to him because “he’s a Mexican”…
Once Trump did any or all of these things (and more besides) he became, in my mind, irredeemable as a candidate.
As are millions of others…
Peter needs to click on his alert icon and see what happens.
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@basilfawlty @josephstanko We’re working on the delay in alerts and expect to have it fixed early next week.
Thank you. It’s extremely annoying.
Not able to listen. Repeatedly received an error message –“file does not exist”. How do I correct this problem? Thanks.
@temptime Where are you trying to listen? On the website? If so, disable your ad blocker. If it’s on a mobile device, delete the feed and re0-subscribe. If all else fails click on this link.