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Since our plans to hide away forever at a remote Minnesotan lake house were dashed – on account of James not having one for us – we decided instead to jump on into the mucky swamp that’s swallowed up our institutions. At least we have Eli Lake (who, as you’ll hear, knows everybody) to tour us through the law enforcement agencies who’ve undermined their standing with the public in order to get the guy who they blame for undermining the public’s trust in them…
Also, the hosts chat some about the former rep from Wyoming; a Florida judge who hopes to stop Gov. DeSantis from stopping the woke; Lileks is seeing a resurgence of masking; plus, Rob had lunch with Viktor Orbán!
(And check out Eli’s podcast.)
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Naw, cuz someone could prop up a portable TV on the passenger seat and be watching that instead of paying attention to driving. That doesn’t mean all broadcast TV must be stopped, Just In Case. Nor that DVD sales must be outlawed, because someone might be watching a DVD movie instead of paying attention… those are the responsibilities of the drivers. Too many drivers don’t observe them, and they should be seriously hammered when caught.
Yeah, the authorities aren’t going to do anything about outlawing talk radio because there is nothing to do about it. The authorities already control phone calling in a moving car.
Is this moving the needle with anybody? lol
Then why are you in favor of unnecessary election reforms?
I know somewhere, this is moving the needle on somebody. lol
Listening to podcasts etc distracts the mind, regulations on making phone calls in cars are about “distracting” the HANDS, which are needed for other things while driving. I’ve not heard of any place restricting hands-free phone calls, although arguably they should.
You were the one that brought in phoning, not me.
Your beef is with them not outlawing talk radio in cars. I would recommend starting with a strongly worded letter.
I thought I was clear about that. The obligation is for drivers to not be distracted. That’s for the drivers to deal with, whether that means not eating, not putting on makeup, not reading the paper… and not trying to seriously listen to podcasts, or books-on-tape, etc.
If you want to put on a sandwichboard and walk around with this concept, I’m behind you 100%.
AND ANOTHER THING: if I ever find out that you have poorly comprehended a podcast and you don’t listen to it again I’m going to be really mad.
Likewise my theory that getting kicked in the testicles is more painful than childbirth. My evidence? Lots of women have more than one child. No guy (with very few exceptions) wants to get kicked in the testicles more than once.
I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe. lol
LETS MAKE THIS LONG!
Maybe if there was something more to it than just pain…
Meanwhile, there actually is a fetish for getting kicked in the testicles, aka “ball-busting.” Some men actually hire people to do it to them, “for pleasure.”
OF COURSE THERE IS. THIS IS SO INTERESTING.
I am totally pro-Internet! lol
Perhaps one of the silver linings of our current gender-confused moment will be to find out once and for all which one hurts more.
Of course (the vast majority of) podcasts are disposable entertainment.
Well I only listen to a few, so I guess I don’t have that perspective.
If I’m listening to something as just disposable entertainment, that I wouldn’t even pay much attention to while listening and certainly wouldn’t care about remembering, why bother with “talking heads?” Music is better for that.
I think you secretly wish you were Nicolae Ceaușescu.
You can admit it. If you don’t, I am going to diagnose you with narcissistic personality disorder.
Nothing is more disposable than news. News is an open jar of mayonnaise in 85° weather.
I listen to and save the good ones, that are valuable and useful even years later.
https://www.adrive.com/public/DS9Nut/NARN%2012-02-06%20NARN%201%20Hour%202%20Mark%20Steyn.mp3
WELL THAT SETTLES IT
The end of downtown office culture in small and medium sized cities does feel like a loss. But commuter culture in the largest cities, centered around central skyscraper-ridden office districts, was immiserating and unsustainable. It was going away regardless, or rather morphing into something else. It will take a generation or two to sort out office real estate.
Could Eli Lake and Rob Long find me more contemptible than they do now? I don’t see how. This podcast really hurt until I realized I was helping to pay for the glib mockery of my certainty that Biden’s win was not “fair and square,” that Liz Cheney’s behavior on the J6 committee has been shameful, and that MTG And Kari Lake are worthy candidates. I’m getting what I deserve and have helped fund, apparently, when I can get it free from the mainstream press and the current administration. I will miss James Lileks though; he is what brought me to Ricochet and my loyalty to him has kept me here.
@jameslileks – Let’s have lunch at Andrea Pizza one day and we can commiserate over masks and the end of downtown Minneapolis. I have to work in the office Tuesdays and Wednesdays and would work down there more if gas didn’t cost so much, my company would provide peons like me parking, MetroTransit was actually safe – I used to ride the Blue Line but things were getting dicey even before Covid – and they gave me my 452 express bus back which they took away, and there weren’t so many weirdos hanging out in the skyways. The Eagan Costco is filled with young people in masks and it makes me angry every time I go. I want to move my family but of course we’re stuck. But isn’t it great that the Great Minnesota Get Together is back on and Walz will be re-elected in a landslide? Isn’t there supposed to be some really cool Minnesota think tank that is working to make things better for conservatives here? If there is I sure haven’t noticed anything improving. There, now I’m even more depressed.
Did you say, “This guy”?
The real question about 2020 is whether the election was stolen legally, or stolen illegally.
By “stolen legally”, I am referring to the suppression of the New York Post on Biden family corruption by Facebook and Twitter and Google; as well as Mark Zuckerberg employing loopholes to contribute $420 million to “fix” the election process in Democrat districts.
Given how close the election was in swing states, these Big Tech interventions — which, I’m sure, you do not deny — almost certainly decided the election.
The extent to which the election was “stolen illegally”; e.g., by things like 100% turnouts in Wisconsin nursing homes, is still in dispute. (“What, you want to disenfranchise Senile Americans!”)
I prefer to think of it as supporting conversations such as this one. Anyway it’s not my $5 per month that enables Rob to hang out in Hungary and then swan about Tunisia for a week.
Seems like I’ve read somewhere that the “Zuckbucks” stuff was actually illegal at the time, they just got around it somehow. Or maybe just did it anyway, figuring there would be no punishment.
Not very much of it under ordinary legal theories. They blew it in Wisconsin, for sure.
As Al Gore said, “there is no controlling authority”. If Dems want to run elections outside the “time and manner” rules of the legislature, who is there to stop them? Democrat judges?
Even supposed Republican/conservative judges ran and hid.