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There’s only one more show until the big live extravaganza (where there’ll be plenty of swanning, apparently). In this prelude to our big night in Los Angeles, we discuss the blackballing of Mike Huckabee, snow days in Washington D.C. (courtesy of guest Jonah Goldberg), umlauts vs. diaereses, and…puppies. Then, Victor Davis Hanson drops by to opine on Obama, entitlements, and whether he’ll ever run for Governor of California. He didn’t say no!

Music from this week’s episode:

Swan Lake Ballet Suite, Op. 20 by Pyor Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Ricochet Podcast opening theme was composed and produced by James Lileks.

Nice codpiece, EJHill

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    @Foxfier

    “You dirty rat, you killed my brother, neeeeeh!”

    *Home Alone Action*

    Not sure he’ll feel great about his work living on…

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    @Sabrdance

    Am I the only one to whom “Your Dirty Rat” entered the cultural memory via the first or second Ninja Turtles movie?  (Mikey liked to do impressions).

    Quoth April: “That must be Splinter’s favorite!”

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    @ParisParamus

    Umlaut is actually a very good name for a medium-sized or larger dog.

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    @Foxfier
    Sabrdance: Am I the only one to whom “Your Dirty Rat” entered the cultural memory via the first or second Ninja Turtles movie?  (Mikey liked to do impressions).

    Possibly until now!

    Curse it, now I’ve got the ‘ninja rap’ in my head.

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    @Foxfier

    Here.

    Have you ever seen a turtle get down?

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    @TheQuestion
    Whiskey Sam: Nice touch with Swan Lake at the end.  I still can’t hear that without immediately thinking of the 1930’s Universal horror movies that used it as an opening cue under the title cards. · 6 hours ago

    When I hear that recording, I think of “The Mummy” with Boris Karloff.

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    This could be arranged…

    Nick Stuart: The podcast I would pay to hear is Adam Carolla doing a long form interview with Victor Davis Hanson (90 minutes with VDH, skip the fluff). They have such similar thoughts about the state of the State of California (each expressing those thoughts in their own inimitable fashions).

    Anybody who can hook that up will be doing a mazel for the masses. · 5 hours ago

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    @Foxfier

    YES PLEASE NOW.

    (pardon the caps)

    Blue Yeti: This could be arranged…

    Nick Stuart: The podcast I would pay to hear is Adam Carolla doing a long form interview with Victor Davis Hanson (90 minutes with VDH, skip the fluff). They have such similar thoughts about the state of the State of California (each expressing those thoughts in their own inimitable fashions).

    Anybody who can hook that up will be doing a mazel for the masses. · 5 hours ago

    14 minutes ago

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    @JClimacus

    There are in fact other ship sinking films since Titanic Poseidon, a remake of The Poseidon Adventure, comes to mind.

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    @SParker

    James, you err.  Peter would Isadora Duncan himself on VDH’s tractor.  Sarah Bernhardt died “peacefully in the arms of her son” of uremia, a consequence of kidney failure.

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    @StephenTielemans
    The old 40’s and 50’s Warner Brothers cartoons were also the best education exposures on classical music for a youngster.  I stopped counting how many times have I’ve heard a classical piece in life and wasn’t taken back to a Robert Clampett or Chuck Jones cartoon.  Can you can listen to “Flight of the Valkyries” without doing an Elmer Fudd-like “Kill the waa-bbit, kill the waa-bit, kill the waa-bit”?
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