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This week, Steve Hayward sits in for Rob (just a scheduling issue, not a Big Trip) and we’ve got British free speech advocate Laurence Fox and our good and very smart friend Dr. Jay Bhattacharya back to give some advice and comment on the state’s emerging plans to re-open. Also, a recent survey has some surprising results and Steve and Peter defend a maligned movie.
Music from this week’s show: The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) by Ylvis
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Laurence Fox is the kind of man that American progressive teachers have been working hard to breed out in the last 20 years with the War Against Boys in the public schools.
Great guests! Been a huge fan of Fox and Inspector Lewis for years.
Maybe because Steve Hayward started the squirrel discussion, James never said which maligned movie he’d been watching, that motivated the post.
The opening discussion after the poll questions was a great show of three different, but very knowledgeable perspectives coming together with slightly varied possibilities for the state of politics in America at this moment. Could it be that Nancy Pelosi understands the voters are smarter and more informed (and able) to make their own opinions on these cultural issues/events and norms, but the increasingly authoritative bent of progressives doesn’t want the public to wield that power? Maybe Nancy and Chuck Schumer see the current flows stronger with the AOC’s and Omar’s and they’re just trying to keep the last bit of their power amongst the left?
And I can’t emphasize enough how wonderful it was to be introduced to Mr. Fox. What a great segment. Both of our nations could take heed of Milton’s words on censorship in his Areopagitica. From start to “The Sound of Music”, this was another great show. Thank you!
I put that at the end of the original post.
(And yes, now I am just messing with you.)
Fox inspired me to write a post with his final comments: Move the Middle.
Farage, like Reagan, won elections by boldly stating truth as he saw it. Fox will gain popularity in the same way. Forget focus groups. Just say what you believe and let people surprise you.
Speaking of “sensible leftism”. This is very wonkish, but everybody needs to take a crack at trying to understand this. This lays out why Socialism and populism are going crazy right now and I think it explains Nancy Pelosi’s behavior as outlined in the podcast.
https://investresolve.com/podcasts/mike-green-the-fourth-turning-and-reimagining-the-american-dream/
@stevenhayward @peterrobinson it would also be perfect for VDH. The guy that is being interviewed lives in the bay area. I’ve seen multiple videos and interviews of this guy and he’s really smart.
You guys might not have the time to deal with this but you should pass it on to someone else that does.
The Fantastic Mr. Fox announced today.
Outstanding! Thanks @ejhill for posting this! After listening to the gentlemen’s discussion and seeing this, maybe there’s a takeaway for politicians in America. The intolerant liberals & shut-down forever crowd really don’t have the numbers behind them, but right now they have the loudest voices. A strong leader from the right with a similar message could have a great impact. And it’s big enough to just be on constant defense of our Constitutional rights, they must always be front and center, asserted as the raison d’etre. And Mr. Fox is absolutely correct, and it’s something the left has convinced people wrongly about conservatives, that diversity/tolerance and a national, patriotic identity are mutually exclusive. Messaging is so powerful.
Yes!
Nancy Pelosi’s going with the left because she’s a leftist.
Critics hated The Sound of Music from the start*. I know this from the Wikipedia entry for it. Which I know because I was curious whether the men were wearing coat and tie were because it was shot in Cinerama (a 3-camera/projector wide-format process used for a very small number of films, How the West Was Won being one) and Peter saw it in a Cinerama theatre. Going to the first ones of those was a big deal and people may not have fully recovered by 1965. The movie, however, was shot in Todd-AO, which was a single camera wide-format process meant for a curved screen (like Cineramas had, so maybe). I suspect the answer is that the men were wearing coat and tie because their wives told them to. Why get complicated?
(Personally, I saw it because my mother somehow thought that what a 13-year-old boy needs to see in the summer of 1965 in a strange city is musicals (My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins) and not Help. She did not go with me as she did not like movies, Gone With the Wind and Auntie Mame being the only exceptions I’m aware of. Now there’s some therapist fodder for you.)
*I’m sure everyone involved in the production wore out the Liberace line “I cried all the way to the bank.”
In French, a final (orthographic) -d is silent before a consonant but may “surface” as [t] before a vowel, so pied-à-terre is [pjetaˈtɛʁ]. Bon appétit is [bɔːnæpeɪˈtiː], no nasalized vowel, no final -t…Ah, but though French may not be not the forte of the Richochet trio, the political analysis is superb. I was particularly cheered this time by Peter Robinson’s forceful argument that Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are simply charging ahead, public opinion and the next elections be damned. I say “cheered” because it suggests that those of us non-professional observers and commentators who are feeling quite dismayed are not delusional. The leftists who triumphed in the last elections are, it seems, just a ruthless as we take them to be. If the flip-side of ruthlessness is carelessness, there may be a sharp reaction that will yet save the republic.
I like the sound of your mother.
I enjoy your post-show corrections so much that I’m going to make an effort to mispronounce a great deal of French en l’avenir.
It’s really quite simple.
Exactly. Glad to hear someone saying it.
Gotta say, I’m loving this man.
Now, about Pelosi. She’s not afraid of losing an election because they just lost one and it didn’t matter. They cheated, they got caught, and nobody did anything about it. On the contrary, most of our leaders defended them. Now they’re trying with HR.1 to legalize all of the cheating they used. So why should they care.
That seems like a pretty accurate description of George Will and Jonah Goldberg, among others.
Among others.
I don’t think there was an Austro-Hungarian navy in 1933. It probably ended in 1918.
He was a captain in WW1.