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It’s the dog days of summer and that means we load the podcast up with a panoply of guests. To kick things off, the great Victor Davis Hanson, who opines on the academic view of Trump and the Iran deal. Then, the dulcet tones of David Limbaugh (aka El Rush Bro) joins. Yep, he also has some views on The Donald as well as Hillary. Not to be missed. Finally, stick around as we give some podcast fame (and advice) to our summer interns. Also not to be missed.
We’re off next week for a little R&R. See you on the flip side, folks.
Music from this week’s episode:
I Can’t Feel My Face by The Weekend
The opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.
A little bit louder now, EJHill.
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Seconded on Krikorian. Have him on more.
Mark K. is OK, but the real resource on the refugee scam, and a person Ricochet ought to welcome to its podcasts, is Ann Corcoran of RefugeeResettlementWatch.
Yeah exactly the two things about which I was going to comment! Love the Aubrey reference. I’m 9 months into my second reading of the series. I simply can’t get enough.
Some Aubreyites identify yourself.
And that I can’t feel my face song at end was great. Horrible white man dancing triggered. Off to iTunes to get some mo’ of dat.
They’ll never top the one last winter(?) when Rob interrupted his segue and James said [approximately] “screw it, I’m going for coffee” and walked away. There was kind of a nervous silence before Peter asked “has he done this before” and Rob said “No, this is new”. I almost drove off the road I was laughing so hard.
I think they need their own podcast.
How fun to hear from interns William and Spencer!
Was James’ last segue so smooth because Rob had already left?
Thank you for bringing on excellent guests! And thank you for your site and your podcast.
VDH is right to advise the other non-Trump candidates to pick up and carry the Trump banner on certain topics. My personal hope is that Fiorina will be the one to do it. But VDH, and the rest of the podcast, are spectacularly (and frustratingly) wrong in explaining The Rise of Trump.
Sure, we’re “angry” about Obama and his policies. But that’s irrelevant. The key to Trump is that we have had it with feckless conservatives who sell us out. Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Rove, etc. We want leaders to lead, not warm the bench and cave on every issue and who care not that they advance the progressive cause every time they stand carefully aside history timidly asking it to slow down a bit.
I say “we” but I’m not a Trump supporter. I will, however, vote for him if none of the other candidates show that they understand the “political class” problem on the conservative side of the ledger.
If voting for Trump is what we need to send that message and blow up the useless conservative elites, so be it. The more that VDH and Ricochet and others dismiss (and have contempt for) the anger at our own side, the farther away we are from any sort of reconciliation.
I wish someone would relay this to Professor Hanson.
We may assume Trump is all over the place or we may assume there’s a method to his seeming incoherence.
Professor H. has said many times that it’s best to be unpredictable in a war. This is war (kinda).
Same in negotiation. Start out any way you want, off the wall then concede or take as time goes on. This is only the beginning.