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1. Contributor
   Peter Robinson

   @PeterRobinson

   10:40 AM EST ⋅ Jan 10, 2015

   EJHill:

   What, oh, what, have I ever done to deserve this?

2. Podcaster
   EJHill

   @EJHill

   10:46 AM EST ⋅ Jan 10, 2015

   Peter Robinson: What, oh, what, have I ever done to deserve this?

   Well, your first mistake was not showing up for the podcast which led to all sorts of rumors, all of which I was happy to exploit.

   That’ll teach ya.

3. Inactive
   user_1938

   @AaronMiller

   10:58 AM EST ⋅ Jan 10, 2015

   Remember, Peter, the key to winning as a Republican in California is a foreign accent. Then you get the multicultural vote. Tell them Rob is your advisor and no one will suspect you of being a tyrannical Christian homophobe.

4. Inactive
   profdlp

   @profdlp

   11:25 PM EST ⋅ Jan 10, 2015

   Aaron Miller:Remember, Peter, the key to winning as a Republican in California is a foreign accent. Then you get the multicultural vote. Tell them Rob is your advisor and no one will suspect you of being a tyrannical Christian homophobe.

   Homophobes don’t knot their sweaters around their neck.

5. Inactive
   user_923420

   @RonKean

   12:43 AM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2015

   Did I hear a promo for a new sponsor that used the French killings as a sales point?  I was once a telemarketer in Missouri raising funds for local firefighters and they wouldn’t let us use 911.

   There are photos of regular people in the Gaza strip suffering in the rubble of their former homes.  Israel needed to bomb what it needed to bomb and was made angry enough to do it by blatant provocation. Will France suffer enough to do just that?

   French Mosques, apartment houses and neighborhoods in general may suffer the same fate soon and the western public may just have to get calloused to it.

   First they came for the Jews.  Then they come for the…

   There’s a not-so-funny joke going around now that France may have to divide itself into two states for two people living side by side in peace and security with Paris as its shared capital.

6. Member
   user_645

   @Claire

   2:29 AM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2015

   Basil Fawlty:A suggestion for Rob:When you have Claire on the podcast reporting from Paris about what’s going on in Paris, please don’t repeatedly interrupt her to quote from Time or the New York Times.Just let her talk.Thank you.

   I disagree. When you have an obviously tired and emotional person on your show who is–because of this–speaking too quickly (and who should know better, because she’s supposed to be a professional), you should interrupt her to remind her that she’s speaking too fast. If she’s the professional she thinks she is, she will understand why she’s been interrupted, what it means, and react by correcting the mistake. She will then modulate the pace of her speech to something appropriate for an audio broadcast. Thanks Rob–a fellow pro.

7. Member
   user_645

   @Claire

   2:33 AM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2015

   Aaron Miller:Wow, what a sobering report. A professional hit?

   I don’t understand what you think was strange about the maintenance man answering the gunmen’s question before being killed.

   You may be correct in your interpretation of this. I’ve now got thousands of pages of notes, of course, and as more information comes to light, it may become easier to reconstruct what happened to a more reasonable level of certainty–rather than the kind of hysterical speculation that’s entirely inevitable when things like this happen. There are many other aspects of this, though, that are so far suggesting that a lot of people need to up their game. All subjects for future posts.

8. Member
   Basil Fawlty

   @BasilFawlty

   

   4:58 AM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2015

   Claire Berlinski:

   Basil Fawlty:A suggestion for Rob:When you have Claire on the podcast reporting from Paris about what’s going on in Paris, please don’t repeatedly interrupt her to quote from Time or the New York Times.Just let her talk.Thank you.

   I disagree. When you have an obviously tired and emotional person on your show who is–because of this–speaking too quickly (and who should know better, because she’s supposed to be a professional), you should interrupt her to remind her that she’s speaking too fast. If she’s the professional she thinks she is, she will understand why she’s been interrupted, what it means, and react by correcting the mistake. She will then modulate the pace of her speech to something appropriate for an audio broadcast. Thanks Rob–a fellow pro.

   Oh, I don’t know.  I think listening to a tired and emotional person reporting from the scene of an atrocity added a certain compelling immediacy to the program.  Podcast gold, as it were.  Also, I’ve been listening to Ricochet Podcasts for a number of years and Rob doesn’t limit his interruptions to tired and emotional guests; I have a history of yelling “let the person finish” at my podcast player when he does it.  Had this been a therapeutic interruption, you might have been asked to clarify something you had just said.  Quoting at length from something someone at Time or The New York Times had written and asking you to comment on it seemed to me simply a nontherapeutic digression.  I understand  it’s nice to have a checklist of questions you want to ask a guest, but the checklist shouldn’t break the flow of the interview.

9. Coolidge
   Fake John Galt

   @FakeJohnJaneGalt

   10:08 AM EST ⋅ Jan 12, 2015

   Mark Wilson:Regarding Claire’s questions about why the maintenance worker told the shooters where the office was, and why the woman typed in the access code, I don’t find it surprising at all. Aggressive men with guns are usually able to get what they want from the fearful, innocent, and powerless.

   Anybody that has suddenly been on the wrong end of a gun held by a person that looks determined to use it understands that you do, say anything that might get said person to go away and not hurt you or yours.

   In the end it really does not really matter if you tell them what they want to know or open the doors for them.  These folks would have found what they wanted sooner or later, maybe they would had to kill more people to get there or blow the lock door open but they would have continued without these others help.

10. Inactive
    user_302979

    @Ron1954

    6:34 AM EST ⋅ Jan 15, 2015

    I’m in the UK and unable to listen to this via iTunes. When I try I get the message “This episode is temporally unavailable from The Ricochet Podcast”. Are they exercising censorship?