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Is Tony also “smaller” than dennis franz?
“I understand a Republican’s viewpoint, I really do. I don’t dislike them as much as I used to. ”
Yeah, I wouldn’t get too excited about Perry there. That attitude is really no different than someone like a Steve Jobs that, while he didn’t want Democrats squashing business, he was still a committed Democrat.
And do you really read all 21 comments to get material for your podcast? You are very hard working conservatives.
Small style issue, Owen. I don’t know if this can be accomplished in the current Ricochet tech state, but you might want to add “Tracked and Targeted” to the post headline, for those of us who don’t open every headline.
Fixed.
I hate to break it to Perry, but “paying a bit more” when you’re paying 97% of all income taxes collected stops sounding reasonable at about the 50% of all income taxes collected level.
The problem with banalities is the generalized, sweeping nature of the statement. If you get what I mean. But he does seem to get that even a married couple, say, making $200K year between them, and has a house and kids, is about as far from rich as you can be, especially in places like California. I’m not saying they’re suffering; I’m saying, as he seems to realize, that at a certain point asking for more is wrong. What he doesn’t seem to understand is why the gov’t keeps asking for more, and what in the hell are they spending it on?
Oh, and Perry – don’t forget the $17 trillion we’ve borrowed that we have to pay back. That’s just in addition to what we’re currently being scraped for by the IRS.
I agree with your point, but I just wanted say that we shouldn’t use the term “ask” when talking about raising taxes. The government doesn’t “ask” people to pay higher taxes!
I am going to assume that I am “one of the repressed.” So I cut this off at short of 10 minutes. Whoever these people are for, they are not for the positions I find important.
I’ll give this pod another shot, but I thought the first one was rather lame.
Wacka, Wacka, Whacky!
Finally, more haters! I was beginning to wonder what was wrong. Soon, we will try this live and people can complain in real time. That really is the highest and best use of the Internet. Well, that and never having to think about toilet paper purchases again thanks to my Amazon Prime subscription.
For the record, I’m pretty sure the guy asking for more silly sound effects was being sarcastic…
I know you have a no guest policy, but if you could include Peter Robinson in one of these I think it would be loads of fun, that is if his head didn’t explode or he didn’t become so freaked out that he tried to strangle one of you with the sweater tied around his neck.
We haven’t ruled out guests filling in when one of us is unavailable. There is a strict vetting policy however, mostly having to do with a lack of pants.
Maybe the podcast-as-booze reference would be, “Putting the snark in Cutty Snark”?
“I have a strong pro-orgasm agenda…”
When did Tom Leykis take over Ricochet?
Thanks for the heads up on “True Detectives” season two. I have mixed feelings on the concept, but learning that there will be a new cast gives a big boost.
For me, “True Detectives” was uneven from the start. I nearly quit after the first two episodes. Still, there was enough to barely keep me, and the “good enough” got better. Performances by those two was top notch. And the guys were pretty good, too. <g>
And yet…it kinda fell flat again at the end. Part of this is due to how they handled “The King in Yellow,” and yes, I had already read that quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. Playing with that matter for a TV show is playing with eldritch fire, so they had to drop it. I can appreciate it in a certain sense, since, ahem <SPOILERS>, the book sorta does the same thing, but still.
Another part of flat-falling is how, in my experience, the episodes used a “stretching out” of tension that felt like padding, or “running out the clock.” Such that, for TD’s big ending, I felt like they had switched the channel over to the ending of Senor Speilberg’s “E.T.” because, uh, they had run out of paint.
Acting great, camera work great. I fault the writing.
I always thought it was whiskey in Rye.
I enjoy the chemistry between these three guys, the fast-pace, and the irreverence of their humor. Also, it’s aggressive in attacking liberalism’s failures & hypocrisies, while exploring how to make conservatism more welcoming to non-conservatives.
A suggestion, I believe this pair cottoned on to your format awhile ago and mastered it.
Couldn’t hurt to give them a look see.
I’m sure you guys would NEVER be intentionally non-inclusive, but I was swilling an Old Fashioned when I heard you say that “no one drinks rye.” I’m not easily offended (being that I’m a white male,) and true, it was made with a merely rye-heavy Bonded Old Grand-Dad. But still, I think I experienced my first microaggression (being that I’m a white male.) I won’t even mention that I’m a Grateful Dead fan; it’s one of two things I have in common with Ann Coulter (being that I’m a white male.) Did I just reveal too much?
“Climate Church.” I love it! We should always refer to them now as “Climate Change Fundamentalists.”
We really do appreciate the comments, even the ones from people who take everything WAYYYYYYYY too seriously. We’re here to heal.
I like that theory, as it’s pretty clever. Though Rye, New York isn’t really the next town over from New Rochelle … Mamaroneck is. But “drinking whisky in Mamaroneck” lacks a certain lyrical quality.
I have no idea what rye is. I’m from Arizona. We have beer there.
I listen to you boys on my way to work in the morning, so I enjoy the noise, energy level and laughter (no sarcasm from me). This show is a complete departure from the rest of Ricochet stuff which tends to be a bit more subdued, so I appreciate the opportunity to hear some very funny conservative guys yapping and like that the site will give you guys a spot to work this out (which shows that conservatives love diversity).
Free for all topic next week–the Bill Simmons kerfuffle. I agree with others that his crime was in giving wedgies to his Bristol Bosses, not that he (like everyone else) called the NFL Commissar names. I like Simmons’ podcast, and really like the Grantland site (Holly Anderson rules!), but honestly, how much NBA stuff can normal people take? I listened to one of his things with Jalen Rose and for an hour they talked about player contracts, not players or the game. Yeesh.
Keep it up, fellas–great tabasco!
I really enjoyed the section on the precious-snowflake millennials. There are some topics to which only the T&T approach can do justice.
“Things about millenials: They don’t understand the aging process.” HAHAHA!!!
Congratulations to all three on “Tracked & Targeted.” I just chanced upon Episode 3 and liked it so much I went back and listened to the first two. Great chemistry!
As far as guests, only invite ones you can be snarky with.