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Zoom GLoP II: GLoP Harder (The Radio Edit)

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This past Sunday evening we ventured back into the Land of Zoom: our second GLoP Culture podcast captured on video. This is the audio of that event (the video is here on Ricochet and behind the paywalls at The Dispatch and Commentary).

This has everything you could possibly want - drinking, smoking, checkpoint running and Nazi monkeys - and that's just from Jonah! Meanwhile, JPod offers copious notes for Rob's new Texas-centric project. In other words, it's a GLoP.

Hosts:
John PodhoretzJonah GoldbergRob Long

Discussion (24)

  • kedavis@kedavis

    That “Indy doesn’t affect the outcome of the movie” thing is such, to use a JPod-ism… BS.

    Yes, without Indy the Nazis would have gotten the Ark and taken it to that island, and opened it, and THOSE Nazis would have died…

    And then the Ark would have wound up in a US government warehouse in NY or DC, right?

    Do tell.

  • Miffed White Male@MiffedWhiteMale
    Replyingtokedavis

    kedavis (View Comment):

    That “Indy doesn’t affect the outcome of the movie” thing is such, to use a JPod-ism… BS.

    Yes, without Indy the Nazis would have gotten the Ark and taken it to that island, and opened it, and THOSE Nazis would have died…

    And then the Ark would have wound up in a US government warehouse in NY or DC, right?

    Do tell.

    Actually, Indy made thing worse. As I recall (it's been a while since I last watched the movie), the original plan was for the Nazis to take the ark to Berlin and open it in the presence of Hitler. Indy talked them into opening it now so that they wouldn't be embarrassed if it was empty.

    If the original plan was followed, Hitler dies, and no WWII.

    (If I'm wrong and Indy didn't tell them to open it, then never mind).

  • kedavis@kedavis

    Actually it's Belloq who apparently set up the "test" opening, but I think that was because he was hoping to use the Ark's power for himself, as can be interpreted from other parts of the movie. And I don't think there's any reason to believe that Belloq came up with that only because of Indy being involved.

  • kedavis@kedavis

    Rob: "60% of Americans can work from home, and 40% can't."

    The 60% can work from home, and write articles about the 40% who can't, until the 60% can't get food at stores or delivered because the 40% aren't making it possible.

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