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We couldn't call it a year without both Founders on board, so with Rob out and about (there are rumors that he's actually working...) we actually present our penultimate episode for the Year of Our Lord 2022. James and Peter work a two-man booth and they go fission for clean energy, talk about the journo meltdown on Twitter and then talk a little football... or is it soccer? We also welcome in our old friend William McGurn, a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and author of the weekly "Main Street" column for the Journal each Tuesday. He is an longtime observer of the Communist Chinese Party and brings us up to date on Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai.
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James Lileks
Peter Robinson
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July 2021
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August 2019
Hey, don't laugh -- we could do it (and another President reportedly thought about it too). So yes, we discuss that, a troubled Congressional trip to the Holy Land, the great Kevin Williamson on his new book The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in an Age of Mob Politics, and the WSJ's Bill McGurn on the turmoil in Hong Kong (he knows the city well -- he lived for ten years. Also, how did the name Ricochet come to land upon this blessed website? You'll have to tune in for the answer to that one. Music from this week's show: Fight the Power by Public Enemy
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September 2018
We've reached peak news cycle. So much going on. And when that happens, we reach out to people who make it their business to cover the news: that's the WSJ's Bill McGurn and the Washington Post's Bob Costa. They help us sort through the Kavanaugh controversy, the scandals in the Catholic Church, trade wars with China, and some predictions about the upcoming mid-terms. Also, Rob Long deconstructs the old show biz adage that "nobody knows anything." Listen! Music front his week's podcast: Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do by Billie Holliday
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Rob Long
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December 2017
This week, a run through Jerusalem with the Washington Free Beacon's Matt Continetti and then back home to Alabama guided by the Wall Street Journal's Bill McGurn. Also, Lileks on Franken and what's next for Minnesota, Peter Robinson goes for a ride on the Orient Express, and what do they call a Quarter Pounder on Vulcan? Tune in to find out. Music from this week's episode: One Never Knows, Does One by Billie Holiday
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July 2017
The President is on the record, the WSJ's Bill McGurn talks about Charlie Gard, The Washington Post's Bob Costa on the mood in DC, @Lileks ponders Russian history, Long wonders who's going to get fired, and Robinson has one last question. Or three. Music from this week’s podcast: Charlie Don't Surf by The Clash The all new opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks. Yes, you should absolutely subscribe to this podcast. It helps! And leave a review too! And for Peter’s sake: JOIN RICOCHET TODAY. Mon dieu, @EJHill!
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