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You know things are getting weird when the main topic in a presidential race is who's wearing masks and when. This week's guests - Robert Costa of The Washington Post and National Review's Jim Geraghty - help us understand the logic underneath the craziness. We even unmask the reasoning behind a recent Democratic ad designed to help a Republican on Ad of the Week!
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Henry Olsen
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Ricochet
July 2019
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
- Hosts:
James Lileks
Peter Robinson
Rob Long
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March 2018
November 2017
As more (Moore?) sexual harassment revelations (the Al Franken story was breaking as we were recording this show) appear, we thought it might be good to take a breather and visit (by phone) our old friend and ardent Ricochet fan, Purdue University President Mitch Daniels. We talk about the state of higher education, what he's doing at Purdue to combat student debt, and the place of academic institutions in society as a whole. But it's not all academic, as we're then joined by Washington Post political correspondent and host of PBS's Washington Week In Review's Bob Costa. he gives us the skinny on everything happening in Alabama and DC.
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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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May 2017
It's never a dull moment with the Trump administration and to parse everything that happened this week, we call on our good friend, former podcaster, and the newly minted host of Washington Week In Review Bob Costa. After that, we take a look back at the 2016 race with Jonathan Allen, co-author of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign. Also, taping, vaping, and narrative shaping. Yeah, we went there. Music from this week’s podcast: Shattered by The Rolling Stones 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! You prime the pump, @EJHill.
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Jon Gabriel