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September 2022
Rob Long is in for Jim, Join Rob and Greg as they discuss why American feminists don't have much to say about women in Iran risking their lives for freedom - and when they do it gets really weird. They also groan as President Biden names the wife of his chief of staff as a "diplomat for plants and animals." Lastly, they get a kick out of lefties finally realizing that "Latinx" is only hurting their efforts to win back Latino voters - only to come up with an equally absurd name and declare war on Spanish language articles and pronouns.
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Greg Corombos
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June 2022
Rob Long is in for Jim. Join Rob and Greg as they cheer the energy industry bluntly rebutting President Biden's pathetic demonization of it by laying out how production, refining, and pricing actually work and how Biden's vow to end fossil fuels is directly responsible for skyrocketing energy prices. They also slam Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for trying to derail school voucher options for parents. And they look at the left's creepy war on pregnancy centers.
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Rob Long is in for Jim. Join Rob & Greg as they cheer a Republican victory in a very unlikely place. They are also excited to see the skyrocketing number of African-Americans purchasing firearms. They then go on to criticize the Biden administration for punishing border patrol agents for a "whipping" allegation that never actually happened.
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Rob Long is in for Jim. Join Rob & Greg as they cheer the major commitment the GOP is putting into winning over Latino voters as the Dems panic. They also sigh as the Justice Department appeals a judge's ruling ending mask mandates for planes and other transportation, but Rob explains the long game the DOJ is playing here. And they react to a Boston University professor who suggests the rampant property destruction in the riots of 2020 need to be understood in the context that property is inherently racist because black people were once considered property.
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Jim Geraghty
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May 2022
Join Greg and Rob Long as they hope reports of major downsizing at public schools over shrinking enrollment means public schools will need to compete for students and provide a much better education. They also cringe as Biden official Samantha Power seems happy that farmers are getting crushed by much higher fertilizer prices because it will accelerate the government's green agenda. And they shake their heads at the administration's latest COVID hypocrisy at the border.
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April 2022
Join Greg and Rob Long as they welcome a bipartisan Senate effort to stop the Biden administration from scrapping Title 42, better known as the Remain in Mexico policy for illegal immigrants. They also unload on Press Secretary Jen Psaki for not knowing how much worse the border crisis will get if Title 42 goes away - and also not seeming to care. And they shake their heads as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pushes for an end to natural gas in new buildings starting as early as 2027.
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Join Greg and Rob Long as they're glad to see Elon Musk becoming the largest shareholder of Twitter and they analyze how it will shake up the social media landscape. They also cover the Biden Administration's decision to rescind the "Remain in Mexico" policy which would more than double the number of illegal immigrants entering America each month. And Vice President Kamala Harris struggles with boilerplate Democrat talking points in an interview with BET, adding to the lengthy list of verbal mishaps that have plagued her term.
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January 2022
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Ricochet Founder Rob Long joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss why he's so optimistic about current and future American culture.
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Emily Jashinsky
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The Federalist
November 2021
Rob Long is in for Jim. join Rob and Greg as they cheer efforts to end changing the clocks twice a year and get a kick out of the fierce rivalry between activists trying to put an end to time changes. They also groan as inflation swells at the worst pace in more than 30 years. And they listen to another radical whom Loudoun County, Virginia, paid half a million dollars to stress that schools are no longer about learning.
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July 2021
Rob Long in for Jim today. Rob and Greg get a kick out of Democrats in multiple states gearing up for 2022 by not mentioning they are Democrats or by criticizing their own party. They also shudder as economists expect this inflation to last for years and media acts like Biden policies have nothing to do with it. And they discuss how horribly wrong President Biden was in claiming the illegal immigration surge at our border would taper off when the summer heat arrived.
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Rob Long is in for Jim. Today, Rob and Greg serve up two good martinis, plus a bad and a crazy. They start by getting a kick out of the Texas Dems' PR stunt getting more bizarre, as five members test positive for COVID while they remain on the lam. They welcome public denunciation of China's destructive hacking efforts but wonder just how tough the world will get in confronting Beijing. They also fire back at White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for suggesting that a user who is banned on one social platform for "misinformation" should be banned on all of them. And they get a kick out of the government renaming animals like Asian carp and gypsy moths to avoid offending someone.
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June 2021
Greg and guest host Rob Long celebrate a federal court in Louisiana ending President Biden's oil and gas lease ban on federal land. They also cringe as the Biden administration considers lifting sanctions on top Iranian institutions which finance terrorism. Lastly, they roll their eyes at California Gov. Gavin Newsom for failing to relinquish his state of emergency powers despite COVID-19 numbers being at all time lows in his state.
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Greg and guest host Rob Long discuss Jon Stewart's hilarious lab-leak rant, the Biden administration's ties to a Chinese foreign policy lobbying firm, and a Massachusetts school board's decision to ban "microaggressions" on all federally protected classes.
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Greg and guest host Rob Long discuss CNN calling VP Kamala Harris "cringeworthy" for her terrible answers on when she will visit the border, a possible nuclear disaster unfolding in China, and a New York Times article claiming Tom Hanks is "not racist" but must be "anti-racist."
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February 2021
July 2020
Rob Long is in for Jim again today. Today, Rob and Greg kick off the 2020 Major League Baseball season by enjoying a parody of how the Washington Nationals are failing to keep up with today's woke cultural standards. Then they cheer the U.S. for closing down the Chinese consulate in Houston. They also chronicle a massive failure in Minneapolis as the effort to replace police there proves rather challenging. And they roll their eyes as Joe Biden claims President Trump is America's first racist president for calling the coronavirus the Chinese virus. They also use the opportunity to bash the most racist president of in American history.
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Rob Long is in for Jim today. He and Greg appreciate the climate change crowd joining other far left activists in admitting what we've known for decades - that their real goal is to kill capitalism. Rob also tears into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his ongoing celebration of himself and for claiming people from other states are now flocking to New York to be safe from the virus. Rob also explains why countless New York businesses are on the brink of collapse because of Cuomo's callousness. And they have fun with Berkeley, California's decision to have unarmed civilian city workers make traffic stops instead of police.
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Rob Long is in for Jim today. Join Rob and Greg as they welcome encouraging news about a coronavirus vaccine. They also unload on the United Teachers Los Angeles union for wanting Medicare for All, a moratorium on new charter schools, a wealth tax, and defunding of police before they're comfortable going back into the classroom. And they have fun with the most predictable news of 2020...John Kasich will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention.
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June 2020
Your Friday martinis are served as Rob Long fills in for Jim. Today, they applaud Tim Scott for pointing out the Democrats didn’t block police reform because of what was in the bill but because of who was proposing it. They also wade into the scrutiny on some red states as their COVID infections increase, and they dissect the intense political debate over wearing masks. And they have fun with the news $1.4 billion in stimulus checks were sent out to dead people.
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Rob Long is in for Jim again Thursday. Today, Rob and Greg applaud Seattle businesses for suing the city for failing to provide essential services while local politicians coddled the radicals in the CHAZ/CHOP area. They also react to revelations in Peter Strzok's notes that Barack Obama and Joe Biden were in on the planning to target Michael Flynn and the Trump administration. And they unload on leftist radicals and their enablers as what supposedly started as an effort to rein in police brutality is now focused on tearing down a statue celebrating emancipation, destroying Mount Rushmore, and changing our national anthem.
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Rob Long is in for Jim again Wednesday. Today, they celebrate the news that the FBI found no evidence of a hate crime in connection to a "noose" found in the garage of Bubba Wallace but that doesn't stop Wallace and Al Sharpton from insisting something sinister happened. They also slam House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for saying the Republican police reform bill is tantamount to them getting away with the murder of George Floyd. And they discuss the primary election results showing another AOC-like Democrat headed to Congress from New York and wonder how America will react to vote counts lasting several days or even weeks come November.
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