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Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

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It's finally here: 2025! And your favorite podcast is finally back in order to maintain some continuity in these tempestuous times. James, Charles and Steve cover raging fires in Los Angeles and the jaw-dropping incompetence of the Golden State's leadership. On a cheerier note, they enjoy the changes taking place in Canada and at Meta, Inc.

Plus, Dan MacLaughlin joins today to discuss Jimmy Carter's legacy, and, given Dan's title as the baseball crank, the gang has at a few questions on the great American game.

New times, end times, and national pastimes. What more can you ask for?

- From today's open: Embarrassing exchange between anchors and reporter at KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles

Hosts:
Charles C. W. CookeJames LileksSteve Hayward
Guest:
DMDan McLaughlin

Discussion (3)

  • Wolfsheim@Wolfsheim

    To all, a Happy Year of Serpent, as we say in East Asia.

    I heartily agree, admittedly with no direct evidence, that there are those who indeed welcome the Los Angeles fires. They see it as Gaia’s judgment on sinful humanity—or at least on sinful colonialists. It’s a neopagan version of dies illa, dies irae, solvet saeclum in favilla, except that it should be expressed in the language of the Delta smelt.

    John Lennon’s “Imagine” is rather popular in Japan, no doubt because of the tune, as few understand the lyrics, though Jimmy Carter, Sunday School teacher though he was, may not have grasped them terribly well himself…

    A British friend has just written: “Liverpool Airport is named after John Lennon and its slogan is (you probably guessed) ‘Above us only sky’. But people whose luggage didn’t arrive there suggested it be changed to ‘Imagine no possessions’.”

  • J Ro@JRo
    If online sources are correct, Ted Turner bought the Braves in January 1976. If they cost him $12 million, as Steve Hayward remembers, that was a lot of money. A new 1976 Cadillac cost about $10,000 and Jimmy Carter’s FY77 federal budget was $409.2 billion.
  • kedavis@kedavis

    Not a bot. James was just "funnin'" or doesn't remember or doesn't realize we've exchanged direct/personal emails including regarding his planned "appearance" on the Dennis Miller Radio Show. I called in to the Hugh Hewitt show a few times, maybe including when he was on I don't remember, guest-host/guest Dean Barnett emailed me once after the show acknowledging I was right when he challenged anyone to name a "comedy movie with a tear-jerker ending," I mentioned "All Of Me" with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin; and I called into Northern Alliance Radio Network a few times in the past.