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With Peter up in the air, we needed a guest to lift our grounding in the Metaverse. Enter Walter Kirn: novelist, memoirist, Substacker and Tweeter extraordinaire and now a resident of Montana. Walter gives his take on never-ending mask madness, flying the coastal coop, and his upcoming book: There's a Bear in the House! The man hold no punches at a time when a red-pill a day keeps the kooky bores away.

Rob and James marvel over the number 30 trillion; they weigh in on CNN's latest severed head; plus Whoopi Goldberg and humorlessness generally.

And Rob really wants you join Ricochet–the best place for free speech on the net!

Music from this week's podcast: Montana by Frank Zappa

Hosts:
James LileksRob Long
Guest:
Walter Kirn

Discussion (35)

  • kedavis@kedavis
    ReplyingtoMark Alexander

    kedavis (View Comment):

    I remember when Rob was moving to New Orleans, permanently. It was sometime last year, as I recall. And then… nothing.

    Mark Alexander (View Comment):

    There’s nothing like seeing 3-inch roaches that fly and also waiting on the edge of your refrigerator for when you open it.

    Apparently he's been a visitor several times, you'd think he would have known that already before announcing that he would be living there.

  • J Ro@JRo

    FYI, I was just listening to this podcast episode on the Apple Podcasts app and around 35 mins in it stopped playing. When I checked my iPhone to continue the episode, I found that the Ricochet Podcast home page in the app indicates “No unplayed episodes” and when the “See all” Episodes button is clicked all the previous episodes are gone except for the 31 Dec 2021 “Remembering Rush” episode.

    Thought you should know, it appears you’ve been canceled and memory holed at Apple. “It just works.”

    Edit: the Ricochet Podcast homepage seems to have been restored

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