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Civility and Humility

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After several weeks of different combos for different reasons, The Big Three® are reunited and bring a power hitting show with them. First up, we talk southern cooking (Rob is hosting from Oxford, Mississippi, site of this year's Southern Foodways Symposium -- and please, it's a serious symposium -- not "an excuse to eat fried chicken..."). Then, the hosts debate impeachment and the White House strategy for defeating it. We shift gears and welcome Daniel Krauthammer on the occasion of the paperback debut of The Point of It All, the book he edited for his late father in the months before Charles passed away. Then, the great Victor Davis Hanson (partially great because his podcast The Classicist is available on the Ricochet Audio Network and partially great because his best selling book, The Case For Trump is the definitive resource in these troubled times). The segment is a how-to guide on defending the President in the sure to be turbulent next few months. Finally, what is the best Halloween candy? Our hosts weigh in (heh) on this vitally important topic. Leave your picks in the comments, please.

Note: we did not get to the Long Poll in the show this week, but we did post a new one. Please take it.

Music from this week's show: I Want Candy - The Strangeloves.

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
Daniel KrauthammerVDVictor Davis Hanson

Discussion (78)

  • Petty Boozswha@PettyBoozswha
    I agree with every jot and tittle of VDH's critique of the deep state and MSM, but our focus on being anti-anti-Trump is going to hurt conservatism in kind, if not in degree, the way that trendy American anti-anti-communism hurt the people of Cuba. Trump's character cannot be summed up as a few sexual peccadilloes, the man has been a straight out crook, embezzler, and fraud his entire life. If our legal system and bankruptcy courts treated the top .01 percent the way they treat the bottom 99 percent Trump would have closed out his working life as a bag boy in a supermarket, paying off a billion dollar judgment for restitution at $15 a month. The Kurds that trusted us are only the first to suffer for his failings, if we have five more years of his "leadership" without guardrails this country will be in a bad, bad place.
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