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Bodyslamming, Trump in Europe, the great Mollie Hemingway (you are hereby ordered to buy her new Encounter Broadside Trump vs. The Media right now), the lies we tell ourselves about terrorism (thanks John Kluge), and Peter Robinson once hung out with Roger Moore. No, we didn't know that either. Happy summer, everyone.

Music from this week’s podcast: Nobody Does It Better (The Spy Who Loved Me) by Carly Simon

The all new opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.

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Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guest:
MHMollie Hemingway

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  • outlaws6688
    The margins are shrinking because Republicans have allowed Democrats to create a whole new voting base from out of control immigration.
  • Jeff Peterson@PatJefferson

    James is of course right about the light touch Roger Moore brought to playing Bond, but he has forgotten a few pretty vicious kills, the more startling because of Moore’s performance. They appear in this clip at 0:23, 1:02, 1:44 (where the editor should be docked for omitting Bond’s tag line, “What a helpful chap!”), 2:14, 2:32, 3:07, and especially 5:05 (from “For Your Eyes Only,” Moore’s most Connery-esque Bond film; that clip also hurt by omission of dialogue). Plus a non-fatal honorable mention at 1:08:

    Also, Rob has forgotten the best bit of the snake incineration scene, which is Bond proceeding to use the aerosol for its intended purpose after using it to dispatch with the intruder (climax and denouement at 1:50):

  • EJHill@EJHill
    Do you know who wrote that abomination we call Obamacare? Some guy named Max Baucus. Anyone know where he was from? Oh, yeah. Montana. The state that has a Democratic governor, a Democrat in the Senate and was the home to Mike Mansfield, LBJ's Senate guide for all of his Great Society welfare programs.
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