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We're back from the holiday break and have Georgia on our minds. As such we welcome Erick Erickson, host of "Atlanta's Evening News" on WSB AM/FM, and he joins to us to analyze "suitcase-gate" and give us his take on January's double US Senate election in the Peach State. (Erick's podcast is available right here on Ricochet.)
Then we talk to old friend Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. As the Covid-19 vaccination comes to market, what's the best way to do it? Who gets priority and who shouldn't be bothered?
Eustace C. Scrubb walks away with the coveted Lileks Member Post of the Week for his essay on the passing of David Prowse, one half of the man behind Darth Vader.
Music from this week's episode: The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels.
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Erick Erickson knows his stuff.
Thanks for another great podcast guys.
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Rob Long is driven by not being embarrassed. That explains a lot.
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On The Crown.
I think that it was despicable on how Thatcher was portrayed. The Gillian Anderson, who portrayed her, did say she did not like her. I did not watch it, but the movie The Iron Lady, which was portrayed by Meryl Streep emphasized the elderly Margaret Thatcher.
Strangely, Thatcher's authorized biographer, Charles Moore has said that Anderson's portrayal was an accurate one. His three volumes on Thatcher are generally well regarded by Thatcher fans. My only explanation is that he conducted his interviews of her in her twilight years.
If you want a good look at Thatcher only two years before she assumed office, check out the Firing Line interview in 1977 when she was leader of the Tory opposition. She was said to be sexually attractive to the men who surrounded her, and I could see something of it during that interview. I suspect that she was a restrained flirt. Anderson's portrayal bleached all of that out.
I'm attracted to The Crown like a moth to a flame. I agree with Rob that the institution is useless, though I will say that I have some admiration for Queen Elizabeth.
Yet, I can't quite reach a suspension of disbelief when I look at Tobias Menzies's portrayal of Prince Phillip, as well as Olivia Colman's portrayal of Queen Elizabeth.
The Prince Charles portrayal by Josh O'Conner is believable, and so is Emma Corbin's of Princess Diana. Going by my own shallow knowledge of those two, I have the feeling that Charles is probably shown as slightly meaner, while Diana has some rough edges smoothed out. I don't remember what documentary I was watching but I remember someone saying that Diana was dumb as a post. I believe she was all EQ but no IQ (lots of empathy, but no real intelligence). And I think she was meaner towards Charles than is portrayed in The Crown, and probably was mean to the servants as well.
I had some sympathy with Prince Harry not wanting to play 2nd fiddle to his brother, but it went away when he tried to hold onto his titles as he moved away from Britain.
I have read some biographies of some of the Royals, post Queen Victoria, and I don't know why they do it, especially the ones who will not become the monarch.
The UK should kill off the monarchy when Queen Elizabeth dies, and I think it's in danger of fading away under Charles's leadership.
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To be fair, he’s far from being alone, which is part of why we are in the mess we are in.
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