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This week on The Big Show, we inch our way back to normal with our first show in weeks without a COVID-19 specific guest. That's not to say we don't talk about it -- we do, and then some. But the new cycle means that we have to address those icky charges against Joe Biden and to do that we call on the Ricochet Podcast's Senior Sex and Gender Correspondent, the great Mollie Hemingway (yes, she's also a Fox News contributor and a Senior Editor at The Federalist, but we had her first). We go deep on Tara Reade's accusations, and how the media is (or isn't) covering this story. Then, our old friend (and WSJ columnist) Bill McGurn stops by to discuss his recent column Communists in Brooks Brothers, in which he describes the struggles of Martin Lee. Also, some news on other dissidents in Hong Kong, and a bit of politics. We've got a Lileks Post of The Week about ratting on your neighbors and some closing thoughts on what the heck may be going on in The Hermit Kingdom.
Music from this week's show: Me and Bobby McGee by Kris Kristofferson
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Moar Mollie!
That is all.
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Mollie is a consistently great guest.
But that promo picture! Nightmare fuel.
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Oh, and "Me and Bobby McGee" — excellent choice, but dude ... I know Kristofferson wrote it, but Janis owned it.
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She absolutely owns it -- you'll get no argument from me on that. But everyone has heard that version 10,ooo times. It's great, but wildly overplayed.
I really like the simplicity and stripped down nature of Kristofferson's cover. Seems more fitting for this particular moment. (Yes, I know Joplin's version is technically the cover, but it was recorded years before this one and is far better known).
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I don't know who played piano on Kritofferson's cut. Janis had Richard Bell, and he was cookin' too.
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