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New York! San Francisco! Our once grand cities are fast turning into... Yikesvilles. To help our hosts work up a diagnosis, The Ricochet Podcast needs the great Victor Davis Hanson. The quartet talk universities; they consider the unique top-down nature of this new wave of revolution, and discuss whether the country is in graver danger than it was in those dreadful 1970s.
Then James, Peter and Rob muse on the recently discarded standards of public decency vis-à-vis debased internet content and the all-to-common swear word.
Song of the Week:
- Sound clip is from New York Governor Kathy Hochul's remarks after the seeing the video of Jordan Neely's death
James Lileks
Peter Robinson
Rob Long
Discussion (39)
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Rhymes with ginpole?
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I’ve heard it said that the deleted expletives in the Nixon tapes were mostly goddams.
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And the bleeping made people imagine things so much worse. Though for me, the Lord's name in vain is in many ways more serious than an F-bomb.
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One of the late night comedians had a regular feature in which he would insert completely unnecessary bleeps into G-rated videos, with comical effect.
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Spicy for a Quaker.
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