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The Squad

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Due to some scheduling issues, we're a couple of days early this week but that doesn't mean we're scrimping on the content. James is taking this week off, so Rob and Peter drive the bus themselves (as Peter mentions in the show, do check out James' Twitter feed). We're not scrimping on the guests either: we've got Washington Post chief political correspondent (and former Ricochet podcaster) Bob Costa on The Squad, Nancy, Bernie, 2020, and more. Then, Law Talk co-host John Yoo stops by to discuss the passing of Justice John Paul Stevens, some of the recent SCOTUS rulings, and to call out Rob Long for his many imperfections. Finally, Rob and Peter give some binge TV tips. What are you watching? Tell us in the comments.

Music from this week's show: The Wayfarer by Bruce Springsteen

Hosts:
Peter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
BCBob CostaJYJohn Yoo

Discussion (68)

  • GFHandle@GFHandle

    I'm watching "The Royal Albert" on Prime (non-edgy medical soap) and "Death in Paradise" on Netflix (non-edgy formula mystery) and "Corner Gas" on Prime (goofy Canadian comedy). This is absolutely namby-pamby fare. No graphic sex or beheading likely. Slightly less namby and more "woke" is "Last Tango in Halifax" (Netflix), which is very well done, too.

  • Joe D.@JosephDornisch
    My God, the Ricochet podcasters seem to consider Obama a moderate Democrat now. He certainly was not. He was just better at seeming moderate, but was he really not as left wing as 'the squad'? He went a long way to getting the wokestoppo all set up and ready to go by himself.
  • Barry Jones@BarryJones
    So it turns out that oil fields use to use nitroglycerin to "crack" wells and to do that(back in the day) they would put nitro into the drill hole and touch it off. I know this, because back in the day, I worked with a guy that worked his way thru college in the fields doing what ever needed to be done. One day he got tapped to help the guy that would load a well to be cracked. He was waiting at the well for the nitro guy to show up and eventually saw a pick up truck bouncing down the service road. The nitro guy with a bunch of nitroglycerin in the back. It seems that then the nitro they used came packaged in cans that looked like 1 quart oil cans with 12 cans to the case. The nitro guy pulled up, stopped, hopped out of the truck and started unloading the truck by just tossing the cases of nitro to my friend...who was the most startled ( and probably terrified) guy in west Texas that day. It seems that commercial grade nitro is not that sensitive (still pretty sensitive but not "don't sneeze or you'll blow us all up" sensitive -apparently). Don't know if that story is true or not, but the record of movie makers exaggerating and stretching things to enhance drama is significant, while my friend would sometimes stretch things but wasn't prone to lying...much. All that being said, I don't think I'll panic if I see a can of nitro, but I probably won't practice juggling with it either.
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