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This special "Give War a Chance" episode, the second under our joint sponsorship of the Civitas Institute and Ricochet, had some peculiar technical glitches that make it quite odd and somewhat disjointed. Steve cut out halfway through, and getting him back was a great bollix.
In any case, we reviewed some key points of the Great Iran War of 2026, along with observations on the Supreme Court's intervention on the side of California parents (we can't believe this was even an issue, but it is), and then after Steve came back, a mad scramble to the finish.
We do manage to get in some important cultural notes, such as the new McDonald's 1,000-calorie-plus Big Arch burger, and talking John down from his first ever visit to Buc-ees.
John Yoo
'Lucretia'
Steve Hayward
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Tell me it was a broadcast issue.....but it sounded like Steve said the Germans hid battleships in Paraguay.
I, too, admire fine German engineering... but THAT would have been impressive!
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So, as Steve noted elsewhere, the progressives had their moment Sunday morning at 2 a.m., when they forced everyone to move the clock ahead one hour. But it occurs to me that someone was standing athwart history yelling, "Stop," and that was our beloved Lucretia, the International Woman of Mystery, standing strong in the Grand Canyon State, refusing to change her clocks.
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They didn't hide them, but they were quarantined there (after suffering damage on the high seas) for the duration of the war--except I think it was World War I. The trouble with going from faulty memory.
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My South American geography knowledge isn't at an 'A' level, but I think Paraguay is one of their landlocked countries.
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I first watched The Prisoner when it first syndicated in the U.S. when I was 11 years old.
I've watched it repeatedly over the years, most recently a year or two ago.
The star, Patrick McGoohan also played a spy in the TV series Danger Man. It's believed that Prisoner was an extension of Danger, and the only reason Prisoner didn't use that character was the owners of that television series wouldn't let him.
I've watched a few episodes of Danger and my impression is that, like the Prisoner, it's James Bond with a conscience. At the time there were other secret agent franchises like The Avengers, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. and what they had in common is light satirical humor. I wouldn't say that Danger and Prisoner are humorless, but that they both were a little pompous compared to the other offerings of the time.
The last episode of The Prisoner is controversial, and personally I didn't see the point. And perhaps that was the point, the pointlessness of it all.
McGoohan didn't want to play secret agents any more, but he continued to have a success in films and television after that, and notably, he was closely associated with the television program, Columbo.