The Ricochet Podcast

Weekly episodes of Ricochet’s flagship podcast feature our hosts James Lileks, Rob Long, Peter Robinson, and guests discussing the issues of the week.Listen to The Ricochet Podcast, along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at Ricochet.com. No paid subscription required.

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A Little Bit of Sowell

Episode Date: February 5, 2021

This week, Jason Riley stops by to talk about his new documentary, Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World, which aside from being great, is...

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The Market Makers

Episode Date: January 29, 2021

This week, Robin Hood is back, and this time he’s running a Wall Street retail brokerage firm. But the whole “take from the rich, give (or more accura...

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Aliens Among Us

Episode Date: January 22, 2021

Settle in folks, this is a long one (and not in the Rob sense of the word). First up, Powerline’s Steve Hayward (and the host of the Powerline Podcast...

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Holy Moses

Episode Date: January 16, 2021

Another in a seemingly endless series of very busy weeks but we’ve got you covered. First up: The Oracle himself, Governor Haley Barbour. He’s got a p...

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On A Rant

Episode Date: January 8, 2021

We discuss the events of the week, we talk to AEI’s Yuval Levin about leadership in a populist age and Andy McCarthy about the 25th Amendment and pard...

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It's A Wrap

Episode Date: December 18, 2020

Last one of the year, people. And what a year it’s been; but hey, let’s not get into that now. To help us put a bow on 2020, we asked our official ele...

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Jiggery Pokery

Episode Date: December 12, 2020

This week on the Big Show, one guest: John O’Sullivan. We booked him to fact check this season of Netflix’s The Crown as he was a speechwriter for Mar...

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Georgia On Our Minds

Episode Date: December 4, 2020

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...

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You Can Re-Count On It

Episode Date: November 20, 2020

Two weeks after the election and we’re still deep into re-counts, ballot challenges, and other legal machinations. To help us sort it all out, we aske...

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Unix Servers

Episode Date: November 13, 2020

This week, John Yoo, the Ricochet Podcast Senior Election Fraud Analyst and the Joan and Ray Kroc McRib Scholar at Hamburger University sits in for Pe...

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Mailing It In

Episode Date: November 6, 2020

Is it the dawning of a new era or are we continuing the one we’re already in? The answer was not clear when we assembled today at 9AM Pacific Time (th...

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Closing Arguments

Episode Date: October 30, 2020

This is it, folks — the last Ricochet Podcast prior to the 2020 election. What a long strange trip it’s been (no, that is not the closing song, but we...

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The Home Stretch

Episode Date: October 23, 2020

As you may be aware, we had a Presidential debate last night. The President did well, we all agree on that. Will it move the polls? Do the polls matte...

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The Big Tech Election

Episode Date: October 16, 2020

We’ve got some debates town halls to cover, we’ve got a good old fashioned social media shadow banning scandal, Joe Biden’s son is bad at influence pe...

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Meet The Press

Episode Date: October 9, 2020

We know you like it when the hosts get into it and we know you like it when one of them gets triggered by a certain Chief Executive. So –no spoilers!–...

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The Viral President

Episode Date: October 2, 2020

The news cycle these days is crushing — warping time upon itself like a black hole. So how does America’s Most Balanced Podcast® respond? By booking a...

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Battlegrounds; Real and Imagined

Episode Date: September 25, 2020

Another jam packed week means another jam packed show: We’ve got the Ricochet Podcast’s Senior Court Packing and Confirmation Correspondent, John Yoo...

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The COVID Doc and Tik-Tok

Episode Date: September 18, 2020

This week on America’s Most Benevolent Podcast®, another super-sized episode. First up, the Middle East is breaking out in…peace. That’s good, right?...

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Senator Fix-It

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

This week, the rare single guest show. But when that guest is Senator Ben Sasse, he has enough brain power to fill two segments and that’s exactly wha...