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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Bad Hair Day

Episode Date: September 4, 2020

Well, it’s crunch time now: we’re into the final lap of the election and things are going to be intense for the next 8 weeks or so. But first, some pe...

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Conventional Thinking

Episode Date: August 28, 2020

It’s the Republican National Convention week, or as pundits on the right call it — Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and whatever other major holiday you w...

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Say It Ain't So, Joe

Episode Date: August 21, 2020

This week, Joe Biden accepts the Democratic nomination and we devote all of the opening segment to the just ended Democratic Convention. Then, this ma...

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Coconut Buttons

Episode Date: August 14, 2020

We’ve got a new VP candidate, we’ve got Mark Simon (right hand man to Hong Kong freedom fighter Jimmy Lai), we’ve got historian Tevi Troy on political...

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The Crusaders

Episode Date: August 7, 2020

Last week, Rob Long and Peter Robinson found themselves in a disagreement about –not kidding– The Crusades. Well, one of the great things about having...

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How You Doing?

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

Tis week, James is blue, Peter is unplugged, Rob meets his political doppelgänger, John Yoo meets his hero, and Kevin Faulconer (the current Republica...

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Get Schooled

Episode Date: July 24, 2020

Hello faithful Ricochet Podcast listeners. It’s us. We have another show for you. It’s a good one. We have Ricochet Editor and Twitter celebrity Betha...

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The Long Game

Episode Date: July 17, 2020

Back this week with the full cast and another full show. We start with a deep dive on the Bari Weiss resignation and free speech in general. Then our...

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Everything Is Broken

Episode Date: July 10, 2020

We’re back after our 4th of July break (well, most of us are back — we have Ricochet Editor Bethany Mandel sitting in for the vacationing Peter Robins...

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School of Sowell

Episode Date: June 26, 2020

About once a year, we get a visit from the master himself, the great Thomas Sowell. This year’s session is on the occasion of the publication of his n...

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Sycophants and Brutuses

Episode Date: June 19, 2020

Another action packed show: Is the lockdown over or is this just intermission? Hey, did John Bolton write a book? Did the Supreme Court hand down some...

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Lick The Sugar

Episode Date: June 12, 2020

Milestones — they seem so important when they’re far away and then you arrive at them and then it suddenly doesn’t seem such a big deal. At the start...

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Muzzles Not Masks

Episode Date: June 5, 2020

Now, that was a week. We try to put it all in some perspective — the protests, the riots, the looting, and the politics and we do so with the help of...

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City of Lakes

Episode Date: May 29, 2020

We don’t tend to do location work on this show, but when a major news event happens in the city where one of our hosts live, we get a up-close and per...

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It Matters

Episode Date: May 22, 2020

What matters? Well, New York City for one. We get to that topic towards the end of this show, but prior to that we visit first with economist Kevin Wa...

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Inching Towards Normalcy

Episode Date: May 15, 2020

We’re about 9 weeks into the Great American Shut Down and maybe, just maybe we’re starting to see a light at the end of this tunnel? To help us parse...

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Warriors and Grandmas

Episode Date: May 9, 2020

We know, we know — we’re 6 or 7 hours late with this. We had some technical difficulties during the recording of this show (we broke with tradition an...

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Ask Dr. Savage

Episode Date: May 1, 2020

Dr. George Savage is the Chief Medical Officer / Co-Founder at Proteus Digital Health, Inc (full disclosure: he’s also a member of Ricochet’s Board of...