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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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...

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Lockdown Rant

Episode Date: May 1, 2020

This week on The Big Show, we inch our way back to normal with our first show in weeks without a COVID-19 specific guest. That’s not to say we don’t t...

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Not Scary With Larry

Episode Date: April 24, 2020

The Question of the Week, maybe the month, perhaps the year, oh, heck — likely of the century is “when is the economy re-opening?” Sure, we could roun...

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Back To Work!

Episode Date: April 17, 2020

We’re a full month into full lockdown and quite frankly. we’re just about fully filled with aggravation about it. We vent to each other and then we br...

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The Senator and The Doctor

Episode Date: April 10, 2020

No, we did not book Rand Paul on this supersized edition of The Big Show (90 minutes of clever and civil conversation!), we booked Senator Rob Portman...

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Where's My Flying Car?

Episode Date: April 3, 2020

This week on The Big Show, we attempt to return to some sense of normalcy (while of course maintaining social distancing by at least 1,000 miles). Yes...

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The One We Did On Video

Episode Date: March 27, 2020

Strange times call for improvisation and trying new things. So this week The Ricochet Podcast isn’t just a podcast, it’s also a Zoom webinar (sorry, t...

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Life During Wartime

Episode Date: March 20, 2020

Settle in, shelter-in-placers, we’ve got another super-sized (and shall we say, impassioned) edition of the Ricochet Podcast. In addition to the robus...

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The President of The Midwest

Episode Date: March 13, 2020

This week on the pioneering social distanced produced podcast (we are all at least several hundred miles apart), we of course talk about the virus tha...

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My Corona

Episode Date: March 6, 2020

Rob Long is off this week, Law Talk’s John Yoo is sitting in. We’ve got Henry Olsen (he of The Horse Race podcast right here on this network) to chat...