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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The Final Frontier

Episode Date: November 1, 2018

We’re a day early, but certainly not a dollar short as we tackle another busy news week. First up, Washington Examiner magazine editor (and the co-hos...

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Caravan

Episode Date: October 26, 2018

This week, the bomber is apprehended and Rob Long is not surprised, there’s a caravan headed our way, professional prognosticator Patrick Ruffini opin...

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Bad Blood

Episode Date: October 19, 2018

This week, some thoughts on the Khashoggi murder, a deep dive into the Catholic Church scandals with the great Rod Dreher, and our mid-term preview wi...

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Don't Tread On Ye

Episode Date: October 13, 2018

This week, another one guester as we call on Ricochet alumnus Mollie Hemingway to help us sort through Kanye, Kavanaugh, and other assorted issues of...

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Seeking Cloture

Episode Date: October 5, 2018

Sometimes, people ask why we wait until Friday afternoons to publish the podcast. The last couple of weeks should answer that question for at least a...

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A Supreme Moment

Episode Date: September 29, 2018

No guests this week, just our hosts reflecting on a week that will not soon, if ever, be forgotten. We look at the testimony from both Kavanaugh and F...

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Judging The Judge

Episode Date: September 22, 2018

We’ve reached peak news cycle. So much going on. And when that happens, we reach out to people who make it their business to cover the news: that’s th...

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Curtain Call

Episode Date: September 14, 2018

This week on the podcast, silly political controversies, a good old fashioned smear campaign, some expert analysis from Millennial voter expert Kristi...

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It's All OK

Episode Date: September 7, 2018

Hugely busy week, which means a hugely busy podcast. This week, the invaluable Byron York stops by to set us straight on just who might have penned th...

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State Fair

Episode Date: August 30, 2018

This week, we do a Rico-Centric show with our regular crew and our two trusty editors: Jon Gabriel (Ricochet’s beloved EIC) and Bethany Mandel, the Ma...

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Ask The Founders

Episode Date: August 17, 2018

This week, Lileks is on vacation, so we forgo the guests and open the floor to you, our faithful Ricochet listeners. We get questions on the President...

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Space Force Cadets

Episode Date: August 10, 2018

Did someone say Space Force? That’s just too irresistible a topic for this podcast not to tackle in depth. So we do. But that’s not all. No sir. We al...

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Flipping The Bird

Episode Date: August 3, 2018

This week, a super-sized episode featuring scooters, Nebraska’s own Ben Sasse on trade, tariffs, Trump, and Kavanaugh, self-driving cars, Twitter mob,...

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Life On Mars

Episode Date: July 27, 2018

This week, we visit with Republican candidate for Senate in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Beth Lindstom, who’s running a valiant attempt to unseat...

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The Last Straw

Episode Date: July 20, 2018

This week, some rumination on Trump’s tete a tete with Putin (along with a history lesson for Rob Long), we introduce you to Elizabeth Heng, who is ru...

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No Deal Is A Good Deal

Episode Date: July 13, 2018

This week, we travel across the pond to talk with our good mate James Delingpole to get his very hot take on Trump’s visit, What May or May not happen...

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Red Hens and Dogs

Episode Date: June 29, 2018

As you’ll hear, there were many possible titles for this episode, but we went with the simplest and most descriptive for we spewing a fair amount of t...

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Bull Session

Episode Date: June 15, 2018

Another big news week and we’ve assembled the appropriate heavy hitters to help us parse it: first up, Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on North Korea, t...

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The Things That Matter

Episode Date: June 8, 2018

We cribbed the title of this week’s show from Charles Krauthammer’s book as it perfectly describes what we’re feeling this week after the announcement...