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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Secrets and Lies

Episode Date: November 4, 2017

This week, noted author Rob Long (come on, buy his book!) is back on the big show, so we booked a guest he’d have a lot to chat about with, California...

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The Greatest Game

Episode Date: October 27, 2017

“It’s time for the Ricochet Poooodcaaaast!” If only we had Vin Scully to announce that the epic way he did earlier this week at Game 2 of The World Se...

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The Greatest Wars

Episode Date: October 19, 2017

It’s relatively rare to put out a Ricochet Podcast with only one guest, but when that guest is Victor Davis Hanson, well that’s all you need. First, w...

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The Mighty Have Fallen

Episode Date: October 13, 2017

It’s been a bad week for Hollywood’s grasp on moral authority. First, Harvey Weinstein is fired for transgressions going back decades, and then some g...

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Guns N' Poetry

Episode Date: October 5, 2017

This week, Jon Gabriel captains the good ship Ricochet in place of James Lileks and podcast amigo Andrew Klavan is in the Long Chair® this week. Our g...

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When the Robots Rule

Episode Date: September 22, 2017

This week, we’ve got Powerline’s John Hinderaker in the Long Chair®, John Yoo protecting us from sentient robots (read his new book Striking Power: Ho...

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Let's Make A Deal

Episode Date: September 15, 2017

This week, Larry Kudlow sits in the Long Chair ® as the President and his new BFF’s Chuck and Nancy strike a deal over dinner, Heritage’s Steve Moore...

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The Dreamers

Episode Date: September 9, 2017

Whenever immigration rises to the top of the national agenda, we like to call on the best guys we know on the topic, Mickey Kaus and Mark Krikorian. W...

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Summer of Love

Episode Date: August 26, 2017

This week, a special edition of the Ricochet Podcast. Peter Robinson and Rob Long (Lileks is cruising the Atlantic) are joined by The Weekly Standard’...

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Statues, Protests, and Firings

Episode Date: August 18, 2017

Another busy week and to help us parse it, we enlist Ricochet Editor @jongabriel (not a member? Join Ricochet using the new ExJon leve1!) and guests V...

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Dilbert Speaks

Episode Date: August 10, 2017

In our continuing effort to bring as much ideological balance to the flagship podcast, today we bring you Bill Bennett, host of The Bill Bennett Show...

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The Huddled Masses

Episode Date: August 4, 2017

This week, our good pal Larry Kudlow sits in for the making-tv-great-again Rob Long. We’ve also got Henry Olsen, author of The Working Class Republica...

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The One with Harry Shearer

Episode Date: July 29, 2017

This week, we take something of a break from the rough and tumble of the news cycle and spend an hour chatting with our old friend, the great Harry Sh...

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Napoleon Dynamite

Episode Date: July 21, 2017

The President is on the record, the WSJ’s Bill McGurn talks about Charlie Gard, The Washington Post’s Bob Costa on the mood in DC, @Lileks ponders Rus...

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Sajak and Yoo

Episode Date: July 14, 2017

On the Ricochet Podcast, we go to great lengths to provide breadth and depth in covering the news of the day. Where else can you hear incisive legal a...

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The Fourth of July

Episode Date: July 1, 2017

We were going to take this week off, but the opportunity to do a special holiday weekend edition of the Ricochet Podcast with just The Founders *and J...

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It's Complicated

Episode Date: June 24, 2017

Summer’s here and that means vacations and that means….guest hosts! Today, Peter Robinson teams up with our podcasting colleagues at The Weekly Standa...

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Guns and Rhetoric

Episode Date: June 15, 2017

Another busy week with much to talk about and to help out we’ve got (along with @jongabriel sitting in for Rob Long) the great Yuval Levin and Adam Ca...

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Wha' Happen?

Episode Date: June 9, 2017

Long Parkcasting We’re all over the globe physically and all over the map topically this week as we cover the British elections with our guests Toby Y...