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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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...

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Heating Up

Episode Date: June 2, 2017

The hard thing about producing a weekly podcast is coming up with relevant topics to talk about. Nothing ever happens in this boring administration we...

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Generic Current President

Episode Date: May 26, 2017

Bodyslamming, Trump in Europe, the great Mollie Hemingway (you are hereby ordered to buy her new Encounter Broadside Trump vs. The Media right now), t...

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Happy Family

Episode Date: May 19, 2017

Another slow news week…yawn. Uh, no. With so much to talk about, we present another super-sized Ricochet Podcast clocking in at just under 90 minutes....

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Shattered

Episode Date: May 12, 2017

It’s never a dull moment with the Trump administration and to parse everything that happened this week, we call on our good friend, former podcaster,...

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The Francophiles

Episode Date: April 28, 2017

We’re a man down this week, as James Lileks is in Reno (no, he did not a shoot a man there just to watch him die), but we have lots to talk about and...

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Elegy For Billy

Episode Date: April 21, 2017

We’ve got Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance here to talk about investing in startups in the midwest. We’ve got The Factor on permanent hiatus. We’ve g...

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The In Crowd

Episode Date: April 15, 2017

Another Saturday edition of the Ricochet Podcast with a super-sized running time and a legendary guest: The Podfather himself, Norman Podhoretz, whose...

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International Relations

Episode Date: April 6, 2017

We’re all over the globe for this show: Mexico, North Korea, the Middle East, the well of the Senate, and more. That’s in part due to the news cycle b...

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Reunited

Episode Date: April 1, 2017

It’s a special Saturday edition of the Ricochet Podcast, and it’s special not only because of the day (April Fool’s Day!), but because we get to welco...

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Too Much Monk-ey Business

Episode Date: March 24, 2017

Yep, it’s another super busy week (and day), but as tempted as we were to cover the breaking news as it happens, we decided to take a step back and in...