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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Tartan Spicy

Episode Date: September 18, 2014

This week, the tuned-out (and checked-out) President; James Delingpole on the Scottish secession vote, UKIP, and the horror that is Rotherham; Then, w...

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Arguing In Good Faith

Episode Date: September 11, 2014

This week’s show is the very model of civil conversation and discourse as our hosts debate the President’s speech, and a whole host of his policies an...

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Reclining Standards

Episode Date: August 28, 2014

This week on the podcast, a look back at the tumultuous summer in the Middle East. First up, Annika Hernroth-Rothstein checks in from Sweden to discus...

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Talk Amongst Yourselves

Episode Date: August 21, 2014

This week on the podcast, we’re guest free, but with plenty to talk about: Ferguson, James Foley, Rick Perry, the Minnesota State Fair, DeBlasio learn...

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Good Listeners

Episode Date: August 14, 2014

This week, we listen. We listen to Paul Rahe on the Middle East. We listen to Victor Davis Hanson discuss immigration, William Tecumseh Sherman, and h...

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A Big Bomb

Episode Date: August 6, 2014

This week on the Ricochet Podcast (which starts at about 5 minutes in progress due to a technical issue), we talk politics and washing machines with R...

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Welcome Back, Blueberries

Episode Date: July 31, 2014

It’s been a while since our amiable hosts have been in the same bowl with each other, so we took this opportunity to do a special three guest show fro...

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Bearing Down

Episode Date: July 18, 2014

This week, Lileks returns and we’re all about borders — both our own and the ones in Eastern Europe. We’re joined by Russian expert Yuri Yarim-Agaev,...

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Borderline Crazy

Episode Date: July 10, 2014

This week, Ricochet member Fredösphere provides the intro (coffee mug incoming, Fred, and more of the entries at the end of the show) as Troy Senik si...

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Court and Sparklers

Episode Date: July 2, 2014

Lileks is off this this week, so it’s just Robinson and Long for our annual 4th of July Spectacular Show. And yes, we were supposed to have talk show...

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Mississippi

Episode Date: June 26, 2014

This week on the podcast we do a deep dive on the curious goings on in Mississippi both on our own and with Washington Post Capitol Hill correspondent...

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Murphy and Kaus

Episode Date: June 19, 2014

Political strategist Mike Murphy makes a long overdue return to the Ricochet Podcast to discuss what really happened in the Cantor-Brat race. Was it i...

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Change Is Good

Episode Date: June 12, 2014

This week, we’re all about change: change the Majority Leader, a change of life, loose change, and more. Our guests are The Campaign Stop’s Jim Geragh...

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See Cruz

Episode Date: June 5, 2014

Is Bowe Bergdahl a deserter, a hero, or something in between? That’s the primary question on this week’s show, both for the hosts, and for our guest,...

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The Phone Call

Episode Date: May 22, 2014

This week, Long is assente in Italy, Lileks is powerless on the phone, and Robinson is rolling with all of it. We’ve got Money & Politics podcaste...

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#Hot

Episode Date: May 14, 2014

This week, we’re hash tagging like the cool kids as we tackle hash tag diplomacy, global warming, oops, we mean, climate change, no sorry, climate act...

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The Reykjaviking Crew

Episode Date: May 8, 2014

This week, a little history and a little current events. First, author/historian Ken Adelman on his new book Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours Th...

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The Curmudgeons

Episode Date: April 17, 2014

Michael Bloomberg is going to heaven, the UN is getting warmer (just ask them), Charles Murray is dispensing indispensable wisdom (courtesy of his new...

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Kind Of A Drag

Episode Date: April 10, 2014

Turns out experts don’t have so much expertise after all; the zen and psychology of the tax code (and Rob’s pitch for the flat tax); the evolution of...