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 World Is Not Enough

Episode Date: September 30, 2022

It’s hard to win these days. Not only do we have worries about war, we’ve got worries over worries about war. Is the Biden administration’s foreign po...

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Hot For Cleveland

Episode Date: September 23, 2022

Today we cover breaking news and the hardly recognizable past. Toby Young joins at the top to to tell us about his personal experience with PayPal’s s...

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Faith in Princes, Faith in God

Episode Date: September 16, 2022

As promised our old friend David Limbaugh returns to the podcast to rant a bit and maybe pitch a few books on the side. We talk open borders and Marth...

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A Very Fond Farewell

Episode Date: September 9, 2022

It’s hard to call it unbelievable when a 96-year-old mortal shuffles off, but Queen Elizabeth II’s final departure has had a peculiar effect. Hoping t...

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Dramatic Docs

Episode Date: September 2, 2022

You saw the pictures! The walls are finally closing in; or maybe it’s the floor that’ll finally move in on Trump! Or maybe everyone should cool their...

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Fishing Expedition

Episode Date: August 19, 2022

Since our plans to hide away forever at a remote Minnesotan lake house were dashed – on account of James not having one for us – we decided instead to...

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We Called It A Raid…

Episode Date: August 12, 2022

We’re not short on takes about the search (or whatever you wanna call it) at Mar-a-Lago this week; but one can’t ever get enough of people who know wh...

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Face-Saving Megalomaniacs

Episode Date: August 5, 2022

With all the sound and fury surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, we think it’s timely to hear from an expert on the Indo-Pacific to see if it si...

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Toss ‘Em In The Pin

Episode Date: July 29, 2022

It’s a free-for-all on the Ricochet Podcast this week! Rob and Peter are off enjoying the last gasp of Summer, so filling in are the effervescent John...

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The Kabuki People Want To See

Episode Date: July 22, 2022

With heat waves, and the inevitable extinction of humanity practically around the corner, why not talk about what’s happening in the cool, comfortable...

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Hot and Free

Episode Date: July 15, 2022

This week, it’s another round of Question Time, this week with actual (OK, former) British person Charles C.W. Cooke sitting in for Peter Robinson, We...

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Not Done With Fun

Episode Date: July 8, 2022

We’ve made it to 600, and in spite of the seemingly never-ending buffet of bad news that got our hosts talking in the first place, we manage to have a...

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Judgment Day

Episode Date: June 24, 2022

Whoa. Wow. Golly. And Hooray! Big news from SCOTUS today. A fifty year judicial error is finally corrected, and Ricochet’s Supreme Court expert John Y...

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On The Cusp of the Volcano

Episode Date: June 10, 2022

There are few on planet Earth who’ve spilled as much ink over concerns on Western Civilization’s decline as today’s guest Douglas Murray. Nevertheless...

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Ancient Highs and Lows

Episode Date: June 3, 2022

This week we move from the pits of a senseless war to the mount of the royal jubilee, and cover quite a bit of terrain in between. Our first guest is...

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Doing The Right Something

Episode Date: May 27, 2022

With a catastrophic tragedy in the news, the Ricochet mood is a bit more serious; but that doesn’t mean bad policy or sentimental grandstanding are ap...

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Live . . . From New York!

Episode Date: May 13, 2022

While Peter’s venturing about the real America, James is vacationing between the Hudson and East rivers so he can meet up with his pal Rob–and, more i...