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Weekly episodes of Ricochet’s flagship podcast feature our hosts James Lileks, Rob Long, Peter Robinson, and guests discussing the issues of the week.

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Weekly episodes of Ricochet’s flagship podcast feature our hosts James Lileks, Rob Long, Peter Robinson, and guests discussing the issues of the week.

    The Visual Fallacy

    The Visual Fallacy

    Thirty years back, filmmaker Whit Stillman charmed audiences with a comedy about two Americans abroad in chaotic Cold War Europe. He joins Rob, James and Peter to discuss his movie Barcelona, cinema as an artform and as a business, and reasons for hope regarding its revival as a crowd-pleaser. 

    Plus: Rob's returned from Morocco, Peter's got big news, and James has a plan for the post-CCP TikTok.





    - Soundbites from the opening: Chris Eigeman and Taylor Nichols in Barcelona; Bob Hope at the Academy Awards in 1968; and Brendan Fraiser at the Oscars on Sunday.

    • 56 min
    Ancient Ideas and the Spectacle of the Union

    Ancient Ideas and the Spectacle of the Union

    It's the Cooke and Lileks Show today! The duo delve into the egregious State of the Union address, and lament the erosion of the enumerated powers doctrine. They talk TikTok and the Energy and Commerce Committee's unanimous bill against the company's Chinese parent ByteDance; Charles has high hopes for the upcoming ruling that may well overrule the Chevron doctrine; and James has a few Oscar reviews and an ode to old Hollywood.








    - Soundbite from this episode: Joe Biden decrying the Dobbs decision in his SOTU address.

    • 57 min
    Drunken Monkey Business

    Drunken Monkey Business

    This week the Three Whiskey Happy Hour gang join James for a riotous good time, even as discuss and debate their beloved nation's precarious situation. They cover Joe Biden's visit to the border, Donald Trump's appeals to the Supreme Court, the latest on the war in Gaza, and a silly journalist's constitutional illiteracy. Plus there are whiskey recommendations and a must-hear story about apish antics on the high seas.

    And if you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe to the Three Whiskey Happy Hour podcast, available at Ricochet.com.





    - Soundbite from this week: dueling press conferences in Texas between the current and previous occupant of the Oval Office.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Accept NO Imitation

    Accept NO Imitation

    The forces against free speech are at again! Whether or not you've heard of NewsGuard or the Global Disinformation Index, rest assured that they're intently interested in where you get your information. Joining Peter, Rob and James today is David DesRoisers, Publisher of RealClearPolitics.com, whose scrupulously down-the-middle site was flagged by the groups above as a 'disinformation site,' and has lost a great many advertisers as a result. David's here to remind us of the threats institutions like these are to a free press and a free society.

    The guys also have thoughts CPAC and Google Gemini.




    - This week’s audio is from Donald Trump’s townhall with Laura Ingraham on Fox News

    • 1 hr
    Rock Me Amadeus

    Rock Me Amadeus

    We've got a special number for ya, folks. Instead of a guest or even politics, Charles Cooke, James Lileks and Peter Robinson talk football and music. Tune in for a recap on the Super Bowl—get Charles' take on the season and theLileksian review of the game's ads; plus the two of them give Peter a serious crash course in post-Beatles pop music!
    Sound clips from the open are from the State Farm, BMW, CeraVe ads, along with The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964.

    • 1 hr
    Working Properly

    Working Properly

    We're reminded often to mind our "work-life balance", but perhaps that distinction is drawn too plainly. Today we hear from David Bahnsen, author of the just-published Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, who makes the case that what we do for a living means a great deal more than what today's wellness gurus would have us believe. They go over everything in between the midcentury trend toward retirement as the goal to the contemporary push to work in pajamas.

    On the flipside Peter, Rob and James discuss the latest reminder that Joe Biden is not up for the job he's got; and they dig into an unbelievable project to make ancient scrolls flash-fried by the Vesuvius eruption in the first century AD readable once again.


    - Audio this week: Biden defends his memory and then places Mexico outside of Gaza.

    • 58 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
1.3K Ratings

1.3K Ratings

Chopfallen ,

Smart and funny

The hosts are always worth hearing, even if they are chatting about their vacations or such things between topics. The guests are invariably impressive and I always learn something. At the end of an episode, I feel more optimistic about our country.

Ralph and Martha Wright ,

The exasperated sighs

Why the exasperated sighs before asking your guest a question?

Why leave sentences unfinished to start another one?

Why do you have to use the word "sclerotic" in every episode?

Still, I like it.

RosesFromSender ,

The one podcast I never miss.

Roberta Long was infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome and it became particularly acute during the run up to the 2020 election. As a result this once great podcast was ruined. Lileks also has his moments in trying to defend the leftist rag he works for in Minneapolis. However, there are signs of hope as Long frequently absents himself and is trying to start his own podcast, though one wonders who will listen to it. Perhaps the fact that the number of commenters on the Ricochet website has tanked for its flagship show is starting to get through the thick skulls of the editors…It’s 2024 and Rob Long has gotten even dumber and has dragged Lileks down with him and now sounds like a Bulwark shill. It’s sad how far this podcast has fallen.

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