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The Ricochet Podcast

A Big Bomb

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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 Ricochet editor Jon Gabriel, and then historian Reverend Wilson Miscamble, author of The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan joins to discuss today’s anniversary of the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and... Source

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0:00.0

All right here we go in three to one. Oh, oh man Rob that is the funniest thing I think you've ever set what

0:10.5

Oh shoot we've got audio problems we weren't Well, just to bring you all up to speed,

0:15.0

Rob just said the most amazing thing. And Peter told this incredible anecdote about Ronald Reagan that has never been told before.

0:22.0

Unfortunately, we lost it.

0:24.0

So we now join the podcast already in progress.

0:27.0

Activate program.

0:28.0

More than our share of the mattering nebobs of negativism.

0:33.2

Well, I'm not a corrupt.

0:34.2

I'll never tell a lot.

0:35.2

But I am not a bullet.

0:36.7

I'm the King of the World! Mr Gorbachev's tear down this wall. It's the Ricochet Podcast

0:58.9

the Ricochet Podcast, and Rob Long.

1:02.0

I'm James Lylegs and today ricoche editor John Gabriel

1:05.5

stops by to tell us about the state of the world, horrible, and his washing machine, even worse.

1:10.3

And then we'll hear from Reverend Wilson-McCamble about Truman and the Bomb.

1:14.0

Let's have ourselves a podcast. tragic songs in tragic circumstances. You kind of have to know something as bad as coming, right?

1:29.5

It's not as though going over the top of the trench and the bullets are whipping past and you say,

1:38.0

all right boys, link arms and find ourselves a good song anthem to go out with. Well in any case I don't know what

1:44.8

they were saying at Fox when they decided to pull their bid for Time Warner but they

1:48.6

did so I don't know if there's a appropriate sad melody or is this a sad melody at all?

1:54.4

Should we be...

1:55.4

I think in the movie The Dawn Patrol, they sing a great song called The Rosie

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