My other favorite Churchill story is when his great-granddaughter, I think, ran into the room.

This is after the war, and he's sitting writing his memoirs, and she runs into, you may know this,

she runs into the room, and she sees him sitting there, and she gasps, she stops, she goes,

and she goes, great-granddad, is it true that you're the greatest man in the world?

And he says, yes, now fuck off.

Ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do for your country.

Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.

It's the Rickusay podcast number 741.

James Lillix is off today, but I am joined by Peter Robinson and Charles C.W. Cook

and our special guest, Christopher Scalia.

Let's have ourselves a podcast. The gleaming

marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons,

or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing. Instead,

the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by

the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have

lived here all their lives. Welcome everybody to episode 741 of the Rickashay podcast. James is

off today. I'll be your host, Steve Hayward, joined as always by Charles C.W. Cook.

And today, a stranger is filling the third slot. It's a guy named Peter Robinson.

Hi, Peter. How are you? Hi, Steve. I barely remember myself.

Right. Well, we've got a lot to do. And our special guest today will be Christopher Scalia with a terrific new book on novels that we've been neglecting. But before we get to Christopher, quickly Peter, and I mean very quickly, because this could be the whole show, but give me your just initial impressions of the new Pope.

The new Pope.

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