Steve sent me a text message saying that I had to behave because you are

going to know you're so well-behaved with Christmas. Ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do for your country. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

Read my lips.

It's the Ricochet podcast. I'm James Lylex, usually with Robin Peter, but they're out,

but don't worry. We've got Lucretia and Stephen from Powerline and John U, so let's have ourselves

a podcast. It is now the duty of my office to prove these charges in the indictment beyond a

reasonable doubt at trial. It's a witch hunt. It's just a continuation of a witch hunt. They

want to silence you. They want to silence you. This is a little sort of thing that happens in

countries whose powerful jackpot is 387 chickens on a goat. Welcome, everybody. It's the Ricochet

podcast number 65555. You like it as an area code. You'll trust it as a podcast. I'm James

Lylex and you might ask, where's Rob Long? Where is Peter Robinson? Well, the founder,

our lineup here is rapidly becoming like a late Stalin era photograph where people just drop

out airbrushed and never to appear again. It's just me. I'm not getting robbed. I'll be back. Peter

will be back in the waiting days of summer. They are off on some paragraph nation, but we'll hear

all about it when they return. In the meantime, we've got something that's going to make you say,

who are those other guys? Why do we even need them? Rob, who? Peter, who? We've got powerline people

and Rob and Rob and John, Rob, John, you, if I can get my mouth to work, we'll have an even better

podcast. Linda from from powerline and Stephen from powerline gentleman, ladies, welcome.

Good morning. Great to be here. We feel like we feel like the AAA team has made it to the show.

Yeah, everybody just jump in at once here. That'll be great. I'm just going to sit back

and let you let you cat fight for the microphone. I feel like a Ukrainian special forces guy

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