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The Ricochet Podcast

Benignly Pompous

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Now that impeachment is upon us we thought we’d let the guys do a long segment (that’s not a euphemism) on it themselves. Then, Niall Ferguson joins to explain why the Trump administration is like the Corleone family, but trust us — he means this as a compliment ( calm down and read the column, MAGA folks). We go celestial with this week’s Lileks Post of The Week Winning the Cosmic Lottery by @ Source

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Come on, Katerina, you can handle this heat, one event at a time.

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Throw together a decent regal.

0:11.0

Jump straight on to the Malaysian quarry. Bring it home with the

0:13.8

chili. Yeah, I'll bust this batchcock. Perform better on Sundays. Get half

0:18.8

price electricity 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. with Pique from British Gas.

0:23.0

Proud partners of Team G.B. and Paralympics G.B.

0:25.0

End 31st of December. Teases and sees apply. Smart Meter required. It's important. You put in the same I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the

0:37.0

Boston Telephone directory, then by the 2,000 people on the faculty of the Department

0:42.0

of the University.

0:44.0

As government expands, liberty contracts.

0:49.0

It's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad the country is,

0:52.0

the people are lining up

0:53.1

food. That's a good thing.

0:57.1

First of I think you missed his time.

1:00.1

Please clap.

1:02.1

It's the Ricochet podcast with Peter Robinson and Rob Long.

1:06.0

I'm James Alex and today we talk to Neil Ferguson about the Godfather and Trumping.

1:11.0

Roger Scriffin.

1:12.0

So let's have ourselves a podcast.

1:13.6

Welcome, everybody.

1:19.6

It's the Ricochet Podcast, and it is number 479.

1:23.4

Wow.

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