Big, Beautiful Emergencies

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Noah Rothman returns to the Ricochet Podcast to discuss the troubles of dealing with an uncooperative world. He, Steve, and James discuss the fall of the New Puritans in the real world as they resist from their barracks on prestigious college campuses. The gang then moves from culture war to the shooting kind as they consider Putin's recalcitrance and negotiations with Iran.

Plus, Hayward and Lileks unpack the Court of International Trade's tariff intervention, the Big, Beautiful Bill that's worked its way out of the House, and Elon Musk's DC departure.

- Sound from this week's open: CNN’s Jake Tapper on The Prof G Pod defending his 15-year-old son.

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0:00.0	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:05.1	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:08.0	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:13.7	It's the Rikoshae podcast with Stephen Hayward and myself, James Lallex.
0:16.9	Today we talked to Noah Rothman about things domestic and cultural to international and military, everything.
0:23.2	So let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:24.9	I went on a left-leaning podcast, and they asked me about my son, and I said he was, you know, he's a football player, and he wants to be a policeman.
0:37.5	And their joke was about my 15-year-old son, oh And their joke was, about my 15-year-old son,
0:40.6	oh, how does he feel about minorities?
0:42.2	Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he's racist.
0:45.2	And I thought to myself, this is why you f***ing losing elections.
0:49.7	Welcome, everybody.
0:50.5	This is the Rickettshire podcast number 743.
0:53.9	Why don't you, you go to
0:57.2	ricochet.com right now. Sign up and be part of the most stimulating conversations in
1:01.6	community on the web, and we wouldn't say it if we couldn't back it up. I'm James Lalex,
1:05.1	Minneapolis, Minnesota, where it's a beautiful end of May Day. Stephen Hayward is, well,
1:08.9	what are you in a cabin, Alaska or something like that?
1:10.9	I'm looking at your... I am in the highlands of Iceland, which I've decided, James, is the Minnesota
1:15.9	of waterfalls. They've a waterfall every 50 feet.
1:19.3	That they do.
1:19.7	Minnesota has a lake, right? And it's quite amazing.
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