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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Episode 157: Making Gillespie Dizzy

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Jonah turns the tables on Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie, interviewing him about the states of conservatism, libertarianism, and the Republican Party. Shownotes –The Dispatch –mrsfields.com/DINGO –Part one of this podcast –“Rocket Man” as interpreted by William Shatner –“Star Trekkin'” – The Firm –Nick Gillespie on the freedom of cities –“Stuck” – Ron Bailey –Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy – … Continue reading Episode 157: Making Gillespie Dizzy→

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0:00.0

Greetings, dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg of the Remnant, which is brought to you

0:29.6

by the Dispatch Media, which you can find at the Dispatch.com, where you can sign up for all of our

0:36.4

wares. Today's episode is brought to you by Mrs. Fields Cookies, more about that in a little bit,

0:43.7

who doesn't like cookies. So you probably know if you looked in your feed that this is a

0:50.6

sort of a different kind of episode. I'm actually in what I would have once called behind

0:57.2

enemy lines, but no more. At Reason Magazine, I'm in their studio. It's amazing. It's like

1:06.1

Bar Mitzvah, Caligula's Palace out in the editorial suite. And I'm interviewing Nick Gillespie.

1:13.2

What is your title now? I am editor at large. I used to be in an editor at large. Yeah,

1:17.4

I would say it's a good place to be. Yeah, you have all the freedom to kibbits and complain and

1:24.3

point out better things, but no responsibility to see anything actually carried out. That is pretty

1:28.5

accurate. We used to talk about it in terms of, you know, there are staff that load diapers and

1:33.5

staff that change diapers in editor at large is loading diapers. Yeah, that's I like you. So

1:42.3

and we're going to sort of pick up where we left off, maybe not exactly where we left off,

1:46.0

because we were talking, what were we talking about? I think we had straight into conversations about

1:51.0

Star Wars and the Mandalorian and all of that kind of stuff. That's right. Are you still keep up

1:56.0

on sci-fi? Somewhat, I've become I really dislike I've always dislike Star Trek, other than the

2:04.6

original series. And I'm a big I'm not a Star Trek fan, I'm a William Shatner fan. So I

2:10.1

so there is someone who comes out that way. That's I see TJ Hooker as like everything is moving

2:14.7

up to and away from TJ Hooker. Does that include the Gremlin episode of Twilight Zone? Yes,

2:21.6

Peranto movie. He took it on the mid-60s. What about the spoken word rendition of Rocket Man?

2:27.2

Yeah, you know what I'll tell you this, that is great. And I remember seeing that live with my

2:32.0

brother. This would have been certainly in the late 70s. It was on a syndicated science fiction

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