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The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast

Episode 23: Bangers and Mash — with Lanhee Chen

The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast

National Review

News, Politics, Music, Arts, Books, Music History

51000 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On episode 23, Charles expresses his frustration with the idea that everything in American life is "pro-Trump" or "anti-Trump," talks to Lanhee Chen about what has happened to California, and finishes up by chatting with Luther Ray Abel about "bangers"—old cars that are cheap but require constant maintenance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode

0:04.0

Welcome to episode 23 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. This one has come cold on the heels of

0:30.5

episode 22 and will in all likelihood be followed by episode 24 although on which day that one will be released

0:42.2

I just can't tell you I've run out of Q&A questions so please do send more in well I've run out

0:51.6

of usable safe for work Q&A questions anyway.

0:55.8

And if you don't already, you should subscribe to my free weekly newsletter,

1:02.6

which you can do at charlescwcook.com.

1:06.8

It's a bit like this podcast, except you can't actually hear me speaking.

1:13.0

You have to read the words on the page and imagine me speaking them.

1:17.6

So it's a little more work overall, unless you have a friend who sounds exactly like me

1:23.9

and who's willing to read my newsletter out to you every Sunday morning, which seems

1:30.0

unlikely all told, but you never know these days, do you?

1:34.9

I want to start today's show by talking about free thinking.

1:42.2

And in particular, about the question of free thinking as it relates to the question of free thinking as it relates to the main character

1:49.9

in today's right of center politics and arguably the main character in all of today's

1:57.6

politics, Donald Trump.

2:01.4

I've touched on some of these questions before on this podcast, most notably after the

2:10.3

recent election.

2:12.3

But I think it's important to revisit them now in the wake of Trump's recent indictment in the state of New York.

2:23.6

Specifically, I want once again to object at length to the idea that it is impossible or undesirable or even hypocritical for Americans to separate

2:40.9

out issues when thinking about Donald Trump.

2:45.1

And I want to reject the idea that those who insist upon doing so, that those who separate out issues when

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