Episode 30: The Midday Sun — with Kevin Williamson

The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast

National Review

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

5 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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On episode 30 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, Charles welcomes back his old Mad Dogs and Englishmen co-host, Kevin Williamson, to talk about cities, crime, whether libertarians were wrong about marijuana legalization, going to Italy, shooting snakes with revolvers, and who is going to be the Republican nominee in 2024. No PPE money was destroyed during the making of this podcast. N.B. Charles is now on vacation. The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast will return in two weeks.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. I am not Charles C.W. Cook. This is Kevin Williamson.
0:25.3	Been a while since Charlie and I have had an unscripted conversation. But Charles, I believe this is your, is this your 30th episode?
0:31.2	It's the 30th episode. The big 30th episode. The big 30. I kind of remember the big 3.0. I enjoyed that one a lot more than the big 5-0 this year.
0:40.5	Yeah, I'm somewhere in between. Well, I'm closer to the big 3-0 than the big 5-0.
0:44.4	Yeah, no, no, no, I'm feeling elderly. Well, should we just pick up where we left off?
0:51.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:52.5	You know, speaking of which, you know, every time we do something or there's a change,
0:58.7	it's always just weird kind of, you know, right-wing criminology, especially where
1:03.5	national review stuff is involved.
1:07.7	So when I decided to leave NR and go work for the dispatch, I put in my notice
1:13.9	and was taking some vacation time. And during that time, my father passed away. So the last
1:20.2	kind of things I had planned to do it in are like the last edition of the Tuesday and a farewell
1:25.9	episode of Mad Dogs and Englishmen never actually
1:29.1	happened.
1:30.7	So this apparently led some people to believe there was some sort of, you know, tantrum or rift or
1:34.9	something like that.
1:36.7	Not the case.
1:38.1	Anyway, glad to be talking again.
1:39.9	How did you guys screw up Jacksonville so bad?
1:41.9	You had the biggest city in America with the Republican mayor,
1:45.8	and as I understand it, he just lost re-election.
1:48.2	Yeah, so...
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