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The Ricochet Podcast

Free Speech, Rightly Handled

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Steve Hayward is back with James and Charles after a few weeks away, and the trio sits down with Josh Hammer, senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, to talk about his murdered friend, Charlie Kirk. The gang discusses the Turning Point enterprise, the mission of its founder, and the ugly attempts by clickbait peddlers to contort the late-Kirk's message.

Plus, the hosts break down everything right and wrong with Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, Pam Bondi's comments, the proposed investigation into Antifa, and the latest on the TikTok deal. 




Sound from this week's open: Trump and Jimmy Kimmel's latest public comments about each other.

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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.

0:13.1

It's the Rikishay Podcast.

0:14.8

I'm James Lilex with Charles C.W. Cook and Stephen Hayward.

0:17.3

Today we talk to Josh Hammer about rising anti-Semitism on the right. So let's

0:22.2

have ourselves a podcast. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody he called a friend.

0:26.7

This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, okay? Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had

0:32.4

very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago. So, you know, you can call that

0:36.8

free speech or not.

0:38.0

He was fired for lack of talent.

0:40.7

Welcome, everybody.

0:41.5

It's the Rickrache podcast number 758.

0:44.5

I'm James Lilloch in Minneapolis.

0:46.9

Overcast, autumnal, beautiful Charles C.W. Cook in Florida, Stephen Hayward, we presume, in California.

0:53.2

And gentlemen, the days of Joan Embry shown up and bringing a marmoset who pees on Johnny Carson's coat, those days are gone.

1:01.6

The talk show is gone.

1:03.2

And frankly, I don't care what Kevin Stolbert or Kimmy Jimmel say because they're babbling to the bubble.

1:08.4

And if the market wants to take care of them, then the market will.

1:12.2

But what we have now is something that sort of has the taint, the faint width of a government

1:17.3

leaning, shall we say.

1:19.5

And you could say, no, simply a business proposition.

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