Heavy Questions

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It's Question Time with Lileks and Cooke. They jump into the guest chairs and let Ricochet's very own members steer the ship this week. Tune in to hear their thoughts on lots of stuff: the Pax Americana, universal suffrage, wordsmithing in the age of AI, their favorite interview subjects, and more — all with plenty of pop culture sprinkled in.

- Sound from this week's open: John Cleese in the "Take Your Pick" sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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0:00.0	We'd like to thank cozy earth.
0:02.3	No way wouldn't.
0:03.5	Let me start that over.
0:04.6	We would like to think bam, bam, three, two, one.
0:08.6	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:13.5	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:16.4	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:21.4	It's the Rikershay podcast, and our guest is you, the members who pose questions to myself, James Lillick, and Charles C.W. Cook.
0:28.6	So let's have ourselves a podcast. Oh, and tariffs do.
0:31.5	Well, your first question for the blow on the head this evening is,
0:35.1	what great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states?
0:43.5	President Trump?
0:44.3	I really don't know what he said at the end of that.
0:46.7	I don't think he knows what he said either.
0:49.0	Listener mail.
0:51.0	Welcome, everybody.
0:51.9	This is the Rurcache podcast number 700, and 36.
0:55.7	I'm James Lollocks in Minneapolis.
0:57.4	Spring, not yet here.
0:59.2	Slate gray skies, bit of a chill to the air.
1:02.5	The other day, the tornado sirens went off and wailed for about four minutes to the extreme distress of all dogs.
1:09.7	And some people.
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