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The Ricochet Podcast

It's a Wonder Why They're Losing to This Guy

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Steve Hayward is traveling abroad, so Ricochet co-founder Rob Long takes a break from his seminary studies to join James and Charlie in a discussion of worldly ways this week. The trio discusses property taxes, crazies with guns, and Bari Weiss's making a big deal over The Free Press. Plus, there's a comedian on trial in the UK, sustained outrage over Trump's law-and-order blitz, and disappointment among his enemies that he could be away from the cameras and alive at the same time.



- Sounds from this week's open: Tim Waltz on Donald Trump's "death" earlier this week, and Donald Trump's announcement that he was not dead earlier this week.



- Visit this week's sponsor, Prize Picks, and use code RICOCHET and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup!



Transcript

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0:00.0

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

0:08.0

Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.

0:13.2

It's the Rickshay podcast. I'm James Lillen, of course, we get Charles C.W. Cook,

0:17.1

and as far as our guest, he's not a guest. He's one of us, the founder, Rob Long.

0:21.7

So let's have ourselves a podcast. Although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking

0:26.5

there might be news. Just saying, just saying, there will be news sometime, just so you know,

0:34.3

there will be news. And then I didn't do any for two days and they said there must

0:39.2

be something wrong with him Biden wouldn't do him for months you wouldn't see him and nobody ever

0:44.6

said there was ever anything wrong with him and we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape no i heard

0:49.7

that i get reports welcome everybody this is the ricochet podcastchet podcast number 756. How do we get that far? Well, in the beginning, was Rob Lawn, but we'll get to that. You can join us at Rookashay.com. We'd be part of the most stimulating conversations and community on the web. We have, as usual, luckily, Charles C.W. Cook, Stephen Hayward is out this week. Lord knows where he is. Iceland, New Guinea. But Rob's back. Rob, the founders of Ricochet, is back with us. Seminary classes, I believe, started today. So he's a little...

1:23.6

Yesterday, he can't be stressed about seminary studies.

1:28.3

I mean, it's a calm feeling of peace, no doubt.

1:30.9

This ends you as you look over the landscape of theological disputation and find nothing

1:34.6

but harmony.

1:35.8

But you are in New York.

1:37.9

And so you're on the ground where democratic socialism is taking root joyously, right?

1:44.8

Well, I mean, technically I'm in Princeton.

1:46.4

That's where I live now.

1:47.4

I'm a full-time graduate student.

1:49.9

Really thinking more about weighty matters, James,

1:52.9

not quite the worldly things you think about.

1:56.3

Yeah, I mean, it does seem like people are, I don't know what the word is.

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