Scary and Confusing

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What can we say? Frustration has a way of concentrating the mind, and this week we’ve got one word: Afghanistan. Victor Davis Hanson joins us to talk about our absurd administration and its pathetic priorities. Then national security correspondent Eli Lake joins us to speak on the Taliban, Biden’s “return to normal” on the world stage and his moral illiteracy. The fellas also have a chance to muse... Source

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What are you doing the world's crazy?
0:02.0	I have a dream, this nation will rise up, live up the true meaning of its dreams.
0:11.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created.
0:17.0	If we had decided 15 years ago to leave Afghanistan, it would have been really different.
0:26.0	I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work.
0:33.0	Mr. Robert Shaw, chair down this wall.
0:40.0	It's the Ricochet Podcast with Peter Robinson and Rob Long.
0:44.0	I'm James Lilix, the day we have Victor Davis Hanson and Eli Lake, out of Afghanistan.
0:49.0	I can hear you!
0:55.0	Welcome everybody, it's the Ricochet Podcast.
0:57.0	It's number episode 557.
0:59.0	You got to join us at ricochet.com because there's lots of stuff to talk about.
1:02.0	And there's lots of good people there to talk about it with, knowledgeable people, friendly people.
1:06.0	People who enjoy a good, spoiling fight.
1:10.0	Join us, won't you?
1:11.0	And if you got something to get off your chest, it's a great place to do it.
1:14.0	I'm James Lilix here in Minneapolis with a few things to get off my chest.
1:18.0	Peter Robinson is in California, Rob Long is in New York.
1:21.0	Imagine that both of them, too, are like cans of soda that have spent 24 hours in a paint shaker in a hardware store.
1:28.0	And when you open them up, there will be a detonation of effort of essence.
1:32.0	Because we're all kind of mad about this.
1:36.0	Start with this.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ricochet, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ricochet and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.