Staving Off Annihilation with VDH

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Victor Davis Hanson is back! He joins Rob and Steve Hayward to discuss his latest must-read book, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation. Aside from the cheery discussion on civilization obliteration, the trio finds their way into digressions spanning the cameos of great men in the Old Testament to the spectacular blunders of the modern era. Is there any hope to be found in this eleventh hour? Listen in to find out.

- Audio from this week's podcast: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says clips of a deteriorating Joe Biden are “cheap fake videos.”

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0:00.0	I'm normally like, yeah, whatever, man, but now I have to do it.
0:03.0	Okay.
0:04.0	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:09.0	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:12.0	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:17.2	It's the Ricochet podcast.
0:18.2	It's number 697.
0:19.6	I'm Rob Long.
0:20.5	Peter Robinson and James Lovix are off this week. I am joined by the great Steve Hayward, and we are going to have a long interesting stem winding conversation with the great Victor Davis Hanson.
0:31.0	Stay tuned. They are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad faith and I think that it tells
0:36.5	you everything that we need to know about how desperate, how desperate Republicans are here.
0:43.2	I'll hear thank the introduction and for sharing your family story.
0:47.2	You know I've often said anyway, not a joke, not a joke.
0:52.4	Hello and welcome to the Ricoche podcast.
0:54.7	It is Friday, June 21st.
0:56.5	It's the longest day of the year.
0:59.2	Doesn't feel like it, but I guess it's going to be.
1:02.0	I am Rob Long coming to you from New York City.
1:03.7	Joined by Steve Hayward, Steve, where are you by the way? I'm actually in Marin County
1:08.8	behind enemy lines, believe it or not. Exactly right. Well, did you see that like the bay area now is is advertising
1:15.2	itself to the rest of central California which is really hot by saying it's
1:18.8	misty here or it's cool here it's beyond misty it is freezing cold here
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