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The Ricochet Podcast

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The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We're a few days into a government shutdown, but James, Steve, and Charles are managing to get by. So it's business as usual as the trio pick apart the oddities of the week: Democrats attempt to dodge responsibility for their own filibuster; OMB's Russ Vought gets to work on his master plan; the Secretary of War stands accused of fat-shaming his generals; a man named Jihad does the unthinkable in Manchester; the Chicago Teachers' Union mourns the passing of a '70s cop-killer; and Hollywood resists the rise of digitally diverse actors.



Sound from this week's opening: Pete Hegseth speaks in Quantico, listing practices that the military is "done with" going forward.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sorry, I was just distracted by my dog right now who is trying to bite a builder.

0:05.3

I think tear his femoral artery out.

0:07.8

No, don't.

0:08.8

I don't have a tourniquet.

0:10.1

Oh, damn, he's dead.

0:11.2

Anyway, go on, guys.

0:14.3

Ask not what your country can do for you.

0:19.1

Ask what you can do for your country. Mr. Gorbachev

0:23.4

tear down this wall. It's the Rikosha podcast with Charles C.W. Cook and Stephen Hayward.

0:30.6

I'm James Lillix, and today we talk about, get this, absolutely everything in the world.

0:35.8

So let's have ourselves a podcast.

0:43.9

No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses.

0:46.9

No more climate change worship.

0:50.1

No more division, distraction, or gender delusions.

0:51.4

No more debris.

0:57.5

As I've said before, and we'll say again, we are done with that.

1:04.4

Welcome, everybody. It's the Rikershay podcast episode number 760. You can join us at Rickashay.com,

1:07.4

by the way, if you wish, take a look at the site and you'll say, hey, where has this been on my life? I'm James Lillix in Minneapolis where it is hot. I mean, it's hot. And Stephen Hayward is somewhere in the world. And Charles C.W. Cook, I imagine, is in Florida. Gentlemen, are things clement and pleasant for you on this fine October day? Very much so. I'm back in California, and it's a glorious fall day here out on the coast. There's nothing like a

1:27.6

Minnesota fall. I couldn't believe it when I saw the temps, and I looked, what last year did we have? Was it 48? Last year it was 82. Oh, well, what was it two years ago? Two years ago was 89. I thought, if I completely rethought my, missed my October paradigms completely? No, this is still anomalous. And of course, I blame, well, I blame

1:46.8

climate change. And that's why I'm happy that Bill Gates has come up with a synthetic butter that

1:50.4

will help us save the world. But we'll get to that in a while. Charles, how are you?

1:54.6

I'm doing well. It's very rainy here, though. It's rainy late. It's not supposed to be the

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