That Crucial Bit of Crazy

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

President Trump's disruptive tendencies continue to shake up the Executive Branch at dizzying speed. Thankfully, James and Charlie can keep their wits as they discuss the spending freeze/unfreeze and the reasonable expectations of the good that can be done with the president's pen. They're then joined by Dennis Kneale, host of the Ricochet Audio Network's "What's Bugging Me" podcast and author of The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk. Dennis teases some of the life lessons he thinks readers can draw from Musk to lead better lives; he also provides background for Elon's critical political conversion.

Plus, James and Charlie wrap with some thoughts about the awful air collision in Washington, DC and the many reasons to be suspicious of DeekSeek...

Sound from this week's open: Newly sworn-in Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy responds to the US suffering its worst commercial airline crash since 2009.

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0:00.0	And you're joined by Charles C.W. Cook and Stephen Hayward.
0:05.1	Or at least you're so, I believe, here. Let me check. Am I right?
0:10.3	Stephen? Okay. So we have, oh, it's just me and Charlie.
0:17.4	All right. Redoing it all. Coming down. Three, two, one.
0:21.3	Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
0:29.1	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:34.2	It's the Rickershey podcast. I'm James Lollickson, and we've got Charles C.W. Cook with us as well, and we're going to be talking to Dennis Neal, host of the What's Bugging Me podcast to talk about his new book on Elon Musk. So let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:48.1	Prior to the collision, the flight paths that were being flown from the military and from American, that was not unusual for what
0:57.7	happens in the DC airspace. And as this investigation moves forward, we will be able to provide
1:03.9	more information to you about the details of that statement. Welcome, friends. It's the Rikoshae podcast and it is number 726, if you're making hash marks on your cell wall.
1:15.6	I'm James Lillax here in Minneapolis, sitting across from a beautiful 31-story skyscraper,
1:21.7	which is the tallest building built in the year 2000 in the United States of America.
1:26.4	It sold a few years ago for $200 million.
1:28.5	It was sold yesterday for $6 million, such as the state of things here.
1:34.4	In Florida, we have Charles C.W. Cook.
1:36.5	Charlie, how you doing?
1:37.7	I'm doing well.
1:39.0	I'm doing well.
1:39.6	Is the downtown Minneapolis really that troubled?
1:49.6	Well, kind of, sort of sort of yeah it is and what it's causing of course is massive increases in property taxes for the homeowners so everybody got to go work
1:55.8	from home and that was absolutely fantastic and who needs a city anyway i hate to commute and the end result
2:00.5	is an
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