To Speak Ill of the Dead
The Ricochet Podcast
Ricochet
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Plus, Cooke and Hayward can't help but feel a bit of relief that there's a bit less Erlichian misanthropy in the world; consider newly reported accusations against Caesar Chavez that could prove fatal to the progressive hero's reputation; and they round the necrologies out with a salute to the immortal Chuck Norris.
Sounds from this week's open: Cesar Chavez at UCLA in 1972, Paul Erlich (Growth Busters, 2007) and Chuck Norris on… Chuck Norris (Full Measure, 2017)
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| 0:00.0 | All right. General, I think we're going to jump right in when you're ready. So I think we're ready. |
| 0:06.4 | My hair okay? |
| 0:08.1 | Right. I go to the same barber you do. So I... |
| 0:11.0 | Brothers and sisters, you know, you are really not that far from the farm workers. |
| 0:18.0 | There are a lot of people who think we can relax because population growth is projected |
| 0:22.0 | to level off. |
| 0:23.1 | What you got to remember is it's projected to level off, adding more people than were |
| 0:28.8 | alive on the entire planet when I was born. |
| 0:31.7 | It's the Rickashay podcast with Steve Hayward in California, Charles C.W. Cook in Florida, |
| 0:36.8 | and today our very special guest is |
| 0:39.2 | H.R. McMaster. Let's have ourselves a podcast. They wanted to put Chuck Norse on Mount Rushmore, |
| 0:46.4 | but the granite wasn't tough enough for his beard. I thought, you know, this is pretty funny. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome everybody to the Rickusay podcast number 781. |
| 0:57.1 | It's Steve Hayward sitting in the host chair for James Lalex today, joined by Charles |
| 1:01.7 | Cook in Jacksonville, Florida, and I'm coming to you from Malibu, California. |
| 1:07.3 | So, boy, have we got the two coastal paradises covered? |
| 1:15.6 | And the rest of the country, I'm afraid I just don't feel sorry for you. Going through winter, going through snow and slush and rain and gray skies. |
| 1:20.6 | Right, right. |
| 1:22.6 | So I am going to begin the show today with noting the passings of this week, which include |
| 1:31.0 | the late great Paul Ehrlich, say more about him in a moment. |
| 1:35.1 | All the successors in Iranian leadership seem to be dying very quickly. |
| 1:38.6 | And news out here Friday morning that Chuck Norris has passed away, which is going to present |
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