Two Plus Two Still Equals Four

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Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Rob Long and John Yoo are reunited with James to serve up some laughs as they sift through some unpleasant truths that many of us would prefer to ignore. The trio yawns at the conclusion of the record-long government shutdown but sees plenty to worry about in its resuming business as usual; considers some elementary underpinnings of the affordability problem; John Yoo takes a barrage of questions on the SCOTUS term and presidential war powers; and Brother Rob takes us out with some thoughts on walking one's path even in tough times.

Sound from this week's opening: The House adopts the Senate’s plan to reopen the government and Sen. rand Paul talks the deficit on NewsMax2

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0:00.0	No guests.
0:01.8	We're guests, Jim.
0:03.0	Oh, I'm the guest.
0:03.9	Oh, I thought I'd finally been elevated to host.
0:07.6	You could be the host, I can be the guest.
0:09.7	No, no.
0:11.6	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:16.5	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:19.4	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:24.6	It's the Rickshay podcast with Brother Rob Long, he's back.
0:28.3	And John Yoo, he's back as well.
0:30.2	I'm James Lillick, so we're going to talk about everything that's going on.
0:33.5	So let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:35.1	On this vote, the ayes are 222.
0:37.5	The nays are 209.
0:39.4	The bill is passed.
0:43.1	The motion is adopted.
0:45.0	We're facing a $2 trillion deficit, so I don't think we're going to get out of this annual deficit by taxing people.
0:52.0	Now that tariffs are out there, the president's saying tariffs are
0:54.4	his favorite word, and he loves tariffs. Replace the word tariff with tax, and you would think,
0:59.6	oh, my goodness, Republicans love taxes. Welcome, everybody. It's the Rikoshae podcast number 765.
1:06.2	I'm James Lallex here in Minneapolis. Rob Long is back. Brother Rob is amongst us. I don't know where he is. We'll find it in the second. And also joining us is Schrodinger's pundit, John Yu. Is he a host? Is he a guest? Is he alive? We don't know exactly. We're going to consider him a host because after all of these years, it just seems ridiculous not to grant him
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