Welcome to 2016, faithful podcast listeners. We start off the year strongly with two of our most popular guests: the great Victor Davis Hanson and the no less great Andrew Klavan. There's lots of talk about warriors ancient and modern, some Trump, some Europe. Even some talk about the current crop of movies. But seriously, no spoilers.

A few links related to this show:

Victor Davis Hanson's The Classicist podcast is a must listen and is hosted by some guy named Troy Senik. No, we've never heard of him either.

Andrew Klavan recently started a podcast of his own and despite the fact that it's not on our network, we still think you should listen to it.

On our last podcast of 2015, we spent a fair amount of time arguing about spoilers (OK, James and Rob argued, the rest of us (including Peter Robinson) just listened.  That conversation inspired this Martini Shot, the audio commentary Rob does for KCRW.

Music from this week’s episode:

I'll Be Around by The Spinners

The opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.

Thanks, EJHill.

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