It's not often that a news story breaks while we're recording the podcast, but that's exactly what happened today. We started off talking politics with Bill Kristol and Michael Barone (the former on #NeverTrump and the possibility of a third party and the latter on the now very important California primary and Michael's WSJ piece "Trump Can’t Break the Republican Party") and wound up discussing the passing of Prince and Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday. Eclectic, thou art our brand.

Music from this week’s episode:

Purple Rain by Prince

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

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