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"It's time for the Ricochet Poooodcaaaast!" If only we had Vin Scully to announce that the epic way he did earlier this week at Game 2 of The World Series.  But this podcast ain't too shabby either: leading off we've got the great Mollie Hemingway on that whole dossier controversy and batting cleanup, it's power-hitter Pat Sajak on the greatest game, this series, and why baseball will always be the America's pastime. Batter up!

Music from this week's podcast: My Blue Heaven by Fats Domino

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It's relatively rare to put out a Ricochet Podcast with only one guest, but when that guest is Victor Davis Hanson, well that's all you need. First, we do a deep dive on Victor's new must-read book The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, a definitive history of WWII. Then, a bit of talk about current events, including North Korea. Go get your thinking cap out of storage -- you'll need it for this show. 

Music from this week's episode: It's Been A Long Long Time - Bing Crosby with Les Paul

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It's been a bad week for Hollywood's grasp on moral authority. First, Harvey Weinstein is fired for transgressions going back decades, and then some guy from Amazon gets fired for basically the same thing. To help guide us through the moral minefield, we call up New York Times columns extraordinaire Ross Douthat. We also talk Hefner and that pesky 25th Amendment. Then, Christopher Scalia, son of Antonin Scalia on this new book Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived. The book is a collection of Justice Scalia's speeches and we talk about his influence, his passions, and his unlikely friendship with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Also, the President appears to have an issue with freedom of the press. Is this one of those times we shouldn't take him literally?

Music from this week's show: All I Really Want by Alanis Morrissette

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This week, Jon Gabriel captains the good ship Ricochet in place of James Lileks and podcast amigo Andrew Klavan is in the Long Chair® this week. Our guests are Charles C.W. Cooke, the foremost authority on firearms (also roller coasters, but that's for another show). Then, TV's and noted Trump supporter Rob Long stops by to plug his new book Bigly: Donald Trump in Verse. Also, Andrew talks about his new podcast/novelization Another Kingdom, and a fond farewell to Tom Petty. Later, dude.

Music from this week's episode: Alright For Now by Tom Petty

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This week, we call of a couple of our most popular podcasters to help us parse the week's events: Michael Graham, the Boston based host of or daily podcast Michael in the Morning sits in for Peter Robinson, while Michael Stopa from the Harvard Lunch Club podcast stops by to talk about how the President is doing so far (and yes, he and Rob Long get into another one of their epic rap battles). Then, the WSJ's Jason Riley joins to discuss kneeling in the NFL and his new book False Black Power?.  Finally, a librarian in Massachusetts doesn't like Dr. Suess. Well, that's not really true, and a hearty "so long, Hef!"

Music from this week's show: Puerto Rico by Vaya Con Dios

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