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Drive-Time Ruminant 4: A Farewell Potpourri

Drive-Time Ruminant 4: A Farewell Potpourri

FromThe Remnant with Jonah Goldberg


Drive-Time Ruminant 4: A Farewell Potpourri

FromThe Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

ratings:
Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Jun 19, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Fair warning: Eating styrofoam may prove more constructive than listening to today’s drive-time Remnant, which contains even less substance than your average Seinfeld episode. Jonah (scourge of baggage agents across America), Ryan (softball hero of the think-tank league and true retainer to The Remnant’s legacy), Guy (who contributed nothing to this episode because “Talkin’ Softball” was stuck in his head), and Nick (full-time Renfield to Jonah’s Dracula) reunite to explore the pointlessness of various government departments, kooky conservative reactions to making Juneteenth a federal holiday, and political blogging in the dark ages of the internet. The quartet also has sad news to impart: Beginning next week, Nick will no longer be serving as Jonah’s research assistant. To mark his departure and celebrate his legacy, the guys talk about absolute guff for about an hour, and then retroactively stick some newsy things onto the front of the show.
Show Notes:
- The enduring strangeness of Jackie Butts (sorry, Jack)
- Darkest drilling
- The 2001 shoe bombing attempt
- Tucker Carlson outcrazies himself
- Andrew Egger on the latest January 6 conspiracy
- Charlie Kirk confirms his genius
Released:
Jun 19, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

In “The Remnant," Jonah Goldberg, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, syndicated columnist, best-selling author, and AEI/NRI Fellow enlists a “Cannonball Run”-style cast of stars, has-beens, and never-weres to address the most pressing issues of the day and of all-time. Is Western Civilization doomed? Is nationalism the wave of the future? Is the Pope Catholic? Will they ever find a new place to put cheese on a pizza? Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Who is hotter: Ginger or Mary-Ann? Was Plato really endorsing the Republic as the ideal state? Mixing history, pop culture, rank-punditry, political philosophy, and, at times, shameless book-plugging, Goldberg and guests will have the kinds of conversations we wish they had on cable-TV shout shows. And the nudity will (almost) always be tasteful.