Podcasts

January 5, 2008 — John Hinderaker

Michael Barone on Election 2008

Today we had Michael Barone as a guest on our radio show. We spent the first segment talking about the results in Iowa and the current state of the 2008 race. In the second segment, we talked about the new edition of Michael’s Almanac of American Politics and his views on the broader currents in American politics. This is a great opportunity to hear from America’s foremost political analyst. You »
October 26, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Smash the Nanny State!

My radical days are far behind me, but it still feels good to say “smash the state” now and then, especially when we’re talking about the nanny state. As we did a couple of Saturdays ago with David Harsanyi, author of Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children. Harsanyi was a terrific guest, and it was »
October 12, 2007 — John Hinderaker

First Hour Commentary

I’m traveling this week and won’t be in the studio tomorrow morning for our weekly radio show. Here, instead, is the first hour of last week’s show, which was a fun hour of commentary on the events of the day, plus our Loon of the Week award. You can download or just listen to the podcast here. Or, as always, you can subscribe to our podcasts on iTunes by going »
September 28, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Second Hour

In the second hour of last Saturday’s show, we interviewed Lt. Col. John Nagl, one of the Army’s top experts on counterinsurgency. He is the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and, with General David Petraeus, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Col. Nagl is a great American and a terrific interview. Among other things, it was a candid assessment »
September 28, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Podcasting Resumes

Things have been very busy lately, and I’ve had to forgo some activities (e.g., podcasting) in favor of others that confer more tangible rewards (i.e., pay the mortgage). Besides, if I don’t get around to podcasting a show, you can always get them at Townhall. But the radio show has been humming along, and I want to get back in the podcasting habit. So let’s start with last Saturday’s show, »
August 3, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Cheney: The Inside Story

In the second hour of last Saturday’s radio show, we talked with Steve Hayes about his new book, Cheney. It was a great conversation about an excellent biography. For me, the most interesting chapters were about Cheney’s youth in Nebraska and Wyoming and his early career in Washington. Dick Cheney has participated in most of the interesting events in Washington from the Gerry Ford administration to the present, and Steve’s »
July 20, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Hour Two

The second hour of our radio show on Saturday began with a phone call from Lt. Pete Hegseth, talking about his visit to Washington with Vets For Freedom. We continued talking about the war in Iraq, the pro-defeat movement in Congress, took some calls, discussed the media coverage of the recent benchmark report and President Bush’s press conference on the report, and awarded our This Week in Gatekeeping prize. It’s »
July 15, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Michael Barone and More

The highlight of the first hour of our radio show yesterday was a half-hour interview with Michael Barone. Barone is more knowledgeable than anyone else about the nuts and bolts of American politics, but for his latest book he chose to look backward to England’s “Glorious Revolution” of 1688-89. His book is Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers. It is exceptionally good. We booked »
July 13, 2007 — John Hinderaker

A Lone Survivor’s Story

During the second hour of our radio show on Saturday, we interviewed Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell, author of Lone Survivor. Luttrell was a member of a Seal mission in Afghanistan intended to take out a high-value Taliban target. The mission went awry, and he and his three comrades came under fire from a large contingent of Taliban fighters. The story of how Luttrell survived, although badly wounded, is little short »
July 9, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Giving Live Earth the Respect It Deserves

We devoted most of the first hour of our radio show on Saturday to ridiculing Al Gore’s Live Earth festival. Among other things, we played clips of musicians who played in the various concerts, discussing global warming on the event’s web site. They are highly entertaining. In the last segment, we awarded our Loon of the Week prize to the looniest of them all. It’s an entertaining and informative hour. »
July 6, 2007 — John Hinderaker

The “Fairness” Doctrine, Naked Shakespeare, and More

The second hour of last Saturday’s radio show was a fun one. We talked about the left’s effort to destroy talk radio by re-instituting the “fairness” doctrine. That prompted some calls. We discussed one of the least edifying of recent cultural developments, naked Shakespeare, and awarded our Gatekeeper of the Week prize. Because of a technical snafu at the Patriot, I had to get the podcast from Townhall and reproduce »
July 4, 2007 — John Hinderaker

A Podcast for Independence Day

Actually, last Saturday’s show didn’t have anything directly to do with Independence Day. But the defeat of the comprehensive immigration bill by an uprising of concerned citizens epitomizes what democracy is all about; that was the subject of most of our first hour. We also awarded the Loon of the Week prize to a certain former actor whose hysterical fund-raising screed on behalf of the Democratic Party is a long »
June 22, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Movies and More

We spent most of the second hour of Saturday’s show talking with Stephen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Washington Post. If you want to know what movies to avoid this summer, and which ones to see–a smaller group, no doubt–check it out. Stephen was so entertaining that we held him over for three segments, leaving time at the end for our This Week in Gatekeeping award. You can »
June 18, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Saturday’s Show, First Hour

We spent most of the first hour of Saturday’s radio show talking about the return of the “comprehensive immigration reform” bill. That stimulated lots of calls, naturally. We finished up by awarding our coveted Loon of the Week prize to a local politician on the national scene. You can download or just listen to the podcast here. Or, as always, you can subscribe to our podcasts on iTunes by going »
June 15, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Counterinsurgency and More

Last Saturday, our Northern Alliance radio show was broadcast live from the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, where dedication of a new memorial to Minnesotans who fought in World War II was underway. It was a great event and a fun show. In our second hour, along with the usual commentary and laughs, we interviewed Lt. Col. John Nagl, counterinsurgency expert and author or Learning to Eat Soup With »
June 12, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Podcasting the World War II Memorial

I wrote here about the fact that on Saturday, the Northern Alliance broadcast live from the Minnesota State Capitol, where a memorial to Minnesotans who served in World War II was being dedicated. It turned out to be a wonderful event. The crowd was estimated at over 20,000, including a great many veterans and their families. The atmosphere was festive and there was lots to do, with World War II »
June 3, 2007 — John Hinderaker

Podcasting the Immigration Debate

The Patriot is a great radio station, but every once in a while there are technical challenges. Like yesterday, for example. Chad the Elder and I were in the studio, and we were yammering away in our first segment when calls started coming in, saying that we were not on the air. For reasons that never became clear–to me, anyway–instead of our Northern Alliance show, the Patriot was broadcasting, alternately, »