About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Eli Lake about various political topics and a segment on music preferences.

As the late Johnny Thunders would say, "Rock and roll is simply an attitude." And we bring the attitude this week with Free Press contributor Eli Lake , as we talk Graham Platner's Maine implosion, underestimating the Ukranians and how Donald Trump may have stumbled to the right answer in Iran. All that and Eli leads us through a round of "What Are You Listening To?" and Charlie's collection of semi-pornographic album covers. Let's have ourselves a podcast... Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-ricochet-podcast--5817275/support .

People in this episode

Host: Ricochet

Guest: Eli Lake

Topics covered

• music
• politics
• Ukraine
• Iran
• album covers

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Johnny Thunders

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