Jack Gets Back

Join Jonah and special guest Jack Butler, his former research assistant for the tricentennial episode. ...

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Join Jonah and special guest Jack Butler, his former research assistant for the tricentennial episode. It’s the best of both worlds as the program recalls its greatest hits (conspiracies about the Soviets, Bigfoot Erotica, The Episode that Shall Not be Named, and, of course, Jokes at Jack’s expense) while also breaking into new territory. The guys talk about the conflict between college Republicans who got into politics just to be edgy versus the more thoughtful millenials and Zoomers who actually hold convictions, and about how “for the first time in more than four years, conservative politics do not have to flow through the person of Donald Trump.”

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    Kurt Caton

    Was waiting for the punchline on Jack's Bigfoot Erotica story. And there wasn't one. Ha!

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    Jason Gibson

    nicholas cage:

    The Rock and National Treasure: good

    The wicker man: very bad


    Everything else is somewhere in between. I agree on having problems with John Woo. The slow motion action scenes just really keep his films from being truly exciting. My podcast partner is a huge fan though

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  3. Scott Mc

    Such a nice casual show with lots of familiar. I think by chance I became a listener on his last podcast. I enjoy the inside fun and humor (I was told no math) and his fun in the intro. Thanks it was good to hear him and see why is good. "I am not bigger than..." fresh. Jonah you were fine too.

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  4. Frederick F

    Yes!! I have missed Jack!

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    R Brooks

    Jonah - you mention in passing at the end the similarities of confronting QAnon to expelling the Birchers. Would love to hear an episode taking a look at the efforts to separate the conservative movement from the Birchers, and the parallels we can learn from for today.

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    Steve Stiles

    Jonah, with all due respect you jumped the shark with episode 300.

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    Michael Taylor

    Great episode. JB was a fantastic sidekick, and this was a reminder of his Cincinnati sensibilities. As a curmudgeonly Gen-Xer, it’s encouraging to see such promising young conservative writer working for NR. We still need the all-Dune episode.

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    Old guy named Bill (OGNB)

    Enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

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  9. Bobby Dressel

    We want the segues!

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    The Bell Tower

    To connect the dots: if drinking liberal tears is unpersuasive to liberals, drinking pretend conservative tears must also be unpersuasive to imaginary conservatives. Perhaps this is why you failed to gloat.

    For my own part, all I feel as I watch Donald Trump jet off into the sunset with the horcrux he created by executing the Republican party is an overwhelming sense of sadness.

    It’s hard to spike the football on people you once respected and even admired.

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