This Week’s Show
Contents
- 03m05s Snobs & Slobs, Euro style
- 10m11s Trump trashes Ukraine
- 15m12s The mystery of South Africa
- 21m29s Don’t look up
- 28m31s Scatter the feds!
- 31m16s Fort Knox, wha?
- 34m30s Return of Butch & Suni
- 36m16s World Hippo Day
- 39m05s Silly signoff
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Transcript
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your stratospherically genial host John Derbyshire, bringing you some notes from the week’s news seasoned with wit, cynicism, and some bafflement.
Most of this week’s news has related to foreign affairs. That puts me at a slight disadvantage as I’m not really engaged with matters foreign. I often find them interesting, from a detached historical and anthropological point of view; and I have sympathies and unsympathies, both governed by my strong preference for civilization over barbarism.
Those are calm abstractions, though. I’m not engaged with foreign issues in the way that I see commenters on social media engaged, with deep feeling and strong commitment. I’m a Fortress America guy.
I want us to have lots of nukes. I’ve been telling the world that for more than twenty years. Actual quote from me in 2004: “You Can Never Have Enough Nukes.” End quote. I likewise want every kind of anti-missile defense we can devise, and state-of-the-art protections against anything a hostile power might hit us with: conventional, nuclear, chemical, biological, drones, … everything.
That attained, I want us to mind our own business while the rest of the world goes hang.
So I’m not really your go-to guy for news about foreign parts. They’re in the news, though, and we’re tangled up with them because of past stupidities; so I’ll do my best. Continue reading