The Althouse Podcast
By Ann Althouse
My dear husband wanted a podcast version of my blog, so this is for him. You can eavesdrop. It’s mostly whatever’s in the news that interests me, an ex-lawprof in the remote outpost called Wisconsin.
The Althouse PodcastOct 02, 2020
00:00
36:43
Slightly salty deep bite
Person of the Year, calling Jill “Dr.”, deep and shallow, who cares that Elvis died, writing to annoy, Earthlings.
Dec 15, 202001:07:10
Beginning to see the light
Dolly Parton, Tony Hsieh, Shel Silverstein, children’s books, luck, Buffalo Bill Cody, mediocre white men, Netflix murdering movie theaters, the collective mind, the Spelling Bee puzzle, the word “headpiece,” Darkmonth.
Dec 08, 202001:22:04
Getting better all the time
An old aphorism, comic strips, John Lennon, toxic positivity, Biden’s rhetoric, Biden’s dogs, Cher’s elephant, emotional support animals, COVID restrictions on religious schools and figures on New Yorker covers.
Dec 03, 202001:07:55
First, there is a monolith/Then there is no monolith
A Zen mountain, the “vanishing” monolith, Trump’s wall likened to a Christo project, the fiction of “The Crown,” David Brooks’s notion of the “rotting” GOP mind, lax grooming in COVID times, learning from hermits in COVID times, and the memory of smells.
Nov 29, 202058:03
Pilgrims and pardons
Pardons, pilgrims, vacuuming, canceling....
Nov 26, 202033:31
Mystery metal monolith
Trump’s non-bombshell, Trump’s subversion, Rudy’s movie, kids and COVID, Madison’s #1, Hillbilly Elegy, Biden loyalists want taking care of, the monolith of the Canyonlands, Trump’s non-weird 90-second press conference.
Nov 24, 202001:12:15
The brain is not for thinking
Biden is boring, Biden and the media, Washingtonians want to party again, Trump’s failing fight, the brain isn’t for thinking, Tom Cotton for President, and the “Floor Frame” sculpture in the Rose Garden.
Nov 23, 202032:32
A less mamlish memento
A transgender writer dies, 2 Latin words, a little Shakespeare, a Bible story about Hell, a NYT spelling game, the bad word “nappy,” the mysterious word “mamlish,” what’s new in Pompeii, the desire for a crisply clear election result, and the love of a soft misty morning.
Nov 22, 202043:14
A mamlish memento
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A transgender writer dies, 2 Latin words, a little Shakespeare, a Bible story about Hell, a NYT spelling game, the bad word “nappy,” the mysterious word “mamlish,” what’s new in Pompeii, the desire for a crisply clear election result, and the love of a soft misty morning.
Nov 22, 202044:44
What if you had to argue...?
Bad arguments, bad evidence, irony, Trump’s struggle, Amy Coney Barrett’s first death penalty case, hypocrisy, Kyle Rittenhouse, problematizing the UW rock, not casting an autistic actor, Michael J. Fox and Parkinson’s and gratitude.
Nov 21, 202001:02:37
Blobby globs
Misunderstanding viral media, Biden’s modest calmness, Kamala’s prosecutorial problem, divine conversation.
Nov 20, 202036:52
Gazing at intransigence
Still counting the votes, Democratic Party in-fighting, NYC school shutdown, Matt Yglesias doesn’t quite tell his story, gambling on whether Melania wants a divorce.
Nov 19, 202040:26
Against Thanksgiving
Biden and embarrassment, Mo Willems and aging, kids and coronavirus, the war on Thanksgiving, shunning the Trumps, ogling in Pakistan, and the depiction of bad people as ugly.
Nov 18, 202044:12
Pretzel in pocket
Pretzels, height, crabs, white-presenting voters, roll-off voters, Wikipedia, Billie Eilish, George Harrison, David Bowie, Chrissie Hynde, Emanuel Macron.
Nov 16, 202019:27
The limbo of desperados
Obama’s book, Kamala Harris as VP, Timothy Leary, art and free speech, Trumpsters vs. anti-Trumpsters, Hispanic voters and socialism.
Nov 15, 202037:27
The wheel’s still in spin
Coddling baby-adults, winning the culture war, Dylan’s losers, calling kids fat, walking the war out of your system, the museum’s accidental honoring of male supremacy.
Nov 14, 202050:11
That’s just an alabai
Elon Musk and COVID, my dream about Biden, Alito and the erosion of rights, colossal dog statue in Turkmenistan, the largest statues in the world, Meghan McCain mocks Trump, a cheeky interviewer in Nebraska, Trump adjust to losing, Harvard and affirmative action.
Nov 13, 202046:07
I’m on a Soviet radio
Trump’s hot tweets, Trump’s forthcoming media empire, Obama’s possible America, the Soviet radio, the botched art restorations, the badness of public art, Elon Musk on Mars, living like it’s 1958.
Nov 12, 202044:20
The watery bejeezus
Nude and naked sculptures, water meadows, the Oversoul, Trump declassifying secrets, Benford’s law, the Electoral College.
Nov 11, 202055:13
The Era of That’s Not Funny
Biden’s historian and the soul of America; Trump appeals to Hispanic voters; Republicans won’t tell Trump to stand down; murder defendant kills himself; Joy Reid’s gaffe; Mick Jagger’s sarcasm; Anthony Burgess trashes Adrienne Rich’s apartment; Mike Pompeo cracks a joke.
Nov 10, 202046:49
Lurking on a perch
Alex Trebek, corrupt sommeliers, Buttigieg to the U.N., Democratic Party in-fighting, Trump can help keep the Senate red, Jake Tapper invites job discrimination.
Nov 09, 202045:01
Healing and homesteading
Kamala explains Joe, Giuliani talks about litigation, Kamala’s ancestral village celebrates, Biden offers a rest period, calling your childhood phone number, Dave Chappelle feels our pain, AOC might quit politics.
Nov 08, 202048:07
Weasels and chainsaws distracted me
Mutated minks in Denmark, Chainsaw Gordy, Biden’s speech, chanting at the sun, a gracious concession, the cookie crumbles, tracking down fake ballots, irrational faith in Biden’s laying on of hands.
Nov 07, 202051:39
Wild accusations
Trump’s speech — live and by transcript, praying to the government, the wretched decline of journalism, seeing your fellow citizens as toxic, and the belly-up elephant and donkey.
Nov 06, 202025:55
I won
I realize that I won, and maybe you’ll see it my way, and then you too will have won!
Nov 05, 202045:54
Can you tell me please, who won?
Post-election day rhetoric analyzed, a stoical approach, the language of boarded-up windows, there will be math, and the squandered credibility of the press.
Nov 04, 202044:45
We all had fun
The right not to vote, it all depends on Pennsylvania, second in line to vote, the “mathematical president-elect,” we all had fun, what a Hitler ad would look like, the “Little Pimp” gaffe.
Nov 03, 202036:48
Galumphing toward the apocalypse
Melanie jokes, Lady Gaga throws beer, Marathon mind will do, Joe the stalking horse, fluffy wedding photos ape the West, Trump’s devilish plan, Anonymous is anonymous, woman’s way of knowing, Ben Franklin’s rising sun, Scotland’s intrafamily spies, Biden reveals his bunglers, and Meade talks and talks to phonebank women.
Nov 02, 202059:02
Only in it for the money
Costumes of mundaneness, the Biden bus incident, taking off the mask, why the polls might be more wrong in 2020 than in 2016, weaponizing movie stars, censoring harmful speech, is Trump doing everything for the money?
Nov 01, 202039:02
Ugly folks over there honking
Trump rhetoric, Halloween, fired up to vote, drive-in rallies, Kamala’s laughing, decoy debunking, cheese woes, predictions of violence, Brett Favre, nerve and courage, Michael Moore, Sean Connery, the lost landslide, Joe Rogan and Alex Jones.
Oct 31, 202001:03:37
Incoherent stories of extreme experience
Woke movies, the dreary 33.1% GDP spurt, Kanye’s way, kind of like Verlaine and Rimbaud, enough is enough in France, Democrats and Republicans sleeping together, Trump’s womanliness.
Oct 29, 202058:43
Tit-for-tat tatters
Trump/Biden refrigerators, love/hate for Trump, judge yelling at defense lawyer, Pennsylvania Trumpsters, tit-for-tat Court packing, protecting Black kids from in-person schooling, Biden-protecting journalism, and coronavirus Halloween.
Oct 28, 202034:16
Skittering in the fading purple light
Trump and Obama in Lititz, Amy Coney Barrett on Senators and their policy preference, and Obama writes another book.
Oct 27, 202026:17
The best taste on the planet
Kanye and Black History Month, abortion, and the best taste in the world, Chinese millennials don’t want democracy, the abstruse sexual inaction of politics, Cher sings for Joe like Sinatra sang for JFK, Kazakhstan adopts the Borat catchphrase, and the idea that voting for Biden will push back the left.
Oct 26, 202048:50
Alone in the closet
The Supreme Court doesn’t need reforming, we’re all running out of steam, Kanye’s Coliseum for God, Mr. Bojangles, shaming men for acting like women, remaking “Rebecca,” family love among the Bidens and Trumps, Obama knows you’re exhausted.
Oct 25, 202052:37
A weird obsession with skin and blood
Kamala’s womb rhetoric, Obama’s cages, football patriotism, a female socialist President, bleeders, books bound in human skin, believing or disbelieving that Hunter’s laptop is real, anti-racist Boogaloo Bois, and the chimney-top dandelion.
Oct 24, 202001:00:01
Absurd, stunning, insane overlords
Biden said he’d end the oil industry, Ghislaine Maxwell’s nonabsurd deposition, what “is” is, a passion for ponies, McConnell’s bruises, the media help Joe Biden, Sean Ono Lennon calls Facebook “insane overlords,” and Johnny Rotten demonstrate how to love your wife to the very end.
Oct 23, 202040:19
The inside is out
Sacha Baron Cohen, Giuliani, and revenge porn; WaPo reports from the inside of Trump’s head; Biden ad, Sam Elliott, and Tegridy Farms; Bobulinski and The Big Guy; grasping the stinging nettle; Schumer orates against Amy Coney Barrett; antitrust and Google; Obama at the drive-in calling Philadelphians lazy.
Oct 22, 202045:02
Fixing a hole
Will Trump win, Facebook censors Babylon Bee, Megyn Kelly insults Michael Savage, WaPo covers Biden blandly, Covid less deadly lately, random Amazon weirdness, Black people supporting Trump, the female Toobin.
Oct 21, 202050:29
Anatomy lesson
Toobin’s transgression, narwhal pardon, naked parody, trust-busting, Rush the Stoic, this hidden wellspring of spit, nude man in the forest, and Hunter Biden and the subjectivity of truth.
Oct 20, 202001:01:57
New morning
Freeway privilege, Dylan’s New Morning, a rapped confession, water for a blood bath, Trump wants suburban women, voting without cognition, voting with hatred.
Oct 19, 202037:12
Sinking giggling into the sea
A collective American identity, glimpsing The Beatles and Margaret Thatcher, clerisy heresy, the lion and the dromedary, and why can’t the broad left of America say “freedom.”
Oct 18, 202050:56
Pre-bunking the Obscurantism
Pre-bunking, Obscurantism, cartoons, censorship, murder, Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman, Billie Eilish, Ice Cube.
Oct 17, 202053:44
Do not think you can escape the eyes
Trump’s Covid, Biden’s Court-packing, the falconer named Parrot, the masculinities of Trump and Biden, the eyes of Texas, and fitting a third child into your sedan.
Oct 16, 202001:00:22
May we riot now?
Joe and Hunter Biden, Facebook and Twitter, Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow, George Floyd and Ice Cube, Generation Alpha, the feminist Medusa monument and the isolated anarchist.
Oct 15, 202001:04:35
Nasty tenacity
Nyctinasty, Goldfinger as feminist critique, Trump losing to the worst candidate ever, the female Scalia, and agonizing over all those times you might have said “sexual preference.”
Oct 14, 202050:52
The difficult empathy of the porcupine
Amy Coney Barrett talks to the Senate, Joe Biden talks to an empty rotunda, and Donald Trump wants to kiss everybody.
Oct 13, 202048:43
At the Dust-and-Trash Café
A firewall of Italianness, the invention of punctuation, toppling Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln, the propaganda of mid-level violence, chugging cran-raspberry juice, goodbye to Joe Morgan, and doing the camel walk.
Oct 12, 202001:12:44
The ochre tones of insect politics
Jim Carrey does Biden as Goldblum, Thunberg’s autistic perspective, dying on Mount Katahdin, taking the bar exam while in labor, and wrecking the wrecks.
Oct 11, 202053:01
We, the Unimpeachably Great Hooples
Dancing the boogaloo, deaccessioning white male art, the truth and the life, the well-regulated militia, the 25th amendment, packing the Court, abstaining in the election, and the immortality of John Lennon
Oct 10, 202001:01:54