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Talk Show Legend Brian Wilson<\/strong><\/a> and I had fun bantering about the latest damn outrages from Washington and beyond.<\/p>\n

Commenting on Biden\u2019s classified documents scandal, I groused,\u00a0 “Following this scandal is kind of frustrating, because it’s like watching the Superbowl with a 30-day delay and a fuzzy video feed.”<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the link to the Apple podcast version of the interview \u2013<\/p>\n

https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-week-so-far-brian-wilson-and-james-bovard\/id1638506178?i=1000596804033<\/p>\n

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Talk Show Legend Brian Wilson and I had fun bantering about the latest damn outrages from Washington and beyond. Commenting on Biden\u2019s classified documents scandal, I groused,\u00a0 “Following this scandal is kind of frustrating, because it’s like watching the Superbowl with a 30-day delay and a fuzzy video feed.” Here\u2019s the link to the Apple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,3517,127],"class_list":["post-17959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-wilson","tag-classified-documents","tag-podcast"],"yoast_head":"\nWhacking Political Rascals on the Brian Wilson Podcast - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brian Wilson and I have fun on his podcast flogging the latest political rascalities\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/whacking-political-rascals-on-the-brian-wilson-podcast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whacking Political Rascals on the Brian Wilson Podcast - 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