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Radio Derb has been on the air (well, on National Review's website) since mid-2004. It's a once-a-week half-hour commentary, usually posted on Friday afternoon, covering news events from the week.
Radio Derb (which is pronounced to rhyme with "verb," by the way) should definitely not be taken too seriously. I sometimes indulge myself in flights of fancy, attempt satire, or fall back on odd sound or music clips. I am sometimes rude about public figures, though only when they deserve it. However, it is a family show. There is no bad language, nothing that would bring a blush to a maiden's cheek, and nothing that a person of properly conservative temperament would find offensive … I think.
Radio Derb is recorded in the magnificently-equipped state-of-the-art sound studio on the 95th floor of Buckley Towers in the heart of Manhattan. Teams of researchers, producers, and sound engineers toil away all week to bring our broadcasts to the world. Should you none the less feel that there are technical shortcomings in the production quality, please don't hesitate to contact National Review with your suggestions.
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Here is a link to the latest broadcast and the sound archives: link.
Listed below are transcripts of as many broadcasts as I have currently been able to recover.
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| Date | Topics |
|---|---|
| 2010 | |
| 2/5/10 | Intro — Looming default — Greece trap — NASA eNASculated — ChiComs in a huff — Boob bombers — Another Zuma — We hate the census — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/29/10 | Intro — SOTU — GOP response — How's the Reconquista going? — Geert Wilders on trial — UK PC — KSM trial — FDNY quota ruling — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/22/10 | Intro — Great week for conservatives — Scott Brown — Obama gone? — SCOTUS on campaign finance — Mumia appeal bounces — Air America crashes and burns — Google to leave China (cont.) — Signoff |
| 1/15/10 | Intro — Healthcare bill (1): Labor — Healthcare bill (2): CHC — Haiti earthquake — Google out of China? — Harry Reid's gaffe — The appalling Martha Coakley — Unemployment — Riot in Italy — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/8/10 | Intro — Healthcare bill — Pants on fire — Triple agent assassin — Educated terrorists — Maggie, immigration skeptic — Immigration poll — Best countires to live — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2009 | |
| 12/30/09 | Intro — Pants bomber — Air travel security — Yemen — Afghanistan — Berkeley High — We Are Doomed: conclusion — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 12/23/09 | Intro — Senate to pass healthcare bill — Barack Obama: fiscal conservative — Dark matter — Kwanzaa fading — China stiffs U.S.A. on climate change — We Are Doomed: introduction — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 12/18/09 | Intro — Govt. spend-a-thon — Climate Protection Fund — Healthcare bill — Kevin Jennings — NAFTA at 15 — Arithmetic on the frontier — We Are Doomed: war — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 12/11/09 | Intro — Copenhagen climate summit — Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize — Tiger Woods' troubles — Al Gore's poem — Second generation terrorists — The refugee rackets — We Are Doomed: education — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 12/4/09 | Intro — Obama's Afghanistan speech — Jobs summit — Climate research — Swiss ban minarets — Four cops murdered — Gatecrashers — We Are Doomed: human nature — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 11/25/09 | Intro — Climate Research Scandal — Illegals bankrupt hospitals — Heathcare bankrupts working citizens — "Hunger" in America — Bam poll slide — Dithering on Afghanistan — We Are Doomed: foreigners — Signoff |
| 11/20/09 | Intro — Terrorist trials — Overlawyered — Sarah's book — O in the Far East — O and Israel — Amnesty rises from the undead — We Are Doomed: sex — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 11/13/09 | Intro — Death of the West — The Iron House — Ceremonial Deism — Helping the unemployed — 9/11 memorial in Connecticut — Health Care passes House — We Are Doomed: immigration — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 11/6/09 | Intro — Election results — Fort Hood rampage — Homogamy — Potential immigrants — Health care bill — We Are Doomed: diversity — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/29/09 | Intro — U.N. Housing Rapporteur — New York mayoral election — BNP on the BBC — Welfare for illegals — Harry Reid's back pages — Nervous on Iraq — Afghanistan — We Are Doomed: the culture — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/23/09 | Intro — Wall Street pay — Government work — BNP on the BBC — Geert Wilders wins one — Afghanistan — get off the potty — Terrorism & drugs — We Are Doomed: religion — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/16/09 | Intro — Obama's Nobel Prize — Another gay moment — Lying about Limbaugh — Pensions over the cliff — Terrorism and immigration — Are we stimulated yet? — We Are Doomed: politics — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/9/09 | Intro — Olympics to Rio — Afghan terrorist — Obama disses Lama — Healthcare for The Race — Martyrs' reward — UN Human Rights Council — We Are Doomed: the economy — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/2/09 | Intro — Olympic City — Chicago rumble — Polanski arrested — Butt bomb — ChiComs celebrate 60th — Iran talks — Afghanistan — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 9/25/09 | Intro — Obama at the UN — The Four Pillars of Wisdom — L-UN-atics — Mexicans want to come here — Afghan terrorist charged — McChrystal's report — NY State broke — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 9/18/09 | Intro — Bam nixed missiles — Gummint work — Jimmy Carter — Healthcare for illegals — ACORN — Crime roundup — Signoff |
| 9/11/09 | Intro — Bam's healthcare speech — Van Jones — Afghanistan — Liquid-bomb terrorists convicted — Running out of Kennedys — Climate change — Public servants — Bam addresses schoolkids — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 8/21/09 | Intro — Get a government job — Iraq is booming — Rezko holds out — Store owner shoots robbers — Coping with Islam: Britain, France, Italy, and the U.S.A. — The coming great underslass — Akaka Bill — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 8/14/09 | Intro — Holder seeks CIA prosecutions — Bam, Bam, the amnesty man — Chávez tees off golfers — Hillary loses it — Chino prison riot — Hispanics vs. blacks — Gillibrand home free — Yale chicken on Islam — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 8/7/09 | Intro — Sotomayor confirmed — Town hall tensions — Tennyson anniversary — Cash for clunkers — Gym murders — Bubba and the Norks — California prisoner release — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 7/31/09 | Intro — CBO on Obamacare — Sarah Palin — Michael Savage — Honduras — NY firefighters judgment — Panthers intimidated voters — Treasury auction — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 7/24/09 | Intro — Obamacare — Health care for illegals — Gates arrest — Berlusconi — Auditing the Fed — Surgeon General Chubby — Back to the Future — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 7/17/09 | Intro — Sotomayor hearings — Obamacare — CIA targeted Al Qaeda — HIV ban lifted — Seasonal workers — Apollo 11 anniversary — Somalis absimilate — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 7/10/09 | Intro — Sarah Palin — Pay to Play — Peter King — Chinese riots (1) — Chinese riots (2) — G8 — Biden on Israel — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 7/2/09 | Intro — Ricci decision — Stimulus — Al Franken to the Senate — Sinkholes — Mexico's troubles — Signoff |
| 6/26/09 | Intro — Irangnoramus — Michelle seeks purpose — Sanford's affair — Norks target Hawaii — McChrystal's rules — Judge Sotomayor's clerks — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 6/19/09 | Intro — Obama's financial reforms — Li'l Squinty's election win — Witches denied use of church — Death of Bongo — Obama swats fly — CA meltdown — CA legislator wants apology for Chinese — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 6/12/09 | Intro — Sotomayor on affirmative action — Nationalism rising in Europe — Antisemitism strikes — Norks sentence U.S. journalists — Timmy's fallen in the well! — Cowboy winner — Uighurs — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 6/5/09 | Intro — Obama's speech (1) — Obama's speech (2) — Tiananmen anniversary — Holder's justice: illegals — Holder's justice: Panthers — Abortionist, Army recruiter killed — Geert Wilders — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 5/29/09 | Intro — Sonia Sotomayor — Tribal politics — Nork nukes — Pakistan steps up — Burris bribe — Napolitano in Canada — California's finances — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 5/22/09 | Intro — Duelling speeches 1 — Duelling speeches 2 — Terrorists in the Bronx — Australia stops immigration — Obama-Netanyahu — Washington State newspaper bailout — Oxford Professor of Poetry elected — California — Tiananmen anniversary — Obama's mustard — Signoff |
| 5/15/09 | Intro — Somalia — Federal power grab — Japan wary of T-bonds — Admin back-pedals on security — Wanda Sykes — Hate crimes — Grace at Newnham — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 5/8/09 | Intro — Left triumphalism — Jack Kemp R.i.P. — The MSM stands for something — Poets Laureate — Jacob Zuma — Carrie Prejean — Rafael Correa — Britain bars Savage — Kenya sex strike — Bird smuggler — Plasticated cadavers — Arlen Specter — SCOTUS vacancy — Compulsory smoking — The Big Three totter — Swine flu came and went — Obama's budget — Cinco de Cuatro — Signoff |
| 5/1/09 | Intro — Specter switches — Over-Obamaed — Susan Boyle — Swine flu — Torture again — Bernie's birthday — Ireland's blasphemy law — Guyana comes to America — Repatriation — Tancredo dissed again — Paterson on gay marriage — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 4/24/09 | Intro — Miss California — Shakespeare's birthday — Torture — Smiling pirate — McCain challenged — Robowars — Durban II — Napolitano disses Canada again — New Zealand news — Obama heart Chávez — Pakistan going down — Summers snoozes — Signoff |
| 4/17/09 | Intro — Napolitano on the border — … and the conservative menace — Tom Tancredo ragged — Tea Parties — Israel deports illegals — Capitalism, socialism — Idol sensation — Victory over pirates — Signoff |
| 4/9/09 | Intro — Obama bows to the king — Obama on nukes — Sarkozy on assimilation — Obama to push amnesty — McCain reaches out — Hillary stamps her foot — Nork missile — Welfare per state — Jane Austen revised — CBC hearts Castro — Signoff |
| 4/3/09 | Intro — O meets Betty and Phil — Anarchists protest — AmeriCorps lives! — Captains of industry — Welfare for Gitmo grads — Obama's auntie — Oakland cop-killer — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 3/27/09 | Intro — Obama overexposed — Economic conundrums — The Countess divorce — Maryland, My Maryland — Hillary in Mexico — Hillary and the Norks — Chris Dodd — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 3/20/09 | Intro — Obama on Leno — Government debt — Vital statistics — Sheriff Joe — Pelosi on illegals — Colonel Sanders statue — Mexican trucks — AIG bonuses — California — Signoff |
| 3/13/09 | Intro — Obama on education — Holder vs. Arpaio — Holder and the Voting Rights Act — Shoe thrower sentenced — Madoff before the bench — The Charles Freeman flap — Card check — The coming implosion of Mexico — Killings in Northern Ireland — Reading minds — Nork missiles — China gets confrontational — Bristol Palin — Signoff |
| 3/6/09 | Intro — Obama and the Brits — Obama and Rush — Reductio ad Hitlerum — Stock slide — Mugabe's birthday — D.C. vouchers — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2/27/09 | Intro — Big spender — SOTU — Holder, Solis, etc. — GOP doubles down on minority vote — Jindal — Funds to Hamas — Afghanistan — Al Sharpton & the cartoon — Mortgage relief for illegals — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2/20/09 | Intro — U.S. troops for Afghanistan — German troops for France — Burn your kids' books! — Neanderthal genome — Chimp terror — Govt. will pay your mortgage — Holder wants frank talk on race — Down north of the border — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2/13/09 | Intro — Geert Wilders (1-background) — Geert Wilders (2-barred from UK) — Obama press conference (1-4m jobs?) — Obama press conference (2-no more GWB policies) — Obama press conference (3-the Japan peril) — Obama press conference (4-old school?) — Obama press conference (5-sed noli modo) — Geithner speaks — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2/6/09 | Intro — Treasury auction — Shoe throwers — NY Times on American Cause — Home ownership down — Tax evasion — How's he doing? — Uighurs — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/30/09 | Intro — Busted states: CA — Busted states: NY — Stimulus — BHO on Arab TV — Saving Mrs. Onyango — BHO's Little Blue Book — BHO raises test scores, parts waters, etc. — Free speech in Europe, not — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/23/09 | Intro — Hokey Cokey with Caroline — Putin's Painting — Gaza — Ramos and Compean — Mexico woes — Serf Liberation Day — Madoff victim — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/16/09 | Intro — Hillary's confirmation — Looming threat of Chelsea — Geithner's taxes — Michelle's job axed — Obama's letter to his daughters — Seduction of journalists — Coronation extravaganza — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/9/09 | Intro — Horrors in store — Stimulus whence? — Stimulus whither? — Jobs for whom? — California educates the world — China crack-down — Roland Burris — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2008 | |
| 12/31/08 | Intro — Hilda Solis as Labor Sec. — Gaza fighting — "Greatest Russian" poll — Cuba 50 years on — Archbishop plays Hitler card — Psycho Santa — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 12/19/08 | Intro — Hillary's confirmation problem — State finance troubles — Bernie Madoff's scam — Caroline Kennedy's Senate bid — Shoe thrower — Nicole Kidman's didgeridoo — Inaugural extravaganzas — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 12/12/08 | Intro — Rod Blagojevich — Auto bailout — Guantánamo Bay — Muslim War on Christmas — Obama's infrastructure squid ink — Harry Reid smeels the peasants — Chuck E. Cheese horrors — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 12/5/08 | Intro — Hillary as Sec. State — Bombay terrorists — Schools named Obama — Is virginity an "essential quality"? — Obama's immigration priorities — British MP arrested for whistle-blowing — Wudhu — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 11/21/08 | Intro — Depression-Recession — Upper East Side hypocrites — Pirates — Ain't over till the left wins"? — Obama the Left's Reagan? — Proposition 8 backlash — Hillary for State — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 11/14/08 | Intro — Obama's aunt — Obama kids' schooling — Bailout — Japanese air force"? — Offended Muslims — Holy Sepulcher fracas — No more Britain — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 11/7/08 | Intro — Politics for ever — A constrained presidency — A PC presidency — Obama abroad — 8 wasted years — Blackness counts — New First family — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/31/08 | Intro — Obama's promises — Joe the Plumber — Al & Tipper do Florida — Special needs — Erica Jong's obsession — The faculty vote — Agincourt deconstructed — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/24/08 | Intro — Money quiz — Party of the rich — Joe the Plumber — Non-filer syndrome — Biden's crisis — Powell heart Obama — Scared of Obama? — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/17/08 | Intro — Presidential debate — The race card — Obama's totalitarian tendencies — Madonna wants Palin off her street — ACORN shenanegins — French soccer patriotism — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 10/10/08 | Intro — Despair — Presidential debate — Mortgage bailout — 401(K) crunch — Not talking about the issues — Debate disbelief — Obama's race shield — Death of conservatism — O.J. sentenced — Iceland — Signoff |
| 10/3/08 | Intro — Veep debate 1 — Veep debate 2 — Palin & the media — Middleclassness — Teacher unions heart Obama — Financial crisis — Bailout plan — Twain's Gilded Age — Term limits — Somali pirates — Signoff |
| 9/26/08 | Intro — Financial crisis — Railroad retiree scam — Tumbleweed on Wall Street — Bailout payback — Sarah Palin's creationism — Jihad Prevention Act — Obama-Ayers — Larry King vs. Ahmadinejad — Signoff |
| 9/19/08 | Intro — Bailout — Corruption in D.C. — A.I.G. — Campaign implications — Jeremiah Wright — Sharia in England — Palin vs. Birkenstocks — Charlie Rangel — Signoff |
| 9/12/08 | Intro — Palinophilia — Palinophobia — Oprah heart Obama — Immigration not mentioned — Russia wants Obama — Affirmative action on ballot — Pakistan election — Fannie-Freddie bailout — Signoff |
| 9/5/08 | Intro — McCain's convention speech — Introducing Sarah Palin — Will Annie Oakley become Calamity Jane? — Joe Lieberman speaks at GOP convention, but … — … Ron Paul doesn't — Mencken on World Savers — Obama & Ayers — King of Swaziland — Joy in Anbar — Hurricane Gustav — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 8/29/08 | Intro — Dems get religion — Obama picks Biden — Bubba endorsement — Michelle does not scowl — Obama's big speech — ICE raid in Mississippi — Immigration extras — SAT scores steady — Rumbling made Rome — Olympic uniforms racist — Signoff |
| 8/22/08 | Intro — Rent-seeking — Saddleback debate 1: Immigration not mentioned — Saddleback debate 2: Compassionate government — Saddleback debate 3: No metaphysics — Saddleback debate 4: Who's rtich? — Saddleback debate 5: Paying for it all — Saddleback debate 6: Advisors — Eating rats — Musharraf resigns — Olympics — Signoff |
| 8/15/08 | Intro — Russia does Georgia — Olympics 1: Medal tables — Olympics 2: U.S.A., China, U.K. — Census report — Gypsies in Italy — Mexican incursion — Science News — Recession — Don Helms R.i.P. — What election? — Signoff |
| 8/8/08 | Intro — McCain's bimbo ad — Paris Hilton for Prez — Hillary's convention options — Medellín executed — Tyson's favors Muslims — Crazy anthrax guy — Cuba with oil — Conservative movies — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 8/1/08 | Intro — Obama wants reparations — McCain's kid gloves — Czechs support Tibet — Olympics blackout — Britain goes Sharia — Ed Mitchell sees UFOs — All quiet in Iraq — Baggy pants laws — Connecticut horror — Dollar bills — Signoff |
| 7/25/08 | Intro — Bologna killings in SF 1: Illegal perp — Bologna killings in SF 2: D.A. loves illegals — Bologna killings in SF 3: Gavin Newsom's priorities — Dreaming of justice — Afghanistan drives me nuts — Iraq prez on our election — Obama in Berlin — Obama's plan for corvée labor — Obama hates ICE — Obama wants to double the FBI — Endless charity — McCain says nothing — Subway imam — Signoff |
| 7/18/08 | Intro — Title IX follies — Obama does Europe — Chess boxing — Israeli prisoner release — McDonald's fined for illegals — Mak Erot, enhancer, R.i.P. — Special Rapporteur Dou-dou — WTF license plates — Racist toddlers — Bill Clinton for Obama? — Dogs of Peking — Signoff |
| 7/11/08 | Intro — Obama: "Learn Spanish!" — Oil price manipulation? — Black hole in Dallas — McCain's Hispandering — Viagra & watermelons — Iraqi govt. wants us out — ChiComs' Olympic paranoia — Mugabe wins election! — Strange births — Dog lovers — Obama & Hitler waxwork — Signoff |
| 6/27/08 | Intro — Obama on illegals — McCain's hispandering — Apes in Spain — Canadian kid sues Dad — Imus: "What color is he?" — Columbia noose — Competitive teen pregnancy — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 6/20/08 | Intro — Sharpton shakedown — Obama / Osama — Irish referendum — Muslim offended — School choice — Nepal's dethroned king — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 6/13/08 | Intro — Eastwood-Lee spat — Heterosexual AIDS threat officially over — Gas Prices — Identity theft — Obama on Education — Canada's Human Rights Commissions — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 6/6/08 | Intro — Hillary's defeat — Obama's victory — McCain is not Bush — Indian caste war — MS-13 — Famous Chinese — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 5/30/08 | Intro — Houston Rodeo — Che at Cannes — Obama's idea of "service." — Phoenix Mars lander — Texas polygamy cult — Sharon Stone disses ChiComs — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 5/23/08 | Intro — Iraq Funding Bill — Stealth amnesty — Noose alarm — Farm bill — South African attacks on immigrants — U.N. Rapporteur on Racism — Koran shooting — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 5/2/08 | Intro — Rev. Jeremiah Wright — Sean Bell shooting — Summer employee shortage — Bolivia breakup — Texas polygamy cult — "Jihad" banned — Voter ID upheld — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 4/18/08 | Intro — Be kind to pirates — Brigitte Bardot in trouble — ChiCom organizers at work — Chinese nationalism enraged — Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish — Food crisis — Akon's false résumé — Bring back the Iron Cross! — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 3/7/08 | Intro — Bush endorses McCain — Hillary wins some — Obama on Hillary's ethics — Russian election loser — Li'l Squinty visits Baghdad — Prince Harry in Afghanistan — Title IX for science — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2/29/08 | Intro — NY Philharmonic in Pyongyang — Slow progress on border fence — Obama on Rev. Wright — Russia's presidential election — Nations breaking up — The Oscars — "We're the greatest!" says Li'l Squinty — Signoff |
| 2/22/08 | Intro — NYT on McCain's affair — NYT inside stories — Hillary on Obama's plagiarism — Michelle Obama's obsession — Ron Paul still running — Kosovo's independence — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2/15/08 | Intro — Hillary tanks — Obama triumphs — Condi vs. Vlad — British athletes won't offend ChiComs — Visas for summer workers — Congress on steroids — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2/8/08 | Intro — The three trillion dollar budget — The Nabucco pipeline — Juan Hernandez — Archbishop wants Sharia — Romney quits — Eye color — Suharto dies — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 2/1/08 | Intro — Immigration in the campaign — Democrats struggle with race — Death of George Habash — The Forever War — Taliban surge — Methodists heart illegals — China's New Year seize-up — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/25/08 | Intro — Obama's MLK speech — Campaign (GOP) — The economy — Clintons dump black men — The Maldives — Clueless in Gaza — GOP debate — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/18/08 | Intro — Campaign (Dems) — Campaign (GOP) — Psychoanalyzing Obama — Mideast policy proposal — Malaysian malaise — Track star wants hijab — Bank bailouts — Miscellany — Signoff |
| 1/11/08 | Intro — NH primary (Dems) — NH primary (GOP) — Black hole — Word news — Jacob Zuma — Iran buzzes U.S. ships — W in MidEast — Light bulbs — Smallest car — Birthright citizenship — NJ apologizes for slavery — L.I. shooting — Signoff |
| 1/4/08 | Intro — Iowa caucuses (general) — Iowa caucuses (GOP) — Iowa caucuses (Dems) — Oil hits $100 — Bhutto assassination — Kenya unrest — Tiger mauls idiots in SF — Census report — Miscellany — Signoff |