The Best of Ricochet is a fast-paced digest of the Ricochet Audio Network’s bright and informative podcast streams. No orthodoxy, no party-line rants – we have a multitude of smart, engaging, iconoclastic thinkers who span the center-right spectrum. You’ll find college law professors, moms, libertarians, pop-culture addicts, vets, and the occasional note from the road from a truck driver.

Hosted by James Lileks, The Best of Ricochet is always intriguing, never predictable – right here on Radio America.

James Lileks began his writing career as a columnist for the Minnesota Daily while he was a student at the University of Minnesota. After college, he wrote for City Pages, a Twin Cities alternative tabloid. He served as a general columnist for City Pages until 1988, when he was hired as a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. This led to a columnist job with Newhouse News Service and thence The Washington Post for a period in the early nineties. In the mid- nineties, Lileks returned to the Twin Cities for a job with the Star Tribune.

James is also the long time co-host of the Ricochet Podcast (along side Peter Robinson and Rob Long), the author of several books (including the now legendary Gallery of Regrettable Food and has been the sole contributor to lileks.com since 1997.

Who is this Bill Martinez?  And what does he bring to talk radio?  Fair questions. In addition to the obvious Hispanic relationship, Bill has risen from a proven and award-winning broadcast and marketing background that includes major market radio and TV experience from programming to on-air personality, to sales marketing and station management.

It’s this breadth of experience that uniquely positions Bill Martinez as the voice of everyman wanting to realize an unfulfilled dream.  “I believe this is why we’re grateful to be an American or are hoping to become a proud citizen of our exceptional country.  America is the place where dreams are realized.  It’s the fulfillment of that extraordinary God-given potential for everyman that gets me up
each morning,” says Bill.

“I really believe our desire to do great things overwhelms a languishing economy or weak leadership. Our history is filled with exceptional testimonials of how American industry, individually and corporately overwhelmed the odds and were successful in spite of the circumstances.  Maybe, for a season, too many have succumbed to the lure of a source outside themselves that can do it for them.
Deep down, we know the truth.”  And it’s that truth that is resonating in the hearts of everyman who engages Bill Martinez Live.

“Our show is about advancing the greater cause for our country and every American Citizen by empowering our listeners with truth and knowledge that will effect the real change we all believe in, in ourselves, our families, neighborhoods, country and world.  This may sound grand, but why not?  It’s time for America to Dream even bigger dreams.

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