Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: american conservative, Bloomberg, conservative, david hume, federal government, freedom, god, imaginative conservative, jefferson, John Locke, media, nation, national greatness, nationalism, pledge of allegiance, politics, propaganda, republican, Rod Dreher, Russell Kirk, social media, state, stephen masty, tradition, Transcendent, winston elliott
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Come on, Mike, there’s nothing that’s really permanent.” I suppose if you approach these things and these matters from the point of view that there is no permanence, meaning there is no God and there is no Transcendent, then I suppose you could make the case or conclude that there’s only us and only us tomorrow and only the us we make. Then there will be only them and they will decide. Since they all decide and there i….Continue
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: cable news, email, health, immunities, internet, journalism, media, mental health, news, newspaper, Reason, social media, thinking, truth
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I have often said that the internet has made us dumber. All one has to do to see evidence of this is go through your email box on any given day. Look at the things that are forwarded to you. Just sample some of them and read some of them. You will ultimately find that many of them are, at best, urban legends. Most of them are afactual and ahistorical. Because you took the time to read them, you wer….Continue
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: Bill Clinton, Boston bombing, children, CNN, family, fbi, media, Obama, parenting, parents, Reddit, secret service, social media, tattoo, Tsarnaev
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In other words, the president has told his daughters: Don’t get a tattoo to try and strike back at me or your mother. I immediately, critical thinking brain of mine, I immediately thought of one thing. There was one thought that occurred to me. Mr. President, explain how either of your daughters could possibly get a tattoo. How could they even find their way into a tattoo parlor without the entire ….Continue
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Audio, Transcript Topics: art, bombing, Boston bombing, CNN, culture, human condition, human nature, impressionism, media, painting, rush, social media, society, terror, terrorism, terrorist
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Why are we in such a hurry? I find myself being in a hurry all the time. I come to a red light and I don’t want to sit at a red light. It’s telling me to stop. Every social fiber of my being, every fiber of my being that has been socialized, that can hear, can see, can read, everything in every part of my daily life tells me to go, go, go, faster, faster, don’t stop. You must go faster. It’s like Jeff Goldblum in the ba….Continue
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Audio, Video Topics: Congress, e-mail, facebook, irs, privacy, social media, Twitter
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - The Internal Revenue Service is now saying they can read your e-mail, your private messages on site like Twitter and Facebook, and your text messages... all without a warrant. How can they do this you ask? Well, they're citing the 1986 Electronic Privacy Act, where you only need a subpoena, that doesn't need to be issued by a judge, and covers any "mail" already opened or older than 180 days. And of co….Continue
Friday, April 5th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: culture, Education, marriage, media, Princeton, Rutgers, social media, society, women
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – As a matter of fact, I can probably just say I think that’s a good idea for my daughters, the Church daughters, to find a husband, get married, have children and stay at home. “You want to deprive them of a life really lived.” Oh, so a life really lived doesn’t include rearing the next generation of people to live lives really lived? Really, seriously? Wow, I’d love to have that debate in a public forum somewhere. Why ….Continue
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: ambition, culture, facebook, future, history, humanity, invention, robot, slacker, smartphone, social media, society, technology, work, YouTube
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In our enlightened age here, we seem to have convinced ourselves, or many people have tried to convince themselves, that technology is actually the work of the future and that’s all that is needed. No one will have to grow our food. No one will have to milk the cows. No one will have to figure out how to get the water from point A to point B. We won’t have to go through any of the things we go th….Continue
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: censor, Congress, culture, dana milbank, Don Young, politically correct, Racism, Republicans, slang, slur, social media, society, spell check, terminology, tradition, washington post
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Can I just tell you that I’ve read a couple million words text from the 18th and 19th and early part of the 20th century, and I can find no argument, no semantical argument over the use of terminology anywhere in the historical record? It just isn’t there. This is a modern fabrication of our own narcissism and our own elevated, evolved status, because we are so much higher, such a higher form of being. Check out today’s tran….Continue
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Audio, Transcript Topics: Brad Birzer, Catholic Church, Christianity, culture, god, government, morality, morals, social media, society, st augustine, tradition, values, western civilization
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re going to have any chance for survival, you’re going to have to have some foundational things that everyone can agree on and you can build societies and civilizations around, that there’s no disagreement on, or very little disagreement on. Therefore you have a nucleus around which to rally. What is that nucleus today, Twitter? Facebook? What’s the nucleus, the latest immorality of th….Continue
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: american conservative, catholic, Christianity, conservatism, Daniel McCarthy, faith, filibuster, foreign policy, Heritage Foundation, rand paul, social media, tradition, traditionalist, values
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Daniel McCarthy is the editor of The American Conservative magazine. Is it your take or thought that Rand Paul is part of a movement or is he an enigma and a gadfly like his father who may just be a little more skilled, have some more media skills? Check out today’s transcript for the rest…….Continue
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: college, culture, Education, elders, founding fathers, fraternity, greek, history, latin, romans, social media, youth
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The bad of it is that they’re rejecting all of recorded history. They’re saying the people that came before them were a bunch of racist, hick hayseeds that aren’t worth our consideration. We need to cleanse the history books of them and learn from them because they were wrong. In other words, our foreparents aren’t to be admired; they’re to be relegated to the ashbin of history. This is a point of view that is very dang….Continue
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Contains Exclusive: Transcript Topics: achievement, deeds, facebook, fame, honor, jefferson, Lance Armstrong, Manti Te'o, performance, performance enhancing drugs, social media, sports, talent, Twitter, virtue
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Of all my readings before the modern media age, of the great men that went before and those that are great -- and we know because of their deeds -- you don’t find any of this. Number one, it didn't exist, but the 17th, 18th, and 19th century antecedents or forms of it didn't exist. Were there men that were famous? Yeah, they were famous, but they were famous specifically because of their deed. Check out today's transcript for the re….Continue
Friday, August 17th, 2012
Contains Exclusive: Audio, Transcript Topics: cable news, jodie foster, kristin stewart, social media
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - I think there is, at some level now with what we’re being barraged with and what is presented to us as news and what is presented to us as the most important issues and events of our day, that there’s something to the Steve Jobs view of the world. Were I not responsible or feel compelled to do these things, I wouldn’t watch it. I’d turn it off. I have no desire to watch anymore of what I….Continue