Author, Historian and generally Smart Guy, Bill Federer talks about the socialist holiday, Labor Day.
Then Documentary Filmmaker ("The Trump I Know") Matt Thayer talks about his latest film "Can You Hear Me Now" about the prophetic movement in modern America and its influence, particularly in the political realm.
A lone juror.
I once served on a jury in Detroit.
It was a case involving a guy who ran a drug house.
The charge was "Felon in Possession of a Firearm".
There were no witnesses testifying that they had seen him with a gun.
The trial was chaotic. It seemed that there was another defendant who had turn states evidence, but fled that morning.
We did not know that and could not be told.
The prosecutor looked lost. He didn't no what to do.
He had lost his key witness.
finally, at a critical juncture the judge (a highly respected federal judge) actually gave advice to the prosecutor from the bench.
I immediately recognized the impropriety of that, but the case went on.
Finally it came to deliberations.
Eleven of us were voting for aquittal.
One guy held his ground.
He annoyed all of us.
He insisted that the cops wouldn't have brought the case if there wasn't one. Cops don't lie.
That seemed ridiculous to the rest of us.
But we were hung.
Finally, I asked the foreman to send a note to the judge asking for the definition of possession.
It came back saying that if we had reasonable belief that even if the defendant didn't know where the gun was in the house, he could send someone to get it for him.
Duh.
We then found him guilty of possession.
The judge did something remarkable.
He invited the jury into his chambers with the prosecutor, The DEA agent, and the defense counsel (a pro bono lawyer).
The judge asked if we had any questions.
I did.
I asked the prosecutor if this was his first case.
He laughed and said no.
The judge explained that the co-defendant had skipped (we didn't know) and that he was to testify that he saw the defendant with the gun.
The DEA guy said that their undercover agent couldn't testify or his cover would be blown and he'd be useless in the future, if not dead.
I asked the judge if it was proper to coach from the bench and he laughed and said no, but the circumstances were extraordinary.
I turned to the defense lawyer (who actually looked like a well known comedian, Avery Schreiber) and asked if the judge's coaching gave him grounds for a retrial.
He said "Of course! But I'm, not gonna tell that scumbag. Let him figure it out in prison."
So that one lone juror kept the rest of us from giving the wrong verdict.
Sort of like 12 Angry Men.
I'd been looking forward to a conversation with prolific author John Lisec for a month.
I sent a checkup email to him in the morning with no response.
Then I began to think it had dropped off his calendar and started preparing another hour to replace him.
At 12:55, I got with Derek the producer and said that we should give him a chance and we opened the Zoom link from 1:00:00 to 1:01:30. No show. So we committed to the other show. A pre-record with Cal Thomas.
At 1:05 I got a text from Josh that he was at the zoom link. He had had some technical difficulties.
During this time I had bumped the USB cable on my mic and it went dead.
Derek interrupted the pre-record, started the show with Josh, and I joined in and I'm glad it worked out because the interview was worth it. I hope you think so.
If you are interested in how books are made, or how political crises are made, like Dearborn Michigan and Springfield Ohio, you should listen.
Then I played a conversation my friend Mark Tapson had with Xi Van Fleet as she describes the Communist China she grew up in and how she sees it starting here.
First was a conversation with Todd Sheets, author of 2008: What Really Happened and of the substack On Wealth and Progress.
I was joined by my friend (and former co-host of The Drift Radio Show) Gary Wellings and we talked with Todd about the current economy, what got us here and what can get us better.
Next we talked with retired Canadian Professor of English, Janice Fiamengo of Youtube's The Fiamengo Files and and author of her substack, along with her books, Sons of Feminism: Men Have Their Say and The Goddess That Failed: Feminism's Unending War against Men, Families, and Civilization Itself, among others.
A brilliant woman.
Richard Battle, author of
AmeriCANS Who Made America! 20th Century – The American Century
discusses the stories of those Americans who overcame and prevailed in the 20th Century.
A celebration of the CAN do spirit that grew this nation.
It's the third in a series that in the earlier volumes, celebrates those in the 18th and 19th centuries.
I spoke with Hillsdale professor Ben Whalen about his online Hillsdale course on The Odyssey.
My wife and I took the course and found it very fascinating.
We also discussed the Christopher Nolan movie.
I found it good, but I think only because I was familiar with the story.
I suggest the Hillsdale course before watching.
When you get to the point when you say there are no differences between men and women: such as emotion, gender specific behavior, traditional (historic) roles, etc., you ignore biological imperatives normally driven by testosterone levels, etc.
You get a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't know what a woman is. You start pushing women into Special Forces, and other non-traditional roles.
Like the Soviets did. It's a Marxist position.
The ultimate slide is to transgenderism, which although an extreme, is a logical progression.
This guy says stop it.
Stop encouraging women (XX) into roles they may not fit. The Soviets did it for years and we mocked them.
Now the soviets are taking over our culture and we don't recognize it.
We're electing marxists to office and their philosophy is preceding them.
And some portray this guy as a misogynist because he's pushing back against that.
Our church (generally politically conservative) just elected a woman pastor and her husband as "co-pastor". She had told me that the district had wanted her as Senior Pastor but she insisted her husband to be equal to her. I gave her credit until the first Sunday after church when she posted an attack on this guy as if he was a freak. In business, she's a girl-boss.
That's fine, I've worked for women with varying results (just as with some guy-bosses), but keep it out of my church.
My wife said we're finding another church. I'm glad we're on the same page.
