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Ep 17 – “Selling Peace” – Commander Dale Brown of Detroit Threat Management

Today I’m talking with Commander Dale Brown, founder of Detroit Threat Management, a private security force that protects businesses and neighborhoods in the Detroit area. He’s been doing this for over twenty years with great success, and his story is particularly timely in this era of riots, protests, and intense social controversy over the role…

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Ep 16 – “Eggs Are Expensive, Sperm Is Cheap” with Greg Krehbiel

In this episode we’re going to talk about some things that will get you kicked out of polite society. It’s progressive and fashionable these days to talk about the Patriarchy and the oppression of women, their hard-won equality from the shackles of home life, and the immense sexual power than men wield over women in…

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Episode 13 – Robert Beadles on Getting Started with Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a complicated subject to grasp well. Currency alone is something everyone understands, but add all the other terms into the mix—cryptography, decentralization, nodes, distributed ledgers, public and private keys, etc—and the average citizen either panics or gets glossy-eyed. Robert Beadles has written a very basic, entry-level overview of what cryptocurrency is, how it…

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Episode 12 – Dr. Gordon Wilson on The Right Way to Be Green

My guest for episode 12 is Dr. Gordon Wilson, professor of biology at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. In his new book, A Different Shade of Green, he argues that Christians have gotten environmentalism wrong. We’ve tended to fall into a couple extremes–one of supreme indifference as an overreaction to the earth-worshipping activist…

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“God Didn’t Make Me Gay” – A Conversation with Becket Cook

Becket Cook had fully embraced his homosexuality, including the lifestyle and all its trappings. As a successful set designer and supporting actor, he hung around with the Hollywood elite and lived the high life. Until a chance encounter at a coffee shop with a local pastor ended up with him in church, fully convicted of…

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Carrie Severino on the Kavanaugh Confirmation One Year Later

In the summer of 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy retired from the Supreme Court and President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill the open position. The uproar that followed, and the outrageous smear campaign that the Democrats and the corporate press waged against Kavanaugh, were beyond almost anything I’ve ever seen in politics. I followed the…

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Episode 1 – How to Think by Alan Jacobs

In this episode Seth and Josh discuss Alan Jacobs’ recent book, “How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds.” Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and a Resident Fellow of Baylor’s Institute for the Studies of Religion. He has written widely on…

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