Harvard and Brown should send out their many useless administrators to get retail licenses and sell cookies. Harvard cookies can be red and Brown cookies can be brown.
The problem with commenting on someone else’s entertainment is the condemnation of the other’s entertainment to an inferior position relative to our entertainment preferences. To say UFC is not opera is true, but it also implies that opera is superior to a UFC fight as a form of entertainment. Clearly, Mozart’s Sull’aria is a sublime piece of music, but is it any more or less practiced than a sharp counterpunch that renders an opponent unconscious? If you think the question facetious, you have either never heard the aria or seen a fighter train.
President Trump’s willingness to accept a UFC fight held at the Whitehouse propels a segment of the American population into a general acceptance as “real” Americans. Why should anyone condemn this sort of inclusion? My entertainment likes and dislikes should in no way make me better or worse than another. Nor should my entertainment likes or dislikes dictate what others should like of dislike. To recoil and say that a UFC fight is violence and should not be celebrated denies the fact that violence is what keeps our societies social and peaceful. It would be no different than to deny that it is our manners that keep us from moving to violence when we perceive an insult.
On progrock: One of the very first progrock album, maybe the first, was by the American band Touch. The band was founded by Don Gallucci - one of the Kingsmen. It came out in 1969 and back then I found the album at K-Mart of all places. It was the album cover that caught my eye because it was so unusual so I bought it and discovered a whole new world of music. I've got it on CD now. Wish I still had the album. Yes said that it was an influence on them.
On the mellotron, or melly: Moody Blues was basically founded on the mellotron. The keyboard player had been a technician at the mellotron factory so he knew them inside and out. It's one of my favorite instruments to play because there's two keyboards that use the original tapes all digitized - the digital mellotron and the memotron. The memotron is really cool because the digitized tapes were recorded through various actual aged mellotrons and their aged speakers with all their imperfections and it has this very dreaming quality to the sound. Then there's the digitized totally uncleaned up mellotron tapes on the M-Tron Pro by GForce software for the computer to use with a usb keyboard - not the kind of keyboard you type with of course - but the piano kind.
Good point about the Moody Blues. I should have included them (and several other folks). But I was having a hard time getting very far with the constant heckling from my unruly co-hosts!
I saw the Moody Blues at the Kohl Center in Madison WI when i went to college there circa 1998. None of my friends would go with me! But they were fantastic.
I find it rich that John a man from a town where they boo Santa Claus, throw batteries at opposing teams and gave the world Fudgie the Whale thinks UFC is too barbaric to be at the White House.
As to the progressives being evil, you don't have to be evil to do evil. The hubris of Woodrow Wilson to go against Nature and undermining the Constitution reminds me of Faust in his hubris.
Lucretia, Steven and John, This was an outstanding discussion by you all. Thank you. Listening to Lucretia bounce her brilliant defense of why progressivism is evil off of Johns very caring heart was delightful. I believe those who wield progressive destruction onto innocent, ignorant minds know precisely what they are doing, and why. Thus they are evil.
I enjoyed John's thoughts on why people come to America over other countries, and his sharing some of his families early life in coming here.
I would have loved to watch this podcast on video. Think about it, if it is possible. Perhaps you could post it on Rumble. Melissa McKenzie and Scott McKay do an American Spectator podcast there that I watch regularly. You guys would be great (as you always are anyhow) on video.
Loved that ending rendition of Yankee Doodle. Could have listened to it to it's end.
Prog-rock on the other hand, not so much Steven ;-)
We'd love to be able to record on live video, but our scheduling each week is always tricky and always moving around, sometimes right up to the last minute. So it is hard to get the word out and keep it. We'll keep trying; maybe try for at least once a month or something. Our friends at Commentary have 15,000 subscribers for their live YouTube channel, but they record every day at the same time, and have a rotating panel so if someone can't make it the show still goes on.
It would be nice to post the videos of those discussions you and Lucretia had a few years ago here on substack. I don't even remember the topic you two were discussing but they were great.
ALL sports are just entertainment, whether football, soccer, baseball, basketball, boxing, judo, fencing, UFC, three-day eventing, hockey, or WWE. Some are scripted, most are not, but they still are done for the entertainment of the people interested, and for the rewards to the participants. Some are very popular and others have more of a clique.
Most professional sports in this country made the mistake a decade or so ago to start to embrace politics, triggered in large part by that ungrateful whiner, Colin Kaepernick. UFC of the popular American sports isn't overtly political. Do the crowds cheer Trump and chant "USA, USA"? They do, but the UFC organization doesn't put rainbow banners or pink ones or any other overt political symbol on the octagon. They may have US flags but so does every stadium in the country.
UFC is an amazing sport. Unlike the boxers I have seen interviewed in the past, the UFC fighters are mostly very smart people, and very skilled in their craft. I don't watch as much as I used to because it costs more than I value it now, but when Bellator and other franchises were operating I'd watch them. Unlike WWE, the fighters that rise to the top have earned it every strike, kick, and chokehold on the way.
I hope I am not too late to rise and defend Lucretia and the idea that early Progressives were just as evil as their heirs - and I include Teddy R and the rest of them as well as Wilson and his female Autopen. They thought the Constitution was insufficient to handle life after the Industrial Revolution. So why didn't they try to amend it?
Why was their first reaction to build up a force of bureaucrats, sent hither in an unconstitutional swarm to harass productive citizens and eat out their substance through rules and fines?
I say the answer is simple. Because they were and are evil and want to economically enslave the American people after destroying American culture using a wave of immigrants who, as do the hateful progressives, hate American culture and individual rights.
I thought I'd mention, given the satiric remark of having a "bear Alcatraz" in Alaska, comparable to the proposed alligator Alcatraz in Florida, that the Spring Creek Correctional Center near Seward is pretty close to being a bear Alcatraz.
There are no federal prisons in Alaska, though I guess Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, escaped hanging (Woodrow Wilson reduced his sentence to life) in what would have been a federal Alaskan prison, since it was a territory at the time.
John mentioned that his parents were MDs at a mental hospital in NJ. Could that have been Ancora Hospital? I had a college girlfriend in 67-68 whose dad was an MD there.
On the question of whether Trump should hold a UFC fight on White House grounds for the celebration of America's 250th birthday, I think I'm on John's side.
I accept some of the counter arguments by Steve. That UFC is a real sport, unlike "professional" wrestling, and that the fans and players are generally culturally conservative and patriotic. But it's still irreverent, and I think the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration should be reverent.
Very much enjoyed the arguments presented in this episode. While I find Lucretia’s contributions too strident at times, she struck a chord with me on the ultimate logic of progressivism and her view that ideas matter.
Biden believes he had accomplishments? Is that definitive proof of senility?
Widdling his pants is proof of senility. Believing he has accomplishments is proof of stupidity.
Biden’s greatest accomplishment is his senility.
He had accomplishments, they were all in his depends 🤠
Harvard and Brown should send out their many useless administrators to get retail licenses and sell cookies. Harvard cookies can be red and Brown cookies can be brown.
And when theyre done, fire them all! Oh wait, do that first!
I was happy to hear that you and Lucretia got John whipped back into shape: he is back to referring you as ¨political philosophers¨.
He fell for my clever misdirection. Who knew that "mellotron" is code word for Plato/Aristotle!
Is that anything like the orgasmatron as depicted in Barbarella?
Im still waiting for the MellowYellowTron!
The problem with commenting on someone else’s entertainment is the condemnation of the other’s entertainment to an inferior position relative to our entertainment preferences. To say UFC is not opera is true, but it also implies that opera is superior to a UFC fight as a form of entertainment. Clearly, Mozart’s Sull’aria is a sublime piece of music, but is it any more or less practiced than a sharp counterpunch that renders an opponent unconscious? If you think the question facetious, you have either never heard the aria or seen a fighter train.
President Trump’s willingness to accept a UFC fight held at the Whitehouse propels a segment of the American population into a general acceptance as “real” Americans. Why should anyone condemn this sort of inclusion? My entertainment likes and dislikes should in no way make me better or worse than another. Nor should my entertainment likes or dislikes dictate what others should like of dislike. To recoil and say that a UFC fight is violence and should not be celebrated denies the fact that violence is what keeps our societies social and peaceful. It would be no different than to deny that it is our manners that keep us from moving to violence when we perceive an insult.
John Yoo tells us he has never watched a UFC fight without telling us he's never watched a UFC fight.
Wishing the 3WHH & all Americans a very happy 4th of July!
The founders gave you a Republic - PLEASE KEEP IT.
On progrock: One of the very first progrock album, maybe the first, was by the American band Touch. The band was founded by Don Gallucci - one of the Kingsmen. It came out in 1969 and back then I found the album at K-Mart of all places. It was the album cover that caught my eye because it was so unusual so I bought it and discovered a whole new world of music. I've got it on CD now. Wish I still had the album. Yes said that it was an influence on them.
On the mellotron, or melly: Moody Blues was basically founded on the mellotron. The keyboard player had been a technician at the mellotron factory so he knew them inside and out. It's one of my favorite instruments to play because there's two keyboards that use the original tapes all digitized - the digital mellotron and the memotron. The memotron is really cool because the digitized tapes were recorded through various actual aged mellotrons and their aged speakers with all their imperfections and it has this very dreaming quality to the sound. Then there's the digitized totally uncleaned up mellotron tapes on the M-Tron Pro by GForce software for the computer to use with a usb keyboard - not the kind of keyboard you type with of course - but the piano kind.
Good point about the Moody Blues. I should have included them (and several other folks). But I was having a hard time getting very far with the constant heckling from my unruly co-hosts!
I saw the Moody Blues at the Kohl Center in Madison WI when i went to college there circa 1998. None of my friends would go with me! But they were fantastic.
They’re young and quite unsophisticated.
I find it rich that John a man from a town where they boo Santa Claus, throw batteries at opposing teams and gave the world Fudgie the Whale thinks UFC is too barbaric to be at the White House.
As to the progressives being evil, you don't have to be evil to do evil. The hubris of Woodrow Wilson to go against Nature and undermining the Constitution reminds me of Faust in his hubris.
Wishing you all a belated Happy 4th of July.
Lucretia, Steven and John, This was an outstanding discussion by you all. Thank you. Listening to Lucretia bounce her brilliant defense of why progressivism is evil off of Johns very caring heart was delightful. I believe those who wield progressive destruction onto innocent, ignorant minds know precisely what they are doing, and why. Thus they are evil.
I enjoyed John's thoughts on why people come to America over other countries, and his sharing some of his families early life in coming here.
I would have loved to watch this podcast on video. Think about it, if it is possible. Perhaps you could post it on Rumble. Melissa McKenzie and Scott McKay do an American Spectator podcast there that I watch regularly. You guys would be great (as you always are anyhow) on video.
Loved that ending rendition of Yankee Doodle. Could have listened to it to it's end.
Prog-rock on the other hand, not so much Steven ;-)
Til next time,
Jim
We'd love to be able to record on live video, but our scheduling each week is always tricky and always moving around, sometimes right up to the last minute. So it is hard to get the word out and keep it. We'll keep trying; maybe try for at least once a month or something. Our friends at Commentary have 15,000 subscribers for their live YouTube channel, but they record every day at the same time, and have a rotating panel so if someone can't make it the show still goes on.
It would be nice to post the videos of those discussions you and Lucretia had a few years ago here on substack. I don't even remember the topic you two were discussing but they were great.
Oh rats. I don' t think I still have any of the videos to those old podcasts. The files are quite large and take up a lot of disc space.
I've long wanted to do a few "Best Of. . ." podcast highlights, but that takes a ton of time I don't have.
ALL sports are just entertainment, whether football, soccer, baseball, basketball, boxing, judo, fencing, UFC, three-day eventing, hockey, or WWE. Some are scripted, most are not, but they still are done for the entertainment of the people interested, and for the rewards to the participants. Some are very popular and others have more of a clique.
Most professional sports in this country made the mistake a decade or so ago to start to embrace politics, triggered in large part by that ungrateful whiner, Colin Kaepernick. UFC of the popular American sports isn't overtly political. Do the crowds cheer Trump and chant "USA, USA"? They do, but the UFC organization doesn't put rainbow banners or pink ones or any other overt political symbol on the octagon. They may have US flags but so does every stadium in the country.
UFC is an amazing sport. Unlike the boxers I have seen interviewed in the past, the UFC fighters are mostly very smart people, and very skilled in their craft. I don't watch as much as I used to because it costs more than I value it now, but when Bellator and other franchises were operating I'd watch them. Unlike WWE, the fighters that rise to the top have earned it every strike, kick, and chokehold on the way.
I hope I am not too late to rise and defend Lucretia and the idea that early Progressives were just as evil as their heirs - and I include Teddy R and the rest of them as well as Wilson and his female Autopen. They thought the Constitution was insufficient to handle life after the Industrial Revolution. So why didn't they try to amend it?
Why was their first reaction to build up a force of bureaucrats, sent hither in an unconstitutional swarm to harass productive citizens and eat out their substance through rules and fines?
I say the answer is simple. Because they were and are evil and want to economically enslave the American people after destroying American culture using a wave of immigrants who, as do the hateful progressives, hate American culture and individual rights.
I thought I'd mention, given the satiric remark of having a "bear Alcatraz" in Alaska, comparable to the proposed alligator Alcatraz in Florida, that the Spring Creek Correctional Center near Seward is pretty close to being a bear Alcatraz.
There are no federal prisons in Alaska, though I guess Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, escaped hanging (Woodrow Wilson reduced his sentence to life) in what would have been a federal Alaskan prison, since it was a territory at the time.
John mentioned that his parents were MDs at a mental hospital in NJ. Could that have been Ancora Hospital? I had a college girlfriend in 67-68 whose dad was an MD there.
Is there a more vile vocation than “municipal code officer”? Its like “tax collector” in the New Testament. Bastards!
On the question of whether Trump should hold a UFC fight on White House grounds for the celebration of America's 250th birthday, I think I'm on John's side.
I accept some of the counter arguments by Steve. That UFC is a real sport, unlike "professional" wrestling, and that the fans and players are generally culturally conservative and patriotic. But it's still irreverent, and I think the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration should be reverent.
Very much enjoyed the arguments presented in this episode. While I find Lucretia’s contributions too strident at times, she struck a chord with me on the ultimate logic of progressivism and her view that ideas matter.