Episode 196 – Knives Out (1:19:56)

We investigate the whodunit “Knives Out” with the Meme Policeman! We even touch on the age old question of if the left can meme or not. If I learned anything from the Princess Bride, they make good knives in Spain. And this episode was a suggestion by a listener in Spain.

Inspired by Clue and other “whodunit” movies of the past, Rian Johnson’s story of a detective investigating the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family is a well-executed screenplay with plot twists and mechanics that make for an entertaining few hours.

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Dissident Mama, episode 16 – W.C. Newsom

Episode 16 features W.C. Newsom, who is the creator of The Christendom Curriculum. If you recall, Newsom was my very first guest on the show. He and his family tirelessly work to advocate for truly conservative and traditional homeschooling – a field of battle that leftists are taking a bit more of everyday. But Newsom always shows up for the fight. He returns to give us some updates about the growth of his curriculum, as well as the predictable woke pushback to his educational materials, which he describes as “pro-West, anti-social justice, anti-multicultural, and anti-globalist.”

I also get Newsom’s expert take on a few issues that may seem minor but are what I see as increasing and powerful white-guilt chinks in the armor of non-PC home education. Am I overreacting? Possibly. Or am I just seeing the puritanical-progressive writing on the wall. We’ll try to sort some of that out.

Newsom is a homeschool dad to seven children, husband of 27 years, proud Southerner, and Reformed Christian. He’s a leftism resistor, a brilliant and bold warrior for faith, family, and tradition, and an unReconstructed compatriot with whom I’m proud to be in the trenches.

Mentioned in our discussion are the HSLDA’s essay “Homeschooling: Bridging the academic achievement gap” and Newsom’s recent Battle Paper “Monument desecration and the 5th Commandment” published at Identity Dixie. Some of my related essays are “The antidote for the therapeutic state,” “Puritans, part 5: Redeeming the time,” and “Homeschooling is counter to progressive values,” and “Totalitarians, t-shirts, and tirades, oh my!

Newsom has a professional background in writing, editing, and creating training materials. He’s written or contributed to 10 books, including “The Nicholas Book: A Legend of Santa Claus,” “Polycarp: The Crown of Fire,” and “Talking of Dragons: The Children’s Books of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis,” and created class sessions on Shakespeare, Tennyson, Hemingway, and others for another popular Western Civilization homeschool curriculum.

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Episode 195 – Conspiracy (1:37:04)

We continue on the war theme as we have Dr. Dennis Foster on to talk about “Conspiracy”, no, not the 2008 Val Kilmer classic, we’re doing the HBO/BBC version which is derived from transcripts of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, a top-secret Nazi meeting to debate the merits of Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’.

In 1942, officials of the Third Reich gather in Wannsee, near Berlin, Germany to plan the extermination of an entire race. The decision was already made, this was just for show and to make them all complicit. I argue this was a power grab by the SS using intimidation and subtle threats in what is essentially a one-room play in this tense and well-crafted movie depicting the banality with which horrific things can be processed.

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Dissident Mama, episode 15 – José Niño

Episode 15 features José Niño, a brilliant young thinker who doesn’t pull punches. The policy analyst and writer has more than a decade of experience as a political operative, working with major organizations on a host of political issues, from gun rights to foreign policy. Niño’s articles have been featured at influential outlets, such as Ammo.com, Gunpowder Magazine, The Mises Institute, Business Insider, InfoWars, and Zero Hedge. You can read more of his provocative essays and purchase his two e-books “The 10 Myths of Gun Control” and “How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela” at JoseAlNino.com.

Niño and I chat about his fascinating bio, as well as the hot topics of an immigration moratorium, color revolutions abroad, cultural Marxism here at home, US military hegemony, José’s Laws, and how best to build dissident resistance in order to battle the twin scourges of domestic anarcho-tyranny and “globohomo fuckery.”

Mentioned in our discussion are two of Niño’s most recent pieces: “With the US Rocked by a Pandemic, It’s Time to Leave Afghanistan” at AntiWar.com and “Here’s How the GOP Can Make Inroads With Hispanics: Pursue a National Populist Agenda and Avoid Cringe-Inducing Hispandering” at American Greatness.

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Episode 194 – Full Metal Jacket (1:19:39)

What is this Mickey Mouse shit?! Tomorrow night we are getting with the program and recording on the duality of man. You know, Jungian shit. We talk about a movie with interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture…and love you long time tonight. We wanted to be the first show on our block with an analysis of Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”.

We bring back Jon Reed who’s been on many times before. He’s got a major malfunction and is a bit of a film scholar and maker, and is an appreciator of fine works such as this one.

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Tippin’ over the pot

Okay, y’all. I’m going on the offensive. Instead of being on pins and needles while out and about mask-less, worrying whether people are going to go full-bore psychotic on me or not, or averting my eyes as to avoid the hateful glares peering from atop people’s muzzles, I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands. I now wear a body cam when I venture out into lunatic la-la land.

If you haven’t been subjected to the misplaced moral superiority and peak hostility that define the “mask-holes” who lurk in your neck of the woods, lucky you. But I have been.

I’m Rebecca. I’m a recovering mask-wearer. And here’s my story.

Yes, this really happened, and at the post office, no less. Here’s how it unfolded. (Names have been blocked to protect the innocent.)

Here are some of the best comments and insights from my smart friends.

Here is a link to McClanahan’s podcast, which posits that mask-holes are just Yankees. I couldn’t agree more. Self-righteous busybodies haven’t felt this empowered since 1861.

Since leftists are always taking photos of people’s license plates, I snapped one of the malevolent man’s vanity plate. Perhaps we should get him cancelled for being such a misogynist against an “oppressed” female. Or maybe fed-up folks will just start punching the verbal totalitarians and physical assaulters.

The altercation at the post office wasn’t my only run-in with a mask-hole. The first took place at the height of the BLM-Antifa riots, when leftists were given carte blanche to go maskless while ignoring the social-distancing and no-mass-gathering edicts many a mayor and governor put forth to allegedly fight the spread of the virus. Apparently, social-justice warriors have superpowers that we plebs lack.

Masks have become the symbol for conformity and repellence to logic and evidence. It’s a badge of collectivism for the crazy. This is why unhealthy people berate healthy people, and craven people venture out into the “pandemic” petri dishes of stores and restaurants; monitoring the resistors gives people a sick sense of control, purpose, and belonging. It’s political theater at best and psyops at worst, but either way, keeping people well is not the goal.

A mere two days after the post-office incident, this occurred at my local supermarket, proving again that we are certainly not all in this together.

Here is the article to the above image.

So, I have had three altercations to date and used three different approaches: the “If BLM can be lawless, so can I” tact, the “Engage with facts and common-sense” method, and the “Try to trigger the tyrant” strategy. But all left me feeling too stressed and too much like a reactionary. Why play on their field of battle? Why let them make the rules? I say let’s take the fight to the bullies.

Full disclosure: My family self-quarantined early on, well before most institutions decided to shut down life in perpetuity. One of my sons had a lobectomy when he was baby and now has only four lobes in his lungs, so comorbidities were a concern for our family.

Back then, I was typically the only person donning a mask in stores. Shoppers would look at me like I was nuts, but those were the “daze” during which we didn’t know much about the virus, so we voluntarily erred on the side of caution.

Did I ever lecture any strangers in public? Nope. And now we all know the data and have nearly a year’s worth of evidence from which to glean information and make good decisions, yet now is when the masses decide to mask up? It’s back-ass-wards.

We’re going to live life because the numbers warrant nothing less!

Moreover, the “rules” are inconsistent. Wear your mask at the store, except for kids under 11. Wear your mask at the restaurant, but you can take it off when you eat. Wear your mask at church, except for the choir. Wear your mask at the dentist, but you can remove it to have your teeth cleaned. Wear your mask walking around town, until you keel over from carbon-dioxide inhalation and someone has to give you mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. None of this makes a damn lick of sense.

In fact, when I was at the dentist recently, the doctor said a patient told him that her! teeth cleaning was only the second time she’d left her house since February And some church friends told us that a man from our parish hasn’t left his house at all!! This is criminal and the mask-holes only enable the insanity.

Even after my crisis-level worries started to subside back in the spring, I still didn’t think masks were a hill to die on. Wear one or don’t. It didn’t matter to me because I was more concerned with the reopening of businesses, rec baseball, homeschool co-ops, concerts, museums, pools, parks, festivals, libraries and all the things that add value to our existence. But now we see that masks are the hill upon which the entire leftist war is being waged.

Let me be clear about churches: I do not think that any Christian parish should have implemented any civil mandates (especially after the original “two weeks to flatten the curve” phase) – no masks, no social distancing, no caps on attendance, no sanitizing Chalice spoons, no banning the kissing of icons, etc.

As an Orthodox Christian, I believe that a parish is a Holy space where Heaven and earth meet, and that God is indeed present. I believe that the Church is the Bride of Christ and the Eucharist is literally Jesus’ blood and body, which are used for the healing of our souls and bodies. It can never be corrupted by sickness.

And I believe that Christians shouldn’t fear death, nor should they mirror the world. That is faith. That is dogma. It is Orthodoxy 101, and to me, it is non-negotiable. Church should have always been our refuge from the chaos, a light in the darkness, but alas, it is now too often part of the problem.

And the double irony is that modern Christians are often the ones driving while masked, both literally and figuratively.

Masks are also becoming racialized, since Pew reports that “black and Hispanic churchgoers” are more concerned about the “safety of in-person services,” and are thus, more committed to masks mandates and other liturgical “modifications.” Like my smart-as-a-whip hillbilly mother in-law has said from the very beginning, if you’re that damn scared, stay your ass at home and leave the rest of us be.

Tom Woods, who also wrote the free e-book “Your Facebook Friends are Wrong About the Lockdown,” challenges pandemic paranoia and tries to instill a little humanity back into the lopsided debate in one of his best speeches to date.

I know plenty of people understand that masks are a virtue signal but still wear them. I get that people are trying to avoid trouble, be polite, be good neighbors, be the gray man, compromise in order to get some semblance of our old lives back, yada yada yada. But if more and more of us go about our business sans mask, I think we can not only lessen anxiety, but we can also change the status quo. Let’s unplug the panic porn!

Hell, get a body cam and let’s take this non-hysterical revolution to the streets! Let’s stop placating idiocy and normalizing something that is just plain dangerous – physically, mentally, and spiritually. Let’s liberate ourselves of our nose-and-mouth shackles and breathe free again.

I refuse to make my healthy kids act disabled. It’s cosplay for puritanical-progressives, and it only empowers our life-sucking overlords and serves as a placebo for the masses who should be rising up, not rolling over.

Interestingly, when I wore the body cam, it was a huge conversation piece. Even masked people would stop and talk to me and tell me how they thought it was “smart” that I was trying to capture the madness because most masked folks even get that it’s, well, madness. I hadn’t had that many friendly impromptu chats out in public since early March. It was glorious. And how many Yankees challenged me? Zero.

If more and more of us refuse to comply, it will embolden others to follow suit. And it will in turn foster a real sense of community, common-sense, and civility, which are all battles in this total war against meaningful human life itself.

We’ll be called “murderers,” but hey, we’ve already been castigated as grandma killers, science deniers, racists, white supremacists, fascists, and Nazis, so what’s another ad hom? As long as we’re not boiling frogs, who really cares? Here’s to tippin’ over the nihilism pot, rebels.

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Dissident Mama, episode 14 – Philip Leigh

Episode 14 features Philip Leigh, author of numerous books, including “Southern Reconstruction,” “Lee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies,” “Trading with the Enemy: The Covert Economy During the American Civil War,” “The Confederacy at Flood Tide: The Political and Military Ascension, June to December 1862,” “The Devil’s Town: Hot Springs During the Gangster Era,” and his newest work “U.S. Grant’s Failed Presidency.” You can read his blog posts at his website Civil War Chat, as well as his essays published at the Abbeville Institute.

Leigh contributed 24 articles to The New York Times Disunion blog, which commemorated the Civil War Sesquicentennial. The prolific writer also lectures at various War Between the States forums and roundtables, and will be speaking at Abbeville’s upcoming fall conference entitled “Who Owns America?” A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Leigh holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northwestern University.

The independent historian and I talk about no sympathy for national battlefield guides, Washington and Lee University’s push to purge Lee and the gentleman ethic, name changes of military bases (and birds!), the spinelessness of the GOP, how compelling Southern fiction could be an untapped strategy of unReconstructed resistance, and that A.P. Hill might just be a good hill to die on (figuratively, of course). Here’s to happy listening and staking our Southern claim.

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Episode 193 – Alita: Battle Angel (1:28:48)

We’re here to talk about “Alita: Battle Angel” that has some interesting questions about sentience and self-ownership among other fun angles.

Our guest is Alex who had joined us in the past for the musical rendition of “Les Miserables” and this is a suggestion on his part.

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Private Ownership of the Means of Production confers a Social Benefit

Perhaps the most difficult battle faced by the advocates of free markets it to convince people that Private Ownership of the Means of Production is not some special privilege conferring and advantage to “greedy capitalists” at the expense of everyone else, but that it serves a social function that is beneficial to all.


Private ownership makes the accumulated wealth of the entrepreneur a slave to the consumer – that is – to everyone else. We commonly understand private ownership to mean “for our own use,” eg. the use of a toothbrush or a private residence, but in the case of private ownership, what is owned is almost exclusively for the use of others, placed at their service.

The capitalist keeps his wealth only to the extend he continues to use what he has accumulated in the interests of the masses, as they judge them, by churning out whichever goods and services they demand. To the extent he succeeds, his wealth will grow. This is the economy’s way of saying that he makes sure and wise decisions with the capital we have amassed as a society – not wasting them on projects that the public have no interest in paying for. To the extent he fails to do so, those factories, machines and companies that his investments represent will be sold on at knock-down rates to whoever thinks they can do a better job of managing them in the public interest. This allows for the constant re-allocation of capital to those who can best manage it, and engenders the accumulation of more capital over time. As the capital stock increase there is more wealth generation and technological advancement can be expected, and this will necessarily be largely led by the preferences of consumers, not those who actually “own” the capital.

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Episode 192 – Uncut Gems (1:33:37)

We’re here to talk about a more serious Adam Sandler movie, “Uncut Gems” that opens with a hole in his butt, and ends with a hole in his head.

Our pal Patrick MacFarlane of Liberty Weekly joins us to discuss this movie about gambling addiction, the NBA playoffs, and precious gemstones on tonight’s episode.

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