I'll Have to Think About That: Recent Episodes
Jeremy
The (hopefully) permanent home for my history, politics, and news commentary podcast, originally recorded from 2020-21, with occasional episodes added from Summer 2021 forward.
What? A Swedish Power Metal band pays tribute to Alvin York, American hero of the Great War? Give a listen and learn.
Bear with me as use math to compare GnR to Metallica, and further demonstrate why Axl and the boys do not deserve the love you give them.
Forget what you think you know about this one trick pony of a band - they're a fraud and I can prove it.
Who doesn't like cover tunes? In this episode I depart from serious and important topics to discuss merely the important: several good, interesting cover tunes.
- Tainted Love - Gloria Jones
- Tainted Love - Soft Cell
- Easy - The Commodores
- Easy - Faith No More
- Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
- RoF - Social D
- You Really Got Me - The Kinks
- YRGM - Van Halen
- Cum on Feel the Noize - Slide
- Cum on Feel the Noize - QR
- A Rainbow's Gold - Beckett
- ARG - Iron Maiden
- The Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac
- The Green Manalishi - Judas Priest
- Breadfan - Budgie
- Breadfan - Metallica
- Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft
- SB - Type O Negative
I think the title says it - here's a summary of the world's fascination with airships in the early 20th century.
Most people have no idea that there was a first draft of the DI, submitted to the Continental Congress and amended by them after some debate. Some of the changes were stylistic, some were not. In this episode I examine the circumstances around the DI and what those changes meant then, and mean now.
Was it states' rights, slavery, or something else? I hear this argument often among fans of history and buffs, and frankly it's gotten old. There is a reason, and the leaders of the Southern states were crystal clear about it when they rebelled against the general government. Listen to this episode and get a sense of the mountain of evidence.
Winston Churchill said that the truth is so important that it must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies. The truth of Operation OVERLORD - the Normandy Invasion of 1944 - was a truth of such magnitude that it was accompanied by the most extensive and complicated deception operations ever attempted in warfare. These efforts were so secret that many of them were only declassified in the late 1980s, meaning that our understanding of what happened, why, and how on that "Longest Day" was incomplete before them, at best.
Poetic language, biblical allusion, and Abraham Lincoln commenting on what's at the core of the American Idea.
The Senate, as of January 2021, is split 50/50 between the two parties, meaning VP Harris could be busy breaking ties...but that only happens IF there is a tie, which means every Senator votes in accordance with his/her party. In the case of Joe Manchin (D) of WV, this was not looking to be the case when the year began, and is even more clear now (SEP '21). He's one of the Senators to watch.
In our system of government, free flow of truthful information is essential. In this episode I discuss this thorny issue and give some perspective on the history of the press in America, and the implications of the biased, low-quality mainstream media of today.
First pushed by FDR during his 2nd term as president, this idea has reared its head again, in the final months of the Trump administration and first year of Biden's time as president. In this episode I discuss both, as well as the political implications and likely scenarios related to this.
Disclaimer: CRT is pseudo-scientific garbage, and is entirely separate from America's past. Listen to get a clue about the history of this anti-intellectual movement.
In this episode I discuss two essential ideas in public and private life, and how they are always in tension with one another. Timely, considering debates over mask and vaccination mandates as of September 2021.
What might be the implications of demonstrated existence of extraterrestrial life on the world's religions? I discuss, offer some evidence, and opine...
We Americans love to talk about, shout about, gripe about our rights...but did you know there are many different categories of rights? In this episode I discuss with Dr. Rob McDonald natural rights, which are the bedrock of the American view of rights, and in many ways quite unique in the world.
Begun in SEP 1944, the fight over tiny Peleliu, east of the Philippines, resulted in the highest casualty rate for any single battle in the Pacific in World War 2 for the United States, and yet this nasty battle is largely forgotten today. In this episode I discuss and explain the battle and why it's actually quite important.
I spoke with Dr. Chris Burkett, Professor of Political Science at Ashland University, about how the traditional American Western (movie) represents so much of the American perspective on politics, rights, and the individual and society.
Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes share some traits, like stomping on the rights and lives of individuals, but they are distinct from one another in some key aspects. Get clued in on the differences and them move forward confident that you know the difference and can see the warning signs for both.
Part 2 of my discussion with Matt about Catholic belief, this time focusing on the station and role of the pope - something not directly mentioned in the Bible, and therefore a potentially contentious one for Protestants.
I was raised Catholic, and like seemingly most Catholics by birth was completely ignorant of all things Catholic. I am now a Protestant, and in the pursuit of learning things I was never taught, I sat down with a close friend and Uber-Catholic, Matt, who is quite well-informed for a laymen. In this episode we talk about some of the fundamental beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, and prove that people with different religious views can get along just fine.
In this episode I discussed the differences between ethics and morals with a good friend, Dr. Lee Eysturlid.
I started "I'll Have to Think About That" in June 2020, and published episodes almost weekly through June 2021, hosting it on a paid podcast server. Listen to this short intro to this rebooted version of the show to learn a little about it and why it's here now. The original introduction is useful, too, as I go into deeper detail about the aim and rationale of the show.