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In the latest episode of the Brian D. O'Leary Show, Jim Murphy, the author of the bestselling book INNER EXCELLENCE: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance in the Best Possible Life, discusses the widespread impact and philosophy behind his work. Highlighting how NFL star AJ Brown benefited from Inner Excellence's teachings during critical games, Murphy elaborates on the book's core system that promotes being fully present and mastering self for extraordinary performance. He compares his concepts to those popularized by James Clear in Atomic Habits, emphasizing the importance of redefining success and learning from perceived failures. Murphy draws from his rich background as a former professional baseball player and coach, sharing personal anecdotes and experiences that shaped his understanding of sports psychology and human behavior. He emphasizes the importance of emotional stability, adaptability, and self-mastery both in sports and life. With his heartfelt insights and practical advice, Jim Murphy offers listeners the tools to navigate their lives with clarity, purpose, and resilience.
Find
INNER EXCELLENCE: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life (Grand Central Publishing, April 29, 2025)
at https://briandoleary.com/innerexcellence
After a long delay in production … Brian hosts Scott Fischbuch, a Jungian Typology expert, for an in-depth conversation on personality types and his methods. Scott explains his approach to personality typing, which involves analyzing preferences in conversation, turns of phrase, and behavioral mannerisms.
Brian shares his journey into podcasting and reflects on how his personality type has evolved. Scott identifies Brian's personality type as ISTJ and explains the significance of introverted sensing and extraverted intuition.
They discuss the impact of cultural influences on personality and the importance of effort and team dynamics in professional and personal settings. The episode touches on the nuances of effective communication and the role of empathy and sympathy in understanding others.
Scott's site: ToolsWithScott.com
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Website re-launch: https://briandoleary.com
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O'Leary's First Law: Nice is not a virtue.
O'Leary's Second Law: You can't cast yourself out of a tangle.
O'Leary's Third Law: While apologies are often necessary or appropriate, never should you have to explain yourself, particularly for something you believe and are not sorry for.
Column at Substack: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/theyre-now-calling-it-discourse
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They're now calling it 'discourse' What happened to disinformation? By now, you've probably seen a host of graphics in the swampwaters of social media, hastily cobbled together by run-of-the-mill milquetoast leftists. Virtue-signalers, viz.
A meme gone viral over the last few days is a checklist that attempts to pacify the reader with a bunch of platitudes, one being "Contribute to discourse, not division."
This, of course, is a less-than-subtle dig at non-leftists. Gaslighting. To oppose the leftist agenda naturally causes "division" in the minds of these people.
However, and as a matter of principle, it is really only our people who have been the ones to contribute — and show interest in — discourse so-called. We're the ones with ideas and questions.
They're the ones scolding you and forcing compliance with their inanities.
In other words, the left divides. Their people dismiss you and want you dead.
The underlying motive is still not entirely clear, but it matters not.
Remember if you wanted to learn more about the coronavirus mania and the resulting panic? You were told to shut up, wear a mask, and get injected with vaccines. Any information that did not tow the party line was called "disinformation" and was not allowed within their polite society.
That's division.
Now, it appears that the political left — the most violent and destructive force in the entirety of Western Civilization — still runs cover for those within its ranks. Lately it's for those who express displeasure in the fact that the gunman in Butler, Pennsylvania "missed."
Once again, this is nothing short of division. There is no discourse where this is remotely appropriate. Yet, the talking heads in corporate media circles and the lunatic fringe spouting "conspiracy theories" are nonetheless given free range.
The meme concludes: "We can transcend the bitterness and be better, even when we disagree."
No we can't. They should, however.
It is their problem and it is much more than disagreement. It is an impossibility.
Where there was once a large fissure within the culture, the last several days have revealed a cleaving on that divide.
For it is not tenable to maintain a polity or a culture with people that hate you and want you dead.
These people are your enemies. They are the dividers.
It is personal. They came for your family and your livelihood. They'll do it again.
It is political — which is, to say, little more than the simple distinction between who is a friend and who is an enemy.
And it has nothing to do with elections.
Some people might think there are hard choices to be made. To the contrary — the choices aren't difficult.
Painful perhaps, but pain is part of life. It's unavoidable.
Suffering, on the other hand, is a choice. For too long folks have been entirely too comfortable suffering and enduring under this regime.
Admittedly, the left may be a catalyst for such "victim mentality," but mentality is a choice.
Attitude is also a choice and you are in control of your choices.
As always,
Brian
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The first and perhaps only presidential debate happened on June 27. Adam Haman and Brian O'Leary have the definitive smackdown of the whole thing.
The fellows awarded a winner and offered some commentary. Hilarity ensues (though not necessarily intentional - it's a factor of who was "debating.")
Adam Haman - https://hamannature.substack.com/
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O'Leary's FREE e-book Run at Thunder, Vol. 1 - https://runatthunder.com/
Natural Order - https://naturalorderpodcast.com/
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- HenryBing.co/freetools
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- FreeMe123.com
- BrianDOLeary.com/tsol (Tom Woods School of Life)
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Links:
- Tucker talks to Vlad about the role of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. They must have been listening to Purcell and O’Leary … https://x.com/TCNetwork/status/1755748344465342565?s=20
- O’Leary side project (Natural Order Podcast) breaks down the entire Tucker-Vlad interview… https://naturalorderpodcast.com/ep18/
- Possible definitions of “petrodollar”
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- Revenues from petroleum exports. Dollars paid to oil-producing nations (petrodollar recycling).
- The currency of oil-producing nations usually fluctuates with the price of oil. E.g.s when the price of oil rises, the currency has more value. Vice-versa … when the price of oil falls, the currency’s value drops. Thus, Petrodollar/Petrocurrency?
- The pricing of oil in US dollars: currencies used as a unit of account to price oil in the international market.
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- Zoltan Pozsar – Hungarian-American “shadow banker” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltan_Pozsar
- Moscow Gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_gold_(Spain)
- In the first year of the Spanish Civil War, the New York Times reported on August 7, 1936, that Spanish gold reserves (held in Madrid) were the equivalent of $718 million (US), which was the equivalent to $15.14 billion in 2022 USD. Reports range from 72.6% to upwards of 90% of Spanish gold reserves were given to the USSR months after the outbreak of the civil war. The communist-backed government of the Second Spanish Republic under Francisco Largo Caballero either sold the gold to the Soviets or placed the reserves in Moscow for the Soviets to act as custodians. Well, that was a bad move. Largo Caballero and his Republican cause were eventually defeated by the Nationalist side and Spain was left broke, for most if not all of the remaining gold reserves were sold to France for currency. In the context of the Spanish War, the gold the Soviets ended up with (ostensibly to caretake or use for deposit on future munitions) is known as “Moscow Gold.” The gold taken in by the French is called the “Paris Gold.”
- King Juan Carlos I of Spainhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I There is speculation that Spain stayed out of the western oil embargo during the 1970s because of the then-prince and future-king’s business dealings with the Arab oil merchants.Juan Carlos abdicated the Spanish throne in 2014 and as of 2020, he now makes the United Arab Emirates his permanent residence.
- Warren Mosler – It doesn’t matter what currency you trade in … What do you save in?https://moslereconomics.com/https://warrenmosler.com/
- Wesley Schlemmer on The Brian D. O’Leary Show https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/building-wealth-with-bitcoin
- Peter Schiff (is welcome on the program to talk Petrodollar) https://schiffradio.com/
- Fountain.FM – Listen to podcasts, earn bitcoin.
- https://fountain.fm/briandoleary?code=2f1a9cad53
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Links:
- Winter Dance Party Tour Schedule, 1959
- Buddy Holly
- The Big Bopper
- Ritchie Valens
- Waylon Jennings
- Dion DiMucci
- Don McLean, 76, steps out with his model girlfriend Paris Dylan, 28, ahead of his performance at Manchester Bridgewater Hall
- Why the Beatles owe their success to the Comanche Indians
The Brian D. O’Leary Show
January 27, 2024
Wesley Schlemmer – Bitcoin Bay Ep. 94 Wesley Schlemmer is a leading bitcoin (₿) evangelist and educator in the Tampa Bay region. One of the goals of his 501c3 organization — Bitcoin Bay — is to create a circular economy with bitcoin at the center of it all. We had Wesley on the show a few months back to talk about “taking the orange pill.”
Wesley is a born-and-raised “Florida Man” who is working to Make America Florida.
Links and topics mentioned: Bitcoin Bay · https://www.bitcoinbay.live/
· ₿itcoin Bay 𝕏-Twitter - https://twitter.com/bitcoinbaytpa
· ₿itcoin Bay Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbaytpa
· ₿itcoin Bay nostr – https://iris.to/npub1tampasjf5z0rllvrh8nlqckrjtzzj9590uljzeuu6ymsr8hq9pjsrw0ynt
· ₿itcoin Bay Telegram - https://t.me/+6TaP_y99LpM3NmIx
Florida Beef Initiative · https://floridabeefinitiative.com/
· The mission of the Florida Beef Initiative “is simple yet profound: to create a self-sustaining local economy where wealth circulates within the community. We achieve this through a blend of traditional practices and modern innovations.”
Price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies · CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/
Fountain.FM · We are big fans of Fountain.FM at the Brian D. O’Leary headquarters. Earn bitcoin while listening to podcasts… who wouldn’t love that?
· Fountain is now out of beta testing and it is a great podcast app.
· Sign up today to start earning ₿itcoin at Fountain.FM
Monero · Monero is a private, decentralized cryptocurrency that keeps your finances confidential and secure.
· Monero is not bitcoin. “It’s a whole separate blockchain.”
ByteFederal · Find bitcoin ATM locations worldwide
· https://www.bytefederal.com/
TAPSIGNER · The simple bitcoin wallet in your pocket
· https://tapsigner.com/
SATSCARD · Like cash in hand, pass physical Bitcoin along multiple times. Gift. Anonymous. Trust no one.
· https://satscard.com/
RoboSats · Learn about Robosats at robosats.com
Mullvad VPN · The VPN that Wesley mentioned https://mullvad.net/en
The Sound Money Soiree · The offical grand opening of The Bitcoin Bay Foundation and the grand unveiling of Tampa as the next Bitcoin City in the United States.
· February 3, 2024.
· Sign up NOW : https://www.bitcoinbay.live/sound-money-soiree
· Coupon Code MISES will get you a discount.
· I’ve heard that if you try coupon code WOODS it may get you a deeper discount
Tom Woods School of Life · Wesley and I are members of Tom’s growing community of people who are always learning and taking things to the next level. Find out more at the page I created for the Tom Woods School of Life
· Some other folks from Tom’s School of Life that we’ve interviewed: https://whoisinthetomwoodsworld.com/
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed on the podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of the host or The Brian D. O'Leary Show. Opinions or assertions expressed by guests of The Brian D. O'Leary Show are their own and any statements or advice on this podcast or written material for the show are for general information, educational, and entertainment purposes only and should not be construed as personal tax or financial advice. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast, its notes, or website before seeking appropriate advice from an accountant, lawyer, or other professional.
The Brian D. O’Leary Show
December 5, 2023
Jason Purcell – The petrodollar system (Part 2) Ep. 93 Check us out on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/briandoleary/p/jason-purcell-the-petrodollar-system?r=3c44f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
We welcome financial analyst Jason Purcell on the program for the second part in a series on the history of money and banking. We’re talking about the “petrodollar” once again.
Jason is working on a book on the topic which includes a chapter about his theory of the “Petrodollar System.” You can find the first episode at our Substack page (and on all podcatchers):
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-petrodollar-system-part-1-w-jason
Jason will be on the show again soon to complete his analysis of the petrodollar system. Once we complete the discussion, we’ll have a longer compilation episode and more robust show notes page for you.
Topics discussed: A Spate Of Recent Deals Raises Chatter Of A Fading Petrodollar (Forbes) · Jason mentions this article as an entry point into our discussion.
Petrodollar-Saudi Axis Is Why Washington Hates Iran · Gary Richied article that Jason mentions.
"Petrodollar" search at Mises.org · https://mises.org/search-mises?search=petrodollar
· Several mises.org articles reference “petrodollar” (36 at last count). Take some time and read the free resources.
· Jason’s theory runs somewhat counter to what you’ll hear in Forbes or mises.org, but it helps to have the background
Not So Fast My Friend! · Lee Corso autographed 8x10 poster (eBay)
OPEC · OPEC countries include: Algeria, Angola, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela
o The host was unaware that Nigeria was a part of OPEC. It is!
· OPEC+ is a loose grouping of countries that includes Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Russia, South Sudan, and Sudan.
BRICS · Governments represented are from countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Dollar hegemony (Monetary hegemony) · Monetary hegemony is an economic and political concept in which a single state has decisive influence over the functions of the international monetary system. A monetary hegemon would need:
o accessibility to international credits,
o foreign exchange markets
o the management of balance of payments problems in which the hegemon operates under no balance of payments constraint.
o the direct (and absolute) power to enforce a unit of account in which economic calculations are made in the world economy.
Key Currency · a currency which is stable, does not fluctuate much, and provides the foundation for exchange rates for international transactions. Because of their global use, key currencies tend to set the value of other currencies. Also, these currencies tend to have a stable valuation over time. A key currency usually comes from a country that is financially strong, economically stable and developed, and one that is involved in the global market.
Currency Converter (Yahoo!) · https://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/
Petroleum refining in the United States · (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_refining_in_the_United_States
Bank Charter Act 1844 (Peel Act) · Also known as the “Peel Act”
Bearer Bonds, et cetera in Die Hard · Die Hard (1988)
· Bearer bonds and how they figure into the plot (a McGuffin, if you will)
o Bearer Bonds
· Die Hard $100,000 American Bearer Bond. (eBay) This was a real movie prop.
· A more modestly priced replica of the “Nakatomi Bonds” available at Etsy
· Taxes in Everything: Die Hard Edition
o As for questions with your own taxes, and for your free report on ideas for over 60 Business Expense Ideas and a few personal deductions: visit www.agoristTaxAdvice.com/oleary
o Matthew Sercely, the man behind Agorist Tax Advice was a recent guest on the show. Check it out ... https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/matthew-sercely-agorist-tax-advisor
Jason Purcell’s Links Jason Purcell – LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmpurcell/
Purcell Investments - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@purcellinvestments
Email Jason contact@jpurcell.me
Supply & Demand Update - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/supplyndemandupdate/
Jason Purcell Senior Writer, Financial Markets at The Lake Street Review https://www.thelakestreetreview.com/profile/jpurcell525/profile
To learn more about the fine community of people where Jason and I first met:
Tom Woods School of Life Social Media, etc. Follow us on Twitter. Yes, I still call it Twitter…
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed on the podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of the host or The Brian D. O'Leary Show. Opinions or assertions expressed by guests of The Brian D. O'Leary Show are their own and any statements or advice on this podcast or written material for the show are for general information, educational, and entertainment purposes only and should not be construed as personal tax or financial advice. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast, its notes, or website before seeking appropriate advice from an accountant, lawyer, or other professional.
The Brian D. O’Leary Show
December 4, 2023
Matthew Sercely – Agorist Tax Advisor Ep. 92 Matthew Sercely has been a licensed attorney since 2009, and in 2020 he founded his own company to provide tax advice and planning for small businesses.
He is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and side-hustlers by setting up their businesses to legally avoid as much tax as possible.
While he exclusively works with those who have or are starting businesses, Matthew’s weekly newsletter offers general advice that anyone can use.
When he's not screwing with the government, Matthew enjoys camping, weightlifting, and gaming.
For Matthew’s free report on over 60 Business Expense Ideas (and a few personal deductions as well), go to www.agoristTaxAdvice.com/oleary
Topics discussed: 1031 Exchange · According to Investopedia, a 1031 Exchange is a swap of one real estate investment property for another that allows capital gains taxes to be deferred.
Agorism · The mises.org wiki defines agorism as the practice of counter-economics and the ideas associated with that practice. Agorist ideas assert that Libertarian philosophy occurs in practice, in the real world, as Counter-Economics. It was first proposed by libertarian philosopher Samuel Edward Konkin III in 1975.
· The Agora program at Boston College we mentioned is now apparently retired: http://agora.bc.edu/
Libertarianism · On the Natural Order Podcast, we give listeners a primer on libertarianism in episode 1 of the show.
· The Substack page for that show: https://naturalorder.substack.com/p/libertarian-political-philosophy
Austrian Economics · Also on the Natural Order Podcast, we dedicate a show for our listeners to learn the basics of the Austrian school of economics.
· You can find the Substack version here: https://naturalorder.substack.com/p/methodology-matters-and-the-other
Adam Martin – Texas Tech University · Adam Martin is Political Economy Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and Associate Professor of acgricultural and applied economics in the Gordon W. Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources at Texas Tech University.
Kelo vs. City of New London (Supreme Court Case) · Read about it on Wikipedia. It is depressing and criminal.
· Go Whalers!
Eminent domain in Tennessee · Collins Legal
· Institute for Justice
· Many such cases…
Is taxation theft? · Theft (Wikipedia) the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
· Robbery (Wikipedia) the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear.
· Extortion (Wikipedia) the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion.
· Probably (Wiktionary) In all likelihood.
The Tom Woods Show · Episode 2175 Taxes and How to Minimize Them (Matthew Sercely)
The Lew Rockwell Show · LewRockwell.com Podcasts
Universities mentioned: Boston College
University of Dallas
More resources: Matthew Sercely on LinkedIn Sercely on 𝕏-Twitter For your free report on ideas for over 60 Business Expense Ideas and a few personal deductions:
www.agoristTaxAdvice.com/oleary
Tom Woods School of Life Brian O’Leary on 𝕏-Twitter Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed on the podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of the host or The Brian D. O'Leary Show. Opinions or assertions expressed by guests of The Brian D. O'Leary Show are their own and any statements or advice on this podcast or written material for the show are for general information, educational, and entertainment purposes only and should not be construed as personal tax or financial advice. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast, its notes, or website before seeking appropriate advice from an accountant, lawyer, or other professional.
The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 29, 2023
We welcome financial analyst Jason Purcell on the program for the first part of what we hope to be a series on the history of money and banking.
Jason is working on a book on the topic which includes a chapter about his theory of the “Petrodollar System.” In this first part of our series, Jason gives us a background on the history leading up to the idea of the “petrodollar” phenomenon.
Jason will be on the show again soon to complete his analysis of the petrodollar system. Once we complete the discussion, we’ll have a more robust show notes page for you.
Until then, check out these resources…
Jason Purcell – LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmpurcell/
Purcell Investments - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@purcellinvestments
Email Jason contact@jpurcell.me
Supply & Demand Update - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/supplyndemandupdate/
Jason Purcell Senior Writer, Financial Markets at The Lake Street Review https://www.thelakestreetreview.com/profile/jpurcell525/profile
Tom Woods School of Life https://briandoleary.com/tsol/ Brian O’Leary on 𝕏-Twitter https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary
Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
October 12, 2023
Try as I may, I still can’t shake not being a sports narrowcaster. The topic still comes up.
At some point, I have to accept that it is part of who I am.
An interesting thing came up today when I was listening to a podcast that my friend and Natural Order Podcast co-host Adam Haman was on. They mentioned a “Deep Thought” from Jack Handey.
That got my wheels spinning, and thus this podcast.
Links on topics mentioned are below…
Brian O’Leary home page https://briandoleary.com/home/
The O’Leary Letter https://briandoleary.com/letter/
Natural Order Podcast https://naturalorderpodcast.com/
Brian O’Leary on 𝕏-Twitter https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary
Adam Haman on 𝕏-Twitter https://twitter.com/Rerazer
Haman on the Bob Murphy Show Ep. 292 Adam Haman on Why Robert Redford Is a Better Looker Than Poker Player
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey https://www.mit.edu/people/dmredish/wwwMLRF/links/Humor/Deep_Thoughts
Saturday Night Live history Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
College Football Oregon @ Stanford (9-30-23)
Baseball Game 4 2004 ALCS. Boston 6 – New York 4
Major League Baseball's postseason format, explained
There's no need to be so complicated. One of the many issues that I have with Baseball™
Read up on a total farce of a season...though they don't say it like that.
Los Angeles Dodgers Team History
Dave Roberts - Dodgers manager
Tony LaRussa
Earl Weaver
Bobby Cox
Dusty Baker
Bruce Bochy
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
September 15, 2023
Show notes available: https://open.substack.com/pub/briandoleary/p/on-culture-through-the-lens-of-boston?r=3c44f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The O’Leary Letter https://briandoleary.com/letter/
Brian O’Leary on Twitter/𝕏 https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary
Baseball Boston Red Sox
Roger Clemens
Dan Duquette … blech!
Red Sox announce Bloom’s exit: ‘We’re here to win’
College Football Boston College Football
The Red Bandana Game
Man in Red Bandana (Movie)
BC-FSU preview by ATL_eagle (the best Eagles blogger out there)
Pro Football Bill Walsh resource page
Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
September 12, 2023
Show notes available: https://open.substack.com/pub/briandoleary/p/on-coach-prime-the-nfl-mlb-and-college?r=3c44f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The O’Leary Letter https://briandoleary.com/letter/
Brian O’Leary on Twitter/𝕏 https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary
New York Jets NewYorkJets.com
Hard Knocks (TV Show)
Wisconsin bar runs promo: customers drink free if Jets lose. Hilarity ensues.
Baseball Fantastic new rules from Major League Baseball turning game into a travesty
https://x.com/shegone03/status/1701608832844337629?s=20
Jeff Frye – 8 years MLB second baseman
College Football Colorado
Boston College
Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
August 17, 2023
Show notes available: https://open.substack.com/pub/briandoleary/p/things-ive-been-marinating-on-for?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The O’Leary Letter https://briandoleary.com/letter/
The Brion McClanahan Show https://www.brionmcclanahan.com/
A must listen-to podcast.
Rich Men North of Richmond – Oliver Anthony Twitter (X?) account https://twitter.com/AintGottaDollar
Viral song with soul.
The Arena Football League https://www.afl2024.com/
I’m thinking of how to get an amateur version of this game. I love it.
The Pac-12 Implodes https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38134021/big-ten-set-send-invites-oregon-washington-sources-say
That’s not the real story. Listen to the pod for more.
Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son by Paul Carter https://twitter.com/PaulCarterCA (Paul Carter’s Twitter)
https://www.dieselbookstore.com/richard-nixon-californias-native-son
Foreword by Tricia Nixon Cox (the president’s daughter)
Podcast interview on John Ziegler’s Death of Journalism podcast: https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1692169473481228511?s=20
All the President’s Men – “These aren’t bright guys” https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b2dc2edf-21ca-4f1c-8a56-bc245271ca44
O’Leary on Nixon: The most liberty-minded U.S. president? I know...shocker! Brian D. O’Leary
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June 23, 2023
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In yesterday's email, we wrote about the great Kris Kristofferson. If you didn’t get the email and want to read it, reply to this email and we will send it to you.
Kristofferson Kris Kristofferson: An outlaw at 80
Kristoffer Kristofferson, Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1958
Moonlight Graham Show https://www.moonlightgrahamshow.com/
Host is Tim Flattery & I was a recently a guest on his brother Andy Flattery’s podcast, The Reformed Financial Advisor Podcast, episode: “What we have been reading…”
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
June 23, 2023
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Daily 3 1. Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.
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The hardest battle you will fight is living in a world where—every single day—someone is trying to make you be someone you don’t want to be.
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Control the Controllables. It’s not “don’t worry about things outside our control…” Take initiative.
o What can you control?
§ Our words
§ Our routine
§ Our choices
§ Our actions
§ What we read and watch
§ How we treat others
§ Evaluating your life and priorities…regularly
o What can’t you control?
§ What others say and do
§ Our past experiences
§ The mistakes of others
§ What happens around us
§ What others think
The Reformed Financial Advisor Podcast I was a guest on Andy Flattery’s podcast. “What we have been reading…”
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
June 21, 2023
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Daily 3 1. Discipline: If you’re offering excuses for your behavior, don’t accept the offer.
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Boundaries: Define your own. Don’t let others define your own boundaries.
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“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” ~Thoreau. Just marinate on this thought and see if it makes sense or if it is mere blowhardiness. I find it a mixture.
The Reformed Financial Advisor Podcast I was a guest on Andy Flattery’s podcast. “What we have been reading…”
https://briandoleary.com/flattery/
O’Leary’s Book Club A page where we reference all the books (and now movies) we’ve talked about on this show and in the daily emails. Work in progress…
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
June 15, 2023
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Best-selling author, podcaster, and YouTuber Taylor Marshall was on the Crisis Point podcast with host Eric Sammons a few weeks ago. Marshall announced his intent to run for President of the United States.
While I don’t endorse anyone, I support the candidacy of Dr. Marshall. He’s a “dad with a webcam,” but more importantly has a vision for America that no political figure has properly articulated.
Today’s show is my commentary on Marshall’s candidacy…and that leads us to talking about regular themes and principles of The Brian D. O’Leary Show.
Topics and links follow…
Crisis Point Taylor Marshall for President? (Guest: Taylor Marshall)
Sister Wilhemina: An American Incorruptible (Guest: Andy Flattery)
· for more on friend of our program, Andy Flattery, https://briandoleary.com/flattery/
Dr. Taylor Marshall TaylorMarshall.com
Taylor Marshall Running for President: What Does This Mean? by Kennedy Hall
Dr. Taylor Marshall on Twitter
Pat Buchanan Commenting on Pat Buchanan's 1992 'Culture War' Speech w/ Tom Woods (The Pete Quinones Show)
Pat Buchanan on the "Silent Majority"
· https://buchanan.org/blog/Topics/silent-majority
· Jim Camp Jim Camp at BrianDOLeary.com
O’Leary’s Book Club Books mentioned: Links can be found at https://briandoleary.com/bookclub/
RIGGED by Mollie Hemingway
Fascism by Stanley Payne
Fascism by Paul Gottfried
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
June 14, 2023
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The Daily 3 – 6/14/2023 1. How you see your life is more important than how it looks to outsiders
2. “Culture” is happening regardless. Eliminate the drama. Focus on The Process
3. DAILY ACTION. Consistency over proficiency. Ruthless organization. Every day…whatever it takes.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
June 9, 2023
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The Daily 3 – 6/9/2023 1. You don’t have to follow trends. In other words, “don’t do what everybody else is doing.”
2. Stop rushing the process.
3. You’ve got this!
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
June 1, 2023
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Podcast mentioned: The Brion McClanahan Show “Think Locally. Act Locally.”
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
May 31, 2023
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The only true source of politeness is consideration—that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist trims his sails.”
Author unknown
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Virtue Seven Virtues – 4 Cardinal or “Human” and 3 Theological.
Theological Virtues
· faith
· hope
· charity
Cardinal Virtues
· prudence
· justice
· fortitude
· temperance
The Declaration of Independence Just because Thomas Jefferson declared something as “self-evident” does not mean that it is true.
I, for one, do not believe that the amorphous “pursuit of happiness” is a natural right. Start thinking about it a little bit and you’ll probably come to the same conclusion. It makes no sense.
Teammates and role-players “In the game of life, I want you on my team.”
Tim McMenamin
Bill Wennington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wennington
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
May 26, 2023
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The Daily 3 (5/26/23) · Service to others should be a personal calling.
· Self-Discipline: living in harmony with your goals and values.
· Consider strategy in every step you take in life.
Bill Walsh – Football Coach https://briandoleary.com/walsh/
His coaching philosophy focused on developing a strong system and culture rather than relying solely on individual talent. Walsh believed in empowering players and coaches to work together towards a common goal, and his teams were known for their precision, discipline, and creativity.
Keep in mind Your most important work is in front of you. As is your best work. I don’t care how old you are.
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“In the game of life, I want you on my team.”
Tim McMenamin
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
May 24, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/we-deserve-apologies-were-never-going?sd=pf
Freedom? Today we talked about some bigger concepts. What rights do we have …. Really?
What is freedom? Do people “deserve” it?
Does freedom come at a cost? Indeed, it does. Most of us, likely myself included, aren’t paying for it.
Libertinism A libertine is a person devoid of most moral principles, a sense of responsibility, which they see as unnecessary or undesirable, and is especially someone who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour observed by the larger society.
Libertinism is described as an extreme form of hedonism.
Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertine
Libertinism is not freedom.
O’Leary’s Law (#1): “Nice” is not a virtue
If anyone came up with this before me, I would like to give them credit. I don’t believe this is a particularly original concept.
Lysander Spooner on voting https://mises.org/library/voting
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
May 19, 2023
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“Taking the Orange Pill”
The O’Leary Review Podcast w/ Wesley Schlemmer – Ep 18
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National Divorce?
Today, we address the growing conversation regarding “National Divorce” in America.
What holds the US together? What is tearing it apart? What is the “natural order” of human political relations? Would a “divorce” help move us in that direction? Or away from it?
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
May 17, 2023
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Three main points from yesterday’s show 1. 1) Opportunities present themselves when YOU are prepared to receive them. 2. 2) If you can’t see those developments in “the background,” that DOESN’T mean the details aren’t in development. 3. 3) If you believe things will work out, THEY PROBABLY WILL. (Maybe not in the way you imagined.)
Today’s main points 1. 1) What you NEED isn’t necessarily what you WANT. 2. 2) Forget the concept of an OPEN MIND. What you need is a FREE MIND.
Other topics mentioned · Garth Brooks – Unanswered Prayers https://youtu.be/wG8EPdPbq64
· GK Chesterton
o An Open Mind
· Free-will – the power of choice?
o Aquinas on free-will
· Self-discipline
o Book that might change your perspective on the power of self-discipline - No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity by Dan Kennedy
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
May 16, 2023
Show Notes: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/opportunity-presents-itself-when?sd=pf
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“…our purpose is to guide the entrepreneur on his or her journey…”
Three main points from today’s show 1. 1) Opportunities present themselves when YOU are prepared to receive them. 2. 2) If you can’t see those developments in “the background,” that DOESN’T mean the details aren’t in development. 3. 3) If you believe things will work out, THEY PROBABLY WILL. (Maybe not in the way you imagined.)
Survival Sanctuary Off-Grid Veteran Mark Johnson's
25 Essential DIY Projects for
Self-Sufficient Living
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
May 11, 2023
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Right Wing Politics Wikipedia’s description (be wary, not sure of the accuracy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics
John O’Sullivan O’Sullivan’s Law: "All organizations that are not explicitly right-wing will over time become left-wing."
Sun Tzu “The wise warrior avoids the battle.”
“One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all.”
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
May 3, 2023
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List of the stuff we talked about in today’s show…
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The Barstool controversy Dave Portnoy (El Presidente)
Barstool Sports
The video where I originally found out about the whole controversy. “Emergency Press Conference – Ben Mintz Has Left the Building” NSFW …
Portnoy’s “message to everybody calling me a sellout.” (NSFW…99% likely. I haven’t watched.)
PENN Entertainment (PENN Gaming)
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Guest: Laura Davidson
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-logic-of-freedom-understanding?sd=pf
Laura Davidson – Bio Laura Davidson is an accomplished author, researcher, and multi-disciplinary thinker who has established herself as an influential figure in the fields of economics, philosophy, and libertarian ethics. Her work, which is characterized by a rigorous approach to complex issues, has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.
Davidson is a recipient of the prestigious Lawrence Fertig prize in economics from the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which recognizes her outstanding contribution to the field of economics in the Austrian tradition. In addition to her writing, she is a frequent speaker at libertarian and economic research conferences, as well as other venues, where her presentations have been praised for their clarity and originality.
Davidson is a graduate of Oxford University, where she studied earth science and developed an understanding of the natural world and its complexities. Her intellectual curiosity subsequently led to an interest in the social sciences. Through her recent research and writing, she seeks to promote a more integrated and holistic understanding of the world we live in, one that takes account of both the natural and social dimensions of human experience.
While stressing that the social and natural sciences employ very different methodologies, she realizes that they can inform and enrich each other through a shared commitment to logical reasoning. Her work has received widespread recognition, and she continues to be a prominent voice in the ongoing conversation about the intersection of science, philosophy, and economics.
About The Logic of Freedom What does it mean to be truly free? In this bold and ground-breaking exploration of human freedom, libertarian philosopher Laura Davidson challenges us to contemplate the true nature of liberty. In doing so, she leads us to question many things we may think we know about the human condition and the world around us.
Genuine freedom starts with an understanding we have freedom of the will. And yet many present-day scientists and philosophers argue that free will is merely an illusion. Their claim is that the activity of the brain is a purely physical process, analogous to the operation of a computer. But this implies we are mere automatons and cannot be held morally responsible for what we do. Moreover, if human thought and action is strictly deterministic, then this seriously challenges the notion of a genuinely free society by legitimizing the initiation of force and threat of force, particularly by those in positions of power.
This book strongly disagrees with determinism and tackles it head-on. Drawing from studies in consciousness and the philosophy of mind, Davidson presents a logical argument to demonstrate why the human will is inherently free. While acknowledging that our choices are clearly influenced by certain biological instincts, many of which we have inherited from our evolutionary past, she employs fresh insights to show why we alone are the final arbiters of how we act. Unlike animals, which possess a lower form of consciousness, our decisions are not made for us. Her innovative and original ideas are a breakthrough in the discourse on free will, bringing a new perspective to the age-old question of whether or not human beings have real agency.
However, while most people employ their will to cooperate with others, some individuals choose to dominate with force in order to attain power and, under certain conditions, are able to manipulate the masses in a way that leads to tyranny. A crucial aspect of Davidson’s argument is that political control of any kind, including all forms of force and coercion, is inconsistent with our humanity as free and rational beings and with life itself. She demonstrates why a genuinely free society is mankind’s natural destiny and argues that it can ultimately be achieved. Nevertheless, true political freedom of this kind will only occur when the libertarian principle of nonaggression is strictly observed in all areas of life. She reaches startling and thought-provoking conclusions on the relationship between law, personal morality, and society, challenging some of the most basic foundations of modern polity, and ends with addressing perhaps the most important issue of all: the nature of absolute truth, and how an understanding of such truth leads to genuine freedom and happiness.
Laura’s Links The Logic of Freedom: Free Will, Human Nature, and the Rational Argument for a Genuinely Free World
Laura at the Mises Institute
Podcasts mentioned The Tom Woods Show – Ep 2308 w/ Laura Davidson
Books and Authors Mentioned Go to BrianDOLeary.com/bookclub for more…
H.L. Mencken
Origins of Totalitarianism by Hanna Arendt
The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet
Thomas Hobbes
Jordan Peterson – 12 Rules for Life
St. Thomas Aquinas
Principle of non-aggression Aggression – initiation of force against persons or property
The principle asserts that aggression is inherently illegitimate.
This non-aggression principle (The “NAP”) is the basis of most libertarian theory, stemming from John Locke’s idea of self-ownership.
Mencken quote mentioned (June 1923) From A Mencken Chrestomathy (p. 354)
“There was a time, and it was much less than a century ago, when any man of sound sense and fair education could understand all of the concepts commonly employed in the physical sciences, and even most of those used in the speculative sciences. In medicine, for example, there was nothing beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent layman. But of late that has ceased to be true, to the great damage of the popular respect for knowledge. Only too often, when a physician of today tries to explain to his patient what is the matter with him, he finds it impossible to get the explanation into terms within the patient’s understanding. The latter, if he is intelligent enough, will face the fact of his lack of training without rancor, and content himself with whatever parts of the exposition he can grasp. But that sort of intelligence, unluckily, is rather rare in the world; it is confined, indeed, to men of the sort who are said to have the scientific mind, i.e., a very small minority of men. The average man, finding himself getting beyond his depth, instantly concludes that what lies beyond is simply nonsense.”
Benjamin Franklin Franklin famously said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Or did he?
Or did he mean what we think he said?
Benjamin Wittes, writing at Lawfare says:
“Very few people who quote these words, however, have any idea where they come from or what Franklin was really saying when he wrote them. That's not altogether surprising, since they are far more often quoted than explained, and the context in which they arose was a political battle of limited resonance to modern readers. Many of Franklin's biographers don't quote them at all, and no text I have found attempts seriously to explain them in context. The result is to get to the bottom of what they meant to Franklin, one has to dig into sources from the 1750s, with the secondary biographical literature giving only a framework guide to the dispute.”
More at Lawfare
What is Virtue? The concept as described by Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) in Rhetoric:
“The forms of Virtue are justice, courage, temperance, magnificence, magnanimity, liberality, gentleness, prudence, wisdom.”
— Rhetoric 1366b1
Philo of Alexandria (c. 50 BC – c. 50 AD), a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, says:
“In these words Moses intends to sketch out the particular virtues. And they also are four in number, prudence, temperance, courage, and justice.”
— Philo's Works, Allegorical Interpretation XIX
The Roman philosophy as described by Cicero (106-43 BC):
“Virtue may be defined as a habit of mind (animi) in harmony with reason and the order of nature. It has four parts: wisdom (prudentiam), justice, courage, temperance.”
— De Inventione, II, LIII
Eudaimonia Also spelled eudaemonia or eudemonia. Laura defines it roughly as “human flourishing.”
According to Aristotle, it was the term for the highest human good.
“Verbally there is a very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is [eudaimonia], and identify living well and faring well with being happy; but with regard to what [eudaimonia] is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise. For the former think it is some plain and obvious thing like pleasure, wealth or honour...”
— Nicomachean Ethics
Tom Woods 100 One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but we have somewhere around 80 more to go.
Laura is a fellow member of the Tom Woods School of Life.
WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com — A page with all my #TomWoods100 conversations.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
April 28, 2023
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Nick Peets My friend Nick Peets is an independent artist in Portland, Oregon. I’ve known him for nearly 4 decades and he’s helped our podcast out more than he’ll probably ever know.
Support “The Sultan of Rose City Swing” where fine music is sold … or streamed.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Ap2ZOPTAi1BHVWhoMfx2p?si=zjDZZhPaRLihY7IXXuOzQw
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
April 26, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/sportscant-live-with-em-pass-the?sd=pf
With apologies to Stormin’ Norman Peterson and to the title of the podcast of which I was a guest and replay here, there are some love-[hate is too strong of a word, but anyway…] things in our lives. Currently, that’s sports with me.
I get into all of it with my friend and fellow podcaster, James Newcomb. We sat down in March. What followed was a good podcast, telling about my life in sports.
Some of the stuff you’ve probably not heard, even if you have been with our show for a while.
This is What We CRAVE James D. Newcomb
https://jamesdnewcomb.com/
My appearance on James’s podcast
Woke Sports? Um, No Thanks. Pass the Beer Nuts with Guest Brian O’Leary.
James on The O’Leary Review Podcast
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/james-newcomb-ba-vojdaan-podcast#details
Nick Peets on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Ap2ZOPTAi1BHVWhoMfx2p?si=zjDZZhPaRLihY7IXXuOzQw
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
April 24, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/jets-get-a-new-qb-cable-news-loses?sd=pf
Natural Order Podcast We make mention of our long-anticipated new podcast, the Natural Order Podcast. We’ve been hard at work putting on the finishing touches.
We’re up to episode 3 over there.
Natural Order Podcast
Packers trade Rodgers to NYJ Rodgers to Jets
Tucker Carlson no longer with Fox News Tweet mentioned:
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1650535142773997568?s=20
Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News in surprise announcement
- The Guardian calls him a “far-right cable news host.” Laughable. Carlson is a populist, but nowhere near the “far-right.” I wonder what The Guardian would say about The Brian D. O’Leary Show.
Don Lemon fired by CNN Minutes after the Carlson news broke.
Lemon needs aid
Television show mentioned: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
O’Leary and Company “our purpose is to guide the entrepreneur on his or her journey…”
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We’ve officially launched the new show as of this episode here.
But The Brian D. O'Leary Show is not going anywhere...
This episode centers on libertarian political philosophy. It’s a good one, even if you’re not interested.
Show notes for this podcast can be found at:
Natural Order Podcast - Ep 1
Go to NaturalOrderPodcast.com for more on the new show.
As always, briandoleary.com for more of what I'm up to...
The O’Leary Review Podcast
Guest: Trista Roberts
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/a-bitcoiner-mom-of-4-and-narrator?sd=pf
We welcomed Trista Roberts on to the program. Trista has a unique story.
She has a podcast called Classic Children’s Books, but she is also a serious bitcoin evangelist, a fierce advocate of Fountain.FM as a podcasting platform, all the while…a homeschooling mother of 4.
Trista uses her podcast to “stack sats” over on Fountain.FM and other Value for Value platforms. She was also the person who really pushed me to join Fountain after “thinking about it” for several months.
Trista Roberts – Quick bio In her own words…
I have been a stay at home mom of 4 children for the past 18 years and am currently homeschooling the youngest 3.
I am a homeschool graduate but attended public school for grade school and middle school. I was very active in drama with a homeschool group in high school and went on to college to get a degree in theatre. However, I had my first child shortly before graduating and chose to focus on being a mom.
My oldest who will be 21 in a few days is severly dyslexic. Because of this, I had the privilege of reading to her well past when most kids will continue to sit and let mom read. She always loved the different voices I would do.
A couple years ago I had the idea of starting a podcast to bring old stories back to life. I finally followed through and started releasing episodes of the Classic Children's Books Podcast where I am currently reading Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book.
Trista’s Links Classic Children’s Books on Spotify
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/classicchildrensbooks
Classic Children’s Books on Fountain.FM
https://fountain.fm/show/zcSnnx0cp0YDB6bAVnfR
Podcasts mentioned Bitcoin Audible with Guy Swann
The Survival Podcast with Jack Spirko
Book Mentioned The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Tom Woods School of Life https://tomschooloflife.com/
Tom Woods 100 One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but we have less than 90 to go now!
WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com — A page with all my #TomWoods100 conversations.
Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
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The O’Leary Review Podcast
Guest: Raphael Juarez
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/developing-a-mindset-sales-coaching?sd=pf
I had the pleasure of welcoming sales development specialist Rafe Juarez on the show. Rafe specializes in cold-calling on behalf of clients in the “B2B” realm.
Rafe Juarez – Quick bio Raphael Juarez has spent years at every level of the sales cycle.
With OnDemand Pipeline, he has been the Chief Conversation Starter for a variety of tech companies such as LivePerson, BDR.ai, Bridgepointe Technologies, PIXO VR, MaxOne, and Herff Jones.
Specializing in tech startups, Raphael has engaged with a variety of stakeholders from executives in Fortune 500 companies to athletic directors and trainers at major universities to Major League Sports.
In addition to his expertise in prospecting, Raphael is an experienced sales coach and trainer specializing in working with BDRs on cold-call script creation and one-on-one cold call role-playing.
In the past, he has held positions as Head of Sales, Sales Development Director, and Channel Manager.
Raphael is a graduate of Michigan State University and has his Sandler Sales Training certification.
Rafe’s Links On Demand Pipeline
https://ondemandpipe.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaeljuarez/
Tom Woods School of Life https://tomschooloflife.com/
Tom Woods 100 One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but we have less than 90 to go now!
WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com — A page with all my #TomWoods100 conversations.
School mentioned Michigan State University
Sales Training Mentioned Sandler
Dunning-Kruger Effect A cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task. (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Books Mentioned Robert Kiyosaki - Robert Kiyosaki books
Elmer Wheeler - How to sell yourself to others
Quarterbacks Mentioned Joe Burrow 'He's as tough as it comes': Why the Bengals' Joe Burrow plays QB like a linebacker
Tom Brady Brady’s career from Pro Football Reference
Of course, I referenced two former Big Ten quarterbacks that DID NOT attend Rafe's alma mater, Michigan State, and, in fact, went to fierce rivals of the Spartans.
Burrow attended Ohio State (but in two seasons at LSU, he led the Tigers to the National Championship in Heisman Trophy-winning 2019 campaign).
Brady went to U of Michigan. He won 7 Super Bowls and is widely considered the greatest pro quarterback in history.
Perhaps, instead, I should have mentioned the great Earl Morrall, Brian Hoyer, Tony Banks, or Kirk Cousins. For this I apologize to Spartan Nation.
Defending the Faith and Public Speaking https://sophiainstituteforteachers.org/shop/product/speak-the-faith-student-workbook
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
April 12, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-educational-system-a-rona-retrospective?sd=pf
The (5th) installment of my appearance with TC of the Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast. We’ll drop the rest of the interview in pieces over the next few weeks. We link to the entire YouTube below.
Natural Order Podcast We’ve been hard at work putting on the finishing touches on our new podcast. We plan to launch with 8 episodes sometime next week and have 1 to 2 episodes per week going forward.
Please take a look at our new website and make sure to sign up for our mailing list when you’re over there.
https://naturalorderpodcast.com/
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Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast My appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQ0L05lWG0
TC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/roberegiment (@roberegiment)
O’Leary Digital http://olearydigital.com/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
April 11, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/foreign-policy-my-authoritative-take?sd=pf
A (4th) portion of my appearance with TC of the Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast. We’ll drop the rest of the interview in pieces over the next few weeks. We link to the entire YouTube below.
Natural Order Podcast We’ve been hard at work putting on the finishing touches on our new podcast. We plan to launch with 8 episodes sometime next week and have 1 to 2 episodes per week going forward.
Please take a look at our new website and make sure to sign up for our mailing list when you’re over there.
https://naturalorderpodcast.com/
Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast My appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQ0L05lWG0
TC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/roberegiment (@roberegiment)
O’Leary Digital http://olearydigital.com/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
April 10, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/retribution-by-sport-is-my-kind-of?sd=pf
Jon Rahm wins the Masters https://www.masters.com/index.html
Courage and conformity https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/more-mandolorian-but-first-what-is#details
Natural Order Podcast We make mention of our long-anticipated new podcast, the Natural Order Podcast. We’ve been hard at work putting on the finishing touches. We plan to launch with 8 episodes sometime soon and have 1 to 2 episodes per week going forward.
Please take a look at our new website and make sure to sign up for our mailing list when you’re over there.
https://naturalorderpodcast.com/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
April 6, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/political-philosophy-foreign-policy?sd=pf
A (3rd) portion of my appearance with TC of the Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast. We’ll drop the rest of the interview in pieces over the next few weeks. We link to the entire YouTube below.
Natural Order Podcast We make mention of our long-anticipated new podcast, the Natural Order Podcast. We’ve been hard at work putting on the finishing touches. We plan to launch with 8 episodes sometime next week and have 1 to 2 episodes per week going forward.
Please take a look at our new website and make sure to sign up for our mailing list when you’re over there.
https://naturalorderpodcast.com/
Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast My appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQ0L05lWG0
TC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/roberegiment (@roberegiment)
Papa C Pies We briefly mentioned Papa C Pies. Proprietor Chad Collier is a friend of the show and, not coincidentally, makes the best pies in the country. Not an exaggeration.
https://www.papacpies.com/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 24, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/talking-presidents-podcasting-baseball?sd=pf
A (2nd) portion of my appearance with TC of the Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast. We’ll drop the rest of the interview in pieces over the next few weeks. We link to the entire YouTube below.
Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast My appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQ0L05lWG0
TC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/roberegiment (@roberegiment)
Substack The O’Leary Review
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 31, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/a-podcast-with-a-bitcoiner-prince?sd=pf
Podcast Mentioned: The Reformed Financial Advisor Podcast With Andy Flattery
Monarchy, Patrimony, & Bitcoin | Prince Filip of Serbia Karađorđević
Episode 5 – The O’Leary Review Podcast https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/podcast-andy-flattery-cfp-the-reformed#details
Yugoslavia Dictator mentioned Tito
Basketball players mentioned Dražen Petrović
Vlade Divac
Movie mentioned Once Brothers
Other podcasts mentioned The Official Podcast of the Libertarian Party of Nevada - “Battle Born Podcast”
The Penn State Case w/ John Ziegler – The O’Leary Review Podcast Ep 9
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Today’s show brought to you by: Leather Head Sports https://briandoleary.com/leatherhead/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 30, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/opening-day-is-here-and-im-happy?sd=pf
Happy Opening Day. A rite of spring.
I wasn’t quite ready to embrace it, but I begrudgingly love it as I do every year.
We talked about baseball and the failures of these sports leagues and some of my favorite franchises: the Boston Red Sox and Portland Trail Blazers. [Insert sad-face emoji.]
Book Mentioned: Dan Kennedy No B.S. Time Management
https://briandoleary.com/dankennedy/
Today’s show brought to you by: Leather Head Sports https://briandoleary.com/leatherhead/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 28, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/bill-clinton-may-indeed-be-a-jerk?sd=pf
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The Beatles Yesterday’s podcast: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/how-a-failed-band-remains-enormously?sd=pf
Dan Kennedy No B.S. Time Management
https://briandoleary.com/dankennedy/
Jim Camp Start with NO…
https://briandoleary.com/jimcamp/
Otter.ai If you’re interested in a great voice recording app that also does transcriptions…I’m your huckleberry!
I use Otter most every day, often to record “rough drafts” of emails and podcasts. It’s been invaluable since I started using it.
https://otter.ai/referrals/4DJLR6TF
Bill Clinton Ironically, a photograph of Bill Clinton is the only known photo of an American president that I own. My late father had a photo op with Slick Willie many years ago.
My dad was a big fan of Bill for some reason, and I have a picture of the two around here somewhere. I recently did some re-org in the office so I can’t find it right now. Otherwise, I would have scanned it and put it in the show notes.
My dad was a big Obama guy as well. Can’t figure it out. I never got to ask him about Trump, but I remember him liking The Donald back in the 1980s and early 90s if, for nothing else, the entertainment value he got out of his routine.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 27, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/how-a-failed-band-remains-enormously?sd=pf
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Ken McCarthy The “father of email marketing”
Video mentioned:
https://youtu.be/I4lmQc-KK3E
Ben Settle Email Supremacist, etc.
BenSettle.com
Tom Woods TomWoods.com
The Beatles Some prior material about The Beatles from The O’Leary Review
Why the Beatles owe their success to the Comanche Indians
Plucked from certain obscurity to the bosom of lifelong fame
Why I consider Elvis Presley and Olivia Newton-John the most influential people in the history of Portland, Oregon
Paul McCartney mentioned, here:
The most impressive music festival you’ve never heard of
For more on The Beatles, thebeatles.com
My brother’s birthday If you’ve read this far into the show notes and know my brother, drop him a message today. It’s his birthday. I’m sure he’d be happy to hear from all the Good Folks out there.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 24, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/insight-on-picking-a-college-from?sd=pf
A portion of my appearance with TC of the Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast. We’ll drop the rest of the interview in pieces over the next few weeks. We link to the entire YouTube below.
Fountain.FM Listen and support us at the same time over at Fountain.FM
Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast My appearance: https://www.youtube.com/live/bxQ0L05lWG0?feature=share
TC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/roberegiment (@roberegiment)
Podcasts mentioned John Ziegler – With the Benefit of Hindsight
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/john-ziegler-with-the-benefit-of#details
The Penn State Case with John Ziegler
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-penn-state-case-with-john-ziegler#details
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The Fanny Pack Revolution Originally mentioned in our Substack from July 2022.
https://briandoleary.com/fanny/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 23, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/good-will-still-pays-offa-quarter?sd=pf
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Affleck & Damon Podcast episode mentioned:
https://fountain.fm/episode/14296777161
As I stated in the show, pick up the interview around 30 minutes in, if you are into that whole brevity thing.
“Email” mentioned: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/do-you-like-apples
Movies mentioned Good Will Hunting
Air
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Ben Settle Email Supremacist, Book Newsletter Publisher, Pulp Novelist, Software Investor, Alt-Copywriter
BenSettle.com
Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast My appearance: https://www.youtube.com/live/bxQ0L05lWG0?feature=share
Natural Order Podcast Stay tuned here for more details in the upcoming days and weeks. It is the latest podcast in my stable, co-hosted with my friend Adam Haman.
The Fanny Pack Revolution Originally mentioned in our Substack from July 2022.
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/out-from-under-mcconaugheys-shadow
https://briandoleary.com/fanny/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 20, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/more-mandolorian-but-first-what-is?sd=pf
If you’ve missed us on Substack, we’ve still been putting out episodes of the show. And for those who read and/or listen to us via Substack, we are going to be changing it up a little bit.
We still plan to post occasional episodes and long-commentary here on Substack, but our daily emails will come directly from me starting in the near future…probably starting this week.
Today’s show brought to you by Liberty Classroom
Conformity The Opposite of Courage Is Not Cowardice; It Is Conformity
The Mandolorian ‘The Mandalorian’ Season Three Gets Off to a Disappointing Start by Alan Sepinwall
Good review by my favorite TV Critic, Alan Sepinwall. Good in that I love to read “What’s Alan Watching,” but perhaps too “critical” of the show itself.
Sepinwall’s piece was a breakdown of the season premiere episode, not the one I mentioned here today, which was the third installment.
Dave Filoni Confirms ‘The Mandalorian’ Timeframe “Goes All The Way Up To Episode VII”
Raymond Carver Raymond Carver at Wikipedia
Carver at Poetry Foundation
Raymond Carver, The Art of Fiction No. 76 (The Paris Review)
The Iceberg theory, coined by Ernest Hemingway
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 17, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-life-and-writings-of-st-patrick?sd=pf
Today’s show brought to you by The Fanny Pack Revolution.
St. Patrick of Ireland The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick; including The Life by Jocelin, hitherto unpublished in America, and his Extant Writings by Rev. James O’Leary, DD.
Roman Martyrology – March 17th
St. Joseph of Arimathea Feast day is also March 17th
Short bio on Joseph of Arimathea
St. Patrick’s Day in Sports Green day: When did these unis first appear?
Turns out it was the Phillies—in 1899—who were the first to don the green on St. Patrick’s Day.
https://twitter.com/ToddRadom/status/1107018832634355712?s=20
Chicago White Sox — “halfway to St. Patrick’s Day uniforms”
Green uniforms, greener lineup (2010)
St. Patrick’s Day uniforms in sports (sportslogos.net)
MLB Releases 2022 St. Patrick’s Day Cap Collection for All 30 Teams
Miami Marlins – City Connect uniforms
Boston Red Sox – City Connect uniforms
Boston College Eagles – “Boston Strong” uniforms
https://twitter.com/BCBirdBall/status/1635431295156391937?s=20
Podcast mentioned: The Plight of Ukraine (Guest: Fr. Jason Charron)
World Baseball Classic Official coverage (mlb.com)
Colombia’s jersey
https://twitter.com/Shawn_Spradling/status/1626074090585874432?s=20
March Madness NCAA – March Madness coverage
No. 15 Princeton shocks No. 2 Arizona in NCAA tournament
9 Auburn Tigers 83 — 8 Iowa Hawkeyes 75
Fasting https://twitter.com/EricRSammons/status/1636752763009789953?s=20
UPDATE: Where are Catholics allowed to eat corned beef on St. Patrick’s Day this Lent?
This is a good resource for those who are interested (podcast and show notes from Crisis Magazine):
Making Catholic Resolutions That Matter…and That Stick (Guest: Jay W. Richards)
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The Fanny Pack Revolution Originally mentioned in our Substack from July 2022.
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/out-from-under-mcconaugheys-shadow
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If you’ve missed us on Substack, we’ve still been putting out episodes of the show. And for those who read and/or listen to us via Substack, we are going to be changing it up a little bit.
We still plan to post occasional episodes and long-commentary here on Substack, but our daily emails will come directly from me starting in the near future…probably starting Monday.
We will still be doing the daily show and I will likely post them up on Substack, but not email them going forward.
There are many reasons for this. But, like I said, we are not abandoning Substack. We will use the platform in a more strategic manner.
The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 16, 2023
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-road-goes-on-forever-and-it-includes?sd=pf
Today’s show brought to you by The Fanny Pack Revolution.
March Madness NCAA – March Madness coverage
Robert Earl Keen The road goes on forever, but the party never ends
World Baseball Classic Official coverage (mlb.com)
The Mandolorian ‘The Mandalorian’ Season Three Gets Off to a Disappointing Start by Alan Sepinwall
Good review by my favorite TV Critic, Alan Sepinwall. Good in that I love to read “What’s Alan Watching,” but perhaps too “critical” of the show itself.
Sepinwall’s piece was a breakdown of the season premiere episode, not the one I mentioned here today, which was the third installment.
I think The Mandolorian—and the Disney properties in general—have major flaws. No doubt.
However, The Mandolorian—both the character and the show—are just cool. I’ve loved all of the Star Wars live action TV shows way more than the atrocities called the “prequel” movies and certainly the sequel trilogy. I did like the first installment of the sequels for a little bit—you can’t really go wrong with Han and Chewie.
That being said, the Star Wars TV stuff—Andor, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and The Mandalorian—are all great entertainment as far as I’m concerned. In the way that Rogue One and Solo were good entertainment. I’d rank all of these shows and movies ahead of the official prequel and sequel movies.
If you don’t already have Disney+, I wouldn’t say there’s any rush to go out and get it, but if you do, Mando is worth an hour out of every week…or a nice binge on the weekend to catch up.
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The Fanny Pack Revolution Originally mentioned in our Substack from July 2022.
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March 10, 2023
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Episode Mentioned (The O’Leary Review Podcast) Taking the “orange pill” w/ bitcoin Leader Wesley Schlemmer (Ep 18)
World Baseball Classic Before podcasting was even a glint in my eye, I had something to say about the World Baseball Classic back in 2009.
The WBC: Where Have You Gone, Yang Yang? A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You
Link to WBC website (quite unimpressive as has been the tournament itself for the great portion of its existence): https://linktr.ee/wbcbaseball
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Out from under McConaughey's shadow
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The O’Leary Review Podcast
Episode 18
Guest: Wesley Schlemmer
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/taking-the-orange-pill-w-bitcoin?sd=pf
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Wesley Schlemmer – Quick Bio Wesley Schlemmer is a 26-year-old Chemical and Biological Engineer turned Bitcoin leader and educator.
Wesley is a born and raised “Florida man” working to make America Florida.
website: https://bitcoinbay.live/
Tom Woods School of Life https://tomschooloflife.com/
Tom Woods 100 One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but we have less than 90 to go now!
WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com — A page with all the #TomWoods100 conversations.
Universities mentioned Tufts
Boston College – the world’s foremost university
“Crypto” The fall of FTX The Collapse of FTX: What Went Wrong with the Crypto Exchange? (Investopedia)
Price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies CoinGecko – Cryptocurrency prices, charts, and crypto market cap
Bitcoin – Swallowing the “Orange Pill” A discussion that touches on the various “pills” one can take in today’s crazy world:
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-matrix-podcast-ep#details
As far as I understand it all, being “orange-pilled” means that bitcoin informs nearly everything in one’s life.
Resource page: “Bitcoin - Taking the Orange Pill”
Buying your “coin” Bisq — buy and sell bitcoin privately and securely. No registration required. (bisq.network)
Storing your coin – “wallets” “Wallets don’t store your bitcoin, they store your keys!”
Sparrow Wallet — financial self sovereignty. “Despite being a wallet suitable for advanced users, Sparrow is not difficult to use.”
Muun — self-custodial wallet for bitcoin and lightning (muun.com)
“Everyone should download an easy-to-use bitcoin wallet like Muun.”
Advice: Don’t share your bitcoin keys anywhere. Keep them safe in a literal safe.
“You are your own bank in bitcoin”
- Wesley Schlemmer
Seed Signer – Next level bitcoin security
Lightning Network Lightning Network — scalable, instant bitcoin/blockchain transactions
Mempool Mempool.space — “mempool and blockchain explorer for the Bitcoin community, focusing on the transaction fee market and multi-layer ecosystem, completely self-hosted without any trusted third-parties.”
Podcasts mentioned The Peter Schiff Show
The Tom Woods Show
The Bitcoin Standard Podcast (Saifedean Ammous)
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Fountain is powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network, “the payment system which allows us to transact with other people or businesses around the world using Bitcoin - the world’s first and leading cryptocurrency.”
Saifedean Ammous Saifedean.com
Links to The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous at briandoleary.com/bitcoin
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Probably the best “starter book” out there if you want to get the background on bitcoin, but it is also advanced reading for those who are unfamiliar with any of the economics behind bitcoin and fiat currencies.
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The Bitcoin Standard comes highly recommended by The O’Leary Review.
Satoshi Nakamoto Does it really matter who he is or what he is?
Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
Crypto Cloaks CryptoCloaks LLC was born from the love of 3D printing and the idea of Bitcoin.
Monero Monero is a private, decentralized cryptocurrency that keeps your finances confidential and secure.
Monero is not bitcoin. “It’s a whole separate blockchain.”
Wesley’s Links Bitcoin Bay
Bitcoin Bay Guides and Resources
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March 8, 2023
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Kellen Winslow Hall of Fame San Diego Chargers Tight End
Kellen Winslow II Disgraced son of Hall of Famer
Ex-NFL player Kellen Winslow II speaks from prison as he attempts to get sentence reduced (USA Today)
Jerry Sandusky https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-penn-state-case-with-john-ziegler#details
CTE Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 7, 2023
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 6, 2023
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The O’Leary Review Podcast
March 3, 2022
Guest: Dave Peterson
Show notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/helping-kids-graduate-from-college?sd=pf
Dave Peterson – Quick Bio Dave The Scholarship Coach is the father of a college Sophomore that is attending college completely free, thanks mostly to private outside scholarships.
Using the same methodology that he developed for his son, Dave now coaches other students and families to achieve their own debt-free college dreams.
Dave is also the author of "Debt-Free College: Proven Strategies for Winning Scholarships and Other Tools to Help You Avoid Student Loan Debt" and the founder of NoDebtCollege.com.
Dave’s Mission & Purpose “To help kids graduate from college debt free… and help parents not drain their life savings.”
Three Types of Scholarships · Need-based
· Merit-based (academic, athletic, artistic)
· Private outside scholarships (what Dave specializes in)
Somewhat obscure television show mentioned Doogie Howser, M.D.
Tom Woods School of Life https://tomschooloflife.com/
“An awesome example of liberty in action,” said Dave.
Tom Woods 100 One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but we have less than 90 to go now!
WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com — A page with all the #TomWoods100 conversations.
Florida State University professors mentioned · James D. Gwartney
· Randy Holcombe
· Bruce Benson
Mises Institute https://mises.org/
M. Stanton Evans Blacklisted by History
https://www.c-span.org/video/?201983-1/blacklisted-history
Bobby Bowden Hall of Fame football coach for Florida State
Remembering Bobby Bowden
https://youtu.be/6z0pwMJhYxM
Five Pillars Lead to a “personal narrative.”
· Academics
· Extracurriculars
· Leadership
· Volunteerism
· Paid employment experience
Dave’s Links -Website: No Debt College
-Substack ("Your Daily Scholarship")
-Podcast ("Your Daily Scholarship")
-Scholarships 101 Course
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
March 2, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/presidential-wisdom-does-trump-have?sd=pf
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Richard Nixon Episode mentioned:
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/a-light-bulb-went-off-in-my-head?sd=pf
All the President’s Men https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/
Oregon Politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Oregon
James K. Polk James K. Polk was @#?!ing Awesome
“James K. Polk” - They Might Be Giants
A Country of Vast Designs by Robert Merry
Mexican-American War (Wikipedia)
Oregon Boundary Dispute 54° 40’ or fight!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_boundary_dispute
Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast I was a guest last Saturday, and we had a lot to chat about.
https://youtu.be/bxQ0L05lWG0
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 28, 2023
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Richard Nixon Episode mentioned:
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/a-light-bulb-went-off-in-my-head?sd=pf
The Boss – No Surrender https://youtu.be/tLeZ7EolBDE
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/armageddon-is-certainly-nigh
Ezra Pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
Willie Nelson https://willienelson.com/
While putting together the show notes, I had no idea that Willie’s sister Bobbie died almost a year ago. She was a vital part of Willie’s band for over half a century, playing keyboards. She was awesome! RIP Bobbie.
Van Morrison https://www.vanmorrison.com/
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/springsteens-definitely-ripped-me
Eric Clapton https://www.ericclapton.com/
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-week-in-review
Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast I was a guest this past weekend, and we had a lot to chat about.
https://youtu.be/bxQ0L05lWG0
Baseball https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-2152023#details
Steve Stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Stone_(baseball)
1903 World Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_World_Series
1944 World Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_World_Series
Leatherhead Sports With “old world craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail, Leather Head Sports has carved out a niche in distinctive, finely crafted American leather goods.”
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 27, 2023
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Minnesota Black Robe Regiment Podcast I was a guest this weekend, and we had a lot to chat about.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bxQ0L05lWG0
Richard Nixon Episode mentioned:
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-most-liberty-minded-us-president?sd=pf
John Muir High School Notable Alumni include:
· Sirhan Sirhan
· Stacey Augmon
· Ricky Ervins
· Darrell Evans
· Rodney King
· David Lee Roth
· Jacque Vaughan
· Mack Robinson
· Jackie Robinson
Politics in Oregon Total mess.
Wikipedia says, “[f]or most of its existence, Oregon was the most consistently Republican west coast state. Between 1860 and 1984, the state voted Democratic just six times, in 1868, 1912, 1936, 1940, and 1964.”
Vic Atiyeh, 32nd Governor of Oregon. Good man.
Rene Gonzalez, Portland City Commissioner
Patrick J. Buchanan Website: https://buchanan.org/blog/
Ben Settle Ben Settle – Email Players
Nick Peets – “The Sultan of Rose City Swing” https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Ap2ZOPTAi1BHVWhoMfx2p
Portland Trail Blazers Lillard scores 71!
I guess Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell also scored 71 this year, so whatever I said on the show about the exclusive club of 71+ point scorers in NBA history was probably incorrect, but I am not going to do much more research on it because this has been the highlight of the NBA for me over the last 5 years or so. Sad.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 22, 2023
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Richard Nixon Book mentioned:
The Real War by Richard Nixon
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Real_War.html?id=gnPDn3dQ5G8C
Episode mentioned:
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-most-liberty-minded-us-president?sd=pf
Mississippi Politics & Dickie Scruggs We wrote about this on The O’Leary Review back in August:
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/cancel-culture-before-it-had-a-name
Book mentioned:
The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America’s Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
Donald J. Trump – my somewhat nuanced position A lot of it stems from Patrick J. Buchanan
“The Ideas Made It, But I Didn’t”
There’s much more to talk about on the Trump front in the future. Maybe 2024 … stay tuned.
Ronald Wilson Reagan https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/why-baseball-was-so-important-in
The Ukraine Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
Although Azov uses Nazi-era symbolism and recruits neo-Nazis into its ranks, a recent article in Foreign Affairs downplayed any risks the group might pose, pointing out that, like other volunteer militias, Azov has been “reined in” through its integration into Ukraine’s armed forces. While it’s true that private militias no longer rule the battlefront, it’s the home front that Kiev needs to worry about now.
Ughhh… National Divorce? https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/is-a-national-divorce-on-the-table#details
Tweet mentioned https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1627158265540005888?s=20
Seinfeld reference mentioned Kramer’s Two-Lane Comfort Cruise
https://youtu.be/WPOAQHpkz7I
Liberty Classroom Since we discussed the one president in recent memory who championed liberty, get a much heavier and much more legitimate dose of it over at Liberty Classroom, the Internet’s #1 “dashboard university” for history, economics, politics, and more.
https://briandoleary.com/liberty/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 22, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/stop-hooting-with-the-owls-end-daylight?sd=pf
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Ash Wednesday & The Lenten Season Make Lent the Great Fast Again – Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine (video)
https://odysee.com/@CrisisMag:9/make-lent-the-great-fast-again:2
Sammons mentioned an article his wife, Suzan wrote about fasting,
You Need to Fast More by Suzan Sammons
Remember:
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Prayer
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Fasting
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Almsgiving
Standard Time Adjust or shift your own schedule to accommodate the sunlight. Don’t make the rest of us fuss around with the clocks.
Forrest Gump, for instance, said, "When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went."
The lady on the park bench famously asked the Alabamian, "And so, you just ran?"
"Yeah," replied Forrest.
Gump just cottoned to his internal rhythms rather than the artificial time set forth by a local or regional government. A lot of wisdom in that fella.
https://youtu.be/-iIqLOgnGsc
9 to 5 movie w/ Dolly Parton.
Here’s the namesake song:
https://youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4
Save Standard Time
Twitter accounts to keep an eye on:
Keep Standard Time
https://twitter.com/KeepStdTime
Save Standard Time
https://twitter.com/SaveStandard
Mexico falls back but won’t spring forward as summer time abolished
Chuck Noll, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach, Pittsburgh Steelers
Couldn’t find the quote, but it went something like this: “You can’t be out hootin’ with the owls if you want to soar with the eagles.”
Liberty Classroom Since we discussed the one president in recent memory who championed liberty, get a much heavier and much more legitimate dose of it over at Liberty Classroom, the Internet’s #1 “dashboard university” for history, economics, politics, and more.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 21, 2023
Show Notes available: https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-most-liberty-minded-us-president?sd=pf
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Presidents Day … Continued Substack mentioned: Pretium Insights by JD Breen
Cleaving Mt Rushmore
https://jdbreen.substack.com/p/cleaving-mt-rushmore-0ac
Building the Regulatory State
https://open.substack.com/pub/jdbreen/p/building-the-regulatory-state-484
Pouring the Fuel
https://jdbreen.substack.com/p/pouring-the-fuel-4a0
The Last of the Worst
https://jdbreen.substack.com/p/the-last-of-the-worst-de6
Book mentioned:
The Real War by Richard Nixon
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Real_War.html?id=gnPDn3dQ5G8C
Tweet mentioned:
https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1627878563981709313?s=20
Tweets referenced:
If this is not a lie, it is an extreme exaggeration.
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1628075842894012416?s=20
Tucker Carlson’s analysis on Biden’s adventures
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1627867107739287553?s=20
Liberty Classroom Since we discussed the one president in recent memory who championed liberty, get a much heavier and much more legitimate dose of it over at Liberty Classroom, the Internet’s #1 “dashboard university” for history, economics, politics, and more.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 20, 2023
Show notes available: https://open.substack.com/pub/briandoleary/p/is-a-national-divorce-on-the-table?r=3c44f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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National Divorce? https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1627665203398688768?s=20
https://twitter.com/ThomasEWoods/status/1627812540645539841?s=20
The Case for American Secession by Michael Malice (6/29/19)
Presidents Day I forgot to mention who I believe was the best president of the United States, John Tyler.
https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1627723620217937920?s=20
I also like his successor, James K. Polk.
James K. Polk was @#?!ing Awesome
“James K. Polk” - They Might Be Giants
https://youtu.be/H9SvJMZs5Rs
President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. a “statesman?” Hardly.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1627764836179275776?s=20
Baseball is just around the corner
https://twitter.com/EPA_Images/status/1278748409260892161?s=20
“The Silent Majority,” a term coined by the best president that never was …
https://youtu.be/SC5BmBYs63E
Richard M. Nixon used it in “the best speech he’d ever given.”
Oregon’s idiot politics Good grief!
House Bill 3206 - https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Testimony/HRULES/HB/3206?area=Measures
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 17, 2023
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The Greater Idaho Movement Idaho House passes Greater Idaho bill, now moves to Senate
The Greater Idaho movement on Twitter @GreaterIdaho
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 15, 2023
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East Palestine, Ohio https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/east-palestine-ohio-only-15-miles-from-where-i-was-born-and-raised/
The Death of Journalism Podcast Apple Podcasts feed: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-death-of-journalism/id1650632627
This is the most important podcast out there right now. Ziegler’s motivation is the truth—something we get very little of from today’s media establishment.
The Nord Stream Pipeline How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 15, 2023
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Major League Baseball Rule changes New Rules for 2023
I did not mention the permanent installation of the “Ghost Runner” or “Manfred’s Man” in extra innings. In no way am I in favor of this rule. Utterly pathetic.
World Baseball Classic World’s stars align as Classic rosters announced
RokBlok RokBlok … a different spin on vinyl.
As seen on ABC’s Shark Tank!
RokBlok is the world’s smallest, wireless record player.
Simply place RokBlok on top of any record to instantly listen to your favorite vinyl, anywhere.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 14, 2023
Happy St. Valentine’s Day!
Show notes at https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-2142023?sd=pf
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Saint Valentine February 14
This Day, the Fourteenth Day of February
At Rome, on the Flaminian road, in the time of the emperor Claudius, the birthday of blessed Valentine, priest and martyr, who after having cured and instructed many persons, was beaten with clubs and beheaded.
Also, at Rome, the holy martyrs Vitalis, Felicula, and Zeno.
At Teramo, St. Valentine, bishop and martyr, who was scourged, committed to prison, and as he remained unshaken in his faith, was taken out of his dungeon in the dead of night and beheaded by order of Placidus, prefect of the city.
In the same place, the holy martyrs Proculus, Ephebus and Apollonius, who, whilst watching by the body of St. Valentine, were arrested and put to the sword by the command of the ex-consul Leontius. …
History of St. Valentine from the Catholic Education Resource Center
https://catholiceducation.org/resources/history-of-st-valentine
Painting gracing the cover art today is “St Valentine receiving a rosary from the hands of the Virgin” by David Teniers III.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Teniers_III
“I Never Liked St. Valentine” by Reckless Kelly https://youtu.be/nvWoSGGd90w
Reckless Kelly
Micky and the Motorcars
RokBlok RokBlok … a different spin on vinyl.
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RokBlok is the world’s smallest, wireless record player.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 13, 2023
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Super Bowl LVII Kansas City Chiefs 38 – Philadelphia Eagles 35
Dick Vermeil’s original two-point chart
https://theredzone.org/Features/TwoPointConversionChart
Super Bowl XLIX
Patriots 28 – Seahawks 24
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
February 10, 2023
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Vin Scully Quotes
He was family but I never met him
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/he-was-family-but-i-never-met-him
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Rick Beato "Did Dire Straits Create the Coolist Riff Ever? Yep"
https://www.youtube.com/live/fIzSGFK364A?feature=share
Hank Marvin https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Hank_Marvin
Elvis + ONJ Why I consider Elvis Presley and Olivia Newton-John the most influential people in the history of Portland, Oregon
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/why-i-consider-elvis-presley-and
ONJ + Vin Scully + Sausage Slammers Pouring one out for a legend
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/pouring-one-out-for-a-legend
Knebworth 1990 The most impressive music festival you've never heard of
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-most-impressive-music-festival
Brion McClanahan “Three Cheers for Pat Buchanan”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb7DrMByAeI
Pat Buchanan History matters...and it's available for free on the Internet
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/history-mattersand-its-available
Pat Buchanan's prescience from 1975—a short book review
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-11212022
Well-deserved retirements for two of my heroes (in entirely different realms)
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-222023
Cancel culture before it had a name
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/cancel-culture-before-it-had-a-name
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February 9, 2023
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Jerry Lawler
https://twitter.com/JerryLawler/status/1623785032623030272?s=20&t=Jm3iO7SDZccnidLgOO_vmw
I guess Lawler joined WWE in 1992. Over 30 years ago! Long after I stopped watching…therefore I didn’t know him as a WWE personality whatsoever.
I was correct that he was in the AWA when I remember, but he had a career in a number of the various wrestling promotions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawler
The Kaufman-Lawler Feud
Pro Wrestling Gold
https://youtu.be/_zGk7ifR4v8
Kaufman and Lawler on Letterman (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmHCx8lCl8Y
Fortunately, these clips are better than anything SportsCenter could have ever done.
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February 8, 2023
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“Easter Egg” – Some Context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU5pPPuS84s
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February 7, 2023
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Podcasting 2.0
Lots of good stuff to discover at Podcast Index.
Andy Flattery on The O’Leary Review Podcast
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Mental Toughness
Books mentioned:
The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance by H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl
Mental Toughness: Baseball's Winning Edge by Karl Kuehl, John Kuehl, Casey Tefertiller
Relentless Solution Focus: Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance by Dr. Jason Selk and Dr. Ellen Reed
Podcast mentioned:
The Mayor’s Office with Sean Casey
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February 6, 2023
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Podcasting 2.0
Adam Curry – Podcasting 2.0 Episode 120: “Chop & Drop”
My call-to-action today: try out another podcast app to listen to your shows. You can always go back to the one you like best.
Try newpodcastapps.com for some suggestions.
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February 3, 2023
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A tragic day, but “the Music” continued
The legendary rock ‘n’ roller Buddy Holly headlined a package show in early 1959, known as the Winter Dance Party.
The itinerary was bananas. It covered twenty-four Midwestern cities in twenty-four days—there were no off days.
The tour schedule crisscrossed the upper Midwest with no apparent logic. Overnight jaunts of several hundred miles—all in sub-freezing temperatures—were commonplace.
Holly historian Bill Griggs had this to say about General Artists Corporation (GAC)—the operation which booked the tour:
"They didn’t care. It was like they threw darts at a map… The tour from hell—that’s what they named it—and it’s not a bad name."
On February 2nd, the show in Clear Lake, Iowa ended, and the tour headed about 400 miles northwest from Clear Lake to Morehead, Minnesota.
Holly famously chartered a plane for his band prior to the show. Buddy was concerned with getting some rest and making a head start to take care of some much-needed laundry for him and his tour mates.
Ultimately, only the headliners of the show took the charter.
Waylon Jennings, then playing bass guitar in Holly’s band, said he felt more comfortable riding on the tour bus and voluntarily gave up his seat to J.P. Richardson, the Beaumont, Texas disc jockey and tour co-headliner, known as The Big Bopper.
Richardson felt ill and needed rest.
The Winter Dance Party consisted of several contemporary and would-be stars.
Yet the party ended on February 3, 1959, for the 22-year-old Holly and 28-year-old Big Bopper when the plane went down in a blizzard shortly after takeoff, five miles northwest of Mason City, Iowa.
Also perishing in the infamous crash was 17-year-old Ritchie Valens of “La Bamba” fame.
Yet the tour played on. Sadly, in retrospect.
Future chart-topper Bobby Vee, then but 15-years-old, had Buddy Holly's material down cold. So, the Minnesota child filled in—in place of Holly—on February 3 in Morehead.
Jimmy Clanton, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian ultimately finished the tour in the place of the deceased stars.
Waylon couldn't get to Holly's funeral. GAC wouldn’t let him leave the tour.
To add insult to injury, venue managers regularly threatened non-payment for shows because the original headliners didn't appear. It didn’t matter that they had perished in a tragedy.
After the crash, Jennings continued for two more weeks on the tour with doo-wop stars Dion and the Belmonts amongst others. Lead singer Dion DiMucci is the last original headliner still alive today and is in his early 80s.
Jennings returned to Lubbock, Texas after the tour ended. Holly’s father looked after young Waylon.
In Waylon: An Autobiography, Jennings wrote: “Mr. Holley wanted to promote me, because he said Buddy believed in me, but I had enough sense to know that wouldn’t be right. He bought me clothes and things like Buddy would.”
Waylon returned to the job that got him noticed by Buddy Holly in the first place, as a radio disc jockey. He bounced around west Texas and Arizona as a DJ for the better part of a decade before he reappeared in the public consciousness as a musician once again in the late 1960s.
So, contrary to the schmaltz unleashed by Don McLean in 1971, “music" did not die that day.
It is more than unsettling that American Pie, McLean’s terrible—and entirely too long of a—song, is what the hacky news sites reference on a day like this, the anniversary of the plane crash. But never fear, it happens every February 3rd.
Diving into the McLean biography is more than a little unsettling as well. To wit: after his second divorce (from his wife of nearly 30 years) with accusations of abuse hanging over him, the now 77-year-old McLean took up with a “model and reality star” 48 years his junior.
McLean still lives off the reputation of that crappy half-century-plus old song.
Unfortunately, in my early twenties, I purchased some McLean music, but it was because it was a double-album of McLean’s and Jim Croce’s music.
Croce was good, if not great. He also died in a tragic airplane crash. We wrote about Croce a while ago. https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/if-i-could-save-time-in-a-bottle
Anyway, this is all a long way of saying, rock out to some Buddy Holly today, or sing along with “La Bamba,” or get a little “Chantilly Lace” pumping through the airwaves.
Perhaps go with a doo-wop session of Dion and the Belmonts. “The Wanderer” by Dion when he went solo is also a great tune.
There is never a bad day to play Waylon Jennings music or play it loud.
I already listened to the horrible American Pie today. I can confirm that it is as bad as I remember and I feel like less of a man for not trusting my memory.
Links:
- Winter Dance Party Tour Schedule, 1959
- Buddy Holly
- The Big Bopper
- Ritchie Valens
- Waylon Jennings
- Dion DiMucci
- Don McLean, 76, steps out with his model girlfriend Paris Dylan, 28, ahead of his performance at Manchester Bridgewater Hall
Why the Beatles owe their success to the Comanche Indians
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January 19, 2023
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Pat Buchanan
Archive of Buchanan’s columns
The Tom Woods Show – Ep 2276 The Political Significance of Pat Buchanan
Columnist Pat Buchanan Retiring (via newsmax.com)
Magazine mentioned: The American Conservative (co-founded by Buchanan)
- I suggest Chronicles Magazine It is more in the line of the old American Conservative magazine that Buchanan co-founded. The American Conservative magazine as currently exists has strayed widely from its original mission or way of doing things and thinking about things.
Tom Brady
Brady says goodbye (for good [???])
Broadcaster mentioned: Steve Stone (on Twitter @SteveStone)
Tom Brady to join Fox Sports as lead NFL analyst upon retirement
Tom Brady career stats: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BradTo00.htm
O’Leary Digital
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January 30, 2023
I sat down with NickyP and Lizzie of the Misfit Family Podcast. They interviewed me about my entrepreneurial journey.
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Episode 4 – Revisiting the Matrix
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January 19, 2023
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The point being…we’ve embarked on a new mission here and it is to help others launch and/or produce their own podcasts.
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January 17, 2023
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They hate you for your gas stove. They hate that Tom Brady is still a great quarterback at age 45.
Thus it is reasonable to be a fan of cooking on a natural gas range and a fan of Tom Brady.
I could be speaking for any number of Americans: They hate me and want to snuff out all joy in my life, but cooking over a flame with a decent lick and watching Tom Brady play ball help me win. I derive joy from these simple things.
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January 13, 2023
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District Attorneys mentioned:
Jim Garrison
Harry Connick, Sr.
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January 9, 2023
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Week 18 Games Mentioned:
Lions 20 – Packers 16
Texans 32 – Colts 31
49ers 38 – Cardinals 13
Dolphins 11 – Jets 6
Steelers 28 – Browns 14
Falcons 30 – Buccaneers 17
FKA Redskins 26 – Cowboys 6
Seahawks 19 – Rams 16
NFL Final Regular Season Standings
https://www.nfl.com/standings/
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Hamlin update
Bills’ Damar Hamlin back in Buffalo to continue recovery
Magnesium supplements
CALM (Natural Vitality) https://www.naturalvitality.com/
I use the powder (raspberry-lemon flavor)
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
January 6, 2023
Happy Jan 6th … If you celebrate
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Tweet mentioned:
“Stormin’ Norman” – the late Norm Macdonald (original Tweet is now reportedly lost, but some great archivists took the time to document it while it was up).
“I loved when the violent terrorists made sure to respect the velvet ropes in Statuary Hall.”
https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1611325061440602113
The story of Damar Hamlin and his recovery
Links via, ESPN … take them for what they are worth…Damar Hamlin begins to awaken, moving hands and feet, doctors say
Uncle says Damar Hamlin still ‘fighting,’ family grateful for support
Today: Damar Hamlin has breathing tube removed, FaceTimes with Bills
As a result, the NFL has to scramble to save face and: NFL approves plan for possible neutral-site AFC title game
Why do I say take these stories from ESPN “for what they are worth?”
ESPN is compromised on many fronts. As I Tweeted earlier this week:
“Moral hazard for ESPN if either likely scenarios are true.
They’ll never admit that football is a gladiatorial pursuit w/ obvious known risks that most players, coaches, fans & media choose to ignore.
If he “shook a clot,” there’s no way they could square the circle on that one”
https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1610127880851460099?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q
Other football related story mentioned:
Reports: Ex-NFL star Peyton Hillis in ICU after swim rescue
Podcast mentioned: TSOL After Hours
Tom Woods School of Life After Hours: The Facilitators talk about Collaboration
https://youtu.be/iKQd05Ewdmc
Subscribe to the @TSOLafterhours YouTube Channel
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Contact me if you want more information on the Tom Woods School of Life.
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Guest mentioned: Barbara Williams
Episode 15 – The O’Leary Review Podcast
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/barbara-williams-coaching-for-impact#details
Guest mentioned: Jeremy Evans
Episode 2 – The O’Leary Review Podcast
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/podcast-ep-2#details
Merry Christmastide
https://onepeterfive.com/forgotten-customs-of-epiphanytide/
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January 5, 2023
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The story of Damar Hamlin and his recovery
Links via, ESPN … take them for what they are worth…Damar Hamlin begins to awaken, moving hands and feet, doctors say
Uncle says Damar Hamlin still ‘fighting,’ family grateful for support
Why do I say take these stories from ESPN “for what they are worth?”
ESPN is compromised on many fronts. As I Tweeted earlier this week:
“Moral hazard for ESPN if either likely scenarios are true.
They’ll never admit that football is a gladiatorial pursuit w/ obvious known risks that most players, coaches, fans & media choose to ignore.
If he “shook a clot,” there’s no way they could square the circle on that one”
https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1610127880851460099?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q
A Substack I subscribe to, written by Steve Kirsch, continues to put out informative material on this front.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
The Death of Journalism Podcast
Episode 21: Mr. Speaker?
W/ host John Ziegler
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1611079760846917632
Joe Biden
This is your president, folks…
"I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1610703648400572418
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Guest mentioned: Sean Kennedy
Ep 7 – The O’Leary Review Podcast
Better Entrepreneurial Action Network — beaction.net
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January 3, 2023
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Update (moments before I hit publish):
Horribly sad, if true.
“There is a lot of speculation on the Internet about whether or not Damar Hamlin will recover from his injury.
I am very sad to report that this is unlikely.
While I very much hope that I am wrong about this, the evidence that is known is not favorable.”
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-most-likely-scenario-is-that
I link to another Steve Kirsch article later…
What happened last night on Monday Night Football?
In broad strokes, we know what happened: a young ballplayer, Damar Hamlin, went into cardiac arrest during the course of play.
But the reaction to this terrible event has been all over the board with virtue-signaling from all sides without a concern for the truth.
There has been no legitimate reporting on the event from the news or sports media. Anything we’re finding out is because of independent media. I am not sure what all of this means, but I have some thoughts…
In this podcast, I analyze last night's events and it only runs about 30 minutes. But if you want to get a bird’s eye view of what I’m talking about, the rest of these show notes should suffice.
The talking heads on ESPN were stuck with talking about an event that nobody can really prepare for. Instead of rising to the occasion, the hours of coverage—until they strangely cut to an axe-throwing competition after the Bills-Bengals game was ultimately postponed for the night—were full of fluff and talking for talk’s sake.
We learned very little about what happened to Damar Hamlin other than he received CPR and went to the hospital and remained in stable but critical condition.
Here’s the play:
https://youtu.be/r1Z9Vd53yhI
The folks on ESPN emoted and talked. We learned nothing other than certain people lack composure on air when push comes to shove.
Ironically, an article that came my way earlier today praised the efforts of the entire ESPN team and its coverage, going so far as to call it a “masterclass” and that “we’ll be teaching their coverage of Monday night’s story in journalism school for decades.” This is from a supposedly credible writer.
He went on. “There was no speculation. No rumors. No reporting of what was being speculated on Twitter. Just honest conversations, straight reporting, real human emotion.”
In case you’d like to know more about these factual but feckless statements, I analyze the situation in more detail on the podcast.
One thing we didn’t mention was Skip Bayless’s reaction to all of this. In the first place, Skip is a world class jerk and he doesn’t help himself when he tries to Tweet or talk himself out of the various predicaments he caused by his own words.
Jason Whitlock Tweeted what are essentially my sentiments about Bayless in this situation:
“It’s all so phony. All of it. The outrage toward Skip and this reaction by Skip. It’s all performance. Sad and embarrassing.”
https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1610288252925222912?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q
The problem in all this coverage is that nobody was even the least bit willing to put on the mere façade of being a journalist.
As I saw it from the beginning, ESPN was in no position to find out the truth in what happened on Monday night.
The network often acts like it has hard-hitting journalists, but many of them have proven to be total frauds. Some may do good work, but as a whole the sports journalism angle from ESPN is a joke.
Look no further than the epic With the Benefit of Hindsight podcast by John Ziegler & Liz Habib.
In the Penn State case and now in this recent episode, ESPN has a vested interest for the truth to NOT emerge!
Sure, the Expert Class™ learned very quickly last night what “Commotio Cordis” might be. Essentially, it is freak timing from a blow to the area of the heart at an exact or precise beat that would cause cardiac arrest. It happens and probably most often in youth baseball of all things.
Was Hamlin’s injury a result of this? Unlikely, but not impossible or implausible.
Could it have been a result of vaccine injury? Quite possible, but not a soul on television was willing to even bring it up.
As I Tweeted last evening:
“Moral hazard for ESPN if either likely scenarios are true.
They’ll never admit that football is a gladiatorial pursuit w/ obvious known risks that most players, coaches, fans & media choose to ignore.
If he “shook a clot,” there’s no way they could square the circle on that one”
https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1610127880851460099?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q
A Substack to which I subscribe, written by Steve Kirsch was on top of this whole thing early. The article speaks for itself.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/what-caused-damar-hamlins-injury?r=1cx4az&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
As it stands, the Bills-Bengals game won’t resume this week. What does that mean for the NFL season, particularly the postseason? I don’t know.
Nor do I particularly care.
They could call the game a tie. They could declare the Bengals the victors by virtue of them being up 7-3 when play was suspended. They could flip a coin. They could also push back the start of the postseason and play the game in a “Week 19.”
What is Roger Goodell and the NFL going to do? Probably none of the above.
All of this portends the rapid demise of football and all professional and high-level amateur sports. Neither the sports media nor the leagues themselves take the games or the health of the players all that seriously.
Serious enough to take your money. Not much more. Admittedly, I am a sucker for sports and so they’ve all taken a lot of money from me over the course of my life.
Of course, as frauds, the typical sports media operation is sure to supply you with all the correct emotions you are supposed to feel, but there is so much money involved that nobody is willing to ask the simplest questions, let alone the hard ones.
Article with a similar point of view as me…worth reading nonetheless:
Whitlock: Damar Hamlin and sport of football are in critical condition by Jason Whitlock
Chuck Hughes
The 28-year old Texas native is the only player to die during the course of play in an NFL game.
In 1971, Hughes was playing for the Detroit Lions against the Chicago Bears.
With about a minute left in regulation and the Bears ahead 28-23, the Lions were closing in on the Bears endzone, needing a touchdown to win the game.
Hughes jogged back to the huddle near the Bears 15-yard line after a Lions incompletion on the previous play and fell face first on the Tiger Stadium turf. Reports say that Hughes was dead when he hit the grass.
The number 85 for the Detroit Lions is retired for Chuck Hughes. The Lions also give out an annual award to the most improved player in the name of Chuck Hughes.
College football game mentioned:
1995 Army at Boston College
College football players mentioned:
-
Ronnie McAda
- It is likely I witnessed McAda’s best performance of his career. The guy was phenomenal that day. I saw Michael Vick play once at Alumni Stadium and he was more electric, but McAda was the most dominating quarterback I’ve ever seen for one game…and it was almost entirely rushing the football.
-
Doug Flutie
- Flutie was sensational in college. 1984 Heisman Trophy winner. Unbelievable player, really.
Tweet mentioned:
From Jerry Lawler @JerryLawler:
“I would be willing to bet that Damar Hamlin has suffered a cardiac arrest from the blunt trauma of that blow to his chest... I know what this is like from experience...”
https://twitter.com/JerryLawler/status/1610098564373389312?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q
Myth mentioned:
How Teddy Roosevelt changed college football
Roosevelt did have something to do with changing the game, but TR was largely a blowhard who had delusional ideas about masculinity, especially his own.
Thanks to some help and legislation on behalf of presidents TR and Woodrow Wilson—who was likely the worst president in American history (certainly in the top 5)—the game did change.
Do I give these monsters any credit for the joy I experienced with game I grew up watching and playing? No I do not.
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December 31, 2022
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Scott Fischbuch – Quick Bio
With a Bachelors in Psychology and an obsession with personality typing, Scott Fischbuch has studied Jungian Typology for over 8 years and uses it in business consulting and personal coaching to improve communication and understanding, to help marriages, improve KPI's, and to teach others how to use their superpowers for good.
Tom Woods 100
One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but we have less than 90 to go now!
WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com — A page with all the #TomWoods100 conversations.
#TomWoods100
Exit Podcast
Episode 14
https://exitgroup.substack.com/p/exit-podcast-episode-14-jungian-typology-934#details
Episode 25
Ironside Podcast
Ep. 48 – Heroes against Demons
Ep. 63 – Cupid and Psyche
Psychiatry (and then some) discussion mentioned:
Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer on the Today Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LId3SRckGjo
The Hollywood Reporter article on the June 24, 2005 event.
Dig a little deeper into Cruise’s psyche with Peter Overton’s 60 Minutes Australia interview. No specific talk of psychology or psychiatry, however.
https://youtu.be/PsnYB6EiSCE
This interview shows a short clip of Cruise’s Oprah appearance. Very odd.
Either way, I remain a fan of most Tom Cruise movies. He’s a legitimate movie star and the face of many of the movies from the last few decades… that I still love to this day.
I still have a hard time reconciling Cruise’s antics and the movies he stars in. He’s a movie star—and a spectacular one—not much more.
Jungian Typology
Carl Jung (1875-1961). A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Hugely influential in the psychiatry field in the 20th Century and beyond.
Jung is considered the “father” of analytic psychology, who coined the term (Analytische Psychologie in the original German). Analytic psychology is also known as Jungian analysis.
Psychological Types
- Four main functions of consciousness
- Non-Rational or perceiving
- Sensation
- Intuition
- Rational or judging
- Thinking
- Feeling
- Non-Rational or perceiving
From what I gather, Jung sees things as tendencies rather than typecasting a human being… “more into the theory,” as Scott said.
Psychological Types (German: Psychologische Typen) is a 1921 book by Carl Jung (translated into English in 1923). The tome eventually became volume 6 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung.
Jung’s own interest in typology was trying to reconcile theories of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler with his own theories.
Jung’s work heavily influenced 20th Century psychology and psychiatry.
Jung was “trying to find the undergirding essence of human consciousness,” said Scott.
Book mentioned:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Myers and Briggs
Roughly contemporaneous with Jung were Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs.
Myers and Briggs were trying to “make something practical and accessible from Jung’s original work,” said Scott.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- E or I
- Extraversion
- Intraversion
- S or N
- Sensing
- Intuition
- T or F
- Thinking
- Feeling
- J or P
- Judging
- Perceiving
The Four Temperaments:
- Sanguine
- Choleric
- Melancholic
- Phlegmatic
Humorism (The Four Humors)
- Blood
- Yellow bile
- Black bile
- Phlegm
Doctors mentioned:
John Beebe
Understanding the Archetypes involving the eight functions of type (Beebe model)
Integrity in Depth (2005 book by John Beebe)
David Keirsey
- Four temperaments
- Artisan (operators/entertainers)
- Guardian (administrators/conservators)
- Idealist (mentors/advocates)
- Rational (coordinators/engineers)
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Looks for “trends.”
Linda Berens
Scott Fischbuch’s coaching
Coaching business is primarily word of mouth … like many of the folks we’ve had.
If you’re interested in getting in touch with Scott, let me know and I will set up a meeting for you.
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“What’s Your Personality Type” chart by Jake Beech.
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The O’Leary Review Podcast
Guest: Barbara Williams
December 22, 2022
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Barbara Williams is an anarchist (the capitalist loving kind), a 2-year carnivore, and grew up in California.
She recently escaped the Golden State and currently resides in Las Vegas.
She is a coach—specifically for entrepreneurs and especially those looking to make an impact by helping others.
Barbara guides her clients from articulating their dreams to making plans with actionable steps.
In addition to running business- and fitness-themed group calls for TomSchoolofLife.com, Barbara also co-founded TheCIRSGroup.com for people struggling with mold illness where she works with clients one-on-one.
Tom Woods 100
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WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com — A page with all the #TomWoods100 conversations.
#TomWoods100
Barbara was a guest on The Tom Woods Show, Episode 2230
https://youtu.be/3pfSZVOMIE4
Tom Woods School of Life
Podcasts mentioned:
The O’Leary Review
- Ep 2 – Jeremy Evans
- Ep 13 – James Newcomb
- Ep 14 – Adam Haman
Financial Coaching
Barbara is a certified financial coach through Ramsey Solutions.
Go to ActLikeBarbara.com for more information.
Carnivore diet
We spoke about Barbara’s journey with the carnivore diet, and I brought up some of the foods that bother me—some spicy things, for instance.
Yet, I really like spicy food—more of the Mexican and Middle Eastern spices rather than southeast Asian or “American Toughguy” (see: Buffalo Wings).
Some of the Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese stuff immediately registers as fire without any of the taste. No can-do.
Buffalo wings—at least the sauce—are an absolute non-starter for me. Pure pain, no enjoyment.
Ironic, then, after I get off the call with Barbara and I fancy a Lebanese-style meal. I bought some kebabs the other day at Costco where all I have to do is reheat them. We have some hummus in the fridge and some sliced pepperoncini for a little garnish, bite, texture, or what have you.
I ate 3 kebabs, a small helping of hummus, and a few of the sliced pepperoncini. As the night progressed, my stomach started talking back to me, but I paid it little mind and eventually retired for the night.
Come about 1:30 in the morning, not only my tummy, but my throat started screaming at me and I had to get up to get an antacid tablet. Spent a few hours milling around, reading, etc. before I could get back to sleep. Felt back to normal the next morning.
Point is: know your limits. I know most of my limits, yet oftentimes don’t respect them. I need to eliminate things—many spicy things, in particular—from my life because of severe reactions that make me miserable for much too long.
Try something new if you’re getting zero traction.
Carnivore, like Barbara mentioned, is not for everyone. However, a steak burrito at the restaurant Chipotle can be a cure for your vegan- or vegetarianism. No guarantees on that either.
Similar diet mentioned:
The Lion Diet
This will lead you to more information about Jordan Peterson and his daughter Mikhaila.
For Dr. Peterson, Mikhaila and his followers, Barbara recommends you listen to this episode, which is Episode 15 of The O’Leary Review Podcast. I am including a standing invitation to come on and talk about the Lion Diet in a future episode. Let’s do this!
Book and doctor mentioned:
Judy Cho, The Carnivore Cure
The CIRS Group
Barbara is a co-founder of The CIRS Group
What is CIRS?
CIRS, or Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, is often the cause of many so-called “uncurable” illnesses
- Chronic Fatigue
- Fibromyalgia
- POTS
- Pandas
- SIBO
- Several other autoimmune conditions.
Approximately 25% of the population is genetically predisposed to CIRS because of the inability to clear biotoxins from one’s own body.
The term “biotoxins” is broad, but more often than not, the biotoxins we’re talking about come from exposure to mold due to water-damaged buildings.
The immune system response never “hands off” to the adaptive immune system. What this means is that one’s body damages itself with inflammation rather than attacking the toxins causing the problem in the first place.
Symptoms range from muscle cramps, frequent urination, joint pain and brain fog, to vertigo, blurry vision, histamine reactions, GI issues and night sweats.
Other CIRS resources mentioned:
Surviving Mold w/ Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker
Breaking News mentioned (burying the lede, of course):
Barbara will be starting a podcast with the CIRS Group starting in the New Year.
The Tom Woods School of Life has an official podcast in the making. Stay tuned for more news…
Barbara’s Links
ActLikeBarbara.com
The CIRS Group
ACTLIKEBARBARA (LinkTree)
O’Leary Beef
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Our favorite pit-smoked meats from Texas get shipped right to your door.
We’ve done entire holiday meals with the meats sourced from Southside. I highly recommend this move, especially with Christmas upcoming.
Although not strictly “carnivore,” our favorite snack is the Sausage Slammers.
A slammer is a de-seeded (i.e. way less-spicy) jalapeño, stuffed with high-melt cheddar, covered with an oblong ball of Southside’s ground pork sausage, which is, in-turn, covered with strips of bacon, then smoked until edible, packaged and sent on its merry way to ravenous customers across the nation.
The jalapeño is somewhat of spicy on my scale, but I am a notable lightweight when it comes to discerning how spicy something is. To me, the pepper in the slammer is way more mild than the pepperoncini I had the other night…take that for what it is worth.
As far as the Scoville scale goes, the stuffed pepper is much milder than a typical jalapeño—certainly a raw one—but still imparts that nice flavor.
I love the Slammers so much that I made some videos for the world to see:
- The Opening
- The Cooking…and Eating
- The Short
What else?
The Whole Smoked Brisket is phenomenal … and carnivore.
The best beef sausage I’ve ever had is the Southside Market Original Beef Sausage. More or less carnivore…let’s not nitpick unless we have to!
And if you’re still in the market for (late, late—maybe the traditional 12 days of Christmas—late) Christmas gifts, take a look at Southside Market Gift Sets. You won’t get the standard sausage stick-plus-cheddar stick (or wheel). You will get any number of delicious combos.
Do not forget your delightful barbecue sauce! In our family, BBQ sauce is not only cherished, but it is critiqued. Consider the Southside Market Sauces.
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December 21, 2022
Bill Schonely
“… wherever you may be…”
The Final Goodbye for “The Schonz”
https://youtu.be/wna_mCmHQeI
Franco Harris
Steelers Hall of Fame RB Franco Harris, author of 'The Immaculate Reception,' dies at 72
Starting with the 1980 season, Harris became the career rushing leader among active players.
The 1984 Seattle Seahawks did have the “Original” Curt Warner on the roster, but the 3rd pick of the 1983 NFL Draft out of Penn State was injured in the opening game versus the Cleveland Browns, ending his season.
Franco Harris—coming off a season in 1983 where he rushed for 1,007 yards—was released by the Steelers during training camp before the 1984 season, over an ostensible pay dispute.
After the 1983 season, Harris was only 363 yards away from breaking Jim Brown’s career rushing record. Harris joined the Seahawks in September, but only ended up playing in 8 games and ended up with 170 yards rushing on the season. He never played in the NFL again.
After taping this episode, John Ziegler tweeted that Franco had been at work on a podcast of his own about the Penn State-Paterno-Sandusky case. Here is the link:
Upon Further Review
NFL All-Time Leading Rushers
Harris is now 15th all-time. Jim Brown is 11th!
- indicates Pro Football Hall of Fame
Highlighted players mentioned in podcast
Rank
Player
Yds
Years
1
Emmitt Smith+
18,355
1990-2004
2
Walter Payton+
16,726
1975-1987
3
Frank Gore
16,000
2005-2020
4
Barry Sanders+
15,269
1989-1998
5
Adrian Peterson
14,918
2007-2021
6
Curtis Martin+
14,101
1995-2005
7
LaDainian Tomlinson+
13,684
2001-2011
8
Jerome Bettis+
13,662
1993-2005
9
Eric Dickerson+
13,259
1983-1993
10
Tony Dorsett+
12,739
1977-1988
11
Jim Brown+
12,312
1957-1965
12
Marshall Faulk+
12,279
1994-2005
13
Edgerrin James+
12,246
1999-2009
14
Marcus Allen+
12,243
1982-1997
15
Franco Harris+
12,120
1972-1984
16
Thurman Thomas+
12,074
1988-2000
17
Fred Taylor
11,695
1998-2010
18
Steven Jackson
11,438
2004-2015
19
John Riggins+
11,352
1971-1985
20
Corey Dillon
11,241
1997-2006
Joe Paterno
Wikipedia article about JoePa (Warning: some information, especially about the end of his career is dubious.)
The Immaculate Reception
How the Immaculate Reception shaped Steelers history
Wikipedia on the Immaculate Reception
Harris caught a deflected pass, leading to a 13-7 Steelers victory over their rival Oakland Raiders in the 1972 AFC Divisional Playoff.
Notably, the NFL playoffs started in December in those days.
The 50th anniversary of the play will be on Friday, December 23, 2002. The number 32 that Franco Harris wore for the Pittsburgh Steelers is due to be retired on Saturday and will be only the third number to be officially retired by the club.
With the Benefit of Hindsight Podcast
The Framing of Joe Paterno: Documenting an outrageous rush to judgment
The Website of Record for Truth in the Sandusky Scandal
The Death of Journalism
Link on Apple Podcasts
Tweet Mentioned:
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1605630072680894464
John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud)
We just taped Episode 18 of “The Death of Journalism,” which was dedicated to Franco Harris.
I forgot to tell the story of how we showed up to his packed Super Bowl party & he immediately bought my daughters squares, gave them T-shirts & got us seating.
I will miss him SO much.
Peyton’s Places on ESPN+
Link to Ep. 24 of the first season of Peyton’s Places (You’ll probably need an ESPN+ subscription to watch)
The O’Leary Review Podcast
- Episode 8 — John Ziegler (LIV Golf, College Football, and more)
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https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-penn-state-case-with-john-ziegler#details
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December 19, 2022
Coach Mike Leach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leach_(American_football_coach)
NFL Films Presents segment on Coach Leach (via Twitter)
Book Mentioned:
The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football by S. C. Gwynne
Games Mentioned:
- 2006 Insight Bowl
- 2007 Fiesta Bowl
- 2016 Alamo Bowl
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December 12, 2022
Podcasts mentioned:
The O’Leary Review – Ep 13 – James Newcomb
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/james-newcomb-ba-vojdaan-podcast#details
The O’Leary Review – Ep 14 – Adam Haman
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The O’Leary Review Podcast
Guest: Adam Haman
December 11, 2022
Professional poker player and member of the Libertarian Party of Nevada’s Executive Committee, Adam Haman, joins the program today.
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Tom Woods School of Life
Adam and I are both members. Go to https://tomschooloflife.com/ to get on the waiting list. I recommend joining the school.
Tom Woods 100
One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but in our case, Adam is #11. Less than ninety to go!
#TomWoods100
Who is in the Tom Woods world?
I have a website that will go live soon with discussions I’ve had with Tom Woods School of Life members.
WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com
Tom Woods Show
Adam was a guest of Tom’s on Ep 764.
YouTube Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESb05ay5yfo
Movie mentioned:
Rounders (1998)
Adam astounded Tom with his Mike McDermott impression: https://youtu.be/wZ7goMiVkT4
Online poker
Try not to tear up after reading the story of the demise of online poker in the United States of America. The Wikipedia entry…dig much further and you will indeed cry.
World Series of Poker Main Event
An event that Adam HAS NOT participated in. He mentions the famous 2003 WSOP main event won by a “nobody,” Chris Moneymaker, a 27-year-old accountant. Yes, his real name.
Moneymaker won a seat in the main event by winning a “satellite” online tournament. The poker craze took off for a while after Moneymaker’s victory, known as the “Moneymaker effect.”
Battle Born Podcast
The Official Podcast of the Libertarian Party of Nevada
Other Podcast mentioned:
Part of the Problem w/ Dave Smith and Robbie “The Fire” Bernstein
Reno “takeover”
With Mises Caucus Takeover of Libertarian Party… (vdare.com)
Libertarian Party Mises Caucus
Potential Libertarian Party presidential candidates mentioned:
Spike Cohen
Dave Smith
Former LP candidate mentioned:
Jacob Hornberger
Ron Paul presidential campaigns
We talk a little about the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns of Dr. Ron Paul.
I did not mention the essay I contributed to a book called Voices of Revolution: Americans speak out for Ron Paul. The ebook now appears to be free at lulu.com.
This book was put together for the 2012 campaign. There was a call to action on the Tom Woods Show for a writing contest of some sort, so I fashioned an essay and it ended up leading off the entire book (after the introductory essay by the editor). I encourage people to download it. My essay starts on page 17.
Nevada Ranked Choice voting fiasco
“NOTA” – None of the Above — could it be on the way out?
A good discussion on the Battle Born Podcast (with Adam)
https://vimeo.com/776379960
1996 US Senate election in Massachusetts
The odious Bill Weld (R) ran against the evil John Forbes Kerry (D).
The California 12 district election from 1948
O’Leary mentioned that Richard Milhous Nixon garnered the nomination from both the Republican Party (of which he was a member and sitting congressman) and the Democratic Party.
It is unclear if this is true—we took a cursory revisionist historical glance at the evidence. What is true is that the Democrats did not run a candidate against Nixon.
Nixon was quite popular within the district—eastern Los Angeles area including Pasadena, Pomona, and Whittier—even with Democrats. The future president won 87.8% of the vote in 1948 compared to the 12.2% won by the Progressive Party candidate, Una W. Rice.
Fair to say that most Democrats voted for Nixon.
Ironically, the 12th congressional district is no longer a GOP stronghold. It is no longer in Southern California, either. Now it exists within the tony Democratic refuge of San Francisco.
The district is also the bastion of one “Cruella Demented,” known to her constituents and those throughout the nation as (former?) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Occasionally my hero, Dennis Miller, has been known to rant and once noted that Pelosi, looks like “a Muppet washed on hot.” I cannot disagree.
More Miller on Pelosi:
https://youtu.be/60cKE-WAQqU
Alex Epstein
Fossil Future
Mentioned in Clowns to the left, jokers to the right (The O’Leary Review, July 25, 2022)
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The O’Leary Review Podcast
Guest: James Newcomb
December 10, 2022
We welcomed James Newcomb to the show. James is an internet marketer, podcaster, and keen trumpeter.
Check out James:
- Ba Vojdaan!
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“Always be serious. Never take yourself too seriously.”
James referenced General Douglas MacArthur’s speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy from May 12, 1962.
https://youtu.be/_42_aLGkRpg
Tom Woods School of Life
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John Birch Society
James once worked for the perennially and unduly maligned John Birch Society.
William F. Buckley, Jr., seen by a good many Americans over the last several decades as the paragon of American conservatism, was anything but that. Buckley and his magazine, National Review, were “purgers.” Over the course of National Review’s history, the Buckleyites purged portions of the conservative movement for not falling in lock-step with the magazine’s ideology.
Ideology is an interesting topic when it comes to politics or political discourse. It is harmful. We could get into a long discussion on why ideology is so antithetical to moral order, but I shall just point you toward Brad Birzer’s quick article “Russell Kirk on the Errors of Ideology.”
Birzer wrote an extensive biography on Kirk, ironically one of the founders of National Review and who wrote for the magazine for years, but was then…purged. Kirk’s reputation has been somewhat resuscitated by some over at NR in the nearly 3 decades since his passing, but his idea of conservatism is definitely at odds with the bunch who run the show over there at this stage.
Here’s a video of Birzer talking about his book, Russell Kirk: American Conservative. https://youtu.be/8kn9RdM6gks
This is a long way of getting to the point that the John Birch Society was not on the “3 x 5 card of approved opinion” set forth by our cultural betters at the National Review, a magazine that has also purged other heroes of mine—namely Patrick J. Buchanan and Dr. Paul E. Gottfried—from their silly “movement” that has ceased to be “conservative.”
Tom Woods 100
Tom Woods—as far as I’m aware—coined the aforementioned “3x5 card of approved opinion” phrase. It is beautiful and explains so much about our world today.
Tom is also a mentor to both James and me.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, one of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but in our case, James is number 10. Ninety to go!
#TomWoods100
Ron Paul presidential campaigns
We talk a little about the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns of Dr. Ron Paul.
I did not mention the essay I contributed to a book called Voices of Revolution: Americans speak out for Ron Paul. The ebook now appears to be free at lulu.com.
This book was put together for the 2012 campaign. There was a call to action on the Tom Woods Show for a writing contest of some sort, so I fashioned an essay and it ended up leading off the entire book (after the introductory essay by the editor). I encourage people to download it. My essay starts on page 17.
The publishing business
James is in the publishing business. JNS Media
Go to the site and sign up for his email newsletter. It’s a good one.
Search Engines
A brief history of AltaVista, the defunct search engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
Artist mentioned:
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Conscientious Objection
James appeared on Ep. 748 of The Tom Woods Show.
James talks about seeking discharge as a conscientious objector on his own podcast.
Conscientious objection in the United States. Wikipedia article.
The podcasting business
How People Make Money with Podcasts, Ba Vojdaan! Podcast
Who is in the Tom Woods world?
I have a website that will go live soon with discussions I’ve had with Tom Woods School of Life members.
WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com
Podcast and podcaster mentioned:
Ben Greenfield of Ben Greenfield Life
Once again, links for James:
- Ba Vojdaan!
- JNS Media (Sign up for his email newsletter)
- Podcast Artistry™
- Trumpet Dynamics
He is also starting the Podcasting 0-60 program. To learn more: podcasting0-60.com
The Brian D. O’Leary Show
December 9, 2022
Book Mentioned:
Beer and Circus: How big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education
Point Guard mentioned:
Greg Anthony
1992 United States Olympic basketball team, the “Dream Team.”
“The Flutie Factor” … a result of one of the greatest plays in college football history:
Flutie’s Miracle in Miami
https://youtu.be/q3ykWbu2Gl0
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December 8, 2022
Griner Gate
ESPN: Brittney Griner freed in U.S.-Russia prisoner exchange
A more sane rendering of the story… Bounding Into Sports: Joe Biden Gives Russia ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout In Exchange For WNBA Player Brittney Griner
Possible Libertarian Party presidential candidate mentioned:
Dave Smith
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
December 6, 2022
We wish Hall of Fame Coach Mike Clopton a happy birthday.
Age Quod Agis
The “Latin Battle” from Tombstone (1993)
https://youtu.be/CwEIkXMfL1E
We talked about “being where your feet are…” I guess it is a book!
Be Where Your Feet Are by Scott M. O’Neil
Tom Woods School of Life
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
December 6, 2022
A week or so late, but we pay a little tribute to the late Christine McVie and the greatness of Fleetwood Mac.
Short episode today.
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Andronikos
December 4, 2022
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We’re talking about the “Classics” of literature today… it leads to a great discussion and is certainly a “conversation that matters.”
Our guest today, Travis—a.k.a. Andronikos—writes a blog called Wends of Change at https://wendsofchange.substack.com and wrote a book called Revenge and its Discontents: My Journey Through the Iliad which is available on Amazon (the Kindle edition is free with Kindle Unlimited).
In his daily life, Travis enjoys reading, writing, bowling, and video games. As Andronikos, he is “on a journey through the great books of the Western Canon.” His goal is to “read and think deeply about them with as little help from outside sources as possible.”
The Great Books Reading List that Andronikos is working his way through can be found at https://wendsofchange.com/books/
Book mentioned:
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
Essay mentioned:
“On the Reading of Old Books” by C.S. Lewis
From the Lewis essay: “There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books… The error is rather an amiable one, for it springs from humility. The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator.”
Commentary from Annie Holmquist at Intellectual Takeout on the Lewis essay.
Andronikos
The nom de plume derives from a fellow mentioned in Romans 16:7
“Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.” Romans 16:7 (Douay-Rheims)
Tom Woods 100
For no reason other than I am involved in the Tom Woods School of Life, I decided that I’d get 100 of my fellow members or people closely tied into Tom’s orbit on this podcast eventually. Travis/Andronikos is a fellow member.
After this week, we will only have about 90 to go!
Enrollment in Tom’s School of Life comes around every six months or so. Go to https://tomschooloflife.com/ … totally worth it. I’m planning to have a podcast episode dedicated entirely to Tom’s School in the near future.
#TomWoods100
Travis found out about Tom Woods via Michael Malice, who is a very failed podcaster and writer in his own right. Chain reaction led him to Tom.
Podcasts mentioned:
Your Welcome with Michael Malice
The Tom Woods Show ep. 2245 with Michael Heise
The Brion McClanahan Show — “Think Locally. Act Locally.”
The Brian D. O’Leary Show (Spanish Civil War Week)
- https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-111422
- https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-111522
- https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-11162022
- https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-111722
- https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/the-brian-d-oleary-show-111822
Movie mentioned:
Troy
Who was Homer?
The Wikipedia entry.
Article mentioned:
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Steve Sailer
The Iliad is perhaps the second and the Odyssey could be the seventh in the “eight epics of the Trojan War.” The other six are lost poems according to the Epic Cycle theory.
Best translations for Homer (Iliad & Odyssey) include:
Robert Fagles
- The Paris Review interview, Robert Fagles, The Art of Translation No. 2
- Considered by Andronikos as the best modern translation of the Iliad and as the best work in the career of Fagles.
Samuel Butler
- Considered the best public domain translation, though it uses Latin names instead of the Greek.
Robert Fitzgerald
- The Fitzgerald translations are what I started reading in preparation for this conversation. I still have a long way to go!
Augustus Murray
- Public domain translation with the Greek names. Used for the Loeb Classical Library
Andronikos links:
Blog/Substack https://wendsofchange.substack.com
- Posts drop at 3am Pacific on Sundays
Book, Revenge and its Discontents https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHC3ZH8G
Reading List https://wendsofchange.com/books/
The O’Leary Review Podcast
Guest: Hartmuth Pelger
December 1, 2022
Recently, we got a chance to sit down—virtually, of course, because I’m in California and he’s in Austria—with Hartmuth Pelger.
Hartmuth is a multilingual business executive with more than 25 years of experience managing a wide range of financial functions, from analysis to auditing.
Currently, he is a CFO in the e-Mobility sector.
Hartmuth lives in Austria but has also lived in 8 countries across three continents during his well-traveled life.
More importantly, Hartmuth started a parallel career in business coaching for high-performing individuals.
Tom Woods 100
One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but in our case, Hartmuth is number 8. Ninety-two to go!
#TomWoods100
Book mentioned
Tomorrow’s Gold: Asia’s age of discovery by Marc Faber
Influences
The Peter Schiff Show — where Tom Woods developed some of his radio/podcasting chops as a guest host for Peter.
The Mises Institute — The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Founded in 1982 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe — an Austrian School economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute, founder and president of The Property and Freedom Society, former editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a lifetime member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He is married to economist Dr. A. Gulcin Imre Hoppe and resides with his wife in Istanbul.
Digging through the archives, we found the debut episode of the Tom Woods Show which Hartmuth mentions.
Ethnic Germans in Romania
The Wikipedia entry – Germans of Romania
A New York Times article (behind paywall), “Ethnic Germans in Romania Dwindle”
A fascinating 8+ minute video on The Exodus of Romania’s German-speaking Minority.
More Romanian history
Who was Nicolae Ceaușescu? The Wikipedia on Romania’s brutal and hated dictator.
Romania in World War II. The Wikipedia on the interesting history, from its near alliance with Nazi Germany to its ultimate flip to the Communist side.
The e-Mobility Sector
Hartmuth works in the off-highway sector within e-mobility. Some manufacturers are now focused on not only alternative fuels, but alternative ways to power machinery in general.
The specific application of a fully-electric drive concept is key to knowing if it will make economic sense. For instance, Hartmuth is working on mining and agricultural application, and an important aspect of a firm’s decision on whether to go fully-electric or not is the amount of pollution—or lack thereof—that will be produced on-site. Very interesting.
Armageddon (1998)
How much better would Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) and his roughneck pals have felt if they had Hartmuth’s e-mobility concept working for them on that comet? Assuming they had diesel-powered rigs, they need oxygen to burn the fuel. Does a comet have all that much oxygen available?
Since we love Bruce Willis—and most of his movies—we will eventually get to Die Hard later in the holiday season, but we did stumble upon one potential plot hole in the Christmas thriller…or was there ever one?
The sovereignty of Hong Kong
Wikipedia’s breakdown of what happened when the UK handed it over to the Red Chinese.
Dubai
Wikipedia. Sorry about all the Wikipedia links, but they are pretty good and if you are on your best internet behavior, you’ll learn a lot. However, we tend to go down the proverbial worm-hole of Wikipedia from time to time. That’s also fun on occasion, but tends to grind down available time in the day. Enjoy the links at your own risk.
Portuguese
At one point, I was interested in learning Portuguese, but I don’t know about that now. Somebody on YouTube claims they can teach you in 4 hours. Click at your own risk. I haven’t finished the video yet as I type this…
Hitchhiking
I was blown away when Hartmuth told me he hitchhiked in the western US and Canada in the 1990s. I grew up with the notion that hitchhiking was a serious no-no—both to try and get rides or to give rides to potential riders. The days of Me and Bobby McGee were more romantic and innocent, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOoMREvsV9E
There’s a guy I found on the web called Nomadic Matt and he tells you 14 Ways to Safely Hitchhike Across the United States. Read at your own speed or interest level. I’m just leaving it here…I have no interest in hitchhiking anywhere—I am still a child of my parents.
Place in Canada mentioned: Prince George, British Columbia
How do you contact Hartmuth?
You can either contact me or go to his LinkedIn: Hartmuth Pelger.
Austria
Final Wikipedia entry of today’s show notes: Austria.
Interesting story of mine somewhat related to Austria—I’ve never been to continental Europe—in my travels…
I was in Japan a few years back and at a coffee shop of sorts for a breakfast. The selection of non-Japanese foods in most places is often quite strange. The desire to imitate Europe or America is strong, but the implementation is often rather weak—save Kentucky Fried Chicken, but that’s a subject for an entire newsletter or podcast series on its own.
So, craving a typical American breakfast sandwich or something similar, I ordered a “Viennese Sausage.” Never had that before. Figured it was something even more exotic than regular sausage.
Wrong. It was a hot dog on a hot dog bun. Served with a packet of ketchup and a packet of mustard.
I was very confused and rather irritated until it dawned on me that I had seen Vienna Sausages in the store, usually canned and next to the SPAM. But also that I was eating a “wiener” and that…duh!...Vienna is the anglicized name for the Austrian capital city of Wien, thus wiener.
See also: frankfurter, hamburger, etc. for other such examples. I don’t think cheeseburger works in this scenario…but I could be mistaken.
Long story short: the coffee was good, the hot dog was nothing special and we had great Japanese food most of the other meals we sat down for. As my good friend once said, “When in Greece…”
Final book mentioned
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne. The aforementioned Tom Woods talks about this book in 2017. Highly recommended speech—about a half-hour.
The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 28, 2022
We delve back into the November 2022 issue of Chronicles.
Daniel McCarthy has an essay on Michael Oakeshott, the 20th century British conservative thinker. Mark G. Brennan recalls most Americans only familiarity with Albania. Roger McGrath writes of the California water crisis.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 25, 2022
What is important anymore? We now have soccer trying to usurp college football over Thanksgiving weekend. Downright un-American.
Frankly, it is all a bit depressing… and we talk about that and more. Sports-focused episode. Kinda…
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 22, 2022
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November 22, 2022
O’Leary argues that we, as a culture or a society, put entirely too much trust in failed institutions—the three-legged stool of failure…
- Democratic government
- The schools
- The corporate media
Thus, a cultural degradation that affects everything else around us because of what makes up this “stool.”
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 21, 2022
In 47 years, things haven’t changed much.
This is the third week of daily shows. I dug around in my library to find something obscure (to the modern reader) for us today.
The book we talk about in today’s show:
Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed By Patrick J. Buchanan
Archive of Pat Buchanan’s columns
Political philosopher mentioned:
Russell Kirk — The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 17, 2022
We are in the second week of our daily shows. This week we’ve been tackling the monster topic of the Spanish Civil War.
Continuing the discussion from earlier in the week, we reference an article in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
- The Myth of the Spanish Civil War. One of the last great leftist myths of the 20th century is that the Spanish Civil War was a struggle of republican democracy against nationalist fascism. In reality, it was a violent mass-collectivist revolution put down by Spanish moderates and conservatives. By Stanley G. Payne
- We’ve been told that the major myth surrounding the Spanish Civil War…that it was a struggle against “fascism.” Hint: that’s not at all what the war was about.
We will put a bookmark in our discussion of the Spanish War on Friday and introduce a new topic next week.
I hope to have more resources of what we talked about this week soon enough. We will publish a newsletter in the next few days on this subject, so if you are looking to delve into this subject deeper, remember to join us at my Substack page: https://briandoleary.substack.com/
Go to https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine to which I currently subscribe.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 17, 2022
We are in the second week of our daily shows. This week we’ve been tackling the monster topic of the Spanish Civil War.
Continuing the discussion from yesterday’s show, we reference an article in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
- The Myth of the Spanish Civil War. One of the last great leftist myths of the 20th century is that the Spanish Civil War was a struggle of republican democracy against nationalist fascism. In reality, it was a violent mass-collectivist revolution put down by Spanish moderates and conservatives. By Stanley G. Payne
- We’ve been told that the major myth surrounding the Spanish Civil War…that it was a struggle against “fascism.” Hint: that’s not at all what the war was about.
Today we talk more about fascism and how it may be defined. We reference books by Paul E. Gottfried (Fascism: The Career of a Concept) and Stanley G. Payne (Fascism: Comparison and Definition & Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II).
Professor Payne wrote the article we’ve been talking about all week. Professor Gottfried is the editor-in-chief of Chronicles.
We will put a bookmark in our discussion of the Spanish War on Friday and introduce a new topic next week.
Go to https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine to which I currently subscribe.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 16, 2022
We are in the second week of our daily shows. This week we’ve been tackling the monster topic of the Spanish Civil War.
Longer show than normal today, clocking in right around 40 minutes. We like to have these daily shows a bit shorter…at 20-30 minutes, but we went overtime today. Please accept the apologies of the staff and enjoy the show in the meantime.
Continuing the discussion from yesterday’s show, we reference an article in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
- The major myth surrounding the Spanish Civil War…that it was a struggle against “fascism.” Hint: that’s not at all what the war was about.
Today we dive into what fascism is and what it is not. We also delve into the topic of “antifascism” so-called.
The rest of this week will be devoted to analysis of this article and will get into some parallels we see between the lead-up to the Spanish War and our culture today. It is analogous, but certainly not one-for-one.
Go to https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine to which I currently subscribe.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 15, 2022
This is the second show of the second week in our new daily podcast. We’ve shelved the idea of livestreaming these shows…for the time being.
Brian will talk about that on a future episode…logistically it works better for everyone at this point to do a podcast without a live element. That may change in the future. We welcome feedback from our listeners on this as well.
One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that it is NOT live… It’s not radio, it’s podcasting.
Continuing the discussion from yesterday’s show, we tackle an article in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
- The major myth surrounding the Spanish Civil War…that it was a struggle against “fascism.” Hint: that’s not at all what the war was about.
The rest of this week’s shows will be devoted to analysis of this article and will get into some parallels we see between the lead-up to the Spanish War and our culture today. It is analogous, but certainly not one-for-one.
Go to https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine to which I currently subscribe.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 14, 2022
If you’re new, we just started doing a daily show as well. This is the first show of the second week. We’ve shelved the idea of livestreaming these shows…for the time being.
Brian will talk about that on a future episode…logistically it works better for everyone at this point to do a podcast without a live element. That may change in the future. We welcome feedback from our listeners on this as well.
One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that it is NOT live… It’s not radio, it’s podcasting.
Today we get into a couple of subjects we came across in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
- The impending removal of Moses Ezekiel’s monument, “The South,” at Arlington National Cemetery.
- The major myth surrounding the Spanish Civil War…that it was a struggle against “fascism.” Hint: that’s not at all what the war was about.
We left off in our discussion of the Spanish War about midstream, so we will get back to it later this week, hopefully for Tuesday’s show.
Go to https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine I currently subscribe to.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 11, 2022
Brian welcomes you to his new project, a daily podcast that will drop 5 days a week. We’re working on doing this via livestream … and we will likely do that for future episodes.
Bookmark the link to our livestream:
https://odysee.com/@BrianDOLeary:f/live:b2e
We had some more technical difficulties with the livestream, so we came back to re-record a new podcast.
- Podcast mentioned: The Reformed Financial Advisor w/ Andy Flattery (guest on Episode 5 of The O’Leary Review Podcast). Jack White, Tinkering, & the Limits of Goals Based Planning.
- Other podcast mentioned: The Reinvention Project with Jim Rome
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 10, 2022
Brian welcomes you to his new project, a daily podcast that will drop 5 days a week. We’re working on doing this via livestream … and we will likely do that for future episodes.
Bookmark the link to our livestream:
https://odysee.com/@BrianDOLeary:f/live:b2e
We had our first livestream today, but it was rife with technical difficulties. We re-recorded and talked a little bit about Herschel Walker—mostly about Herschel the football player, not Herschel the political candidate.
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 9, 2022
Brian welcomes you to his new project, a daily podcast that will drop 5 days a week. We’re working on doing this via livestream … and we will likely do that for future episodes.
Bookmark the link to our livestream:
https://odysee.com/@BrianDOLeary:f/live:b2e
Today, O’Leary gives us some of his thoughts on the aftermath of mid-term elections and how politics and football are similar—most people don’t know the rules, but they participate and root as if they do. Not a perfect analogy, but we flesh it out a little bit…
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show
November 8, 2022
Brian welcomes you to his new project, a daily podcast that will drop 5 days a week. We’re working on doing this via livestream … and we will likely do that for future episodes.
Bookmark the link to our livestream:
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Today, O’Leary also talks a little bit about what he’s been up to and gives us some of his thoughts on the mid-term elections, the World Series, and the latest Tom Brady heroics.
Follow us on Twitter @BrianDOLeary . That’s where we will notify you when we go live each day. At the beginning of this project, those times will be inconsistent.
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Haley Heathman grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and went to DePauw University where she played tennis and was a three-time All-American and an NCAA finalist in doubles. She was elected to the DePauw University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.
Other DePaw Hall of Famers include:
- Buzzie Bavasi — longtime baseball executive (Dodgers, Padres, Angels). Played baseball for the DePauw Tigers.
- Ford Frick — Former president of the National League. Third Commissioner of Baseball. Played baseball at DePauw.
- Dan Quayle — Former Vice President of the United States and former United States Senator from Indiana. Golfer at DePauw.
- Mark Rolfing — Former PGA Tour pro. Longtime golf commentator. Number two golfer as a freshman behind Dan Quayle.
- Brad Stevens — President of Basketball Operations for the Boston Celtics. Two-time national runner-up as head coach for Butler University. Eight years as head coach of the Celtics. Four basketball letters, playing in all of the Tigers games during his career. Graduated before Haley, but inducted into the school’s hall of fame after her.
- Dick Tomey — Longtime college football head coach, notably at Hawaii, Arizona, and San Jose State. Played baseball at DePauw.
Haley had a career as a luxury yacht stewardess for nearly a decade and eventually got out of that line of work and immersed herself in the culture of hunting. This new passion culminated in Haley writing a book entitled, Hunt It, Clean It, Cook It, Eat It: The Complete Field to Table Guide to Bagging More Game, Cleaning It Like a Pro, and Cooking Wild Game Meals Even Non-Hunters Will Love.
Haley now lives in Florida and runs the Liberty Alliance Network and is the host of the What Can We Do? podcast.
Tom Woods
#TomWoods100 (My goal is to get 100 people within the “Tom Woods orbit” on the podcast…then we’ll talk to Tom all about it.)
Haley has followed Tom’s work since about 2011 after finding out about the great Ron Paul in 2010.
Says The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul was an “instant lightbulb. Haven’t looked back since.”
She calls herself part of the “Ron Paul-to-Tom Woods Pipeline.”
Like myself, Haley is a member of The Tom Woods School of Life. “OG’s”
Before we connected in the backchannels within the Tom’s School of Life network, I saw some of the videos Haley did at the Tom Woods School of Life live event weekend. I was not at the event, but saw her man-on-the-street interviews after the fact.
These short interviews are now up on her Rumble channel, WhatCanWeDo.
Her first interview was with Jeremy Evans, who we had on Episode 2 of this podcast.
I would have liked to have gone, but I haven’t gone on a plane since probably 2019. I don’t know when I’m going to be comfortable going to an airport or on an airplane. These people were evil and wicked.
In college, Haley interned with C-SPAN. If you are an old-school cable television watcher, you probably know about C-SPAN.
The C-SPAN Bus.
Florida Politics
Laura Loomer
Dan Webster
Hector Roos (Libertarian candidate for Florida governor). Haley interviews him here.
As with many of us, “covid” was a “game-changer” for Haley.
She started Liberty Alliance Network as a way for people to “unite and fight.”
What can we do?
Do something!
Other Haley Heathman links:
- Haley on the Culinary Libertarian Podcast. Episode 6: Embrace the Suck.
- Rumble channel – What Can We Do (Get the long version of the story on the “tone policing” Haley ran into on the channel.)
- Bark Busters Dog Training
Over the last week and a half, we’ve been fielding a lot of questions about a segment of our podcast that takes on the dominant narrative surrounding the “Penn State Case.”
I am not interested in in appearances, as I often say. I am concerned with the truth. The Sandusky case is not something I had any desire in learning about, but once I scratched the surface, it began a deep-dive into the facts and the narrative surrounding the case.
I’ve written about it in the past…taking a position as I have—which unfortunately appears to be the only reasonable position—is an easy way to get one shunned from polite society.
So here is my challenge: just listen to the show. You may not want to. You may think it will creep you out…it very well could. But this is an important story and it goes much deeper than a man’s guilt or innocence.
It exposes the cultural rot that exists within this society…and its cause is probably the opposite of what most people have been told.
We have a corporate media structure that exists in today’s culture comprised—almost entirely—of truly unimpressive people. These people jump to rash conclusions either out of sheer ignorance or wonton political—read: leftist—motivations.
I don’t know how we fight back against it, but I believe that being aware of the problem is a good place to start.
Part of my initial strategy for building awareness—even in the last show notes page—was to send you back to Episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast, which I called “the most important podcast” we’d done up until that point…and start from there.
Human nature is such that people would rather insult me than go through the effort of hunting down an old podcast—a task which was not difficult, as I gave the link right in the show notes.
Thus, after a rash of BS heading my way, my tactics changed.
What we did is compile our material on the case into one single show, edited for clarity and relevance.
We encourage you to start here. Today.
This “2-in-1 podcast” is designed to help you get the basics of what is going on with this case and to ultimately go and listen to John Ziegler’s epic podcast series With the Benefit of Hindsight.
Meanwhile, we are praying that all our friends in Florida, the Carolinas, and the rest of the eastern seaboard are safe after the hurricane. In fact, we had to reschedule a podcast because of the hurricane earlier this week.
So, for today, my team cobbled together a “starter kit podcast” for the Penn State–Paterno–Sandusky case as it stands right now.
The foremost expert on the case is John Ziegler, who we’ve had on the show twice so far—once in February and once again in September. You can find those shows in our archives, if you need to, but the whole shootin’ match is right here for you.
Go to BrianDOLeary.com for all of those resources and to sign up for our daily newsletter and to be notified whenever new podcasts are launched.
Today’s episode consists of the two interviews, slightly edited for time and clarity … yet this program you are about to listen to still runs at over two hours.
The first part of the program you will hear in a moment was from Episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast. The second part was a conversation from within Episode 8 of The O’Leary Review Podcast.
Part one is probably what I call a “survey” of the case.
John came on the podcast with me in February when I was still very wet behind the ears on the subject and after I had recently finished his podcast series, which is the best resource for the case. You’ll hear us mention it several times throughout this show.
Go over to John’s podcast with Liz Habib—With the Benefit of Hindsight—and there you’ll get the whole story. But there is also several days-worth of content to get through.
Here, you can get the basic picture in one or two sittings by listening to this show.
Part two is from the third part of a long form podcast we did in September that also touched on LIV/PGA golf and the state of college football. The segment we include here is a bit of an update on the Penn State case from where we left it in February, but also incorporates more examples of the corporate media’s malfeasance, especially as it relates to the realm of sports.
John Ziegler is a documentary filmmaker, author, Emmy-winning commentator, podcaster, former radio talk show host and television sportscaster
John’s podcast, which he hosts with Liz Habib, called With the Benefit of Hindsight is over 60 hours of detailed reporting on the case.
In this podcast series, “The truth about what happened at Penn State has been locked in a vault for ten years — you’ve just been given the key.”
You can find everything relating to the podcast at FramingPaterno.com
Other than his tireless reporting on the truth in the Penn State debacle, which includes a 2012 documentary called The Framing of Joe Paterno, Ziegler is most well- known for his second feature documentary film called Media Malpractice which covered the 2008 presidential election.
Ziegler is an alumnus of Georgetown University and grew up in Pennsylvania, though with no direct ties to Penn State University.
The Penn State Case
John’s YouTube channel
Clip of the questionable McQueary TD pass in 1995.
Zig’s offer to Sara Ganim
Immaculate Reception (Franco Harris)
Franco Harris Twitter @francoharrishof
We come at the second part of this discussion from the perspective that Jerry Sandusky is innocent and therefore Joe Paterno’s reputation has been dragged through the mud unfairly.
The conversation then builds on that notion.
John Ziegler’s reporting on this case leads to no other conclusion other than Sandusky’s innocence and that Paterno was certainly framed and became a fall guy for the ineptitude of the corporate media and the vendetta academia has against sports—college football in particular.
If this claim disturbs you at all, one needs to first do some basic research on the facts of the case. Start by listening to this podcast from the beginning!
The Penn State Case has proven to be a perfect storm, not a hoax or a conspiracy or a cover-up…the cover-up comes elsewhere with the media and the prosecution.
-
Conspiracy: “a secret plan or agreement between persons for an unlawful or harmful purpose, especially with political motivation, while keeping their agreement secret from the public or from other people affected by it.”
-
Conspiracy Theory: “an explanation for an event or situation that involves a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation.”
The covid era was not a conspiracy, either. Much like this case it was the dumb leading the stupid to insane conclusions.
“I want to make something clear. I am not raising doubt about what happened. I know what really did and did not happen. What we were told did not happen.
It did not. Period!
Did not happen! Jerry Sandusky is completely innocent—as insane I myself would have thought that was insane. If you told me that in 2012, I would have thought that was insane. In fact, when people did tell me that in 2012, I thought they were nuts.”
—John Ziegler
If you have the time—and you do—listen to the entirety of With the Benefit of Hindsight.
“This whole saga is the worst example in modern history of a complete fraud that was—to this day still—accepted as gospel truth by every single element of the news media and not one of those news media members. Not one of them can tell you even the basic facts of the case…
And it doesn’t even bother them! It doesn’t even bother them that they can’t tell you any facts of the case. Because they know the truth because everybody in their bubble said the same thing and even though we know they’ve been wrong so many times.”
—JZ
Reference the Duke–BYU volleyball controversy and then the BYU–University of Oregon football episode. Ziegler was on with Dan Abrams on NewsNation the other night talking about it all.
The Jay Paterno diagram of how the showers in the Lasch Football Building at Penn State were designed. After this case broke, there exist no known photos of the showers and the entire building was renovated in 2012-2013.
Did the prosecution team tell Mike McQueary to “clam up?”
The Ziegler appearance mentioned with Piers Morgan in 2013.
John Ziegler – Twitter
The Sandusky Case Flow Chart
The horrible HBO movie Paterno. Not recommended whatsoever.
How do Hall of Fame coach Dick Vermeil and longtime NFL and college head coach Herm Edwards tie into this case?
Can’t say for sure, because nobody will talk on the record. Interestingly, Vermeil wrote the foreword to Jerry Sandusky’s book, Touched.
Herman Edwards, a former player for Vermeil, according to a conversation Vermeil had with Ziegler, told his former coach, “There’s a guy in California who’s going to break the case wide open…”
Probably this guy…
Penn Law Fumble — PennLawFumble.info on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
We talk about the “Ohio State wrestling scandal” involving Ohio congressman Jim Jordan. I don’t know of any decent reporting on this after a cursory glance of the search engine results. If anyone has a decent breakdown … of the truth … please leave it in the comments section.
For more… BrianDOLeary.com
Mega podcast for you. Two hours of content.
We talk PGA vs LIV golf, college football, and step back into “The Penn State Case.”
We’ve provided some links and a bit of commentary for you. The main show notes page will be updated at
https://briandoleary.substack.com/podcast
Search for John Ziegler - With the Benefit of Hindsight when you get to that page. It should be Episode 8 of The O'Leary Review Podcast.
This podcast is definitely a "conversation that matters" ...
John Ziegler is a documentary filmmaker, author, Emmy-winning commentator, podcaster, former radio talk show host and television sportscaster, and was called “An American Hero,” by former Penn State president Graham Spanier in an inscription of his book The Lion’s Den. This description is mocked by Ziegler’s wife and kids.
John was last with us in February on episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast when we spoke for over 90 minutes on the Penn State-Joe Paterno-Jerry Sandusky scandal that emerged in November 2011.
John’s podcast, which he hosts with Liz Habib, called With the Benefit of Hindsight is over 60 hours of detailed reporting on the case.
In this podcast series, “The truth about what happened at Penn State has been locked in a vault for ten years — you’ve just been given the key.”
You can find everything relating to the podcast at FramingPaterno.com
Other than his tireless reporting on the truth in the Penn State debacle, which includes a 2012 documentary called The Framing of Joe Paterno, Ziegler is most well- known for his second feature documentary film called Media Malpractice which covered the 2008 presidential election.
Ziegler is an alumnus of Georgetown University and grew up in Pennsylvania, though with no direct ties to Penn State University.
LIV Golf issue
The LIV is in the process of ruining pro golf. It will eventually—both directly and indirectly—destroy the essence of professional golf.
The PGA Tour
The Tour went a long way in setting us back when it came to its response to the covid situation.
Professional golf is a sport that is uniquely designed to change people’s lives. Competing in LIV does not do that.
The Saudis have not created a new market. It is an “artificial stimulus.” A “kamikaze” attack on an American institution perhaps.
Golf, to be compelling, must have an element of fear. When everyone becomes super-rich, there’s nothing to fear.
Tiger Woods (& Rory McIlroy) role in the PGA Tour … Is the Tour becoming cartelized? The golf media won’t ask the questions because it is terrified of Tiger Woods.
Does the sport of golf need professional golf to thrive or even survive?
College football
Sports have contributed to the cultural decline over the last two-and-a-half years. This much is clear.
Pro golf, college and pro basketball, and college football all had the chance to step up and be leaders in the culture and stand up to the crazy policies implemented by the covid regime, but none of them did. Every other sports organization and league across the world were cowardly as well.
How and why did this happen?
The cancellation of the 2020 Ivy League basketball tournament started the ball rolling…
“College football no longer exists.”
Winning the National Championship is now the only thing.
The NIL money, the new transfer rules, and the upcoming 12-team playoff has destroyed what was once perhaps the favorite sport of much of the country—college football.
It’s not the same sport that it was even three years ago.
What in the heck is the point of college now when academia is ruined, and the college sports landscape is ruined?
The Penn State Case
We come at this discussion of the case with the perspective that Jerry Sandusky is innocent and therefore Joe Paterno’s reputation has been dragged through the mud unfairly. The conversation then builds on that.
John Ziegler’s reporting on this case leads to no other conclusion other than Sandusky’s innocence and that Paterno was certainly framed, thus becoming a fall guy for the ineptitude of the corporate media and the vendetta academia has against sports—college football in particular.
If this claim disturbs you at all, you need to first do some basic research on the facts of the case.
Start with Episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast and if you have the time, listen to the entirety of With the Benefit of Hindsight.
The Penn State Case has proven to be a perfect storm, not a hoax or a conspiracy or a cover-up…the cover-up comes elsewhere with the media and the prosecution.
-
Conspiracy: “a secret plan or agreement between persons for an unlawful or harmful purpose, especially with political motivation, while keeping their agreement secret from the public or from other people affected by it.”
-
Conspiracy Theory: “an explanation for an event or situation that involves a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation.”
The covid era was not a conspiracy, either. Much like this case it was the dumb leading the stupid to insane conclusions.
“I want to make something clear. I am not raising doubt about what happened. I know what really did and did not happen. What we were told did not happen.
It did not. Period!
Did not happen! Jerry Sandusky is completely innocent—as insane I myself would have thought that was insane. If you told me that in 2012, I would have thought that was insane. In fact, when people did tell me that in 2012, I thought they were nuts.”
...
“This whole saga is the worst example in modern history of a complete fraud that was—to this day still—accepted as gospel truth by every single element of the news media and not one of those news media members. Not one of them can tell you even the basic facts of the case…
And it doesn’t even bother them! It doesn’t even bother them that they can’t tell you any facts of the case. Because they know the truth because everybody in their bubble said the same thing and even though we know they’ve been wrong so many times.”
—John Ziegler
Reference the Duke – BYU volleyball thing and then the BYU – University of Oregon football thing. Ziegler was on with Dan Abrams on NewsNation the other night talking about it all.
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1572065085471993857
The Jay Paterno diagram of how the showers in the Lasch Football Building at Penn State were designed. After this case broke, there exist no known photos of the showers and the entire building was renovated in 2012-2013.
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/860667211786067968
Did the prosecution team tell Mike McQueary to “clam up?”
The Ziegler appearance mentioned with Piers Morgan in 2013. https://youtu.be/jwsAqaRKLDA
John Ziegler – Twitter
The Sandusky Case Flow Chart
The horrible HBO movie Paterno. Not recommended whatsoever.
How do Hall of Fame coach Dick Vermeil and longtime NFL and college head coach Herm Edwards tie into this case?
Can’t say for sure, because nobody will talk on the record. Interestingly, Vermeil wrote the foreword to Jerry Sandusky’s book, Touched.
Herman Edwards, a former player for Vermeil, according to a conversation Vermeil had with Ziegler, told his former coach, “There’s a guy in California who’s going to break the case wide open…”
Probably this guy…
Penn Law Fumble — PennLawFumble.info on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
We talk about the “Ohio State wrestling scandal” involving Ohio congressman Jim Jordan. I don’t know of any decent reporting on this after a cursory glance of the search engine results. If anyone has a decent breakdown … of the truth … please leave it in the comments section.
Some Twitter follows for more clarity in the “Penn State case”:
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud
https://twitter.com/VexPith
https://twitter.com/AndyFavor1
https://twitter.com/WhiteyBall24
https://twitter.com/DombroskiMike
https://twitter.com/AllPSUfootball
https://twitter.com/TheodorouJustin
https://twitter.com/SteveMasters7
There are many more and I apologize if I missed you…
Brian O'Leary
Mega podcast for you. Two hours of content.
We talk PGA vs LIV golf, college football, and step back into “The Penn State Case.”
We’ve provided some links and a bit of commentary for you. The main show notes page will be updated at
https://briandoleary.substack.com/podcast
Search for John Ziegler - With the Benefit of Hindsight when you get to that page. It should be Episode 8 of The O'Leary Review Podcast.
This podcast is definitely a "conversation that matters" ...
John Ziegler is a documentary filmmaker, author, Emmy-winning commentator, podcaster, former radio talk show host and television sportscaster, and was called “An American Hero,” by former Penn State president Graham Spanier in an inscription of his book The Lion’s Den. This description is mocked by Ziegler’s wife and kids.
John was last with us in February on episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast when we spoke for over 90 minutes on the Penn State-Joe Paterno-Jerry Sandusky scandal that emerged in November 2011.
John’s podcast, which he hosts with Liz Habib, called With the Benefit of Hindsight is over 60 hours of detailed reporting on the case.
In this podcast series, “The truth about what happened at Penn State has been locked in a vault for ten years — you’ve just been given the key.”
You can find everything relating to the podcast at FramingPaterno.com
Other than his tireless reporting on the truth in the Penn State debacle, which includes a 2012 documentary called The Framing of Joe Paterno, Ziegler is most well- known for his second feature documentary film called Media Malpractice which covered the 2008 presidential election.
Ziegler is an alumnus of Georgetown University and grew up in Pennsylvania, though with no direct ties to Penn State University.
LIV Golf issue
The LIV is in the process of ruining pro golf. It will eventually—both directly and indirectly—destroy the essence of professional golf.
The PGA Tour
The Tour went a long way in setting us back when it came to its response to the covid situation.
Professional golf is a sport that is uniquely designed to change people’s lives. Competing in LIV does not do that.
The Saudis have not created a new market. It is an “artificial stimulus.” A “kamikaze” attack on an American institution perhaps.
Golf, to be compelling, must have an element of fear. When everyone becomes super-rich, there’s nothing to fear.
Tiger Woods (& Rory McIlroy) role in the PGA Tour … Is the Tour becoming cartelized? The golf media won’t ask the questions because it is terrified of Tiger Woods.
Does the sport of golf need professional golf to thrive or even survive?
College football
Sports have contributed to the cultural decline over the last two-and-a-half years. This much is clear.
Pro golf, college and pro basketball, and college football all had the chance to step up and be leaders in the culture and stand up to the crazy policies implemented by the covid regime, but none of them did. Every other sports organization and league across the world were cowardly as well.
How and why did this happen?
The cancellation of the 2020 Ivy League basketball tournament started the ball rolling…
“College football no longer exists.”
Winning the National Championship is now the only thing.
The NIL money, the new transfer rules, and the upcoming 12-team playoff has destroyed what was once perhaps the favorite sport of much of the country—college football.
It’s not the same sport that it was even three years ago.
What in the heck is the point of college now when academia is ruined, and the college sports landscape is ruined?
The Penn State Case
We come at this discussion of the case with the perspective that Jerry Sandusky is innocent and therefore Joe Paterno’s reputation has been dragged through the mud unfairly. The conversation then builds on that.
John Ziegler’s reporting on this case leads to no other conclusion other than Sandusky’s innocence and that Paterno was certainly framed, thus becoming a fall guy for the ineptitude of the corporate media and the vendetta academia has against sports—college football in particular.
If this claim disturbs you at all, you need to first do some basic research on the facts of the case.
Start with Episode 77 of Sportlanders the Podcast and if you have the time, listen to the entirety of With the Benefit of Hindsight.
The Penn State Case has proven to be a perfect storm, not a hoax or a conspiracy or a cover-up…the cover-up comes elsewhere with the media and the prosecution.
-
Conspiracy: “a secret plan or agreement between persons for an unlawful or harmful purpose, especially with political motivation, while keeping their agreement secret from the public or from other people affected by it.”
-
Conspiracy Theory: “an explanation for an event or situation that involves a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation.”
The covid era was not a conspiracy, either. Much like this case it was the dumb leading the stupid to insane conclusions.
“I want to make something clear. I am not raising doubt about what happened. I know what really did and did not happen. What we were told did not happen.
It did not. Period!
Did not happen! Jerry Sandusky is completely innocent—as insane I myself would have thought that was insane. If you told me that in 2012, I would have thought that was insane. In fact, when people did tell me that in 2012, I thought they were nuts.”
...
“This whole saga is the worst example in modern history of a complete fraud that was—to this day still—accepted as gospel truth by every single element of the news media and not one of those news media members. Not one of them can tell you even the basic facts of the case…
And it doesn’t even bother them! It doesn’t even bother them that they can’t tell you any facts of the case. Because they know the truth because everybody in their bubble said the same thing and even though we know they’ve been wrong so many times.”
—John Ziegler
Reference the Duke – BYU volleyball thing and then the BYU – University of Oregon football thing. Ziegler was on with Dan Abrams on NewsNation the other night talking about it all.
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1572065085471993857
The Jay Paterno diagram of how the showers in the Lasch Football Building at Penn State were designed. After this case broke, there exist no known photos of the showers and the entire building was renovated in 2012-2013.
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/860667211786067968
Did the prosecution team tell Mike McQueary to “clam up?”
The Ziegler appearance mentioned with Piers Morgan in 2013. https://youtu.be/jwsAqaRKLDA
John Ziegler – Twitter
The Sandusky Case Flow Chart
The horrible HBO movie Paterno. Not recommended whatsoever.
How do Hall of Fame coach Dick Vermeil and longtime NFL and college head coach Herm Edwards tie into this case?
Can’t say for sure, because nobody will talk on the record. Interestingly, Vermeil wrote the foreword to Jerry Sandusky’s book, Touched.
Herman Edwards, a former player for Vermeil, according to a conversation Vermeil had with Ziegler, told his former coach, “There’s a guy in California who’s going to break the case wide open…”
Probably this guy…
Penn Law Fumble — PennLawFumble.info on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
We talk about the “Ohio State wrestling scandal” involving Ohio congressman Jim Jordan. I don’t know of any decent reporting on this after a cursory glance of the search engine results. If anyone has a decent breakdown … of the truth … please leave it in the comments section.
Some Twitter follows for more clarity in the “Penn State case”:
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud
https://twitter.com/VexPith
https://twitter.com/AndyFavor1
https://twitter.com/WhiteyBall24
https://twitter.com/DombroskiMike
https://twitter.com/AllPSUfootball
https://twitter.com/TheodorouJustin
https://twitter.com/SteveMasters7
There are many more and I apologize if I missed you…
Brian O'Leary
As the Founder and President of Simbiotrek (sim-bē-ˈä-ˈtrek), Sean Kennedy wears many hats. Sean’s roles include:
- transformation strategist and catalyst
- fractional COO for small- and medium-sized businesses
- small business peer advisory board coordinator and chair
Sean works with entrepreneurs and business owners to unlock the potential trapped by the structure and capacity of their current business organization, and to build beautiful businesses together.
Sean has 20+ years of experience in software development. He’s primarily concerned with Agile and Lean software, of which he is a practitioner, coach, strategist, and digital transformation leader.
We delve into Sean’s role in “digital transformation” and much more.
Sean’s clients range from:
- Multinationals to startups
- In the Americas to over in Europe and Asia
- Within the aerospace and automotive industry to industrial automation and insurance into health care, retail, technology, and telecommunications…he runs the gamut.
Tom Woods #TomWoods100
TomWoods.com
TomSchoolofLife.com
My goal is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on this show. We are building steady. Sean is the 5th person within Tom’s orbit to come on the pod…
First, if you don’t know who Tom Woods is, you’ve probably been living under a rock, but Tom is a benefactor of mankind…and to my intelligence level. Check out TomWoods.com for a firehose worth of great content and then work your way to TomSchoolofLife.com.
We need to keep the momentum going for this #TomWoods100 series. (And I apologize to Tom if I hijacked a hashtag he wanted &/or needed for another project…but I don’t think so.)
The point is—The O’Leary Review provides a platform for serious people to get the word out on what they are doing to make this world better.
Also— our mission is to fight back against the crazy in this world. It exists all around us and we must eliminate it.
How I met Sean.
I met Sean a few weeks back when he facilitated an accountability group within the Tom Woods School of Life that I am a part of.
“Blah blah blah…Austrian Economics…blah blah blah… I know nothing about that stuff.”
Well, you should find out. And we provide a platform here—at least on the last few shows—where you can now jump on the Austrian train with relative ease.
Over the last few podcasts, we’ve talked a bit about Austrian Economics and have provided resources in the various show notes.
The following talk, however, is also worth your time if you have any inkling to discover more about why one should pursue Austrian Economics in even its basic forms. You’ll likely discover that economics is indeed a field worth studying or exploring.
“The Attractiveness of Austrian Economics” by Tom Woods from July of 2013.
https://youtu.be/DStLhWMRERM
More About Sean
Lives in the Raleigh-Durham area after moving down from Toronto. Simbiotrek’s office is in “Wake Forest.”
- Wake Forest, the town, is in the Raleigh-Durham area, also called the Research Triangle…not—as I found out doing a little cursory research—near Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. About a 2-hour car ride away!
Notable son of Wake Forest: Bryce Love, former Stanford running back who had a phenomenal junior season at The Farm (Doak Walker Award, Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year, Unanimous All-American, etc.). Attended Wake Forest-Rolesville High School.
Love had one great college season after backing up Christian McCaffrey for two seasons then got hurt his senior year, playing off-and-on. Got hurt again—ACL tear—in his final college game, but was eventually drafted by the Washington Redskins, yet dealt with more injury trouble and never ultimately played a regular season game in the NFL.
Great ballplayer.
Sean’s early days were spent in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Kitchener, Ontario, however, and not in the Research Triangle.
Sean’s rooting interest in the CFL is for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
https://www.bluebombers.com/
A couple of other famous sons of Kitchener, Ontario:
Lennox Lewis
Former Heavyweight Champion of the World. Last heavyweight to hold the undisputed championship. Moved to Kitchener at the age of 12. 1988 Gold medal winner at the Seoul Olympics (representing Canada).
Jamal Murray
Utah Jazz guard. Currently recovering from a devastating ACL tear that caused him to miss the entire 2021-22 NBA season. Interestingly, Murray’s father, Roger, competed in basketball against Lennox Lewis when they were younger and before Lewis started his boxing career. Roger also coached Jamal for a season at Orangeville Prep prior to the younger Murray going on to Kentucky to play for the Wildcats and coach John Calipari in the 2015-16 season.
Murray’s 20.0 scoring average is the highest for any freshman in program history and the highest single-season average for any player under Calipari in his time in Lexington.
....
I am still trying to research the Canadian high school football rules Sean played under during his prep days and why it became a such a strange mashup of the Canadian and the American gridiron codes.
Wikipedia has a “Comparison of American and Canadian Football,” but it does not do justice to what we were talking about in this episode. But, if you are not familiar with the code of Canadian football, but know the American code well enough—or vice-versa—this examination is a good start…
...
Game mentioned:
100th Grey Cup
November 25, 2012 at SkyDome/Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Toronto Argonauts 35 — Calgary Stampeders 22
Attendance: 53,208
Halftime show included Canadians: Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Marianas Trench, and the ol’ troubadour himself, Gordon Lightfoot.
Sean’s Core Values
- The Golden Rule
- The Stockdale Paradox
Sean Kennedy is a youth hockey coach in North Carolina
One of Sean’s videos takes the lessons learned from a youth hockey tournament into entrepreneurship.
https://wthtm.com/entrepreneurship-and-the-new-business/entrepreneurial-lessons-from-youth-hockey/547/
Read Sean’s article and watch the video. He teaches lessons on how coaching translates to the business world.
It struck me when Sean mentioned Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour was watching this tournament. I think it was 10U or 11U. One of Brind’Amour’s sons was playing in the same tournament.
It stood out because Brind’Amour was one of my favorite hockey players in the 1990s. I’ve never been a big Flyers fan, but I really liked his Flyers team of that era, where he was the second-line centre. Eric Lindros led the “Legion of Doom” line with John LeClair and Mikael Renberg as wingers. I almost exclusively used the Flyers when I played NHL96 on my computer…and I did that a lot at one stage of my life.
In real life, that Flyers club made it to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1997 but were eventually swept by the Red Wings (who won the Cup for the first time in 42 years).
In that video game, it was hard to choose which future NHL general manager to put in goal for Philly: Ron Hextall or Garth Snow. Coach Terry Murray had a similar problem…both were good tenders.
Rod Brind’Amour
https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/brindro01.html
Brind’Amour is now the coach for the Carolina franchise. It surprised me when I looked up his stats that he played for Carolina for so long, too. Ten seasons for the Canes to 7 as a Flyer.
“Rod Brind’Amour” is also one of the great names in sports. Hard to type at times but rolls of the tongue nicely.
Better Entrepreneurial Action Network
https://beaction.net/
Developed by Simbiotrek with the support of Economics for Business, a project of the Mises Institute.
Economics for Business
https://mises.org/library/economics-business
- I only heard about this in the last several days
- Mises Institute has such a vast catalog of material…
Econ4Business.com
https://econ4business.com/
Building a business, managing a project, launching an innovation – these are journeys from your imagination to the marketplace and customer satisfaction. We’ve systematized the journey steps based on the value generation principles of Austrian economics.
Simbiotrek
Simbiotrek (sim-bē-ˈä-ˈtrek)
get clarity · get alignment · get going
https://simbiotrek.com/
Whatever The Heck That Means (Sean’s Blog)
https://wthtm.com/
- Bikesheds & Dim Sum
- Entrepreneurship & The New Business
- Poems & Personal Things
- Links to YouTube channel
Sean aka MacGyver
@MacGyver on Twitter
https://twitter.com/AkaMacGyver
… we never got to ask if the alias has anything to do with Richard Dean Anderson being both a Canadian and a hockey enthusiast… for another day.
BrianDOLeary.com for more...
As the Founder and President of Simbiotrek (sim-bē-ˈä-ˈtrek), Sean Kennedy wears many hats. Sean’s roles include:
- transformation strategist and catalyst
- fractional COO for small- and medium-sized businesses
- small business peer advisory board coordinator and chair
Sean works with entrepreneurs and business owners to unlock the potential trapped by the structure and capacity of their current business organization, and to build beautiful businesses together.
Sean has 20+ years of experience in software development. He’s primarily concerned with Agile and Lean software, of which he is a practitioner, coach, strategist, and digital transformation leader.
We delve into Sean’s role in “digital transformation” and much more.
Sean’s clients range from:
- Multinationals to startups
- In the Americas to over in Europe and Asia
- Within the aerospace and automotive industry to industrial automation and insurance into health care, retail, technology, and telecommunications…he runs the gamut.
Tom Woods #TomWoods100
TomWoods.com
TomSchoolofLife.com
My goal is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on this show. We are building steady. Sean is the 5th person within Tom’s orbit to come on the pod…
First, if you don’t know who Tom Woods is, you’ve probably been living under a rock, but Tom is a benefactor of mankind…and to my intelligence level. Check out TomWoods.com for a firehose worth of great content and then work your way to TomSchoolofLife.com.
We need to keep the momentum going for this #TomWoods100 series. (And I apologize to Tom if I hijacked a hashtag he wanted &/or needed for another project…but I don’t think so.)
The point is—The O’Leary Review provides a platform for serious people to get the word out on what they are doing to make this world better.
Also— our mission is to fight back against the crazy in this world. It exists all around us and we must eliminate it.
How I met Sean.
I met Sean a few weeks back when he facilitated an accountability group within the Tom Woods School of Life that I am a part of.
“Blah blah blah…Austrian Economics…blah blah blah… I know nothing about that stuff.”
Well, you should find out. And we provide a platform here—at least on the last few shows—where you can now jump on the Austrian train with relative ease.
Over the last few podcasts, we’ve talked a bit about Austrian Economics and have provided resources in the various show notes.
The following talk, however, is also worth your time if you have any inkling to discover more about why one should pursue Austrian Economics in even its basic forms. You’ll likely discover that economics is indeed a field worth studying or exploring.
“The Attractiveness of Austrian Economics” by Tom Woods from July of 2013.
https://youtu.be/DStLhWMRERM
More About Sean
Lives in the Raleigh-Durham area after moving down from Toronto. Simbiotrek’s office is in “Wake Forest.”
- Wake Forest, the town, is in the Raleigh-Durham area, also called the Research Triangle…not—as I found out doing a little cursory research—near Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. About a 2-hour car ride away!
Notable son of Wake Forest: Bryce Love, former Stanford running back who had a phenomenal junior season at The Farm (Doak Walker Award, Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year, Unanimous All-American, etc.). Attended Wake Forest-Rolesville High School.
Love had one great college season after backing up Christian McCaffrey for two seasons then got hurt his senior year, playing off-and-on. Got hurt again—ACL tear—in his final college game, but was eventually drafted by the Washington Redskins, yet dealt with more injury trouble and never ultimately played a regular season game in the NFL.
Great ballplayer.
Sean’s early days were spent in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Kitchener, Ontario, however, and not in the Research Triangle.
Sean’s rooting interest in the CFL is for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
https://www.bluebombers.com/
A couple of other famous sons of Kitchener, Ontario:
Lennox Lewis
Former Heavyweight Champion of the World. Last heavyweight to hold the undisputed championship. Moved to Kitchener at the age of 12. 1988 Gold medal winner at the Seoul Olympics (representing Canada).
Jamal Murray
Utah Jazz guard. Currently recovering from a devastating ACL tear that caused him to miss the entire 2021-22 NBA season. Interestingly, Murray’s father, Roger, competed in basketball against Lennox Lewis when they were younger and before Lewis started his boxing career. Roger also coached Jamal for a season at Orangeville Prep prior to the younger Murray going on to Kentucky to play for the Wildcats and coach John Calipari in the 2015-16 season.
Murray’s 20.0 scoring average is the highest for any freshman in program history and the highest single-season average for any player under Calipari in his time in Lexington.
....
I am still trying to research the Canadian high school football rules Sean played under during his prep days and why it became a such a strange mashup of the Canadian and the American gridiron codes.
Wikipedia has a “Comparison of American and Canadian Football,” but it does not do justice to what we were talking about in this episode. But, if you are not familiar with the code of Canadian football, but know the American code well enough—or vice-versa—this examination is a good start…
...
Game mentioned:
100th Grey Cup
November 25, 2012 at SkyDome/Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Toronto Argonauts 35 — Calgary Stampeders 22
Attendance: 53,208
Halftime show included Canadians: Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Marianas Trench, and the ol’ troubadour himself, Gordon Lightfoot.
Sean’s Core Values
- The Golden Rule
- The Stockdale Paradox
Sean Kennedy is a youth hockey coach in North Carolina
One of Sean’s videos takes the lessons learned from a youth hockey tournament into entrepreneurship.
https://wthtm.com/entrepreneurship-and-the-new-business/entrepreneurial-lessons-from-youth-hockey/547/
Read Sean’s article and watch the video. He teaches lessons on how coaching translates to the business world.
It struck me when Sean mentioned Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour was watching this tournament. I think it was 10U or 11U. One of Brind’Amour’s sons was playing in the same tournament.
It stood out because Brind’Amour was one of my favorite hockey players in the 1990s. I’ve never been a big Flyers fan, but I really liked his Flyers team of that era, where he was the second-line centre. Eric Lindros led the “Legion of Doom” line with John LeClair and Mikael Renberg as wingers. I almost exclusively used the Flyers when I played NHL96 on my computer…and I did that a lot at one stage of my life.
In real life, that Flyers club made it to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1997 but were eventually swept by the Red Wings (who won the Cup for the first time in 42 years).
In that video game, it was hard to choose which future NHL general manager to put in goal for Philly: Ron Hextall or Garth Snow. Coach Terry Murray had a similar problem…both were good tenders.
Rod Brind’Amour
https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/brindro01.html
Brind’Amour is now the coach for the Carolina franchise. It surprised me when I looked up his stats that he played for Carolina for so long, too. Ten seasons for the Canes to 7 as a Flyer.
“Rod Brind’Amour” is also one of the great names in sports. Hard to type at times but rolls of the tongue nicely.
Better Entrepreneurial Action Network
https://beaction.net/
Developed by Simbiotrek with the support of Economics for Business, a project of the Mises Institute.
Economics for Business
https://mises.org/library/economics-business
- I only heard about this in the last several days
- Mises Institute has such a vast catalog of material…
Econ4Business.com
https://econ4business.com/
Building a business, managing a project, launching an innovation – these are journeys from your imagination to the marketplace and customer satisfaction. We’ve systematized the journey steps based on the value generation principles of Austrian economics.
Simbiotrek
Simbiotrek (sim-bē-ˈä-ˈtrek)
get clarity · get alignment · get going
https://simbiotrek.com/
Whatever The Heck That Means (Sean’s Blog)
https://wthtm.com/
- Bikesheds & Dim Sum
- Entrepreneurship & The New Business
- Poems & Personal Things
- Links to YouTube channel
Sean aka MacGyver
@MacGyver on Twitter
https://twitter.com/AkaMacGyver
… we never got to ask if the alias has anything to do with Richard Dean Anderson being both a Canadian and a hockey enthusiast… for another day.
BrianDOLeary.com for more...
Darren Mullen — originally from the New Orleans, Louisiana area moved to Tucson, Arizona in 2007 after completing a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Darren worked in several different industries over the last decade-and-a-half, but he left the corporate world in April 2022 to concentrate on entrepreneurship. He is building a company known as Smart Consulting Services LLC.
Under this company, he operates as Smartsheet Guru, which focuses on building solutions for and coaching clients on the use of Smartsheet, Appsheet, and Appenate.
Darren also takes on web design projects for select clients under his Smart Web Guru brand.
When not working on his own business, Darren helps his wife with her speech therapy practice and taking care of their 3 children, with a 4th due in January 2023.
Tom Woods
#TomWoods100
TomWoods.com
TomSchoolofLife.com
My goal is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on this show. We are building steady. I think Darren is the 4th.
We just need to keep the momentum going.
The point is that this show is a platform for serious people to get the word out on what they are doing to make this world better. Also—how to fight back against the crazy in this world.
Early Life
Mullen is a great Irish name. Not to be confused with Mullin, another great Irish name.
University of New Orleans
- Alma Mater of former Trail Blazers center, the recently deceased Wayne Cooper (April 2022)
Artist mentioned
Chris LeDoux (1948-2005). Country-Western singer-songwriter. 1976 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bareback World Championship.
Official Website: https://chrisledoux.com/
Article Mentioned
Did America’s Enemies Win the War?
By Brian D. O’Leary
Published at LewRockwell.com September 13, 2022
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/09/no_author/did-americas-enemies-win-the-war/
Smart Consulting Services LLC
- Smartsheet Guru
- Smartsheet
- Appsheet
- Appenate
- Smart Web Guru
- Web design
- YouTube page
- Demos of all the stuff Darren can do for you
Speech With Heart
Speech Therapy in Tucson
https://www.speechwithheart.com/
Sign up for Darren’s Newsletter:
https://www.smartsheetguru.com/7-smartsheet-tips/
https://www.smartsheetguru.com/
https://smartwebguru.com/
BrianDOLeary.com
Sign up for our daily newsletter at BrianDOLeary.substack.com
Darren Mullen — originally from the New Orleans, Louisiana area moved to Tucson, Arizona in 2007 after completing a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Darren worked in several different industries over the last decade-and-a-half, but he left the corporate world in April 2022 to concentrate on entrepreneurship. He is building a company known as Smart Consulting Services LLC.
Under this company, he operates as Smartsheet Guru, which focuses on building solutions for and coaching clients on the use of Smartsheet, Appsheet, and Appenate.
Darren also takes on web design projects for select clients under his Smart Web Guru brand.
When not working on his own business, Darren helps his wife with her speech therapy practice and taking care of their 3 children, with a 4th due in January 2023.
Tom Woods
#TomWoods100
TomWoods.com
TomSchoolofLife.com
My goal is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on this show. We are building steady. I think Darren is the 4th.
We just need to keep the momentum going.
The point is that this show is a platform for serious people to get the word out on what they are doing to make this world better. Also—how to fight back against the crazy in this world.
Early Life
Mullen is a great Irish name. Not to be confused with Mullin, another great Irish name.
University of New Orleans
- Alma Mater of former Trail Blazers center, the recently deceased Wayne Cooper (April 2022)
Artist mentioned
Chris LeDoux (1948-2005). Country-Western singer-songwriter. 1976 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bareback World Championship.
Official Website: https://chrisledoux.com/
Article Mentioned
Did America’s Enemies Win the War?
By Brian D. O’Leary
Published at LewRockwell.com September 13, 2022
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/09/no_author/did-americas-enemies-win-the-war/
Smart Consulting Services LLC
- Smartsheet Guru
- Smartsheet
- Appsheet
- Appenate
- Smart Web Guru
- Web design
- YouTube page
- Demos of all the stuff Darren can do for you
Speech With Heart
Speech Therapy in Tucson
https://www.speechwithheart.com/
Sign up for Darren’s Newsletter:
https://www.smartsheetguru.com/7-smartsheet-tips/
https://www.smartsheetguru.com/
https://smartwebguru.com/
BrianDOLeary.com
Sign up for our daily newsletter at BrianDOLeary.substack.com
Andy Flattery
- Simple Wealth Planning
- Andy on Twitter
- The Reformed Financial Advisor Podcast
Moonlight Graham Show
https://www.moonlightgrahamshow.com/
Archibald Moonlight Graham deep dive…
https://www.moonlightgrahamshow.com/podcast/archibald-moonlight-graham
Rick Heller — Iowa baseball
Fort Dodge, Iowa
Andy - Crisis Magazine
Article mentioned that Andy wrote for Crisis Magazine
Is Speculative Investing Immoral?
Links to debate inside the article.
The Morality of Modern Investing (podcast with Andy as guest from Crisis Magazine)
Books mentioned
Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt
Crunchy Cons, Rod Dreher
The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher
Economists mentioned
Bob Murphy
The Bob Murphy Show
The Human Action Podcast — Bob’s weekly podcast with Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute
Tom Woods
Peter Schiff
Ludwig von Mises
What is Austrian Economics?
Resources for Austrian school view on bitcoin (via Mises Institute)
Monetary Inflation and Price Inflation by Robert P. Murphy (the aforementioned Bob Murphy)
What is going on with the price inflation? From 2013
Universal Basic Income
Pat Buchanan
Magazine that has supplanted the old American Conservative magazine — Chronicles Magazine
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is Saving
Here is Why Bitcoin will Kill Index Funds, by Andy Flattery (12-9-2021)
Odysee
O’Leary’s Odysee Page
Gresham’s Law
Concept of “The 10 Percent”
Bob Murphy and Carlos Lara podcast.
More on the idea from, ironically, the Freakonomics guys
Podcasting 2.0
What is Podcasting 2.0?
Dwight D. Eisenhower on planning
I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of “emergency” is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.
CyHawk Saturday
Iowa State Football
Tim Floyd – Former Basketball Coach
Larry Eustachy
Timeline: Larry Eustachy’s downfall at Iowa State
Joe Flattery – Andy’s brother (Kansas State baseball)
Lewis-Clark State Baseball
BrianDOLeary.com for more...
Andy Flattery
- Simple Wealth Planning
- Andy on Twitter
- The Reformed Financial Advisor Podcast
Moonlight Graham Show
https://www.moonlightgrahamshow.com/
Archibald Moonlight Graham deep dive…
https://www.moonlightgrahamshow.com/podcast/archibald-moonlight-graham
Rick Heller — Iowa baseball
Fort Dodge, Iowa
Andy - Crisis Magazine
Article mentioned that Andy wrote for Crisis Magazine
Is Speculative Investing Immoral?
Links to debate inside the article.
The Morality of Modern Investing (podcast with Andy as guest from Crisis Magazine)
Books mentioned
Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt
Crunchy Cons, Rod Dreher
The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher
Economists mentioned
Bob Murphy
The Bob Murphy Show
The Human Action Podcast — Bob’s weekly podcast with Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute
Tom Woods
Peter Schiff
Ludwig von Mises
What is Austrian Economics?
Resources for Austrian school view on bitcoin (via Mises Institute)
Monetary Inflation and Price Inflation by Robert P. Murphy (the aforementioned Bob Murphy)
What is going on with the price inflation? From 2013
Universal Basic Income
Pat Buchanan
Magazine that has supplanted the old American Conservative magazine — Chronicles Magazine
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is Saving
Here is Why Bitcoin will Kill Index Funds, by Andy Flattery (12-9-2021)
Odysee
O’Leary’s Odysee Page
Gresham’s Law
Concept of “The 10 Percent”
Bob Murphy and Carlos Lara podcast.
More on the idea from, ironically, the Freakonomics guys
Podcasting 2.0
What is Podcasting 2.0?
Dwight D. Eisenhower on planning
I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of “emergency” is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.
CyHawk Saturday
Iowa State Football
Tim Floyd – Former Basketball Coach
Larry Eustachy
Timeline: Larry Eustachy’s downfall at Iowa State
Joe Flattery – Andy’s brother (Kansas State baseball)
Lewis-Clark State Baseball
BrianDOLeary.com for more...
Debut episode of "College Football Cookout" https://odysee.com/@BrianDOLeary:f/CollegeFootballCookout:e
Check out BrianDOLeary.com for more.
Sportlanders the Podcast Network
Sportlanders.com
O'Leary Beef
OLearyBeef.com
https://olearybeef.com/southsidedeals/
Debut episode of "College Football Cookout"
https://odysee.com/@BrianDOLeary:f/CollegeFootballCookout:e
Check out BrianDOLeary.com for more.
Sportlanders the Podcast Network
Sportlanders.com
O'Leary Beef
OLearyBeef.com
https://olearybeef.com/southsidedeals/
Debut episode of "College Football Cookout"
https://odysee.com/@BrianDOLeary:f/CollegeFootballCookout:e
Check out BrianDOLeary.com for more.
Sportlanders the Podcast Network
Sportlanders.com
O'Leary Beef
OLearyBeef.com
https://olearybeef.com/southsidedeals/
In this episode, we talk about the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix, but more than that, we dive into the themes of the movie.
I came down pretty hard on the franchise earlier in the week and Nicky P called me on it.
The O'Leary Review A painful, every day reminder that lunatics remain in charge I am not sure if it is the age we live in or the circles I travel in—books, podcasts, and articles, etc.—but the proliferation of conversations about what of these different colored “pills” one must take to get through one’s life’s journey…well, it is way too much… Read more 3 days ago · Brian D. O’Leary So I said to Nicky, hey, let’s get on the podcast and discuss…
It turned out to be a great discussion and we got into many topics, using The Matrix as the North Star in all of it.
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Nick Pecone “Nicky P” https://nickpecone.com/
Part of the “Tom Woods 100”…
The Tom Woods School of Life - How to flourish in a world that hates you
Nicky and I know each other through the Tom Woods School of Life via Episode 2 guest Jeremy Evans.
The O'Leary Review Podcast - Ep 2 Listen now (56 min) | To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Guest: Jeremy Evans Last night, we welcomed Jeremy Evans on to the program. Jeremy is a self-described “madman” in the marketing world. We talk about how Jeremy got his start, who some of his mentors are, and how he arrived at his philosophy of life… Read more 24 days ago · 2 likes · 3 comments · Brian D. O’Leary My goal is to get 100 people in the “Tom Woods orbit” (#TomWoods100 )on this podcast to talk about their journey, whether it be in entrepreneurship or life in general.
Nicky’s film review podcast:
Road to Hell Film Reviews — Roadtohellfilmreviews.com
“Where the crossroads of science-fiction and conspiracy meet.”
Planet of the Apes review.
Planet of the Apes movie (original)
“The matrix isn’t even from The Matrix.” Snow Crash
“Hiro Protagonist is a hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia…”
Also mentioned:
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Second Life
Transhumanism? Jared Kushner?
Metaverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
The Bob Murphy Show On Klaus Schwab (Part 1)
Bob Murphy has a several part series on Klaus Schwab. This is the first installment. Highly recommended.
The Club of Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome
Buchanan and Nader in 2000 Quora forum on “Why didn’t Al Gore comfortably win the 2000 U. S. Presidential election…”
Dialectic
Jimmy Dore The Jimmy Dore Show
The Red Pill Al Bundy’s NO MA’AM movement
Cassie Jaye on the “men’s rights movement” on The Tom Woods Show
The Red Pill: A feminist’s journey into the men’s rights movement
Tom Woods on “The Red Pill”
A speech by Tom Woods defining the “red pill.” This is a helpful talk, yet as I explained in my previous email, every “pill” discussion comes with trying to re-learn the nomenclature. I appreciate the concepts of the subject matter, not the content of it.
The Most Important Line in The Matrix ™ Cypher:
“You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.”
Michael Malice “A World of Malice” book review by Jeff Deist.
Malice is a fellow who I enjoy very much. I don’t always agree with him and some of his antics are either way above my understanding or way below my tolerance level, but he is in all actuality a serious man with serious ideas.
His podcast “Your Welcome” is a weekly show that usually deals with important and timely ideas existing in the culture-at-large.
Malice describes himself as “anarchist without adjectives.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe Hoppe is perhaps the most serious academic alive today. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV and a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute and currently resides in Constantinople, Turkey.
Hoppe is originally from West Germany and moved to the U. S. to study with Murray Rothbard, “Mr. Libertarian.”
Hoppe is also the leading “anarcho-capitalist” philosopher of our time, and while his work is in the “libertarian” sphere, many of his adherents have taken to the “post-libertarian” moniker.
Post-libertarian Pete Quiñones
Quiñones, over the last two years or so, has transitioned from a “libertarian” to what he calls “post-libertarian.” Pete is one of the thought leaders in this realm, using common sense and practicality as the force for his philosophy or outlook on the world.
The Substack newsletter by Quiñones is a great place to start. He is a serious man and becomes more serious by the day. I’ve been reading and listening to Pete for several years now, and the degree of seriousness has ramped up severely since “covid” took over.
Also, his podcast, The Pete Quiñones Show: Getting Liberty Right is a good meeting place for ideas. Ideas are presented, some are outright rejected, some are embraced, but they are all discussed. In these days, I find The Pete Quiñones Show an indispensable part of my week.
The Progressive Movement The progressive movement was and is a horrible pox upon humanity.
Alex Epstein Epstein is a clear and systematic thinker who has a lot of prescient things to say about today’s “climate emergency” so-called. Well worth reading all his material.
- Fossil Future
- The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
I wrote about Epstein in this newsletter
The O'Leary Review Clowns to the left, jokers to the right Our precious “democracy” denies a man (or woman) the choice to cast his or her ballot with a vote of “no confidence.” If democracy were in fact the fairest system in all the land, one would think such a reasonable option should be on the table.The O'Leary Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becomin… Read more a month ago · Brian D. O’Leary
Nicky P Substack The Questions We No Longer Ask Why are there so many philosophical questions we are supposed to assume are already solved? By Nicky P
ESG (“Environmental, social, and corporate governance”) Free Markets Green Earth podcast
Recent Tom Woods episode on ESG
Sri Lanka these days https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/
Battery-powered John Deere? https://www.farms.com/news/coming-soon-more-battery-powered-john-deere-equipment-174477.aspx
Thomas Massie “Heart Emoji” as Nicky P says.
This fellow is a champion. Derided by all of our “cultural betters,” Massie sticks up for the people of his district, Americans in general, and common decency. The greatest congressman currently serving.
Off the Grid
35-minute mini-documentary about Massie’s homestead in Kentucky. You should watch it.
The same newsletter we mentioned Epstein, we mentioned Massie.
Massie vs Buttigieg
Tom Woods interview with Massie that YouTube banned.
Fabian Socialism https://www.conservapedia.com/Fabian_Socialism
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Florida man Sheriff’s deputy resigns for being an a****le
AJ+ @ajplus A Florida deputy who was filmed pointing a gun at a pregnant Black woman last week has resigned. She had 3 kids in her car and drove with hazards on to a parking lot because it was dark. Ex-deputy Jacob Desue told her to "shut up" and threatened: "I'll put you into the ground." August 23rd 2022
361 Retweets690 Likes
Black Mirror (Netflix series) USS Callister
Isaac Asimov (science-fiction writer)
The Expanse Amazon series and an entire book franchise
Stefan Molyneux * Peaceful Parenting
Nicky P https://nickpecone.com/
https://Roadtohellfilmreviews.com
In this episode, we talk about the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix, but more than that, we dive into the themes of the movie.
I came down pretty hard on the franchise earlier in the week and Nicky P called me on it.
The O'Leary Review A painful, every day reminder that lunatics remain in charge I am not sure if it is the age we live in or the circles I travel in—books, podcasts, and articles, etc.—but the proliferation of conversations about what of these different colored “pills” one must take to get through one’s life’s journey…well, it is way too much… Read more 3 days ago · Brian D. O’Leary So I said to Nicky, hey, let’s get on the podcast and discuss…
It turned out to be a great discussion and we got into many topics, using The Matrix as the North Star in all of it.
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Nick Pecone “Nicky P” https://nickpecone.com/
Part of the “Tom Woods 100”…
The Tom Woods School of Life - How to flourish in a world that hates you
Nicky and I know each other through the Tom Woods School of Life via Episode 2 guest Jeremy Evans.
The O'Leary Review Podcast - Ep 2 Listen now (56 min) | To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Guest: Jeremy Evans Last night, we welcomed Jeremy Evans on to the program. Jeremy is a self-described “madman” in the marketing world. We talk about how Jeremy got his start, who some of his mentors are, and how he arrived at his philosophy of life… Read more 24 days ago · 2 likes · 3 comments · Brian D. O’Leary My goal is to get 100 people in the “Tom Woods orbit” (#TomWoods100 )on this podcast to talk about their journey, whether it be in entrepreneurship or life in general.
Nicky’s film review podcast:
Road to Hell Film Reviews — Roadtohellfilmreviews.com
“Where the crossroads of science-fiction and conspiracy meet.”
Planet of the Apes review.
Planet of the Apes movie (original)
“The matrix isn’t even from The Matrix.” Snow Crash
“Hiro Protagonist is a hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia…”
Also mentioned:
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Second Life
Transhumanism? Jared Kushner?
Metaverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
The Bob Murphy Show On Klaus Schwab (Part 1)
Bob Murphy has a several part series on Klaus Schwab. This is the first installment. Highly recommended.
The Club of Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome
Buchanan and Nader in 2000 Quora forum on “Why didn’t Al Gore comfortably win the 2000 U. S. Presidential election…”
Dialectic
Jimmy Dore The Jimmy Dore Show
The Red Pill Al Bundy’s NO MA’AM movement
Cassie Jaye on the “men’s rights movement” on The Tom Woods Show
The Red Pill: A feminist’s journey into the men’s rights movement
Tom Woods on “The Red Pill”
A speech by Tom Woods defining the “red pill.” This is a helpful talk, yet as I explained in my previous email, every “pill” discussion comes with trying to re-learn the nomenclature. I appreciate the concepts of the subject matter, not the content of it.
The Most Important Line in The Matrix ™ Cypher:
“You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.”
Michael Malice “A World of Malice” book review by Jeff Deist.
Malice is a fellow who I enjoy very much. I don’t always agree with him and some of his antics are either way above my understanding or way below my tolerance level, but he is in all actuality a serious man with serious ideas.
His podcast “Your Welcome” is a weekly show that usually deals with important and timely ideas existing in the culture-at-large.
Malice describes himself as “anarchist without adjectives.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe Hoppe is perhaps the most serious academic alive today. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV and a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute and currently resides in Constantinople, Turkey.
Hoppe is originally from West Germany and moved to the U. S. to study with Murray Rothbard, “Mr. Libertarian.”
Hoppe is also the leading “anarcho-capitalist” philosopher of our time, and while his work is in the “libertarian” sphere, many of his adherents have taken to the “post-libertarian” moniker.
Post-libertarian Pete Quiñones
Quiñones, over the last two years or so, has transitioned from a “libertarian” to what he calls “post-libertarian.” Pete is one of the thought leaders in this realm, using common sense and practicality as the force for his philosophy or outlook on the world.
The Substack newsletter by Quiñones is a great place to start. He is a serious man and becomes more serious by the day. I’ve been reading and listening to Pete for several years now, and the degree of seriousness has ramped up severely since “covid” took over.
Also, his podcast, The Pete Quiñones Show: Getting Liberty Right is a good meeting place for ideas. Ideas are presented, some are outright rejected, some are embraced, but they are all discussed. In these days, I find The Pete Quiñones Show an indispensable part of my week.
The Progressive Movement The progressive movement was and is a horrible pox upon humanity.
Alex Epstein Epstein is a clear and systematic thinker who has a lot of prescient things to say about today’s “climate emergency” so-called. Well worth reading all his material.
- Fossil Future
- The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
I wrote about Epstein in this newsletter
The O'Leary Review Clowns to the left, jokers to the right Our precious “democracy” denies a man (or woman) the choice to cast his or her ballot with a vote of “no confidence.” If democracy were in fact the fairest system in all the land, one would think such a reasonable option should be on the table.The O'Leary Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becomin… Read more a month ago · Brian D. O’Leary
Nicky P Substack The Questions We No Longer Ask Why are there so many philosophical questions we are supposed to assume are already solved? By Nicky P
ESG (“Environmental, social, and corporate governance”) Free Markets Green Earth podcast
Recent Tom Woods episode on ESG
Sri Lanka these days https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/
Battery-powered John Deere? https://www.farms.com/news/coming-soon-more-battery-powered-john-deere-equipment-174477.aspx
Thomas Massie “Heart Emoji” as Nicky P says.
This fellow is a champion. Derided by all of our “cultural betters,” Massie sticks up for the people of his district, Americans in general, and common decency. The greatest congressman currently serving.
Off the Grid
35-minute mini-documentary about Massie’s homestead in Kentucky. You should watch it.
The same newsletter we mentioned Epstein, we mentioned Massie.
Massie vs Buttigieg
Tom Woods interview with Massie that YouTube banned.
Fabian Socialism https://www.conservapedia.com/Fabian_Socialism
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Florida man Sheriff’s deputy resigns for being an a****le
AJ+ @ajplus A Florida deputy who was filmed pointing a gun at a pregnant Black woman last week has resigned. She had 3 kids in her car and drove with hazards on to a parking lot because it was dark. Ex-deputy Jacob Desue told her to "shut up" and threatened: "I'll put you into the ground." August 23rd 2022
361 Retweets690 Likes
Black Mirror (Netflix series) USS Callister
Isaac Asimov (science-fiction writer)
The Expanse Amazon series and an entire book franchise
Stefan Molyneux * Peaceful Parenting
Nicky P https://nickpecone.com/
https://Roadtohellfilmreviews.com
Continuing our series on entrepreneurship, we had Sean Edrington on the podcast today. Sean has a unique story. He’s an aggressive entrepreneur, using the Substack platform in a way that not many do…
Sean also started The Swing Trading Club a few years ago…and that has another interesting backstory.
SEAN EDRINGTON @EdringtonSean on Twitter
https://linktr.ee/seanedrington
Our guest, Sean Edrington, emailed me a few weeks ago wondering if we could work together on a project.
We both have newsletters submitted to The Sample, a pretty remarkable website that curates “articles from hundreds of blogs and newsletters and send you the ones that match your interests.” Over 10,000 readers.
The Sample
This whole collaboration was new to me…
Sean said he was new to the cross-promotion thing. I am also, even though I mention and link to different newsletters and helpful websites here on our podcast and in our newsletters.
I took a look at what Sean was doing and — honestly — I don’t know of anyone else on the internet doing what he does with his Substack newsletters. Perhaps there are a few, but we’ll get into what exactly he’s doing with his Substacks…now up to at least three… here when we get going.
Point being, not everyone is going to be interested in what you do or say, but you do have an audience.
Sean is a graduate of University of Kansas.
He worked for Goldman Sachs as an analyst for about 3 years and now works with Standard C.
He uses his spare time to train in martial arts.
All-In Write-Ups All-In Write-Ups Weekly write-up over the All-In Podcast By Sean Edrington Sean writes-up / completes “show notes” for All-In Podcast.
- https://twitter.com/theallinpod
- https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast
The Besties:
- Chamath Palihapitiya
- David Friedberg
- David Sacks
- Jason Calcanis
The Besties cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.
My First Million Write-Ups My First Million Write-Ups Weekly Write-ups over My First Million Podcast By Sean Edrington Sean writes-up or completes the “show notes” for My First Million podcast.
Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/thesamparr)
- The Daily Hustle (https://thehustle.co/)
- https://linktr.ee/thesamparr
Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP)
- https://www.shaanpuri.com/
Every week we dive deep into different business opportunities and explain how to pounce on them.
Basically...we spoon-feed you interesting businesses you can start tomorrow. And hey, maybe it'll help you get your first million users, revenue, profit, employees (that'd be wild), or whatever it is you want a million of.
Builders Build Podcast Write-Up Builders Build Podcast Write-Up Weekly write-up over the Builders Build Podcast By Sean Edrington * Colin is CTO at Unrivaled Brands. Obviously, there’s a lot of technology and user experience that comes into the role. Colin has a lot of projects on the go, and he brings loads of technological bytes to the pod. * James is a serial entrepreneur that loves building stuff. He can best be described as an M & A (mergers and acquisitions) advisor to the stars, and works behind the scenes on a lot of celebrity businesses. Current projects include an online course to teach entrepreneurs how to buy and sell their own businesses, and building his newsletter, now 12,500 subscribers strong and on a steep profitability curve upwards. * Oren is a full maniac entrepreneur. An initial partner (and now a silent one) in Texas-based aerospace and engineering firm Guinn Partners, he is also the ex-president of Unrivalled Brands. Oren now focuses on high-level product, brand, and e-commerce strategies for an eclectic collection of emerging and interesting brands like LiftFoils (the eFoil brand) and The Shoe Surgeon. He currently invests in tech startups, and brings a wealth of sourcing and product info to the pod.
The Swing Trading Club Swing Trading
Swing trading is a short-term trading strategy where traders utilize technical analysis, fundamentals, and market-shaping events to gain profits. Most Swing Traders typically hold their position for1-4 weeks- this short-term model allows for Swing Traders to obtain quick and consistent profit.
The Club
Systematic approach
NOT a get rich scheme.
What the Club offers:
- Exclusive group chat
- Watchlists
- Training course
- 4 team members of which Sean is one
-
Blog / Newsletter
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Business currently for sale at MicroAquire *
Guest: Jeremy Evans
Tonight, we welcomed Jeremy Evans on to the program.
Jeremy is a self-described “madman” in the marketing world.
We talk about how Jeremy got his start, who some of his mentors are, and how he arrived at his philosophy of life.
Join Brian and Jeremy at:
Tom Woods School of Life
https://tomschooloflife.com/
Book mentioned:
Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer
Greg Stemm
https://www.odysseymarine.com/team/greg-stemm-
Spanish gold crisis
Errata: Your humble host erroneously claimed that the Spanish Republican government gave away about 90% of its gold reserves to the Russians in order to help finance its side of the Spanish Civil War.
It turns out, the “Republic” only gave away 72.6% of the total gold reserves sitting in the Bank of Spain.
Still a significant number (510 metric tons of gold) and one of many major blunders on behalf of Republican Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_gold_(Spain)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2011/05/09/there-be-moscow-gold/
https://www.montfort.org.br/eng/veritas/historia/pilhagem/
Join Jeremy at Atlas Talked.
https://atlastalked.com/
Brian at BrianDOLeary.com
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Clowns to the left, jokers to the right
but I am nowhere near the middle of all this nonsense
https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/clowns-to-the-left-jokers-to-the
Stuck in the Middle with You
https://youtu.be/7jFGjC2MpUU
Rep. Massie SHOCKS Buttigieg when he shows what'd happen...
https://youtu.be/t50MFchtg5E
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
Joe Biden looks confused as he appears to shake hands with thin air
https://youtu.be/e4b131aHxCs
Dana Carvey
Have you noticed that Biden has gotten a LITTLE feisty?
BIDEN VS TRUMP 2024!
O'Leary Beef
Deals
Southside Sausage Slammers, Part 1: The Opening
Instagram
Twitter
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Sportlanders the Booklist
Peter Gammons on the MLB lockout
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Michigan - Wisco postgame fracas.
Portland Trail Blazers: trailblazers.com
Dwight Jaynes on Twitter.
We chat about the Saudi golf thing, but no links...the whole thing is a mess and I don't know who to trust on what.
Check out Coach Phil over at TheCloptonTeam.com
OLearysPodcast.com
RockfordAgency.US
For the best pie in America, check out our friends at PapaCPies.com
Follow the Sportlanders on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesportlanders @TheSportlanders
Book mentioned:
Mental Toughness: Baseball's Winning Edge
Coach Phil Johnson is back on the program today.
We get Phil's reaction to O'Leary's interview with John Ziegler on Episode 77.
O'Leary breaks down his response to the interview as well.
We also talk about the Super Bowl, a little baseball labor discussion, the Trail Blazers situation, and more....
Episode 77 Show Notes: https://sportlanders.com/?page_id=94
Apple Podcasts page for With the Benefit of Hindsight (John Ziegler and Liz Habib's podcast that we mention):
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/with-the-benefit-of-hindsight/id1562078872
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Show Notes Page
https://sportlanders.com/?page_id=94
Who is John Ziegler?
John Ziegler is a documentary filmmaker and author who is also a former TV sportscaster and radio talk show host. He is most well known for his second feature documentary film, "Media Malpractice" about the 2008 presidential election. He has appeared on numerous national TV shows as a guest, including the "Today Show" and "The View." He attended Georgetown University and while he grew up in Pennsylvania, he has no direct ties to Penn State. He is politically conservative/libertarian.
Website:
http://www.framingpaterno.com/
Documentary film:
The Framing of Joe Paterno
John’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/talktozig
Clip of the questionable Mike McQueary TD pass in 1995.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eV4No5wvHY
John Ziegler on Twitter
@ZigManFreud
Immaculate Reception (Franco Harris)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Reception
Franco Harris stats
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HarrFr00.htm
Franco Harris Twitter
@francoharrishof
Zig’s offer to Sara Ganim
Book Mentioned:
Paterno by Joe Posnanski
More Ziegler…
Book by John Ziegler
The Death of Free Speech: How Our Broken National Dialogue Has Killed the Truth and Divided America
Documentary movie directed by John Ziegler
Media Malpractice
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PhilJohnsonPDX.com
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RockfordAgency.US
PapaCPies.com
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PapaCPies.com ... ask for the Sportlanders price.
We're happy to talk a little hardball this week as the ballots for the National Baseball Hall of Fame were revealed.
This is part 1 of the show. Part 2 will follow soon.
We dissect the main ballot, talking first about the 13 first-time guys on the ballot.
Part 1 of a 2-part Sportlanders show. We break down the weekend of NFL football and explain some of our reasons for our disdain of Seattle sports.
Show notes coming soon...
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2021 World Series
Earl Weaver
Earl's Orioles finished 1st or 2nd in the mighty AL East 13 times in his first 16 years as skipper. They finished 3rd in 1972, finished 4th with a 90-71 record in 1978 and finished 4th in the second half of the whacky 1981 season.
Career record 1480-1060 for a .583 clip. Won 4 AL pennants and 1 World Series.
Ejected 96 times in 17 seasons as manager.
Earl's rants
(NSFW language)
Week 9 NFL
Mike Lombardi’s Picks from Week 9
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Scorigami
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RunAtThunder.com
ESPN SportsCenter feature. The Man in the Red Bandana
Full Documentary. The Man in the Red Bandana (YouTube)
Website for the movie maninredbandana.com
Wikipedia on Welles Crowther
Recap of the annual Red Bandana Game from ESPN
QB1: Phil Jurkovec
Pat Tillman
USC at Arizona State game recap
World Series
Rosters
Fried
- Giolito
- Flaherty
Luis Garcia
Phil's Game 6 Prediction
5-2 Braves
Austin Riley is MVP and clinches it with a 2 run HR in the 7th
Jerry Remy, R.I.P.
Studies of how long ball is in play for several sports.
Tweet from Yankees writer
Stand up to Cancer
One American Time Zone?
Chinese dam slowing the world’s spin rate?
https://www.kinetica.co.uk/2014/03/27/chinese-dam-slows-down-earths-rotation/
Make up your own mind...
Sportlanders Standard Time?
It's not a far fetched idea...well, maybe it is.
Sagarin time
Advice:
Sleep when you’re tired. Eat when your hungry
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Brian and Coach Phil preview the World Series between the Braves and the Astros.
Brian also provides an unsolicited plan for Major League Baseball’s realignment.
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World Series
Braves
Astros
Dusty Baker
Brian Snitker
Joe Maddon
• The Cubs Way by Tom Verducci was the book we referred to.
• Lineup card
Three batter minimum rule
It dons on me that this relates as it pertains to many of the recent rule changes in baseball...
Dunning-Krueger Effect
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a hypothetical cognitive bias stating that people with low ability at a task overestimate their own ability, and that people with high ability at a task underestimate their own ability. Wikipedia
O’Leary gets into his realignment theory.
• DH or no DH?
Make Interleague Great Again
The Clopton Team
TheCloptonTeam.com
Brian and Coach Phil preview the World Series between the Braves and the Astros.
Brian also provides an unsolicited plan for Major League Baseball’s realignment.
Sportlanders.com
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World Series
Braves
Astros
Dusty Baker
Brian Snitker
Joe Maddon
• The Cubs Way by Tom Verducci was the book we referred to.
• Lineup card
Three batter minimum rule
It dons on me that this relates as it pertains to many of the recent rule changes in baseball...
Dunning-Krueger Effect
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a hypothetical cognitive bias stating that people with low ability at a task overestimate their own ability, and that people with high ability at a task underestimate their own ability. Wikipedia
O’Leary gets into his realignment theory.
• DH or no DH?
Make Interleague Great Again
The Clopton Team
TheCloptonTeam.com
Show Notes:
Aaron Boone extended by the Yanks.
"When you are the manager of this team and you wear the N.Y. and you wear these pinstripes, it's a heavy burden. But a guy like Booney, man, he wears it with pride, shows up to work every day and gets us prepared the right way, keeps us motivated and gets on guys when he needs to. It's been a pleasure the past couple of years to play for him and fight for him every single day. I could spend all night giving you reasons why he should still be the manager."
--Aaron Judge
Phil Nevin dropped like a bad habit.
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MLB Playoffs
Dale Murphy
Austin Riley
Armando Galarraga
Jim Joyce
Tim Donaghy
Podcast mentioned: Whistleblower.
Dodgers – Giants Game 5
- Dodgers Digest recap
Safety Squeeze
Look for an e-book in the future further explaining our conversation.
Chris Taylor
Tweet mentioned
Derrick Henry 6’3”, 247 lbs.
Jordan Poyer
Dak Prescott
Kyler Murray
NBA
Blazers outlook
Phil’s prediction is 82-0.
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Some of the topics covered in today’s show:
Aaron Boone
Brett Gardner
Joey Gallo
Three True Outcomes
KC Royals World Series Champions 2015
Dodgers v Astros World Series
Binders lead to blinders? 2020 World Series
Four outfielder defense
Randy Arozarena
Adley Rutschman
* High school kicker
* College football kicker
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Stealing home with two strikes and two outs.
Breakdown of the Rays attempt to steal home in the 2020 World Series
Yankees 2021 season of streaks
The “Renfroe Play”
The Yasmani Grandal Play
Tampa Bay Rays ground rules at Tropicana Field
Fenway Park ground rules
Crosley Field Check out “The Terrace”
Buster Posey
Evan Longoria
Brandon Crawford
Kris Bryant
LaMonte Wade Jr.
Gabe Kapler
Joe Girardi It was the Astros, not the Indians, that the Yankees were playing when O’Leary was hearkening back to Girardi’s fumbling through games in the ALCS.
Astros - White Sox ALDS
The 17 pitch at-bat…known in our circles as the Wiser Special.
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Jon Gruden situation
Kicking in week 5 of the 2021 NFL season
Support Phil Johnson and our friends at the Clopton Team real estate juggernaut in the Portland area.
The Clopton Team
Old friend and proprietor of TheHenduHammer.com, The Hammer himself joins the pod tonight. We chat Blazers, Albert Pujols, the Oakland A's situation, and a bit on college sports. The Hammer does not dissapoint.
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This week's show features a bias toward the Green and the Gold (although the Jesuit Crusaders are not mentioned in the pod...soon...very soon, however). Of course we bias to Portland and Oregon, which goes without saying.
We chat about the Aaron Rodgers situation in Green Bay. We talk Oregon Ducks QB sitch. Payton Pritchard—Lions, Ducks, Celtics. Finally we talk Oakland A's.
We don't stick entirely to the Green & Gold template, but it is pretty good.
Mike Lombardi on Aaron Rodgers situation.
Bill Barnwell on Aaron Rodgers situation.
Payton Pritchard article mentioned. (I have to say...good article as to getting the motivation behind Pritchard, however simple copy-editing is very poor. Just one for instance: writer says that Pritchard led the Ducks to their first final four in 2017...this would be news to my grandfather's fraternity brothers, several of whom were known as the Tall Firs and also known as the very first team to win an NCAA Championship in the sport of basketball. Tales of Laddie Gale, Slim Wintermute, Howard Hobson, et al. were fairly constant in my childhood.)
We have our first in-studio guest, Finbar O'Leary! Talking chicken sandwiches, baseball rules, Kentucky Derby, and we have a recipe for you all: barbecued beef brisket! Buckle up.
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Teams and players on fire! A brief foray into the NFL Draft. Talking a little in the way of British sitcoms: Watch "Detectorists"!
Peeves about baseball announcing and baseball uniforms.
NCAA Basketball (for the third straight show!)
A little on the Masters.
Our final installment of the Mega Pod with Primetime Brad Nicholson.
We chat about who should win this year's tourney...and more.
Websites mentioned:
TheHenduHammer.com
Primetime Brad Nicholson returns for part 2 of our chat and we have a good one with basketball as the framework.
Also, in the introduction to this episode we address the ongoing saga with the Juneau Douglas Crimson Bears basketball team. Find more information on Instagram at
the "prospectathletics.co" account.
Part 1 of 3 with our visit with Primetime Brad Nicholson. We break down the first two rounds of the tourney in this one and marvel at the notion that the Ducks and Beavers both made it to the Sweet Sixteen in the same crazy year.
Today we wear the green! We talk a little lightning football, a little NFL, and talk a little Rip City. Thanks for your support.
We are happy to be joined by Chad Collier of Papa C Pies in Brentwood, Tennessee just outside of Nashville.
Brian and Chad talk pie for a good portion of the episode, but then veer off to just as important topics like college football. SEC football to be specific.
Chad, not only the premier pie man in the nation, is also an Auburn University grad, so we take a trip down memory-lane with the Tigers. Chad also gives us his thoughts on the new football regime on The Plains.
(Unfortunately, no talk of O'Leary's favorite sportsman of all-time, Vincent Edward Jackson, commonly known as Bo Jackson...we'll have to discuss Bo on a future episode.)
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Peeve of the Week
Tim, in the spirit of the Holiday Season declines the peeve this week. Brian steps in with an emergency peeve. What belongs on a pizza and what doesn’t?
NBA
Tim’s Western Conference Top 8
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Lakers
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Nuggets
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Clippers
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Mavericks
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Trail Blazers
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Jazz
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Rockets
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Warriors
Tim’s Eastern Conference Top 8
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Bucks
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Nets
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Heat
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Celtics
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Raptors
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Bullets
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Pacers
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76ers
Portland Trail Blazers
College Basketball
Marques Johnson Pro stats
Will Johnson
Portland Pilots
WCC Basketball
Terry Porter Pro stats
Damon Stoudamire Pro stats
NBA (& ABA) Players from Oregon high schools
Baseball
Minor Leagues Realignment is most substantial since the early 1960s.
Negro Leagues are now major leagues.
We will revisit both topics in future episodes.
Mystery Ballplayer
Stats
Bio
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Peeve of the Week
The Peeve Intersection going Southbound on NE 60th.
The Peeve Intersection from a bicyclists perspective. Looking East on NE Davis.
Papa C pies
Dick Allen
R.I.P.
Stats
Bio
Hall of Famers by position.
Third Basemen (17) lowest number of members other than Designated Hitters. Paul Molitor is considered a Third Baseman, rather than a DH or Second Baseman.
Portland Trail Blazers
Carmelo Anthony’s Jersey Number
Melo wants 7?
Brandon Roy gives his “approval?”
Brandon Roy “amnesty” deal. Such a travesty.
An article about the Instagram post of Carmelo’s that Tim mentioned.
Portland Trail Blazers uniform number history.
Rolando Ferreira stats Bio
Mentioned:
NBA G-League more.
Santa Cruz Warriors Kaiser Permanente Arena seats 2,505
“NBA G League Ignite” (Yes this is the name of a team that will be playing in the G-League in 2020 if everything works out). Coached by Sportlanders favorite, Brian Shaw.
The Trail Blazers and the Nuggets are the only NBA teams without a G-League affiliate. Contact the Sportlanders if you want to talk about this phenomenon.
Major League Baseball list of retired numbers.
Pro Football
Retired Numbers in Pro Football
History of Dallas Cowboys #88. The first to wear it was the namesake of a good childhood friend and former baseball teammate of mine.
New York Football Giants at Seattle Seahawks
If anyone has more information on this “strategy” move we talked about, I am all ears. Contact us on social.
Some statistics regarding field goal kicking accuracy.
I hate the score 17-5 in football. 14-5, 20-5, 21-5 are all weird, but more palatable.
New England Patriots at San Diego Chargers
Anthony Lynn should not return as head ball coach. Belichick worked him hard.
Oakland Raiders at New York Jets
Jets snagged defeat from the jaws of victory. Gregg Williams, the biggest jerkface in the game of football was fired Monday, essentially for blitzing when a prevent defense of some sort was necessary.
Gregg Williams coaching stats.
MNF
Buffalo “at” San Francisco
Pseudo-MNF
Washington at Pittsburgh
Tuesday football
Cowboys at Baltimore
College Football
Oregon at Cal
BC at Virginia
Denny Dimes—Dennis Grosel passed for a school record (tied with the Great Flutie) 520 yards. Backup QB who started 7 games last season as a backup. Guy is a flat-out baller.
Eagles rushed for a net -7 yards. Had 36 yards of positive yardage with a long of 7. Proved to be the difference. Cavaliers had 262 on the ground. 287 through the air with a bad passer.
I may have a retrospective on the Eagles season on a future Daily Sportlander. Working on getting those up more consistently. Been busy.
BYU at Coastal Carolina
San Jose State @ Hawaii
SJ State: Surprise team of the nation?
UCLA @ Arizona State
Good game. I like both coaches. Sad that ASU has only played 2 games.
Quentin Lake #37 for UCLA, son of Carnell Lake #37 for Steelers, Jaguars, Baltimore (#31 for UCLA in the 1980s—85-88). I recall being a big fan of his. Loved the Steelers secondary in general back then.
Mentioned:
1988 College Football season
1989 College Football season
1990 College Football season
Teal (the color, in uniforms). Horrible color. Works pretty well with the Miami Dolphins, not many others.
Mystery Ballplayer
Stats
Errata: Mystery Ballplayer played at North Idaho College, not College of Southern Idaho
Origin
Bio
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Nick Peets, Beach Drive, on
Spotify
Apple Music
YouTube
Amazon Music
Pandora
Duck and sausage
“Deconstructed” cassoulet…?
O'Leary's Thanksgiving Main Course. Delicious.
Peeve of the Week:
Why are “dog years” so important?
Football
College
Oregon Classic / Civil War / Oregon-Oregon State Football Rivalry Game
The Platypus Trophy
2020 Game
2000 Oregon State Football Team
Dave Flemming and Rod Gilmore
Rod Gilmore Attorney
Gilmore on living with multiple myeloma
2005 Civil War
Larry Johnson (UNLV)
Stats
College Football Playoff Standings
Louisville at BC
Pro
The Fog Bowl (1988 Eagles vs Bears)
Documentary
JAX GM
DET GM & HC
Washington at Dallas
Cowboys – (former) Redskins draws viewers as always
Chargers at Bills
Ravens at Steelers
New Orleans at Denver
Golf
The Match
Recap
Phil, the Mouth of the Southwest
Barkley’s swing
Pro Basketball
Portland Trail Blazers
Roster (official, not current)
Our version
LeBron set to sign an extension mere hours after the Sportlanders speculate on a future stop in Portland.
Mystery Ballplayer
Stats
Bio
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Thankskgiving Peeves
The Great Pumpkin Pie Debate!
Unsolicited support for Papa C’s Pies in Brentwood, Tennessee.
What is a "chess pie?" Simply, a chess pie is the best kind of pie you can ever put in your mouth.
2021 National Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot Discussion
To be clear, the Baseball Writers Association of America has not granted a Hall of Fame Vote to either Sportlander, yet it is our firm belief that two ballots should be allocated to our franchise.
Stout’s Ballot
Curt Schilling
Roger Clemens
Barry Bonds
Omar Vizquel
Gary Sheffield
Todd Helton
Manny Ramirez
Jeff Kent
Andruw Jones
Torii Hunter
O’Leary’s Ballot
Roger Clemens
Barry Bonds
Manny Ramirez
Gary Sheffield
Curt Schilling
Andruw Jones
Todd Helton
Bobby Abreu
Scott Rolen
Torii Hunter
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Some of O’Leary’s favorite sports podcasts that you should listen to (alphabetically-ordered)
4th and Dude (Get In Podcast)
4th & Dude (Matt & Matt)
https://twitter.com/4thanddude
https://armchairmedianetwork.com/podcasts/4th-dude/
Baseball by the Book
Justin McGuire
https://twitter.com/BaseballBookPod
https://twitter.com/BaseballBookPod
Baseball Tonight
Buster Olney
https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN
http://m.espn.com/general/cast?id=2386164&wjb
The GM Shuffle
Michael Lombardi (& Adnan Virk)
https://twitter.com/mlombardiNFL
https://twitter.com/adnansvirk
https://shows.cadence13.com/podcast/gm-shuffle
The GOAT: Tom Brady
Gary Myers
https://twitter.com/GaryMyersNY
https://www.diversionpodcasts.com/podcast/the-goat-tom-brady/
Hard Knocks Podcast
Peter Schrager
https://twitter.com/PSchrags
https://www.hbo.com/hard-knocks/where-to-find-the-hard-knocks-podcast
The Hurricane Tapes
Steve Crossman
https://twitter.com/Steve_Crossman
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttt6/episodes/downloads
The Jim Rome Podcast
Van Smack
https://twitter.com/JimRome
https://www.jimrome.com/media/podcast/the-jim-rome-podcast
Lights!Camera!Sports!
Mike Gualtieri
https://twitter.com/mike_gualtieri
http://lightscamerasports.com/
The Moonlight Graham Show
Tim Flattery
https://twitter.com/MoonGrahamShow
https://www.moonlightgrahamshow.com/
The Perch
BC Athletics
https://twitter.com/JasonBaumPR
https://art19.com/shows/the-perch
SABRcast with Rob Neyer
Rob Neyer
https://twitter.com/robneyer
https://sabr.org/sabrcast
Whistleblower
Tim Livingston
https://twitter.com/timlikessports
https://whistleblowerpod.com/
Top (usually) Non-Sports Podcast that is a must-listen
The Dennis Miller Option
Dennis Miller
https://twitter.com/ChristianDMZ
https://westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/the-dennis-miller-option/
The Best Podcast to listen to (no sports whatsoever)
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
https://twitter.com/ThomasEWoods
www.tomwoods.com
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We’ve been doing some technology upgrades here at the Sportlanders headquarters, so we apologize for the dearth of daily episodes like we promised. Also, I am working out the tech as I go, so there will be some irregularities from the regular Wednesday podcasts, produced by Tim Stout.
Alas, the show notes for this episode.
An FYI...If you are using Apple Podcasts, Daily Sportlanders should show up in your feed, however, if you want to search for previous episodes, you will have to to "Unknown Season." The main Sportlanders, The Podcast shows are under Season 1. A mild annoyance until we get things figured out a little better around here.
The Chart
Sportlanders Masters Preview
The Masters
How do you qualify for this event? It has the smallest field of any major and it is an invitational tournament, yet there is a set of criteria that should get you in.
Tune in. Visit us on social @TheSportlanders. Stay tuned for more. Tell a friend.
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History with the Sportlanders starts at 49:55
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Check out sportlanders.com/store as well
Sportlanders.com is now accessible. It is still in the very early stages of development.
The Shop at Sportlanders.com is live.
Episodes will come out as soon as possible, but be sure to check out the notes for each episode on the website. We'll keep the show notes on the blog (for now) at Sportlanders.com/blog
Show notes to get us started…We’ll have them up on the website Sportlanders.com before next episode. Hold steady….
Fremont HS LA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Fremont_High_School
Locke HS LA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locke_High_School
Crenshaw HS LA
https://goo.gl/maps/3WaCzgdAFqBxT7mG7
McClymonds Oakland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClymonds_High_School Not mentioned: Vada Pinson and Curt Flood
Encinal Oakland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encinal_High_School
Coin flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition?
https://econ.ucsb.edu/~doug/240a/Coin%20Flip.htm
NBA restart home/away rules
They are dumb…we’ll let you know later…
Adam Silver eliminating artificial sound effects?
Not necessarily: https://thetylt.com/sports/should-sports-teams-turn-off-all-music-and-sound-effects-at-games
Jack Harlow!
https://www.google.com/search?q=jack+harlow
Rebecca Haarlow, former Trail Blazers sideline reporter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Haarlow
The Great Outdoors, a classic in American/Canadian cinema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmkGep6McE
Gabriel Park, SW Portland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Park
Jesuit, Wilson, Lincoln all used the baseball fields as home fields throughout the years. Most importantly, Southwest Babe Ruth.
Salem-Keizer Ballpark Air BnB
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/43524437?s=67&unique_share_id=6a9d77f7-7cab-478b-a7a9-99612abf111e
Missoula Osprey/Paddleheads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_PaddleHeads
KBO playoff format
http://eng.koreabaseball.com/About/KBOProcedures.aspx
Stats for the first three games 1-2 & 2-1 for everyone.
Digging…we’ll find it later.
Corey Myers
Diamondbacks draft pick late 90s
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=myers-001cor#:~:text=Positions%3A%20Third%20Baseman%2C%20First%20Baseman,HS%20(Phoenix%2C%20AZ).
Lyle Overbay
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/overbly01.shtml
Fun Fact: no “Philadelphia” on MLB jersey any time in history? Looks to be true. We will do more digging…
Jesse Orosco – mystery ballplayer
Slap bunt in 1986 Game 7: https://youtu.be/8cM1syOMlZ8
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oroscje01.shtml
Game 6 R.B.I. Replay (Scully/Garagiola play by play)
https://youtu.be/a-GgbP9C9Zk
Moneyball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball
Tim introduces us to a new segment, tentatively called "Mystery Ballplayer." Tweet @thesportlanders for name suggestions for the segment.
The fellas dive into the scuttlebutt about the Blazers somehow being the favorites to win the West, even though it will be a slog to get into the playoffs. Unprecedented...we are in the world of the 'Rona, so go figure.
Brian gripes about the baseball season, but both guys are nevertheless excited to see it start and give the fans their predictions on how they think the season will ultimately shake out.
Show Notes:
Chet Lemon, backfield mates in high school football with former USC standout and 1976 Pac-8 Player of the Year, Ricky Bell.
Fremont High School, Los Angeles. Famous Alumni (does not include Eddie Murray or Ozzie Smith, who were teammates at Locke High School in LA):
- Eric Davis. One of the best players of the 1980s and 1990s. Played for a long time and most certainly would have been in the Hall of Fame had injuries not severely curtailed his production. He even lost one year to cancer. Davis played on the same American Legion squad as Darryl Strawberry and former Padres and Giants third baseman, the late Chris Brown. Straw and Brown both went to rival Crenshaw HS.
- Bobby Doerr. Hall of Famer and longtime Oregonian until he passed away a few years ago at 99 years of age. Red Sox teammate of Portlander Johnny Pesky, Dominic DiMaggio, and the great Ted Williams.
- Dr. Dre. Rapper & Entrepreneur
- David Fizdale. Former head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies and NY Knicks.
- George Hendrick. Long time big leaguer who probably had his best seasons with the early 1980s Cardinals, helping them to the 1982 World Series crown. The progenitor, as far as I can tell, of the "low pants" look in baseball. A man ahead of his time. Also coached in the big leagues for many years.
- Gene Mauch. Long time big league manager. Never won the Series.
- Bobby Tolan. Solid big leaguer.
- Bob Watson. Former first baseman and general manager for the Astros and Yankees. Also played for Braves and Red Sox. Scored baseball's one-millionth run (arguable). Starred in Bad News Bears Break Training ("Let them play!"). Teammates at Fremont included Bobby Tolan and Willie Crawford, both eventual big leaguers. Passed away in early 2020. O'Leary's first first baseman's mitt was a Bob Watson model Wilson.
- Many more... including the evil congressman Henry Waxman.
The NBA Bubble Snitch line. Give it a watch.
Chris Haynes.
Channing Frye.
1994 Western Conference First Round. Nuggets upset Sonics.
Significant Stanley Cup playoffs Upsets.
For the NBA, big upsets were Nuggets over Sonics in 1994 and Warriors over Mavericks in 2007.
1985 Blazers at Celtics
Portland Trail Blazers Roster
Los Angeles Lakers Roster
Pete Maravich. The Pistol.
Larry Bird. Stats
Earl Weaver Baseball
1965 World Series. Great song about the Twins from The Baseball Project featuring Craig Finn (BC Alum)
Tim is excited to talk Ducks recruiting. Brian is excited for football in general.
The guys try to make sense of what the covid stuff will actually do to sports in 2020.
Stout mentions he stumbled upon watching The Basketball Tournament, but had no idea what it was. O'Leary tries to explain some of the strange rules to him.
Will we watch sports in 2020? How interested are the guys after all? Also, a small debrief on the fall 2020 sports schedule.
Show Notes:
Dave Kaval's Tweet begging A's fans to buy their cutouts.
Follow The Sportlanders on Twitter!
Merchandise is available. Check with the Sportlanders. Limited run of t-shirts and stickers.
First, a debrief on the 60 game schedule that Major League Baseball scratched out. It is baffling in many ways and the guys attempt to make sense of it.
The Sportlanders also have a chat about the Trail Blazers broadcast crew after the recent news that radio play-by-play man, Kevin Calabro, is stepping down after a few years behind the mic at the Rose Garden.
Tim is under the weather, but you'd never know it because of his sheer professionalism.
Sportlanders merchandise is on the horizon. Contact the Sportlanders for more info, and more on that should come in the next few weeks.
Show notes and links:
NBA practice courts lined up in a ballroom in Orlando somewhere.
Diagram of the MLB travel situation in 2020.
The Wikipedia biography of The Schonz.
Tim wants to clarify his position on soccer, which leads to an interesting discussion and the conclusion that neither Sportlander is a hater of soccer as much as it may occasionally sound like.
We move on briefly to the only NFL news worth chatting about. Cam Newton signs in New England. The Sportlanders differ in their opinion about Cam and his prospects.
The Portland Trail Blazers look to finish strong, but has the NBA rigged the process? We're not saying yes, but there aren't a whole lot of no's out there either.
How is it looking for baseball's chances in 2020? Although Brian does not cry, he is sad. Tim tries to find the silver lining in all of it as always.
Brian and Tim try to figure out what big league baseball is going to look like. O'Leary is trending toward eternal frustration. Stout is a bit more optimistic.
Mentioned:
The original novel, Don Quixote
Don Quixote
Sancho Panza, the Don's "squire"
Big Mac crushes three dingers at Fenway with O'Leary sitting in the first base side box seats. Receives a standing ovation 6-11-95
Show Notes:
Mentioned:
Eastern Stars by Mark Kurlansky
Essentially, a history of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, using the Dominican Winter League team, the Eastern Stars (in English) as the catalyst for the story. San Pedro de Macoris is known also as the cradle of shortstops. Highly recommended reading.
Sammy Sosa's transformation:
A bleaching cream? Who knows...
Baltimore Sun article on Sosa's transformation.
A tweet showing Sammy then and now.
Neymar, the Brazilian soccer player who appears to have done the Sosa/Michael Jackson treatment.
The top transformation in soccer history?
A tweet from 2014.
Steve Sailer from 2014 on Michael Jackson, Sammy Sosa, and Neymar.
I don't know what to make of these transitions...Reading a lot more on Latin American history may help. I can only shoot it through the prism of the study I have done on Revolutionary Cuba in college and through reading about baseball in the Dominican Republic, of which Eastern Stars by Mark Kurlansky is a very good resource. I have limited knowledge or interest in soccer and I have limited knowledge but a keen interest in Brazil.
I know next to nothing about Michael Jackson except what has been widely available in the pop culture during my lifetime.
I am at a loss to come up with any semblance of a coherent theory about what all these guys have done. ~BO'L
Brian and Tim sort out the confusion between George Blanda and Slingin' Sammy Baugh from last week's episode. We touch on traditionalists vs. purists in sport.
The NBA playoff picture is as clear as mud, as are the prospects for the Major League Baseball Season.
Good news: If this fall has sports, it will be awesome!
Brian and Tim dive into the quarterback situation at U of Oregon, touch on the NBA's latest plan, and continue to try and make sense of what Major League Baseball is doing.
Brian and Tim set sail on their inaugural Sportlanders podcast, touching on Tiger vs. Phil and Manning vs. Brady, what a potential baseball season could look like for the major leagues, and the Blazers chances and the NBA in general if a postseason comes to fruition.