The Yacht Club Show: Recent Episodes
The Yacht Club Crew
The Yacht Club Show podcasts feature four friends that have formed a fraternal bond over the last several decades. Four guys making sense of this crazy world. Catholic up bringing, fiscal conservatives, social libertarians. These podcasts were created as a way to reach out to thinking people of any persuasion. Bumper music provided by The Wrenfields from Detroit.
Back and refreshed after our Florida trips.
A discussion about the Trump tariffs (recorded April 4, 2025)
Taking into account our center-right leaning tendencies, we are trying our best to be objective in our take on Trump’s first four weeks. Not all roses but not all doom and gloom either…
Read Bari Weiss’s complete February 18, 2025 speech to the ARC:
https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/against-the-vandals?r=14of27&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Enough has been written and discussed about the recent election. We touch on the election briefly, but this show is primarily about looking forward (and hopefully moving forward)
This episode contains:
- Jim’s memorable trip to Ireland
- Our Presidential candidates assessments
- Round three of our domestic national brand beer playoff
- Our discussion today can simply be called a gripe fest. The crew is fed up with the direction of society and incompetency in politics
Featuring:
- Round 2 of the Yacht Club Show Beer Playoffs
- “Liberal Cousin Eric” joins our Biden discussion for a more balanced assessment
Featuring:
- The first round of our “Beer-Off”. Dave snookers an unsuspecting Jim and Mike into rating light beers
- Our current analysis of the presidential race
The “crew” discusses what we perceive as some of America’s biggest issues. An outtake from our October 20th recording session.
Be a fly on the wall as the boys design a scientific “beer playoff” to help our listeners Avoid Buying Bad Beer (ABBB). Ignore the fuzzy math…
A mix of frivolity and serious matter. Topics ranging from The Yacht Club Show’s beginnings… to an exciting new music connection to the show… to our astute analysis of the Russia/China relationship…to, finally, a preview to our next show.
Better late than never: Our Midterm Election Analysis
Plus: some “truths” worth pondering
Want to hear what true faith sounds like? Listen to 92 years old Laura Terry’s testimony from the heart.
The Yacht Club Show proudly presents a conversation with Benjamin Cunningham, Author of The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War’s Last Honest Man From Kirkus review: “Vivid, sprawling…engrossing, well-written tale from the waning days of Cold War Espionage”
Playing some catch-up during a busy summer: Benjamin Cunningham’s spy novel (The Liar) is now available and the reviews are glowing! Our thoughts on Ford’s recent layoff announcement The Bonehead segment is back Have our projections for the mid-terms wavered? Featuring music clips by The War on Drugs from The Internet Archive – Live at … Continue reading Yacht Club Show: Summer Catch-up
Lineup: Golf is back, what’s the outlook for baseball? Looking ahead to the rest of summer Back to politics: Biden’s shaky standing Michigan Governor Whitmer and our current Tug of War (queue up Paul McCartney’s Tug of War )
Surviving the Pandemic – Part 5. What we can expect next Featuring words of wisdom from Yogi Berra, Mark Twain & Snoopy
The question on everyone’s mind: What would Charles Dickens say about our current crisis?
Highlights: Daily Task Force Updates – Expecting too much? Sweden’s Unique Approach to the COVAD-19 outbreak Tribute to Al Kaline Rev D’s Beard Update Kay’s Latest Venture Perspective from Rev D and Dr. Jim