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A pointless discussion of eternal questions, with Martin, Robert, Francis, Cajun and Marcus Aurelius. Join us as we tackle everything including history, pop culture, heroes and villains, movies, music, philosophy, words to live by, theology, comic books and especially Bourbon.
Once again Brother Andre takes the big chair in a throwback style episode with Robert and Martin. All the guys brought cool quotes to the party and Robert hammers it all home.
Brother Andre takes the reins for this episode featuring a just Martin and Robert tagging along. The guys still rambled for 90 minutes about favorite Gen X movies and what they mean. And yes, Indy did have agency in Raiders. So there.
Cajun takes us down a dark path with a quote from the popular Dexter TV show. And special guest Ms. Cajun breaks the glass ceiling as our first woman guest!
This started out as an episode on Renaissance Art, but Martin used Arthur Herman's The Cave and the Light to twist and turn it like taffy into one just on the Renaissance itself, and Robert tied it all together. He does that. He's The Hammer after all.
Once again with guest Maximus in attendance, Martin sits in the center seat and pulls a quotation from the great Nineteenth Century French economist Frédéric Bastiat on the nature of freedom, free markets, and how we as humans navigate the waters that come with both.
Francis takes command as the group welcomes Maximus, General of the Felix Legions, and discusses the history, consequences, and legacy of the Age of Reason as it both arose at the end of the Middle Ages and affects us all even today.
Brother Andre pulls out a great one from the Great One himself, Saint Pope John Paul II, with the quotation of "The more ready you are to give yourself to God and others, the more you discover the authentic meaning of life."
Martin brings another "What If?" conundrum to the boys, going back to World War I and wondering . . . what if the Allies told Germany to 'pound sand' with their request for an armistice in 1918 and decided to plow forward instead and seek the Central Powers total defeat?
Robert shoots from the hip and brings in an amazing quote about change, growth and the evils of stagnation from the great German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . . .
Robert takes command as the guys discuss the quintessential Gen X director, the late John Hughes, and how his movies both captured and helped create the pop cultural phenomenon known as the Eighties . . .
Francis does his best M for the guys as they discuss the ramifications of the recent sale of the Bond franchise creative rights to Amazon. Martin, per usual, isn't happy.
Martin takes the conn on this inaugural episode of the guys highlighting some of history's worst - and yet not well remembered - doucebags. (Martin came up with the phrase with his usual directness.)
This go-around the guys talk about some guys that caused a whole lot of trouble back in their day, Serbian Dragutin Dimitrijević and Frenchman Phillipe Petain.
The guys take a moment to update everyone on their various writing projects before diving into a series of Robert's quotations, all linked to one from David Foster Wallace about depression, sarcasm, humor and helping those in need.
Powerful stuff indeed!
Martin brings the boys back into the arena of philosophy and the intriguing person of French philosopher and writer Albert Camus and his reactionary philosophy of absurdism. It gives Martin the warm fuzzies.
The guys have to decide between Doors 1, 2 or 3 and there is plenty of debate all around.
Andre sits in the Captain's Chair and throws down an amazing quotation from the English poet Robert Browning and the guys bat it around all over the board, discussing Pelagianism, the nature of heaven and all sort of eternal things.
Martin takes the Captain's Chair as the fellas all discuss the films of the great director Michael Mann.
Martin has a particular penchant for Heat, whereas Francis and Cajun are definitely Last of the Mohicans fans.
Martin takes the guys into a discussion on a Max Weber quote. Weber is credited as essentially the world's first sociologist, and the discussion gets pretty heated.
A pointless discussion of eternal questions, with Martin, Robert, Francis, Cajun and Marcus Aurelius. Join us as we tackle everything including history, pop culture, heroes and villains, movies, music, philosophy, words to live by, theology, comic books and especially Bourbon.
