Audio Mullet

In this episode, Doug TenNapel and Ethan Nicolle discuss not getting offended and outraged at everything with special guest Jon Gabriel. Jon is the editor in chief at Ricochet and hosts the podcast The Conseratarians with Stephen Miller. He is also a writer and a great follow on Twitter. Also, he has a website.

In this episode, Doug TenNapel and Ethan Nicolle discuss seeking out true masculinity in a world that either says it is toxic or a lie. Later, they talk about some of the books and movies that had the biggest impact on their lives.

Mike is in France. We miss you, Mike.

With Mike still on Hiatus, Doug and Ethan decide to crack open some old emails. The first email Audio Mullet received was from a man named Bryant Hains, who sent a full list of potential topics. We go through them one by one, answering Bryant's entire email.

While we know Bryant will love this episode, we are confident many others will too because Bryant had some great questions on a variety of topics.

Here are the questions we answer in this episode:

Art/creativity topics

-What do you do once you've accomplished your dream or career goal, especially if it's sooner than you thought? Now what?

-Discipline vs inspiration. Do you get up and work at it every day or do you do other things and wait for the bolt of inspiration to come?

-How do you get past the "what's the point" or "I'm wasting my time" feeling when you run into it while working on a project?

-History of Christian art vs Christian art today. Are we victims of our own success after creating some of the best visual art (Michaelangelo, etc) and music (Bach, etc) in history? What happened to the greatness? Anything left to do?

-Your opinions on the church being a patron of the arts in history vs now?

Family topics

-Keeping the fire alive with the wife even after many years and/or kids

-Work life balance: does it exist and tactics to maintain it

-Opinions and tactics for how to prevent work burnout/when to go on vacation

-Wife/husband roles and responsibilities in each of your families. Suggestions for others.

-Balancing guy time vs family time

-You all (and I) love tobacco and alcohol in moderation. Where is the line? Difference between those things and other drugs?

Silly topics

-Each of your Kevin bacon scores

-dumb hobbies you each have

-Home diy failures/successes

-getting kids to eat tricks

-getting kids to sleep tricks

-Embarrassing work or something that you hope doesn't crop up on YouTube/internet

With Mike still on hiatus, Ethan does his best to grill Doug on his faith, his loud mouth, his certainty on the unprovable and more. We covered homosexuality last week so this week it's other stuff.

After that, we talk about our stupidest obsessions of the past, which are mostly videogames.

Mike is on hiatus, but we press forth!

Imagine you share a cool piece of Earthworm Jim art and suddenly there on your feed pop up a few comments from gamers telling you that you just supported a homophobe. Is it true? Instead of listening to random people on the internet, let's hear it straight from Doug's mouth.

Ethan and Doug discuss the common charge against Christians and especially against Doug TenNapel that they are all homophobes who hate gay people. It's a sticky, tricky topic and we were brave to get into it without calm, mild-mannered Mike to keep us in order. We miss you, Mike.

Later we talk about Doug's pet peeve that people demand ideological purity from stupid things like movies and TV shows.

In this special episode of Audio Mullet, Mike Nelson (Rifftrax), Doug TenNapel (Earthworm Jim) and Ethan Nicolle (Axe Cop) are joined by one of their personal heroes, the president and founder of the American Chesterton Society, Mr. Dale Ahlquist.

Ever wondered what is up with the Chesterton obsession? This episode is all about GK and why his writing remains so important to so many people.

Relevant links:

The Chesterton Society: https://www.chesterton.org

Ahlquist's essay "Who Is This Guy And Why Haven't I Heard Of Him?": https://www.chesterton.org/who-is-this-guy/

Introductory Books

The Apostle of Common Sense: https://www.chesterton.org/shop/apostle-of-common-sense/

Common Sense 101 - Lessons From GK Chesterton: https://www.chesterton.org/shop/common-sense-101/

Where to start reading Chesterton? Chesterton was an essayist, so it is smart to start out reading some of his most popular essays. There is an excellent collection of Chesterton essays called In Defense of Sanity which was a favorite in our Chesterton reading group: https://www.chesterton.org/shop/in-defense-of-sanity/

Chesterton's most popular faith-based work is Orthodoxy: https://www.chesterton.org/shop/orthodoxy-dover/

Orthodoxy is a follow up to a book criticizing the contemporary thinkers of his time, titled Heretics: https://www.chesterton.org/shop/heretics/

Other books mentioned...

What's Wrong With The World: https://www.chesterton.org/shop/whats-wrong-with-the-world-2/

Tremendous Trifles: https://www.chesterton.org/shop/tremendous-trifles/

Recommended Chesterton social media...

The Chesterton Society on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chestertonsoc

GKCdaily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gkcdaily?lang=en

GKCdaily on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gkcdaily/?hl=en

In this episode Mike Nelson (Rifftrax), Doug TenNapel (Earthworm Jim) and Ethan Nicolle (Axe Cop) spend time blowing off steam talking about everything they can't stand about culture. Later, we review the "guilty pleasure" songs of each member of Audio Mullet.

Rated explicit because Doug drops one F-bomb.

Also, if you are curious about that "Salesman" video Mike, mentions, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKWZlnmnjjY&feature=youtu.be

In this episode Mike Nelson (Rifftrax), Doug TenNapel (Earthworm Jim) and Ethan Nicolle (Axe Cop) begin "season 2" with a discussion on how the modern obsession with aliens is stupid. They then get into demons, dolphins, and unexplained experiences, like when Ethan was visited by the ghost of a dead dog named Chuck.

Mike, Doug, and Ethan need a break. This is a quick message from Ethan to let you know the plan for things to come.

In this episode Mike Nelson (Rifftrax), Doug TenNapel (Earthworm Jim) and Ethan Nicolle (Axe Cop) are joined by Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann to discuss comedy, satire, and what lines they draw when trying to be funny. Later the four chat about their own personal moral outrage at things that are just silly.