In Episode 124, I covered Malcolm Gladwell's disastrous performance in the Munk Debates along with his debating partner, Michelle Goldberg.

In a recent Gladwell's podcast, Revisionist History, he acknowledges how poorly he did and recruited three top debating debating experts to explain why he did so poorly.

After consulting with the experts, Gladwell identifies some things he learned to improve the debating skills, but he still doesn't get it. His poor debate was just than just poor debating technique.

In this episode, I explore the debate, Gladwell's performance, the Hunter Biden laptop and unfortunate debating techniques of the Left.

In this episode, I discuss a recent weekend discussion with some friends about the Ukraine War. I was the lone voice relating to my position and I attempt to identify some of their responses to my concerns in previous podcasts. We had a great discussion and we're still friends!!

I'll identify some of the arguments and my counter arguments. And through that discussion, I'll discuss George Ball, the Undersecretary State during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Ball was one of the lone dissenting voices within the Johnson Administration who accurately predicted all of the subsequent problems that actually occurred in US-Vietnam Foreign Policy.

Who will be the next George Ball? And why aren't there more "George Ball" type dissenters in the media?

I also discuss a segment on Colin Cowherd and relate it to Ukraine: "Where Colin was Right and Where Colin was Wrong."

Who's engaging in that exercise within the current Administration?

In this episode, I explain why I think we're already engaged in a hot war with Russia.

Why are we risking WW3 or a nuclear exchange with Russia over a regional border conflict with Ukraine?

How does engaging in a war with Russia make us safer?

How does it benefit the USA?

With the exception of Tucker Carlson, I have seen virtually no debate by national media, by Republicans or Democrats.

Why aren't we even debating this? This is a huge issue and we are completely asleep at the wheel.

I will be meeting with a friend this weekend who disagrees with me and will do a follow up episode as to whether he changed my mind.

I hope I am wrong!!

Duh. See above. I predict Douglas Murray replaces Tucker.

In this episode, the departing Mad Men, Tucker and Don.  You

I don’t discuss the why they were fired. Instead, I focus on the more important issue of how they debated political issues and the modern Left’s

I also do a deeper dive into the tipping point reason as to why Lemon was fired: his discussion with presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy about Reconstruction Civil Rights laws and the right to bear arms.  It provides a near perfect example of the dysfunctional and ineffective debating techniques of Left.

Et tu New York Times? Et tu?

Did the New York Times merely publish first the name of Jack Teixeira after the Government was already going to arrest him?

Or did it reveal his identity to the Government?

Did it plug the leak?

In this episode, I explore whether the New York Times worked too closely with the US Government and thereby betrayed basic journalism standards.

For more information, listen to the BBC interview of a New York Times Reporter on its investigation.

In this episode, I discuss Jack Teixeira, the identified source for classified military and diplomatic records.

Is he a hero or traitor?

In this episode, I discuss: Pentagon Papers leaker, Daniel Ellsberg; the Vietnam War and the Ukraine; the pending hot war between Russia and United States; whether the documents should have been secret in the first place; and yes, I answer whether Teixeira is hero, traitor, or just a dude gamer.

I have been a registered Republican for about a year now and am coming out of the closet. This episode explains why...

I also explain more about why I am going to be doing more political podcasts.

I still love Malcolm Gladwell as a writer, and will continue to buy his books. He is fantastic at his craft, but this debate showed his absolute weakness as a debater and why so many people can't stand and don't trust weak kneed liberals. Instead of arguing facts, they insult, misrepresent and humiliate.

This is not about the debate topic, but how Murray and Taibbi crushed Gladwell and Goldberg. It was a virtuoso performance by Murray and Taibbi, but this is more about how and why Gladwell lost. This is a master class in how to lose a debate, and a textbook example of techniques that so many so called progressives use on campus and in the public realm.

Whoa, every single high school and college debating class should watch the debate. This was a fun one to do!! I'll be doing more on politics!!!

Just watched the Ken Burns PBS documentary on Ernest Hemingway. In this episode, I cover the book that started it all, WH Hudson's "Purple Land", carpe diem, Robin Williams, Joseph Cambell, following your bliss, and Hemingway's great breakout novel, The Sun Also Rises.

All topics relate back to the big kahuna: Ernest Hemingway.

This is first episode, post-reset of the theme for the RockneCast: A podcast for men of all ages and the women who love them.