The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez

Bobby and Jeff focus on the 1980s dystopian films and ask what we can learn from the moment in cinema history.

Why in the heart of the Reagan era did so many blockbuster films not only entertain the masses with harrowing tales of a miserable future, but also provoke them to question the legitimacy of their own civilization?

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At the core of Anglo-Saxon concepts of progress lies the Scientific Revolution. But the Scientific Revolution depended on a deep faith in human beings’ ability to record, observe, predict, project, and plan.

The greatest dystopian films of the 80s all involved plots that threw out such faith. From the gasoline-starved wasteland of the Road Warrior to the robotic hellscape of Blade Runner, Terminator, and Robocop, this genre challenged audiences to confront the possibility that Western civilization can’t foresee the consequences of its technological choices.

Not only do the films cast doubt upon the likely survival of Anglo-Saxon civilization; they also undermine that civilization’s claim to rationality and order, opening viewers to the possibility that the West is not a true civilization at all.

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Bobby Lopez and David Bumgardner discuss the recent upheaval at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the rise and fall of Adam Greenway, and what this all means.

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El Tabano and Micah Sample talk about the seemingly forced resignation of Adam Greenway and what credit must go to the Enemies within the Church and Wokepedia team for exposing what was going wrong on the Southwestern Baptist campus.

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In this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, El Tabano interviews Judith Stacey, an accomplished feminist who wrote key texts in the 1990s.

Although El Tabano and she disagree on some things, we have to credit Dr Stacey for correctly predicting that conservatives would abandon “Family Values” once they felt pressure to invest real resources behind the rhetoric.

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El Tábano and Jeff Younger answer this question by first considering what Ted Cruz said and how the Democrats turned the tables on him. For all the talk of "constitutional conservatism" you don't want to miss this!!!

Spoiler: the GOP's not it, nor are the Democrats.

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Jeff Dornik and Bobby Lopez at the Big Brown Gadfly talk about the phenomenon of conservatives who keep falling for the same trap over and over. Bobby asks, how many times can your fake friend rob your house before you step giving your friend a house key? The cases of Dave Rubin, Charlie Kirk, Peter Thiel, and Rosaria Butterfield are all brought up and examined.

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El Tábano and Jeff Dornik do a deep dive into the problems with the Dobbs decision and the right-wing's problem with religious liberty rather than Christian morality.

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Rachel Alexander and Bobby Lopez talk about the impact and meaning of the Dobbs case, which has overturned Roe v. Wade: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf

As veterans of the conservative cause, we have so many questions to ask about this. We want to rejoice, of course!

And then we need to look frankly at why this took 50 years. Who is accountable for the inordinate delay and the 65,000,000 babies that died while conservatives could not get their act together?

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This episode of The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez features special guests Judd Saul, producer of the new documentary Enemies Within the Church, and Ray Fava from the Evangelical Dark Web.

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Judd Saul joined Bobby Lopez on this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the new documentary he produced alongside Trevor Loudon and Pastor Cary Gordon. Bobby was featured in the film sharing his experience with the Southern Baptist Convention and how the Marxists have taken over the schools and universities.

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