The Brian D. O’Leary Show

December 21, 2022

Bill Schonely

“… wherever you may be…”

The Final Goodbye for “The Schonz”

https://youtu.be/wna_mCmHQeI

Franco Harris

Steelers Hall of Fame RB Franco Harris, author of 'The Immaculate Reception,' dies at 72

Starting with the 1980 season, Harris became the career rushing leader among active players.

The 1984 Seattle Seahawks did have the “Original” Curt Warner on the roster, but the 3rd pick of the 1983 NFL Draft out of Penn State was injured in the opening game versus the Cleveland Browns, ending his season.

Franco Harris—coming off a season in 1983 where he rushed for 1,007 yards—was released by the Steelers during training camp before the 1984 season, over an ostensible pay dispute.

After the 1983 season, Harris was only 363 yards away from breaking Jim Brown’s career rushing record. Harris joined the Seahawks in September, but only ended up playing in 8 games and ended up with 170 yards rushing on the season. He never played in the NFL again.

After taping this episode, John Ziegler tweeted that Franco had been at work on a podcast of his own about the Penn State-Paterno-Sandusky case. Here is the link:

Upon Further Review

NFL All-Time Leading Rushers

Harris is now 15th all-time. Jim Brown is 11th!

+ indicates Pro Football Hall of Fame

Highlighted players mentioned in podcast

Rank

Player

Yds

Years

1

Emmitt Smith+

18,355

1990-2004

2

Walter Payton+

16,726

1975-1987

3

Frank Gore

16,000

2005-2020

4

Barry Sanders+

15,269

1989-1998

5

Adrian Peterson

14,918

2007-2021

6

Curtis Martin+

14,101

1995-2005

7

LaDainian Tomlinson+

13,684

2001-2011

8

Jerome Bettis+

13,662

1993-2005

9

Eric Dickerson+

13,259

1983-1993

10

Tony Dorsett+

12,739

1977-1988

11

Jim Brown+

12,312

1957-1965

12

Marshall Faulk+

12,279

1994-2005

13

Edgerrin James+

12,246

1999-2009

14

Marcus Allen+

12,243

1982-1997

15

Franco Harris+

12,120

1972-1984

16

Thurman Thomas+

12,074

1988-2000

17

Fred Taylor

11,695

1998-2010

18

Steven Jackson

11,438

2004-2015

19

John Riggins+

11,352

1971-1985

20

Corey Dillon

11,241

1997-2006

Joe Paterno

Wikipedia article about JoePa (Warning: some information, especially about the end of his career is dubious.)

The Immaculate Reception

How the Immaculate Reception shaped Steelers history

Wikipedia on the Immaculate Reception

Harris caught a deflected pass, leading to a 13-7 Steelers victory over their rival Oakl…

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Coach Mike Leach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leach_(American_football_coach)

NFL Films Presents segment on Coach Leach (via Twitter)

Book Mentioned:

The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football by S. C. Gwynne

Games Mentioned:

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December 12, 2022

Podcasts mentioned:

The O’Leary Review – Ep 13 – James Newcomb

https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/james-newcomb-ba-vojdaan-podcast#details

The O’Leary Review – Ep 14 – Adam Haman

https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/adam-haman-libertarian-party-of-nevada#details

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Podcast mentioned:

The O’Leary Review – Ep 5 – Andy Flattery

https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/podcast-andy-flattery-cfp-the-reformed#details

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Guest: Adam Haman

December 11, 2022

Professional poker player and member of the Libertarian Party of Nevada’s Executive Committee, Adam Haman, joins the program today.

The show notes are best read over at our Substack page: https://briandoleary.substack.com/

Tom Woods School of Life

Adam and I are both members. Go to https://tomschooloflife.com/ to get on the waiting list. I recommend joining the school.

Tom Woods 100

One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but in our case, Adam is #11. Less than ninety to go!

Who is in the Tom Woods world?

I have a website that will go live soon with discussions I’ve had with Tom Woods School of Life members.

WhoIsInTheTomWoodsWorld.com

Tom Woods Show

Adam was a guest of Tom’s on Ep 764.

YouTube Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESb05ay5yfo

Movie mentioned:

Rounders (1998)

Adam astounded Tom with his Mike McDermott impression: https://youtu.be/wZ7goMiVkT4

Online poker

Try not to tear up after reading the story of the demise of online poker in the United States of America. The Wikipedia entry…dig much further and you will indeed cry.

World Series of Poker Main Event

An event that Adam HAS NOT participated in. He mentions the famous 2003 WSOP main event won by a “nobody,” Chris Moneymaker, a 27-year-old accountant. Yes, his real name.

Moneymaker won a seat in the main event by winning a “satellite” online tournament. The poker craze took off for a while after Moneymaker’s victory, known as the “Moneymaker effect.”

Battle Born Podcast

The Official Podcast of the Libertarian Party of Nevada

Other Podcast mentioned:

Part of the Problem w/ Dave Smith and Robbie “The Fire” Bernstein

Reno “takeover”

With Mises Caucus Takeover of Libertarian Party… (vdare.com)

Libertarian Party Mises Caucus

Potential Libertarian Party presidential candidates mentioned:

Spike Cohen

Dave Smith

Former LP candidate mentioned:

Jacob Hornberger

Ron Paul presidential campaigns

We talk a little about the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns of Dr. Ron Paul.

I did not mention the essay I contributed to a book called Voices of Revolution: Americans speak out for Ron Paul…

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Guest: James Newcomb

December 10, 2022

We welcomed James Newcomb to the show. James is an internet marketer, podcaster, and keen trumpeter.

Check out James:

“Always be serious. Never take yourself too seriously.”

James referenced General Douglas MacArthur’s speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy from May 12, 1962.

https://youtu.be/_42_aLGkRpg

Tom Woods School of Life

James and I are both members. Go to https://tomschooloflife.com/ to get on the waiting list. I recommend joining the school.

John Birch Society

James once worked for the perennially and unduly maligned John Birch Society.

William F. Buckley, Jr., seen by a good many Americans over the last several decades as the paragon of American conservatism, was anything but that. Buckley and his magazine, National Review, were “purgers.” Over the course of National Review’s history, the Buckleyites purged portions of the conservative movement for not falling in lock-step with the magazine’s ideology.

Ideology is an interesting topic when it comes to politics or political discourse. It is harmful. We could get into a long discussion on why ideology is so antithetical to moral order, but I shall just point you toward Brad Birzer’s quick article “Russell Kirk on the Errors of Ideology.”

Birzer wrote an extensive biography on Kirk, ironically one of the founders of National Review and who wrote for the magazine for years, but was then…purged. Kirk’s reputation has been somewhat resuscitated by some over at NR in the nearly 3 decades since his passing, but his idea of conservatism is definitely at odds with the bunch who run the show over there at this stage.

Here’s a video of Birzer talking about his book, Russell Kirk: American Conservative. https://youtu.be/8kn9RdM6gks

This is a long way of getting to the point that the John Birch Society was not on the “3 x 5 card of approved opinion” set forth by our cultural betters at the National Review, a magazine that has also purged other heroes of mine—namely Patrick J. Buchanan and Dr. Paul E. Gottfried—from their silly “movement” that has ceased to be “conservative.”

Tom Woods 100

Tom Woods—as far as I’m aware—coined the aforementioned “3x5 card of approved opinion” phrase. It is beautiful and explains so much about our world today.

Tom is also a mentor to both James and me.

Perhaps not so coincidentally, one of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but in our case, James is number 10. Ninety to go!

Ron Paul presidential campaigns

We talk a little about the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns of Dr. Ron Paul.

I did not mention the essay I contributed to a book called

The Brian D. O’Leary Show

December 9, 2022

Book Mentioned:

Beer and Circus: How big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education

Point Guard mentioned:

Greg Anthony

1992 United States Olympic basketball team, the “Dream Team.”

“The Flutie Factor” … a result of one of the greatest plays in college football history:

Flutie’s Miracle in Miami

https://youtu.be/q3ykWbu2Gl0

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December 8, 2022

Griner Gate

ESPN: Brittney Griner freed in U.S.-Russia prisoner exchange

A more sane rendering of the story… Bounding Into Sports: Joe Biden Gives Russia ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout In Exchange For WNBA Player Brittney Griner

Possible Libertarian Party presidential candidate mentioned:

Dave Smith

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December 6, 2022

We wish Hall of Fame Coach Mike Clopton a happy birthday.

Age Quod Agis

The “Latin Battle” from Tombstone (1993)

https://youtu.be/CwEIkXMfL1E

We talked about “being where your feet are…” I guess it is a book!

Be Where Your Feet Are by Scott M. O’Neil

Tom Woods School of Life

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December 6, 2022

A week or so late, but we pay a little tribute to the late Christine McVie and the greatness of Fleetwood Mac.

Short episode today.

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Andronikos

December 4, 2022

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We’re talking about the “Classics” of literature today… it leads to a great discussion and is certainly a “conversation that matters.”

Our guest today, Travis—a.k.a. Andronikos—writes a blog called Wends of Change at https://wendsofchange.substack.com and wrote a book called Revenge and its Discontents: My Journey Through the Iliad which is available on Amazon (the Kindle edition is free with Kindle Unlimited).

In his daily life, Travis enjoys reading, writing, bowling, and video games. As Andronikos, he is “on a journey through the great books of the Western Canon.” His goal is to “read and think deeply about them with as little help from outside sources as possible.”

The Great Books Reading List that Andronikos is working his way through can be found at https://wendsofchange.com/books/

Book mentioned:

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

Essay mentioned:

“On the Reading of Old Books” by C.S. Lewis

From the Lewis essay: “There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books… The error is rather an amiable one, for it springs from humility. The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator.”

Commentary from Annie Holmquist at Intellectual Takeout on the Lewis essay.

Andronikos

The nom de plume derives from a fellow mentioned in Romans 16:7

“Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.” Romans 16:7 (Douay-Rheims)

Tom Woods 100

For no reason other than I am involved in the Tom Woods School of Life, I decided that I’d get 100 of my fellow members or people closely tied into Tom’s orbit on this podcast eventually. Travis/Andronikos is a fellow member.

After this week, we will only have about 90 to go!

Enrollment in Tom’s School of Life comes around every six months or so. Go to https://tomschooloflife.com/ … totally worth it. I’m planning to have a podcast episode dedicated entirely to Tom’s School in the near future.

Travis found out about Tom Woods via Michael Malice, who is a very failed podcaster and writer in his own right. Chain reaction led him to Tom.

Podcasts mentioned:

Your Welcome with Michael Malice

The Tom Woods Show ep. 2245 with Michael Heise

The Brion McClanahan Show — “Think Locally. Act Locally.”

The Brian D. O’Leary Show (Spanish Civil War Week)