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The Brian D. O’Leary Show

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)

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Guest: Hartmuth Pelger

December 1, 2022

Recently, we got a chance to sit down—virtually, of course, because I’m in California and he’s in Austria—with Hartmuth Pelger.

Hartmuth is a multilingual business executive with more than 25 years of experience managing a wide range of financial functions, from analysis to auditing.

Currently, he is a CFO in the e-Mobility sector.

Hartmuth lives in Austria but has also lived in 8 countries across three continents during his well-traveled life.

More importantly, Hartmuth started a parallel career in business coaching for high-performing individuals.

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, Hartmuth is number 8. Ninety-two to go!

Book mentioned Tomorrow’s Gold: Asia’s age of discovery by Marc Faber

Influences

The Peter Schiff Show — where Tom Woods developed some of his radio/podcasting chops as a guest host for Peter.

The Mises Institute — The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Founded in 1982 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe — an Austrian School economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute, founder and president of The Property and Freedom Society, former editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a lifetime member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He is married to economist Dr. A. Gulcin Imre Hoppe and resides with his wife in Istanbul.

Digging through the archives, we found the debut episode of the Tom Woods Show which Hartmuth mentions.

Ethnic Germans in Romania

The Wikipedia entry – Germans of Romania

A New York Times article (behind paywall), “Ethnic Germans in Romania Dwindle”

A fascinating 8+ minute video on The Exodus of Romania’s German-speaking Minority.

More Romanian history

Who was Nicolae Ceaușescu? The Wikipedia on Romania’s brutal and hated dictator.

Romania in World War II. The Wikipedia on the interesting history, from its near alliance with Nazi Germany to its ultimate flip to the Communist side.

The e-Mobility Sector

Hartmuth works in the off-highway sector within e-mobility. Some manufacturers are now focused on not only alternative fuels, but alternative ways to power machinery in general.

The specific application of a fully-electric drive concept is key to knowing if it will make economic sense. For instance, Hartmuth is working on mining and agricultural application, and…

The Brian D. O’Leary Show

November 28, 2022

We delve back into the November 2022 issue of Chronicles.

Daniel McCarthy has an essay on Michael Oakeshott, the 20th century British conservative thinker. Mark G. Brennan recalls most Americans only familiarity with Albania. Roger McGrath writes of the California water crisis.

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/

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November 25, 2022

What is important anymore? We now have soccer trying to usurp college football over Thanksgiving weekend. Downright un-American.

Frankly, it is all a bit depressing… and we talk about that and more. Sports-focused episode. Kinda…

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November 22, 2022

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We talk about a few podcasts from friends of the show today…giving thanks to those who support us.

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November 22, 2022

O’Leary argues that we, as a culture or a society, put entirely too much trust in failed institutions—the three-legged stool of failure…

Thus, a cultural degradation that affects everything else around us because of what makes up this “stool.”

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November 21, 2022

In 47 years, things haven’t changed much.

This is the third week of daily shows. I dug around in my library to find something obscure (to the modern reader) for us today.

The book we talk about in today’s show:

Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed By Patrick J. Buchanan

Archive of Pat Buchanan’s columns

Political philosopher mentioned:

Russell Kirk — The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal

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The Brian D. O’Leary Show

November 17, 2022

We are in the second week of our daily shows. This week we’ve been tackling the monster topic of the Spanish Civil War.

Continuing the discussion from earlier in the week, we reference an article in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

We will put a bookmark in our discussion of the Spanish War on Friday and introduce a new topic next week.

I hope to have more resources of what we talked about this week soon enough. We will publish a newsletter in the next few days on this subject, so if you are looking to delve into this subject deeper, remember to join us at my Substack page: https://briandoleary.substack.com/

Go to https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine to which I currently subscribe.

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The Brian D. O’Leary Show

November 17, 2022

We are in the second week of our daily shows. This week we’ve been tackling the monster topic of the Spanish Civil War.

Continuing the discussion from yesterday’s show, we reference an article in this month’s Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

Today we talk more about fascism and how it may be defined. We reference books by Paul E. Gottfried (Fascism: The Career of a Concept) and Stanley G. Payne (Fascism: Comparison and Definition & Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II).

Professor Payne wrote the article we’ve been talking about all week. Professor Gottfried is the editor-in-chief of Chronicles.

We will put a bookmark in our discussion of the Spanish War on Friday and introduce a new topic next week.

Go to https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ for the articles. Great magazine and the only print magazine to which I currently subscribe.

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