The Secular Foxhole

Martin and I talk with Chip Joyce, a self-described 'problem-solver.' We cover his two major projects. One about Heroism(TheHeroicYou.com) and his foray into education, called TalkaBook.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• The Heroic You
• Talkabook
• A quote on innovation by David Allen - Getting Things Done
• Gavin de Becker
• Lee Wardlaw
• Universal Knowledge-Mining: a Trillion-Dollar Industry

Episode 34 (41 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on October 15, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

We talk with Ed Thompson who has created this project to battle the sorry state of America's public schools.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Conceptual Education Project on Facebook
• Announcing a New Fellowship in Conceptual Education
• Ayn Rand Interviewed on the Value of Education (1964)
• The Comprachicos by Ayn Rand
• Philosophy of Education by Leonard Peikoff
• The American School: Why Johnny Can’t Think
• The False Promise of Classical Education
• VanDamme Academy
• A Declaration of War: The Police State Comes to America
• Merrick Garland Has Conflict of Interest. Daughter is married to Big Tech cofounder data mining kids.

Episode 33 (29 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on October 8, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

Martin and I discuss some good news about our growing podcast and we do a news sandwich to wrap up the episode.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Casualty Status - U.S. Department of Defense
• Amy Peikoff's site, NewsSandwich.net
• Public and private school teachers choose to homeschool own children
• Creation and evolution in public education in the United States
• Just words: Why Joe Biden’s UN speech was a total flop - American Enterprise Institute
• At U.N., Biden Calls for Diplomacy, Not Conflict, but Some Are Skeptical - The New York Times
• Germany’s AfD invites ex-Trump advisor Steve Bannon to conference
• What are Sweden’s church elections and how do they work?
• In the Church of Sweden it is one Lutheran, one vote. A church election showcases a tradition of Christian democracy.
• The Secular Foxhole on Podcast Index
• The Secular Foxhole on Gaana
• Podcasting 2.0
• An Introduction to Podcasting 2.0
• New Podcast Apps "dot" com
• Satoshis Stream
• Martin's tweet to Recovering from Religion
• Martin's tweet to Filipino Freethinkers

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Episode 32 (14 minutes) was recorded at 7:30 PM CET, on September 25, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

Our guests discuss several topics with us relating to September 11, 2001. We cover what should have been done from the start, but was not. Just War Theory is ridiculed and a proper foreign policy is covered. We face the somber topic of the number of military suicides and physically/mentally wounded since the last twenty years. We try to end on a positive note.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• “That’s Why I Draw You”: An Interview with Bosch Fawstin
• Bosch Fawstin on Combating the Evil of Islam
• Pigman
• Battle of Vienna (September 11, 1683)
• End States Who Sponsor Terrorism
• The Religion of Peace dot com
• Religious Terrorism vs. Free Speech
• After 27 Years, Nobel Prize Panel Blasts Iran's Fatwa On Rushdie
• Just war theory
• Gunboat diplomacy
• Thank You for Your Service (2017 film)
• Military Suicide Rates Are at an All-Time High; Here’s How We’re Trying to Help
• U.S. & Allied Wounded
• Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustration
• Ep. 029: Is Religion the Future of American Politics?
• Truth in Politics show
• Peaceful Death Threats by Bosch Fawstin
• Texas's Anti-Life Abortion Law
• The Bosch Fawstin Store
• Andrew Bernstein dot net

Episode 31 (46 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on September 4, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

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Our show today brings us Robert Begley, the Director of Operations and Development at the Objective Standard Institute where we cover topics like our introduction to Ayn Rand's ideas, his involvement with The Heroes Society in New York city, and many other topics.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• The Hero Show podcast
• Rush (band)
• 2112 - Spotlight on Ayn Rand
• Anthem (song)
• Brave New World
• 1984
• Understanding Objectivism by Leonard Peikoff
• The Jefferson School (conference, 1985)
• The New York Heroes Society
• Hero Hike - New York Magazine (May 31, 2007)
• PBS Great American Read - Atlas Shrugged
• Great American Read - Atlas Shrugged
• How I Got Atlas Shrugged on The Great American Read
• How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks
• Your Supersystem for Flourishing
• Human potential movement
• Cal Newport
• Personal development market size
• Top 10 business books for entrepreneurs
• Steve Ditko’s Legacy: From Superheroes to Moral Heroes
• Toastmasters: A Means to Actualize Your Potential and Improve the Culture
• Adventures in Greek Mythology, Philosophy, History, and Reality

Episode 30 (44 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on August 28, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

To kick-off our second year of podcasting, Robert Tracinski is back with us to discuss two of his recent essays. Plus, we discuss some books like, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Echo. America's Revolutionary Mind, by Brad Thompson, and bizarrely, a book called, How the Irish Became White, by Noel Ignatiev. Then we briefly talk about another bizarre happening, how American evangelicals embraced the womanizing, narcissistic, loud-mouth Donald Trump.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Our Darkening Age
• The Name of the Rose (book)
• The Name of the Rose (film)
• How the Irish became white?
• America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It
• Robert Tracinski's articles on Discourse Magazine
• The New Racial Politics Is Rooted in Old Anti-Capitalism

Episode 29 (48 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on August 27, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

For this episode, Martin and I celebrate our One Year Anniversary! Martin goes over some great and interesting statistics about our listenership and where they are located and we introduce a new segment to the show called, News Sandwich, where we "sandwich" one piece of bad news between two pieces of good news.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Trailer for The Secular Foxhole podcast (August 26, 2020)
• Interview with Aaron Smith (December 14, 2020)
• Captivate podcast host (Martin's referral link)
• Freethinkers (Freethought)
• Objectivists (students of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism)
• How many countries in the world?
• Taiwan
• Holy See
• State of Palestine
• Kosovo
• Handover of Hong Kong
• Martin's tweet to Freethinkers in India
• Georgia (country)
• Amy Peikoff's site, NewsSandwich.net
• Christianity on Fox News
• Christian Broadcasting Network
• Swedish alphabet (Å, Ä, Ö)
• The Secular Foxhole app on Apple App Store
• The Secular Foxhole app on Google Play Store
• High Five for Hemp podcast
• Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers
• "In God We Trust"
• Supreme Court rejects case challenging ‘In God We Trust’ motto on nation’s currency
• Michael Newdow
• E pluribus unum
• Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
• Mikhail is in prison
• DuckDuckGo’s surprisingly simple plan to make the internet more private
• Martin's tweet on Parler
• Dave Jones on Podcast Index, Free Speech and More – episode 2936 of The Survival Podcast
• The Secular Foxhole on Podcast Index
• Google Voice Typing censors phrases about Falun Gong, a practice persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party
• The Epoch Times
• AltaVista
• Don't be evil (Google)
• Interview with Robert Tracinski
• The Fall of Kabul and the Decline of World Order
• Number of Families Homeschooling Soars as Parents Find Their Kids Performed Well at Home
• Comprachicos
• Education - Ayn Rand Lexicon

Episode 28 (29 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on July 21, 2021, with Ringr app. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

Martin and I again have James Valliant as guest to discuss Leonard Peikoff’s early 90’s Ford Hall Forum talk, Modernism and Madness, where he draws parallels between today’s cultural descent and schizophrenia.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Ford Hall Forum
• Modernism and Madness (1993)
• Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought by Louis A. Sass.
• The Romantic Manifesto
• The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
• Primacy of Existence vs. Primacy of Consciousness
• Kant vs Rand - Rucka Rucka Ali
• Whiplash (2014 film)
• Woke
• The Emperor's New Clothes

Episode 27 (33 minutes) was recorded at 10 PM CET, on July 16, 2021, with Ringr app. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

This episode presents Andy Clarkson’s critique of Dennis Prager and why advocates of reason/Objectivists should not associate with them.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Andy Clarkson's book, The Impact Of Aristotle Upon Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Cultures: A Compilation of Notes and Quotes From A Variety of Sources Plus Commentary.
• The Six-Point Pattern Of The Anti- Aristotelians
• Don't Bite Into The Jordan Peterson Marshmallow
• Dennis Prager biography
• Dennis Prager quotes
• Understanding Ayn Rand
• Ayn Rand: The Playboy Interview (March, 1964)
• Ayn Rand Lexicon: Religion
• Ayn Rand Lexicon: Reason
• Fact and Value by Leonard Peikoff
• Dennis Prager on using reason to explain the Bible - Fox Business
• Prager on abortion
• Dennis Prager - Wikipedia
• Religion, Israel, Gay Marriage, and Trump - Dennis Prager - Rubin Report (January, 2017)
• Ep. 4 - Special Guest Dave Rubin - PragerU (February, 2017)

Episode 26 (54 minutes) was recorded at 10 PM CET, on June 19, 2021, with Ringr app. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

Today we had the pleasure to speak with Robert Tracinski, creator of The Tracinski Letter, Symposium, a journal of liberalism, and author of So, Who Is John Galt, Anyway? Robert talks about his advocacy for Enlightenment Civilization instead of Western Civilization.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• The Case Against "Western Civilization"
• "Culture of Free Speech"
• Steven Pinker and George Will on Liberalism
• The Price of “Liberalism”
• Benevolent Universe Premise
• Why Salon of the Refused?
• The Tracinski Letter
• Symposium
• So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?: A Reader's Guide to Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
• Salon of the Refused podcast

Episode 25 (66 minutes) was recorded at 7:30 PM CET, on June 25, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.