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For the second week in a row, the 3WHH gang (minus one) were on the road, this time recording live in the corner of a hotel lobby before the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Society. The sound quality of this episode is . . . authentic. Yes, I'll go with that.
John Yoo couldn't make the meeting, so we have a special guest, our old pal Glenn Ellmers. With John absent, we get our freak on about the Clean Air Act . . . actually we didn't do that. We did worse: We get down in the weeds of metaphysics, radical historicism, the theological-political problem (especially in the context of this week's feud between the President and the Pope), dishing on Laura Field's terrible book Furious Minds, contrasting Justice Sotomayor's jurisprudence of "feels" versus Justice Thomas's jurisprudence of principle—the principle of the Declaration of Independence.
And finally, we take up the perennial question, what's the matter with kids today. And as such the exit music this week is "Kids," from moe:
Kids will try to run you over
Kids will try to bring you down
Kids will never say they're sorry
Kids back then are older now
Steve Hayward
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I'm only 13 minutes into this podcast and I had to make sure I wasn't listening to a VDH podcast. He'd help you brush up on your Greek history, Steve.
Edit to add: It's a good thing John's not on this week. His head would explode. HAHA! (And dang if you didn't just say that, Steve.)
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Audio was fine on this end. A little low but easy to hear. I thought it was going to be a lot of background noise, people talking, etc.
Good guest, good episode. I missed John, though. I remember Howard Cosell used to call Philadelphia Eagle wide receiver Harold Carmichael "The Angular One" because of his height and slim build. We could call John, another product of Philadelphia, "The Obstreperous One" because of, well, for obvious reasons. lol
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I haven't been to a Philly Soc meeting in years. If I would have known you were broadcasting from there, I would have gone. The show is more engaging than some of the meetings.