Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “In America today, we don’t have free-range children anymore because we’re convinced that everyone in every town is a marauding pedophile pervert, or some kind of serial killer, and you have to helicopter your kids.  You can’t let them ride their bikes by themselves.  They’re not allowed to go...Read More

Mandeville, LA – “As it is a nervous business for prelates to court and be courted by civil power, one might question the wisdom of popes addressing the United Nations or parliaments. “We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in...Read More

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note– Alisdair Macintyre’s masterpiece, After Virtue, is a compulsory read for those who wish to know what life was Christian like before the Modern World assaulted it. – Mike Church] “It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one histor- ical period and another; and among the most misleading...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “So what we saw at the airport, we saw scandal, 25 percent of the women half naked from the waist down, another 25 percent of the women clothed and might as well be half-naked in these god awful, sick things that I believe you ladies call yoga pants.  If...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “We’ve never approached the subject from this point of view.  We have approached the lack of virtue in Western civilization today, and that most men, and certainly almost all young men, sans the ones you and I know, they do look at girls the way they are sensitized through...Read More

  Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “I don’t think the finality of the end of the soul’s existence in this world is understood by modern man anymore.  As a matter of fact, not only do I think, I’m fairly certain it’s not understood by most modern men today, because if it was, we would...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “What is it that you think they were practicing?  Heresy?  Witchcraft?  What were they practicing?  They were practicing the faith from the first generation from an apostle.  From there it grew.  The liturgy does come out of a tradition, but it comes out of a beautiful tradition, one that...Read More

Does Capitalism Breed Freedom? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Obviously they’re just trying to note the idea that capitalism breeds freedom and socialism breeds slavery.  I would argue that’s probably false, too.  Capitalism, let’s just talk about what it is.  First of all, let’s define the term.  Capitalism is based on the idea that...Read More

Mike Church, RJ Snell and David Simpson Discuss Modern Escapism Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “You have in this book a definition of work.  It’s not the definition of work that most people use.  Most people think work and they think Macbeth: Double, double toil and trouble.  They think sweating and tote that bale,...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/CRUSADE/Mike_Church_Shows/20160217_Mike_Church_Show_Segment3_PREVIEW.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – On February 17th’s Mike Church Show, David Simpson joined us for some veritas et sapienta on faith, modesty, capitalism, and happiness. Listen to the FULL hour and much more by signing up as a Founder’s Pass Member. [private |FP-Monthly|FP-Yearly|FP-Yearly-WLK|FP-Yearly-So76|Founding Brother|Founding Father|FP-Lifetime] [/private]...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “One of the most profound things that Chesterton ever said was that if something is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing badly.  That shocked me when I first heard it because it seemed to be counterintuitive.  I’m sure most of us were taught if a thing is worth...Read More

Mike Church On Conservatism Doctrine Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Folks, I can tell you, there’s not a philosopher that’s in the GOP that I know of.  If they are, they’re about as correct in their philosophy as Freud or Marx or Nietzsche or one of those other clowns was.”  Check out today’s transcript...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/preview/06032015_COD_Transabled_replaces_transgendered_in_race_to_undo_Creation_PREVIEW.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSTransabled Replaces Transgendered In Race To Undo Creation Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “You people that think we are not in the throes of the most dangerous, demonically-inspired heresy in the history of the human race, I offer this as...Read More

 Has Augustine Become Irrelevant? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Our brothers and sisters out there, unfortunately not all of them are not brothers and sisters in Christ, but our brothers and sisters are corrupt.  We’re corrupt.  My pursuit of an upward flight, your pursuit of an upward flight, of animating your soul requires all of...Read More

That’s funny, you don’t agree that a person is a child of God if they’re six months gestated in a woman’s womb and they’re in need of a late-term abortion. As a matter of fact, this bwana crazy woman actually went on Meet the Press and dared to quote my patron saint, Augustine, saying Augustine...Read More

Interview With Jeff Wallace author of “In God We Trusted” Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “No law can be valid, as you said, unless it is in order with the higher law that has been handed down.  This is one of the things that men knew.  We knew this.  All the way up to the...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/08032014_Conservatives_Cant_Surrender_Ground_They_Never_Defended_Preview.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSThis essay and audio recording, written and recorded by: Mike Church ©2014. This work originally appeared at the Daily Caller and is presented in the unedited form Mr. Church submitted in. Mandeville, LA – Ross Douthat’s essay “The Terms of Our...Read More

 Christopher Ferrara Interview – Parts I & II Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Let’s go to the Dude Maker Hotline and say hello again to the author of Liberty, the God That Failed, Christopher Ferrara.  The first time you were on the program, I received multiple compliments on the subject matter because it’s subject matter...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What you’re saying in your admission of homosexuality is that you are defined, at least at some level that you wish for me to acknowledge, by with whom and how you engage in sexual relations. To me, that’s the long and short of it, the difference being that were...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In reflecting on what was happening in France in the French Revolution -- Burke was a cosmopolitan kind of guy, so he was an admirer of other countries and of other cultures. He was an admirer of the French. No one wanted to see what happened in France happen....Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We’re going to step into the King Dude’s wayback machine and go back two days ago to the Gallup organization’s website. If you were perusing that particular poll on who it is that is to blame for the temporary interruption in non-essential wealth transfer payments, you may have stumbled...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – People usually say: We need to do what can be done. No, maybe we ought to do what must be done. What must be done is much of this must stop. We don’t need to reform it. We don’t need to tinker around the edges. Much of it needs...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s stop right there. Some of you are going: Okay, what’s the point? Is there a punchline here, Mike? Well, there actually is. I have heard others who have won golf or football or baseball or basketball championships that say it’s the greatest moment of their lives. Mickelson said,...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Since we assume that the State is there to pick up the slack or the tab, or the abortion doctor is there to end the procedure totally, and if not the divorce attorney is there to bring to an end the short-lived result of that relationship. At every level,...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Now you have hearings in the largest capitol building in the United States, which is the one that sits on the banks of the Potomac River. Now you have hearings where guys that are dressed in full military regalia, their full complement of their military accomplishments on their epaulettes,...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Back to this controversy over the Boy Scouts of America. I guess they think that they’ve snuffed this thing out and that’s the end of it. They apparently don’t know how those that have been radicalized and those who pursue these sexual equality movements, they apparently have not read...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The only way that I know of that you can, in a foolproof manner, remove the impediment is to create the conditions under which people are ready to separate from the impediment. Separation is the ultimate end of the impediment. A separation from that leviathan guarantees, unless they decide...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I also think that if you had that kind of upbringing and you had that kind of commitment to and reliance on a moral upbringing like you’re describing, formalities, manners, decency, respect and all the things that go along with it, you probably would not have -- first of...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Mark Sanford hasn’t done anything that Ted Kennedy didn’t do. As a matter of fact, Mark Sanford is a wannabe when it comes to the peccadillos of the Kennedy clan. This idea here that you can’t be some manner of an illicit human being and hold a job or...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s go to the Dude Maker Hotline and welcome for the first time to this program a writer from The American Conservative Magazine, and a gentleman that I met last June at the Academy of Philosophy and Letters in Baltimore, Maryland. It’s the one and only Rod Dreher. Check...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I have told you on about a billion and a half occasions, all you can really do is control yourself and what is in your community, or attempt to control what’s in your community, and more specifically in your own local sphere. That means your family, close family, immediate...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I was told by my financial advisor David Simpson: Okay, Mike, I want you to do half of what you do, your brilliant creativity, lying to the public and telling them what they want to hear -- like for Red State Gal and Blue State on Twitter yesterday --...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – My buddy Steve Cunningham sent me this story last night. I didn’t get a chance to read it yesterday eve but I read it this morning. The title of the story is “’Marriage Equality’ or ‘Marriage Extinction’? Next: equal rights for incest and bestiality”. I don’t see the bestiality...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I take great comfort in knowing, too, that during this week when you and I are reminiscing and recalling what part of the ten years you may recall, the good times and memories, and of course the bad, we should have heated conversations. That’s what we do here on...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You want to tell me that ancient history and Roman and Greek history is not worth studying, I defy you. He is describing conditions that existed around 50, 60 BC, somewhere around there. He is describing conditions which existed in ancient Rome as they lost their way and stopped...Read More

A member of Congress is not going to be able to, just to give a recent example, stop the property tax rates from going up in the State of Texas as Susan Combs, the Texas State Comptroller, wants her fellow Texans to know. Apparently you’ve been concentrating so much on the federal legislature that you...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - You have to marvel at the lack of frontier spirit that we as Americans currently exhibit in this which is supposed to be the greatest of all debates, whether or not the public is going to be responsible for everyone’s health services or medical services, or whether or not...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Jefferson said that republicanism is defined as: a government that is controlled by the people upon which it directly acts. In other words, if you live in a little hamlet anywhere in the United States, you have a town council or city council or alderman, whatever the case may...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I’m sitting there and I’m in a very not-wealthy section of the City of New Orleans, similar to ones I’m sure you can find around where you live. I’m moved by the fact that there are these beautiful children here who someone along the way decided not to abort....Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - All of our existence now is all to be determined by us, by man. We are in control of everything according to Ms. Williams. You then have no reason to not do almost anything or to do something in your life other than whether or not you choose to....Read More