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03:09:31

Episode 93: Christopher Scalia / Spoon

Political Beats ·

2021/03/15

Scot and Jeff discuss Spoon with Christopher Scalia. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) are with guest Christopher Scalia. Christopher is co-editor of Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived and On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer. He’s also the Director of Academic Programs at the American Enterprise Institute. Find him on Twitter at @cjscalia. Christopher’s Music Pick: Spoon This band from Austin has a case as

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02:37:50

Episode 92: Mark Hemingway / Nirvana

Political Beats ·

2021/02/15

Scot and Jeff discuss Nirvana with Mark Hemingway. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Mark Hemingway. Mark is is a writer at RealClearInvestigations and RealClearPolitics. Find him on Twitter at @heminator. Mark’s Music Pick: Nirvana Perhaps you’ve heard of these guys. With a single song, Nirvana knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the charts, essentially killed the hair-metal genre, and laid a blueprint that would launch “grunge”

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03:19:40

Episode 91: Damon Linker / David Bowie [Part 3]

Political Beats ·

2021/01/18

Scot and Jeff discuss the third and final part of David Bowie’s career (1982-2016) with Damon Linker. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Damon Linker, Senior Columnist for The Week. Read Damon’s work here and follow him at @DamonLinker on Twitter. Damon’s Music Pick: David Bowie Political Beats knows when to go out, and when to stay in, and we’re asking you to stay in and listen to us discuss the brilliant adventure of the latter

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03:36:15

Episode 90: Damon Linker / David Bowie [Part 2]

Political Beats ·

2021/01/11

Scot and Jeff discuss the second part of David Bowie’s career (1974–1981) with Damon Linker. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Damon Linker, Senior Columnist for The Week. Read Damon’s work here and follow him at @DamonLinker on Twitter. Damon’s Music Pick: David Bowie It’s not the side effects of the cocaine, Political Beats is thinking that it must be love as it throws itself into the whirlpool of David Bowie’s latter-Seventies

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03:11:30

Episode 89: Damon Linker / David Bowie [Part 1]

Political Beats ·

2020/12/21

Scot and Jeff discuss the first part of David Bowie’s career (1967–1974) with Damon Linker. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Damon Linker, Senior Columnist for The Week. Read Damon’s work here and follow him at @DamonLinker on Twitter. Damon’s Music Pick: David Bowie Look out, you rock ‘n’ rollers! Pretty soon now, you’re gonna have to turn and face the strange as Political Beats begins a long journey, tackling the career of David

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02:22:38

Episode 88: Steve Singiser / Living Colour

Political Beats ·

2020/11/23

Scot and Jeff discuss Living Colour with Steve Singiser. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Steve Singiser. Steve is a contributing editor at Daily Kos Elections. Find him on Twitter at @stevesingiser. Steve’s Music Pick: Living Colour That riff is indelibly inked on your brain. You know the one. The first musical notes put to vinyl/tape/compact disc by Living Colour, kicking off “Cult of Personality.” That riff that comes just after

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03:28:09

Episode 87: Brad Birzer / Genesis [ Part 2]

Political Beats ·

2020/11/02

Scot and Jeff discuss second part of Genesis’s career (the Phil Collins years) with Brad Birzer. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Dr. Brad Birzer. Brad is the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He’s the co-founder of, and Senior Contributor at, The Imaginative Conservative. And he’s the author of a number of books, including Neil Peart: Cultural (Re)Percussions. Find him

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03:23:52

Episode 86: Patrick Frey / Genesis [Part 1]

Political Beats ·

2020/10/19

Scot and Jeff discuss Genesis (1967-1975) with Patrick Frey. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Patrick Frey. Patrick has been a blogger of national repute since 2003 and is still committed to the form, even though it has been dead for years. Read his work at Patterico’s Pontifications and follow Patrick on Twitter at @Patterico. Patrick’s Music Pick: Genesis We’ve been waiting here for so long to discuss this band, and all the time

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02:49:34

Episode 85: Christian Schneider / Ramones

Political Beats ·

2020/09/28

Scot and Jeff discuss Ramones with Christian Schneider. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Christian Schneider. Christian is a reporter for The College Fix, contributor to The Dispatch, The Bulwark, USA Today, and sometimes National Review, and author of 1916: The Blog. Find him on Twitter at @Schneider_CM Christian’s Music Pick: Ramones 1, 2, 3, 4! In an episode we joked should only last two minutes, to honor the band, the Political

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02:54:43

Episode 84: Steven Levy / The Doors

Political Beats ·

2020/08/31

Scot and Jeff discuss The Doors with Steven Levy. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Steven Levy. Steven is editor at large of Wired magazine and author of Facebook: The Inside Story. Follow him on Twitter at @StevenLevy. Steven’s Music Pick: The Doors It’s been oft-observed that the day destroys the night while the night divides the day, but no matter how much Political Beats tried to run and tried to hide, we could not avoid

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03:15:58

Episode 83: Andrew Feinberg / Hüsker Dü

Political Beats ·

2020/08/17

Scot and Jeff discuss Hüsker Dü with Andrew Feinberg. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Andrew Feinberg. Andrew is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist whose coverage of the White House, Capitol Hill, and other political venues and matters of import has appeared in The Independent, Newsweek, Breakfast Media, and Politico Magazine. Follow him on Twitter at @AndrewFeinberg. Andrew’s Music Pick: Hüsker Dü Is this your celebrated summer

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03:41:49

Episode 82: Dan McLaughlin / Bruce Springsteen [Part 2]

Political Beats ·

2020/08/04

Scot and Jeff discuss the second part of Bruce Springsteen’s career (1980-2020) with Dan McLaughlin. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Dan McLaughlin. Dan is a Senior Editor at National Review and you can find his work, well . . . here! Just click on that tab over there, it’s not hard to figure out! Find him online at @baseballcrank on Twitter. Dan’s Music Pick: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Maybe you had a brother in Khe

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03:21:02

Episode 81: Dan McLaughlin / Bruce Springsteen [Part 1]

Political Beats ·

2020/07/20

Scot and Jeff discuss the first part of Bruce Springsteen’s career (1972-1980) with Dan McLaughlin. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Dan McLaughlin. Dan is a senior editor at National Review and you can find his work, well . . . here! Just click on that tab over there, it’s not hard to figure out! Find him online at @baseballcrank on Twitter. Dan’s Music Pick: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Summer’s here and the time is

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02:27:40

Episode 80: Randy Barnett / The Zombies and Argent

Political Beats ·

2020/06/29

Scot and Jeff discuss The Zombies and Argent with Randy Barnett. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Randy Barnett. Randy is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. He also writes at The Volokh Conspiracy. Follow him on Twitter at @RandyEBarnett. Randy’s Music Pick: The Zombies and Argent It’s summertime, and the livin’ is

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02:42:09

Episode 79: Lynyrd Skynyrd / Mark Davis

Political Beats ·

2020/06/15

Scot and Jeff discuss Lynyrd Skynyrd with Mark Davis. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Mark Davis. Mark is a talk show host at 660 AM The Answer in Dallas-Ft. Worth and can be heard filling in on shows nationally for the Salem Media Group. He’s also a columnist for the Dallas Morning News and Townhall.com. Find him online @markdavis on Twitter. Mark’s Music Pick: Lynyrd Skynyrd What song is it you want to hear? If you answered

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02:31:20

Episode 78: Jeff Pojanowski / Crowded House

Political Beats ·

2020/05/18

Scot and Jeff discuss Crowded House with Jeff Pojanowski. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Jeff Pojanowski. Jeff is a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. He also writes about administrative law, legal interpretation, and philosophy of law. Find him online @pojanowski on Twitter. Jeff’s Music Pick: Crowded House You might think of Crowded House as a one-or-two-hit wonder in the U.S., but by the end of this episode you’ll be

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02:50:45

Episode 77: Nick Gillespie / The Byrds

Political Beats ·

2020/04/27

Scot and Jeff discuss The Byrds with Nick Gillespie. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Nick Gillespie. Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and the co-author of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America. Find him online at @nickgillespie on Twitter. Nick’s Music Pick: The Byrds Today the gang is soaring high in the friendly skies as they contemplate the career of one of

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02:20:39

Episode 76: Cam Edwards / Fountains of Wayne

Political Beats ·

2020/04/13

Scot and Jeff discuss Fountains of Wayne with Cam Edwards. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Cam Edwards. Cam is the editor of Bearing Arms, the host of Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co, and the 40 Acres & A Fool podcast. Find him online @camedwards on Twitter. Cam’s Music Pick: Fountains of Wayne Are you alone now? Did you lose the monkey? Good. Then you’re prepared for the Political Beats dive into the music of Fountains of Wayne. This

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02:55:46

Episode 75: Ben Domenech / The Who [Part 2]

Political Beats ·

2020/04/06

Scot and Jeff discuss the second part of The Who’s career (from 1970 to 1982 and afterwards, thereabouts) with Ben Domenech. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Ben Domenech. Ben is the publisher of The Federalist and also writes a daily newsletter, The Transom, which you can subscribe to at thetransom.com. Follow Ben on Twitter at @bdomenech. Ben’s Music Pick: The Who Today the gang resumes its discussion of the greatness of The Who

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03:05:17

Episode 74: Ben Domenech / The Who [Part 1]

Political Beats ·

2020/03/30

Scot and Jeff discuss the first part of The Who’s career (from 1964 to 1970) with Ben Domenech. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Ben Domenech. Ben is the publisher of The Federalist and also writes a daily newsletter, The Transom, which you can subscribe to at thetransom.com. Follow Ben on Twitter at @bdomenech. Ben’s Music Pick: The Who Today the gang is talkin’ ’bout its generation as they cover the first part of the career of

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