Entering Stage Right Podcast

Dear Friends, “New Beginnings,” our shortest podcast ever on Entering Stage Right , goes flying by! It’s unlike any podcast we’ve ever done, with a special announcement you won’t want to miss. As always… Thank YOU for Joining Us! Philip & D. Paul This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit enteringstageright.substack.com

Friends, For your listening enjoyment, we cover several subjects on this podcast: Governor Newsom’s proposed redo of San Quentin; Qatar, and its influence peddling in our universities; the DEI’s “greeters” at IU Health (an eyewitness account!); the decline of Broadway shows; culminating in Eli Steele’s wise words concerning “…the Claudine Gays of the world.” It’s a lively show you won’t want to mi...

Friends, We trust you had a Merry Christmas and, along with us, are anticipating a productive 2024! Today’s podcast focuses in on the antisemitic rhetoric reflected by so many of America’s younger generation, with one recent poll showing 51% of Americans, age 18-24, believe that Israelis should do away with their homeland and turn territorial rights over to Hamas. Hard to believe, isn’t it? We dra...

Friends, Gremlins continue to intervene frequently throughout our podcast today (long pauses, overlapping, etc.), but, hang in there, and you should still be able to follow it easily, albeit, not necessarily gracefully. With some help from a friend (thanks Amanuel!) and our platform advisors, we will figure out these glitches moving forward. Our upfront thanks for your patience. Except for those g...

Dear Friends, As our title indicates, this week focuses in on the inexcusable testimony delivered by three, university presidents responding to questions brought by the House Committee on Education & the Workforce. Speaking of the “workforce,” two of these presidents, the waffling Ms. Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania and Claudine Gay of Harvard, may be looking for new employment soon,...

Dear Friends, After a day delay due to a technical glitch, we’re back up running and continuing our focus on Israel, surrounded by an array of subjects: Oakland’s overreaching city council; Governor Newsom’s “understudy” performance in the debate with Ron DeSantis; the ultimate welfare state—Gaza; Saint Mary’s College (for women) at Notre Dame goes trans; the George Floyd verdict in retrospect; fo...

Dear Friends, “All good things come to those who wait,” and such is our delayed podcast by virtue of an important interview with Clarice Feldman. A brilliant thinker and prolific writer for the “American Thinker,” Ms. Feldman’s observations on Hamas's war against Israel are enlightening. Our conversation centers around her latest article (Sunday, Nov. 26), “Manipulating with Lies and Manufactured...

Friends, The masks of reason and civility are being discarded as the radical Left spouts its virulent, antisemitic cliches on college campuses and public squares across the country, defended, in large part, by university presidents who are more interested in bottom-line revenues than doing what is right. We will continue to highlight those “knuckleheads & eggheads” who are defending Hamas and its...

Dear Friends, Don’t miss listening to our new podcast— Liel Leibovitz Interview —covering a wide range of subjects dealing with the tragedy of October 7 and its aftermath. Mr. Leibovitz is currently Editor at Large of the online  Tablet Magazine , tabletmag.com , co-host of Tablet’s weekly, cultural podcast , Unorthodox , and host of their daily Talmud podcast,  Take One . Liel has authored severa...

Dear Friends, We continue our conversation on the barbaric, “October 7” invasion of Israel by Hamas, and how disdain for Israel, led by the vile rhetoric of student demonstrations, is spreading across the country. Ibram X. Kendi has joined the fray, proving that his brand of antiracism is antisemitic at heart. The good news? A brave university president and a determined Benjamin Netanyahu encourag...

Dear Friends, Join us in this impassioned discussion supporting Israel. As always, we’re… Grateful for You! Philip & D. Paul This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit enteringstageright.substack.com

Dear Listeners, Our good friend, Allen Barton, Owner & CEO of the Beverly Hills Playhouse, joins us again for a discussion of his new play, “Outrage,” which opens next Friday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. curtain. OUTRAGE “…takes on the topics of conformity and cancellation in 2020s Los Angeles.” It’s a very witty, provocative, and moving play, revealing to all of us the fragility of our most meaningful relati...

Dear Friends, It was startling to wake up this morning and hear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declare, “We are at war,” the first such declaration since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Much of the press, of course, with its allies in academia and the Church, are already siding with terrorist Hamas against the “oppressive” and “apartheid State of Israel.” All this while thousands of rockets...

Friends, Our glorious right as Americans to free speech is being undermined by the intentional censorship of the Left throughout academia, the judiciary, the arts, and within our bureaucracies. Even the Church is not immune to this insidious threat to one of our greatest liberties. That’s the focus of our show this week, as we highlight an article in city-journal.org , by Joanna Williams, “The Cen...

Friends, Join us as we jump right in on the lunacy of Senator Robert Menendez’s blatant malfeasance, followed by the Superior Court of Los Angeles County’s new “bail schedules,” slated to take effect October 1, 2023. For the seasoned criminal in LA County, or even the neophyte, it must be reassuring to know that if you steal a car, get caught (we would hope so), be B&R (Booked and Released) expedi...

Dear Friends, California takes center stage this podcast with a series of bills waiting for Governor Newsom’s anticipated signature by October 14, bills which will essentially take away the most basic, parenting rights from millions of mothers and fathers of the “tarnished” Golden State. We follow that with Governor Michelle Grisham’s “public health order” that temporarily bans firearms in certain...

Friends, From the United Nations to the California State Legislature, gender madness continues to confuse our children and threaten parental rights around the world. Perversity of thought and action is emanating from influential centers of power, and we take a close look at who is doing what to whom. Passionately (coming from your two thespian podcasters), the sad state of the American theatre is...

Dear Friends, We’ve got a lot of good news for you in this podcast: Concerned parents across the country are protesting, pushing back against activist educators and inane administrators promoting gender transition and converting the Gadsen flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”) into a symbol of racism. The Asian community is highlighted, with their commitment to meritocracy and the work ethic, along with cour...

Friends, Promoting “the general Welfare” is a cornerstone of our Constitution and foundational to a free and thriving Republic. Today, it seems everywhere we look, we find leftist legislatures, an activist judiciary, a compliant media, and radicalized cultural organizations asserting their partisan priorities over the common good. Here’s the good news: The American people are pushing back and sayi...

Friends, From Hurricane Hilary to Donald Trump’s newest indictment (he’s at over 500 indictments and counting!), to the fictitious “Robert L. Peters” correspondence to Hunter Biden, the political and cultural upheavals just keep coming, with the gust front led by Joe Biden’s highly politicized Department of Justice and other overzealous federal and state agencies. Courageous folks, like the Native...

Dear Friends, Our podcast today draws extensively from an article by Michael Lind found in tabletmag.com (July 31, 2023), entitled, “The Culture of Transgression,” which points out that “the act of transgression itself” has become “virtuous.” Along the way, we comment on Gavin Newsom’s attack on California parents, “flash mobs” in Glendale, the suicide of a brave educator in Canada who challenges...

Dear Friends, Today’s podcast is an assortment of offerings: a covert, Chinese lab in California harbors infectious agents; former President Trump says “not guilty” to federal counts related to Jan. 6 and the 2020 election; Oakland’s NAACP calls for a “State of Emergency” against out-of-control crime; Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, condemns a reporter for using the term “mob” to describe wild tee...

Dear Friends, Today’s podcast focuses in on the increasing scope of the Biden scandal, with both Joe and Hunter Biden front and center. Special attention is given to the “sweetheart deal” between Hunter and the DOJ blowing up, and the media’s flagrant denials of President Biden’s involvement in his son’s business dealings. Speaking of denials, President Biden’s “I know nothing” defense is starting...

Dear Listener, In case you haven’t heard about “her” already, our podcast introduces you to Rikkie Valerie Kollé, the recent winner of the Miss Netherlands crown now prepping for the Miss Universe contest this coming December. The fawning press adore Mr. Kollé, who now identifies as a transgender woman, broad shoulders and all. On a saner note, we highlight the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI),...

Friends, Today’s podcast is a political jambalaya of hot topics: the continued insanity of California’s reparations; the Hollywood Writers/SAG.AFTRA strike shutting down film production around the world; a groundbreaking, Danish study looking factually at Trans suicides; and the little film that could— Sound of Freedom— beating out Disney’s behemoth, Dial of Destiny. We end up our podcast honoring...