Entering Stage Right Podcast

Friends, Drawing liberally (excuse the reference) from an insightful article by Victor Davis Hanson (“Wokeism Is a Cruel and Dangerous Cult,” victorhanson.com), and an “Open Letter” by Ms. Africa Brooke (africabrooke.com), we explore in this week’s podcast the cultish nature of Wokeism. We end up paying homage to a true heroine this past week, Dominique Luzuriaga, the wife of slain, NYC police off...

Friends, Our podcast this week touches on many subjects, ranging from President Biden’s delusions to a young person identifying as a cat and using the pronoun meow. Reality breaks in on the absurd with the anti-Semitic attack on the Congregation Beth Israel in Collyville, Texas. Please join us as we respectfully Bless Beth Israel. Blessings, Philip & D. Paul This is a public episode. If you would...

Friends, Thanks for joining us in this lively discussion that explores the various claims to the threats on our democracy. “ Democracy Under Threat, ” or some creative variant, is a political catchphrase that we will hear continuously from now until the mid-term elections in November. When there is a poverty of policy, painting the opposition with a broad, demonizing brush stroke is the political...

Friends, Don’t miss this latest podcast— The Turn —an interview with Liel Leibovitz, who has written for The Nation, New Republic, and currently writes a column for First Things, “Leibovitz at Large.” Mr. Leibovitz has written several books, including “A Broken Hallelujah—The life of Leonard Cohen,” and is currently Editor at Large of online Tablet Magazine — A new read on Jewish life , and co-hos...

Dear Friends, A Happy New Year to you, your family, and friends! 2022 has a great, alliterative ring to it, so may the year live up to its ring! We’re jumping right in this first week of January with a fun-filled podcast, And the Winner Is… , which highlights some of the best and worst movies we’ve watched during the Covid lockdown. You’ve probably seen many of them as well, so let us know which o...

Friends, We trust you had a joyous Christmas day and are en joy ing your holiday season! Join us this week on Entering Stage Right for an informative and fun-filled podcast, Our Military Overlords , as we touch on a smorgasbord of subjects, ranging from the meaning of Boxer Day to the military’s new cause cé·lè·bre—the “domestic terrorists” among us.     For your information, Entering Stage Right...

Friends, If you haven’t had a chance to listen to last week’s podcast, Poseurs & Pretenders, please do so at your convenience, as it is the perfect precursor to this week’s show, The Indoctrinators. Doctors, psychologists, even the Salvation Army, are submitting to the agendas of the Left, becoming, in the process, indoctrinators of a New Pharisaism—the self-righteous who condemn those who don’t a...

Friends, From the unhinged poseur, Jussie Smollett, to our pretender to the Oval Office, Kamala Harris, hoaxers and imposters strut the world stage for a brief time, but sap our energy and valuable resources in the process. We’ll take a critical look at these masqueraders in this fast-moving podcast, Poseurs & Pretenders, exposing fake Indians, progressive educators, and the ever-complaining guber...

Friends, We’ve been traveling this past week so are posting a redux podcast, The Police, which we first posted prior to our being on Substack. With our justice system a revolving door and the police being blamed for nearly everything, we look closely at the real facts surrounding our men and women in blue. With few exceptions, they do an extraordinary job of serving and protecting and deserve our...

Friends, We trust you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! Join us on our latest podcast, ‘Tis the Season to be Thankful , as we celebrate our gratefulness for this country, our families, friends, and for you. We’ve thrown in a little California craziness (which is never hard to find), and some observations on our neighbor to the north, Canada, along with some closing thoughts on the brilli...

Dear Friends, Thanks for listening to our newest podcast— When Lies Become Truth — a spirited discussion ranging from the Rittenhouse verdict to activist teachers recruiting and indoctrinating our children in their gender ideology, telling our impressionable kids that “what happens in this room stays in this room.” As parents, we need to know what’s happening in that room , don’t you think! With a...

Dear Friends, Join us this week as we explore the trifecta of hoaxes—the Russian collusion hoax, the January 6 insurrection hoax, and the domestic terrorist hoax. Hoax upon Hoax upon Hoax, perpetrated by the Left, has cost the American taxpayer millions of dollars, and accumulatively these hoaxes are making substantial inroads on our personal freedoms. The American people, as evidenced by the rece...

Friends, Freedom is fragile. It takes courage to obtain it, courage to maintain it. The voters of Virginia (and elsewhere) went to the polls and voted their consciences. The result was a stunning upset. Join us in this lively conversation, A Time for Courage, highlighting several courageous people, including the intrepid, newly elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Winsome Sears. What an extrao...

Friends, Join us for this honest discussion on the DOJ, the NSBA, and CRT as taught in our schools and churches. If these acronyms seem overwhelming and confusing at times, they do to us as well, but through the obfuscation of today’s “doublespeak,” some solid truths emerge out of today’s vigorous dialogue. You are the primary reason we do this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanks for sharing...

Friends, This is a repeat podcast from months ago, prior to our being on Substack. It is new to 90% of our listeners, and answers a question we’ve been asked lately: “How did two Hollywood actors/directors/writers end up on the right side of the aisle doing a podcast? Shelby Steel and Dietrich Bonhoeffer are paid tribute as “guiding lights” on that journey to the light. Enjoy! And if you haven’t d...

Dear Friends, Continuing our conversation from last week, we look at the pushback to the National School Boards Association letter sent to the Biden Administration, which suggested some of the protesting parents should be classified as “domestic terrorists.” As the story continues to unfold, we focus on Scott Smith from Loudoun County, VA., whose fifteen-year-old daughter was raped in an “inclusiv...

Dear Friends, Don’t miss this week’s Podcast #28 - And Then They Came for Me! We’ve drawn freely from Martin Niemöller’s classic line—"Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up”—as the National School Boards Association has enlisted the help of the Department of Justice in “quieting” the passionate voices of parents confronting CRT/gender ideology in numerous school board...

Dear Friends, This week’s podcast is revealing: while our nation’s test results in reading, writing, arithmetic, and the sciences are plummeting, books (and teaching) on radical gender ideology are finding their way into our public schools. To know more, give a listen to Podcast #27 - School Porn, and, if you’re a mother, perhaps you too will want to become one of the “mama bears of America” who a...

Dear Friends, You may find this week’s podcast, The Vanishing Robert E. Lee, a provocative and challenging one. The very mention of Robert E. Lee’s name is anathema to some minds. Wednesday of this coming week (Sept. 29), we will publish an accompanying essay by the same title that was written last year. It puts our discussion into a broader, historical context, ending with a visionary story of re...

Dear Friends, We were experiencing an earlier glitch with this podcast that prevented our subscribers from opening it. This one works. Sorry for any inconvenience it may have caused. Thanks! 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 Friends, Thanks for joining us on  Entering Stage Right  and on this “Day of Remembrance”—observing the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America twenty years later. All of us who witnessed that horrific day recall vividly where we were and whom we were with. May we take time this day to recall and honor the nearly 3,000 people who perished in that national tragedy.  Let’s also take time to honor the...

Dear Friends, Thanks for joining us on this repeat podcast with Mr. Paul Rossi! Mr. Rossi was the math teacher at Grace Church School in Manhattan who was “relieved” of his duties for exposing the “demonization” inherent in the teaching of Critical Race Theory.  We first aired this interview on July 11, 2021. Recently, many new listeners have joined us on Substack. For those of you who missed it t...

Dear Friends, Mr. Allen Barton, classical pianist, acting teacher extraordinaire, and Owner & CEO of the Beverly Hills Playhouse, joins Philip & D. Paul this week on  Entering State Right. It’s a spirited, wide-ranging discussion on “The Death of Art,” focusing on Black conductor’s John McLaughlin Williams’s issues with “equity” in music, and the recent criticisms of Titian’s masterpieces by the a...

Dear Friends, In addition to highlighting some remarkable people who are pushing back against America’s “descent into madness,” join us in this spirited conversation regarding the Biden Administration’s inept withdrawal from Baghdad, and the inevitable consequences for the people of Afghanistan. We look forward to your comments and appreciate your taking a moment to share our podcast with a friend...

Dear Friends, Welcome to Substack! As of today, Substack is the independent platform we will be using for our podcast,  Entering Stage Right.  In addition to your receiving a weekly notification of the latest podcast (Podcast #20—Crazy White People!), you soon will be able to access any of our previous podcasts and will be given an easy way to “tell your friends” about the show, which is deeply ap...