Entering Stage Right Podcast

Friends, Thanks for joining us as we put a spotlight on Good Samaritan, Elisjsha Dicken (aka Eli), who courageously took out a crazed shooter who was killing innocent people shopping at the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana. In the process, we examine Hollywood’s culpability for gun violence by their mindless (but calculating) use of pulp massacres in some of their biggest hits. Along the...

Friends, This week’s podcast focuses on zealotry, including the big boot of “green zealots” on the neck of farmers in the Netherlands, Spain, and New Zealand. With the agricultural sector being forced to submit to “radical green fantasies” and “dodgy science,” the protests have begun. We also touch on “transanity” in an exchange between law professor Khiara Bridges and Senator Josh Hawley, and loo...

Friends, We continue our exploration of the cultural wars in this week’s lively podcast, discussing a smorgasbord of topics ranging from LA’s George Gascon to NYC’s Alvin Bragg, both district attorneys whose “reimagined” social policies are failing their magnificent cities. Along the way, we look at the Left’s pro-forma presentation identifying the toxic characteristics of “white supremacy,” a pan...

Friends, Our logo shines big and bright this week as we wish you and yours a wonderful 4th of July weekend. Disturbingly, many will not be participating in celebrating the birth of our nation this Monday. Join us on this week’s podcast as we explore the accelerating cultural divide in our country. It’s one of our more impassioned episodes, examining the destructive consequences of the zealous Left...

Dear Friends, Cole Porter’s lyrics from “Anything Goes,” it would appear, have come true in 2022: “In olden days, a glimpse of stocking,Was looked on as something shocking. But now, God knows,Anything goes.” From Gay Pride parades to the violence surrounding the Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning Roe vs. Wade, modesty and restraint seem to be virtues démodé. This “hot” podcast (welcome...

Friends, This week’s quick-moving podcast touches on some good news from California, the zealots of “Jane’s Revenge,” and the important role fathers play in the family unit. We celebrate fathers everywhere with a powerful poem followed by personal remembrances of our own two fathers. And to our listeners who are fathers—a joyful day to you tomorrow. Have fun and take it easy on the ribs! Thank You...

Friends, A few days ago when the temperature was 90, a young man was jogging along a quiet road wearing nothing but shorts and a protective mask. There was not another human being in sight. Why the mask? Like racism is for the vigilant antiracist, so Covid is for the ever-fearful; it is in the very air we breath. One must live in a constant state of anxiety, anticipating the next microaggression,...

Friends, From the culinary delights of day lilies to the bitter aftertaste of racist, “antiracist” policies, this podcast explores a wide range of topics, including some harmful governmental agencies and reforms impacting us all. While pondering these, take time to enjoy this first week of June, for “…what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days” (James Russell Lowell). And a...

Dear Friends, A grieving nation has had little time this past week to mourn for the 21 people (19 children, two teachers) murdered at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Led by our “unifying” President, the zealous Left (from Whoopi Goldberg to “Beto” O’Rourke) hopped on its one-trick-pony and blamed it all on guns, guns, and more guns. Passionately, in this week’s podcast, we discuss tho...

Friends, Biden’s Washington and his puppets in the press continue to intimidate, suppress, and silence those who disagree with their radical policies. The good news: Recent polls indicate most US citizens believe the nation is on a wrong course and the President’s plummeting approval ratings substantiate that. To quote Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the 1970 film, Tora! Tora! Tora*: “I fea...

Dear Friends, Between the lies, obfuscation, and hyperbolic language of the Left, it is hard  for the unsuspecting to discern the truth. We need facts, not mindless feelings, sentiments, and mantras. The “woke,” unwittingly, have awakened an ever-present “silent majority,” a majority who want a say in their children’s education, who want to worship in peace, and may want to reconsider the rights o...

Dear Friends, What trouble can a leak cause? Well, if you’ve ever owned a house, it can be a mysterious labyrinth of frustration and expense. As of Monday, May 2, the leaked, Supreme Court majority draft opinion ( potentially overturning Roe vs. Wade ) has already cascaded into a wave of public paroxysm. Senator Elizabeth Warren has set the tone, leading the faithful in the stale incantation, “We...

Friends, Ceaselessly and carelessly expanding, our government has created a new division within the Department of Homeland Security—the “Disinformation Governance Board.” Under the disturbing leadership of performance artist/political mouthpiece, Nina Jankowicz, (whose personal record for mis/disinformation is substantial), and under the guise of “content moderation” aiding minority communities, t...

Friends, Is it true that Asian-American students tend to perform well academically because of money, or is that premise false? Is it true that there is a growing alliance between gays and lesbians and conservatives in response to the trans craze? Is it true that Disney merited “retaliation” for interfering with the will of most Floridians? Or was it not retaliation at all? Is it true that we need...

Dear Friends, Welcome back to a new podcast of Entering Stage Right. If you listened to last week’s podcast, please note that it was a repeat we had done a year ago; ergo, the reference to it being the “merry month of May,” which a listener from Nashville thought was a calendrical mistake. No, we’ve not lost track of time yet—it’s Easter week and Passover of April 2022—and spring, delightfully so,...

Friends, Philip and I are taking this weekend off to attend a “Premiere Screening” of a movie that I made thirty-five years ago starring the wonderful Michael Moriarty of Law & Order fame. The film was “reimagined” by a Hollywood producer and is living proof that if you live long enough things come around full circle. We’re reposting a podcast we did months ago before joining Substack entitled “Di...

Dear Friends, In this podcast, we take a close look at the violence around us—from the Oscars to the recent White House announcement of “Gender Affirming Care” to the potential of legalized infanticide. Euphemisms abound on the Left and in the Biden administration, whose primary occupation appears to be “walking back” the president’s recent string of polemical blunders. It’s a lively conversation...

Dear Friends, From The Walt Disney Company to the Indiana General Assembly, from Lia Thomas to Sam Elliot, the pushback against conformity of thought and voice is growing. Join us as we celebrate our 52nd podcast, with grateful hearts for our listeners who now represent 17 countries around the world, from Ireland to India, from Russia to Australia, and primarily the good ol’ USA. Our prayers conti...

Friends, While Putin is “purifying” Russia, LA teachers are being pressured to affirm gender ideology and The Walt Disney Company is coercing Governor DeSantis to refute Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” bill, misnamed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by the Biden administration and its surrogates in the press. In many ways, the Left’s domestic demands mirror that of Russia—agree or else! Fortunate...

Friends, From Putin’s provocative threats to the perversities of gender indoctrination, when is enough enough? Fortunately, along the way of this stimulating conversation , we’ve some heroes to encourage our hearts. May our prayers of peace continue for the people of Ukraine. With Thanks for You, Philip & D. Paul PS: For the restless of heart during these turbulent times, give a listen to J.S. Bac...

Friends, Join us in this probing and transparent discussion on America’s need for a moral vision in dealing with the Ukrainian crisis. America too is at a crossroads, and only a moral vision will sustain us. Thank You for Joining Us, Philip & D. Paul P.S. A correction to today’s podcast: It is Saturday’s issue of the Indianapolis Star, March 5, 2022, not Sunday’s, in which there is no mention of U...

Friends, Join us as we discuss Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine through the historical lens of Janet Flanner, the brilliant journalist for The New Yorker (1925-1975), who wrote presciently of Russia’s “patient…telescopic long view” to transform Europe into a “Russian Europe.” I’m pleased to say in provenance, Ms. Flanner was a Hoosier and always identified as such. Your support of Entering...

Friends, Join us in this lively conversation, touching on San Francisco and Indiana, then focusing in on our “trucker” friends in Canada. Take a quiz along with us and see if you can tell the difference between fake news and real news. It’s not a very hard test, but the Department of Homeland Security is poised and ready to help you in case you’re having trouble discerning between misinformation,...

Dear Friends, This may be a disturbing episode for some of our faithful listeners of Entering Stage Right. It was disturbing for your faithful podcasters. We know activist gender ideology permeates academia, but the extent to which it has infiltrated our judiciary is alarming. Join us in this revealing podcast on the re-education of our courts, assuaged by a couple of heroes who “fight the good fi...

Friends, From Whoopi Goldberg to valiant truckers to the winter Olympics, this week’s podcast is a wide-ranging discussion on several controversial subjects, including the madness of BLM’s “School Week of Action.” While Ms. Goldberg should not be “cancelled,” her comments do bear scrutiny. Unfortunately, the thinking behind them is not an aberration, but represents the thinking of millions of peop...