The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

Imagine you have 30-seconds to answer what 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 x 8 x 9 is.  The seconds tick by before you blurt out a number. It's wrong, of course. Everyone gets this one wrong. But the point of the question is not math. When people are asked the exact same problem with the numbers presented in reverse order - 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 - they consistently answer much higher. A...

On Tuesday, an 18-year-old murdered 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School, one of the public schools in Uvalde, Texas - 80 miles west of downtown San Antonio, 54 miles east of the border with Mexico. The Wall Street Journal reports the gunman was shooting outside the school for 12-minutes before entering the building through a propped-open door and barricading himself in a classroom f...

What does and doesn’t it mean to talk about everything? For starters, it doesn’t mean I’m an expert on everything. It’s good to have experts, but we should be careful in trusting so-called experts too far. The global response to COVID should have proved that to all of us, but you can consider me at least persuaded.  We shouldn’t need to be experts to think meaningfully about important subject...

What do I know? Who else needs to know? Have I told them? And do they understand what I've told them? These four questions are key to good communication, and a breakdown on even one will see our conversations and messages being returned to sender. Sometimes it's not that what we're trying to say is intentionally false. We just know a great many things that aren't so, and should have been more care...

Truth, beauty, and goodness - how ought we to think of and relate to them, and can we embody them? Perhaps not perfectly, no. But it's a noble endeavor to study, ponder, and pursue these three, and to celebrate when they're encountered. And this is why we homeschool, by the way. But speaking seriously, truth and beauty and goodness are close cousins. What is good must be in alignment with the trut...

It’s a curious thing that the psalmist tells us God laughs before responding angrily to those who rebel against Him. And is that the order of operations? A ridiculous thing is done by wicked, foolish men, then comes the mocking. Then comes the wrath. For that matter, there is some dispute over whether mockery by Christians is ever appropriate. The Babylon Bee crowd has made their position known. B...

Private Jackson : Sir... I have an opinion on this matter. Captain Miller : Well, by all means, share it with the squad. Private Jackson : Well, from my way of thinking, sir, this entire mission is a serious misallocation of valuable military resources. Captain Miller : Yeah. Go on. Private Jackson : Well, it seems to me, sir, that God gave me a special gift, made me a fine instrument of warfare....

As Dwight D. Eisenhower once famously said, "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."  This is another way of saying that our plans need to have a certain adaptability to them in order to be worth much. What more could be said is that the process of planning cannot be skipped over for the familiarity it lends to us as battles unfold....

After having recently read and reviewed Owen Strachan's book, 'Christianity and Wokism: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way To Stop It,' and picking up from an episode published last August, ' Dr. Eric Mason and the Council of Philadelphia ,' I made time yesterday and today to read Mason's 2018 book 'Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confron...

Owen Strachan's 'Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It' is a must-read for every American Christian concerned about the inroads Woke ideology has made over the past few years in our churches. Strachan outlines clearly and thoroughly here how wokeness is distinct from and contrary to Biblical doctrine concerning God, man, sin, an...

The Epoch Times published a piece by Alice Giordano April 15, 2022 titled 'Girls Are Main Target of Transgender Movement, Advocates Say' in which a compelling case is made that teen girls are especially vulnerable as public schools across the country increasingly affirm and promote transgenderism. What makes teen girls so especially vulnerable is a combination of factors, including but not limited...

'Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization' by Samuel Gregg covers two subjects which are critically important for all of us to comprehend: the relationship between rationality and religious belief for one, and the legacy and destiny of the West for another. Gregg argues clearly and concisely here that Western Civilization is predicated on the synthesis of faith and reason. Instead...

Target is thinking ahead for this year's Pride Month, as it's known - the time of the year since 1999 in which we celebrate LGBTQ+ persons in the U.S., as well as their loudest and proudest allies in our midst.  What is Target doing, you might ask? Why, they're marketing a new line of clothing featuring androgenizing pieces like chest binders and packing underwear. The latter of these innovat...

The cost of living is going up. Generally speaking, you know it; I know it. But rather than contenting ourselves with vague and fuzzy general approximations like that, let's talk a bit more about the hard math involved here, and use some real numbers. New rate of inflation data is expected May 11th - that is, tomorrow at time of publishing. But last month's numbers for the previous 12-month period...

When asked what the greatest commandment is, the gospels record the answer Jesus gives as being “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” But he continues by saying the second is like it. “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” So also, Jesus says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” And in...

In Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, set in the first century, the protagonist is a Jewish prince by the name of Judah Ben-Hur. Romans occupy Palestine, and a group called the Zealots plots their overthrow on the grounds of religious objection and national pride. Judah for his part wants to find a peaceful solution, and his conscience prevents him from joining with his countrymen planning an armed in...

Yesterday was not just Star Wars Day. More importantly, it was our son Daniel Joseph Mullet's 11th birthday.  I missed his first birthday ten years ago. Daniel and his three older brothers - Josiah, Elihu, and Solomon - were back in Ohio with Lauren, but I had gone back to my home state of Montana to look for better opportunities for work in the Bakken oilfield in the midst of the boom. As of...

Rumor has it the U.S. Supreme Court may have already decided amongst its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that declared abortion. The draft opinion has allegedly just been leaked to Politico, is now making the rounds, and will surely raise a furor on the Left as well as pearl clutching from more "bipartisan" Republicans. Surely five decades and 60 million u...

Proverbs 18:17 says that "The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him." And this truth is central to our understanding of many important concepts and values in Western civilization and American culture, including free speech and due process, not to mention critical thinking skills. It is all too easy for bad ideas to go unchallenged when we only have the f...

Winston Churchill once said, "Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back that is an outrage." I can think of nothing which better describes Leftists on Twitter aghast that conservatives might soon be able to freely state their opinions and convictions online again. But it is not just broader society which struggles with this idea...

The divorce rate in the U.S. is going down, and that’s nice. Divorce is an ugly, tragic business. Who but the Devil wouldn’t want to see less of it? And, in fact, the divorce rate is going down quite a lot. According to Statista , the divorce rate in 1990 – when my younger brother Bryce was born - was approximately 4.7 per 1,000. By 2020, just thirty years later, the divorce rate in the U.S. dropp...

With Elon Musk purchasing Twitter, some very curious developments are taking shape.  The top legal counsel at Twitter got choked up talking about the forthcoming change in management. That to my mind seems like a positive sign of things to come, particularly where Musk has a mind to prevent a repeat of what happened with the Hunter Biden laptop story from the New York Post in the lead-up to t...

As a straight white male, I already check all the boxes. Then add that I'm a husband to a stay-at-home wife and mother, and that we have eight children and homeschool them.  I am the oppressor, then. I am the villain. All that's wrong with the world is ultimately my fault. There is no winning for me except to surrender all my power to others and abdicate once and for all. Though even there, a...

I'm preparing an apologetics talk on the topic of Christian denominations for our youth group this coming Wednesday night, and it occurs to me that perhaps the best way to organize the information is by going to Acts 15 and Galatians 2 in the New Testament. Here we have what is referred to as "the circumcision party" - hardly the most fun-sounding shindig, you have to admit. And what was distincti...

An article was recently sent to me by a friend in Montana titled 'Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better.' Published by Forbes in 2016, written by Ida Auken on behalf of the World Economic Forum, the first-person narrative explains what it's like living in a city where we own nothing and are happy. Everything is free, and so is everyone. And, no, you do not...