The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

In 1831, French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville traveled across the ocean to the United States and spent nine months traversing what is now the eastern half of our country. Observing, listening, engaging in conversation, Tocqueville studied our ways and manners. The end-result was an epic treatment of our society at that moment in history. For years I have been reading more recent historians and...

"It's what ya D-O do with what you got that counts," as the wise old owl says in one of my favorite childhood movies, 'So Dear to My Heart.'  The song these lyrics come from comes to mind as I recall an analogy to describe the contrast between establishment media and all its resources over and against smaller independent podcasters and journalists when it comes to reporting on current events...

Good science is predicated on the humble admission that we do not know or understand everything so well as we should like. For that matter, good science invariably requires finite, limited creatures share information with one another, and be open to challenging and being challenged on their presentation of the facts and any attendant conclusions derived from the same. So also with athletic competi...

“As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment.” So said Alexis de Tocqueville in 'Democracy in America' (1831), a book I am now overdue in read...

It's hard to believe 'The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy' was published in 1997. Yet it's equally hard to believe this way of viewing history and current events and predictions for the future is so seldom employed or adopted. Why have I not heard more about this before? Instead of viewing history as linear - either toward inevitably greater and greater human progress or else toward devolutio...

Have you read Spotify's Platform Rules? I thought I had, but then a new notice started appearing yesterday morning when publishing my latest episode on Anchor.fm - a Spotify property. So I clicked there, and read through everything. And I copied and pasted the whole page into Microsoft Word so I could highlight and underline the wording of certain sections which seemed odd, or overly broad, or cry...

Last night, while enjoying lasagna brought to us by our dear friends Roy and Susan Garcia, Lauren and I and our eight children watched the No. 1 movie on IMDb right now, Disney's Encanto . All but our youngest son Andrew and our eldest sons Josiah and Eli had seen the movie already. But everyone was eager to watch it for either the first or second time, and no complaints were to be heard by any at...

Joe Rogan is in some hot water with the Left - ostensibly for conducting interviews with cancelled scientists, physicians, and experts whose disagreement with and criticism of the official response to COVID is being dubbed "misinformation." Aging rockers like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music from Spotify to protest that music and podcasting platform not sufficiently censoring R...

Going into John H. Walton's 'The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate,' I knew little more about the book than what the publisher's summary on Audible told me. Recently recommended to me by someone who had not read the book either, I thought the book had been billed by Ken Ham and the Answers in Genesis crowd as a must-read. As it turns out, Ken Ham has recommended e...

"Proof" is an ambivalent term according to 'McCormick on Evidence' (1954), a law school textbook I picked up on a whim a few years back from a Goodwill store someplace.  "Sometimes," McCormick writes, "when we say a thing is "proved" we mean that we are convinced by the data submitted that the alleged fact is true." Just so, widespread fraud in the 2020 Election has been proved to my satisfaction...

Author of The Jungle Books and several other works, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born to English parents in India during the heyday of the British Empire.  Having just this week finished The Jungle Books for the first time, I like them better than the Disney animated classic I grew up with, or that film's live-action and CGI remake from 2016. As is usually the case, the book version is ric...

Let me start this podcast episode write-up with a correction. Evangeline Lilly actually posted about her support for the Canadian trucker convoy on her Instagram, not Twitter as I stated in the audio for this podcast. As it turns out, Ms. Lilly's Twitter account has laid dormant since the summer of 2021. So go figure. But the big story is not a popular Hollywood actress getting on board with prote...

Our seventh son and eighth child was born yesterday morning, and we are all of course still resting and recovering. But the morning after our meeting Andrew Matthias Mullet face-to-face, I find Psalm 127  is on my thoughts and in my heart. Now more than ever, I should understand our situation better in light of what God’s Word says here. So how does a father of eight children and seven sons r...

In 'The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses' by Dan Carlin, the host of the Hardcore History podcast surveys the rise and fall of civilizations and cultures to put present-day concerns about the impending end of the world into perspective. While I like the idea, and there are certain topics I appreciate Carlin bringing up, his positive refer...

With Russian forces amassing on the border with Ukraine, the world watches. Threats of consequences are traded back and forth between Vladimir Putin and leadership in the UK and the US. It appears as though any day now we will see Russia attempt to take over their neighbor and install a puppet regime there. Will America and her NATO allies do anything to stop Russia? Time will tell. Yet Russia and...

Solomon Emmanuel Mullet joins me in this episode to talk about art, tips for how to improve your drawing, how he approaches sketching, and whether he is going to grow his hair into an afro and become the YouTube Bob Ross of his generation. "We don't make mistakes," as the televised painter was famously fond of say, "just happy little accidents."

It may seem strange to hear, and I feel strange for saying it, but Rod Dreher's 'Live Not By Lies: A Manual For Christian Dissidents' was a breath of fresh air to me.  Perhaps all the glazed looks I have gotten over the years when talking about creeping totalitarianism and the rise of communist sentiment in America have something to do with it. But Rod Dreher does not do the all-too-typical c...

Shoshana Zuboff's 2019 book 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power' is a long, hard read. But it reminds me of Proverbs 1:17.  "For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird..." While the facts and quotes and studies and history presented here are unpleasant to look at and realize, still more unpleasant to imagine is the prospect...

Conservative commentator and children's book author Matt Walsh was recently invited to appear on Dr. Phil's show to discuss transgenderism, and the results were pretty fantastic. Walsh points out, for instance, that we're not entitled to our own preferred pronouns anymore than we're entitled to our own adjectives. And insisting that everyone else refer to us in precisely the way we want them to or...

The preoccupation in our day with inequality - of wealth, power, influence, and ability - could benefit greatly from a careful reading of what Christ says the kingdom of heaven will be like in Matthew 25:14-30 . 'The Parable of the Talents' is the story of a master who gave different amounts of money to his three servants before going away for a while. To one he gave five talents, to another two,...

Young Earth Creationism is the view that God created everything that exists – including the earth – in six literal consecutive days and rested on a literal seventh consecutive day according to a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis in the Old Testament, specifically the first eleven chapters. Central to the argument by Young Earth Creationists is the fact that the Hebrew word ‘Yom’ transl...

Our family Christmas gift last year was an Oculus Quest 2, and I must say that for all my concerns about the so-called Metaverse we have had a great deal of fun with our first foray into VR. Walkabout Mini Golf is delightful. Eleven Table Tennis and Thrill of the Fight provide surprisingly intense workouts. We've spent some time on the International Space Station and swimming with Great White shar...

Two weeks into this new year, and now on days off from my new job which promises two weeks off a month, and half the weeks of the year free to myself and my family, my attention now turns once again to plans which were shelved for a span of time while more pressing and immediate concerns were settled. It is time to write the next book. But the follow-up to 'And This Is Why We Homeschool' goes back...

The first book I've finished this year is a game-changer. Mary Eberstadt's exploration of crucial questions in 'How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization' takes all the dots we've been connecting together for years and connects them in somewhat the opposite way I had assumed. We all know, for instance, that America is decreasingly religious and increasingly secular and godless....

Yesterday brought both good news and bad news from the Supreme Court of the United States.  On the one hand, relief pours over millions of Americans who were concerned about President Biden's vaccine mandate for the general workforce through OSHA.  Dubbed a "workaround," Justices asked this administration's legal counsel why they needed a workaround. The answer from Biden's lawyers was u...