The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

For many, the time of the year from Thanksgiving to Christmas to New Year's Eve is filled with overdoing it. We have parties to throw and go to. There are meals to plan, prepare, and clean up after. We have gifts to pick out, buy, wrap, and give. George Bailey feels a kindred spirit, what with his frustration at things not going perfectly, and feeling like he's to blame. Everyone would be better o...

Today our second to youngest son turns six, and I want to take a little time to talk about how much I love his name, plus the story of how we came up with it. Enoch in the Old Testament book of Genesis walked with God, lived to be 365 years, and then God just took him. He didn't die. God just took him. and that puts Enoch in a very rare category of men who have not died because the good Lord decid...

Is the 1988 Bruce Willis flick 'Die Hard' really a Christmas movie? To gain an informed opinion, I watched it for the first time with my older sons last night while my wife and daughter were at a cookie exchange party for the ladies in our church small group.  Here is my take.

A few weeks back, I was having a conversation with my friend Jeff and my cousin Micah when the subject of 'Let's Go Brandon' came up. And we all were weighing in on what we make of this stand-in phrase which euphemistically tells President Biden how we feel about him. While many folks enthusiastically embrace the slogan, and plenty of other dignified ladies and gentlemen are unequivocally opposed...

Comedian Drew Lynch has a very funny sketch on how to stop school shootings. His idea is simple and to-the-point: ban schools. Be warned that there is some bad language in the full bit which you can find here. But the problem is not the guns, and completely eliminating mental illness is not feasible. As Lynch says, "You can't shoot up a place that doesn't exist!" Funny though this may be, the laug...

Andrew Yang ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, and he sparked enthusiasm and earned respect on all sides for communicating his ideas and proposals outside of the typical rhetoric and talking points we have grown accustomed to. Back in October, Yang took to Twitter to announce the founding of a new political party which he dubs the Forward Party.  The premise is simple enough. Democrat v...

With starting a new job last week, I have had a lot of introductions to make the past several days at work. And new associates ask a lot of the same questions. Where was I before this? What is my experience? Do I have a wife and kids? What do I do outside of work? All of that is standard fare. But when I tell them we have seven children with an eighth due January, the reaction is almost always the...

In Philippians 3:12-21 , the Apostle Paul writes some things which I think bear mention in relation to yesterday's episode - 'Post-Evangelical Pastors Questioning Their Faith Post-Trump.' "Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own . Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I d...

October 22, 2021, Sarah Pulliam Bailey wrote for The Washington Post, 'In a post-Trump world, these pastors are ditching the evangelical label for something new.' In her piece, we find a number of contradictions and internal inconsistencies. New communities of faith are forming which are predicated on nothing solid except affirming the LGBTQ+ movement, abortion, and so-called racial justice. Liter...

The trial of Jeffrey Epstein Madame Ghislaine Maxwell is set to begin today. Rumors circulated online last week that the judge issued a media gag order and was not going to allow members of the press in the courtroom for the trial which is expected to last six weeks. Unlike the recent Kyle Rittenhouse trial, no footage of the proceedings will be made available to the public. Epstein and Maxwell st...

With Thanksgiving officially behind us now, our sons Eli and Dan worked together to put up a couple strings of colorful lights on the front of our house in Greeley. Our boys also pulled the totes of Christmas decorations out of the shed yesterday, and the plan this afternoon is to decorate - put up the trees, wreaths, candles, and other miscellaneous knick-knacks which are part of this festive sea...

Mairead Elordi reports for The Daily Wire on Lauren Boebert, Republican Congresswoman from Colorado, apologizing to the 'Muslim Community' in America, as well as fellow House member Ilhan Omar from Minnesota, for a video that went viral over Thanksgiving in which she made some jokes in poor taste during a speaking engagement in Pueblo, Colorado.  So, yes. Boebert referred to Omar as 'Jihad Sq...

On Saturday, November 25, 2006 , I married Lauren Elizabeth Duff in Hillsboro, Ohio and she took my last name. I had just turned 20 and Lauren was 19. At the end of July 2007 our first son Josiah David was born at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. Near the end of June 2008 , our second son Elihu James was born, also at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. At the end of December 2009 , our t...

On my drive to work yesterday morning, I listened to the latest episode of Al Mohler's podcast, 'The Briefing.' That episode - titled ' Wednesday, November 24, 2021 ' and available at AlbertMohler.com - was good and helpful; and it got me thinking about what an increasingly secular mainstream American culture makes of Thanksgiving Day with each passing year. Who or what do wholly secular folks giv...

Facebook changed its name to Meta, and three weeks ago Zuckerberg and company released a video explaining the 'Metaverse' they are working to create. The comments are turned off, and YouTube won't let us see how many likes and dislikes Meta's video viewed 3.3 million times thus far has - which is telling. And this really gets at the manipulation of our view of reality which these Big Tech companie...

Three important stories to cover in connection to one another in this episode: John Rigolizzo at The Daily Wire reports - 'NBC Columnist: Parents ‘Aren’t Qualified,’ ‘Should Keep Their Noses Out’ Of Education,' November 19, 2021 Joel Abbot at Not the Bee reports - 'This Chicago mob shouted "the only solution is communist revolution" after the Rittenhouse verdict and I'm just glad they're fina...

SPOILER ALERT: Prime Video's adaption of Robert Jordan's beloved fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, is dead on arrival in episode one. In all the same ways the latest Dune film was so fantastic because it honored the author's original intent and vision in the case of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, what Amazon did with WoT is a travesty. But this is what you get when the fulfillment of...

The verdict is in, and Kyle Rittenhouse has been found by a jury of his peers to be not guilty on all charges. By way of reminder, due process in this country is predicated on the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt. But of course the Left does not mean for due process to get in the way of their foregone conclusion driven by emotion and outrage over anyone dari...

November 17, 2021 - Jeff Dunetz writes for Climate Depot: U.S. Oil Producer To Biden: Don’t Ask OPEC To Increase Production - ASK US! A Year Ago America Was An Oil Exporter. November 19, 2021 - Katabella Roberts reports for The Epoch Times: Biden Asks China to Consider Releasing Reserves of Crude Oil in Effort to Meet Supply Demands: White House. The Biden administration needs to reconsider its st...

My neighbor JP Chavez sent me a really encouraging article hot off the presses yesterday. James Hankins, history professor at Harvard University, writes for First Things magazine 'How to Be on the Right Side of History.'   In his excellent piece, Hankins pushes back against the idea that we know what if anything will be seen in coming decades as "the right side of history," pointing out that...

Up early this morning, I watched the first two-thirds of John Pilger's 2016 documentary, 'The Coming War on China.' As if written and directed by Howard Zinn, the film so far is heavy on familiar themes.  America is a corrupt, hypocritical, and arbitrary imperialist Western power. China for its part has been the victim of predation for centuries, and communism is not so bad after all.  A...

Refugees from Afghanistan have sought asylum in America after the Biden administration surrendered that country and 20-years of coalition investment of blood and treasure to the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS.  Some of these asylum seekers are Muslim Afghanis who served as informants and translators for our forces. Staying in Afghanistan would have meant certain death or slavery for them and their fa...

Let us consider two things in relation to one another and our present condition. First, read Gene Edward Veith's piece 'Modern Fascism Revisited' in this month's issue of Tabletalk Magazine for reflections on Veith's 1993 book, 'Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview.' Second, Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel 'Dune,' which just a few weeks ago had a most excellent film...

In nearly a decade of working in the oil and gas industry, one major principle of safety that has been drilled into me is, and I quote, "you have the right and responsibility to stop unsafe work." This statement is also known by the phrase "Stop Work Authority," or SWA for short, and is derived from section 5 of the OSH Act of 1970 , which states in part A that each employer, "(1) shall furnish to...

Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial this week for the shooting deaths of two Leftist rioters who violently attacked him in Kenosha, Wisconsin on the night of August 25th, 2020 during "mostly peaceful protests" related to the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Having watched Mr. Rittenhouse - who was 17 years old at the time of the shooting - take to the stand to give an account of his actions, my heart brok...