The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

They say that patience is a virtue, but why is that? And why is it so hard to be patient? Patience for me is a challenge not least because I have a bias for action, and things do not always go according to plan. Try and strive and plan and maneuver and position elements and my internal world as I may, the Lord is God. And I am not God. Typically - in my case, at least - impatience on my part is re...

Moving to Colorado has been great for my family in many respects, but there is at least one in which we have had ongoing struggles since shortly after we arrived in late 2019. Ours is a quiet street, and our kids have enjoyed riding their bikes up and down it, and around the neighborhood. Yet we have found some not so great influences from some of the other kids in the neighborhood. This past week...

Republican governors are going on record as saying they will oppose President Joe Biden's executive actions on gun control. Here's hoping they mean it and don't just get tired of fighting in a short span or if some professional or college sports organization threatens repercussions for non-compliance. Zooming out on the timeline here, however, I find remarkable similarities to how Republicans and...

George M. Marsden's The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief (2014) is worth your time, and you should check it out. After finishing it yesterday, I have some thoughts to share with you regarding the oft-repeated phrases of late "trust the experts" and "follow the science." These sentiments didn't come from nowhere, or arrive on our cultural scene with...

My wife posed a great question to our family at the dinner table on Saturday.  Is it better to be kind or to be right? After collecting our kids' insightful answers, I weighed in on this poignant dilemma.

Ian Haworth writes for The Daily Wire, "Clarence Thomas Appears To Endorse Outlawing Social Media’s Censorship Of Conservatives: Everything You Need To Know." Should Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter be regulated as common carriers like Verizon and Comcast and your power company are? It behooves us to consider the need for humility in how we relate to the liberties of those around...

Today I finished the late Roger Scruton's How to Be a Conservative , but Audible apparently doesn't want me to talk about that. I've also almost concluded The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyrannny by Ian Davidson. Speaking of the French Revolution, former Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp was recently on Bill Maher's show where she falsely accused Gina Cerano of being a Nazi on nation...

My brother Bryce came over yesterday afternoon and traded me two 140mm computer fans for an RTX 2070 that had some child's water inadvertently spilt on it. While he was here, he also set me up to mine Bitcoin on my RTX 3070 GPU.  So now I have run NiceHash all the past night, on both my computer and my wife's. And my graphics cards are making us several dollars a day worth of Bitcoin. If we h...

My family and I rearranged furniture in several rooms yesterday afternoon, and now I have an office again after several years without. And sometimes that's what you have to do when you assess your priorities. As with our literal furniture, so also with the abstract furniture in our hearts and minds.

On the heels of a shooting in Boulder, Colorado yesterday which left 10 people dead - including one law enforcement officer - Democrats across America are pushing yet again for gun control. Let's talk about that, shall we?

Let's talk about The Miseducation of America's Elites by Bari Weiss , published March 9th at City-Journal.org.  And while we're at it, I will encourage you once again to order and read a copy of my book, 'And This Is Why We Homeschool.' #AndThisIsWhyWeHomeschool

After a month of playing Valheim with my sons and friends and my friend's sons, we finally acquired scrap iron. My son Eli built a Viking longship, my son Solomon built a grinding wheel, and I built a stonecutter and our first stone building. We also got thoroughly demolished by man-sized mosquitos and some gremlin-like creatures when we visited the plains, and continued refining our teamwork. In...

Recently working a lot on trying to build websites for this podcast and my books, concerns about self-promotion have been on my mind. There seems a kind of tight-rope to walk in promoting my work vigorously without becoming (or even seeming) conceited. How does one go about walking that fight line, though? Listen to this episode of the podcast as I think through that thorny problem.

Democrats have decided to lower the voting age in America to 16. What are their reasons, and what should we make of that? Also, let's talk about the increasing prevalence of irritable and distracted people. Finally, I want to briefly analyze the sentiment "We should all just mind our own business." All of that and more in this episode.

Marriage can be hard. Nevertheless, we do well to remember where marriage comes from and what God has called those of us to who have the blessing and privilege of being married.  Even the hard times have a purpose, and we need to rely on the Lord's grace to make the most of them in a way that honors our spouse and the Lord.

Let's talk about Valheim - the Viking survival game I have been playing with my sons and an assortment of friends and family. Important life lessons thus far: team work, strategic thinking skills, and how to fell trees without them dropping on your head.

What made Ulysses S. Grant so remarkable? I may be finding out as I listen to Ron Chernow's biography of the man. And let me tell you a story about a recent instrumentation issue I had to troubleshoot at work, and how I think it relates to the fair-weather philosophy which so dominates our post-modern age.

Molly Ball at TIME magazine published an article last week titled 'The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.' In it, she outlined and outright bragged about the - as she puts it - "conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes" to save Democracy from people like you and me who voted for the candidate disfavored by the powers that be. By way of reminder, when you or I describ...

Curious what all the fuss is about with GameStop, Reddit, and Robinhood? Here is my quasi-insider small trader perspective. Spoiler alert: there are two sets of rules. One for the big players, and one for the little guys.  Yet as Proverbs 20:10 tells us, "Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to Yahweh." I may not be an expert on how our stock market works, but I...

A listener recently asked the following question: If I'm encouraging people to find other marketplaces besides Amazon.com, why am I publishing and selling my recent book on Amazon? That is an entirely fair question. Here is my answer.

I was recently asked to sing in church. And by God's grace, I did just that.

Someone I am close to recently deleted their Facebook; and despite having recently started an account on MeWe, it would appear they deleted that account also. This is not an isolated incident, though. Conservative Americans now feel entirely alien and unwelcome online. Years of being maligned, manipulated, and censored on the biggest platforms have suddenly kicked into overdrive. And a lot of us a...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn into office today. I confess, it was a glum day for me personally as I considered the implications of that in the short and mid-term. Yet even so, it is critically important that we not become discouraged or despairing. The question we need to be asking ourselves, one another, and the Lord Almighty is this: how can we be good stewards now? What good deeds are...

These days, it feels like the United States of America is on its way to becoming the Divided States of America in the near-term. Each half of the country possesses a collective distrust and even contempt for the other, and diplomatic negotiations seem to have broken down. I want to lay out a couple of scenarios for what may happen in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead. Regardless what actual...

The United States House of Representatives voted 232-197 yesterday to impeach President Trump.  The reason why has more to do with deflection and spite than the actions of the president. For one thing, no American president has ever been impeached twice. And the ambition is now for that to be Trump's legacy. For another thing, impeaching and potentially convicting President Trump conveniently...