Episodes

Join our warm, in-depth discussion of CAPT William Palmer, USN’s United States Navy career from the time he enlisted and was sent to an elite Army base to learn Chinese Mandarin to being promoted three decades later to full-bird Navy captain (equivalent to Army colonel), one below one-star rear admiral . Learn how he was awarded the Bronze Star in Iraq, and where our paths crossed so many years ago.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Navy, pro-Chinese-linguist, pro-serving-the-true-meaning-of-America podcast.

Welcome William Palmer, United States Navy !

Join our warm conversation with a rising Social Media legend who brings us the latest News soaked in prayer, baptized in the River Jordan, Lance Wallnau, Sr.

He’s got a million people following him on social media, up over 1900% in the last 7 years. He’s famous for taking a simple iPhone and going Live on Facebook, holding it with his arm extended, for 40 + minutes, with the equivalent of a packed out Super Bowl stadium tuning in at some point during the broadcast. Each broadcast is archived for later viewing.

Lance is a businessman, a man of the marketplace, a teacher, an author, with the heart of a minister of the Lord who in his free time helps his wife with a Christian ministry to single mothers in need of physical necessities.

Lance Sr works hard to get the news right, to get what needs to be gotten out to his viewers, to correct for “mainstream” lamestream error, bias, or omission, adding insightful, hopeful, optimistic commentary from a Spiritual point of view.

The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-the-News-right, pro-correcting-for-lamestream-media-bias-or-omission-or-error, pro-helping-single-mothers-in-great-need podcast.

Therefore, welcome Lance Wallnau, Sr !

Teaching 2nd Amendment Constitutional Law at the shooting range is an obvious compliment to firearms training and safety, according to America’s Constitutional Coach Rick Green.

Join our warm conversation with America’s Constitution Coach, Founder of Patriot Academy Rick Green, who also is a former Texas state legislator and radio host on Wall Builders Live. He also teaches Constitutional Law at the Front Sight Firearms Training Facility in Nevada, the NRA Whittington Center in New Mexico (among other places).

For more information, check out https://www.patriotacademy.com/

The Republican Professor is a pro-Constitution, pro-understanding-the-founding, anti-slavery, pro-Second-Amendment podcast.

Therefore, welcome Rick Green !

Join our warm conversation with Santa Monica College History professor Dr. David Byrne, Ph.D., author of “Ronald Reagan: An Intellectual Biography” published by the University of Nebraska Press.

It’s available from the Missippippi here : https://www.amazon.com/Ronald-Reagan-Intellectual-David-Byrne/dp/1640120033/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=reagan%27s+intellectual+history&qid=1650397940&sr=8-1

The Republican Professor is a pro-Ronald-Reagan, pro-intellectual-history, pro-understanding-the-presidency podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. David Byrne !

Should we call God Mother ?
Should we fear God ?
Is hell real ?
Are the books in the Bible the right books?
How do we know ?
What are the essentials of Christian faith ?
Did the resurrection of Jesus really happen ?
Is spanking kids inappropriate ?
Dr. Cara Aspesi (M.A., Ph.D. from Notre Dame in early church history, liturgy & theology) joins us today for our special TRP Easter Episode 2022.

The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-church-history, pro-understanding-the-Bible, pro-naming-and-celebrating-Easter podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Cara Aspesi, Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame!

It’s Easter weekend this weekend ! Happy Good Friday 2022, TRPers !

2022 years after what ?

After Jesus.

Today we have Dr. Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. to talk to us about the 2nd Edition of his monumental book, Christian Apologetics, 800+ pages comprehensively defending the the claim that one can know Christian truth claims about reality, claims such as, for example, that Jesus was killed, that he rose again, and atoned for the sins of any who would place their trust in him.

Here we have a bit of the human story behind the book, including the suffering the author has experienced in his own life.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Good-Friday, pro-understanding-and-appreciating-and-naming-Easter podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. !

President of National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) Dr. Brian Ray, Ph.D. sat down with us to describe his research on Home-Based Education as an alternative and competitor to public schools.

You can find out more by checking out : https://www.nheri.org/

The Republican Professor is a pro-real-education podcast.

Welcome, Dr. Brian Ray !

There is no one in Southern California quite like California fishing and hunting expert Wendy Tochihara. This delightful daughter of World War 2 Japanese Internment Camp parents calls Huntington Beach, California her home, where she raises chickens, her own vegetables, and has five freezers full of meat from various hunting expeditions around California (and sometimes beyond). And she’s not afraid to wear her MAGA hat, either. Nor is her mom.

She’s pro-Second Amendment, pro-sustainable fishing & hunting, passionate about the outdoors and about how California once was and could be again if the politics reversed course.

(Although the Second Amendment is about self-defense and protection of innocent human life, not about hunting and fishing).

The Republican Professor is a pro-Second-Amendment, pro-hunting-&-fishing, pro-optimistic-MAGA-hat-wearing-former-Japanese-Internment-Camp-Prisoners’s-daughter podcast.

By the way–it was the Democrats who issued that military Japanese-US-citizen exclusion order during World War 2, you know that, right ? She does.

Therefore, welcome Wendy Tochihara !

Join our warm conversation with local, vintage bestselling author Cliff Shiepe, author of the novel, “Cliff Falls.”

Self-published over a decade ago, it’s touched many lives in many different contexts.

We talk about LA, his writing process, and true spirituality. Ultimately, we are all looking for True Belonging, True Acceptance. These ultimate issues are what his book is really about.

He’s coming out with a second novel next year. But he doesn’t give any hints as to what it might be about , so you’ll just have to keep checking Vromans in Pasadena or your local bookshop to satisfy your curiosity.

If you prefer to shop online because the last two years of public health panic has devestated small businesses, including bookstores selling books, you can find the book on the Nile, the Ganges, or any other huge river from which one can buy books, e.g. :https://www.amazon.com/Cliff-Falls-C-B-Shiepe/dp/0982702027/ref=sr_1_1?crid=123SEGIYJZ5DY&keywords=cliff+falls+shiepe&qid=1649372022&sprefix=cliff+falls+shiep%2Caps%2C336&sr=8-1

The Republican Professor is a pro-creative-writing, pro-self-publishing, pro-True-Spirituality podcast.

Therefore, welcome Cliff Shiepe !

Logicians are trained to pay close attention to the definitions of terms. For instance, in Patrick J. Hurley’s Concise Introduction to Logic, chapter 2 is entirely about definitions. Definitions are a big deal. (Logic is a field of the discipline called Philosophy. Definitions are very important for the other fields, too).

In law (I have a Masters in Philosophy, a Ph.D. in Public Law & American Politics, taught both Con Law and Logic), philosophy’s love for definitions helps.

Here is a conversation about what the word “woman” means. We could have picked other terms. Unlike all of the other words here on this description, some people think we need to redefine the term for political and/or moral reasons.The best correct definitions are those that provide necessary and sufficient conditions (in non-stipulative contexts). (A “stipulation” is just an agreement, like on a contract, or statute, of what a word means in a technical, limited sense). New gender terms that aren’t merely stipulative suffer from a basic deficiency: they have trouble on their own terms respecting their own goals of inclusion and diversity rooted in self-identification . This is a pretty basic problem. And a lot of people can easily see it for exactly what it is. 



Let’s call this revisionist view the Self ID view. This new attempted definition of an old word, says Logic Professor Dr. Tomas Bogardus, Ph.D., gives neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for being a real woman. And no matter how you feel about social justice or moral requirements, this is a persistent problem for the revisionist Self ID view of what a woman really is. 

It does no good to try to manipulate people out of seeing this problem for what it is using shame techniques that are themselves as old as time. People can think for themselves. People can see the manipulation for what it is, and false shaming is no true key to a correct definition of any term.

This new movement to incorporate Self-ID into the cutting edge definition of the term “woman” inevitably doesn’t satisfy necessary and sufficient conditions. The classical definition for woman in classic, standard hard-copy dictionaries says a real woman is an adult, human female. Let’s call that the Classical View. English is very old. That old definition does give a plausible, internally consistent set of both necessary and sufficient conditions for what all and only women are, but is considered defective by recent revisionists for alleged reasons of ethical failure. 



We’re in a real pickle if the classical definition meets the philosophical requirement for a good definition, but we are morally prohibited (we are told) from continuing to adopt it. 

Doesn’t morality require us to be sensitive to truth in definitions?



Or does morality require us to change definitions, even if they don’t provide truthful cognitive connection with the meaning of the term ?

Because the new, cutting edged proposals for revising what the term “woman” means fails a standard test of the best, correct definitions, doesn’t it suffer from a fatal flaw? That flaw would be: the Self-ID revisionist view doesn’t tell us what the word really means. It doesn’t pick out all and only women in an internally, logically consistent way. 



Revisionist gender theorists are working to avoid the classical definition, but at what philosophical cost? 

How do we know these new, alleged demands of social justice really are binding on our old definitions in the way asserted ?

Dr. Tomas Bogardus, Ph.D., who teaches Logic along with other courses in Philosophy at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, takes us through his careful writing on this topic, including a history of the debate of these matters. You can view his scholarly papers on his website here : https://sites.google.com/site/tbogardus/



The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-reality, pro-getting-correct-and-accurate-definitions-of-terms podcast.



Therefore, welcome Tomas Bogardus !