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Episode 60 – Hallowpalooza
There is a growing popularity of all things Halloween in today's culture. Contained within the modern observance of the holiday is everything from the innocuous child's trick-or-treat costume to the gratuitous celebration of the macabre. Its prevalence--in...
Episode 59 – Warring with Emotionality
One of life's inevitabilities is that it will throw you curve balls. Whether those curve balls come in form of life-altering events or minor annoyances, work stresses or personal trials, they also inevitably produce emotion. We might not be able to dodge the curve...
Episode 58 -What Makes Fatherhood Indispensable? (MAN TALK)
MAN TALK EDITION - Guest Hosts, Noah Stolly and TC Cipollone Cheers! to another four-mic, four-man roundtable discussion on a crucial leading question. Our hosts and guest hosts wrestle with this two-ton topic, each winding down to a conclusion on how they will...
Episode 57 – Cleveland and Conversion, Deshaun and Devotion
Allegiance to a favorite sports team is a complex phenomenon deep in the psyche of a man. Claiming a team as your "favorite" often starts at the tenderest of ages; following that team closely for years--through star players, through heartbreaks, through championship...
Episode 56 – Defining Christian Masculinity (“with” Brad East)
In an essay titled "On Christian Masculinity", author Brad East makes some thought-provoking arguments about how Christians ought to view masculinity. In his critique, he sets his sights on books and blogs (and podcasts?) that popularize modern models for manhood,...
Episode 55 – Curtis Hamrick, Guest Convo
Curtis Hamrick is the Executive Director of the Auglaize Mercer Business Education Alliance (AMBE), a non-profit organization that connects local students with local businesses for meaningful career opportunities in the two-county area. Curtis graduated from Wright...
Episode 54 – Sarcasm vs. Sincerity
When it comes to sarcasm, there's a thin line between funny and hurtful. Yet the use of sarcasm is still alive and well; it's arguably one of the bedrocks of our collective culture's sense of humor. Further, sarcasm is so prevalent that it can often be difficult to...
Episode 53 – The Parochial Man
In the world of ideas there's no idea more subtly insidious than "sky's the limit". It's an idea that plays softly in the background of modernity like a subliminal message, hinting to us that reality is but a construct. Saying the world is without limits is a lie. ...
Episode 52 – The 52 Finale!
It's officially been one year of the Manhood Restored podcast! We made it! 52 episodes (the goal set when we started this thing)! Thank you to our listeners, show guests, behind-the-scenes supporters, and everyone who's been a part of this first year. We've...
Episode 51 – Dan Teller, Guest Convo
Dan Teller is the founder and director of The Good Shepard Catholic Montessori (GSCM) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since its founding in 1998, GSCM has grown from 28 students in Preschool and Kindergarten to over 200 students up through eighth grade. Dan has dedicated his...
Episode 50 – Indoctrination Station, Part 3 (Education)
This is the final destination on the Ben Express, the last in a three-part series on the Marxist March through western institutions. It's the topic that's been begging to be discussed, the station to end all stations: the Indoctrination of Education. News Flash: ...
Episode 49 – Raising the Selfie Generation
It would seem nearly every generation of parents has a tendency to impugn certain cultural trends of their children's generation. "Kids these days!" is the oft-quoted line of a frustrated mom or dad. As meaningless as that tendency turns out to be in the end (kids...