Snakes & Otters Podcast
Episodes
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Episode 078 "Our Heroes: Michelangelo"
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
"When will you make an end Buonarroti?"
"When I am finished!"
Robert takes the big chair and we talk about a giant of a talent in Michelangelo. A true genius.
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Episode 073 "Our Heroes: Great Teachers We Have Known"
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
The guys take a trip down memory lane, paying homage to great teachers who got them where they are today. They start with the anchor of the college professor Mt. Rushmore, Bellarmine history professor Dr. Margaret Mahoney.
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Episode 039 "Our Heroes: Charlton Heston"
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
"Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!" Martin, Robert and Francis dig in a major appreciation of Chuck Heston. We talk his craft, his life and the way he stood firm for what he believed in. "Ideals not causes" indeed.
Pick up Heston's terrific autobiography In The Arena to get what the guys are on about.
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Episode 030 "Our Heroes: Thomas Aquinas"
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Robert captains a seriously deep episode on the father of Scholasticism, Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas. Francis is in awe and Martin works hard to keep up.
Reading much of Thomas Aquinas is a magnum opus unto itself, but his great masterwork, the Summa Theologica (often just called the Summa) is available online for free and in its entirety on the New Advent website.
And believe it or not, his Wikipedia page does a very good free biography of him and of his many great contributions to learning.
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Episode 025 "Our Heroes: Ulysses S. Grant"
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Third Friday of the month means another "Our Heroes" episode. We started with Thomas More, went through film director and writer John Milius, and now we tackle general and president Ulysses S. Grant.
Martin starts with some of the newer biographies such as Grant by Ron Chernow from 2018, Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President by Geoffrey Perrett from 1998 and Grant by Jean Edward Smith from 2002 to lead the guys through why Grant is a hero and should be thought of as a great figure in US history. Francis recommends The Complete Personal Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, written by the man himself which is still regarded as a relevant, useful source on the 19th century.
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Episode 021 "Our Heroes: John Milius"
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Conan, what is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!
We take on the life and career of one of our heroes, the rugged individualist and Zen anarchist, John Milius. And Martin loves the smell of napalm in the morning.
And for further reading (although it is a little pricey) the guys recommend The Cinema of John Milius by Alfio Leotta from 2018 which goes deep into Milius' many contributions to modern American Cinema.
Friday Sep 20, 2019
Episode 017 "Our Heroes: Thomas More"
Friday Sep 20, 2019
Friday Sep 20, 2019
Francis leads the guys through a personal reflection on the life of St. Thomas More and why he's a hero worth emulating. Get out some tissues everybody.
And while there are tons and tons of works out there, both about and by Thomas More, Francis recommends grabbing first A Thomas More Source Book by renowned More scholar Gerard Wegemer from the University of Dallas, written in 2004.