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The Based Catholic
by Jessica Kramer
A solo-hosted variety show with different segments coming at all things from a 'based' Catholic perspective...takes often not included in the culture and liturgical wars & ongoing intra-conservative debates. Politically Integralist/Post-Liberal. Religiously Traditional. Culturally Retro.
Episodes
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What Happened To America's Architecture & Cities?
Episode 28 Special Guests: Owner & Founder of Hull Millwork and Hull Homes, Brent Hull & Author Jack Cashill. How much did America change after World War II? The short answer: a lot. For starters, we accelerated our standard of "cheap and fast" to the utmost degree in our architectural design and...
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Pro-Natalism Is Not Necessarily Pro-Family
Episode 27 Special Guest: Tim Carney, author of the book, "Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Having Kids Much Harder Than It Needs To Be." Civilization is in crisis. The birth decline continues to drop as marriage rates plummet and suffer from further delay. But how responsible is our…
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A Willingness To Suffer...Well
Episode 26 Special Guests: Franciscan University Professor of Theology, Dr. John Bergsma & the Diocese of Arlington’s Father David. Are we willing to suffer for our beloved? If we liken the analogy of marriage to our relationship with God, how many of us simply think we love God enough, but are...
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Make Mass Beautiful Again & Secularism's Coping Methods
Episode 25 Special Guest: Diocese of Cleveland’s Father Patrick Schultz. I'm sure you've heard that famous Dr. Peter Kreeft quote: "Abortion is the Antichrist’s demonic parody of the eucharist. That’s why it uses the same holy words, “This is my body,” with the blasphemous opposite meaning." You...
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IVF Is An Ishmael & Unyoking Yourself From The Woke Regime
Episode 24 Special Guests: Them Before Us' Katy Faust & The Spectator's Teresa Mull. Issues related to marriage and family within liberalism's structure have long been decided based on what's best for the individual (i.e. the parent, the adult), never considering or in favor of what's best for…
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The Forgotten Father Of Modern Conservatism Was A Radical Catholic
Episode 23 Special Guests: Writer and Author, Declan Leary & Media Research Center's Brent Bozell III. If one of the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement, Brent Bozell Jr. were alive today (and still living in America), he'd probably be on the FBI's Catholic Extremist watch list.…
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Altars To Nowhere & Millennial Motherhood
Episode 22 Special Guest: Diocese of Arlington’s Father David. In a post-Christian culture, with the trend of reception-based ceremonies, what weddings can a Catholic go to in good conscience? I ask Father David. Then I give my take on what I consider the missing rhetoric surrounding the…
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JPII's "The Jeweler's Shop"
Episode 21 Special Guest: Professor James Wilson. They say divorce is down but that's only because marriage rates are too. In a post-marriage culture, how do we defend marriage if we don't even know what it is? I speak with Professor Wilson and we break down the three acts of the profound play...
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The Slowest Burn: When Discernment Looks Different Than You Expected & Ditching Your Smartphone
Episode 20 Special Guests: Christopher Chapman & Jacob Beckwith. Do fools rush in or do men "know?" Ever heard of a decade-long friendship getting out of the friend-zone? After this episode, you will have! Meet the man behind the legend that is Emily Stimpson Chapman. Her husband Chris tells me…
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Catholic Schools: Making Podcast Prostitutes & Homeschool Football Leagues?
Episode 19 Special Guests: Patricia Patnode & J.P. De Gance. Writer and repentant former member of the Daddy Gang, Patricia comes on to discuss the social impact of Call Her Daddy (the #1 female podcast in the world). We ponder if Alex Cooper's Catholic education really screwed her up her views…
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We Know What They Took From Us...Erotic Weddings & Appreciation For Jane Austen
Episode 18 Special Guests: Dr. R.J. Snell & Dr. Kathleen Sullivan. We know what they took from us...beauty, Catholic culture, dancing, erotic weddings, and good storytelling. Dr. Snell presents a whimsical case. Then Dr. Sullivan tries to sell me on Jane Austen...I may be persuaded by Persuasion....
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Is Childcare Policy Being Made For The Child Or The Man-Child?
Episode 17 Special Guests: Ivana Greco & EPPC's Patrick Brown. What is the childcare blob? Similar to the Washington, D.C. "foreign policy blob," Ivana dives into what the mainstream consensus is when it comes to child care policy. Then I go back and forth with Patrick over whether an agnostic or...
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If Daycares Are Orphanages, Are Nannies Temporary Mommy Replacements?
Episode 16 Special Guests: Kelsie Long & Carrie Kaczmarek Bland. Research shows that the first three years of a child's life are critically important in developing healthy attachment to their primary caregiver, their mother. Instinctively at three, I knew daycares were metaphorical orphanages…
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The Return of Verily Magazine & The Roseto Effect
Episode 15 Special Guests: Verily Editor-in-Chief Mary Rose Somarriba & Maria Perrone. I interview the current Editor-in-Chief of Verily Magazine, Mary Rose (who is practically my neighbor) about what sets Verily, the first publication in alternative women's media apart from her competitors. Then…
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Home...In A Place & In A Person, & Trad Larpers
Episode 14 Special Guests: The American Conservative's Emile Doak & Maria Perrone. Should a Catholic stay in their hometown, move to modern day Sodom and Gomorrah, or one of these Catholic Meccas? I discuss with Emile, long-time defender of staying in your hometown who is on the verge of moving…
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Radically Rethinking Money & Dynamics Between the Sexes
Episode 13 Special Guests: New Polity's Jacob Imam & Julia Beatty. Are we more American or Catholic with how we think about money? Jacob comes on for a fun exchange on why usury, investing in the market (and understanding investing as pure speculation) goes against Church Tradition, and points…
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The Decline of the Most Trusted Profession
Episode 12 Special Guests: Former Director of Nursing (Elisa Huelskamp), Former NICU Nurse (Christina Vescera), Former Oncology Nurse (Julia Beatty). Nursing was once the most trusted profession, but would you still consider that to be true based on today's standards? I talk with the three…
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"Memento Mori" Verses A Culture of Death
Episode 11 Special Guests: Catholic Writer & Speaker, Leah Libresco Sargeant, Americans United for Life's Senior Fellow, Zak Slayback, and Hillsdale Graduate, Matthias Rhein. What is the Catholic approach and ethic to end of life issues? I discuss that with Leah! Then I talk with Zak about the...
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The Era of Venmo Relationships
Episode 10 Special Guests: A lot of Thompson's...AKA my Mom’s side. Watching Venmo transactions got me thinking....Who should pay during the course of a romantic relationship? What does it look like for the man to be the provider in marriage and does that start in dating? (There's an obvious…
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(Ignore The Culture Warriors) Get Married When GOD Wants You To Get Married
Episode 9 Special Guests: Catholic wife, mother, & writer, Emily Stimpson Chapman. This episode was made in response to the growing trend of mostly male conservative commentators placing worldly pressure (mostly on women) to get married young in an effort to solve the country's fertility crisis....
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The Church Is An Inverted Nightclub
Episode 8 Special Guests: Communio's J.P. DeGance. There's a strong case to be made that the decline in faith is directly related to the decline in marriage, and specifically the decline in resident fatherhood. J.P. is the President & Founder of Communio, an organization formed out of a desire to...
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Turning Thirty, Moving Home, & Is DC An Extended College Campus?
Episode 7 Special Guests: ISI National Director of Student Programs & Freelance Food and Culture Writer, Marlo Slayback. An episode dedicated on turning {thirty} "...That period in which a person must discover his limitations without losing faith in his possibilities...It is a time freighted with...
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Are We Going To Be A Renters Class?...& Domestic Extremism
Episode 6 Special Guests: Mattison Brooks & Peachy Keenan. At the Young Republicans National Convention, in a room of 200 people, only 1 raised their hand when asked if they think they'll be able to own a home one day. I decided to speak with fellow millennial and new homeowner, Mattison Brooks...
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New Polity's Integralism & Why Voting On 'Life' Is Actually Absurd
Episode 5 Special Guests: New Polity's Marc Barnes & Americans United for Life's Tom Shakely. I spoke with Marc about New Polity's aversion toward liberalism, how it's inherently at war with Catholicism, and how their version of 'integralism' differs from another group (an opposing faction of...
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White-Pilled by JPII
Episode 4 Special Guests: Chastity Project's Jason Evert. Red-Pill content creators are taking over "conservative" social media platforms and infiltrating dating discussions, continuing to fuel the war between the sexes. In my attempt to counter act this degenerate form of masculinity, I decided…
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When There's Sex Division, There's No Multiplication
Episode 3 Special Guests: Maria Perrone & Franciscan University Professor of Theology, Dr. Deborah Savage. It doesn't seem like the sexes like each other much these days. And one of the reasons you can tell that the gender divide is widening is that it's showing up in our cinema. In this episode…
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The Reality of Pregnancy & The Traddy Trend of Home Birth
Episode 2 Special Guests: ISI National Director of Student Programs & Freelance Food and Culture Writer, Marlo Slayback. Being that home birth is making a comeback and trending in crunchy, conservative, Catholic circles, I decided to ask my friend about her home birth experience. We spoke about…
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From "No Homo" to GLOBAL Homo (in Sports)...to Dumping Dating Apps & The Tyranny of Social Media Influencing
Episode 1 Special Guests: "Anti-Woke Sports Guy" Jon Root & New Polity's Marc Barnes. I discuss what is going on in the woke world of sports with Jon and argue that sports are not out of the domain of politics and subsequently religion. Then I get Marc's brainy take on dating apps and ask him...
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A solo-hosted variety show with different segments coming at all things from a 'based' Catholic perspective...takes often not included in the culture and liturgical wars & ongoing intra-conservative debates. Politically Integralist/Post-Liberal. Religiously Traditional. Culturally Retro.
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A solo-hosted variety show with different segments coming at all things from a 'based' Catholic perspective...takes often not included in the culture and liturgical wars & ongoing intra-conservative debates. Politically Integralist/Post-Liberal. Religiously Traditional. Culturally Retro.
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