Stanton and Cody cut to the heart of the latest in the world. In this episode, we review how Supreme Court justices are nominated given Stephen Breyers' conditional retirement. We lament once more that Congress is spending money without real debate, regardless of party. And we question why the United States didn't boycott the genocidal regime of China as it hosted the Winter Olympics. Self-Evident and Forgotten is a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions. We explore the beautiful idea...
Feb 28, 2022•59 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Stanton and Cody cut to the heart of the latest in the world. In this episode, the duo explore the various hypotheticals of when a protest is acceptable to liberty lovers and when they are not, and how that fits with the recent trucker protest with our neighbors to the north. Also, forgive Stanton's audio quality. He recorded from his apartment, so enjoy the ambiance of cooking and barking dogs. Self-Evident and Forgotten is a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions. We explore the bea...
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Stanton and Cody cut to the heart of the latest in the world. In this episode, the Duo of Doom cover the ABCs of January 2022. Russia is being Russia, the Supreme Court strikes down vaccine mandates, and Congressmen get stupid wealthy. By the way, you can expect to see Kristi in our Deep Dives! Her busy schedule keeps her on the road and away from the mic for our in the news, but she's not gone! Self-Evident and Forgotten is a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions. We explore the bea...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Stanton and Cody cut to the heart of the latest in the world. In this episode, the Duo of Doom cover the ABCs of November. Democrats had crushing electoral losses in key states. The Pentagon found no error in killing innocent Afghan children. Kyle Rittenhouse and other self-defense cases win their trials. Oh, and Stanton makes a fool of himself because he doesn't know law. He apologizes to government-prosecutor cronies. Self-Evident and Forgotten is a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opi...
Nov 29, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Stanton, Kristi, and Cody cut to the heart of the latest in the world. In this episode, the trio does a Deep Dive on why we can't seem to get anything on our shelves here in America. Our old hated nemesis of inflation returns. And while we didn't record on this day, Happy Veterans Day. Thank you! Self-Evident and Forgotten is a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions. We explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. ...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Stanton, Kristi, and Cody cut to the heart of the latest in the world. In this episode, the trio cover the ABCs of October. The Talbian are becoming a government, China is more aggressive with Taiwan, supply chains are a mess thanks to the government, Congress is itching to regulate Facebook, and Hollywood actors still don't know anything about guns. Self-Evident and Forgotten is a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions. We explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have g...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Stanton, Kristi, and Cody cut to the heart of the latest in the world. In this episode, the trio does its first Deep Dive of nearly two hours on your favorite national law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We get nerdy with Constitutional law, current and past abuses, and the agreement to disagree. You won't wanna miss it. Self-Evident and Forgotten is a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions. We explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given ...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Stanton, Kristi, and Cody cut to the heart of the latest in the world. In this episode, the trio revamps itself to bring you the best of liberty, adopting a new twice-per-month sequence. Hear the first ABCs of the month with the emergency spending bill, Colorado regulatory nonsense, and the failure of the FBI with Olympians. Self-Evident and Forgotten is a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions. We explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peace...
Oct 06, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Alas, we're missing our vital chairwoman, because she's as busy as the last few weeks have been. It's been a rather wild time since we last saw each other. The United States fully pulled out of Afghanistan with tragic losses, the 20th anniversary of th...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. A couple of weeks ago, the United States Senate passed a $1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill, the largest in over a decade. It's the byproduct of bipartisan compromise, with President Biden and Senate Democrats sacrificing grander plans and Republic...
Aug 27, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Last time, we started a discussion on foreign policy, setting out our individual principles for foreign policy. We began to see the differences and the disagreements that started to sprout up. Today, we're going to use an historically backed hypothetic...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. With the United States withdrawing from Afghanistan after two decades, many people wonder: what's next for America and her foreign policy? Well, what exactly is foreign policy? It's the collection of goals, plans, and actions by a national government i...
Jul 18, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Recently, the Chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (the military council that advises the president) General Mark A. Milley has come under heat for his remarks before a Congressional panel. The subject of his current disagreement with Republicans his...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. We're missing Kristi again! So, Cody and Stanton yuck it up over something rather...yucky. As we and others across the state and country come together in person, more and more businesses are opening, schools are hopefully going back to in-person learni...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Liberty lovers alike, share common values: a principle of limited government, a belief in the fundamental equal dignity and rights of all people, and an enduring sense that freedom is not only an effective foundation for society, but a moral one….HOWEV...
May 21, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Life is busy, and we couldn't find a time all three of us were available. So enjoy Stanton narrating all three of our thoughts, reflections, and answers! Support Self-Evident and Forgotten by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/self-evident-and-forgotten Find out more at https://self-evident-and-forgotten.pinecast.co
May 07, 2021•10 min
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Liberty lovers alike, share common values: a principle of limited government, a belief in the fundamental equal dignity and rights of all people, and an enduring sense that freedom is not only an effective foundation for society, but a moral one….HOWEV...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Liberty lovers alike share common values: a principle of limited government, a belief in the fundamental equal dignity and rights of all people, and an enduring sense that freedom is not only an effective foundation for society, but a moral one. Howeve...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Liberty lovers alike share common values: a principle of limited government, a belief in the fundamental equal dignity and rights of all people, and an enduring sense that freedom is not only an effective foundation for society, but a moral one. Howeve...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. The world decries capitalism for the evil of monopolies -- those greedy profiteers who would sap the people of their wealth by being the only ones who produce a good or service. But most people fail to realize that so called "natural monopolies" are im...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. A free people demand that they solve their own problems. The same principle (of subsidiarity) applies directly to communities, as well. Whether we're talking about state rights vs. the federal government, your local school district vs. the state capito...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. From Washington to today, every president has had cabinet, a group of official policy advisors to the Oval Office. These officials are often personally responsible for implementing major programs that can either protect or hurt liberty. Today, we're ex...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Joe Biden's inauguration caps a wild election year and beginning to 2020, but it most certainly will not be the end of anti-freedom shenanigans. In today's episode, we explore what is going on with the Republicans in the deep south, and wonder if the U...
Jan 22, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. The coronavirus pandemic has brought about the greatest onslaught of government regulations in modern history. Local governments ordering the closures of businesses, governors limiting capacity in churches, and the economic control of major industry --...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. History is an important study for not simply understanding what happened in the past, but for making sense of our current day. But it's not as simple as looking at a record of events. History is written by historians, fallible as any of us, and written...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. Since at least the Roman Empire, politicians and leaders have promised their people anything they want to hear. Food, roads, entertainment, you name it. It's a tactic that has been used to cover up mistakes, foolishness, or undesirable plans. And we he...
Oct 26, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. 27-year associate justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently passed away, and President Trump has nominated 7th Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the position. Her nomination is going to be met by a tough Senate hearing committee, ...
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. We often forget just how essential property is to our lives. More than just material possessions, property is the byproduct of our most human activity: creation. Property isn't just owned by us, or come from us. We are our own property, and when govern...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 5
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. In today's episode we dive into something we touched upon a couple of episodes ago. James Madison and other Federalists argued that writing down the natural rights the government was obligated to protect would create a dangerous precedent. The danger? ...
Aug 31, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to Self-Evident and Forgotten, a podcast on the truths of liberty and odd opinions! Hosted by Stanton, Kristi, and Cody, we explore the beautiful ideas often forgotten today that have given life to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society. In today's episode we see if dividing government and setting it against itself actually fulfills the vision of protecting liberty like the Framers wanted it to. Congress legislates, and the president enforces, and the courts judge. But what happens whe...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 3
