Jon Miltimore: Wrestling, Culture, and Jacques Barzun
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Jon Miltimore of FEE, AIER, and The Take
1:28 – Minnesota cold and Minnesota nice
3:57 – Don't mess with wrestlers
4:43 – Wrestling at UW-Platteville and wrestling styles
6:36 – Jiu-jitsu, Eddie Bravo, and wrestlers on the mat
8:39 – A confrontation with a wrestling mom
11:56 – Girlfriends who start fights and wives who have your back
19:07 – Bad service at Starbucks
21:46 – Starbucks, the NLRB, and protected bad workers
23:56 – Small manners that are disappearing
26:25 – Waiting at Target: business vs. bureaucracy
30:04 – Teaching kids gratitude through youth football
31:42 – Cormac McCarthy and "sir and ma'am"
34:16 – Jacques Barzun and From Dawn to Decadence
36:46 – America as a republic, not an empire
38:40 – National divorce and the right to secede
41:54 – Biden's preemptive pardons
43:47 – Covid censorship, Church Committee, and the laptop
46:06 – The next four years, DOGE, and DEI
47:46 – "A self is not found but made"
49:20 – Sharing music and First Blood with your kids
53:23 – Home Alone, Hook, and pro-liberty Hollywood
55:42 – Wrestling under communism and wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Writer Jon Miltimore, who turned Lou onto Jacques Barzun, joins Lou to talk about the culture of wrestling, whose default setting is tough-as-nails, "Minnesota nice," and the decline of good service.
We also get into women who start fights their men have to finish, Jon's viral piece about Starbucks and the decline of good manners, why we're all doomed when manners and service fall (not just the venti-latte drinkers), and Barzun's line from From Dawn to Decadence that a self is not found but made.