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  The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End? Don Williams returns to chat about where we are and may be going. Don Williams  is a conservator, educator, scholar and all-around inquisitive guy, having worked on some of the most interesting objects and historic buildings in our nation's public and private collections. He has developed, managed and presented educational programming on an array of subjects in the fields of conservation, woodworking and wood finishing. Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on  Substack  and his  website . On Facebook, check out  Brian's page  along with his  50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio  page and of course, the  Now For Something Completely Different  Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on  Amazon...

  The End Is Near! Yes, the end of '23 and start of '24! The Two and Only - Brian Wilson and James Bovard look both ways! Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of  11 books , including his most recent --   Last Rights, The Death of American Rights . Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X  @JimBovard .  Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on  Substack  and his  website . On Facebook, check out  Brian's page  along with his  50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio  page and of course, the  Now For Something Completely Different  Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on  Amazon .

  Important article from the Brownstone Institute's Jeffrey Tucker At least the UK held public hearings, even if they were gamed from the start. There is a smidgeon of honesty that they held them at all. After all, the Covid era of public policy, in the US and all over the world, was the worst deployment of compulsory public policy in our lifetimes. It affected the whole of life in ways that were unthinkable even a year before.  It was not an act of nature. It was designed and deployed by men in power.  A chronicle of what’s been shattered yields a litany of horribles: educational losses, ruined businesses, rampant mental illness, medical injury, homelessness, job upheaval and loss, depleted arts, wrecked families and communities, inflation, ruined national accounts, a generation of students traumatized, bitter political divisions, and a widespread lack of hope in the future.  That list is only a fraction of the cost. And the words above are anodyne to the real exper...

The Truth in Washington! Join us for some laughs! Talk Show host Brian Wilson and Super Writer Jim Bovard, the Two and Only ride again! Listen HERE

  Responding to a diminishing number of requests, The Two and Only, talk show misanthrope Brian Wilson and   Last Rights   author, James Bovard return to rehearse the eulogy for Free Speech and check on your privacy in the ICU. LISTEN HERE Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of  11 books , including his most recent --   Last Rights, The Death of American Rights . Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X  @JimBovard .  Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on  Substack  and his  website . On Facebook, check out  Brian's page  along with his  50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio  page and of course, the  Now For Something Completely Different  Facebook page. Brian's book...

  Surprise! Another raucous episode of the 2&O - Talk radio relic Brian Wilson nabs investigate journalist  Jim Bovard for an unabashed look at current DC politics and the scumbuckets who work at it. Listen here

My initial attempt can be found below. The reason it’s not up here at the beginning is, for an Ode, I wandered into the weeds of history in an effort to provide a background of appreciation, the motive for writing it in the first place. Not good for ‘Ode’ material. The Subject is the star. Despite a couple decades scribbling for fun and very little profit, my Writing Discipline obviously needs oodles of work. James Bovard is the star of this show. His latest work “Last Rights – The Death of American Liberty” should be released next week. Having had the privilege of a sneak peek at Chapter One, “Tyranny Comes to Main Street”. In my untrammeled opinion, “Last Rights” will be a well-earned Blockbuster. Anything less than a NYT “Best Seller” would be a sad testimony to the epidemic of Aggressive Ignorance and Contagious Apathy Jim’s books and articles have worked at inoculating citizens against for the 30 years I’ve known him. Chapter One, “Tyranny Comes to Main Street”, comes on stronger ...

  The 2 & Only ride again! The Post-Bird Day episode featuring the Big Announcement about Jim Bovard's new book and Brian Wilson's Substack column skewering Transgenderism. And a borderline Johnny Carson joke...!  Listen HERE Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Toda y and The New York Post and the author of  11 books , including his most recent --   Last Rights, The Death of American Rights . Find out more on his website and follow him onTwitter/X  @JimBovard .  Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on  Substack  and his  website . On Facebook, check out  Brian's page  along with his  50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio  page and of course, the  Now For Something Completely Different  Facebook page. Brian's books can be found...

  Evil and those who practice it have been around for a while. Who they are, What they do and Where they do it is easy to compute; When shows up in the headlines eventually. “Why” is the tough one. The sudden appearance of ‘transgenderism, ‘gender fluidity’ and the gruesome stories that followed baffled me and, I suspect, most everyone who pays attention. Nothing so detrimental to an entire society spontaneously combusts. Who could be the prime motivator behind something so ghastly? Much of the answer can be found in Hillsdale College’s “ Imprimis ”, “Inside the Transgender Empire”. Author Christopher F. Rufo writes: “In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to be a “social construct” used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man a...

  Cheers! It's our First Annual Holiday Pod! Special Guest, Richard Arrowood, Award-Winning Grape Stomper and Wine Master! Everything about Best Holiday Wines for Turkey, Prime Rib, Spam and other stocking stuffers! Listen HERE Richard Arrowood  is an iconic winemaster who has been making wine exclusively in Sonoma County for more than for 50+ years. From 1974 through 1990, he created the wines for Chateau St. Jean, where he developed some of the first vineyard-designate Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon produced in Sonoma County. He and his wife, Alis, founded Arrowood Winery with the 1985 vintage.  Richard was the winemaster at Arrowood Winery until June 2010, when he resigned his position to devote himself full-time to making wines for his estate winery,  Amapola Creek Vineyards and Winery. Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, ...

Doesn't it warm the cockles of your heart knowing, seeing, hearing how the Government - Media Complex protects your tender, child-like self – and your loved ones – from certain words that could traumatize all of you right into your own Rubber Room on the Funny Farm? Take the semi-ignored story about Joe Biden responding to comments from David Axlerod . Spotlighting Biden's age as something deserving serious consideration of his re-election decision, the president responded c alling Axelrod “a prick” . If you are among the few who actually saw/heard that story, you would have seen it as ****k or heard it as “BLEEP”. How would the MSM report “While stashing more classified files behind his Corvette in his garage, the President accidentally pricked his finger.”? I thought we resolved this decades ago, thanks to George Carlin's “Seven Words” monologue. For Gen-Whatevers and other groups who maintain no history existed prior to their birth circa 1990, here's a link to a sh...

What does the Thanksgiving – Christmas Axis of Holidays have in common with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave ? Weird, I know. It’s the only comparison that describes my reaction to the stories abounding, telling how this holiday season “Over 30% of Gen Z participants said they’ll be celebrating with friends to avoid family drama this year.” ( Preplay )( Newsweek ). There are other polls and pieces about other Gen- Somethings doing almost anything else to avoid “family”, what B-Boomers would refer to as ‘traditional’. Is this really happening? Where have I been? In previous Substack gems, I forthrightly revealed my generally reclusive, isolated, Luddite-like lifestyle over the last 25 years. While I never found the Ultimate Cave, ‘off the grid’ with sufficient ‘comforts’ to sustain someone not advancing on a New Youth, rural settings were sufficient for the days. Avoiding the professional social world and whirl was an occupational side-effect. After 50+ years in ‘show biz’, peace and quiet...