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Gene Andrews is a retired high school history teacher who served as a combat officer with the 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam. He’s a former Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Tennessee Division and current caretaker of the Nathan Bedford Forrest boyhood home in Chapel Hill, Tennessee.

The rebel-proud gentleman talks about the September 18 reinterment of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife Mary Ann Montgomery Forrest, an event being held at Elm Springs, SCV General Headquarters in Columbia, Tennessee. Andrews also myth-busts some Forrest history, both antebellum and postbellum, and tells us a little bit about himself as a former educator and military man, as well as his longtime defense of the Southern cause, which is still the same cause of all right-thinking people today ... whether they know it or not.

“I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the world, if administered as it was before the war. I do not hate it; I am opposing now only the radical revolutionists who are trying to destroy it. I believe that party to be composed, as I know it is in Tennessee, of the worst men on Gods earth – men who would not hesitate at no crime, and who have only one object in view: to enrich themselves.” — Nathan Bedford Forrest

A few related links:

• SCV.org to register for the Forrest reinterment (deadline August 31)
• “Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest” by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
• A fairly balanced Tennessean article on Andrews published just days after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which Andrews attended
• My critique of the US military and its mistreatment of Southerners, “You don’t want us? We don’t want you!” and my interview with The Political Cesspool radio host and native Tennessean James Edwards in which he too discusses the brilliance of Forrest. In fact, it was Edwards who suggested Andrews as a possible guest for the DM podcast. So, thanks, James!

Welcome of the DM podcast, episode #17. Today our guest is Dann Reid, who is the creator of the Culinary Libertarian blog and podcast. Reid says his goal is to help teach and share information on baking, cooking, ingredients, “general food stuff, and policy which is relevant to liberty.” With his blog, he hopes to “make cooking and baking possible and take the scary away” while encouraging newbies to embrace “reasonable expectations to start with.” And with his podcast, Reid tackles interesting topics with wide-ranging guests from both the liberty movement and culinary worlds.

Daniel B. Rundquist is a Minnesotan by birth, by a North Carolinian by the grade of God. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rundquist owns his own publishing company, New Plymouth Press, and is an avid writer, a budding amateur historian, the author of five books (including the forthcoming “The Unholy Land: The Struggle for Virtue and Unity in America,” which will be published on December 1), and a contributor to the Caldwell Journal. He’s also a husband, father of three sons, Orthodox Christian, and my friend.

My guest is Dr. Clark Carlton: author, speaker, and philosophy professor. He’s the co-founder of The Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship, which is currently in its fundraising stages but has big hopes of “Nurturing the roots of Orthodoxy within the Southern tradition.”

We discuss the impetus for the fellowship, its goals to both nurture indigenous roots and facilitate evangelism, Ludwell's bio, the South's classical and biblical self-consciousness, stealth Baptist churches, everyone from Tris Englehardt and Basil Gildersleeve to Fr. John Meyendorff, enculturation, English translations of the Divine Liturgy, permanence, going native, and much more.

Carlton's articles have been published in various publications, such as the Journal of Christian Bioethics, St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, and the Journal of Early Christian Studies, and his “The Faith” book series has been greatly influential within Orthodoxy. His long-running but now retired Ancient Faith Radio podcast, “Faith and Philosophy,” provided important commentary on the intersection of Orthodoxy and and faith, philosophy, and culture.

Dr. Carlton has a B.A. in philosophy from Carson-Newman College, a Master of Divinity degree from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, and an M.A. in Early Christian Studies from the Catholic University of America. He’s currently assistant professor of philosophy at Tennessee Tech University, where he teaches the history of philosophy as well as the philosophy of religion and logic.

Valerie Protopapas of New York is a prolific and unreconstructed defender of Southern history, the world authority on the great Confederate partisan John Singleton Mosby, and is former editor of The Southern Cavalry Review, the journal of The Stuart-Mosby Historical Society. In her compelling story-telling style, Protopapas offers up myth-busting facts on “The Gray Ghost,” the naiveté of conservatives, the “lost cause," the disunited states and its associated madness, transatlanticism, the Titanic, Orthodoxy, and other topics spun into fiction by the cultural genociders and the useful idiots.

Some links relevant to our conversation:

• Protopapas’s bold essays at The Abbeville Institute and Reckonin’
• “Col. John Singleton Mosby: In the News 1862-1916,” her book formerly entitled “A Thousand Points of Truth”
• “Searching for Lincoln,” the documentary to which Protopapas contributed
• “The Gray Ghost,” the short-lived 1950s TV series that sparked her interest in Mosby
• Orthodox Christians for Life, which she co-founded with her husband Deacon John
• “Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future,” by Fr. Seraphim Rose
• and “Antichrist and the Green Prince” by John D. Christian

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