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Part 3 of 3. We cover the DC Court of Appeals 5 March 2026 decision overturning the wrongful conviction of Tyree Benson who was criminalized for innocent conduct.

Benson v. US disagrees with the Ninth Circuit's en banc resolution of Duncan v. Bonta, 2025, which we covered over several episodes in 2025.

We cover up through the middle of page 37 from page 22. We continue there next time at page 37.

https://www.dccourts.gov/court-of-appeals/opinions-and-memorandum-of-judgments?search=benson&date=&date_range=&type=All

This episode was filmed Tuesday evening 3 November 2026 years after Jesus in the backyard of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) common-sense Epistemology mentor Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard), a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great Dallas Willard of USC’s Philosophy Department. Dr. Geivett's pen name is R. Douglas Geivett, and he and his co-author Holly Pivec came on the podcast in Spring 2023.

It's hard to believe Doug has died and we miss him dearly. He was a wonderful common-sense Epistemology mentor. I was incredibly blessed by the Lord for his Epistemology mentorship.

The Republican Professor is a pro-non-criminalizing-innocent-conduct-podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Part 8 in the Mr. Steak series, and Part 7 of the Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge series. This one is from June 1978 and is on the topic of "Energy," with Mr. Steak's Keith Rich, Manager of Energy Systems for the Mr. Steak empire and Jim Shearon, the COO and President of the company.

Mr. Steak's Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, interviews people in an effort to increase what he called Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge. This seems to have been a monthly series called "Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge," each month with a new theme.

Many thank to Kerri Marquadt, owner of 7 of the 286 Mr. Steak franchises including the Cheyenne Wyoming location, for the gift to me of these rare tapes of the Mr. Steak franchisor founder and motivational speaker, James A. Mather.

Grandpa Mather was raised by a single mother in the Great Depression in El Dorado, Kansas. He went on to serve as a Navy F2F Hellcat fighter pilot during World War 2. He started the company in 1962. He and his first wife Dottie raised 3 kids in Colorado. He died last year in the presence of his second wife Linda peacefully in Camarillo, California at the ripe age of 102 years young. Funeral services were held at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park and performed by Pastor Rob McCoy, whom Jim mentored in the Lord.

The still photo is a Mr. Steak mentioned in an advertisement in the LA Times 21 Dec 1978.

Enjoy.

The Republican Professor is a pro-free-enterprise-system podcast. Therefore, welcome back Grandpa Jim James A. Mather.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D

Part 5 of 5, a Republican panel on the US Ninth Circuit defends open carry in California, Part 5 of 5 (Part 4 was 8 April 2026, Part 3 was 17 April 2026, part 2 was 19 February 2026 and Part 1 was 15 Jan 2026) of our study of open carry in America's Constitutional tradition by spending more time today with Baird v. Bonta (2 Jan 2026, 9th Circuit) from page 49 (Roman Numeral VII) through to end of both VanDyke's and Lee's majority opinions. The pro-Second-Amendment opinions, both of them that we take a look at, were written by Republican appointees (Trump, with a Republican US Senate).

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2026/01/02/24-565.pdf

Here's a link to the article I wrote 9 April 2020 for San Diego County Gun Owners, published on Gun Owner's Radio, that I entitled : "Two Types of Self-Defense" here.

https://gunownersradio.com/two-types-of-self-defense/

This episode and this series is dedicated to the memory of my closest first cousin, Little Dan Mountain Jr, closest in age by just a couple of weeks, who died earlier this year in January.

I picked a topic that would bring a smile to his face and that would honor the bright spots in our childhood together in Colorado.

This episode was filmed Sunday evening 25 October 2026 years after Jesus in the backyard next to the pool waterfall of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) Epistemology mentor Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard), who wrote under the pen-name R. Douglas Geivett and was a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great Dallas Willard of USC's Philosophy Department. Tomorrow the 26th of October, Monday at 2pm is his funeral. It's an indescribable loss. We miss Doug greatly.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Second-Amendment-in-California podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Part 4.

We're continuing our discussion of The Trivium today in conversation with Sister Miriam Joseph, Ph.D., who joins us through her writing teaching ministry in "The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric" originally published in 1937. We're discussing the first section of her second chapter. That chapter is called The Nature and Function of Language. We start our discussion on the top of p. 15 where we left off 1 Sept 2026, and we top of p. 22 today.

We'd like to thank Sister Miriam Joseph for writing this and we'd like to thank Paul Dry Books 2002 for making this particular edition available to readers (edited by Marguerite McGlinn).

We're doing a fair use and transformative reading, and would encourage you to go out and get yourself a physical copy of this book. Whether used or new, or even a different edition, if you can find it, get the book, a physical copy you can hold in your hand, and follow along with the discussion.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Trivium-done-right podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

This is Part 13 in a series celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Harvard University Press' 1985 publication of Richard A. Epstein's "Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain."

We continue our celebration of this anniversary with a fair use and transformative reading, taking a final close look at ch. 7 continuing in the same section which Richard calls ""Takings Prima Facia." He titles chapter 7, "Rights of Disposition and Contract" because he's taking a look at what the judiciary often misses in the panoply of takings reached by the Eminent Domain Clause and the American constitutional order, how these things interact and hang together, ensconced as it is in the purpose of the Constitution. That moral purpose is the protection of individual liberty against claims by a simple majority in a democracy, or judicial or executive fiat, or by the government in any other way in a taking of private property. It's also a good reflection on nature of property per se, whether public or private. For governments are owners as well as takers of property.

Today we discuss his chapter 7 from the top of p. 80. to the end of the chapter on p. 92.

Excellent stuff here. Excellent.

Every college student should read this book. It's a superb introduction to the political philosophy of the American regime. Praise the Lord.

We'd like to thank Harvard University Press for making this material available and Richard Epstein for writing it.

Make sure you buy the book and follow along.

It's very important for you to have your own copy on your own bookshelf, and to begin to master this material. Support your local book dealer. See if they have a copy of it, or if they'd mind keeping an eye out for you.

I always encourage buying physical books, objects you can have, hold, cherish, learn from, display on your bookshelf as a topic of conversation, things you can pass on to the next generation with your notes in them, things that do not depend upon electricity.

Toward that end:

Go to Harvard University Press for more selections available for purchase. Please support the publisher and your local booksellers.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-contemplating-property-rights podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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