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Mr. Steak's Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, was interviewed by Cheyenne Wyoming's Tom Bauman on KRAE Radio Tuesday 23 March 1982.

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.

I believe this may have been recorded in the Cheyenne, Wyoming Mr. Steak restaurant during business hours.

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.

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Part 2: Chapter 2 on The Dialectical Approach: Methodology and Ethics.

We're discussing a volume I've had since I was in high screwel (as Rush Limbaugh used to call it) at Chatfield I'm-so-High in Littleton, Colorado. I bought it with my paper route money probably at Barnes and Noble by the lake on the corner of Bowles and Wadsworth, down the street from Clement Park and Columbine Library.

We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of "Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (NY: Quill Press, 1985). By Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. We pick up on p. 18 from last time which was episode 1 in the series recorded on Sunday 31 May 2026.

We'd like to thank Quill Press for making this material available. We'd of course like to thank Thomas Sowell for writing it.

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Therefore, welcome Dr. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D.

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Part 2: Hamilton v. Jefferson .

We're talking about the motivation of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution. It's a theory of the mentor of my Con Law mentor, himself an historian at Claremont Graduate School in the 1960s who taught my Con Law mentor Dr. Michael M. Uhlmann, Ph.D., LLB. Happy 250th Anniversary of 'Murica. You're in for a treat .

This is part 2 of multiple. We cover the second section starting on page 10 where we left off on 6 July 2026 and continuing through to the first part of section three to page 23 at the bottom.

This episode broaches the topic of what explained and motivated the Founders of America and Framers of the Constitution.

"It is my argument that the lust for the psychic reward of fame, honor, glory, after 1776 becomes a key ingredient in the behavior of Washington and his greatest contemporaries." So ends Adair's first section in this speech which we cover today.

We're going to make a fair use, do a transformative reading of the this selection, "Fame and the Founding Fathers," the speech Dr. Adair gave in Kansas City to the Organization of American Historians in the mid-1960s. It's chapter 1 in a volume by the same title and made available by Liberty Fund, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana.

We'd like to thank Douglass Adair for writing it and presenting it, and we'd like to thank Liberty Fund for making it available. Go out and get your physical copy today and follow along.

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Therefore, welcome, through his writing, Dr. Douglas Adair, Ph.D., of the history department at Claremont Graduate School in the 1960s.

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We continue Jaffa's discussion of Aristotle's Politics, continuing with his take on Aristotle's Book III, in our discussion of an entry in the 1963 Rand McNally publication, edited by Leonard Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, called "History of Political Philosophy." This episode contains discussion of pages 97 through half of 104 covering the topics in Book III of the Politics.

That entry on Aristotle is by Harry V. Jaffa, who famously applied his understanding of Political Philosophy to the history of the Republican Party in American politics, and who, as such, influenced me profoundly through my mentors, who were mentored by him. He is thus one of my intellectual grandfathers.

This entry was published the year before the author wrote one of the most infamous (or famous, depending) Aristotelean speeches for 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater (R, AZ). Jaffa also wrote one of the most influential phenomenological comparisons of the Democratic and the Republican parties using classical political philosophy for the political phenomenology in "Crisis of the House Divided" (University of Chicago Press)

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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Part 5 of 5: On the 22nd of December 2025, Republican appointed federal Judge Roger Benitez (Cuban ethnicity) struck down the Democrat mandated lying to parents in the K-12 school system. We covered it beginning in late December 2025 and in a second episode in late January 2026. The third episode was 17 March 2026 and the last one before this one, the 4th episode, was 8 April 2026.

Unusual behavior or conduct of a student at school isn't grounds for a violation of Constitutional rights, Benitez held in Mirabelli v. Olson (Filed 22 Dec 2025), available here : https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d954d4e4ad424df7819d46/6949e11ea6bae817c8eaf637_Dkt%20%20307_MSJ%20Order.pdf

Part 5. We cover from page 38 through to the end today.

This episode concludes with a Chaplain's corner prayer time thanking the Lord for Roger Benitez and asking for wisdom for the future.

The Chaplain's corner includes a reading from Psalm 15 NIV and Streams in the Desert 2 Feb (Cowman Publications Lost Feliz Station Lost Angeles Calif).

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