
1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. What does Apple consider to be the top 100 Albums of all time, and why should we care? (Don't worry, we won't go through all 100) Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss the highs and lows of this list of albums and how it reflects today's culture, all while tormenting Dave by not letting him see the list ahead of time. 1850MainStreet.com
May 29, 2024
21 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. They say you can tell what a society values by what it builds… how about what it destroys? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate and Alan C. Duncan discuss how the 20th century saw the destruction of some of America's greatest architectural achievements and what was constructed in their place. 1850MainStreet.com
May 24, 2024
19 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. If you want to criticize a speech, do you think you should go over the whole thing for context first? Does anyone do that? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate and Alan C. Duncan discuss the lack of context in criticisms over Harrison Butker's commencement speech at Benedictine College and the hypocrisy of those who condemn his remarks while praising free speech for certain other causes. 1850MainStreet.com
May 22, 2024
18 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Does anyone actually like going to college commencement ceremonies… or actually listen to the speeches? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate and Alan C. Duncan discuss the controversy surrounding the speech recently made by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker at Benedictine College's commencement ceremony. 1850MainStreet.com
May 21, 2024
17 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. A lot of people are obsessed with polling numbers. Do polls even matter this far ahead of an election? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss the degradation of accuracy in polling over the past 20 years and how the major news outlets use polls for their own benefit. 1850MainStreet.com
May 17, 2024
18 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. What's a pocket knife without a knife? What is the Boy Scouts if it's not just for boys? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss Swiss Army Knives being manufactured with everything but the knife and the rebranding of the Boy Scouts of America. 1850MainStreet.com
May 15, 2024
19 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Why would an authoritarian government want to shut down a local pub? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss C.S Lewis' book That Hideous Strength and how public meeting places where people can get together and share ideas are dangerous in the eyes of an oppressive government. 1850MainStreet.com Check out the e-book and audiobook versions of Alan's book Gilbert & Jack here.
May 13, 2024
19 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Why did Jontay Porter of the Toronto Raptors receive a lifetime ban from the NBA? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss what a prop bet is and how the gambling industry is increasingly affecting not only sports fandoms, but the teams and players themselves. 1850MainStreet.com
May 10, 2024
14 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. What exactly is going on with these pro-Palestine protests on college campuses across the country? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti, Rob Walgate, and Alan C. Duncan discuss how the ongoing pro-Palestine protests have gotten dangerously antisemitic and universities have done nothing to put an end to them. 1850MainStreet.com
May 8, 2024
16 min

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Last time we met, we left off reading a letter from Union soldier J.B. Buckbee to Confederate soldier P.J. Johnson. What can that letter teach us? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Dr. Jeff Sanders discuss how one of the biggest lessons we can learn from the Civil War is the regret felt afterward by everyone involved, along with asking the question… where were the Christians? 1850MainStreet.com
May 3, 2024
25 min
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