Episodes

Mr. Steak’s Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, discusses the book As A Man Thinketh by Allen with Bob Jensen in September 1977 for the benefit of Mr. Steak’s nationwide staff in 285 restaurants. Grandpa interjects his thoughts along with Scripture. 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.

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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.

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 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.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correckly-understanding-Marxism-philosophy-and-economics podcast.

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

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

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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The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-and-adequately-articulating-the-major-influences-on-American-politics podcast.

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

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

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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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)

The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-political-philosophy right 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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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).

The Republican Professor is a pro-anti-tax-funded-abuse-of-parents podcast.

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

Part 12: We’re using the slip opinion this time, see below for a link. Why the Court’s majority is wrong in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia (2020) (part 12 in a series) about the faulty assumption that unexamined and unexplained transgenderism premises about sex and gender are properly included under “sex discrimination” language in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act –This continues to be a real hoot.

Part 12: We continue our in-depth examination of sex, gender, and separation of powers in the US Supreme Court decision Bostock v. Clayton County, GA 590 U.S. 644 (2020): the Republican dispute, how to understand it, and what to do about it.

We continue with Justice Kavanaugh’s strong dissent (although there are a couple of issues, one kinda tacky, the other a bit more serious) grounded in the moral arc of separation of powers: to protect individual liberty. Justice Kavanaugh rightly concludes that the Court threatened individual liberty under the guise of protecting it — a serious charge indeed — and one I think is probably correct.

We get through the bottom of his page 15 in the slip opinion of his dissent, starting on the bottom of his page 6.

Part 12.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf

The Republican Professor is a pro-separation-of-powers-rightly-construed 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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We cover Justice Gorsuch’s Concurring Opinion for the Court today Episode 18 of this deep dive as we continue the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) decision that overruled Chevron (1984), Justice Gorsuch’s concurring Opinion for the Court. We go from p. 8 letter C of the slip opinion through the entirety of p. 14, Roman Numeral II letter B to the cusp of B.1 starting on page 15 of Gorsuch’s concurrence slip opinion. If you want to follow along, there’s a link below.

This is the 18th Chevron Deference Deep Dive episode we’ve done on TRP podcast since winter 2024. And here it is Summer 2026.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf

(603 U.S. _____ (2024) of the Opinion of the Court written by Chief Justice Roberts.

This episode includes a Chaplain’s corner reading Psalm 5 in the King James Version and Streams in the Desert February 1st (Cowman Publications, Lost Feliz Station Lost Angeles 1925 original non-woke edition).

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Episode 8 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this year 2026. It’s part 7 of our discussion of this book. We’re covering the last few pages of chapter 3: National Executive Power before the US Constitution but after July 4th, 1776 starting on the top of p.61. We then continue into chapter 4 which is called “The Presidency in the Federal Convention” for a few pages, stopping at the top of p. 69.

When the Founders signed their names onto the Declaration of Independence, they were committing a capital crime, and they were signing their own death warrants if they were caught.

They took themselves not to be looking for a fight, but rather, refusing any longer to duck the fight that in fact had come to them. And they sought to ground their cause, their reaction, to right reason in the natural law, consistent with Revelation and the Scriptures. They sought to articulate such an argument for their cause in such a way that would be rightly persuasive to any future reader and any of the nations which may inquire as to the source of their actions.

Of course, their cause was initially, in large measure, a reaction against abuse of Executive Power. But such a war required itself strong Executive Power. Therein lies the rub: how can Executive Power be strong yet consistent with the principles of Liberty ?

We’re making a fair use, transformative reading and discussion of Charles C. Thach’s doctoral dissertation at Johns Hopkins in 1922 called “The Creation of the Presidency, 1775-1789 made available by Liberty Fund INC in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2007. Go out and get your physical copy today. Follow along. We’d like to thank Liberty Fund for making this material available, and we’d like to thank Charles C. Thach for writing it.

This material was required reading in my Ph.D. program in Public Law and American Politics at The Claremont Colleges. It was used on the 6 hour comprehensive exams (6 hours each) and in a course called The Presidency and the Constitution taught by Joseph M. Bessette, who also served on my dissertation committee many years later.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-understanding-the-American-Presidency, anti-grade-inflation-plantation podcast.

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

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 1 of multiple.

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.

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This episode was filmed Monday 6 July 2026 years after Jesus in the backyard of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) 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.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-and-adequately-articulating-the-major-influences-on-American-politics podcast.

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

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

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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