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Crazy, Classy, and Countercultural. This is a podcast with author and historian Charles Coulombe and his interlocutor Vincent Frankini who talk about a variety of topics on history, philosophy, and culture, offering opinions that you won't dare find in mainstream media.

Episodes

July 6, 2025 43 mins

0:00 Intro
10:00 Power and Authority
16:30 Local Holidays
18:30 Lay Single State as a Vocation
26:45 Young England Movement
35:45 Digby's Influence on Tolkien
40:30 Final Words

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0:00 Intro
4:00 War with Iran?
44:00 Obedience 
1:07:00 Diaconate for Married Man

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June 9, 2025 59 mins

0:00 Intro

0:10 Chowmein Sandwich Scandal

17:00 Calendar

25:30 Trump & Elon Feud

33:30 Papal States

36:30 Pocket Shrines

39:00 Mary in Provence

43:00 Alternative Economic Systems

57:30 Praying Leading to More Praying

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June 1, 2025 81 mins

0:00 Intro
5:00 Grok
9:00 Bishop Martin
17:00 Power, Authority, & Decay
1:04:00 Favorite Pope Leos
1:07:00 Beatification Hopefuls
1:10:00 Augustinians


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May 26, 2025 68 mins

0:00 Intro
2:30 Memorial Day
10:00 The Pope's 12th Cousin
18:20 Cafe Wess 
25:00 Best Dressed Gentleman
40:00 James IV of Scotland
44:30 General James Wilkinson
52:00 Too Many Words
1:08:00 Final Words

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May 19, 2025 68 mins

0:00 Intro
0:15 Happy & Befuddled
3:45 Charles’s Travels
13:30 Pope Talk
17:01 Favorite Pope Francis Moments
22:30 Franz Joseph & Rampolla
27:12 Papal Names
29:10 Pope Leo
44:20 How Can We Be Gladder Trads
54:45 Importance of Daily Mass

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April 14, 2025 80 mins

0:00 Intro
0:10 Obscure Charles
11:30 Calendar
30:00 Underrated Catholic Figures

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April 7, 2025 88 mins

0:00 Intro
2:00 Charles Reading & Angry
4:00 Anti-Communism
27:30 New Charles Coulombe Book!
46:30 Is Monarchy a Viable System Today?
53:00 Diversity & Monarchy
1:00:00 Tradition Vs. Progress

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March 31, 2025 89 mins

0:00 Intro
0:10 Random Insane Banter (Oh ya!)
14:00 Covid-19 & Catastrophes
31:00 Favorite Architecture 
51:00 The Commonwealth of Nations
1:10:00 "Fundamentalist" Catholics
1:14:00 Romance & the Faith


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March 16, 2025 64 mins

0:00 Intro
0:10 St. Patrick's Day
16:00 Judgment Free Zone
18:40 Great Catholic Novels (LOTR Excluded)


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March 10, 2025 98 mins

0:00 Intro
0:10 Mars
10:00 Star Trek
20:00 Being Authentic
33:00 Grading Trump
1:13:00 Next Week: Greatest Catholic Novel
1:15:00 Canadian Connection
1:24:00 Flemish Traditions
1:31:00 Enclosure Movement

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March 3, 2025 75 mins

0:00 Intro
0:10 What's New
16:45 MEMES OF PRODUCTION
27:00 Young People Becoming Old People
43:00 Gene Hackman
45:30 Will America Fragment?
53:00 Putin & Zelensky
58:00 King George Illegitimacy
1:00:00 Is Personal Government Possible Today?

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February 17, 2025 63 mins

0:00 Intro
2:00 Beatles vs Stones
4:00 Boomer Central
8:00 Reaction Against Boomers
21:00 What's New with Charles
31:20 Private Property
38:00 "Embracing the Bad"
50:20 Enlightenment As A Cause


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February 9, 2025 66 mins

0:00 Intro
0:10 Charles in Ireland
9:30 Trump News
26:00 Personal vs. Impersonal Govt
28:00 Greenland & Denmark
31:00 Mexican Revolution
40:30 Catholic Family Traditions


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January 27, 2025 66 mins

0:00 Intro
1:00 Antiquated Spellings
11:00 What's New
28:30 Justin Trudeau Resigns
35:00 Canada & CANZUK
45:00 Bishop Williamson
47:30 Sin Eaters
50:30 Primitive Christianity
54:00 Capitalism

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January 19, 2025 50 mins

0:00 Intro
2:30 King Lee Day
10:00 Eisenhower
16:00 Canonization Process
25:30 Decolonization of Africa
31:00 Wokeism vs 60s-70s Change
43:00 "Festival of Fools"
46:00 Futurism

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January 6, 2025 64 mins

0:00 Intro
8:00 Liberal Censorship & the Conservative Response
27:30 King Henry VI
30:00 Economic Theory Books
33:00 Princess Josephine
37:00 Guild Social, Distributism, and Corporatism
54:00 Catholic History of Minnesota

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December 29, 2024 80 mins

0:00 Intro
25:00 Reactions to Pope Names
30:50 Most Important Election
33:00 Premier of Quebec Being Stupid
46:15 Top 10 Garbage People
55:00 Difference Between Duke, Earl, Baron
1:02:30 American Nobility Titles

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December 22, 2024 63 mins

0:00 Intro
10:00 Kipling Poem
16:00 Charles's Christmas Wish
28:00 Heresy of Modernism
35:00 Republican Saints
36:00 Hispanic Racial Group
38:00 Fighting Despair
50:00 Puritans, Christmas, & Catholicity

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December 16, 2024 69 mins

0:00 Intro
4:00 Krambambuli
13:00 Ceremonial Drinks
23:00 Vatican II Docs
27:40 Franz Joseph's Moral Character
31:30 Native American Catholic Monarchy?
34:00 Folklore Surrounding the Sea
52:00 Sailor Devotion
55:00 Pirate Stereotypes: Fact or Fiction


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