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Scot Bertram

Scot Bertram

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  • January 2, 2025

    Steve Gruber Show, 01/02/25

    I filled in on The Steve Gruber Show, 01/02/25: Continue reading

    Fill-In
  • January 2, 2025

    Political Beats: Stevie Wonder [Part 1]

    Scot and Jeff discuss the first part of Stevie Wonder’s career (1961-1971) with Eli Lake. Introducing the Band:Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) are joined by guest Eli Lake. Lake is a columnist with the Free Press and also a contributing editor at Commentary. Find him online at the Free Press or @EliLake on Twitter/X. Eli’s Music Pick: Stevie WonderHappy New Year,… Continue reading

    Political Beats
    1960s, motown, music, soul-music, stevie-wonder
  • December 27, 2024

    Wasn’t That Special: Season 38 (2012-13)

    Filling a Kristen Wiig-Sized Hole in the Cast It doesn’t make any sense that Saturday Night Live would actually improve when an all-time great cast member like Kristen Wiig leaves the show. We have seen what happens when a legend leaves in the past; the show’s quality dipped, for instance, when Will Ferrell left in 2002 after… Continue reading

    Wasn’t That Special
    comedy, kristen-wiig, snl, television
  • December 20, 2024

    Future of Freedom: How Should the IRS Be Reformed?

    On this episode of Future of Freedom, host Scot Bertram is joined by two guests with different viewpoints about possible reform of the Internal Revenue Service. First on the show is Joe Lancaster, an assistant editor at Reason. Later, we hear from Thomas J. Healey, the former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President… Continue reading

    Future of Freedom
  • December 20, 2024

    The Steve Gruber Show, 12/20/24

    I filled in on The Steve Gruber Show on 12/20/24 Continue reading

    Fill-In
  • December 20, 2024

    The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour: The Evolution of the Deep State

    Host Scot Bertram talks with Adam Lovinger, vice president for strategic affairs at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, about how the deep state worked to diminish the influence of the United States around the world and takes us inside his new book The Insider Threat: How the Deep State Undermines America from Within. Timothy McDonnell, associate… Continue reading

    Hillsdale Podcasts
  • December 13, 2024

    The Steve Gruber Show, 12/13/24

    I filled in on The Steve Gruber Show on 12/13/24 Continue reading

    Fill-In
  • December 13, 2024

    Wasn’t That Special: Season 37 (2011-12)

    Kristen Wiig’s Swan Song, and Hello Kate McKinnon It hasn’t been that often that Lorne Michaels brings back an identical cast from the year before, but that’s exactly what happened after Season 36 and into Season 37. Everyone returns, even the cast members struggling for screen time – it is only in the 18th episode… Continue reading

    Wasn’t That Special
    comedy, kristen-wiig, movies, snl, television
  • December 13, 2024

    The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour: Shifting Power Back to the People

    Guests: Kevin Roberts & Timothy McDonnell Host Scot Bertram talks with Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, about the future of the American republic and his new book Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America. And Timothy McDonnell, associate professor of Music at Hillsdale College, begins a series on the history of some… Continue reading

    Hillsdale Podcasts
  • December 6, 2024

    The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour: Sean McMeekin Traces the Evolution of Communism

    Guests: Matthew Mehan & Sean McMeekin Host Scot Bertram talks with Matthew Mehan, associate dean and assistant professor of government at Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C. campus, about how the ancients viewed virtuous leadership. And Sean McMeekin, the Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College, explains the violence inherent in communism and discusses his latest book, To Overthrow the… Continue reading

    Hillsdale Podcasts
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Broadcaster, podcaster, educator.

General Manager, WRFH Radio and Lecturer in Journalism at Hillsdale College.

Host, The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour & the Hillsdale College K-12 Classical Education Podcast.

Co-Host, Political Beats and Wasn’t That Special: 50 Years of Saturday Night Live.

Host, Future of Freedom

Fill-In Host, The Steve Gruber Show and Three Martini Lunch

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