The Speech Guys

It's Martin Luther King Day early this year... or late. Regardless, Matt, Ross, and Mike step up to the plate and talk MLK's legacy, how the nature of race conversations seem to have changed between …

The Speech Guys tip their hats (and masks) to the English Monarchy by drinking and thinking over Queen Elizabeth II's April 2020 speech, "We Will Meet Again".

The Show:

Recalling COVID lockdown experie…

Pull out your milk pens, TV Guide, and Windows XP update manual. The Speech Guys put their minds and hearts to the questions posed by the 1990s and early 2000s TV Dads. A speech given by Debra Barone…

This episode is rated PG-13 as it discusses the topic of sex, abortion, and contraception.

While the Speech Guys are fans of, well, speeches... they aren't fans of making claims without doing their be…

The Speech Guys do their best to stay out of the mansplaining zone for Episode #27 as they discuss a speech given by Dr. Carrie Gress at the Family Institute of Washington. The speech was based upon …

What happens when the host of the episode loses contact with America and the Speech Guys while in Europe? Nothing good.

Ross, Matt, and Mike struggle to wrap their heads around Hal and the famous spee…

Mike and Ross podcast solo in this special episode before the fourth and final installment of "Sci Fi Speeches". They tell the origin story of half of the Speech Guys that came about on the campus of…

Sip your favorite whiskey and think with the Speech Guys tonight as they unpack questions about scientific ethical questions that Ian Malcolm brings to the social foreground in the book and 1993 film…

Sip your favorite whiskey and think with the Speech Guys tonight as they unpack questions about free will that Marty McFly and Doc Brown bring to the fore in the 1990 film, Back to the Future Part II…

The Speech Guys listen to and discuss excerpts from the speech presented by the fictional President in the 1998 film, Armageddon. This is the first episode in the "Sci-Fi Speeches" series.

Questions a…

The Speech Guys listen to and discuss excerpts from the 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace. This is the fourth and final episode in the "Speeches Before They Died" …

The Speech Guys read and discuss excerpts from the final speech given by Father Zossima, in the Russian novel, "The Brothers Karmazov". It was written by Fyodor Dostoyesky in 1879. This is the third …

This episode is rated PG-13 as it discusses the significance of sex and sexuality in society and culture.

The Speech Guys read and discuss excerpts from the final interview Marilyn Monroe gave just a …

The Speech Guys listen to and discuss the North Carolina State University's Coach Jimmy V's speech he gave at the 1993 ESPY Awards, just two months before he died. This is the first episode in the "S…

The Speech Guys read and discuss the Seneca leader, Red Jacket's (1750 - 1830), speech he gave at a meeting between members of the Seneca tribe and missionaries from Boston who'd requested permission…

The Speech Guys read and discuss Graham's speech he gave at the Washington National Cathedral on September 14, 2001 following the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

Questions and topics explored in …

The Speech Guys read and discuss Ms. Day's "speech" from her autobiography, 'The Long Loneliness'.

Some questions that we explore are "Why is 'order' and 'structure' important to raising children?", "…

The Speech Guys read and discuss Saint John Paul the Great's speech that he delivered in Warsaw, Poland in June 1979.

Some questions we discuss and topics that we comment on include how Communist Pola…

Editor's notes from this interview:

The Great Depression began in 1929. The emphasis placed on 1933 pertains to the beginning of President Roosevelt's term.

The draft did in fact begin before the bombi…