The Truth & Justice Podcast is listener driven show, devoted to the pursuit of truth and justice. Host, Bob Ruff, investigates potential wrongful conviction and cold cases using a unique crowdsourcing approach. Bob invites listeners to participate in the investigations, as he breaks down a new case in each season in real time. Truth & Justice is currently on Season 12, where Bob and listeners are investigating the tragic murders of Becky and Vickie Friedli, and Jon Hayward. A bizarre and hor ...
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The Pugcast is produced by The Logos Center and features Dr. Thomas Price, Dr. Glenn Sunshine, and Pr. C. R. Wiley. The Pugcast is recorded at The Corner Pug--a well-known watering hole in tony West Hartford, Connecticut. (Hence the name, "pugcast"--also the reason there is so much background noise.) The show could be described as "3 over-educated Reformed guys riffing on philosophy, theology, and stuff that bugs them." Each episode they invite you to take a seat in their booth and listen in ...
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We're Back! (...minus Zaq) Bob and Janet host today's Friday Follow-Up and take all your listener questions regarding, "Episode 61, We Killed Her".By NBI Studios
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Working off an article about the inability of modern writers on the Vikings to understand their conversion to Christianity, the guys discuss the weaknesses of Norse religion and the answers Christianity offered them. Glenn tells a number of stories about Vikings and explains how Norse Christianity saw itself as the fulfillment of pagan mythology. T…
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On today’s show Tom and the guys look at how technocratic rationalists are increasingly longing for something deeper and fuller even though their search mostly remains within the bounds of modernist assumptions and relativism. The guys look at Tara Burton’s article Rational Magic: Why a Silicon Valley culture that was once obsessed with reason is g…
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Teaser: Pugcast Live In Memphis with George Grant!
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Here’s a teaser of the inimitable George Grant giving us a little sample of what he will talk about with the pugs at one of our live Pugcasts in Memphis —John Witherspoon, educator, Founding Father, and Presbyterian minister. Join us at the Courtyard Marriott in downtown Memphis, Wednesday, June 14th for two live recordings of the Theology Pugcast …
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Bob shares two very strange interviews. A friend of Becky's received an alarming phone call, from Becky's cell that became even more alarming . . . once he found out she had been murdered. These two interviews occurred on 9/27/06.By NBI Studios
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Today Bob, Zaq, and Janet break down The State's Final Word and take your listener questions. Listen ad-free on Patreon!By NBI Studios
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In this week’s episode, the Pugsters riff off a Twitter thread and article contrasting the way Aragorn is portrayed in the movies and in the books. But Aragorn isn’t really the point. His character in the books but not in the movies displays magnanimity, or great-souledness (if that’s a word). The guys talk about the ideas roots in Aristotle, how t…
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We've reached the end of the 6-week trial. Today you're going to hear the last thing the jury heard. Listen ad-free on Patreon!By NBI Studios
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Today, Bob & Janet - sans Zaq - will take all your listener questions regarding Episode 59, Moore's Closing. Listen ad-free on Patreon!By NBI Studios
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In today's show the Pugs respond to an article published in First Things entitled: Don't Spare the Rod, by Daniel Buck. Buck is a public school teacher and in the article he describes the break down of the order that had once at least partly been kept in public school classrooms. The guys reflect on their own educations in public schools and wonder…
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Today you're going to hear Robert's attorney, Jeff Moore's, closing. He takes an interesting approach in his closing argument. Listen ad-free on Patreon.By NBI Studios
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Today, Bob, Janet, and Zaq discuss "Dolan's Closing". Listen ad-free on Patreon! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.By NBI Studios
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On this week's episode Tom engages insights from Vigen Goroian's article (and book chapter) on Chesterton, Rallying the Really Human Things. The guys join Tom in discussing things human and the humane and the requisite theological and trascendent frame which grounds such things. For example, Christian virtues ripped from their theological mooring b…
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Today we explore Dolan's final plea to the jurors. Listen as free on Patreon!By NBI Studios
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Today, Bob, Zaq, and Janet go over all the details and take listener questions about the closing arguments from the Pape/Smith trial. Support us on Patreon, and get every episode ad free!! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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Malcolm Guite’s book, Lifting the Veil: Imagination and the Kingdom of God, provides the Pugster’s with the starting point for this week’s episode. After a summary of some of Guite’s ideas about imagination as the means by which reason and intuition are united, making the imagination an essential tool for understanding reality, the guys engage in t…
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Bob breaks down ADA Aki's closing arguments from the Pape/Smith trial. Support us on Patreon, and get every episode ad free!!By NBI Studios
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This week, Bob, Janet and Zack go over the details of the probable cause affidavit. Listen ad-free on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/truthandjustice See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.By NBI Studios
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Kemper Crabb is a musician who was involved in the “Jesus Music” of the late ‘70s and ‘80s that later turned into CCM, an Anglican priest working in a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, and a scholar of medieval literature and history, among other things. On today’s episode the Pugsters have a wide ranging conversation with Kemper, including an inside…
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S12: Brandon Kugler-Harrison 2013 Interview
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In this bonus episode, we hear an interview between Investigator Vargas and Becky's friend Brandon Kugler-Harrison. The interview took place in 2013.By NBI Studios
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This episode will be a read-along of the Probable Cause Affidavit filed by Detective Gary LeClaire. Listen ad-free on Patreon!By NBI Studios
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Today in our Friday Follow-Up, Bob, Zaq, and Janet discuss Marty's interview and field a lot of great listener questions! Don't forget that Patrons always listen AD-FREE!!By NBI Studios
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Theology, the Queen of the Sciences?
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Once upon a time Thomas Aquinas referred to theology as the "Queen of the Sciences"--but what was he referring to? Today the Pugsters take up the crisis of knowledge. The tendency today is to reduce everything to material and efficient causes--in other words, to a material basis. Whole dimensions of human life are now considered too subjective to w…
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Today is the day where we tie up the last few loose ends remaining in the case against Robert and Cristin. We also get to hear from Robert’s cousin, Marty. Listen ad-free on Patreon!By NBI Studios
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This week we got to be a fly on the wall for Robert Pape's interview, and now, Bob, Janet & Zaq will discuss! Listen ad-free on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/truthandjusticeBy NBI Studios
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A timely discussion of the biblical reality of the spiritual realm, the angelic, the demonic, and Christ’s victory over Satan, death, hell, and the grave. Tom introduces the problematic placement of the place of angels and demons in contemporary theology and the need to retrieve the rich biblical vision which shaped classic Christian orthodoxy. Chr…
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S12 Ep54: Robert's 2007 Interview - Pt. 2
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Support us on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/truthandjustice This episode features the second half of Robert's October 2007 interview with Detective Gary LeClair.By NBI Studios
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S12 Ep53: Robert's 2007 Interview - Pt. 1
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On October 2, 2007 a search warrant was executed on Robert Pape's house. The search was a final attempt by Detective LeClair to find evidence worthy of filing charges. The only thing useful found in the search were two guns. A WWII era bolt action rifle, and a 12 gauge shotgun. LeClair takes Robert into custody, and spends a marathon day interrogat…
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In today's Friday Follow-Up, Bob, Zaq and Janet go over all the details of "The Glock" episode. Now is a great time to become a Patreon sponsor! Sign up here! https://www.patreon.com/truthandjusticeBy NBI Studios
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Today’s Pugcast is a discussion of Naomi Wolfe’s Substack piece, “Have the Old Gods Returned?” which is a reflection and development of the ideas in Jonathan Cahn’s The Return of the Gods. The premise is that with the rejection of Christianity, God’s protection over the Western world has been withdrawn and the old gods—demonic entities that were pu…
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In this week's episode, Bob takes a closer look into whether or not Robert or Cristin could have had access to the same kind of weapon used in the murders. Patrons listen ad-free! Sign up today!By NBI Studios
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