The True Conservative · Ronald T. Hardgrove

Episode 2285 - The True Conservative - Science Wednesday!

March 19, 2026·36 min·3 clips

An alien with a powerful telescope sees a T-Rex hunting in Montana right now, forcing us to question what 'now' really means.

Science Wednesday begins with Irish scale. The cold open counts 35 million Americans who claim Irish heritage, sketches a worldwide Irish identity between 50 and 80 million, and jokes that Irish exits are not really exits. Ron names the day plainly. He marks it as March 18, calls himself the only true conservative in the United States today, and greets the butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. The prayer comes first. Then the show starts hopping through Varney and Company, Dr. Berg, and Professor Feynman with the usual break tag doing most of the stitching. Inflation is the first imported clip. Varney's segment cites February's producer price index rising 0.7 percent and 3.4 percent over twelve months, a business clip dropped straight into Ron's sermon frame. Then Ron turns inward. His main argument paints the liberal as someone stuck in self-pity, sure they have sacrificed, and unable to see how much emotional room they have already taken from everyone else. It is a blame loop. Self-pity feeds entitlement, entitlement feeds blindness, and the person at the center cannot mourn what they never noticed or valued. Dr. Berg arrives with no soft landing. The health insert recommends apple cider vinegar in water for belly fat, treats belly fat as liver fat, and names insulin resistance as the underlying issue. Ron tags it and moves on. The next political swing turns toward Marjorie Taylor Greene, or someone he thinks may be her, and two ladies who, in his telling, walked into Congress as if they had already painted symbolic targets on themselves. His charge is personal: they made everything about what they wanted, stood for, and believed, and slowly pushed away their own supporters. Professor Feynman closes the orbit. That segment goes cosmic, asking the listener to look at the sky, think about delay and sausage, and accept that nature does not owe common sense an explanation. Ron ends with his creed, signs off to the butchers and candlestick makers, reminds the listener they are not neutral, and lands on government has no rights.

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A Wednesday grab bag that runs from Irish heritage banter and market news to health advice and physics in one tight editorial frame.

The episode moves like a Wednesday grab bag: an Irish heritage opener, the serenity prayer, Varney market news, a war update, and then a long stretch of conservative commentary about liberal self pity and entitlement. Its strength is the momentum.

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For a Wednesday that runs from inflation to war, then belly fat, then time.

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