Rod Dreher
speaker
490 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Rod Dreher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Basically, yeah.
Yeah.
And it's a really tragic thing because my father, the strong patriarch, one of the men I respect most in the world, he had watched his daughter, who was his favorite child.
I don't say that with any hostility, but she was- No hostility?
No, I don't because she was a son he never had, right?
He named me after himself and he wanted me to be an athlete, a hunter, a good old boy and all that.
And I just had my head in a book and wanted to go to the movies, right?
And go to the city.
But my sister, two years younger, she was all of that.
She was a homecoming queen who really did know how to skin a buck and run a trot line.
She married her high school sweetheart.
They built a house across the gravel road from my mom and dad and all was bliss.
Well-
My wife and I saw, and from Philadelphia as she was dying, the goodness of this small town, St.
Francisville, Louisiana.
And we decided we wanted that for ourselves and our kids.
We moved back, and the people of St.
Francisville were fine to us.
It was a beautiful town.
We helped start a literary festival, Walker Percy Weekend.
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