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Episode 128 – What to Get from the Covington Catholic March for Life Media Debacle

I’m sure you’ve heard about it already, but there was an incident in Washington, D.C. at the March for Life. It sets up like a joke, but what do you get when you take groups of Native Americans, Black Hebrew Israelites, and students from an all-boys Catholic High School? Utter social media mayhem. We discuss […]

Jan 22, 2019

Episode 127 – How to Deal with Racists with Quincy Johnson

This episode contains some language, so listener discretion is advised. We had the privilege of bringing everyone’s favorite truck driver, Quincy Johnson, on the show to talk about how to deal with racists and then chat a bit about politics. Follow Quincy Twitter: @QuincyLovesBBWS Sponsor Liberty Mugs Keep in touch with us everywhere you are […]

Jan 15, 2019

Episode 126 – Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin with Heavily Armed Clown

Bitcoin just turned 10 years old, so what’s better to talk about than Bitcoin to start the new year? We brought on Colin, known as Heavily Armed Clown on Twitter, to discuss how he got into Bitcoin, the economics behind it, adoption, the bear market, and more! Items discussed Mathbot.com JW Weatherman’s Course Buy a […]

Jan 7, 2019

Episode 125 – The Fall of Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux is known for bringing a lot of people into libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism. But over the last few years, he’s been saying some pretty odd to flat our ridiculous things that should make someone start to question him. What went wrong? Slappy and I discuss. Items discussed Stefan Molyneux Thinks Voting Is the Solution […]

Jan 1, 2019

Episode 124 – What We Want For Christmas

Merry Christmas! Slappy and I spend some quality time with you during this special season to tell you what we want for Christmas. Grab some fruitcake and some eggnog and cuddle by the fire for this Christmas special! Sponsor Liberty Mugs Get a free Liberty Mug by signing up for the Tom Woods Liberty Classroom […]

Dec 24, 2018

Episode 123 – Bitcoin Bomb Threats!

Bitcoin’s all time high was a year ago today.  We’re in a bear market, so there’s been plenty of FUD being spread around by the no-coiners.  We discuss some the recent Bitcoin bomb threat, criticisms, and some critiques on altcoins. Items discussedDon’t Buy Bitcoin. It’s Going to Crash!!!Episode 106 – CNBC’s take on Bitcoin and […]

Dec 18, 2018

Episode 122 – Feeling Bullish on Taking Down PC Culture

The extreme leftists and social justice warriors keep getting crazier and crazier with no real end in sight. The latest victim of their silly whininess is Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray, who was “discovered”to have tweeted out an “anti-gay slur” when he was 15 years old. Fortunately, the vast majority of people seem to think […]

Dec 11, 2018

Episode 121 – Remembering the Death of Joseph Pacini at the Hands of the Police

At the end of the month, it will be four years since Joseph Pacini, an at the time 52-year-old man from Clifton Heights, PA, was gunned down by police following a charge of making terroristic threats. We immediately picked the story up as soon as it happened since it occurred so close to where we […]

Dec 4, 2018

Episode 120 – Should We Be Strict Capitalists? with Dean-O

Our friend, Dean-O, recently penned a piece on his site The Rogue File called “Why I’m No Longer a Capitalist (It’s Not What You Think)” where he has decided to transition away from being a strict capitalist in favor supporting a free market that allows for what he refers to companies that use some “socialist […]

Nov 27, 2018

Episode 119 – The Real ID

I’ve been hearing about this Real ID that I’m supposed to be getting in the next few years, so I finally looked at what it is. It’s not good. Of course, the government will tell you it’s for your safety, but what else could they be using it for? CarCampIt joins us to discuss. And […]

Nov 20, 2018

Episode 118 – What if a single company takes over a private city?

We recently came across a tweet questioning whether the free market could handle a situation where a single company had control over a city. Could they dominate the people? What happens if they don’t like certain groups? Are there free market solutions to these problems or is this an example of an exception to the […]

Nov 13, 2018

Episode 117 – Girl Slapping

Jason Stapleton got triggered when recent guest of ours Mance Rayder posted a screenshot of a kind of dumb conversation happening in his Facebook group. He then proceeded to whine about Mance and his views with his cohost. The problem, though, is that everything he accused Mance of thinking was untrue. So we’re firing back […]

Nov 6, 2018

Episode 116 – Mance Rayder on unions, culture, and…

It’s been long overdue, but we finally got Mance Rayder on the podcast. We start with some conversations about unions, pivot to immigration and culture, and then go onto some talk about some issues we see among people resisting a world without the state. Keep up and enjoy! Items Discussed Episode 85: Award Winning Journalist […]

Oct 30, 2018

Episode 115 – Teachers and school

We’ve all had teachers and we’re all expected to put teachers on some holy pedestal of respect and awe. Is that misplaced? Are public schools the only poisonous place to send your children to be educated or do private schools suffer from many of the same problems. Do teachers get paid enough? In this episode, […]

Oct 23, 2018

Episode 114 – Charity

As libertarians, we will often be asked how a free society would handle the role that the government takes in helping those in need and providing a safety net. We provide some ideas and insights on private charity and the wealth that is created with free markets. Items Discussed The End Is Near and It’s […]

Oct 16, 2018

Episode 113 – Anecdotes of liberty growing in the minds of people

The news cycles have been especially stupid as of late, so instead of focusing on all of the annoying and bad things going, we decided to take a step back and acknowledge some nice observations from our own lives of people turning some corners towards liberty. Sponsor Liberty Mugs Get a free Liberty Mug by […]

Oct 8, 2018

Episode 112 – Chris Pacia challenges our Bitcoin maximalism

We’ve been talking about Bitcoin and promoting Bitcoin maximalism a lot. One of our friends offered to set us up to talk to Chris Pacia to debate and discuss some ideas around Bitcoin maximalism. Rollo ate a steak for dinner, so he thinks he’s ready. Grum once again decides to crash the party, nullifying the […]

Oct 2, 2018

Episode 111 – Nullification with Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center

There’s not much we can do to fight the state, but one of the options available can be very powerful: nullification. We brought the expert, Michael Boldin, on to talk about all things nullification. Follow Michael Tenth Amendment Center State of the Nullification Movement Report @TenthAmendment @MichaelBoldin Follow Michael on Facebook Sponsor Liberty Mugs Get […]

Sep 25, 2018

Episode 110 – How would fraud be handled in a libertarian society?

We can all agree that fraud is less than savory behavior, but is it Non-Aggression Principle violation level behavior? Is it simply lying? Regardless of how we categorize it, how would we deal with it in a free society? We’ve got some answers. Items discussed Prisons in a free society? by Bob Murphy Sponsor Liberty […]

Sep 18, 2018

Episode 109 – What is Bisq and why are decentralized, non-custodial Bitcoin services important?

We’re still mashing the Bitcoin button for picking podcast episode topics, but this one is a little bit different because it’s fairly actionable. Rollo recently finally used Bisq to purchase some Bitcoin. Bisq is a decentralized, non-custodial Bitcoin exchange that offers some serious improvements over the Bitcoin exchanges that we’ve grown accustomed to. Also, we […]

Sep 11, 2018

Bonus Episode 108 – Gratuitous nerding out by “one and a half” engineers on the alleged moon landing hoax

CarCampIt and Birdarchist were discussing game theory and the possibility of a moon landing hoax in the most recent episode of their podcast. I, Rollo, had some ideas and disagreements on some of Car’s points, so I invited him to jump on a call to talk about it and release the first ever BONUS EPISODE […]

Sep 6, 2018

Episode 107 – Why Bitcoin will be the one and only money

We’ve been dedicating a lot of time on the podcast and the blog about Bitcoin and we’ve been teasing our Bitcoin maximalism. Now it’s time to explain why we believe that Bitcoin is set to be the one and only money. Previous episodes mentioned Episode 90 – Bitcoin scaling problems and solutions with JW Weatherman […]

Sep 3, 2018

Episode 106 – CNBC’s take on Bitcoin and Rollo opens a Lightning Network node

Bitcoin has been in the mainstream for awhile now and the media has been running their fair share of stories. CNBC is running a special called “Bitcoin: Boom or Bust”. Based on their teasers, it looks like it will be quite the doozy—and not in the good way. And while they’re busy with that, the […]

Aug 28, 2018

Episode 105 - You must be a blast at parties

Aug 20, 201854 min