Episode 364 welcomes Tim Hall to the podcast for a chat with Skyler. Topics include: why they don’t know each other; shared group membership on Facebook; coronavirus response in South Korea, coronavirus response on his military base; Kim Jong Un situation in North Korea; his belief in self-determination and small governments; Constitutionalism; several military based subtopics, including: don’t ask, don’t tell, black lives matter moment, cancel culture, women and ballbusting, his Afghanistan tour; and more.
Category: Everything Voluntary
Gun at Your Head & Cultural Marxism’s Fundamental Flaw (27m) – Episode 363
Episode 363 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: an article he wrote in August 2011 titled, “You’ve Got a Gun Pointed at Your Head”; and an article he wrote in June 2018 titled, “Cultural Marxism’s Fundamental Flaw”.
Contra The Short, Simple Dismissal Of Libertarianism: Government (21m) – Episode 362
Episode 362 has Skyler giving his commentary on the subtopic “Government” from Mike Huben’s “The Short, Simple Dismissal of Libertarianism“. He writes, “99% of libertarianism is obviously untrue or unacceptable for one or more of these reasons… How can we know that so easily? Here are some simple principles that make it obvious.”
Mich O. Returns, Postmodernism, Microcapitalism, & Propaganda (51m) – Episode 361
Episode 361 welcomes back Mish Ochu to chat with Skyler on the following topics: postmodernism as a heroic endeavor for libertarianism and science; the problem of scientism that results from political influences; the pros and cons of peer review; citizen science and citizen journalism; automation and micro-capitalism; crypto communities; gun culture in Nigeria and England; Prince Andrew and the indirect control of the media; the fourth estate as the propaganda arm of the state; and more.
Dreadlocks, German UBI, John Oliver, Taiwan, Ghislaine’s Jury, Robocalls, & Greek Tragedy (39m) – Episode 360
Episode 360 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: Federal court in Houston protects teen from being forced to cut off his hair by local high school; Germany’s new 3-year donation-funded universal basic income experiment; Danbury, CT naming their sewage plant after HBO comedy news show host John Oliver; Taiwan aiming to free up their economy to replace Hong Kong as area’s financial hub; Ghislaine Maxwell’s concern over getting a fair trial after deposition material released to the public; robocall company and its creditors getting robbed of almost a billion dollars by federal courts; Greece denying their program to send over 1,000 “illegal” migrants back out to see to fend for themselves or get rescued; and more.
Empowerment, Economic Growth, Gun Policy Costs, & Antinatalism (32m) – Episode 359
Episode 359 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: why empowerment is not telling people that they are helpless to do anything for themselves and must wait for others to act first; the importance of secure property rights to economic growth; why it’s muddy metaphorical thinking to claim that homicides, suicides, et cetera, are “costs” of loose gun policy; a couple of point against antinatalist philosophy; and more.
Chris J. Returns, Sinister Social Distancing, & Agorism/Counter-Economics (56m) – Episode 358
Episode 358 welcomes back Chris Jenkins to chat with Skyler on the following topics: their Jurassic Park movie favorites, in order; movies during the 2020 pandemic; social distancing verse physical distance and whether something more sinister is afoot; Samuel Konkin III’s agorism and counter-economic strategies for starving the state of tax revenue; civil disobedience; challenging the state’s jurisdictional claims (and a bit on Skyler’s recent experience with his Airbnb, found here); gumming up the gears of state action through courts and in raising the costs of their bureaucratic enforcement; Utah allowing community service in lieu of paying traffic fines and where that law originated; unschooling and homeschooling as agorist action; and more.
Jack C. Returns, NZ Lockdowns, & Be Your Own Authority (1h8m) – Episode 357
Episode 357 welcomes back Jack Carney to chat with Skyler on the following topics: the COVID-19 lockdown experience in Auckland, New Zealand; lockdown protests stateside, their response, and then the George Floyd protests and their opposite response; government coordination on lockdown policies and website resource design; the Milgram experiment and what it says about today’s political climate; the Plandemic documentaries; the medical mafia; the changing usefulness of the Karen meme; why there are so few libertarian types in the world; government as God; the formerly rebellious nature of Mormons; why everyone must be their own authority, their own god; the non-aggression principle and self-defense; Free Friends, voluntary community building; his draft dodging of the Vietnam War in 1967; the Academy of Ideas YouTube channel; and more.
Aaron W. Returns, Interpersonal Domination, & Moralizing (57m) – Episode 356
Episode 356 welcomes back Aaron White to chat with Skyler on the following topics: Aaron leaving California for Texas; arguing versus trying to simply dominate someone in conversation; woke crusading, rooting out heretics, and inspiring fear; cancellation of leftists by woke leftists; whether truth can be racist; race realism and anarchist society; facts and deriving values; feeling defensive when considering implications toward one’s worldview of another’s arguments; why someone should chose “the good”; teasing/ballbusting with your kids; and more.
Economics 101: “Economics for Beginners” & Wizard’s Eleventh Rule: Embrace Life (41m) – Episode 355
Episode 355 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: continuation of the Economics 101 mini-series by reviewing Mises.org’s new short video series “Economics for Beginners”; continuation of the Wizard’s Rules mini-series, Wizard’s Eleventh Rule: “Embrace life, seek strength without hate”; and more.