No Hope The Podcast

Episode 16 - Aretha Franklin, Alex Jones banned, NFL Kneeling, Afghanistan and more!

1. Intro - Aretha Franklin "Don't play that song for me"

2. Aretha Franklin is gravely ill

3. Alex Jones Banned from Facebook, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify and more

4. NFL Kneeling - who cares if they kneel??

5. War on drugs and the welfare state

6. Antiwar.com roundup - Afghanistan, Yemen, NDAA

7. Outro - Aretha Franklin "Don't play that song for me"

Episode 15 - Sports are about empathy not tribalism, CNN today vs yesteryear

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1. Intro - Dat one wind

2. Sports fandom - my theory about empathy with the players instead of just tribalism.

3. Exploring old CNN.com front pages from the past using the wayback machine - CNN wasn't always an anti-trump propaganda machine!

4. What should we do? Try speaking one-on-one to people in your life, speak calmly and lovingly. Libertarians are pro-environment and anti-war.

5. Antiwar.com roundup - Saudi strikes killed 60 in Yemen, Dozens killed in Afgan Shia mosque, etc...

6. Outra - Neither one of us

Episode 14 - My libertarian history, home buying,

1. Intro - dat one wind

2. My story of becoming libertarian

3. Real estate - shiller index, peter schiff was right, what's going on right now?

4. A dumb analysis of 2008 and the history of economic thought - https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-29/what-economists-still-don-t-get-about-2008-crisis

5. Analysis of another kinda silly article -"Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship?" -  https://hbr.org/2017/06/is-america-encouraging-the-wrong-kind-of-entrepreneurshi

6. A little news roundup - North Korea, Yemen, et al.

7. Outro - Machine Gun 2017 - https://soundcloud.com/patlarue/machine-gun-2017 

Episode 13 - 3D printing guns, drug legalization in Mexico, Julian Assange losing asylum

1. Intro - Dat one wind

2. Tried to record an episode outside on my ipad

3. A little about Putin and Trump

4. Regular people inherintly understand the non-aggression princple.

5. How do people get duped into supporting war?

6. 3D printing blueprints declared legal to share online. https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/18/3d-printed-gun-designs-legally-download/

7. Gun control in a truly free market

8. 3D printing and home-milling gun parts at home

9. Mexico considering decriminalizing all drugs. https://www.newsweek.com/will-mexico-legalize-drugs-obrador-orders-study-radical-bid-bring-narcotics-1029494

10. Ecuador will withdraw asylum for Juilian Assange and turn him over to the UK https://theintercept.com/2018/07/21/ecuador-will-imminently-withdraw-asylum-for-julian-assange-and-hand-him-over-to-the-uk-what-comes-next/

11. The left has turned pro-CIA/FBI/NSA

12. Crazy (Stupid) article about tarifs and free trade https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-tariff-war-is-the-final-act-of-a-broken-system_us_5b48f061e4b022fdcc59390b

13. The free market gave us abundance and the freedom to not have children work.

14. antiwar.com news

15. Outro - Dancin

Episode 12 - Republicans/Democrats have no principles, Ukraine, Mueller Indicts people, Papa John is racist

1. Intro - Dat one wind

2. Neither the Democrats or Republicans have real princples. This allows them to continually adjust their stances to get votes.

3. Ukraine - US Congress welcomes actual fascist - Andriy Parubiy (https://scotthorton.org/7-6-18-max-blumenthal-on-on-obama-and-trumps-ukrainian-nazis/)

4. Antiwar.com news: US airstrike kills 28+ civilians in Syria, Israel airstrikes, Pakistan bomber kills 128 at political rally.

5. Kim Jong Un sends nice letter to Trump

6. Muerller indicts a bunch of Russian intelligence officers

7. The Russia boogeyman is being rebuit. Will the US populace learn anything from the cold war? My guess is no.

8. Papa John's founder uses the "N-word" and resigns

9. It's ok to say "What about Obama" because Hillary Clinton would have done the same thing and they voted for Hillary.

10. Outro - Unbreakable

Episode 11 - July 4th, Frederick Douglas, N Korea "regrettable", can we change the narrative?,

1. Intro - Dat one wind

2. 4th of July from a libertarian perspective

3. North Korea says talks with Pompeo were "regrettable"

4. Man assaults kid with MAGA hat in San Antonio

5. Trump is still not a Nazi, definitely not for the reasons they say.

6. Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez the great Deomcratic Socialist "hope"

7. The narrative is dominated by main-stream media.

8. How to talk to your friends.

9. Outro - july 4th...

Episode 10 - Lebron James and sports economics, Iran/CIA/1950s, 18 million will die in Yemen this year

1. Intro - Dat One Wind

2. Lebron James to the Lakers for $154,000,000!

3. Sports is intertainment, the deserve to paid what people want to pay them.

4. Immigration - liberals still don't realize Obama deported tens of thousands of people a year.

5. Dulles, the CIA, Iran, manufactured protests/riots and other nasty things.

6. Our allies are not the "good duys" (Saudi Arabia)

7. Religion is ok, just don't violate the non-agression principle

8. Politics in the US is like pro wrestling

9. Antiwar.com brief - US troops are moving out of Seoul (just to a more southern location).

10. UN says 18 million people will die of starvation in Yemen in 2018... :(

11. Outro - Fading

Episode 9 - News Roundup 6/26/2018

Appologize for the poorer sound quality. I was pressed for time to make this one.

 

1. Supreme court ruling on immigration

2. Starting to get bored with pointing out how skewed cnn and msnbc's reports are...

3. CNN says SCOTUS ruling green lights Trump to express racist views.

4. It isn't funny to make fun of Trump or Bush. People are actually dying.

5. I'm pro gay marriage but anti-marriage regulation

6. CNN is focused on Sarah Sanders, oddly.

7. Aljazeera and BBC on SCOTUS ruling.

8. Democracynow.com kinda lost the plot already.

9. CTE and head injuries in football.

10. Antiwar.com - still war in the Middle East, etc.

11. NSA-AT&T parternership for surveilance.

12. Americans have been conserving water via Gizmodo.com

13. Actually energy consumption in the US is on the decline over the last 10ish years.

14. Dave Smith talking about how our President is essentially a dictator for 4 years while your relationship with your boss is completely voluntary.

Episode 8 - More immigration, inequality and media bias chart

1. Intro - Dat One Wind
2. Internet sales tax - prices will increase, sales will decrease, businesses will go bankrupt https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/states-can-require-internet-tax-collection-supreme-court-rules-jiomtl5c
4. Child detention pictures from 2014 but nobody cares https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/crisis-in-child-immigration/2/.
5. media bias chart http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com/the-chart-version-3-0-what-exactly-are-we-reading/
5a. The true range of political ideology is not a simple one-dimensional line
6. Inequality - Life explained like a video game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Y77zVI5To
7. The liberal take on inequality
8. The conservative take on inequality
9. The libertarian take on inequality
10. The welfare state hurts charities
11. Antiwar.com news roundup
12. First look at democracynow.com
13. Outro - We All Frontin

Episode 7 - Zero tolerance immigration policy, Yemen - the real crisis

1. Intro - That One Wind

2. Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy and separating families

3. Examining the Facebook posts about immigration

4. Liberals have no moral ground to stand on. 9 years of silence on war in the middle east.

5. Conservatives weak counter in the media about abortion.

6. Voluntaryism is different from the left AND right because it has a coherent theory underneath.

7. I think that welfare states are different than communism.

8. I'm not an atheist

9. Abortion is an impossible issue.

10. Wikipedia on - Trump administration familly separation policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy

11. How much have things actually changed under Trump according to a few numbers.

12. I'm against separating families because I am pro freedom!

13. The NAP (Non Agression Principle) applied to immigration

14. The NAP is opposed to this bordered policy, private property is the solution.

15. Government owned land in the US http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/291-federal-lands-in-the-us

16. YEMEN

17. You should post your political opinions on Facebook

18. Silly thought experiement about virtue signalling 

19. Free market, communism and welfare

20. Don't forget that the free market is pro charity!

21. SPACE FORCE (somehow Trump was racist doing this according to Verge)

22. Hopefully the free market determines the rules for space and not the govt.

23. Death counts in the news in the Middle East from www.antiwar.com

24. Outro - Arcade Logic