Pascal's Wager is a familiar idea. It goes something like this: regardless of what you may think about the existence of God, rational cost-benefit analysis says you should sign on. After all, if you do and you're wrong, what have you lost? But if you don't and you're...
Coronavirus
Episode 416: Shattering ‘Covid Norms’ w/ Tom Woods
54 Minutes Safe for Work Pete invited Tom Woods to return to the show. Tom is the host of "The Tom Woods Show" and came on to talk about society's response to Covid-19 concentrating on how states and businesses are re-opening, and whether a return to "normalcy" is on...
Episode 414: An Active LEO Talks About Why He’s Quitting and Policing During Covid-19
37 Minutes Safe for Work Pete welcomes an active duty LEO who wants to be identified as Zan to the show. Zan is leaving the force due to a change in ideology but is still on the job. He talks about why he's leaving and answers the big question as to whether most of...
Atomistic Individualism for the Win!
I'd say defenders of the automobile versus mass transit are looking pretty good these days.
Using Bad Math, Media Claims No State Has Met the Reopening Guidelines on New Cases
As the debate over lifting the lockdowns in the US intensifies, key data points on testing and infections are routinely mischaracterized. Consider this summary from Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday on May 3: As we said, about half the states -- more than half the...
Episode 413: ‘Tapping The Cage’ w/ Bird from the Friends Against Government Podcast
78 Minutes Not Safe for Work Pete invited Bird from the Friends Against Government podcast to come on and talk about his 60 day and counting lock down in NYC, and to try to bring some levity to an otherwise depressing turn of events. Friends Against Government Podcast...
Episode 411 : Pete and Brett Veinotte of the School Sucks Podcast Discuss a Post Covid-19 World
92 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited the host of the School Sucks Podcast, Brett Veinotte, to return to the show to have a discussion about where they see society headed in a "post-Covid-19" world. SchoolSucks.com Link to Richard Grove's Autonomy Course Donate at the...
Episode 410: ‘What Must Be Done’ w/ Vin Armani
86 Minutes Strong Language Pete invited Vin Armani to return to the show to continue their conversation from a few weeks ago where they made predictions on what tyranny would be wrought from the government's response to the CV-19 pandemic. This time Vin and Pete talk...
This Market Never Closes
It is perfectly fine to be afraid that you or a loved one will catch a potentially life-threatening virus, and at the same time deride the government’s reaction, especially when it comes to shutting down a significant portion of the economy. That section consists of...
Event 201
This is some scary, fascist stuff... Remember that time when some of the biggest companies and international government agencies got together to discuss how the coronavirus would lead to a global pandemic, and then systematically decided what the global response...
Episode 407: A Swedish Libertarian Talks About Sweden’s ‘Liberal’ Response To Covid-19
38 Minutes Safe for Work Pete had a talk with Swedish libertarian Joakim Ohlrogge. He lives in the epicenter of Sweden's Covid-19 cases and wanted to come on to talk about the unorthodox response Sweden is taking to the pandemic. Sweden has been criticized because...
Episode 405: Mises.Org Editor Ryan McMaken on the Fallout of the Government’s Covid-19 Response
51 Minutes Safe for Work Pete invited Mises.Org editor Ryan McMaken to return to the show to discuss the subjects of the articles he's been covering recently about the government, and the public's response, to the Covid-19 crisis. Ryan's Mises.org Page Link to Richard...
Q&A Show
I talked with an expert about the Coronavirus, and then I talked with Pete about that.
Feds Keep Stealing PPE From Local Hospitals
FEMA Accused Of Hijacking Protective Gear For First Responders In Massachusetts Town And tests too: Feds seize coronavirus test kit materials bound for Bellingham hospital and Northwest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8
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