October 25, 2025 • 25 mins
The principal focus of this podcast episode is the extensive array of news items presented by Blair, who curates a buffet of intellectual nourishment for our listeners. Martin, in a parallel vein, articulates a compelling call to action, urging our audience to engage with the content and support the podcast through various means. We delve into significant contemporary issues, including the celebration of Columbus Day and the implications of current political climates, particularly regarding the Trump administration's actions. Additionally, we highlight recent literary contributions from authors previously featured on the show, emphasizing the importance of understanding rhetoric and political developments. As we navigate these topics, we invite our audience to reflect critically and participate actively in the discourse.
A comprehensive exploration of contemporary intellectual discourse unfolds as we delve into a buffet of thought-provoking articles and literary recommendations. The discussion commences with a nod to Columbus Day, as we reflect on the significance of historical figures like Christopher Columbus amidst the current socio-political climate. The conversation seamlessly transitions to the realm of literature, highlighting Robert Begley's 'Voices of Reason', which elucidates the principles of rhetoric through the lens of Aristotle, enabling listeners to better articulate their philosophical positions. Additionally, we examine Robert Tracinski's 'Dictatorship From Day One', which critically analyzes the constitutional implications of recent executive actions, provoking a deeper contemplation of the delicate balance between authority and individual liberty. The dialogue extends to the importance of local political engagement as a catalyst for broader societal change, invoking the necessity of grassroots movements in the pursuit of a truly free society. As we navigate through these themes, we invite our audience to engage with the recommended resources to foster a more profound understanding of the intricate dynamics at play in our world today.
Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:
- T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L.
- Columbus Day
- History of the chile pepper, Christopher Columbus' gift to Europe
- List of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus
- City Hall’s Christopher Columbus Statue Could Find a Home in a New Park
- The Enemies of Christopher Columbus by Thomas A. Bowden
- Let's Take Back Columbus Day - Capitalism Magazine
- Swedish Republican Association
- No Kings dot org
- Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics by George Reisman
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Foreign.
Good afternoon. Good evening,ladies and gentlemen. Martin and
I are sitting together in thesecular foxhole today. It's just
us. Yes. And we're gonna do.We normally have a new sandwich,
(00:20):
but I am gonna call it today abuffet. I have several interesting
articles and websites that ourlisteners should investigate for
their own intellectual nourishment.
Yes, yes. Eat as much as youwant for how and what's the price?
We talked about that in thegreen room. This show is so called
(00:42):
free. But there are, as weknow, there ain't no such thing as
a free lunch. Right. But youcould listen to this and if you value
this, you could. Yeah. Youcould pay in one way or another.
That's right. Well, we, wewill. Especially our website on Captivate.
(01:03):
Yes, it does. It does have adonation page and if you would kindly
check that out and then sendus a few dollars, that'd be great.
Very, very much appreciated. Yes.
And we have had some, yes.Generous donations from guests and
from others and listeners. Sowe appreciate that very much.
Absolutely.
(01:24):
Yeah. And I will talk at theend. Also, these new modern podcast
applications, what you coulddo also. So you have now the buffet
here with some interestingsandwiches and others first.
I want to commemorateotherwise a few days ago, I want
to commemorate Columbus Dayhere in the United States.
Yes.
It is not Indigenous PeoplesDay. It is Columbus Day and I just
(01:49):
discovered.
Chili pepper. I think.
No, no, this is somethingcompletely different. In the certain
section of the city I live in,there is a Christopher Columbus statue.
And I want to go by there andphotograph that because it's a very
majestic looking statue andhappily it has never been defamed
(02:14):
or toppled.
And so do they have one inColumbus, Ohio also?
I would assume they do. Butyou know, I, I, although I've been
to Columbus, I, I never was, Iwas way much younger than I am now
and I don't, I wasn'tinterested in those things back then.
(02:35):
But today, here, locally, wedo have a wonderful Christopher Columbus
statue.
Yeah. And we will then alsothat could be a booktip also Columbus.
That's one of the books by an objectivist.
That's sure. Tom Bowden wrotethe Enemies of Christopher Columbus
or something to that effect.And he defended obviously Christopher
(03:00):
Columbus. And so we highlyrecommend that. Well, I didn't get
the link to that, but maybe.
Yeah, I'm finding. Yep.
And then speaking of books, Ido want to mention two recent books
by two authors that we havehad on the show recently. The first
one I want to talk about isour friend Robert Begley. His book
(03:23):
Voices of Reason, where hediscusses the proper way to advocate
your ideas using Aristotle'sPrinciples of Rhetoric. And that's.
So that's an excellent book tolook for. And I, I do have a link
(03:45):
for that. And then prior tothat we had Robert Tracinski on and
his recent release calledDictatorship From Day One. How, how
Donald Trump has. I don'tremember the actual subtitle, but
how he's shredded theConstitution. In other words.
(04:05):
Could, could you explain alittle bit? Because I haven't followed
that because here in Sweden wehave a king. The good thing is that
it's more like a figurehead.You could say he doesn't really have
a real power, but still, asme, as a Republican, like for a constitutional
republic, not a royalist. It'sa bit, it's not the biggest, you
(04:28):
know, topic, but it's aRepublican association. You could
say it here in Sweden tryingto push talking about this, but it's
so ingrained, I think. But,and it's interesting if you look
at the history about kings andqueens and, and whatnot, but in America
(04:52):
hasn't have that. But now theyare talking in the streets about
no kings. What's that?
Well, it is, I'm not sure ifit's a. Organized by a particular
political party, but it issomething that is occurred fairly
spontaneously across thecountry about protesting Donald Trump's
(05:15):
incursions into, likebringing, bringing the military into
cities, which is profoundlyunconstitutional and immoral in my
personal opinion. And so,yeah, he is overstepping his boundaries
(05:37):
in many, many ways, whichfurther on here in a few minutes,
I will point to a websitecalled Executive Watch, which documents
these abuse abuses run byRobert Tracynski, who just published
this book, Dictatorship fromDay One. Dictator From Day One, about
(05:58):
Donald Trump and what else.But it's these again, people are
protesting him being taking,you know, just ignoring constitutional
norms and so on and so forthand bypassing. And of course, he's
got all the help of the worldbecause Congress is. They're a bunch
(06:21):
of lame, valueless,intellectually void robots. And so,
yeah, he's got free reignright now.
So how could that be in thefuture? We don't talk so much about
(06:42):
local politics, but is that anidea to try to get some alternatives
in future?
Well, certainly most movementshave to start at the local level.
I mean, you have to. I wasreading the other day and I want
to reread this certain sectionof George Reisman's book on capitalism
(07:06):
where he discussedspecifically a chapter toward a laissez
Faire capitalist society. Andhe mentions how to go about re establishing
or establishing a totally freesociety. But it's starting at the
local level.
That's interesting.
(07:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wish Icould reach out to him. I'm pretty
sure he's an advanced age andI know he's retired from.
I think I see the site isstill up and running so.
Oh yeah, I think somebody'staking care of that for him if not
himself. But.
But maybe we'll come come backto that. I have been pretty critical
(07:51):
myself with. So we know about.And we're not spoiling anything but
we talk about Atlantis andthis secret place. But there have
been some so called projectsthere called Atlantis and it have
been oil platforms, it havebeen seasteading. It has been between
(08:14):
countries like one calledLieberland for example. And some
of them are leaninglibertarian and some are maybe, you
know, anarchic.
Yeah, yeah.
And so on.
But libertarian anarchy, same thing.
So yeah, but the thing is whenwe talk about that and how you constitute
(08:38):
a country or a sovereignstate, it's interesting how you could
do it in a local way. And. Andalso so this is pretty interesting
how this play play out. We hadan interesting way. It's. It was
not political in that way. Butwe had one episode that was so fascinating,
you know, substance, how youcould be underground.
(08:59):
Yes, I know that. That wasgreat with. Yeah. Gentleman last
name Niles. Yes. And one moreCourthart. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those
guys were great. And Iremember it was our 50th episode.
Ground baking. Ground bakingepisode is a pun in pun intended.
(09:22):
Intended.
Yes.
Because we are really over theground now because now we have done
100 plus.
That's right.
But it's good to hear. And Ithink that also when we have been
talking with people fromdifferent Pain and Thomas Paine Institute
new and old about that it'simportant to look at the history
(09:47):
and see learn from the historyand not so it will not end up like,
you know, the FrenchRevolution ended up taking away kings
but in a bloody way, in aviolent way and then ended up in
tyranny. And here in Europe wehave. You have a suit in a slow way
(10:08):
tyranny. And now you see thatin America.
Yes, I know.
And I have always been thoughtthat this system that you have this
balanced system. So maybe weshould have an expert on that field
and say how dangerous is this?Or is it still fact and check and
(10:29):
balances or where are weheaded and what could you do? And
Traczynski has plenty of ideasof that in the book and also as you
said on the site and also it'sreally interesting to document it
because nowadays I think thegeneral person is so how to say it
(10:51):
flashes on the news and thenit's gone, right?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then it's voting day. Andyou know, have you followed that
the mayor race, who the mayor raised.
About this New York City'smayor race?
Yeah. New York City, they haveone with this, what is called coming
(11:11):
from this. How do you say thatprotected civilians with these angels.
What is called.
Oh, Guardian Angels.
Guardian angels. That guy isrunning as one. But he is not Trump's
favorite. He had this Comotype that is moving out, I think.
And then it's veryinteresting. And then I was thinking
(11:35):
is it true that every, youknow, mayor in New York have, have
some kind of scandal? So Ihave to do some research of that.
If because if you think about it.
That wouldn't surprise me.Yeah. With that said, I'm very close
to that city.
Yes.
I'm very close to that city.But I pay hard hardly any attention
(11:56):
to it. Yeah. I have other. Ihave problems of my own. Yes. But
nonetheless. But anyway, sothe buffet includes the mention of
Robert Bakley's book andRobert Tracynski's book. And then
I came upon. I love thiswebsite, human progress.org.
(12:16):
Yeah. Is it run by now Iinterrupt you but is it run by Cato
or is it independent from thator is it. I believe they are independent
talking about libertarianism.But maybe they have changed a bit
or developed or they are notso much into party politics in that
way.
I don't like. I think they'rejust basically they do they, they
(12:40):
scour the intellectual arenaand and world facts to discover ways
of progress and things thathappen that don't get press.
Yeah.
And I saw, I wanted to bringthose a couple of those things up
today.
These two.
But now that you mention it,an economic academic economist, Peter.
(13:05):
I'm going to say Botke B O E TT K E maybe.
Yeah.
He has an article on humanprogress.org called How Liberty Made
Progress Possible and I wantto point that out to our listeners
again. We'll have the links inthe show notes.
(13:26):
Great.
And again that's just anenlightening article about how they
go hand in hand and one can'texist without the other. And as,
as Rand made abundantly clearand all of her writings. Ms. Rand.
Yeah.
But what else There could be a.
Future guest of another Human Progress.
(13:49):
I want to get. Yeah. His nameis Marion Tuppy. He runs that human
progress.org I wanted to reachout to him and because they've written
that organization's written atleast three books about progress
and, and then.
You have what's his name?
Jason. Jason Crawford. Alsothe Roots of Progress Institute.
(14:12):
Yeah, that's another greatmention that we should put in the
show notes a link to thatinstitute he's coming out. Well he's
introduced every chapter ofthe book he's been writing so hopefully
the book itself will be out inthe next year. It's, I don't recall
the name of it but it'sobviously it's, I think it's called
(14:33):
the Techno Futurist Manifestoor something to that effect. But
don't take my word for it. Andthat's, that's something to look
forward to as well. But again,as we want to stand against the flowing
(14:56):
tide of tyranny around theworld, I do want to mention this
great website called theUnpopulist. And they have, they are
so the host of Executive Watchrun by Robert Tracynski where he
documents the abuses of theTrump administration. But they also
(15:17):
have what's called, let mebring it up here, the Institute for
the Study of modernauthoritarianism. Isma and that's
isma global.org if people wantto check them out and they should
donate to that worthyorganization. And let's see. But
(15:42):
again the Unpopulist, let meget to their website and rid off
some of their titles of their,some of their most recent. There's
a debate between. Hasliberalism's very success in delivering
human flourishing doomed itquestion mark? Stephen Pinker is
(16:05):
involved in a debate with someother gentlemen and that's a link
on the unpopulous web pagewhich is the unpopulous dot net and
but they are a flourishingorganization. Hopefully that will
is a figure in the dyke, so tospeak. And what else do I got here?
(16:27):
Oh, oh, and to round it allup, I do want to mention because
of the riot, because of theoverwhelming. I want to be courteous
but also a bit scathing theblind worship of and I, I did, I
(16:55):
don't have anything againstthis the young man, but they've overdone
what happened to him. In mypersonal opinion. I'm talking about
Charlie Kirk and Martin. Ifyou think that's too explosive, you
can feel free to delete it.
(17:16):
But I think we have freedom ofexpression here.
So it's a tragedy in horrorwhat happened to him. It's a disgrace.
But it's, it's Become amartyrdom or cult.
Martyrdom. That's. That's agood word. Yes. It's overdone and
by the right. And they'reexploiting it far beyond anything.
(17:38):
Anything of dignity.
And the whole thing, how thishappened, I don't want to be in a
conspiracy theory, butsomething is. Something is strange
with the whole thing, becausehe was. And that was a good aspect
of it. He was taking debatesand discussions.
Right. Which is the proper wayto do anything.
(17:59):
Yes. And people knew that. Soit's lots of interesting. Maybe that's
not the right word, but, youknow, strange things in the whole
thing that happened and alsoafter now the fact and how they are
using it politically, both forand against.
(18:24):
It also reveals the sick,twisted subjects.
Yeah.
That are taught inuniversities that allow particularly
disturbed people to takeaction that crosses the norm, so
(18:46):
to speak.
Yeah.
Anyhow, let's go back tobetter things. Yes. The last link
I have in my buffet is toround all this up is I have a link
to Ayn Rand's unforgettablelecture, Faith and force, the destroyers
of the modern world. Iencourage everyone within the sound
(19:10):
of our voices to not only readit, but study it sentence by sentence
and challenge your ownconclusions, come what may.
Yep.
But otherwise, we're here in October.
Yeah.
(19:30):
Gorgeous weather here innortheastern United States. Yes.
Is it Indian summer?
Almost. Yeah. I mean, it'sstill in. It's. It's in the 50s at
night and today it was onlylike 65. So that's. For me, I'm.
It's perfect football weather.I love Americans. I love American.
Yes. American football orsoccer. And then you have to learn,
(19:53):
you know, the Celsius system.Also. I never learned Fahrenheit.
Ah. Okay. So I think 65 mightbe 30.
Are you sure we will includethe translation.
Yes, that's right. You can dothat, too. But I do want to. Let
me think here.
Yes.
In the show and before we wenton air, you mentioned. Oh, I also.
(20:17):
I want to tip the hat to apersonal hero of mine, Dr. Leonard
Peacock, who celebrated his92nd birthday.
Yeah.
Again, A couple of days ago.Cheerio, sir.
Yes.
May you live another 25 years.
Yeah.
In good health.
Yes.
Both mental and physical. Andwe talked about Carl Barney. So.
(20:41):
Yeah.
Put his website out there,too. It's carlbarney.com.
Yeah. Because he has publisheda book also recently.
Right. Yeah. His book is theHappiness Experiment, and his latest
article is called the Mistakeof, quote, finding your purpose in
life, unquote. So that's. Ihaven't read that, but I'm going
(21:01):
to read that here after wehang up.
Good.
But otherwise, those are thenotes I have for today's show and
I want to wish everyone agreat, great day. And we should hopefully.
I haven't gotten any guestslately, but I'm planning on a big
(21:22):
show in early December. Yeah.But so Martin and I will probably
do another show or two before then.
Yep.
And that's, that's all I've got.
That's great, Blair. It was atasty and nutritious and informative
buffet. And again with a hattip to Amy Pico for the news sandwich
(21:48):
segment.
That's right, the idea beginwith the.
Idea come up when we do that.So I will say this call to action,
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(22:35):
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(22:57):
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Oh yes, yes.
Maybe we should look a bitinto that also.
Although we have we haven'tpurchased any lately. We we some
(23:22):
we steadily buy gold andsilver coins. Yeah. Although gold
coins in the very small butsilver you can get still relatively
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And maybe that will be thetime to start bartering with that
(23:44):
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True, true. Yes.
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(24:29):
That's right. Yeah.
Great.
Well, you're welcome, Martin.And thank you. And. All right, folks,
enjoy the show. Let us knowand we'll be back.
Yes. Bye. Bye. Bye for now.
Foreign.
Good afternoon. Good evening,ladies and gentlemen. Martin and
I are sitting together in thesecular foxhole today. It's just
us. Yes. And we're gonna do.We normally have a new sandwich,
(00:20):
but I am gonna call it today abuffet. I have several interesting
articles and websites that ourlisteners should investigate for
their own intellectual nourishment.
Yes, yes. Eat as much as youwant for how and what's the price?
We talked about that in thegreen room. This show is so called
(00:42):
free. But there are, as weknow, there ain't no such thing as
a free lunch. Right. But youcould listen to this and if you value
this, you could. Yeah. Youcould pay in one way or another.
That's right. Well, we, wewill. Especially our website on Captivate.
(01:03):
Yes, it does. It does have adonation page and if you would kindly
check that out and then sendus a few dollars, that'd be great.
Very, very much appreciated. Yes.
And we have had some, yes.Generous donations from guests and
from others and listeners. Sowe appreciate that very much.
Absolutely.
(01:24):
Yeah. And I will talk at theend. Also, these new modern podcast
applications, what you coulddo also. So you have now the buffet
here with some interestingsandwiches and others first.
I want to commemorateotherwise a few days ago, I want
to commemorate Columbus Dayhere in the United States.
Yes.
It is not Indigenous PeoplesDay. It is Columbus Day and I just
(01:49):
discovered.
Chili pepper. I think.
No, no, this is somethingcompletely different. In the certain
section of the city I live in,there is a Christopher Columbus statue.
And I want to go by there andphotograph that because it's a very
majestic looking statue andhappily it has never been defamed
(02:14):
or toppled.
And so do they have one inColumbus, Ohio also?
I would assume they do. Butyou know, I, I, although I've been
to Columbus, I, I never was, Iwas way much younger than I am now
and I don't, I wasn'tinterested in those things back then.
(02:35):
But today, here, locally, wedo have a wonderful Christopher Columbus
statue.
Yeah. And we will then alsothat could be a booktip also Columbus.
That's one of the books by an objectivist.
That's sure. Tom Bowden wrotethe Enemies of Christopher Columbus
or something to that effect.And he defended obviously Christopher
(03:00):
Columbus. And so we highlyrecommend that. Well, I didn't get
the link to that, but maybe.
Yeah, I'm finding. Yep.
And then speaking of books, Ido want to mention two recent books
by two authors that we havehad on the show recently. The first
one I want to talk about isour friend Robert Begley. His book
(03:23):
Voices of Reason, where hediscusses the proper way to advocate
your ideas using Aristotle'sPrinciples of Rhetoric. And that's.
So that's an excellent book tolook for. And I, I do have a link
(03:45):
for that. And then prior tothat we had Robert Tracinski on and
his recent release calledDictatorship From Day One. How, how
Donald Trump has. I don'tremember the actual subtitle, but
how he's shredded theConstitution. In other words.
(04:05):
Could, could you explain alittle bit? Because I haven't followed
that because here in Sweden wehave a king. The good thing is that
it's more like a figurehead.You could say he doesn't really have
a real power, but still, asme, as a Republican, like for a constitutional
republic, not a royalist. It'sa bit, it's not the biggest, you
(04:28):
know, topic, but it's aRepublican association. You could
say it here in Sweden tryingto push talking about this, but it's
so ingrained, I think. But,and it's interesting if you look
at the history about kings andqueens and, and whatnot, but in America
(04:52):
hasn't have that. But now theyare talking in the streets about
no kings. What's that?
Well, it is, I'm not sure ifit's a. Organized by a particular
political party, but it issomething that is occurred fairly
spontaneously across thecountry about protesting Donald Trump's
(05:15):
incursions into, likebringing, bringing the military into
cities, which is profoundlyunconstitutional and immoral in my
personal opinion. And so,yeah, he is overstepping his boundaries
(05:37):
in many, many ways, whichfurther on here in a few minutes,
I will point to a websitecalled Executive Watch, which documents
these abuse abuses run byRobert Tracynski, who just published
this book, Dictatorship fromDay One. Dictator From Day One, about
(05:58):
Donald Trump and what else.But it's these again, people are
protesting him being taking,you know, just ignoring constitutional
norms and so on and so forthand bypassing. And of course, he's
got all the help of the worldbecause Congress is. They're a bunch
(06:21):
of lame, valueless,intellectually void robots. And so,
yeah, he's got free reignright now.
So how could that be in thefuture? We don't talk so much about
(06:42):
local politics, but is that anidea to try to get some alternatives
in future?
Well, certainly most movementshave to start at the local level.
I mean, you have to. I wasreading the other day and I want
to reread this certain sectionof George Reisman's book on capitalism
(07:06):
where he discussedspecifically a chapter toward a laissez
Faire capitalist society. Andhe mentions how to go about re establishing
or establishing a totally freesociety. But it's starting at the
local level.
That's interesting.
(07:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wish Icould reach out to him. I'm pretty
sure he's an advanced age andI know he's retired from.
I think I see the site isstill up and running so.
Oh yeah, I think somebody'staking care of that for him if not
himself. But.
But maybe we'll come come backto that. I have been pretty critical
(07:51):
myself with. So we know about.And we're not spoiling anything but
we talk about Atlantis andthis secret place. But there have
been some so called projectsthere called Atlantis and it have
been oil platforms, it havebeen seasteading. It has been between
(08:14):
countries like one calledLieberland for example. And some
of them are leaninglibertarian and some are maybe, you
know, anarchic.
Yeah, yeah.
And so on.
But libertarian anarchy, same thing.
So yeah, but the thing is whenwe talk about that and how you constitute
(08:38):
a country or a sovereignstate, it's interesting how you could
do it in a local way. And. Andalso so this is pretty interesting
how this play play out. We hadan interesting way. It's. It was
not political in that way. Butwe had one episode that was so fascinating,
you know, substance, how youcould be underground.
(08:59):
Yes, I know that. That wasgreat with. Yeah. Gentleman last
name Niles. Yes. And one moreCourthart. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those
guys were great. And Iremember it was our 50th episode.
Ground baking. Ground bakingepisode is a pun in pun intended.
(09:22):
Intended.
Yes.
Because we are really over theground now because now we have done
100 plus.
That's right.
But it's good to hear. And Ithink that also when we have been
talking with people fromdifferent Pain and Thomas Paine Institute
new and old about that it'simportant to look at the history
(09:47):
and see learn from the historyand not so it will not end up like,
you know, the FrenchRevolution ended up taking away kings
but in a bloody way, in aviolent way and then ended up in
tyranny. And here in Europe wehave. You have a suit in a slow way
(10:08):
tyranny. And now you see thatin America.
Yes, I know.
And I have always been thoughtthat this system that you have this
balanced system. So maybe weshould have an expert on that field
and say how dangerous is this?Or is it still fact and check and
(10:29):
balances or where are weheaded and what could you do? And
Traczynski has plenty of ideasof that in the book and also as you
said on the site and also it'sreally interesting to document it
because nowadays I think thegeneral person is so how to say it
(10:51):
flashes on the news and thenit's gone, right?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then it's voting day. Andyou know, have you followed that
the mayor race, who the mayor raised.
About this New York City'smayor race?
Yeah. New York City, they haveone with this, what is called coming
(11:11):
from this. How do you say thatprotected civilians with these angels.
What is called.
Oh, Guardian Angels.
Guardian angels. That guy isrunning as one. But he is not Trump's
favorite. He had this Comotype that is moving out, I think.
And then it's veryinteresting. And then I was thinking
(11:35):
is it true that every, youknow, mayor in New York have, have
some kind of scandal? So Ihave to do some research of that.
If because if you think about it.
That wouldn't surprise me.Yeah. With that said, I'm very close
to that city.
Yes.
I'm very close to that city.But I pay hard hardly any attention
(11:56):
to it. Yeah. I have other. Ihave problems of my own. Yes. But
nonetheless. But anyway, sothe buffet includes the mention of
Robert Bakley's book andRobert Tracynski's book. And then
I came upon. I love thiswebsite, human progress.org.
(12:16):
Yeah. Is it run by now Iinterrupt you but is it run by Cato
or is it independent from thator is it. I believe they are independent
talking about libertarianism.But maybe they have changed a bit
or developed or they are notso much into party politics in that
way.
I don't like. I think they'rejust basically they do they, they
(12:40):
scour the intellectual arenaand and world facts to discover ways
of progress and things thathappen that don't get press.
Yeah.
And I saw, I wanted to bringthose a couple of those things up
today.
These two.
But now that you mention it,an economic academic economist, Peter.
(13:05):
I'm going to say Botke B O E TT K E maybe.
Yeah.
He has an article on humanprogress.org called How Liberty Made
Progress Possible and I wantto point that out to our listeners
again. We'll have the links inthe show notes.
(13:26):
Great.
And again that's just anenlightening article about how they
go hand in hand and one can'texist without the other. And as,
as Rand made abundantly clearand all of her writings. Ms. Rand.
Yeah.
But what else There could be a.
Future guest of another Human Progress.
(13:49):
I want to get. Yeah. His nameis Marion Tuppy. He runs that human
progress.org I wanted to reachout to him and because they've written
that organization's written atleast three books about progress
and, and then.
You have what's his name?
Jason. Jason Crawford. Alsothe Roots of Progress Institute.
(14:12):
Yeah, that's another greatmention that we should put in the
show notes a link to thatinstitute he's coming out. Well he's
introduced every chapter ofthe book he's been writing so hopefully
the book itself will be out inthe next year. It's, I don't recall
the name of it but it'sobviously it's, I think it's called
(14:33):
the Techno Futurist Manifestoor something to that effect. But
don't take my word for it. Andthat's, that's something to look
forward to as well. But again,as we want to stand against the flowing
(14:56):
tide of tyranny around theworld, I do want to mention this
great website called theUnpopulist. And they have, they are
so the host of Executive Watchrun by Robert Tracynski where he
documents the abuses of theTrump administration. But they also
(15:17):
have what's called, let mebring it up here, the Institute for
the Study of modernauthoritarianism. Isma and that's
isma global.org if people wantto check them out and they should
donate to that worthyorganization. And let's see. But
(15:42):
again the Unpopulist, let meget to their website and rid off
some of their titles of their,some of their most recent. There's
a debate between. Hasliberalism's very success in delivering
human flourishing doomed itquestion mark? Stephen Pinker is
(16:05):
involved in a debate with someother gentlemen and that's a link
on the unpopulous web pagewhich is the unpopulous dot net and
but they are a flourishingorganization. Hopefully that will
is a figure in the dyke, so tospeak. And what else do I got here?
(16:27):
Oh, oh, and to round it allup, I do want to mention because
of the riot, because of theoverwhelming. I want to be courteous
but also a bit scathing theblind worship of and I, I did, I
(16:55):
don't have anything againstthis the young man, but they've overdone
what happened to him. In mypersonal opinion. I'm talking about
Charlie Kirk and Martin. Ifyou think that's too explosive, you
can feel free to delete it.
(17:16):
But I think we have freedom ofexpression here.
So it's a tragedy in horrorwhat happened to him. It's a disgrace.
But it's, it's Become amartyrdom or cult.
Martyrdom. That's. That's agood word. Yes. It's overdone and
by the right. And they'reexploiting it far beyond anything.
(17:38):
Anything of dignity.
And the whole thing, how thishappened, I don't want to be in a
conspiracy theory, butsomething is. Something is strange
with the whole thing, becausehe was. And that was a good aspect
of it. He was taking debatesand discussions.
Right. Which is the proper wayto do anything.
(17:59):
Yes. And people knew that. Soit's lots of interesting. Maybe that's
not the right word, but, youknow, strange things in the whole
thing that happened and alsoafter now the fact and how they are
using it politically, both forand against.
(18:24):
It also reveals the sick,twisted subjects.
Yeah.
That are taught inuniversities that allow particularly
disturbed people to takeaction that crosses the norm, so
(18:46):
to speak.
Yeah.
Anyhow, let's go back tobetter things. Yes. The last link
I have in my buffet is toround all this up is I have a link
to Ayn Rand's unforgettablelecture, Faith and force, the destroyers
of the modern world. Iencourage everyone within the sound
(19:10):
of our voices to not only readit, but study it sentence by sentence
and challenge your ownconclusions, come what may.
Yep.
But otherwise, we're here in October.
Yeah.
(19:30):
Gorgeous weather here innortheastern United States. Yes.
Is it Indian summer?
Almost. Yeah. I mean, it'sstill in. It's. It's in the 50s at
night and today it was onlylike 65. So that's. For me, I'm.
It's perfect football weather.I love Americans. I love American.
Yes. American football orsoccer. And then you have to learn,
(19:53):
you know, the Celsius system.Also. I never learned Fahrenheit.
Ah. Okay. So I think 65 mightbe 30.
Are you sure we will includethe translation.
Yes, that's right. You can dothat, too. But I do want to. Let
me think here.
Yes.
In the show and before we wenton air, you mentioned. Oh, I also.
(20:17):
I want to tip the hat to apersonal hero of mine, Dr. Leonard
Peacock, who celebrated his92nd birthday.
Yeah.
Again, A couple of days ago.Cheerio, sir.
Yes.
May you live another 25 years.
Yeah.
In good health.
Yes.
Both mental and physical. Andwe talked about Carl Barney. So.
(20:41):
Yeah.
Put his website out there,too. It's carlbarney.com.
Yeah. Because he has publisheda book also recently.
Right. Yeah. His book is theHappiness Experiment, and his latest
article is called the Mistakeof, quote, finding your purpose in
life, unquote. So that's. Ihaven't read that, but I'm going
(21:01):
to read that here after wehang up.
Good.
But otherwise, those are thenotes I have for today's show and
I want to wish everyone agreat, great day. And we should hopefully.
I haven't gotten any guestslately, but I'm planning on a big
(21:22):
show in early December. Yeah.But so Martin and I will probably
do another show or two before then.
Yep.
And that's, that's all I've got.
That's great, Blair. It was atasty and nutritious and informative
buffet. And again with a hattip to Amy Pico for the news sandwich
(21:48):
segment.
That's right, the idea beginwith the.
Idea come up when we do that.So I will say this call to action,
go to TrueFans FM and registerfor free and then adding add us the
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(22:13):
super comments and be activein that way and give back in a non
sacrificial way. So we'll talkmore about that because that's something
that religious are good at.They are. You know, after the sermon
they are coming up with thisdonation thing and it's time treasure
(22:35):
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we want to continue and it'svery to get like constructive feedback
to get thumbs up to send adonation. As you said, this Captivate
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(22:57):
Have you followed this inpodcasting 2.0 podcast, the latest
episode they talked about thegold price and the silver price and
so on. Things are happening there.
Oh yes, yes.
Maybe we should look a bitinto that also.
Although we have we haven'tpurchased any lately. We we some
(23:22):
we steadily buy gold andsilver coins. Yeah. Although gold
coins in the very small butsilver you can get still relatively
inexpensively. So we have alot of 0.999 silver bars and so on
in silver and good for you.
And maybe that will be thetime to start bartering with that
(23:44):
and you know, using that indifferent ways and I think that's
interesting and important to understand.
True, true. Yes.
So we will talk about that.And again that's the call to action
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super comments. And yeah, keepin, keep in touch. We will talk more
about that how to do with thisshow notes and links and how we could
continue the conversationalso. So with that, Blair, I say
thank you very much and wewill talk soon again.
(24:29):
That's right. Yeah.
Great.
Well, you're welcome, Martin.And thank you. And. All right, folks,
enjoy the show. Let us knowand we'll be back.
Yes. Bye. Bye. Bye for now.
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