Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 390 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following entries to r/shitstatistssay: RustNeverSleeps77 writes, "Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot at them, and they returned fire. It was reasonable self-defense..." (Full thread here.); Foucelhas writes, "Modern capitalism would not exist without slavery and genocide."; DoverBoys writes, "You're supposed to pay taxes. You're not 'smart' to get away with paying little, you're just cheating the system. A real supporter of their country would pay taxes. That's what makes countries work."; Aditya writes, "We as a society can’t live in a vaccum and isolated from each other (unless you are a part of some tribe living in Andaman or Amazon). Some things are best provided collectively, for they are cheaper and efficient that way."

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Self-Defense, Modern Capitalism, Tax Cheating, & Bait and Switch (32m) – Episode 390

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 389 welcomes back Chris Jenkins to chat with Skyler on the following topics: their wives' 19th century lives before emigrating to the United States; machismo in Latin America; cloud gaming; science as religion; Mormonism, truth, and Joseph Smith; losing family members; euthanasia and the elderly; scientism and critical race theory; listening to podcasts all day long; and more.

Chris J. Returns, Cloud Gaming, Losing Family & Scientism (58m) – Episode 389

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 388 has Skyler giving his commentary on a quote by Robert Higgs on the fakery, fraud, and force of politics; by Ron Paul on freedom and responsibility, and another on the intolerance of authoritarians; and by Jeremy Locke on the difference between principle and law.

Liberty Quotes: Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jeremy Locke (32m) – Episode 388

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 387 welcomes back Mish Ochu to chat with Skyler on the following topics: Nelson Nash's Infinite Banking concept; Lara/Murphy Report; Biden's body language; police interrogation; Mish's need for speed during his more reckless years; why kids need to take risks; the causes of political extremism; when individualism goes to far; Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead; lies in modern life about people; the left verse the right on how they protest; distributed gun manufacturing and Cody Wilson; Ross Ulbritch and online drug markets; political blunders and adverse incentives; and more.

Mish O. Returns, Infinite Banking, Need for Speed, & Damned Lies (1h17m) – Episode 387

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 386 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following news stories: from USA Today, "'Vigorous' self-defense laws likely prevented homicide charges in Breonna Taylor's death, experts say" (Wikipedia entry on Breonna Taylor's death, Reason's coverage); from Wave3 News, "Jon Mattingly: Officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting sends candid email to LMPD colleagues"; from NBC New York, "DOJ Designates New York City as an ‘Anarchist Jurisdiction'"; from Alarabiya, "Turkey sentences female politician to prison for calling Erdogan ‘enemy of women’"; and from Next City, "Atlanta’s Trying to Support, Not Punish, Its Teenage Water Vendors" (Full council report).

Breonna Taylor’s Killers, Anarchist Jurisdictions, & Turkey’s Speech Prisons (39m) – Episode 386

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 385 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following aphorisms written by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski: "A fool believes that the market makes profits corrupting. A person of reason knows that it makes corruption unprofitable."; "A democratic state is a device for feeding off society by pitting it against itself."; "A fool finds intolerable the inequality of wealth between the capitalist and the laborer. A person of reason finds intolerable the inequality of rights between the state and the individual."; "Happiness is the ability to stay intrinsically motivated to exist."; "Aesthetic maturity is the ability to deliberately ignore the fashionable without turning it into a fashion statement."; "A successful prediction is a mental journey to the least impossible of the future worlds."

Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty, Part Six (25m) – Episode 385

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 384 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and nominating new Supreme Court justices in an election year; Biden and presidential debates; origins of political party colors red and blue; meeting Harry Browne; The Law That Never Was by Bill Benson and the 16th Amendment (income taxation); Cracking the Code by Peter Hendrickson; Irwin Schiff and income taxation fraudulence by the US Federal Government; the difference between libertarians and modern conservatives / modern liberals; government interference in market relationships; nonvoting and culpability for bad politicians; private censorship and when it becomes aggressive; historical capitalism verse free markets; intellectual property disagreements; and more.

ARK3 Returns, Income Tax Fraud, Libertarians, & Intellectual Property (1h4m) – Episode 384

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 383 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following questions from Quora: "Why don't children have any freedom beyond what their parents give them?"; "Why does choosing not to have children still make so many people argue?"; "What characteristics make a bad father?"; and "What is that one piece of advice that you would surely give your child?"

Childhood Freedom, Not Having Children, Bad Fathers, & Advice to My Children (33m) – Episode 383

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 382 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: an article he wrote in August 2011 titled, "The By-product of Freedom"; and an article he wrote in June 2018 titled, "Let This Promise in Me Start, Like an Anthem in My Heart".

By-Product of Freedom & Let This Promise in Me Start! (21m) – Episode 382

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 381 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following news stories: the passing of US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and where they agree and disagree on issues; a serial batterer/rapist gynecologist in Georgia stealing women's uteruses; the island nation-state of Barbados removing Queen Elizabeth as their Head of State; and Amazonian tribe, the Waorani, win their lawsuit to protect half a million acres of indigenous land from private oil interests.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Uterus Collector, Barbados, & Amazonian Waorani Tribe (40m) – Episode 381

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 380 has Skyler giving his commentary on Art Carden's latest essay at AIER.org titled, "So You Want to Overthrow the State: Ten Questions for Aspiring Revolutionaries". The questions include, "Do I have the facts straight?", "What makes me so sure I won’t replace the existing regime with something far worse?", and "What will I do with people who aren’t willing to go along with my revolution?"

Art Carden’s “Ten Questions for Aspiring Revolutionaries” (37m) – Episode 380

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 379 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: his superhuman ability to not savagely rape the attractive women he encounters while delivering food; how every businesses and economic regulation by government is just a form of protectionism on behalf of some special interest; why democide and genocide doesn't justify the few and far between government innovations that have benefited humanity; the missing incentives and market pressures of lowering prices and increasing quality from industries that are more or less monopolized by a single provider, including government; and more.

Food Delivery Rape, Protectionism, Government Murder, & Monopoly (28m) – Episode 379

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 378 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics from r/blackpeopletwitter and r/whitepeopletwitter: America adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic instead of behaving autocratically and "eliminating" it completely; AIER.org article on Federal Court ruling pandemic orders unconstitutional; soldiers having better rules of engagement than American police officers; assumptions about booing at the Kansas City Chiefs home opening and the politicization of sports; realizing the school is about control and punishment instead of education; and the novel idea that one of the presidential debates should be a round of Jeopardy with relevant answer topics.

Killing COVID-19, Rules of Engagement, Politicized Sports, Zoom School, & Jeopardy (33m) – Episode 378

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 377 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following news stories: from CNN, "19 families buy nearly 97 acres of land in Georgia to create a city safe for Black people"; from CBS News, "Texas police group puts up billboard warning "enter at your own risk," saying Austin defunded police"; from the ABC (Australia), "Queensland passes law to jail priests for not reporting confessions of child sexual abuse"; and from 4WWL, "Indianapolis boy cured of sickle cell disease after stem cell transplant".

Black Cooperative City, Texas Cop Assoc. Billboards, Jailing Priests, & Sickle Cell Cured (36m) – Episode 377

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 376 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following entries to r/unpopularopinion: Omnitree7 writes, "I really hate the term Latinx"; Zaroo77 writes, "People need to stop expecting others to care about everything"; caboose365 writes, "Brides & expecting mothers are given a pass by society to be terrible people and it needs to stop."; Raspberry-Rare writes, "We should stop telling children 'They can be whatever they want to be.' They can't."; PianoMan1925 writes, "If you say things like 'fuck the government, fuck the system' but do absolutely nothing to try to change it, including not exercising your right to vote you are complicit in said system being awful"; edgyusername123 writes, "Beauty pageants should be illegal for anyone under 16. Maybe 18 even."; and billyoceanfan writes, "Employers need to stop requiring college degrees for jobs that don’t need it".

Latinx, Caring, Bridezillas, Awfulness Complicity, & College Degrees (33m) – Episode 376

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