This week’s podcast is up:
It is available on Bitchute and Brighteon (though at time of publication, the video was still “processing” on both sites) as well as YouTube:
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Odd how I don’t promote my own podcast. I never put this up, for example:
It is an expansion of a blog post here.
It is basically a rant on risk in a free society, in the context of the pandemic. This is still relevant.
The podcast is available on Apple, Google, Pocket Cast, Spotify and SoundCloud — click to LocoFoco.net. And it is available on YouTube as a Keynote presentation:
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The 18th episode of the LocoFoco Netcast is up on LocoFoco.net and is crawling out to podcatchers:
It is also up in video form on Brighteon and on BitChute. Check them out!
For this episode of the LocoFoco Netcast, co-hosts Timo Virkkala and Lee Waaks query Rocco Lucente and Olof Af Yggdrasil about the nature of the pandemic and its panicky, political reactions.
The podcast, as always, can be found on LocoFoco.net, and with podcatchers such as Apple’s and Google’s, and Pocket Cast and Spotify.
Well, who better to ask than Michael Rectenwald?
So that is just what Lee Waaks and I did in our 14th episode of the LocoFoco Netcast.
Professor Rectenwald was the “Deplorable NYU Prof” who made such a flash a few years ago when he took on the far left political correctness on his campus.
Now he has a new book, Beyond Woke, and a novel in prep, The Virus. From which he reads.
I had a nice long Skype chat with Stephan Kinsella yesterday, and it got me thinking about what my political philosophy means.
It is not my religion.
I don’t get my meaning of life from it — though my sense of life does indeed show through it.
It does not substitute for a personal philosophy, or ethics.
It is not my prophecy for the future, as it may have been for Herbert Spencer and Gustave de Molinari.
This is what I think it is: it is my best advice for reducing conflict, and it is my preferred terms for human interaction.
That latter is pretty important. So, it is signaling. My libertarian ideas send a signal. The signal is TIT for TAT: if you play nice I will; if you play nasty, I may bite.
That conversation with Mr. Kinsella is up on YouTube as well as in podcast (Apple, Google, Spotify, SoundCloud) form:
A Threat to Civilization?
Now up on YouTube, the twelfth episode of my podcast:
It is also available as a podcast on Apple, Google, and Spotify, and other podcatchers, as well as at LocoFoco.net:
The third episode of my new podcast will go up on Monday. Until then, here is a preview:
Disease. Despair. Distraction.
That about sums up the reasons why it took me so long to publish my own podcast. I’ve been sick this winter; not everything is hunky dory in Virkkalavia, and I am not emotionally unaffected; and I’ve been reading and working and even watching stuff on the big screen.
But I’ve postponed podcasting too long. So last night I didn’t go to sleep. Instead, I published two podcast episodes in the form of video on YouTube and audio on SoundCloud.
It’s called the “LocoFoco Netcast.” Why? Well, I’ve been referencing my politics to those of the 19th century LocoFocos for a long, long time. And why “Netcast” instead of “podcast”? Well, the way to get to the audio on SoundCloud is to put the simple URL locofoco.net into your browser. Bang. You’re there. Calling it “Netcast” reminds listeners that it can be found at LocoFoco.net.
The first episode starts with me going solo, but clipping a segment from MSNBC and another from Stefan Molyneux. That’s not very long, but I make a point that is not made elsewhere, from what I can tell. Call it a plea for “lateral thinking,” though I did not use the term in my short talk. That is, in the podcast. The rest of the episode is long conversation between James Littleton Gill and me about economist Tyler Cowen’s “State Capacity Libertarianism.” Check it out:
What’s with the title? Well, if you are curious, you know where to click.
The second episode consists entirely of an interview with the great writer David Ramsay Steele. Lee C. Waaks takes command of the interview, here, though Mr. Steele doesn’t need much prompting or managing. He is excellent as always. Our conversation is about fascism and its meaning, history, and lingering influence — that is, the subject of the lead essay of his new book:
As much work as I put into these videos, I think I prefer the audio versions that you can find on SoundCloud. Please click in and listen — and subscribe, and comment. On SoundCloud you can place your comments at precise points in the audio presentations, which is really an attractive feature, if you ask me.
Find the SoundCloud account by going to locofoco.net.
By the end of the week the podcasts should be available upon multiple podcast distributors, such as iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play. I will keep readers posted.
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