Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - The Great A.M.A.
Aired: 2020-03-26
Duration: 52:04


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=== Inner Circle Mutual Aid Idea (12:35) ===

[00:01:29]  We need to roll back the state.
[00:01:31]  We spy on all of our own citizens.
[00:01:33]  Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders.
[00:01:36]  If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now.
[00:01:42]  Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
[00:01:47]  You're listening to part of the problem on the Gas Digital Network.
[00:01:51]  Here's your host, Dave Smith.
[00:01:54]  Hey, what's up, guys?
[00:01:55]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
[00:01:59]  I'm Dave Smith, of course, still in self-distancing, quarantined mode.
[00:02:07]  I hope very much that everybody out there is doing good.
[00:02:11]  I hope that you guys are staying healthy and hopefully healthy both physically and economically and in every other sense.
[00:02:20]  I know this is a tough time for a lot of people out there, so I've been thinking a lot about that lately.
[00:02:26]  Hey, here's an idea that I was thinking because somebody posted something along these lines in the part of the problem inner circle.
[00:02:34]  But, you know, so I was talking to my wife the other day about like maybe what we could donate a little bit of money to, or maybe if there was somebody who, you know, like, I don't know, you know, in times like this, obviously there's a lot of people who are hurting.
[00:02:48]  And then somebody had posted something in the inner circle along the lines of like, is anybody here really up against it financially?
[00:02:55]  And I thought there was something really cool about that.
[00:02:58]  So maybe if we, one of the things we could do that I thought would be kind of like a nice idea that would be that would be really great is if maybe there were some people in our private Facebook group or even outside of it, just people who listen to the show, if you are like in a real tough time for a lot of people who are out of work and don't have savings to rely on and some people are more screwed over by this situation than others, if you start GoFundMe or something like that, we can share it around.
[00:03:27]  And maybe that would be kind of cool if some of the, you know, some of the people listening to the show who are in a little bit more of a secure place than others could help out some of the people who are in a bad situation.
[00:03:38]  I'd certainly be happy to help out a little bit.
[00:03:41]  And yeah, maybe we could get some voluntary socialism going within our hardcore free market crowd.
[00:03:49]  Anyway, that was just a thought I had based off what somebody else posted.
[00:03:52]  And I thought that would be neat.
[00:03:54]  So maybe we could try to do that.
[00:03:56]  I'll certainly be happy to like share any of those around and stuff like that.
[00:04:00]  So whatever I can do to help, let me know.
[00:04:04]  So I put out an episode that was released today with the great Scott Horton.
[00:04:13]  And we talked for about two hours.
[00:04:15]  And Scott, of course, as usual, he's great on everything.
[00:04:20]  And so that episode came out.
[00:04:24]  I'm going to be recording with the great Tom Woods later on today.
[00:04:30]  And then I'm going to be recording with the great Gene Epstein tomorrow.
[00:04:34]  I'm trying to line up some other stuff as well.
[00:04:40]  So, you know, I'm trying to at least give you guys a good amount of content while I'm here.
[00:04:46]  Also, I was invited onto Jimmy Doerr's show.
[00:04:51]  So I'm trying to make that happen.
[00:04:53]  He invited me on, and I said I'm happy to do it.
[00:04:55]  So I still haven't heard back from his people, but I think I'll be doing that show coming up sometime in the near future.
[00:05:02]  So look for that as well.
[00:05:04]  I know he wanted to talk to a libertarian about their take on this whole mess.
[00:05:10]  So, you know, I'm glad he's thinking about having me on because I was hoping it wouldn't be somebody else who would just go embarrass all of us.
[00:05:19]  And there's no shortage of that in the libertarian world.
[00:05:22]  So anyway, for today's episode, what I thought, I was asking the part of the problem inner circle members, just other ideas for episodes of what we could do.
[00:05:33]  I mean, I don't want to just keep talking about coronavirus.
[00:05:35]  Obviously, that's the big thing.
[00:05:37]  But I'm going to talk about that with Tom and with Gene Epstein tomorrow.
[00:05:41]  So, you know, I was thinking like, what else could we do?
[00:05:43]  And people were making different suggestions.
[00:05:45]  And one of the suggestions was that I could do like a giant AMA where I answer all of the questions from the inner circle private Facebook group.
[00:05:59]  And I thought that was a cool idea.
[00:06:00]  And maybe we'd try that.
[00:06:01]  So this is going to be the great AMA, the great ask me anything from the part of the problem inner circle, which is our private Facebook group.
[00:06:11]  So I figured I'd start doing that.
[00:06:13]  I'm going to try to take on all of your questions.
[00:06:17]  I won't be able to do that all in one episode, but so I figure we'll just make this like a multi-part episode.
[00:06:22]  You know, I'll do these ever so often or whatever.
[00:06:27]  I don't know.
[00:06:27]  Still kind of figuring it out.
[00:06:28]  But I'll take on a whole bunch of them right now and try to answer them as best I can.
[00:06:33]  And then, of course, on top of all the other interviews, conversations that I'm doing, we'll keep doing those fireside chats with the fire, Robbie Bernstein, the King of the Cawks.
[00:06:46]  I'll keep those going.
[00:06:47]  I like calling them fireside chats.
[00:06:50]  Maybe I'll do that.
[00:06:50]  But I'll keep calling checking in with Robbie from time to time.
[00:06:54]  So, of course, all of you good people can hear from Robbie the Fire Bernstein.
[00:06:58]  Because really, that's what you need in a time like this is more Robbie the Fire.
[00:07:03]  I know that's what I need.
[00:07:04]  All right, so let's jump into it.
[00:07:07]  Here it is.
[00:07:08]  I posted in the Part of the Problem Inner Circle.
[00:07:10]  I'm going to record an AMA show and try to answer all your questions.
[00:07:14]  It'll probably take a few episodes, but here's part one.
[00:07:17]  Hit me with your questions.
[00:07:19]  Let's see what we got.
[00:07:20]  Okay, so Raymond asks, what will you spend your first USA-backed digital dollar on?
[00:07:28]  And I assume you're referring to my Trump books.
[00:07:32]  If I ever end up getting them, I have a feeling I'm not going to end up getting anything just because of the proposals I've seen floated around so far.
[00:07:42]  I'm not sure I would be entitled to anything.
[00:07:46]  But I don't know.
[00:07:48]  I haven't really figured it out yet.
[00:07:50]  If I do end up getting a check from the government, maybe I'll try to put it towards some good cause.
[00:07:56]  I don't know.
[00:07:57]  Maybe try to help out some listeners of the show or something like that.
[00:08:01]  Maybe just donate it to the Mises Institute.
[00:08:03]  I don't know.
[00:08:04]  I got to figure it all out.
[00:08:06]  But I don't know.
[00:08:08]  It's an interesting question.
[00:08:10]  And I don't have a very good answer for you because I haven't gotten anything and I'm not sure yet.
[00:08:14]  By the way, I will, an unrelated thing, let me answer a question that you're not asking because I heard a bunch of people saying, like, what is the correct libertarian thing to do?
[00:08:23]  You know, like this thing, like, well, if you don't really believe in government handouts, should you take it?
[00:08:28]  Are you morally obligated not to take it?
[00:08:31]  And I don't really personally buy into that.
[00:08:36]  I mean, I think that the government robs a lot more from us than they give us.
[00:08:43]  And that's just directly.
[00:08:44]  I mean, not for everybody.
[00:08:45]  Some people are living off the government, but certainly if you're a net taxpayer, I think there is no you should have no moral qualms about getting some of your money back.
[00:08:55]  And then even if you're not a net taxpayer, the truth is the government, you know, the government robs us in 101 different ways.
[00:09:02]  So I just wouldn't, I wouldn't, you know, worry about that.
[00:09:08]  Like if you need the money and you get it, excuse me.
[00:09:12]  Don't worry.
[00:09:13]  It's not Corona.
[00:09:13]  There's just a cat in this house.
[00:09:16]  I've been sneezing and having a runny nose today.
[00:09:18]  So I apologize for that.
[00:09:20]  But yeah, I wouldn't, if you need the money and you get the money, I think there's nothing wrong with taking it.
[00:09:24]  And that's always been my position on any type, you know, Medicare, Social Security, anything like that.
[00:09:31]  Like if the government's going to rob you and you get your hands back on some of that money, I don't think there's any problem with taking it and spending it.
[00:09:38]  All right, let's move to the next question.
[00:09:41]  Drew asks, he says, potential impact of forced closures on violent crimes and other undesirable events.
[00:09:52]  Yeah, that's, well, the potential is certainly there.
[00:09:56]  That's probably, more than anything else, probably the reason why I got my wife and daughter out of New York City.
[00:10:03]  It just didn't seem like that was the best place to be.
[00:10:07]  I'm concerned about that.
[00:10:08]  I mean, we're going to have to see how this whole thing plays out.
[00:10:10]  I don't know for sure that things are going to get bad, but I already saw the other day, actually, my wife showed me it, but there were videos of homeless people getting real rowdy in Brooklyn.
[00:10:24]  And they were kind of like roaming around together, really starting to harass people.
[00:10:29]  And this is only just, you know, a few days into the shutdown.
[00:10:34]  But I'm sure they're not getting as much money as they're used to getting for it because there aren't as many people walking around the streets putting money in their cups and stuff like that.
[00:10:41]  So, yeah, it's these things, you know, society in general is much more fragile than we spend too much time thinking about.
[00:10:52]  And so it absolutely concerns me that if you, you know, something like this could, you could start seeing violence increase.
[00:11:02]  And that's, that threat isn't going to be just during this whole, you know, lockdown.
[00:11:10]  Even after the lockdown ends, I mean, if we are, as I think we're going to be, in a severe recession or maybe even a depression after all of this is done, you know, the big cities may not be the place to be.
[00:11:22]  I mean, it might, you know, I grew up in New York City in the 80s and 90s.
[00:11:26]  And let me tell you, New York City was a different place back then.
[00:11:30]  And, you know, violent crime was just part of the deal.
[00:11:35]  It was part of it.
[00:11:36]  It was like what New York City was known for.
[00:11:38]  So it's, and that all changed, but that doesn't mean it can't go back.
[00:11:42]  So I'm very concerned about that potential.
[00:11:45]  And we'll see.
[00:11:47]  We'll see what happens.
[00:11:49]  All right, Eric asks, if you had the misfortune to be elected to Congress, how would Congressman Dave Smith use the position to further the cause of liberty?
[00:12:03]  Ooh, geez, Eric, why would you do that to me?
[00:12:06]  Why would you even want to do that to me?
[00:12:09]  Well, I don't know, and it's not something I will ever do.
[00:12:14]  But, you know, I mean, I think really the person who laid out the blueprint for that obviously is great Dr. Ron Paul, who was in Congress for quite a while.
[00:12:26]  And I think he basically did the best thing you can.
[00:12:30]  Basically vote no on everything, propose a balanced budget, and if you can get yourself onto a monetary policy committee, just grill the Fed chairman endlessly.
[00:12:42]  So that would probably be my answer to that.
[00:12:45]  But truthfully speaking, you know, even if you just get one, if you get one me in Congress, it's really not going to do that much.
[00:12:54]  So really all it is is a bully pulpit, you know, like any other position.
[00:12:59]  That's, you know, that's all you really have.
[00:13:02]  Maybe you get a slightly, you know, louder, you know, megaphone or whatever.
[00:13:08]  But that's, I guess that would be my answer there.
[00:13:12]  All right.
[00:13:12]  Nader asks, seems untimely, but I've been trying to get in for a while, trying to get it in for a while.
[00:13:20]  Any plans on doing Politicon?
[00:13:24]  No, don't have any plans.
[00:13:26]  Don't have any plans on doing it.
[00:13:27]  I mean, obviously right now, that's not exactly what's on my mind because, you know, because we're in the apocalypse.
[00:13:35]  But, you know, I never had any plans on doing Politicon, but I'd be happy to do it.
[00:13:40]  If somebody, if I was invited by them, I'd go.
[00:13:43]  Why not?
[00:13:45]  You know, I've seen the events and it's, you know, there's kind of like positives and negatives about it, but I'd be lying if I hadn't, when I've watched some of the Politicon, you know, debates and speeches and stuff like that, I've kind of envisioned what I might do if I were there.
[00:13:59]  So yeah, that'd be fun.
[00:14:00]  I'm happy to go, you know, debate people or give speeches or any of that shit.

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[00:14:09]  Yeah, I don't know.
[00:14:12]  Michael asks, which Cuomo brother is your favorite?
[00:14:17]  Oof.
[00:14:19]  That's a real Sophie's choice right there.
[00:14:23]  You know, obviously, you know, Andrew Cuomo, who is the governor of New York, I mean, he is, yeah, no, you know what?
[00:14:32]  I'm almost going to walk that back because really there's nothing, I don't know what's worse, a member of the, just in general, a member of the media or a member of the government.
[00:14:39]  They're all pretty much part of the same swampy creature.
[00:14:45]  Just personally speaking, I find Chris Cuomo at CNN to be more annoying.
[00:14:52]  So I guess I'll say Andrew is my preferred between two people who I'm not a fan of.
[00:14:59]  All right, guys, let's take a quick second.
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[00:16:59]  All right, Mike writes, I'm putting this here to save it for later.
[00:17:04]  And then I added a question.
[00:17:05]  Very good.
[00:17:05]  Good strategy, Mike.

=== Martial Law Speedy Trial Concerns (07:29) ===

[00:17:07]  Okay.
[00:17:08]  He says, I know it's not comedy.
[00:17:10]  I know it's not a comedy podcast, but I'm curious how the New York comedy scene.
[00:17:14]  I'm curious about the New York comedy scene.
[00:17:16]  How hard is it to see comics from Gas and other podcast networks like Compound and Riotcast do some spots?
[00:17:22]  And how tough is getting tickets to a LOS show?
[00:17:25]  Are those things that are touristy or mostly locals?
[00:17:30]  I assume weekdays are the best time since a lot of them have weekend shows in different towns.
[00:17:35]  Yeah, it's not really super hard.
[00:17:38]  I mean, you can call comedy clubs and see what the lineups are.
[00:17:42]  You could call the comedy seller or The Stand or Stand Up New York or any of the other Gotham, any of the other comedy clubs in the city and see who they have there.
[00:17:53]  And they're probably going to have at least some of the comics that you like from those networks.
[00:17:59]  But it's not, there's no weekend versus weekday.
[00:18:03]  I mean, right now, obviously, everything's closed.
[00:18:05]  But weekend versus weekday, weekends are just going to be more packed and stuffed.
[00:18:09]  So it's not, you know, a lot of comics have road gigs on the weekend, but there's still a bunch who are in the city.
[00:18:15]  If it's like one of their off weekends, they're going to be at the clubs doing spots.
[00:18:18]  So no, you go whenever.
[00:18:20]  And it's all, and it's pretty reasonably priced.
[00:18:23]  I mean, you know, it's New York City, so the drinks will be a little expensive and stuff, but it's not too bad.
[00:18:30]  And as far as coming to the LOS show, you know, again, assuming we live through the apocalypse and we come out the other end of this, it's pretty easy.
[00:18:37]  I mean, it always sells out, so you just got to get tickets.
[00:18:40]  The tickets are free, but you just got to get them a little bit early.
[00:18:43]  You can get them on the Stand's website, but it's not too hard.
[00:18:46]  You can get in.
[00:18:46]  Come on out.
[00:18:47]  If we ever get back to real life, come on out.
[00:18:50]  All right.
[00:18:51]  Eric asks, is the government's response to this virus a Christian conservative conspiracy to get people to spend more time with their families and kids away from public schools?
[00:19:03]  Or is it just a fortunate silver lining of a massive government power grab?
[00:19:09]  Well, I think you already know the answer to this question.
[00:19:13]  It is obviously the second.
[00:19:14]  If it was a Christian conservative conspiracy, then obviously I would be in on it.
[00:19:20]  And I would tell all of you good people because I always tell the truth.
[00:19:24]  But no, I don't think that's what we, I don't think that's what we have here.
[00:19:28]  I think it's just a fortunate silver lining.
[00:19:31]  But I must say, I mean, for me personally, that is one of the things that I've kind of loved about this.
[00:19:36]  It's really great to just spend all day every day with my wife and daughter and My mother and father-in-law who are really cool as shit.
[00:19:46]  So, I'm lucky in that sense because it's always like the stereotypical thing that you can't stand your in-laws.
[00:19:53]  So, I'm lucky.
[00:19:55]  They're really cool.
[00:19:56]  But the thing that's bummed me out the most is like the rest of my family.
[00:20:01]  I'm not near my mother and my brother and my sister and my sister's baby, my new nephew.
[00:20:08]  So, that's you know, that part's kind of a bummer.
[00:20:11]  But yeah, no, that is the that is there's definitely a silver lining with a lot of people, you know, spending time with their kids and families away from government schools.
[00:20:20]  No question about that.
[00:20:22]  Um, Steve says, your thoughts on the New York bail reform laws and the effect it has had on increase in crime.
[00:20:33]  Um, you know, I fucking, I only read like, I think I read like two articles about this, um, and it might have even been before it passed.
[00:20:42]  So, I don't, I don't know.
[00:20:43]  You know, I don't know if I'm going to be able to give you a great answer on that, but I will say that the bail system is pretty goddamn fucked up.
[00:20:52]  Like, it's a it's a pretty fucked up system, and um, there's there's no question that it need it's in need of reform.
[00:21:01]  But uh, of course, as is usually the case with these things, when the politicians reform it, they always fuck it up in some uh some crazy way.
[00:21:08]  So, I'm gonna have to come back to that question.
[00:21:11]  I'd have to do a little bit more research about the specifics of what they did in New York.
[00:21:17]  Um, so sorry.
[00:21:20]  Um, Carlos says, in your opinion, how ugly would martial law get in this country?
[00:21:29]  Well, uh, you know, I don't know.
[00:21:30]  I talked about this a little bit with Scott Horton on the episode.
[00:21:34]  That one's up already.
[00:21:35]  So, you know, I'd probably defer to him.
[00:21:37]  Like, he's, he's probably right.
[00:21:40]  I don't really think, I'm not really concerned about like real deal martial law.
[00:21:47]  The military's on everyone's corner waving guns in their face.
[00:21:51]  I mean, I shouldn't say I'm not concerned about it.
[00:21:53]  I am concerned about it.
[00:21:55]  But the odds are that's not what we're going to end up with.
[00:22:00]  But what I'm very, very concerned about is the, you know, the kind of in-between here and full martial law.
[00:22:10]  I mean, you know, we've just accepted now as a reality that if the government says there's an emergency, all of your rights are suspended.
[00:22:22]  Now, that has been accepted in the United States of America in the last couple weeks with virtually no pushback.
[00:22:31]  That's it.
[00:22:32]  You don't have the right to step foot outside your home.
[00:22:35]  You don't have the right to open your business.
[00:22:37]  You don't have the, you know, I mean, like, that is a that's dangerous.
[00:22:42]  And to give politicians that type of power is, you know, that's, that's something that's going to be very, very challenging to wrestle away from them.
[00:22:53]  So I'm very, very concerned about that.
[00:22:57]  It's not just the erosion of our liberties.
[00:23:00]  I mean, I know this stuff's been going on for a long time, but it's the acceptance of just, you know, in people's minds, the acceptance of, well, obviously, if the government tells us it's dangerous, then you don't have any liberty whatsoever.
[00:23:16]  So that is a concern to me.
[00:23:20]  You know, I heard just like one example, and there's a whole bunch of these, but just one example is in New York, they heard someone from Cuomo's office was talking about how they've had to suspend the right to speedy trials in New York.
[00:23:38]  And they're like, look, it's not something we want to do, but the problem is that we're not going to be able to give everybody a speedy trial right now.
[00:23:46]  And we don't want a bunch of people who are guilty of crimes being freed on a technicality.
[00:23:53]  And I get where that sounds almost kind of reasonable to the average person.
[00:24:00]  But that right there, as I'm sure any libertarian can, hears it a little bit different, is just like, oh yeah, we don't believe in liberty.
[00:24:08]  We don't believe in the Bill of Rights.
[00:24:10]  We don't believe in the restrictions on government.
[00:24:14]  All that nice stuff that some fucking, I don't know, someone from the Renaissance age or something like that may have written about how better to see 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be jailed, like all that stuff.

=== Guilty Innocent Legal Dilemma (04:00) ===

[00:24:36]  Yeah, no, we don't really believe in that.
[00:24:38]  Sorry.
[00:24:39]  And this is where it comes down to, like, do you believe in rights or not?
[00:24:43]  If you have the right to a speedy trial, then you have the right to a speedy trial.
[00:24:48]  Fucking period.
[00:24:49]  And if that means that some guilty people get let free, well, okay, fine.
[00:24:53]  But you don't have a right to just detain people indefinitely because you are innocent until proven guilty.
[00:24:58]  So in other words, what you are doing is kidnapping people because that's an innocent person.
[00:25:05]  I'm sorry.
[00:25:05]  That's how I view you.
[00:25:06]  You are innocent until you have had a lawyer and a judge and a jury of your peers.
[00:25:14]  And the jury of your peers has to decide that you're guilty.
[00:25:17]  Until then, you're innocent.
[00:25:18]  But of course, these, you know, these status monsters don't believe any of that shit.
[00:25:23]  All right.
[00:25:27]  Chris says, is this virus being used to crash the economy?
[00:25:33]  You predicted an economic crash before the election.
[00:25:38]  Well, I don't know if I should actually take that credit.
[00:25:41]  I don't know if I actually predicted an economic crash before the election.
[00:25:44]  I said that there was a strong possibility of that.
[00:25:47]  And I think that was true before the Corona.
[00:25:50]  Is it being used intentionally to crash the economy?
[00:25:53]  Who the hell knows?
[00:25:55]  Who the hell knows?
[00:25:56]  You know, maybe.
[00:25:58]  Maybe that's their endgame here.
[00:25:59]  It certainly does seem undeniable that a lot of people are, you know, using this for political purposes.
[00:26:10]  And clearly, everybody who's an enemy of Donald Trump wants to paint this as his fault, you know, and his response to it and stuff like that.
[00:26:20]  So, I don't know.
[00:26:21]  Maybe, maybe that's their goal.
[00:26:23]  All right.
[00:26:24]  Dan says, I'm starting to sound like a broken record now, but please have a gun episode where you speak with someone trying to talk you through your first, through purchasing your first firearm.
[00:26:36]  Also, can we have James Corbett on the show one day?
[00:26:40]  Sure.
[00:26:41]  I would be happy to have James Corbett on the show.
[00:26:44]  I think he's a real interesting guy, real smart guy.
[00:26:48]  And so, sure, I'd be down to have him on.
[00:26:51]  And as far as the gun episode goes, yeah, okay.
[00:26:54]  I'll have some gun expert on the show.
[00:26:56]  I don't know if I ever had a gun expert on the shit.
[00:26:58]  Well, I had Maj.
[00:27:00]  I had Maj on the show, and he runs the Black Guns Matter organization.
[00:27:05]  But yeah, I'd be happy to have another gun expert on the show.
[00:27:07]  Let me know who you think, and I'll look into it.
[00:27:11]  All right.
[00:27:12]  Peter, the great Peter Quinones.
[00:27:16]  He asks, when do people start voting from the rooftops?
[00:27:21]  Not soon enough, Pete.
[00:27:22]  Not soon enough.
[00:27:23]  That will obviously solve all of our problems.
[00:27:26]  So they just, they got to figure it out.
[00:27:29]  They got to figure that shit out.
[00:27:32]  All right.
[00:27:34]  Grishka.
[00:27:35]  I'm sorry, excuse me.
[00:27:36]  Grisha.
[00:27:37]  That's how she starts.
[00:27:38]  The name is Grisha.
[00:27:40]  I apologize.
[00:27:42]  And my question is, what is Robbie's plan if he has an AIDS flare-up during this lockdown?
[00:27:50]  Does he have any solves, bombs, or ointments that he can apply to his AIDS-riddled skin?
[00:27:56]  Does he have any recommendations?
[00:27:59]  I don't know.
[00:28:00]  You know, I don't really know what he does, but Robbie's a tough, he's a tough old bird.
[00:28:05]  And, you know, if he has an AIDS flare-up, he'll probably just walk it off.
[00:28:08]  Or, you know, he's been handling this for years.
[00:28:11]  Robbie's been living with AIDS for as long as I've known him.
[00:28:15]  So I just, I think he'll be okay.
[00:28:17]  That's my guess.
[00:28:18]  I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about it.
[00:28:21]  All right, Sean.
[00:28:24]  Sean, not a question, but this crisis is proving that regulations cost lives and removing them can save lives.
[00:28:32]  And we should be running with that right now.
[00:28:34]  Well, I completely agree with that.

=== Stamps.com Medical Care Hack (03:26) ===

[00:28:36]  You are preaching to the choir, my friend.
[00:28:39]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:28:40]  I mean, that's a huge, huge aspect of the situation we're living through right now, which is a great important point that needs to be made.
[00:28:50]  I mean, what really was the government's response to all this insanity?
[00:28:53]  It's like, oh, shit, we better really scramble to get rid of some of this red tape that's here that we never needed to begin with.
[00:29:01]  I mean, it's unbelievable.
[00:29:03]  They even just, you know, like one of the things that they did was they basically said, if you're a licensed doctor now, you can practice in all 50 states because that was against the law before.
[00:29:13]  And they were like, oh, shit, we need doctors where we can get them now.
[00:29:16]  But it's like, why was that ever against the law?
[00:29:18]  What the hell are you talking?
[00:29:19]  So you're saying if there's somebody who's a licensed doctor in Michigan, but they happen to be in New York, they can't treat me.
[00:29:27]  But if I fly to Michigan, then they can treat me.
[00:29:31]  So many of these regulations are just obvious, it's just an obvious racket.
[00:29:37]  And it's not, you know, it's like the fucking progressives and the lefties, they have this thing in their mind where they're like, well, the regulations are what's protecting us.
[00:29:46]  You know, the regulations are making sure that the air is clean and the water is drinkable and stuff like that.
[00:29:53]  And the vast majority of them, like the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of the thousands and thousands of regulations in this country have nothing to do with any of that shit.
[00:30:02]  It's like the doctor's not being allowed to practice.
[00:30:04]  Who does that help?
[00:30:06]  That doesn't help anybody.
[00:30:08]  It just props up the cost of medical care.
[00:30:11]  It doesn't, you know, it does nothing to help anybody.
[00:30:13]  It screws over people.
[00:30:14]  And that's what most of these regulations do.
[00:30:16]  And there's certainly a lot of different examples of that stuff in this current moment.
[00:30:22]  So I agree with you.
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=== Molyneux Anarcho-Capitalist Influence (03:37) ===

[00:32:03]  All right, let's get back into the show.
[00:32:05]  Alex responded to Sean's comment and said, can I have Sean's question then?
[00:32:11]  Since Sean didn't technically ask a question.
[00:32:13]  And you know what?
[00:32:14]  That's savvy enough.
[00:32:15]  I'm going to give it to you.
[00:32:16]  You get to jump the line.
[00:32:17]  All right, Alex, what do you got?
[00:32:18]  Are you worried about Molyneux's four-year run of Trump praise?
[00:32:24]  He heralded the State of the Union address, which is odd for an anarchist to herald the speech of the most influential bureaucrat of the most powerful state in the history of the world.
[00:32:35]  If not, damn.
[00:32:39]  Am I worried about it?
[00:32:42]  I don't know.
[00:32:44]  You know, that's like, I guess to some degree, sure.
[00:32:48]  I mean, you know, Stephan Molyneux kind of changed his tune, whereas years ago he was completely against voting at all.
[00:32:58]  And then he did support voting for Donald Trump.
[00:33:03]  He's Canadian, so he's not voting for anyone over here.
[00:33:07]  But yeah, is it possible that that could go bad or that could hurt the anarcho-capitalist image?
[00:33:15]  If things go real bad with Donald Trump and then they're like, well, look, this guy was supporting Donald Trump.
[00:33:19]  Sure, possibly.
[00:33:21]  I don't know.
[00:33:22]  But on the other hand, you could also say that maybe him jumping into the 2016 election got him a whole bunch of new listeners who are then going to be exposed to him making a bunch of anarcho-capitalist arguments.
[00:33:39]  So, you know, who knows?
[00:33:42]  Who knows how the whole thing is going to play out.
[00:33:43]  Either way, it doesn't really make sense to spend too much time worrying about it because it is what it is and we'll see how it's going to play out.
[00:33:51]  Obviously, if you listen to me on my show, you know, I do what I think is, you know, best.
[00:33:58]  I take the strategy that I think is the best one.
[00:34:01]  But different people have different ideas.
[00:34:02]  And, you know, Stephan Molyneux is so funny.
[00:34:05]  I was like, you know, I got shit from some of these losers for calling him great or whatever.
[00:34:12]  But Stephan Molyneux has done more for anarcho-capitalist principles than any of these people who are out there criticizing them.
[00:34:26]  I mean, just about all of them.
[00:34:27]  So he's introduced these ideas.
[00:34:29]  He's built up a bigger platform while promoting these ideas.
[00:34:32]  And even for all those people who are like the real, you know, like he strayed away from the pure anarcho-capitalist principles or something like that, which, you know, okay, if you feel that way, fine.
[00:34:43]  But he's still got all those, all those old episodes are still up there.
[00:34:47]  For every new listener he gets, a percentage of them are going to go, you know, through his archive.
[00:34:53]  And he's got a whole bunch of shit up there.
[00:34:55]  So it's hard for me.
[00:34:56]  I'm not going to sit here and criticize a guy who has spread the philosophy that I believe in to more people than just about anyone.
[00:35:05]  I mean, there's probably a short list of people who you could say have been more influential and spread the ideas of anarcho-capitalism to more people.
[00:35:14]  He's also spread the ideas of peaceful parenting around just about as effectively as just, again, it'd be a short list.
[00:35:21]  And, you know, to me, that's all pretty, how would I describe it?
[00:35:25]  Great.
[00:35:26]  That's how I would describe it.
[00:35:28]  G-R-E-A-T.
[00:35:31]  Great.
[00:35:32]  All right.
[00:35:35]  So let's see who's next.
[00:35:39]  Inactive.

=== Non-Aggression Principle Violations (16:07) ===

[00:35:40]  Inactive?
[00:35:42]  Oh, she's okay.
[00:35:44]  I didn't realize it's a joke name.
[00:35:45]  Inactive.
[00:35:47]  Okay.
[00:35:49]  Well, it's not spelled correctly, so I get a little bit of a pass there.
[00:35:54]  Have you finally learned it's time to get the fuck out of that city?
[00:35:57]  People aren't supposed to live like that.
[00:35:59]  Owen gets it.
[00:36:01]  Yes, listen, as I said, as I told Owen to his face the other day, Owen is really looking like a genius these days.
[00:36:11]  Yeah, the long of the short of it, yes.
[00:36:16]  I don't see myself or my family being in New York City for too much longer.
[00:36:21]  I want to, you know, I want to buy a house.
[00:36:23]  I want to be out of the city.
[00:36:24]  I want to have, you know, I want to raise my kid in a house with a yard and all that stuff, normal America stuff.
[00:36:30]  So yeah, it probably won't be long before I'm out of the city.
[00:36:37]  Figuring out all the details now.
[00:36:44]  Okay, what are your thoughts on H.R. 5717 and the Democrats trying to get all of this draconian legislation snuck through while holding the Trump bucks hostage?
[00:36:56]  Also, how hilarious would it be if Trump checks came with his face imposed on them somehow somewhere?
[00:37:03]  Okay, fair enough.
[00:37:04]  That would be funny.
[00:37:06]  Yeah, you know, I kind of love it actually in a way.
[00:37:09]  I love when this is getting reported on, where there's like, you know, the Democrats, they're talking about this emergency stimulus bill, and the Democrats are talking about like, you know, incentivizing people to lower their carbon emissions and diversity quotas and all this shit.
[00:37:24]  It's just great because it's so easy for people to see through it.
[00:37:29]  You know, it's like for people who believe, like, well, we need the government, especially in an emergency like now.
[00:37:33]  Thank God we have the government.
[00:37:34]  It's like, yeah, look at who these leaders are.
[00:37:36]  They're incapable of even by their own, you know, purported beliefs.
[00:37:43]  If they're saying, well, we believe we really need this stimulus injection right now and it's so freaking important.
[00:37:48]  And yet you have to push your like diversity, you know, crap into all of it.
[00:37:53]  It's, it's just, it's exposing.
[00:37:56]  So overall, I think there might be something to it that's good.
[00:38:02]  Eric asks, will Corona finally end the Fed?
[00:38:08]  Phew.
[00:38:11]  I hope so, but I am not too optimistic about all of that.
[00:38:17]  I think Corona is going to lead toward, you know, quantitative easing on crack for infinity.
[00:38:27]  And maybe that will ultimately end the Fed.
[00:38:30]  But I'm, you know, I think this is going to be just, you know, the era of the Fed dropping even more and more, more and more bombs on the economy, metaphorically speaking.
[00:38:43]  So I don't know.
[00:38:43]  I don't know what you're going to see after all of this.
[00:38:45]  I mean, they've already brought rates down to zero.
[00:38:47]  What happens when there's still a stiff recession, a steep recession after this?
[00:38:51]  I mean, we might see negative interest rates.
[00:38:53]  I have no idea.
[00:38:55]  But I don't think it's going to end the Fed anytime soon.
[00:38:58]  I think there's, you know, the mainstream narrative will be that thank God we have the Fed.
[00:39:05]  Otherwise, we really couldn't have all these bailouts.
[00:39:07]  So praise the Fed for their ability to, you know, be the bailout of last resort or whatever.
[00:39:14]  Okay.
[00:39:15]  Gabriel says, Maj Ture has been keeping up with the inner city response to the shelter-in-place orders, mostly in Newark, where the hood basically said, screw the government.
[00:39:28]  How do you think the overreach of state governments will impact the relationship that woke white liberals and social justice warriors have with minorities when they seem to have vastly different opinions on whether states should be shut down?
[00:39:44]  Yeah, it's an interesting question.
[00:39:46]  I don't know.
[00:39:46]  I don't know if it'll really have any effect on them.
[00:39:48]  You know, if you want to, you know, actually, Malcolm X, if you ever listen to him, he was really great on the relationship between... inner city blacks and white liberals.
[00:40:00]  And nobody did a better job of calling out the bullshit of white liberals than that guy.
[00:40:06]  I mean, I don't agree with Malcolm X on everything, but he was a fucking interesting dude.
[00:40:11]  And I love when he would just give it to the white liberals, their whole bullshit.
[00:40:16]  You know, it's like what I was talking about with Scott on the last episode, like when Elizabeth Warren tweets out, you know, the backbone of this country is black transgender women.
[00:40:30]  You know, and it's easy to just make fun of for a little bit.
[00:40:32]  But the thing is, it has nothing to do with black people or transgenders or women or men.
[00:40:38]  This is for white liberal women.
[00:40:42]  So you guys can all feel better about yourself without actually having to do anything, without having to help anybody or sacrifice anything.
[00:40:49]  You can just feel better about yourself.
[00:40:51]  It's the same thing with people putting pronouns in their bio on Twitter and shit like that.
[00:40:58]  It's just empty virtue signaling bullshit.
[00:41:00]  So you can keep going about your life and feeling a little bit better about yourself.
[00:41:04]  But as far as the disconnect between the fucking social justice warriors and black dudes in the hood, like that disconnect has always existed.
[00:41:14]  I don't know.
[00:41:15]  Have any of you ever had a conversation with a black dude from the hood?
[00:41:20]  They're not politically correct.
[00:41:22]  They're like some of the most gloriously politically incorrect people.
[00:41:27]  They'll tell you exactly how you think.
[00:41:28]  They're not bending over backwards to be concerned with the rights of transgender people.
[00:41:33]  Let me tell you that.
[00:41:35]  So this disconnect has always existed.
[00:41:38]  This is just one more example.
[00:41:42]  But that is interesting, though, on a complete aside.
[00:41:46]  It is interesting that people in the hood just aren't listening to these rules.
[00:41:51]  Although I think for the most part, they've been used to not listening to government rules in many different ways.
[00:41:59]  Some good, some not so good.
[00:42:01]  All right.
[00:42:02]  Dan asks, would you consider people getting together in groups of 10 plus, but privately, during this time a violation of the non-aggression principle?
[00:42:17]  No, I'd have to say no.
[00:42:20]  I don't think if everybody was voluntarily getting together and they all kind of knew the risks and everything like that going in, then no.
[00:42:27]  But I do think that there are, look, I would rather live in a private property-based system where the property owners were the ones who were making these decisions, you know, and the property owners could just decide who can come on their property and who can't.
[00:42:40]  That would be ideal.
[00:42:41]  However, there are, you know, like there are emergency scenarios that libertarians have been talking about for, you know, decades and decades and decades.
[00:42:52]  But things like, okay, if you're starving in the woods and you come across a cabin with food in it, is it a violation of private property to break in and eat some of the food so that you don't die?
[00:43:07]  While technically, yes, it is a violation of private property rights.
[00:43:11]  I don't think any serious libertarian is going to tell you to just sit there and starve to death.
[00:43:15]  The truth is, it's like, yes, you break in, you have some food, you're going to owe restitution at some point.
[00:43:23]  And, you know, if that guy wants to press charges, you'd have to argue your case to a jury of your peers or a agreed upon judge or something like that, who's probably going to be like, well, listen, you need to pay back.
[00:43:32]  You need to return the food, but I'm not going to really prosecute further because obviously this was an emergency situation.
[00:43:38]  So it's not as if libertarians don't have some framework for saying in an emergency situation, strictly violating libertarian principles is not just like, it's not like, oh, we all have to die because we have these abstract principles.
[00:43:52]  It's just that they should be kind of made right after then and it should only be applied in emergency situation.
[00:43:57]  And this would best be worked out under an anarcho-capitalist system, which we don't live in.
[00:44:04]  So under the current system, it's like, you know, if people wanted to get together in a small gathering of 10 people, no, I wouldn't consider that a violation of the non-aggression principle.
[00:44:13]  It would be a violation of the non-aggression principle to not let them do that.
[00:44:17]  That being said, do you have the right right now, maybe to just use a more, you know, blatant example, but let's say you are showing symptoms of the coronavirus and you're like, well, I want to go out, you know, I don't know, I want to go down to, you know, some place where there's a whole bunch of senior citizens and like not tell them that I have it and go there.
[00:44:42]  And it's like, yeah, no, I'm not really going to be so upset about someone saying, yeah, you can't do that.
[00:44:47]  You can't do that.
[00:44:48]  Even if it is a violation of the non-aggression principle, it's kind of in the middle of an emergency situation.
[00:44:53]  So I don't think we need to be stupid about, you know, like rigidly never acknowledging that there are emergency situations where even though something is a violation of the non-aggression principle, you might have to do it in the emergency and then deal with the ramifications later.
[00:45:10]  Like you might be owed something or something like that.
[00:45:12]  I don't know.
[00:45:14]  So I guess I would say no to your question, but there are other things to be considered.
[00:45:19]  Okay, Edgar writes, when do we start taking to the streets to protest the totalitarian takeover of the economy?
[00:45:29]  Now, it's an interesting question.
[00:45:32]  And we're going to find out how long they can actually push this for.
[00:45:36]  That's the reality of the situation is we're going to see how long do they can you actually shut down the economy before people who fucking need to work are going to start getting antsy.
[00:45:48]  So I don't know.
[00:45:49]  I don't have an answer to that, but we'll all find out together, I suppose.
[00:45:53]  All right, here's Dan.
[00:45:55]  There's been so much talk about Boogaloo.
[00:46:00]  What is the point where people actually start revolting?
[00:46:04]  Seems to me if it wasn't happening already, it never will.
[00:46:08]  Well, a similar question to the last one, but no, I don't think because something's not happening, that means it never will happen.
[00:46:14]  It just means people haven't been pushed far enough to the point of actually being ready to do it.
[00:46:20]  All right, Dan writes, what will it take for you to don a Hawaiian shirt?
[00:46:26]  I'll do it like in the right situation.
[00:46:28]  Like if I'm on a cruise or something like that, if I'm in Hawaii, if I'm in the Bahamas or something like that, I might throw one on, just get in the mood.
[00:46:36]  But you're not going to catch me on that in New York.
[00:46:41]  Okay, Seth, what is the libertarian answer to stop companies from committing mass pollution?
[00:46:47]  Doesn't seem to me like a boycott would be effective because it's not like these companies are doing this shit out in the open so the public wouldn't even know about it.
[00:46:59]  I don't know about that.
[00:47:01]  See, the problem with having this attitude toward pollution is that pollution is just taken as a bad, that it's always bad, right?
[00:47:10]  So the truth is, pollution and civilization are one in the same.
[00:47:18]  Literally one and the same.
[00:47:19]  That's how you get civilization is you start polluting.
[00:47:23]  There's no, I mean, start from the beginning.
[00:47:26]  This is like what the environmentalists completely miss.
[00:47:28]  Or maybe they don't even miss it and they're just anti-human.
[00:47:31]  That's possible too.
[00:47:32]  And it's true in some cases.
[00:47:33]  But if you look at nature as we find it, it's what?
[00:47:37]  Like a forest with a bunch of trees.
[00:47:39]  Now, if you say, hey, we're going to start building a civilization, step number one is going to be, let's cut down some trees.
[00:47:46]  And it's just going to be more and more after that, right?
[00:47:48]  So it's not as if pollution in general, the fact that we all live in civilizations and stuff, kind of indicates that people are comfortable with a certain amount of pollution, right?
[00:47:59]  Now, if you're talking about the bad kind of pollution, right?
[00:48:03]  Like a certain kind of pollution, which is like somebody, you know, like dumping in a river or something like that so the drinking water isn't clean or, you know, whatever, like somebody really polluting the air to the point where other people are breathing and getting sick or something like that.
[00:48:19]  Well, number one, that's not done in secret.
[00:48:21]  People know where that pollution is coming from, almost always.
[00:48:25]  And number two, what you're talking about is a property rights violation.
[00:48:28]  I mean, if you're, let's say, if you're polluting your land and it doesn't affect anybody else, it doesn't affect any of their land or the air they're breathing or anything like that, then there's really no problem, right?
[00:48:41]  Because nobody's being harmed by this.
[00:48:43]  You're just kind of fucking up your own land.
[00:48:45]  So go for it.
[00:48:46]  But I think what we're usually talking about when we talk about pollution is that you're dumping in a river and then that river's going downstream to an area where you don't own the land and fucking all of their land up.
[00:48:55]  So it's a property rights violation and they should have a right to sue you for that.
[00:49:00]  But you don't enforce property rights efficiently by saying we're going to create one central organization that can violate property rights whenever they want to, known as the state.
[00:49:11]  So that's, yeah, I mean, I just think what you want is, you know, strict enforcement of property rights.
[00:49:18]  And that's your best bet.
[00:49:23]  All right, you know what?
[00:49:24]  I'm going to take one more and then that'll be it for part one of the great AMA.
[00:49:30]  And I'll keep these going.
[00:49:30]  I'll try to, maybe every week I'll put out another part of the great AMA or something like that and we'll keep going and see if I can ever get through this full list because I know you guys are going to keep adding stuff to it.
[00:49:41]  Okay.
[00:49:43]  Patrick, is now a good time to get the end the Fed movement back up and running.
[00:49:48]  They've backed us into an economic mess that looks like it will only get worse.
[00:49:54]  They are now buying up corporate bonds.
[00:49:56]  Is this the crisis where the slow roots for the possibility of fascism make a death grip?
[00:50:03]  No question about it.
[00:50:05]  I think this is the time.
[00:50:07]  This is where, you know, it's always interesting in these situations where it can kind of seem like, you know, whatever some people may say, the death of libertarianism or we're in our worst moment or something like that.
[00:50:17]  But then on the flip side, this is our greatest opportunity.
[00:50:21]  And whether or not, you know, we take advantage of it, that's up to us.
[00:50:26]  But we have entered a time where monetary policy is back on the table.
[00:50:35]  You know, it's something to be talked about again.
[00:50:37]  And yes, this is a big opportunity.
[00:50:39]  The risk, of course, is real deal fascism that we might be living under or a Great Depression that we might be living under.
[00:50:46]  But this is absolutely the time for libertarians to start talking about the Federal Reserve and how they are actively, as we speak right now, robbing you, robbing you blind.
[00:51:00]  And this isn't anything about, this is what we have to get across to people.
[00:51:03]  It's not a question about should the government tax wealthy people to help out the less wealthy people, or should the government not tax wealthy people to help out the less wealthy people.
[00:51:17]  That's the debate everyone always wants to have.
[00:51:19]  The reality is the government is robbing from working people to bail out rich people.
[00:51:27]  That's what's going on, and it's indefensible.
[00:51:30]  And that's what we need to insert into the conversation.
[00:51:33]  Of course, they're doing this most directly through monetary policy.
[00:51:37]  It looks like they're also going to be doing it with some corporate bailouts in other regards.
[00:51:41]  But the most egregious, just the largest, you know, heist is through the monetary system.

=== AMA Debate Government Robbery (00:16) ===

[00:51:48]  So that's what we got to talk about.
[00:51:49]  And I know I'll keep talking about it.
[00:51:51]  I got Tom Woods.
[00:51:53]  I'm recording with him later today, and then I'm recording with Gene Epstein tomorrow.
[00:51:56]  And I'm going to talk to both of them about that very topic.
[00:51:59]  Okay, that is part one of the great AMA.
[00:52:02]  Be safe, everybody.
[00:52:04]  I'll talk to you soon.