The Read Rothbard Podcast
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The Read Rothbard Podcast
Read Rothbard is comprised of a small group of voluntaryists who are fans of Murray N. Rothbard. We curate content on the www.ReadRothbard.com site including books, lectures, articles, speeches, and we make a weekly podcast based on his free-market approach to economics. Our focus is on education an...
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Episode 41 - The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar - Murray N. Rothbard - Audiobook - Part 2 of 2
Now that we have finished the 3-part audiobook version of Murray Rothbard's "What Has Government Done To Our Money?", we move on to the companion piec...
Episode 40 - The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar - Murray N. Rothbard - Audiobook - Part 1 of 2
Now that we have finished the 3-part audiobook version of Murray Rothbard's "What Has Government Done To Our Money?", we move on to the companion piec...
Episode 39 - What Has Government Done To Our Money? - Murray N. Rothbard - Audiobook - Part 3 of 3
After the past two weeks where we posted Murray Rothbard's "Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure" and "Anatomy of the State", we now get into fu...
Episode 38 - What Has Government Done To Our Money? - Murray N. Rothbard - Audiobook - Part 2 of 3
After the past two weeks where we posted Murray Rothbard's "Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure" and "Anatomy of the State", we now get into fu...
Episode 37 - What Has Government Done To Our Money? - Murray N. Rothbard - Audiobook - Part 1 of 3
After the past two weeks where we posted Murray Rothbard's "Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure" and "Anatomy of the State", we now get into fu...
Episode 36 - Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure - Murray N. Rothbard - Audiobook
As announced on our most recent shows, we will be transitioning "the Read Rothbard Podcast" to audiobooks of Murray's books and articles.
Episode 35 - Anatomy of the State - Murray N. Rothbard - Audiobook
As announced on our most recent shows, we will be transitioning "the Read Rothbard Podcast" to audiobooks of Murray's books and articles.
MLK Special - Selma and the Civil Rights Movement
We have another special guest on to discuss the movie Selma for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special. Ryan Jones joines us from www.theafrolibertar...
Episode 34 - Rat-a-shooty (1:02:42)
We compare and contrast Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille and Morgan Spurlock's Rats from a non-aggression principled stance. Do not watch the Spurlock movi...
Episode 33 - Hell or Fractional Reserve Banking (53:01)
We talk about the film "Hell or High Water" starring Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges and Ben Foster. It's a 2016 heist film centered on two brothers who rob...
Special - Happy New Year - Can You Rape a Robot?
Hoppe New Year! We discuss the movie Ex Machina and the implications of AI in regards to NAP, Property Rights, Self-Defense and a myriad of other issu...
Episode 32 - Change, Change, Change, Changeling
We discuss the Clint Eastwood directed film Changeling starring Angelina Jolie and feature our very first guest! My wife jumps on the call near the e...
A Very Murray Christmas Carol
Murray Christmas! We discuss Charles Dickens and his holiday story A Christmas Carol and how it is an anti-capitalist, anti-industrial revolution pro...
Episode 31 - Inconceivable!
We didn't say the word Inconceivable while discussing the great Princess Bride movie, which is in itself inconceivable. Robert lists this as one of h...
Episode 30 - Sh!tiocracy: A Documentary? (1:20:49)
We discuss the narrative that Idiocracy is currently viewed as a prescient documentary that foretold today's events regarding Trump being elected Pres...
Episode 29 - DFreedom Unchained (1:32:43)
We talk about DJango Unchained and some of the various NAP violations contained therein. As it's a Tarantino movie, there are aplenty. We also talk ab...
Episode 28 - the Usual Statists
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world that he didn't exist."
As it is with Verbal Kint in the Usual Sus...
Episode 27 - Black Friday Fight Club
We talk Fight Club and the annual tradition of Black Friday where people line up in the wee hours after Thanksgiving to get into actual fights over Wa...
Special - Thanksgiving with a helping of Maximum Freedom (58:38)
Here is the Read Rothbard Podcast Thanksgiving special! We talk about Peanuts with Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy, Woodstock and the posse....
Episode 26 - Why We Aren't SJW's / Zooptopia (1:27:06)
We talk Zootopia and the craziness of minarchism, and the insane craziness of the idiotic SJW mindset.
For show notes and more, please...
Special - 2016 Elections - Taste the Rainbow
Double Rainbow of Schadenfreude! We mix it up about the stunning presidential result with Trump defeating the shoe-in Clinton. We recall a play-by-p...
Episode 25 - Enter the Interstellar Flood
Episode 25! Can't believe we made it this far. In this episode, we are discussing/dismantling Interstellar and Before the Flood. They both call for...
Episode 24 - Wolverines! Red Dawn (1:54:42)
We are back at it again discussing the 1984 cult-classic, Red Dawn. Is there a libertarian thread? There seems to be. This is a long and rambling p...
Episode 23 - Ene-muh of the State (55:31)
We discuss the 1998 Will Smith/Gene Hackman film. The election and how the media is in the tank for Hillary. We aren't fans of Trump either, but it...
Episode 22 - V is for Voluntary
We're a bunch of lying liars! We said more frequency! We said shorter shows! Well, here we are 2 days later than our once a week schedule and with...
Episode 21 - Hunger Lames
Episode 21 - Robert and I adopt a shorter format of just over 30 minutes to discuss the Hunger Games that started off as a promising book series that...
Episode 20 - Marvel Universe - Civil Minority War Report
We unleash Robert's nerdcore flex on the Marvel Universe, and specifically, Captain America: Civil War. He brings an angle of the precog crime a la...
Episode 19 - Snowden - Feeling Very Superstitious
Fresh from the oven! Recorded today. Posted today. A recent business trip took me away from home for awhile so we are just now able to get together...
Episode 18 - In Time: Part Deux - JT's Got His D!ck in a Clock (1:07:32)
We're back again, and this time uninterrupted. And special bonus - I watched the 2nd half of the movie. We do it some real Justice on this one and t...
Episode 17 - In Time with Keynesian/Marxist Nonsense
We take on the Justin Timberlake Action/Thriller In Time about a society where time becomes currency and the rich prey on the weak, or so the story go...
Episode 16 - Blazing Statists (1:05:00)
In the wake of the passing of Gene Wilder, we use Blazing Saddles as our muse for our musings. Much Murray is included with some history on railroads...
Episode 15 - Moron the Matrix and the Horrific Bentham
Episode 15 - Moron the Matrix. We re-enter the Matrix to discuss the role of the fellow prisoners in keeping any dissenter in line. We also bring up...
Episode 14 - You're Living in a Dream World (59:57)
Episode 14 is all about the Matrix. People come at this movie from so many perspectives, and they all seem to think that it's a metaphor or an allego...
The Special Olympics Episode (44:17)
We're back with a special episode posted the morning after recording! This is all about the Olympics, currently ongoing in the pre-Olympic hot-spot o...
Episode 13 - The Ring of Power Must Be Destroyed (1:15:42)
We venture into Mordor and discuss Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings. It is one of our favorite movies and it has some interesting themes that when v...
Episode 12 - Rubbing Aladdin's Lamp of Maximum Freedom
Episode 12! We start out rambling, then veer into Disney movies. Primarily Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Frozen. It all starts to come togethe...
Episode 11 - The Flea-marketplace of Ideas?
Episode 11 of the Read Rothbard Podcast, starts out as a rambling mess...but I think we find our way.
We also introduce TRANSCRIPTS as...
Episode 10 - Putting Star Trek and the Venus Project in the Blender of Freedom
The Trek Yin, to the Wars Yang. Nerd it up! Warp Factor 10 to the Venus Project with a dose of Maximum Freedom! The Star Trek episode! (1:09:56)
Episode 9 - The Morality of Star Wars
SPOILER ALERT! - Batman vs. Superman plot-line is discussed. - /SPOILER ALERT!
We open with Pokemon Go and talk about how providing a...
Episode 8 - Police Shootings and the Laws that Lead to Them
Here's another rambling, controversial episode. To be clear: we do not condone violence. Self-defense is the only exception. We recorded this epis...