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My Latest Content 
- Chase S. Returns, Earthships, Hong Kong, & Project Veritas (1h6m) – Episode 391
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 391 welcomes back Chase Steffensen to chat with Skyler on the following topics: their food delivery experience; earthships (YouTube), created by Michael Reynolds; the agricultural revolution and what it did to humanity; Hong Kong protests and the China situation; COVID-19 casedemic; Project Veritas and Ilhan Omar voter fraud; Boyce of Reason podcast and listening to other perspectives to learn not to get triggered; the value of debates versus long form discussions found in the podcasting world; and more.
Listen to Episode 391 (1h6m, mp3, 64kbps)
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Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Self-Defense, Modern Capitalism, Tax Cheating, & Bait and Switch (32m) – Episode 390
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.”
Article: “The Facts on Government” by Skyler J. Collins
Article: “Fact Checking the 1619 Project and Its Critics” by Phil Magness
Book: The 1619 Project: A Critique by Phil Magness
Podcast: “Editor’s Break 008 – Why Taxation is Theft” by Skyler J. CollinsListen to Episode 390 (32m, mp3, 64kbps)
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Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Show Your Qualities & The Dimension of “Should” (17m) – Episode 029
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 029 looks at two Stoic topics: the first from Marcus Aurelius who wrote, “People aren’t in awe of your sharp mind? So be it. But you have many other qualities you can’t claim to have been deprived of at birth. Display then those qualities in your own power: honesty, dignity, endurance, chastity, contentment, frugality, kindness, freedom, persistence, avoiding gossip, and magnanimity.”; and the second from r/Stoicism, a post by mussel_bouy who started off with, “There is a dimension. A dimension not of sight or sound but of mind. It is both in the future and past but never the present. It has no physical location but for many of us, we live there. It is ‘the dimension of should’.”
Listen to Episode 029 (17m, mp3, 64kbps)
Subscribe via RSS here, or in any podcast app by searching for “thinking and doing”. Support the podcast at Patreon.com/evc or PayPal.me/everythingvoluntary.
Other podcasts: “Everything Voluntary“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Chris J. Returns, Cloud Gaming, Losing Family & Scientism (58m) – Episode 389
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. (Podcast: “What You Need To Know About Critical Race Theory | Christopher Rufo Interview” by the Rubin Report)
Listen to Episode 389 (58m, mp3, 64kbps)
Subscribe via RSS here, or in any podcast app by searching for “everything voluntary”. Support the podcast at Patreon.com/evc.
Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Liberty Quotes: Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jeremy Locke (32m) – Episode 388
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. (Book: The End of All Evil (PDF) by Jeremy Locke; Podcast: “KOL300 | What is ‘the Law’?” by Stephan Kinsella)
Listen to Episode 388 (32m, mp3, 64kbps)
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Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Mish O. Returns, Infinite Banking, Need for Speed, & Damned Lies (1h17m) – Episode 387
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.
Listen to Episode 387 (1h17m, mp3, 64kbps)
Subscribe via RSS here, or in any podcast app by searching for “everything voluntary”. Support the podcast at Patreon.com/evc.
Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Argumentum ad Populum (Appeal to Popularity) & Neglect of Probability (25m) – Episode 028
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 028 looks at the logical fallacy Argumentum ad Populum (Appeal to Popularity, and it’s many children) and the cognitive bias Neglect of Probability.
Listen to Episode 028 (25m, mp3, 64kbps)
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Other podcasts: “Everything Voluntary“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Breonna Taylor’s Killers, Anarchist Jurisdictions, & Turkey’s Speech Prisons (39m) – Episode 386
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).
Listen to Episode 386 (39m, mp3, 64kbps)
Subscribe via RSS here, or in any podcast app by searching for “everything voluntary”. Support the podcast at Patreon.com/evc.
Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty, Part Six (25m) – Episode 385
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.” (Video: “He Predicted a Trump Win in 2016. What’s His Forecast For 2020?“)
Listen to Episode 385 (25m, mp3, 64kbps)
Subscribe via RSS here, or in any podcast app by searching for “everything voluntary”. Support the podcast at Patreon.com/evc.
Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- ARK3 Returns, Income Tax Fraud, Libertarians, & Intellectual Property (1h4m) – Episode 384
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 384 welcomes back Alex R. Knight III to chat with Skyler 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. (Article: “Intellectual Property and Liberty“)
Listen to Episode 384 (1h4m, mp3, 64kbps)
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Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Windfall Money, 24-Hour News, & Nonviolent Communication (38m) – Episode 027
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 027 looks at carefully handling a new large sum of money or career promotion; the deleterious effects of consuming the news all day long, every day; and the benefits of both the Socratic Method and Nonviolent Communication in handling disagreements with other people.
Listen to Episode 027 (38m, mp3, 64kbps)
Subscribe via RSS here, or in any podcast app by searching for “thinking and doing”. Support the podcast at Patreon.com/evc or PayPal.me/everythingvoluntary.
Other podcasts: “Everything Voluntary“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Childhood Freedom, Not Having Children, Bad Fathers, & Advice to My Children (33m) – Episode 383
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?” (Article: “Advice to My Children, and Everyone Else“)
Listen to Episode 383 (33m, mp3, 64kbps)
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Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- By-Product of Freedom & Let This Promise in Me Start! (21m) – Episode 382
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“.
Listen to Episode 382 (21m, mp3, 64kbps)
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Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Conversation on “Timeless Tenets of Stoicism” (56m) – Episode 026
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 026 is a conversation with Chris Jenkins on reddit user FreakyEcon’s “Timeless Tenets of Stoicism“.
Listen to Episode 026 (56m, mp3, 64kbps)
Subscribe via RSS here, or in any podcast app by searching for “thinking and doing”. Support the podcast at Patreon.com/evc or PayPal.me/everythingvoluntary.
Other podcasts: “Everything Voluntary“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Uterus Collector, Barbados, & Amazonian Waorani Tribe (40m) – Episode 381
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.
Listen to Episode 381 (40m, mp3, 64kbps)
Subscribe via RSS here, or in any podcast app by searching for “everything voluntary”. Support the podcast at Patreon.com/evc.
Other podcasts: “Thinking & Doing“, “Voluntaryist Voices”
Referral links: Tom Wood’s Liberty Classroom, Ron Paul’s Homeschool Curriculum, Amazon Shopping