Cynical Libertarian Society

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:58 — 55.1MB)Subscribe to the podcast. RSSFor as long as I’ve been doing this podcast I’ve been telling you what my very first Lieutenant in the infantry told the platoon on a regular basis. “Comfort kills. Stagnation is death.” Nietzsche’s maxim, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” isn’t just a sound philosophical principle. It’s also a certifiable physiological phenomenon; toxins and stressors that could be deadly in large doses, actually improve health and resilience in smaller, intermittent ones. The ironic thing, my guest points out, is that it’s the fact that … Continue reading →

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:20 — 23.7MB)Subscribe to the podcast. RSSI’m so done with fat people. If I didn’t have to subsidize keeping them alive I wouldn’t care. I discuss the fat acceptance movement, it’s history and origins, and current state. I describe connections to other ideologies. I discuss the result of a culture that allows and promotes people to live in a state of unhealthiness. I talk about a few things from Michael Pollan’s book, “In Defense of Food”. We discuss food cultures and the issues of our own culture being based on industrial production … Continue reading →

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:32 — 22.3MB)Subscribe to the podcast. RSSIf your automobile breaks down are you helpless or can you MacGyver it back to civilization? After listening to this episode I added hose clamps, gorilla tape, and JB Weld to the assortment of things that stay inside my vehicles. Today we are doing something we have not done in a while, a truly listener generated show. Where the community comes together to tell stories of how they accomplished something, saved money or say in this case got out of a jam. Recently a buddy got … Continue reading →

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:34:57 — 130.9MB)Subscribe to the podcast. RSSIn this podcast the unspoken will be spoken and feelz will be trampled. Episode 953: Unspoken Causes of the Housing Crisis w/ Dark Enlightenment from Free Man Beyond the Wall Pete invited his friend Dark Enlightenment to return to the show to talk about the current housing crisis. They start off looking at it from a strictly libertarian point of view and then delve into its causes, which aren’t supposed to be mentioned in polite circles. DE’s Telegram Channel https://t.me/Dark_Enlightenment Rent and Income Inflation Related Chart … Continue reading →

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:40 — 71.0MB)Subscribe to the podcast. RSSYea, you gotta do hard things in life. So don’t make things harder than they need to be. Unless you’re a hawt volleyball chyck. Then you can make my dick hard. Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/Effortless-Make-Easier-What-Matters/dp/0593135644 When we’re failing to do the things that are most important in our lives, the typical diagnosis of the problem is to believe we’re simply not working hard enough, and the typical solution to the problem is to put in more effort, apply more discipline, and grind it out. My guest … Continue reading →