https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/what-happens-when-america-goes-dark-the-first-21-days-of-no-power-grid-down-part-3/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GFcAcE7kCmM/hqdefault.jpg What Happens When America Goes Dark? The First 21 Days of NO POWER | GRID DOWN Part 3 No Power. No Food. Then What? The lights going out is only the beginning. What happens when the food deliveries, gas pumps, running water, and communications stop working? https://www.youtube.com/embed/GFcAcE7kCmM 2160 2026-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/could-america-go-dark-emps-solar-storms-power-grid-failure-jonathan-hollerman-tommy-waller/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NgSpsip2ue8/hqdefault.jpg Could America Go Dark? EMPs, Solar Storms & Power Grid Failure | Jonathan Hollerman & Tommy Waller What could cause America’s power grid to fail—and why is protecting it so difficult? This conversation explores EMP attacks, solar storms, cyberattacks, and the debate over U.S. electric grid security. https://www.youtube.com/embed/NgSpsip2ue8 1440 2026-09-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/9-out-of-10-americans-would-die-if-this-infrastructure-went-down-tommy-waller-jonathan-hollerman/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Lh9o56T_YY0/hqdefault.jpg 9 Out of 10 Americans Would Die If this INFRASTRUCTURE Went Down | Tommy Waller & Jonathan Hollerman Every battery in America, fully charged, could power the country for only ONE HOUR. And losing just 9–12 critical transformers could plunge the entire nation into darkness. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lh9o56T_YY0 1740 2026-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/theyre-already-inside-the-threat-america-cant-ignore-inside-the-wire-wade-miller-w-bill-walton/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DrJSYG2ZeKk/hqdefault.jpg They’re Already Inside: The Threat America Can’t Ignore | Inside the Wire- Wade Miller w/Bill Walton What if America’s greatest threat isn’t trying to break through the gates—because it’s already inside? https://www.youtube.com/embed/DrJSYG2ZeKk 840 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-gop-is-fighting-the-wrong-war-wade-miller-on-saving-western-civilization-with-bill-walton/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QudIWkAGSBY/hqdefault.jpg The GOP Is Fighting the WRONG WAR? | Wade Miller on Saving Western Civilization with Bill Walton In Part 2 of INSIDE THE WIRE, Bill Walton sits down with Wade Miller of the Center for Renewing America for a provocative conversation about the battle beneath American politics: culture, faith, institutions, national identity, and the future of Western civilization. https://www.youtube.com/embed/QudIWkAGSBY 1200 2026-08-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-marines-warning-the-crisis-inside-america-nobody-will-name/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uQXULSeptiA/hqdefault.jpg A Marine’s Warning: The Crisis Inside America Nobody Will Name Marine combat veteran Wade Miller joins Bill Walton for Part 1 of “Inside the Wire” — a three-part series on the crisis most leaders refuse to name. https://www.youtube.com/embed/uQXULSeptiA 900 2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-crime-the-modern-world-prefers-not-to-see/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Sbjm2SaxGEY/hqdefault.jpg A Crime the Modern World Prefers Not to See There is a moment in my conversation with Jan Jekielek —senior editor at The Epoch Times, host of American Thought Leaders, and author of the new book Killed to Order — when the abstract becomes concrete and stays that way. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sbjm2SaxGEY 60 2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/countering-the-lethal-narrative-of-the-1619-project/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rN55Io8YBVA/hqdefault.jpg “Countering the Lethal Narrative of the 1619 Project” with Kenneth Blackwell and Bob Woodson “The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” George Orwell https://www.youtube.com/embed/rN55Io8YBVA 3600 2020-03-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/everything-you-need-to-know-about-economics-in-only-45-mins/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2faVcT6PHss/hqdefault.jpg “Everything You Need to Know About Economics (in only 45 mins)” with Dr. Arthur Laffer The Bill Walton Show: Episode 06 - Dr. Authur Laffer, the famed economist who ushered in the era of supply side economics during the Reagan administration, sits down with Bill to discuss the policies that work, and those that don't. https://www.youtube.com/embed/2faVcT6PHss 3600 2017-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/we-won-the-cold-war-and-lost-the-peace-a-tour-de-force-with-erik-prince-and-stephen-bryen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BWUa0Q3g3J8/hqdefault.jpg We won the Cold War and lost the peace : A Tour de Force with Erik Prince and Stephen Bryen Ronald Reagan collapsed the Soviet Union, liberated the captive nations of Central Europe and restored “Europe Whole and Free.”  But what happened after that haunts the Free World to this day. Former Navy U.S. Seal and founder of the private military company Blackwater Erik Prince declares “We are fighting wars the wrong way.” Stephen Bryen, known as the “Yoda” of the Arms Trade, is a former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and founder of the Defense Technology Security Administration. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BWUa0Q3g3J8 60 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-ministry-of-green-truth-mark-mills-exposes-americas-6-trillion-energy-fantasy/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L9haU0kmX5k/hqdefault.jpg The Ministry of Green Truth: Mark Mills Exposes America’s $6 Trillion Energy Fantasy “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell On The Bill Walton Show, Mark Mills strips away the Newspeak surrounding the innocuously named "Inflation Reduction Act" (IRA) to reveal it as perhaps the most audacious experiment in government-directed industrial planning in U.S. history. Mark P. Mills is the executive director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, and author of The Cloud Revolution. Like Orwell's Ministry of Truth, which turned lies into official doctrine, the architects of this legislation have manufactured their own reality. They call it the "Inflation Reduction Act" while knowing it will create profound inflation. They promise "affordable clean energy" while mandating the replacement of working systems with ones that are demonstrably more expensive. They speak of "climate justice" while building a system that will impoverish the middle class. The numbers tell their own stark story: Between $3-6 trillion in total spending – approaching the inflation-adjusted cost of World War II. But unlike that war, which mobilized American industry to defeat fascism, this massive expenditure aims to dismantle our existing energy infrastructure in favor of an unproven alternative. Mills, speaking with the precision of his physics background and decades of energy expertise, reveals the dystopian preview already unfolding in Europe. In Germany, the green energy transition has led to a 300% increase in energy costs, shuttered factories, and a 70% collapse in foreign investment. The corruption inherent in the Inflation Reduction Act would be comical if it weren't so tragic. Mills points to organizations receiving billion-dollar grants mere weeks after their formation. One entity, showing a previous annual income of exactly $100, received $940 million in taxpayer funds. Kafka himself couldn't have designed a more sinister bureaucracy. But perhaps most chilling is the corrupting political engineering at work. Like the… https://www.youtube.com/embed/L9haU0kmX5k 2520 2024-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/fifth-generation-warfare-where-hypersonic-missiles-meet-the-healthcare-state/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-QEVnc1t88c/hqdefault.jpg Fifth Generation Warfare: Where Hypersonic Missiles Meet the Healthcare State What if modern warfare has evolved beyond anything history's great strategists could have imagined? While Metternich orchestrated the balance of power through diplomatic summits and Machiavelli counseled princes on maintaining state authority, today's battles for sovereignty unfold in unlikely places: doctors' offices, veterinary clinics, and local zoning boards across America. https://www.youtube.com/embed/-QEVnc1t88c 60 2024-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-bird-and-the-babylon-bee/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1PaHtv4FMu8/hqdefault.jpg The Bird and the (Babylon) Bee In this episode Bill talks with filmmaker Matt Pirrall who tells the story of how the Babylon Bee lost its right to joke. His documentary "The Bird and the Bee" exposes a simple truth: in 2022, the Babylon Bee was banned from Twitter for calling a man a man. The facts Pirrall describes are plain. When USA Today named transgender Admiral Rachel Levine "Woman of the Year," the Babylon Bee responded with satire, naming Levine their "Man of the Year." Twitter's response was swift: delete the joke or lose your account. The Bee refused to bend. In our conversation, Pirrall reveals how their small act of defiance exposed the machinery of modern censorship. His film shows us the direct messages from the White House to social media companies, demanding they silence certain voices. He shows us how words like "misinformation" and "hate speech" became weapons to destroy comedy itself. Through interviews with the Bee's writers and creators, Pirrall's documentary captures the moment when a joke became a threat to power. These writers faced a simple choice: apologize for the truth or lose their platform. They chose truth, even as their business model crumbled. Then Elon Musk appeared, asking a question no one in power wanted to address: Why can't Americans make jokes anymore? His purchase of Twitter gave this story an unexpected ending, but Pirrall's film reminds us of the larger truth - when humor becomes forbidden, tyranny is not far behind. Watch our conversation about a film that shows what happens when the powerful lose their ability to laugh at the human comedy. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1PaHtv4FMu8 1200 2024-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-secret-game-a-fast-break-to-freedom/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LAb6olc58ik/hqdefault.jpg The Secret Game: A Fast Break to Freedom Join me on The Bill Walton Show as filmmaker Greg De Deugd talks about the making of his film The Secret Game: A Fast Break to Freedom which tells the story of a basketball game that had to be played in secret. In our conversation, he reveals how in Durham, North Carolina in 1944, two teams broke the law by simply wanting to know who was better at putting a ball through a hoop. The facts De Deugd uncovered are plain: Black players and white players were forbidden to touch each other, let alone play together. The penalty could be jail, or worse. De Deugd's film shows us how at one college - then called North Carolina College for Negroes - Coach John McClendon had built an unstoppable team. He had learned the game from its inventor, and he taught his players to run faster and score more points than any team in the state. Across town at Duke Medical School, an all-white team was also beating everyone they faced. The question was obvious: Who would win if they played each other? The answer meant breaking the law. They cleared the gym. They locked the doors. They played. What happened next, as De Deugd's documentary reveals, exposed the lie at the heart of segregation - that races couldn't mix, couldn't compete, couldn't respect each other as equals. In our discussion, De Deugd explains how when he filmed young players recreating the game, he had to explain why it had to be secret. They couldn't understand. This was his point exactly - the truth of that day in 1944 had helped make their confusion possible. https://www.youtube.com/embed/LAb6olc58ik 2024-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/high-country-murder/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UjtUj8es8g8/hqdefault.jpg High Country Murder In this episode Bill talks with filmmaker Keely Covello about the making of "High Country Murder" her documentary of a murder that exposes the raw truth of what happens when law and order collapse. In California's Mendocino County, where cowboys once shared the hills with hippies, foreign gangs now rule. Covello's film begins with a simple fact: an 85-year-old rancher was found dead in his truck. But this single death opens a window into a larger truth. On America's public lands, 6,000 illegal marijuana operations now flourish. Chinese, Bulgarian, and Mexican cartels traffic humans, force immigrants into labor, and kill with impunity. The local sheriffs fight alone - the state's governor won't even return their calls. Covello knows this territory. She grew up here, watching her father drive the back roads as a ranch veterinarian. Now, with camera in hand, she rides into dangerous territory - abandoned grow sites, tribal lands, and forest camps - searching not just for a murderer, but for answers about how American soil became foreign territory. The film asks questions our comfortable urban politicians prefer to ignore: What happens when we abandon law enforcement? Who fills the vacuum when traditional institutions collapse? And most urgently: Who killed that old rancher, and why? This is not a story about politics. It is a story about power, territory, and what happens when we look away from evil. Watch Bill’s conversation with Covello as she talks about her film that uncovers these bitter truths.   https://www.youtube.com/embed/UjtUj8es8g8 1140 2024-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/spares-second-chance-stories-of-frozen-embryos/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nW3G7_3t_BM/hqdefault.jpg Spares: Second Chance Stories of Frozen Embryos Join Bill Walton’s conversation with filmmaker Jason Pearson, whose documentary "Spares: Second Chance Stories of Frozen Embryos" confronts an unsettling truth: 1.6 million human embryos lie frozen in American fertility clinics, each representing a potential life suspended between existence and oblivion. This is not abstract philosophy. Pearson knows the weight of these decisions firsthand - he and his wife faced them while building their family through IVF. Now, he turns his lens on four families grappling with the same moral maze. Their stories cut through the scientific jargon to expose the human heart of this modern dilemma. The numbers are clear: 1.6 million frozen embryos equals the population of Philadelphia, all waiting in steel tanks at near-absolute zero. But beneath the statistics lies a solution few discuss: embryo adoption. Here, Pearson's camera finds hope - families choosing to give these suspended lives a chance at birth. In our wide-ranging discussion, we strip away the medical terminology and political noise to examine the bare truth: every frozen embryo forces us to confront what we believe about human life itself. Through intimate portraits of real families - including one facing the prospect of passing on a genetic brain malformation - Pearson shows us how ordinary people navigate these extraordinary choices. His film isn’t just about about medical procedures. It's about how we face the unintended consequences of our own progress, and whether we can find humane answers to the questions our technology creates. https://www.youtube.com/embed/nW3G7_3t_BM 2024-12-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-game-changing-russian-missile/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j8xKjRpHpuc/hqdefault.jpg How Dangerous is Russia’s Oreshnik Missile? Pentagon Expert Explains In this unsettling episode of The Bill Walton Show, national security expert Stephen Bryen returns to cut through the fog about Russia's game-changing hypersonic missile and what it means for U.S. security. As Joe Biden requests another $24 billion for Ukraine, Bryen reveals how Russia has achieved strategic superiority in missile technology - a capability we cannot match or defend against. Dr. Stephen Bryen, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, has over 50 years national security experience including many stints in the Pentagon where he became one of the world’s leading experts on the arms trade. Speaking with precision born from decades of defense expertise, Bryen explains how this new missile travels at Mach 20, pulverizes underground bunkers without explosives, and can strike anywhere in Europe. More concerning: the United States has no equivalent weapon and no defensive system to stop it. Drawing on a recent German think tank report, Bryen also exposes NATO's military unpreparedness, challenging comfortable assumptions about Western military superiority. His analysis is clinical, factual, and deeply disturbing for anyone concerned about U.S. and European security. Key Revelations: [00:53] Game Changer - Russian missile hits targets at 15,224 mph with unstoppable force [06:20] Bunker Killer - Missile turns underground facilities to dust without explosives [10:02] Defensive Gap - U.S. Patriot systems useless against hypersonic threats [08:25] Strategic Shift - All European capitals now within Russian strike range [09:21] Capability Gap - U.S. attempted similar weapon; Lockheed program failed [15:23] Intelligence Failure - U.S. knew about weapon but ignored implications [19:51] Ukraine Reality - Ukrainian forces losing 1,000 soldiers per day [24:48] Depleted Arsenal - U.S. weapons sent to Ukraine leaving Pacific allies exposed [21:54] Negotiation Leverage - Putin seeks sanctions relief, not just military victory [28:50] Warning Signal - Bryen urges… https://www.youtube.com/embed/j8xKjRpHpuc 2040 2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-cia-and-fbi-are-beyond-repair/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qDQOe_BjO2k/hqdefault.jpg The CIA and FBI are Beyond Repair When former CIA station chiefs admit that only 50 out of 1,500 clandestine service officers are truly effective, you know something's deeply wrong with our intelligence agencies. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qDQOe_BjO2k 3000 2024-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-global-war-on-freedom-how-the-us-corporate-transparency-act-and-the-eu-digital-services-act-threaten-liberty/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Zm89mydRWU/hqdefault.jpg A Global War on Freedom: How the US Corporate Transparency Act and the EU Digital Services Act Threaten Liberty In a riveting conversation with Peter Mcilvenna of the UK’s Hearts of Oak, we describe what may be the most aggressive US domestic surveillance program since the Patriot Act – and its disturbing connection to a global censorship agenda. The story that emerges isn't just about US regulation; it's about the systematic and coordinated dismantling of economic and expressive freedoms on both sides of the Atlantic. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Zm89mydRWU 2700 2024-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/nuclear-nightmares-experts-say-were-close-to-armageddon/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8jzaRII5X-Y/hqdefault.jpg Nuclear Nightmares: Experts Say We’re Close to Armageddon In the time it takes to read this article, a nuclear exchange could begin from any of four global flashpoints. And most of us don't even know they exist. https://www.youtube.com/embed/8jzaRII5X-Y 60 2024-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/are-we-passing-the-israel-test/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AlkM3N9EDPk/hqdefault.jpg Are We Passing the Israel Test? In this compelling and wide ranging episode of The Bill Walton Show, host Bill Walton engages with the great economic, technology and futurist thinker George Gilder to talk about his provocative book, The Israel Test. https://www.youtube.com/embed/AlkM3N9EDPk 2024-10-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-to-conduct-an-honest-election/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IrqQzormpTI/hqdefault.jpg How to Conduct an Honest Election It won’t be news to anyone that this upcoming election is fraught with many potential problems.  Based on a new study by Just Facts, 10% to 27% of “non-citizen” adults in the U.S. are estimated to be illegally registered to vote. Aggressive attempts to debunk the study have completely failed. https://www.youtube.com/embed/IrqQzormpTI 2880 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-case-for-trump/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Btfz0_xp0xQ/hqdefault.jpg The Case for Trump In this easy to listen to, charming, and informative episode of "The Bill Walton Show," host Bill Walton engages with Mercedes Schlapp, former Trump White House Advisor and Matt Schlapp, leader and Chairman of CPAC in a dynamic discussion about the pressing issues facing America today. Together, and with humor, they dig into the upcoming elections, economic priorities, and the shifting political landscape. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Btfz0_xp0xQ 2940 2024-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/stop-trying-to-reform-schools-start-fresh-with-new-ways-to-teach-our-kids/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EN46ydrn62A/hqdefault.jpg Stop trying to “Reform” Schools, Start Fresh with New Ways to Teach Our Kids Public K12 education in the United States has become the largest government-controlled monopoly in the world, (other than the CCP controlled monopolies in China), spending nearing $1 trillion per year.  And for all the money spent, it’s been a failure. In international tests, American eighth graders score 9th in reading, 16th in science, and 34th in math.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/EN46ydrn62A 3120 2024-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/nato-taunts-russia-with-stephen-bryen-and-brandon-weichert/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MwHZSMXqEo0/hqdefault.jpg “NATO Taunts Russia” with Stephen Bryen and Brandon Weichert This episode examines the three explosive national security crises the United States and world are embroiled in today, any one of which could escalate into igniting a World War III. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MwHZSMXqEo0 60 2024-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/is-technology-a-force-for-good-or-evil/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7TT4OWFiUuw/hqdefault.jpg Is Technology a Force for Good or Evil? For the last 200 years, innovation and technology have produced dramatic increases in living standards and our quality of life.  Yet today there is a widespread and growing belief that technology has become the root of all evils with all sorts of claims being made that it destroys privacy, spreads misinformation, undermines trust, and democracy, eliminates jobs, discriminates by race, and gender, increases inequality, rips off the consumer, harms children, and even threatens the human race. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7TT4OWFiUuw 3300 2024-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/behind-the-curtain-unveiling-the-arabella-networks-vast-influence-on-u-s-politics/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fs0lV2IhPyk/hqdefault.jpg “Behind the Curtain: Unveiling the Arabella Network’s Vast Influence on U.S. Politics” In this episode of The Bill Walton Show, Bill wades into the murky waters of the Left’s “dark money” manipulation of American politics with Scott Walter and Kristen Eastlick with the Capital Research Center.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fs0lV2IhPyk 3060 2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/investing-in-a-polarized-america-federalism-and-entrepreneurship-with-jim-pinkerton/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-1Q8lE85FVM/hqdefault.jpg Investing in a Polarized America: Federalism and Entrepreneurship with Jim Pinkerton In this lively episode of the Bill Walton Show, Bill talks with Jim Pinkerton in a thought-provoking discussion about investing in the turbulent waters of today's toxic political climate. With a focus on the stark Red-Blue divide in America, Jim offers a contrarian view that it’s fertile ground for what he terms "directional investing."  https://www.youtube.com/embed/-1Q8lE85FVM 2760 2024-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-art-of-the-flail-expert-takes-on-us-national-security-blunders-with-stephen-bryen-and-brandon-weichert/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Lqn0Vb1w-xc/hqdefault.jpg The Art of the Flail: Expert Takes on US National Security Blunders with Stephen Bryen and Brandon Weichert This episode of The Bill Walton Show is a riveting discussion with two astute geopolitical analysts, Dr. Steven Bryen and Brandon Weichert.  Together they dissect the exploding tensions in the Middle East, specifically about the dramatic escalation by Iran’s air attack on Israel.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lqn0Vb1w-xc 3540 2024-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/modern-dilemmas-regulatory-capture-global-governance-and-the-surveillance-state-with-dr-robert-w-malone/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hyHDmQ3No1M/hqdefault.jpg Modern Dilemmas: Regulatory Capture, Global Governance, and the Surveillance State with Dr. Robert W. Malone In this episode Bill Walton is joined by Dr. Robert Malone in a wide ranging and engaging discussion about modern societal and financial control mechanisms. Their great concern is the relentless and growing overreach of both governments and corporations into personal freedoms through the guise of security, safety and public health. https://www.youtube.com/embed/hyHDmQ3No1M 60 2024-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/voices-in-the-supreme-court-protecting-our-free-speech-with-aaron-kheriaty-and-jenin-younes/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0NIE_-1qw7U/hqdefault.jpg Voices in the Supreme Court: Protecting Our Free Speech with Aaron Kheriaty and Jenin Younes On March 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Murthy v. Missouri challenging whether the government can induce social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to censor constitutionally protected free speech.   https://www.youtube.com/embed/0NIE_-1qw7U 3480 2024-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-the-united-states-arrogance-ignorance-and-greed-fueled-chinas-rise-with-jim-fanell-and-brad-thayer/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EXAZd77bo-M/hqdefault.jpg How the United States’ Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed Fueled China’s Rise with Jim Fanell and Brad Thayer After achieving victory in the Cold War against the Soviet Union, US political leadership, starting with the Clinton Administration, has made a continuing string of strategic blunders that have brought the United States to the point where - after building China up for decades - we face an enemy determined to become the new global hegemon and that now possesses equal economic, military and diplomatic resources. https://www.youtube.com/embed/EXAZd77bo-M 3360 2024-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-1-ed-meese-on-the-mueller-report-with-ron-nicol/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cNuE5G6nc34/hqdefault.jpg Part 1: Ed Meese on the Mueller Report with Ron Nicol We had the good fortune to have Ron Nicol and Edwin Meese on The Bill Walton Show the day the Mueller report was released. Meese, a former U.S. Attorney General, says Robert Mueller should have made a decision on obstruction of justice by the president and that at least one of his attorneys was a "totally irresponsible, unprofessional, unscrupulous lawyer" whom "should not be in any part of the Department of Justice." There's much more in this penetrating analysis by one of our foremost Constitutional authorities." https://www.youtube.com/embed/cNuE5G6nc34 2019-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/conspiracy-why-fdrs-white-house-ignored-a-chance-to-change-history-with-chris-farrell-and-shea-bradley-farrell/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2j3TGK9rfAk/hqdefault.jpg Conspiracy: Why FDR’s White House Ignored a Chance to Change History with Chris Farrell and Shea Bradley-Farrell What if in 1943 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his White House advisors had acted on an offer from high-ranking German officials that they were prepared to kidnap Adolf Hitler and all of his top cronies.  They would then turn Hitler over to the United States and sign an armistice ending the war with Germany. https://www.youtube.com/embed/2j3TGK9rfAk 2880 2024-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/co2-the-miracle-molecules-with-dr-will-happer-and-greg-wrightstone/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jdPGaxhRJjc/hqdefault.jpg CO2: The Miracle Molecules with Dr Will Happer and Greg Wrightstone Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is portrayed as the worst villain in climate alarmism’s pantheon of satanic gases. The claim is that increasing levels of greenhouse gases are purportedly driving atmospheric warming to dangerous and unprecedented levels which is said to be leading to ever increasing natural disasters, severe weather events and human health concerns. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jdPGaxhRJjc 2024-03-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/its-time-to-leave-the-who-with-reggie-littlejohn-and-meryl-nass/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PtqGyQ-59vE/hqdefault.jpg It’s Time to Leave the WHO with Reggie Littlejohn and Meryl Nass At a meeting of the World Health Assembly at the end of May, less than three months from now, the World Health Organization (WHO) will be voting to amend its International Health Regulations agreement and to create a brand new Pandemic Agreement.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/PtqGyQ-59vE 3060 2024-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/ukraine-has-the-us-lost-yet-another-proxy-war-with-stephen-bryen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z8X6cnf3mFw/hqdefault.jpg Ukraine: Has the US Lost Yet Another Proxy War? with Stephen Bryen While Americans have become preoccupied with other things - the election, the border, the economy - events in Ukraine are spinning out of control. People have been talking hopefully about a ceasefire and a truce. Instead, with a couple of more blunders we could be heading for a World War III.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z8X6cnf3mFw 2220 2024-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/motorhome-prophecies-a-journey-of-healing-and-forgiveness-with-carrie-sheffield/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u7PE_HpmpMI/hqdefault.jpg Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness with Carrie Sheffield In this episode Bill follows up from his last conversation with Carrie Sheffield to talk about her extraordinary memoir, which is being published this week: Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness.  As you’ll learn, the book is much more than her riveting and heartwrenching personal story. It is a beacon, reminding us that even the direst circumstances need not dictate the outcome of our lives. https://www.youtube.com/embed/u7PE_HpmpMI 3300 2024-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/cpac-2024-panel-the-globalists-threat-to-sovereignty-the-who-and-un-climate-agenda/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1ZlPdDHo-po/maxresdefault.jpg CPAC 2024 Panel – The Globalists’ Threat to Sovereignty: the WHO and UN Climate Agenda An episode of The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ZlPdDHo-po?si=uxS2wd6cTaYW-L9P 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/are-you-on-a-cia-or-fbi-list-with-j-michael-waller/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EiSXz1Md4Kc/hqdefault.jpg Are you on a CIA or FBI list? with J. Michael Waller Once upon a time, the FBI and the CIA fought America's criminals at home and enemies abroad. Now, at our great loss, they've become captured by the ideology and agenda of cultural Marxism. Moreover, as Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Mike Benz revealed, the national security state has evolved into a main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. https://www.youtube.com/embed/EiSXz1Md4Kc 3540 2024-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/last-warning-to-the-west-with-dr-shea-bradley-farrell/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qN5dKhGLJbk/hqdefault.jpg Last Warning to the West with Dr. Shea Bradley-Farrell Hungary is a small country with less than 10 million people, landlocked in the middle of Europe. Seemingly irrelevant, it is hated by the woke globalists and it's the focus of angry smear campaigns against it and its president, Viktor Orbán. Yet at the same time, it's praised as a global leader for freedom and as a model of conservative values. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qN5dKhGLJbk 2700 2024-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-do-we-know-what-we-think-we-know-is-true-with-jim-agresti/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kwMTS9l_BGY/hqdefault.jpg How do we know what we think we know is true? with Jim Agresti In this age of fake news, disinformation, shadow banning and government agencies like CISA aiming to manipulate what it calls our “cognitive infrastructure” it is hard to answer this question.  To explore how we can go about finding what’s true and what is not,  Jim Agresti, the founder of Just Facts, returns to help clarify our thinking.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/kwMTS9l_BGY 2700 2024-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-virtues-and-beauties-of-freedom-with-jeffrey-tucker/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mg-PBXN7BLg/hqdefault.jpg The Virtues and Beauties of Freedom with Jeffrey Tucker When Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina in November, Argentinians empowered the first self-proclaimed “anarcho capitalist” as a head of state in modern history. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mg-PBXN7BLg 2640 2024-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/welcome-to-2024/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vBTRV3ddQyo/hqdefault.jpg Welcome to 2024! As we launch into what is sure to be a tumultuous 2024, keep in mind Shakespeare’s counsel: “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”  We can’t just let events “play out” this year; our fate is in our own hands.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/vBTRV3ddQyo 1500 2024-01-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/natural-asset-companies-a-scheme-to-profit-from-the-degrowth-agenda-with-margaret-byfield/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gzu92fc6URk/hqdefault.jpg Natural Asset Companies: A Scheme to Profit From the “Degrowth” Agenda with Margaret Byfield On September 27, 2023, the New York Stock Exchange and the Intrinsic Exchange Group submitted a proposal to the Securities and Exchange Commission to create a new type of company called a “Natural Asset Company”, or “NAC” whose primary purpose would be to manage and grow so-called “ecosystem services” on land throughout the United States. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gzu92fc6URk 2640 2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/bidens-foreign-policy-team-staggers-into-2024-with-brandon-wiechert/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MoW899ou33E/hqdefault.jpg Biden’s Foreign Policy Team Staggers into 2024 with Brandon Wiechert Is 2024 going to be the year that determines whether the United States remains as the global superpower or whether it truly becomes a declining power surrounded by rising powers, especially China? https://www.youtube.com/embed/MoW899ou33E 2880 2024-01-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-sins-of-arrogance-and-stupidity-are-now-visited-upon-the-children-with-jennifer-sey/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Inm0OoHWE5s/hqdefault.jpg The Sins of Arrogance and Stupidity are now Visited Upon the Children with Jennifer Sey World-class gymnast, author, filmmaker, and next-in-line to become CEO of Levi Strauss, Jennifer Sey talks pandemic-era school lockdowns and the backlash she received for speaking out against the school shutdowns with Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Inm0OoHWE5s 2160 2023-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/surprising-facts-about-co2-with-dr-william-happer-and-gregory-wrightstone/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8L7gpqeJLTw/hqdefault.jpg Surprising Facts About CO2 with Dr. William Happer and Gregory Wrightstone We’re inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks, and "experts" saying that our climate is changing for the worse, and that it is our fault because of man-made CO2 emissions.  But despite apocalyptic predictions about climate, our earth, the planet is improving. https://www.youtube.com/embed/8L7gpqeJLTw 3420 2023-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-global-reality-check-with-stephen-bryen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TNzt4lnciHg/hqdefault.jpg A Global Reality Check with Stephen Bryen In this candid and insightful episode of the "Bill Walton Show," Stephen Bryen, a seasoned expert with over half a century of experience in national security and arms trade, shares his incisive views on the current state of global geopolitics. https://www.youtube.com/embed/TNzt4lnciHg 2400 2023-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/growth-innovation-and-human-flourishing-on-an-infinitely-bountiful-planet-w-marian-tupy/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V1eOjK0LcsU/hqdefault.jpg Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet w/Marian Tupy You can’t fix what is wrong in the world if you don’t know what’s actually happening. Polls show that most smart people tend to believe that the state of the world is getting worse. In the United States, almost 3/4 of Americans believe the world is getting worse and only 6% think it's getting better. But according to Marian Tupy, our guest on this episode, “this dark view of the prospects for humanity, and the natural world is, in large part, badly mistaken.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/V1eOjK0LcsU 2640 2023-11-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/confronting-brute-force-economics-with-robert-d-atkinson/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/20gXwxzOLxU/hqdefault.jpg Confronting Brute Force Economics with Robert D. Atkinson The Chinese Communist Party sees technology innovation as the main battlefield of its industrial policy - and its ultimate weapon for achieving global dominance. https://www.youtube.com/embed/20gXwxzOLxU 3300 2023-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-conversation-with-the-extraordinary-winsome-earle-sears/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HNEyoNhyn3E/hqdefault.jpg A Conversation with the Extraordinary Winsome Earle-Sears Winsome Earle-Sears sent shock waves across Virginia and the country at large when she pulled off her stunning upset victory in November 2021 and became the first Lieutenant Governor of Virginia who is a woman, the first naturalized female citizen, the first female veteran elected to statewide office and who also happens to be black.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/HNEyoNhyn3E 3480 2023-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-terrifying-truth-about-chinas-grip-on-america-a-new-cold-war-unveiled-frank-gaffney-and-bradley-thayer/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dH0zYTXlMw8/hqdefault.jpg The Terrifying Truth About China’s Grip on America | A New Cold War Unveiled – Frank Gaffney and Bradley Thayer China is the single most formidable strategic threat the United States has ever faced. It alone has the potential to replace the United States as the world’s hegemon. China is not a typical foreign adversary on another shore, gathering behind its army, aggressive, thinking about land warfare, even nuclear warfare. This is an enemy that's permeated the United States, it's infiltrated into our culture and China’s strategy of “elite capture” is working. A lot of the leadership class in America seems to be in the pocket of the Chinese. https://www.youtube.com/embed/dH0zYTXlMw8 60 2023-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/you-cant-win-the-culture-war-without-making-movies-michael-and-thomas-pack/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z7kEww4cOrY/hqdefault.jpg You Can’t Win the Culture War Without Making Movies -Michael and Thomas Pack In the United States just four networks: Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, and HBOMax spend almost $75 billion every year on film, TV and streaming content. And most of this spending goes toward woke, progressive-themed entertainment. The progressive Left has come to dominate our institutions and our culture and they’ve been remarkably successful in using the art of narrative storytelling to promote their agenda. https://www.youtube.com/embed/z7kEww4cOrY 2700 2023-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-golden-gate-power-sex-class-and-justice-in-1940s-california-with-amy-chua/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/959QeIG7fkM/hqdefault.jpg “The Golden Gate: Power, Sex, Class and Justice in 1940s California” with Amy Chua In this episode of the Bill Walton Show, my conversation is with Amy Chua,  a provocative and original thinker about culture, world politics, and political tribes. Our main topic is her latest book, The Golden Gate, a novel set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1930s and 1940s. Best known for her Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a memoir about her parenting journey using strict Confucianist child rearing techniques, she is a highly accomplished professor at Yale Law School, and has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people, The Atlantic's “Brave Thinkers” and Foreign Policy's “Global Thinkers.” The Golden Gate is compelling historical thriller that paints a portrait of a California from another era beset by the crosswinds of a world at war and an American society about to undergo massive changes in how race and class define the essence of power, sex, and justice. It’s also filled with fascinating details, like groundbreaking forensic advances, the story of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and the presence of China’s Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Berkeley in the 1940’s Amy brings to this book - and our conversation - her depth of understanding about class structures, culture and ethnic divisions seen in her non-fiction writings. Her first book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, explored the ethnic conflict caused in many societies by "market dominant minorities.” In her Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall examined seven major empires and the theory that their success depended on their tolerance of minorities. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, examined how group loyalty often outweighs any other ideological considerations and argues that the failure to recognize the place of group loyalty has played a major role in the failure of US foreign policy. The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and… https://www.youtube.com/embed/959QeIG7fkM 2940 2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/you-can-prevent-a-stroke-with-dr-joshua-yamamoto/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JZgriwSCabM/hqdefault.jpg “You Can Prevent a Stroke” with Dr Joshua Yamamoto Our guest on this episode of Backstage with Bill Walton is Bill’s cardiologist Dr. Joshua Yamamoto who has some startling and optimistic things to say about our heart health.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/JZgriwSCabM 3600 2023-10-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/what-really-happens-at-burning-man-an-insiders-story-with-kenny-reff/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qw2WBG88mr8/hqdefault.jpg “What Really Happens at Burning Man: An Insider’s Story” with Kenny Reff Once a year, roughly 70,000 “Burners” gather two hours north of Reno in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary city “dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance.” Burners declare that Burning Man isn’t a “festival.” Rather, “it’s a city wherein almost everything that happens is created entirely by its citizens, who are active participants in the experience.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qw2WBG88mr8 3600 2023-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/climate-catastrophe-or-simply-the-weather-with-jay-richards/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4OVa6u2UUq8/hqdefault.jpg “Climate Catastrophe, or Simply the Weather?” with Jay Richards In this episode I’m joined by Jay W. Richards, Ph.D. to talk about “climate change.” We are both skeptical about the claims that man is causing abnormal changes in the climate, mainly by adding CO₂ to the atmosphere, and that we need a political solution - fast! - to somehow arrest the spread of this toxic combination of molecules. We’re even more skeptical that the solution is for governments or the UN coerce us do it, and along the way essentially shut down the modern economy. https://www.youtube.com/embed/4OVa6u2UUq8 1920 2023-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-financial-regulators-have-become-a-progressive-law-unto-themselves-with-todd-zywicki/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-xMjjjUgVMs/hqdefault.jpg How Financial Regulators Have Become a (Progressive) Law Unto Themselves” with Todd Zywicki In this episode I’m talking with Todd Zywicki, the George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law in the Antonin Scalia Law School and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center.  He is also one of the most engaging and clear thinkers about the vast and complicated world of consumer financial services. He was Chair of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law and served as Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.  Todd’s recent article “Restoring the Rule of Law in Finance” served as our launching point for a fascinating - and disturbing - conversation about how financial regulation has become a key weapon in the progressives arsenal to fundamentally change America. https://www.youtube.com/embed/-xMjjjUgVMs 60 2023-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/capitalisms-promise-essentially-infinite-resources-and-human-flourishing-with-george-gilder-and-john-tamny/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g6DweXzJevM/hqdefault.jpg Capitalism’s Promise: Essentially Infinite Resources and Human Flourishing with George Gilder and John Tamny I’m talking in this episode with the upbeat and visionary George Gilder, one of America’s leading economic and technological thinkers, and the author of the groundbreaking books, Wealth and Poverty, Knowledge and Power, The Scandal of Money and now:  Life after Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money  https://www.youtube.com/embed/g6DweXzJevM 3600 2023-08-31T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-surgeon-general-now-wants-to-cure-your-loneliness-what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-stella-morabito-and-mark-tapscott/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mjqnWtSWpt4/hqdefault.jpg The Surgeon General Now Wants To Cure Your Loneliness: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? with Stella Morabito and Mark Tapscott In one of our most talked about episodes, Stella Morabito came on the show in May to talk about her book The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. We talked about the dangerous tyranny of thought creeping into American lives. Government, social media and a new kind of “ruling class” are increasingly working to control speech and behavior and isolate us from one another. This effort is intensifying and spreading throughout society’s institutions. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mjqnWtSWpt4 60 2023-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-victory-for-free-speech-with-jenin-younes/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NO7KUT5qLZo/hqdefault.jpg A Victory for Free Speech with Jenin Younes “America needs to come to terms with the reality and scale of the assault on free speech. Our government has established a vast system of censorship. By keeping it largely secret, it has been able to exert unconstitutional control over medical, scientific and political speech, suppressing debate over questions of great public importance. This is a shocking constitutional violation. All of us, not only the courts, need to recognize what is at stake.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/NO7KUT5qLZo 2640 2023-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-sporting-life-with-haven-pell/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rSQScpqdrP8/hqdefault.jpg “The Sporting Life” with Haven Pell Sometimes, no it’s almost all the time, I wish I could spend more time playing the many sports I love to play. But I don’t. Instead, like most of us, I get caught up in organizations, politics, work, and all the other stuff that life seems to tee up. https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSQScpqdrP8 3600 2023-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/an-early-look-at-a-certain-bestseller-motorhome-prophecies-with-carrie-sheffield/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TdX5RVmgFiE/hqdefault.jpg An Early Look at a Certain Bestseller: “Motorhome Prophecies” with Carrie Sheffield This is a different kind of episode of The Bill Walton Show. My guest is the charming and insightful polymath Carrie Sheffield who is a columnist and broadcaster now with the Independent Women’s Voice. https://www.youtube.com/embed/TdX5RVmgFiE 3540 2023-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/when-free-trade-does-more-harm-than-good-with-robert-lighthizer/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/free-trade-lighthizer.jpeg “When ‘Free Trade’ Does More Harm Than Good” with Robert Lighthizer For regular listeners, you know I like to take on complicated subjects, and try to make clear what’s at stake for all of us. In this episode the Bill Walton Show we take a another deep dive into one of the most complicated and contentious areas of economic policy: International trade. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7R3DRBgZMW8 3600 2023-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/rockhall-sprint/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/rockhall-sprint.jpeg Rockhall Sprint An episode of The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/K9trT0Xm8Ys -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-tennis-players-live-longer/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tennis.jpeg Why Tennis Players live Longer An episode of The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZV8Yf9tZ--c 180 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/an-extraordinary-birthday-gift/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/birthday.jpeg An Extraordinary Birthday Gift An episode of The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/UjNPVVWc6AE 180 2020-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/bill-walton-introduces-president-donald-j-trump-at-recent-conference/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/trump.jpeg Bill Walton Introduces President Donald J. Trump at Recent Conference An episode of The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/JuaDoUrCkLc -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/roosevelt-was-right-we-have-nothing-to-fear-but-fear-itself/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/roosevelt.jpeg Roosevelt was right – we have nothing to fear but fear itself. An episode of The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/UXidNBcKdI0 120 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-does-covid-19-compare-to-other-flus-and-viruses/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/covid.jpeg How does COVID-19 compare to other flus and viruses An episode of The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MLp6hqeXIuY -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-new-night-people/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/logo.jpeg The New Night People Jean Shepard ("Shep"), the legendary 60’s and 70’s WOR NYC late night radio show humorist and storyteller, romantically described the differences between what he considered to be "day people" and "night people.” Day people were conformists, night people were non-conformists, and he was proud to be one of them. Well had he lived to see the streets around the White House last week he would be hard pressed to feel romantic about its new “night people.” Downtown DC at night has become a city transformed. I attended President Trump’s acceptance speech event on Thursday evening, and needed to leave early around 9 pm. As I made my way out alone through security, I suddenly became acutely aware that I’d stepped out into some place dystopian, something I hadn’t noticed when I arrived during daylight. Businesses have been closed and boarded up, and with little traffic, the streets are dark and deserted. No pedestrians walking about. And none of the crowds of tourists that DC usually has this time of year. But the streets were deserted save for one group that was out in force. So called “protesters”, gangs of Black Lives Matters kids roving the streets screaming obscenities. As I walked alone through this, my cell phone rang, my wife checking in. I said, “I don’t want to be on the phone right now. This looks like it could explode.” So as I made my way back to where my car was parked, I guess I was lucky. No one seemed to want to take me on. As I left, I drove through the streets to see what was developing. 16th Street looked ominous, crowded with hundreds of what looked like gang members in their black masks. Gathering for what they had planned next. Later, as people attending the President’s speech left the South Lawn, they pounced. Richard Porter, the Republican National Committeeman from Illinois, describes the scene. “We passed through the gate to cross the street -- and ran into a gauntlet of hate. Two people first rushed to within inches of me, screaming obscenities in… https://www.youtube.com/embed/KXc0qx5TYeA 300 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/financial-regulation-boring-or-terrifying-with-chris-iacovella-and-norbert-michel/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I_qBa0ycgVY/hqdefault.jpg Financial Regulation: Boring, or Terrifying? with Chris Iacovella and Norbert Michel A slew of financial crises that stretch all the way back to the banking Panic of 1907 have been exploited to justify erecting a financial regulatory system that has vastly centralized and expanded federal power over our money.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/I_qBa0ycgVY 3540 2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/biohacked-chinas-race-to-control-life-with-brandon-weichert/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/episode-233-img.jpeg “Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life” with Brandon Weichert "Would you want your DNA and other healthcare data going to an authoritarian regime with a record of exploiting that data for repression and surveillance? Let’s be specific, would you want it going to China?” https://www.youtube.com/embed/8BALWig8ghc 3600 2023-07-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/defining-a-man-and-a-woman-whats-at-stake-with-dr-jay-richards/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/episode-235-img.jpeg “Defining a Man and a Woman: What’s At Stake” with Dr Jay Richards Until recently, no precise legal definition of sex—and especially the terms “male” and “female”—was needed because no one contested it.  Up to now.  Gender activists are rapidly moving to redefine sex in federal laws and regulations, such as Title IX, to include “gender identity.” If this succeeds, it will subvert all preexisting legal references to sex, contrary to their plain intent. https://www.youtube.com/embed/L-asHzR-5pk 1800 2023-07-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-chess-pieces-are-moving-russia-putin-the-wagner-group-ukraine-china-xi-and-blinken-with-stephen-bryen/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/episode-234-img.jpeg “The Chess Pieces are Moving: Russia, Putin, the Wagner Group, Ukraine, China, Xi, and Blinken” with Stephen Bryen Two months ago I wrote “the war in Ukraine drags on at a terrible cost for all involved with no seeming end in sight. Ukraine is on the ropes and running out of manpower with its most of its elite forces destroyed. Missiles for its air defenses are depleted. Both sides are dragooning teenagers and old men for their armies. Russia’s military command is in disarray.”  https://www.youtube.com/embed/sx-9T7oPahY 2460 2023-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/its-high-time-to-retire-senator-tim-kaine-talking-with-senate-candidate-scott-parkinson/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/episode-236-img.jpeg “It’s High Time to Retire Senator Tim Kaine”: Talking with Senate Candidate Scott Parkinson This show only occasionally gets into election politics but we now have a candidate for U.S. Senate from Virginia who is superbly equipped to run a substantive campaign articulating the real issues facing Americans. In this episode I’m introducing Scott Parkinson, who's running for the Senate in the Commonwealth of Virginia, to replace Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. https://www.youtube.com/embed/eKpMcRminjI 2100 2023-07-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/episode-232-our-dystopian-green-energy-future-with-mark-mills/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xVeYy4u3Ha4/hqdefault.jpg “Our Dystopian Green Energy Future” with Mark Mills This episode is about the catastrophic dead ends we face if we plow blindly ahead with the promised “green energy” future. Powerful forces obsessed with CO2 and climate change are determined to replace hydrocarbon fuels with solar and wind energy and other yet to be invented technologies. It’s a obsession fueled by a toxic mix of religious fervor, old fashioned greed and a “degrowth” agenda aimed at dismantling the modern global economy. But setting these agendas aside, has anyone anywhere adequately explained the physics and the economics of the so-called green utopia? My guest on this episode, Mark Mills, has thought it through and has a stark message for us, an inconvenient truth. “There won't be a world powered entirely by wind and solar or batteries. The reason I say that is because it is not possible. We don't have the materials and we can't afford it in either environmental or economic terms.” Mark Mills probably knows more about this than anyone. He's a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on science, technology, and energy issues. He's also faculty fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern, where his focus is on future manufacturing technologies and a strategic partner in an energy software venture fund. This episode defies a brief description. Mark provides tour de force explanations that are well worth an hour of your time to understand. With them you will be equipped to properly understand and debate energy realities. If we are to push back against the dystopian future that a fully-realized climate change agenda guarantees, we need to be armed with informed arguments. Just a few of the highlights: “All energy systems used to deliver useful power to society require building machines, every energy system. So, what you really want to know is how much material does it take to build the machines to make windmills and solar panels. For wind turbines, the amount of concrete glass, polymers, plastics, and steel you need per uni… https://www.youtube.com/embed/xVeYy4u3Ha4 3360 2023-06-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/reclaiming-the-culture-through-film-with-michael-pack/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qUl3Lru1gPE/hqdefault.jpg “Reclaiming the Culture through Film” with Michael Pack Global streaming services are projected to reach over 1.5 billion subscribers in 2025 with worldwide spending on TV, film and documentary production reaching over $220 billion a year. Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, and HBO Max alone account for more than $75 billion of that spend with almost all of it on woke progressive themed entertainment. Looking only at documentaries and small independent features, the Left spends tens of billions of dollars each year. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qUl3Lru1gPE 3060 2023-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/an-action-plan-to-thwart-the-chinese-communist-partys-aim-to-achieve-global-dominion-with-frank-gaffney/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4pJ7woyeMW8/hqdefault.jpg “An Action Plan to Thwart the Chinese Communist Party’s Aim to Achieve Global Dominion” with Frank Gaffney Over three decades ago the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party began in earnest to develop and execute a strategy to bring about what its now President Xi Jinping calls “global governance, directed and enforced from Beijing.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/4pJ7woyeMW8 1680 2023-06-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/you-may-not-be-interested-in-cisa-but-cisa-is-certainly-interested-in-you-with-ben-weingarten-and-frank-gaffney/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1BjOQJfXZUM/hqdefault.jpg “You May Not Be Interested in CISA, But CISA is Certainly Interested in You” with Ben Weingarten and Frank Gaffney “Overwhelming evidence suggests that federal agencies – led by among others, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), buoyed by senior executive branch officials and lawmakers, colluding with Big Tech, and a coterie of often government-coordinated and government-funded “counter-disinformation” organizations, have imposed nothing less than a mass public-private censorship regime on the American people.”  Ben Weingarten, one of America’s leading investigative journalists, at a recent Homeland Security Oversight hearing.  As you’ll learn in this episode, the evidence is overwhelming. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1BjOQJfXZUM 2520 2023-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/googles-utopian-vision-and-the-2024-election-with-dr-robert-epstein-and-jenny-beth-martin/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1ujidQHHkwc/hqdefault.jpg “Google’s Utopian Vision and the 2024 Election” with Dr. Robert Epstein and Jenny Beth Martin Voter and ballot fraud may just be a small part of the problem that conservatives face in the upcoming 2024 elections compared to the power of Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube. Using its “total data collection” systems it can sway the opinions of millions of people and influence how they vote. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ujidQHHkwc 3600 2023-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/its-time-for-the-us-to-use-its-power-to-bring-the-war-in-ukraine-to-an-end-with-stephen-bryen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1qWiNVBxOGo/hqdefault.jpg “It’s Time for the US to Use Its Power to Bring the War in Ukraine to an End” with Stephen Bryen The war in Ukraine drags on at a terrible cost for all involved with no seeming end in sight. Some estimate that there have been almost 400,000 total Russian and Ukraine casualties so far, although both sides claim their losses are much lower. Ukraine is on the ropes and running out of manpower with its most of its elite forces destroyed. Missiles for its air defenses are depleted. Both sides are dragooning teenagers and old men for their armies. Russia’s military command is in disarray. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1qWiNVBxOGo 2100 2023-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-weaponization-of-loneliness-with-stella-morabito/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aftADlvOQDU/hqdefault.jpg “The Weaponization of Loneliness” with Stella Morabito In this episode Stella Morabito returns to talk about her recently published book The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. Stella, a prolific author at The Federalist, writes incisively about the social fallout of propaganda, mob psychology, and the cult mindset, drawing in part from her years as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency where she focused on methods of Soviet propaganda and disinformation, and its state-controlled media. https://www.youtube.com/embed/aftADlvOQDU 3480 2023-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/protecting-investors-from-an-overreaching-regulatory-state-with-chris-iacovella/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_gkETLKPCqY/hqdefault.jpg “Protecting Investors from an Overreaching Regulatory State” with Chris Iacovella When Walmart went public in 1970 and soon thereafter listed on the New York Stock Exchange, its SEC disclosure prospectus was 20 pages long. Today, a prospectus requires massive numbers of mostly obscure disclosures imposing very real liabilities for the issuing company - but which no one reads, except for lawyers who charge $2,000 an hour to read it and to write it - and which can run upwards to 300 pages or more. https://www.youtube.com/embed/_gkETLKPCqY 3240 2023-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-fbis-ambitious-new-plans-with-j-michael-waller/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SOHPGPZyGxM/hqdefault.jpg “The FBI’s Ambitious New Plans” with J. Michael Waller Joining me to talk about the planned building, the FBI’s history and what it’s become today, is my frequent guest and astute observer of US intelligence agencies, Mike Waller. J. Michael Waller, is a Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy where he concentrates on propaganda, political warfare, psychological warfare, and subversion. Mike’s author of a soon to be published book about the CIA and the FBI. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SOHPGPZyGxM 3000 2023-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-differences-between-men-and-women-warriors-and-worriers-with-joyce-benenson/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RLfyCksJ7iM/hqdefault.jpg The Differences Between Men and Women: Warriors and Worriers with Joyce Benenson In this episode, Dr. Joyce Benenson talks with Bill about her book, Warriors and Worriers, which draws her extensive lifelong research on children’s interactions. The result is fascinating array of studies and stories that explore the ways boys and men deter their enemies, while girls and women find assistants to aid them in coping with vulnerable children and elders. https://www.youtube.com/embed/RLfyCksJ7iM 3420 2021-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/what-you-need-to-know-about-your-money-and-the-federal-reserve-with-catos-norbert-michel/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2nID_z4XCyU/hqdefault.jpg “What You Need to Know About Your Money and the Federal Reserve” with Cato’s Norbert Michel Is the Federal Reserve a godlike Zeus able to control our money and the economy, preserve financial stability and keep a lid on inflation?  Or is it like the Wizard of Oz? A little man behind the curtain pulling levers to create smoke and noise to terrify and control people, but in the end only one market participant among many worldwide.  If you’re a bond trader in New York, trying to predict minute day to day changes in interest rates, it’s more like Zeus. For the rest of us, I believe, it’s like Oz.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/2nID_z4XCyU 2760 2023-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/are-we-really-surprised-were-having-another-banking-crisis-alex-pollock-steve-dewey/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Wv56uVW5Q8/hqdefault.jpg Are We Really Surprised We’re Having Another Banking Crisis?-Alex Pollock & Steve Dewey Joining me to talk all this through are Alex Pollock and Steve Dewey. Both are grizzled veterans of the banking and regulatory world, which, as Alex points out, has been hit by a major crisis every decade since the 1970s. Together we have many decades of experience in financial markets. Alex and I have been conversing with each other, and interrupting each other, for almost fifty years. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Wv56uVW5Q8 3600 2023-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/silicon-valley-bank-the-bill-finally-comes-due-with-rick-manning-and-robert-romano/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d9ixDX5A9Qk/hqdefault.jpg “Silicon Valley Bank: The Bill Finally Comes Due” with Rick Manning and Robert Romano This week, Americans for Limited Government published a provocative and insightful piece about the banking system asking, "Has the United States banking system become too big to save?” In the past three years, to finance massive federal spending, the Treasury has issued almost $8 trillion new treasury bonds with almost $4 trillion bought by US banks during the tail-end of the Fed’s era of zero interest rates.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/d9ixDX5A9Qk 3180 2023-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-labor-departments-radical-agenda-with-pat-pizzella/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k4xwKSHO1YE/hqdefault.jpg “The Labor Department’s Radical Agenda” with Pat Pizzella Under President Joe Biden and his Administration the whole of government has been weaponized to promote a so-called Diversity Equity and Inclusion agenda that, in fact, will bring about just the opposite of what these words mean.  Case in point is an assertive, left-wing, anti-family Department of Labor with its power to regulate and attempt to social engineer virtually every aspect of the American workplace.  Congress has granted it a stunning amount of power to administer more than 180 federal laws and thousands of regulations affecting more than 10 million employers and 150 million workers. And almost no knows what it does. https://www.youtube.com/embed/k4xwKSHO1YE 2880 2023-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-ugly-truth-about-the-white-house-the-fbi-and-the-social-media-companies-with-jenin-younes-and-todd-zywicki/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TffqQJz88ug/hqdefault.jpg “The Ugly Truth About the White House, the FBI and the Social Media Companies” with Jenin Younes and Todd Zywicki The censorship regime has been widespread and relentless. Our argument here is that the companies, as private actors, have a right to do that, but that the government does not have a right to coerce private actors to do what the government wants them to do. https://www.youtube.com/embed/TffqQJz88ug 3420 2023-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/ukraine-its-time-for-realism-with-david-goldman-and-stephen-bryen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HFORly3cke0/hqdefault.jpg “Ukraine: It’s Time for Realism” with David Goldman and Stephen Bryen “The global utopians, led by the likes of Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland, have plunged us into a war which could take us into a real catastrophe,” says David. Already, they’ve let take root a Russian coalition with China, Iran, North Korea, and perhaps Turkey and India. Whether or not Vladimir Putin made a costly mistake in invading Ukraine, the big battles right now are going badly for the Ukrainians and the Russians have solidified their gains. “The Ukrainians are out of ammunition,” says Stephen. “They're out of air power. They're out of air defenses. Their artillery is running low and it's a grim situation for them.” By escalating and destroying major Russian infrastructure, you risk widening the war in Europe. And this is not a war, at least a conventional war, that the United States could win. “I don't think the United States can fight in Ukraine at present without building up all the logistics, all the capabilities,” explains Stephen. “It would take years. It's not going to happen.”  “American forces haven't fought a peer in a long time,” reminds David. “The Ukrainians probably fight a lot better than any American unit could at this point, who have only fought goat herders for the past 40 years. So I'm not sure how well American troops would perform, and that would be a real risk to take.” Pursuing this dangerous anti-Russian agenda is not in the best strategic interests of the United States.  “We need a realist foreign policy. Donald Trump, of whom I have a long list of criticisms, managed to get out of office with no real important conflicts with the Russians, with a peace agreement between Israel and some of the Gulf states, and a generally stable world.” “I wish this could be settled. It is crying out for a political settlement. It's absolutely crying. It's in our international interests, in our strategic interests, in our leadership interests in the world, which is all important, that we settle this thing,” warns Stephen.  “And the l… https://www.youtube.com/embed/HFORly3cke0 3120 2023-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/what-the-grateful-dead-and-successful-dealmakers-have-in-common-with-marc-morgenstern/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x3KuX36inbQ/hqdefault.jpg “What The Grateful Dead and Successful Dealmakers Have in Common” with Marc Morgenstern Backstage with Bill Walton In this episode I compare notes and share stories with veteran dealmaker and entrepreneur Marc Morgenstern. In today’s polarized world, where people seem intent on not agreeing, Marc has had a long and successful career helping opposing sides come to agreement. He’s completed billions of dollars of M&A transactions, buying, selling, and financing businesses as a managing partner of law firm Kahn Kleiman and as a venture capitalist. Marc’s new book The Soul of the Deal: Creative Frameworks for Buying, Selling, and Investing in Any Business creatively reframes and radically changes how we can approach dealmaking of any type. Marc is a brilliant synthesist who weaves in, for example, what he’s learned as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, as a leader of several rock bands in college (Yale) and as a lifelong fan of The Grateful Dead. He’s come to believe - and I think this is right - that much of the conflict in dealmaking comes from seeing the other side as an opponent. They’d do better to listen like musicians rather than as lawyers. “When you saw the Dead over time in many different venues, in many different cities, a thousand seats to a hundred thousand seats, you realize that they took into account, whether it's conscious or unconscious, that this is a different audience, these are different acoustics. I'm in a better mood, I'm in a worse mood. It doesn’t matter,” explains Marc. “So the fact that you played something five nights ago one way, doesn't mean you’re going to play it that way tonight.” “In the deal world, I think of each counterparty as my audience and in every deal I've got a different counterparty with different needs.” A wise and creative man, Marc’s also has taught at UC Berkeley and is on the boards of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rex Foundation, which was started by members of the Dead. This is a fun and enlightening conversation and Marc has a lot to teach us. Backstage and off the beate… https://www.youtube.com/embed/x3KuX36inbQ 2700 2023-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/to-shrink-government-cut-taxes-how-the-states-are-doing-it-with-grover-norquist/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bhZWWAfJJiE/hqdefault.jpg “To Shrink Government, Cut Taxes: How the States are Doing It” with Grover Norquist For an excellent primer about how the politics of our over-complicated state and local tax systems operate, this conversation with Grover Norquist is absolutely the place to start.  It's comprehensive, easy to understand and often humorous, as only Grover knows how to make it. (When Grover is not doing taxes, he’s doing stand-up comedy. For real, and he’s good at it.)  As founder of Americans for Tax Reform, which opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle, no one in modern times has fought harder than Grover Norquist to shrink the state by keeping the issue of high taxes and IRS abuses in the public eye.  To my delight, I learn that there are some good things taking place at the state level, where many states are either getting rid of their income tax altogether or moving to a flat tax. Grover explains where and how this is happening, with ATR playing a leading role.  “Americans for Tax Reform,” explains Grover, “hosts frequent conference calls among the various governors and legislative leaders. We’re creating a community where each of the governors understands fully well that most other Republican governors are phasing down to zero or significantly cutting tax.” But how can states afford to have no income tax? Grover tells us how.  “How does Florida pay for it? Florida 22 million people. New York, 20 million. Florida spends a $100 billion on state government. It's a lot, a $100 billion. New York, twice as much, 200 billion.” “But the roads aren't any better up in New York. Public safety and cops aren't any better. Schools aren't any better. They hire more government employees, pay them more and have ridiculous pensions. That's what you get for twice the cost of state government. New York wouldn't need an income tax if they spend half as much. So the key is spending restraint.” Of course politicians have figured out a lot of other ways to tax us besides the income tax. Sales taxes. Property taxes. Excise taxes. Capital gains taxes. Cigarette taxes. Estate… https://www.youtube.com/embed/bhZWWAfJJiE 3300 2023-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/ukraine-the-balloon-and-the-loss-of-us-hegemony-with-brandon-weichert/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5t3fxx35BTc/hqdefault.jpg “Ukraine, The Balloon and the Loss of US Hegemony” with Brandon Weichert. Events are picking up pace rapidly on the world stage and I’ve asked my frequent guest Brandon Weichert to join me to help explain what’s happening. Brandon, geopolitical analyst and publisher of The Weichert Report, is among the best at connecting the dots globally with his bold and unnerving forecasts. Among the many issues brewing that we get into: Russia is amassing up to 400 thousand troops on Ukraine's borders for a winter offensive, objectives unknown. Nuclear escalation looms.  The Chinese sent a satellite balloon hovering ominously across the entire United States as it presumably took surveillance photos. Strangely, the Biden Administration, which is all in to defend the borders of Ukraine, refused to protect America’s own airspace. Why wasn’t it shot down sooner? Our southern border with Mexico has been left wide open for over two years. The United States’ enemies - and its friends - have watched us admit almost five million undocumented aliens, whose purposes and destinations are unknown.  South Korea's president is having a public meltdown about no longer having reliable American nuclear protection. He has reason to be concerned. Joe Biden, just two weeks ago, declared that “global warming is the single most existential threat to humanity we have ever faced, including nuclear weapons.” Did the way Biden fail to confront the Chinese balloon sooner than he did reflect this priority?   Brandon conjectures: “A political decision in the White House was made to let it just pass by quietly because the Biden administration didn't want to rock the boat going into their global warming negotiations with China. They worried that if they shot it down, that the Chinese would freak out and leave the meeting before anything could get done”. “If it wasn't for a local Montana newspaper, we wouldn't have known about any of this. This would have been just another conspiracy theory on the internet.” With Ukraine, United States strategic objectives could have been the preser… https://www.youtube.com/embed/5t3fxx35BTc 2820 2023-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/its-high-time-for-a-ceasefire-in-ukraine-with-stephen-bryen-and-david-p-goldman/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yn13gkhyESY/hqdefault.jpg “It’s High Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine” with Stephen Bryen and David P. Goldman As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds on, it’s nearly impossible for the ordinary observer to figure out what's really happening. One of the problems is that war news is generated primarily by Ukrainian propaganda, which is endlessly parroted in the Western media. Anytime there is contradictory information – for example, mention of Ukraine’s high casualties – Kiev pushes back so hard that Western leaders go silent. But what is clear is that looming on the horizon is the very real possibility of a nuclear war, as more and more European countries are drawn in to the conflict. https://www.youtube.com/embed/yn13gkhyESY 2520 2023-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-truth-about-energy-global-warming-and-climate-change-with-dr-jerome-corsi-phd/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RTxYIWbkoYA/hqdefault.jpg “The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change” with Dr Jerome Corsi, PhD “This whole climate hysteria seems to focus on a molecule - carbon dioxide (CO2) - which we humans exhale and which we release into the atmosphere by burning so-called fossil fuels,” explains my guest on this episode Jerome Corsi, PhD. But what are realities of CO2, who is behind the agenda to demonize it and - most importantly - who benefits? https://www.youtube.com/embed/RTxYIWbkoYA 3300 2023-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/its-happening-according-to-plan-with-kevin-freeman/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vz7rqwiH2b4/hqdefault.jpg “It’s Happening According to Plan” with Kevin Freeman If someone wanted to weaken, then destroy a sovereign and free United States, what would they do? Well they might start with surrendering its energy independence. Make war on reliable fossil fuels oil and gas, coal and nuclear power.  Induce it to rely on wind and solar energy sources that are certain to lead to rolling blackouts and the ultimate failure of America’s electrical grid. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vz7rqwiH2b4 1860 2022-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/office-buildings-will-we-ever-go-back-with-john-scheurer/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lrTn1-v8OAU/hqdefault.jpg “Office Buildings: Will We Ever Go Back?” with John Scheurer In 2020, over 30 years later, futurist and management guru Peter Drucker’s prediction came true with a bang. With the mandated COVID lockdowns, suddenly everybody had to learn to work from home. Office occupancy plummeted from 90% to 10% and we all learned about how to Zoom. Since then people are going back to the office, but occupancy still averages only 40 to 50% depending on the market, and in New York lower. So what’s going to happen next? https://www.youtube.com/embed/lrTn1-v8OAU 2340 2022-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-money-confusion-why-inflation-now-with-john-tamny/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sLD84Hj5KSE/hqdefault.jpg “The Money Confusion: Why Inflation Now?” with John Tamny In 1974, with annual inflation raging over 12%, President Gerald Ford introduced WIN (“whip inflation now”) buttons telling Americans: “To help increase food and lower prices, grow more and waste less. To help save scarce fuel in the energy crisis, drive less, heat less.” In other words, the responsibility to fix inflation fell to ordinary Americans. It didn’t work - because they didn’t cause it in the first place - and it would be another eight years before Fed Chairman Paul Volcker tamed the inflation beast. https://www.youtube.com/embed/sLD84Hj5KSE 2460 2022-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-policy-responses-to-the-pandemic-continue-to-shatter-our-world-with-jeffrey-tucker/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wphZckVazEQ/hqdefault.jpg “How Policy Responses to the Pandemic Continue to Shatter Our World” with Jeffrey Tucker The world has suffered and continues to suffer catastrophic economic and social damage from the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 - but not from the virus itself. Rather we’re in the midst of a continuing global crisis created by governments’ policy responses to the pandemic. Trillions of dollars of Federal “relief” spending Financed by the Federal Reserve massively increasing the money supply And the countless coercive rules and restrictions implemented to stop a Covid virus that came anyway. The result is the highest inflation in 40 years, which is not slowing down but accelerating. Of course there are other forces at work, like the Biden Administration’s war on fossil fuels, but the root causes of inflation were in place before that. To understand this better and what we need to be concerned about next, in this episode I talk with the great Jeffrey A. Tucker, the founder of the Brownstone Institute and author of the recently published “Liberty or Lockdown.” Our topic: his speech at Hillsdale College and related article about“The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response.” From the beginning - and starting with Donald Trump’s response - the idea of “the economy” – viewed as mechanistic, money-centered, mostly about the stock market, and detached from anything truly important – was pitted against public health and lives,” reminds Jeffrey. When governments started declaring some businesses essential and others non-essential what they did not understand is that everything in a economy is interconnected. It's woven. It’s never obvious, but if you cut even one thread, all of a sudden the whole fabric can start to unravel. You cannot just turn off an economy and expect that you can restart it with a snap of your fingers. The same thing was done with medical procedures and treatments and hospital beds. Some were declared “essential”, others not. Perversely, spending on healthcare plummeted during the pandemic. Non-virus health conditions worsened and life expectancy in America… https://www.youtube.com/embed/wphZckVazEQ 1800 2022-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-red-trickle-where-do-our-elections-go-from-here-with-paul-teller-phd/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LNMtW2RP8S4/hqdefault.jpg “The Red Trickle: Where Do Our Elections Go From Here?” with Paul Teller PhD To put it mildly, the expected massive Republican Red Wave in the recent 2022 midterm elections didn’t materialize.  Even though 75% of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, the election gave us status quo. Virtually every Governor, Senator and House incumbent won reelection. Trump states elected Republican Senators and Biden states elected Democrats. And despite House Republicans getting six million more votes than Democrats (52.3% compared to 46.2%), these votes did not translate into a surge of seats for Republicans. With more and more districts tightly gerrymandered, Democrat incumbents hung on if only by narrow margins.  So what happened? Was it the issues, the money, the candidates, local factors, or something else?  Joining me to explore this question, and where we go from here, is Paul Teller PhD, the Executive Director of Advancing American Freedom who served in the Trump White House as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and then as Director of Strategic Affairs for Vice President Mike Pence. Paul was also Chief of Staff for Senator Ted Cruz. Issues and candidates matter, but how we vote now may matter much more.  The COVID lockdowns in 2020 provided the pretext of crisis to radically change American elections to mail-in and early voting, and in ways that now vary wildly state-by-state. Election Day is a thing of the past. Mail in ballots start coming in months earlier. Returns are not counted for days and ballots are both cast and counted under radically different and often suspicious conditions. “The reason in-person voting was always so important was someone else checks you in,” explains Paul. “A different person gives you a ballot, maybe a different person shows you how to in insert your ballot. Just different eyeballs. And so there's less chance for fraud because there's so many different kind of checks in the system.” The Democrats—with overwhelming media and money advantages—have mastered the arts of massive a… https://www.youtube.com/embed/LNMtW2RP8S4 2040 2022-11-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-pro-human-answer-to-intolerance-racism-with-bion-bartning/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Km3vGKcU8Qg/hqdefault.jpg “The Pro-Human Answer to Intolerance & Racism” with Bion Bartning In this episode I’m joined by Bion Bartning, the founder of FAIR, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. An entrepreneur and investor, Bion also co-founded eos Products, a personal care brand best known today for its iconic egg-shaped lip balm. Bion launched FAIR to address head-on the tribalism, identity culture and politics of division that are pitting Americans one against the other. With innocuous terms like diversity, equity and inclusion, or arcane ones like critical race theory, a cynical and intolerant orthodoxy of division is being advocated and enforced throughout America. It’s infected virtually every American institution: colleges, businesses, government, the media, museums and the arts, the military and most alarmingly, our children's K-12 schools.  In schools, “what’s called an “anti-racist” curriculum,” explains Bion, “is in every sense of the word, racist and is teaching children to see themselves fundamentally as defined by the color of their skin, by their immutable characteristics instead of seeing each other as unique individuals who are united by our shared humanity.” What we must be doing instead is to share and teach what it means to be pro-human. These so-called “anti-racist” ideologies have manipulated language in a way that makes it very difficult for normal people to oppose them. Suppose somebody comes in and says, "I'm bringing anti-racism to your institution," and they tell you anti-racism means ending racism, who could be opposed? “Our approach is to reclaim the words, reclaim the language,” explains Bion. “We're just insisting on what those words really mean to the vast majority of people. For example, the word equity means the quality of being fair and impartial.”  “And we're not going to give up on the word diversity. Diversity is a good thing and just because somebody's pushing conformity and calling it diversity doesn't mean that we give up on the word diversity.” In just a year and half, FAIR a mostly volunteer organizati… https://www.youtube.com/embed/Km3vGKcU8Qg 1980 2022-11-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/confronting-the-k-12-racialist-star-chamber-with-sahar-tartak/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h-w0GCmpRrE/hqdefault.jpg “Confronting the K-12 Racialist Star Chamber” with Sahar Tartak Recently The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by my guest on this episode, Yale freshman Sahar Tartak. Titled “My High School’s ‘Antiracist’ Agitprop”, she described how illiberal her supposedly liberal high school had become, and the ways she and other students were “berated, bullied and insulted” for voicing dissent towards the school’s race essentialist policies and programs. The story goes like this. In 2021 Great Neck North High School directed the student government to give $375 of student funds to a “racial equity” group to speak to the student body about “systemic racism.” Sahar, then a Senior at Great Neck, was the student government’s treasurer, and felt they didn’t know enough about the organization and its mission to disburse the funds. So she refused to sign the check. What happened next was that the full weight of the education cartel’s racialist star chamber fell upon a smart and courageous 17 year old. The teachers who advise the student government berated, bullied and insulted her at their next meeting. They began by announcing that her social studies teacher would be present. Together, the three adults told her that the principal himself found my stance “appalling.” She had made them and the school “look bad,” they told her. One teacher said the situation gave her “hives.” Another said “If you’re not on board with systemic racism, I have trouble with that, girlfriend.” View/Listen to Episode 205 The adults in the room were teachers who had the power to grade and affect her prospects of getting into college. After that, there were a series of tense meetings between Sahar and the administration and her parents, resulting in stalemate. Sahar, whose mother escaped revolutionary Iran, and grandfather escaped the Nazis, wouldn’t back down. “The experience prompted me and a few like-minded others to look into our school’s curriculums. What we found was an arsenal of lopsidedly race-obsessed lesson plans.” One was the American Psychological Associat… https://www.youtube.com/embed/h-w0GCmpRrE 1860 2022-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-climate-change-industrial-complex-trillion-promises-that-it-cant-keep-with-myron-ebell/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-nk2j9VoR7A/hqdefault.jpg “The Climate Change Industrial Complex: Trillion $$$ Promises That It Can’t Keep” with Myron Ebell In this episode I’m talking again with Myron Ebell, Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, one of our most effective advocates for Free Market Environmentalism. Myron led the successful decade-long fight to defeat cap-and-trade legislation and led the effort to convince President Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate treaty. The list of those in the “climate industry” who fear Myron’s effectiveness is long. The radical head of the Sierra Club has said he is “one of the biggest threats our planet has ever faced.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/-nk2j9VoR7A 3600 2022-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/this-is-not-a-nintendo-game-with-dr-stephen-bryen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6hx4OG48nDs/hqdefault.jpg “This is not a Nintendo Game” with Dr Stephen Bryen “There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.” George F. Kennan, 1966 Americans may admire the valiant resistance of the Ukrainians to the Russian invasion and be proud that we have been able to support their defense. Yet now we have to ask: how does this war end? Neither the leaders of Russia or Ukraine have espoused a goal that can restore peace in the area. Nor have any other suppliers of cash, military assistance and equipment - including the United States - articulated what an acceptable outcome might be. At what point are the players in the conflict in Ukraine willing to stop fighting and enter into genuine negotiations to bring peace in Ukraine? The primary concern of any American government must be the security interests of the American people. How is continuing to escalate the conflict in Ukraine serving American interests? To learn more about what’s increasingly looking like madness, I’m talking again with the very wise Dr. Stephen Bryen, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute. Dr Bryen has over 50 years national security experience with a long resume that includes serving as Senior Staff Director of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and several stints in the Pentagon where he was known as the Yoda of the arms trade. “How many Ukrainians have to die before we sort this thing out?” asks Stephen. “What's the end game here?” Ukraine has never been of strategic importance to the United States. We have no treaties or agreements with Ukraine. The Ukrainians are now saying they need air defenses. Where are we going to get them? We would have to take them out of our inventory of active systems and move them to Ukraine. The Biden Administration has been bent on regime change in Russia from day one. There were any number of things that could have been done to deter Put… https://www.youtube.com/embed/6hx4OG48nDs 1920 2022-10-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/bidens-playing-nuclear-war-brinksmanship-with-russia-meanwhile-china-looms-with-kt-mcfarland/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/grmJRrbPNJw/hqdefault.jpg “Biden’s Playing Nuclear War Brinksmanship with Russia; Meanwhile China Looms” with KT McFarland In the 20 months that Joe Biden has been President, his decisions and rhetoric have made the world ever more combustible. Events in Ukraine has reached a flash point. Still, the Biden Administration refuses to negotiate with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The chance of a wider war between NATO and Russia grows ever more likely, a war that would immediately draw in the United States under NATO’s Article 5 requiring collective defense. Worse, supposedly serious people - both in the Biden Administration and many top Republicans - are talking about a “limited nuclear war.’ Do they really want to risk this outcome over a country that most Americans cannot even find on a map? Meanwhile, China is about to elect President Xi Jinping to a third term, effectively anointing him as Emperor for Life. And Xi has his sights set on Taiwan, which like Putin with Ukraine, he believes must be absorbed into China. “The complete reunification of our country must be realized, and it can without a doubt be realized,” he declared this weekend. China will “never promise to renounce the use of force” on Taiwan. Neither Putin, nor Xi, are making idle threats. As my guest on this episode, KT McFarland explains: “Both the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, have the same sort of mindset problem. They think that they have been designated by fate to restore the greatness of their nations and that they personally want to achieve this during their time in office. And they're both in their seventies, so the clock is ticking.” KT McFarland shares her penetrating and savvy insights into these threats from Russian and China and has a plan of action for what to do about them. She has served as Deputy National Security Advisor under President Trump, in the Pentagon under President Reagan and is author of several books including “Revolution: Trump, Washington and “We the People.”” The main thing we need to do now is to keep the Ukraine conflict from escalating.  Putin has… https://www.youtube.com/embed/grmJRrbPNJw 3600 2022-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/surviving-hurricane-ian-while-contemplating-nuclear-armageddon-with-brandon-weichert/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P5nogNCYmMQ/hqdefault.jpg “Surviving Hurricane Ian while Contemplating Nuclear Armageddon” with Brandon Weichert This episode took a couple of twisting turns to complete. A few weeks back, I emailed my friend Brandon Weichert, a very smart geopolitical strategist and publisher of the Weichert Report, to ask if he could come on my show to talk about Ukraine, Putin and the possibilities of a nuclear war. He emailed back that “well, perhaps we could do the recording later this week or next weekend because I've got a category three hurricane bearing down in my home, presently. It might end up in Tampa, but we might be right in the epicenter".  In the event, the hurricane did land, and it landed right on top of Brandon.  “Before the hurricane hits,” shares Brandon, “the night before, I'm watching local news and they're saying it's going to strengthen into a category four, but it looks like it's still going to miss Southwest Florida, it's going to hit Tampa. So we’ll be ok. Not great, but ok.”   “Then I wake up at 7:00 or 8:00 am the next morning and my house is shaking and it's like something from a disaster film. And this hurricane not only strengthened into a category four, but almost a category five! We lost power immediately. We had no internet, no nothing. So I could receive texts and phone calls, but I couldn't make any and I couldn't send anything out.” What happened next is quite a story, and a sobering look at what happens after a real disaster.  Listen in as Brandon shares this first-hand experience surviving Hurricane Ian, but also as we segue into what’s developing in Ukraine, Russia and Putin’s nuclear saber rattling.  There are troubling parallels explains Brandon:  “So this was really a snapshot, I think, of what may happen if, God forbid, this issue with Russia and Ukraine goes nuclear or EMP Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons or involves cyber-attack or space attack or some combination thereof.”  “Because the first thing that I learned, is that our infrastructure is going to collapse. No one will save us.” President Biden seems weirdly glib about the prospect of catast… https://www.youtube.com/embed/P5nogNCYmMQ 2340 2022-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/it-is-time-to-negotiate-peace-between-ukraine-and-russia/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WRta3zFxFys/hqdefault.jpg It is Time to Negotiate Peace Between Ukraine and Russia “These are the cold, hard facts: Russia, the country cornering the European energy market, is profiting from its war against Ukraine, while the West’s adversaries gain economic and global dominance. U.S. Warhawks and like-minded ideologues of the European Union (EU) have enabled a war that grinds on, destroying Ukraine, while its leadership poses artistically for Vogue magazine.”  “And now, in the ninth month, the citizens of the EU are preparing for a cold, dark winter and a fight for which they did not ask.” “Peace will not come to Ukraine until the U.S. and Russia sit down face-to-face and negotiate specific terms and conditions of a peace treaty. Nothing short of that level of negotiation will be effective, respected, or guaranteed.” So declares my guest on this episode of The Bill Walton Show, Dr Shea Bradley-Farrell - and I agree.  Shea is president of the Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research and Education and is a recognized expert in international development, national security, foreign policy and aid, women's empowerment, and human rights. The State Department’s job is to keep us out of war through effective diplomacy. Instead, Anthony Blinken et al has put us at risk of a wider war in Europe, out of control inflation, a steep recession, massive food insecurity, and a nuclear confrontation. The Biden Administration’s brinksmanship tactics have driven Russian and China into an even deeper partnership that has ominous implications for future of the U.S. and its European allies. With the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline, Germany’s economy is on the brink of collapse. German industries and households are starved for energy that grows more expensive with each passing week.  Why has the United States encouraged this war to proceed, sending over $60 billion of American taxpayers money? It now seems apparent that President Biden and the State Department’s aim has been regime change - an ouster of Vladimir Putin - through a proxy war in Ukraine.  This is… https://www.youtube.com/embed/WRta3zFxFys 1800 2022-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-we-can-rein-in-the-power-of-the-federal-government-with-mark-meckler/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r51hFBl9GtQ/hqdefault.jpg “How We Can Rein in the Power of the Federal Government” with Mark Meckler. The genius of the founders who gave us the United States Constitution was that they sought to provide a system of government to guard against the concentration of power by an elite few. Their clear-eyed understanding of human nature was that unchecked power almost always and everywhere has been the source of tyranny throughout history. But for more than a century in America, the Constitution, as drafted and ratified, has been either ignored or, creatively lawyered by Supreme Court rulings, to expand federal power. Washington DC today enjoys almost unchecked power. This is a systemic problem that requires a systemic solution. So says Mark Meckler, my guest on this episode. Mark is founder of the Convention of the States, which calls for using Article V of the Constitution to call a Convention of States to propose amendments. “This is about more than elections. Elections cannot and will not solve the problems of a broken system. The only solution big enough to fix our nation’s problems is a Convention of States for proposing constitutional amendments to rein in federal tyranny.” The Convention of States would only allow the states to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.” Here are some of the types of amendments that could be proposed: • Limiting Supreme Court Justices to nine members of the court • Preventing the federal government from adding states without the affirmative consent of three quarters of the existing states • A limitation on using Executive Orders and federal regulations to enact laws • A balanced budget amendment, including limitations on taxes and spending • Imposition of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) • Single Subject Amendment – One subject per bill in Congress • A redefinition of the General Welfare Clause back to original intent (the original view was the federal government could not spend money on any topic with… https://www.youtube.com/embed/r51hFBl9GtQ 3300 2022-07-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/freedom-cpac-america-and-winning-the-next-election-with-matt-schlapp/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ipLHRaDiQeM/hqdefault.jpg Freedom, CPAC, America and Winning the Next Election with Matt Schlapp This episode is set in our mountainside house in Rappahannock County, Virginia for a wide ranging conversation with my friend, the always engaging and provocative Matt Schlapp, leader and Chairman of CPAC. We cover a lot of ground, with some of the highlights being: Why we believe we’re in the human flourishing business. Why the “diversity, equity and inclusion” mantra is a false God. How CPAC is finding that America’s founding principles and freedoms are resonating all over the world with its international events in Japan, Brazil, Hong Kong, and this week, Israel. What we think is the most important word in CPAC’s name. Where people who share our values should be investing their time and money. Why a “little bit of voter fraud and corruption” is unacceptable when it comes to our elections. What Ron DeSantis can expect if he becomes the Republican standard bearer. This is a fun conversation, especially as we joust and jest with my director Kenny, as the sun moves around the set. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ipLHRaDiQeM 2520 2022-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-supreme-court-reins-in-the-epa-why-what-happens-next-with-john-vecchione-and-casey-norman/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i__B6lsoIUo/hqdefault.jpg “The Supreme Court Reins in the EPA: Why? What Happens Next” with John Vecchione and Casey Norman The Supreme Court’s most momentous decision was not the 5-to-4 vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. That simply sent the issue back to the states to decide. Rather it was the blockbuster decision to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency from claiming powers that Congress did not grant. When Congress passed the Clean Air Act it authorized the EPA to impose the “best system of emission reduction” for carbon-emitting activities. It did not authorize the EPA to shut down electricity generated from coal. It did not authorize a “generation shift” to so-called renewables like wind and solar. The EPA had claimed these powers to order changes of vast economic and political significance and the Supreme Court essentially said “no you can’t do that, not unless there’s legislation that clearly and explicitly authorizes it.” As John Vecchione, my guest on this episode, puts it succinctly: “Why do you write down laws? If you write down the laws, don't those words mean something or can they mean anything?” What the EPA has been saying is ‘We are going to set the CO2 levels such that the coal plants can no longer operate. We want to put the coal plants out of business completely.’  This was not its intended mandate. Join me as I talk with John Vecchione and his colleague Casey Norman, both with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, about the EPA decision and what it means.  If you’re looking a lively, engaging and plain English conversation about the issues, this is the place to start. https://www.youtube.com/embed/i__B6lsoIUo 2640 2022-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/making-america-first-again-with-brooke-rollins/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZIs3v3JPci4/hqdefault.jpg “Making America First Again” with Brooke Rollins As we can all recall, when Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he didn’t exactly come equipped with the detailed plans and the 1,000s of people necessary to bring about his agenda. Essentially, he had to start from scratch. That was part of his appeal. That he did accomplish so much was a testament to the strength of his mission - Make America Great Again - and the power of his personal leadership. Still, there were a lot of missed opportunities. With Republicans likely to get another chance when America elects a Republican President in 2024, we need to get it right. We need to be prepared. Working on just such a project is the America First Policy Institute led by its CEO Brooke Rollins, my guest on this episode. Brooke was Director of the Domestic Policy Council in President Trump’s White House, where she also served as Director of the Office of American Innovation. Simply put, AFPI is developing a detailed blueprint for governing. To put in place the right people, policies, processes, etc.. to bring about transformational change. And doing this while knowing full well that the Deep State will fight tooth and nail to block this agenda - just as it did with Donald Trump. In just over a year, AFPI has assembled a team with 17 former White House senior staffers, 45 former administration officials, and is building an organization that, in Brooke’s words, will “continue to execute, continue the America First agenda to be ready for the next White House, whether that is Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or Ted Cruz or someone we may not even be talking about today. Our side has never been ready. And we're going to change that.” Pay attention to AFPI and Brooke Rollins. What they’re doing can be a game changer. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZIs3v3JPci4 2040 2022-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bil-on-securing-america-june-28/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/79Xt7qgCy38/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America 6/28/22 A guest appearance by Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/79Xt7qgCy38 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-6-21-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/niSHSJpS6ks/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America 6/21/22 A guest appearance by Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/niSHSJpS6ks 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/gun-control-myths-with-dr-john-lott/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P3xtl5RCTGQ/hqdefault.jpg “Gun Control Myths” with Dr. John Lott We've all been appalled by yet another school shooting, this time in Uvalde, Texas. We want these tragedies to stop. We want to do something.  Of course the cries to “do something” almost always means doing something about guns. Yet, the gun bill just signed into law by President Biden is unlikely to prevent future school shootings. There's a lot of evidence to show why it won't work, especially when existing gun laws appear to cost more lives than they save. So says Dr. John Lott, my guest on this episode, and the nation’s leading expert on guns and gun laws. Dr. Lott, with a PhD in economics, is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.  With almost three decades of research, his many books including More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Agains Guns and Gun Control Myths which show that by allowing adults to carry concealed weapons significantly reduces crime in America. Some things you may find surprising:  Between 1950 and May 2022, 96% of mass public shootings in the United States occurred in places where citizens were banned from carrying guns. Yet the mainstream media refuses to mention that the attacks occur in “gun-free” zones. “If someone were threatening you or your family, would you feel safe  putting a sign in front of your home that said this home is a gun-free zone?” asks John. America’s “average” gun crime statistics are badly distorted by black on black murders in our inner cities. Even average deaths of children killed by guns include teenagers, and most of those gun crimes are gang murders. “When people cite the rise in “mass shootings” in America, we need to know that almost 90% are gangs fighting each other over drug turf.” Survey data and news reports show that the fear that targeted victims might be armed deters criminals, and that guns are used in self-defense or to ward off criminal threats about 2.3 million times a year. “Burglars in the United States spend about twice as long casing a home before they break in compared to their British… https://www.youtube.com/embed/P3xtl5RCTGQ 3060 2022-06-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/national-security-realities-threats-and-solutions-with-brandon-weichert/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i7jrJ_1RvWA/hqdefault.jpg “National Security Realities: Threats and Solutions” with Brandon Weichert From the moment President Joe Biden’s administration took office, the world has grown a more dangerous place, and the pace is accelerating. There’s a long list of national security worries that didn’t used to be of concern to everyday Americans, but now are, or should be. Russia, Ukraine and the prospects of a nuclear war. China’s mounting threat to envelop Taiwan, a world leader and supplier of semiconductors and information technology. Collapsing political stability in the Middle East thanks to the Administration’s blunders that have helped Iran's quest to obtain nuclear weapons. The mostly unreported Chinese and Russian quest to dominate outer space. The country that controls space controls the world. And, maybe worst of all, the made-in-America war on fossil fuels, which has driven inflation sky high and made us dependent on our enemies for our energy. Triggered by our disastrous cut and run from Afghanistan last year, the world’s bad actors have been emboldened by America’s weakness. Like Thema and Louise, Joe Biden seems determined to drive us off a cliff. Download The Bill Walton Show and Subscribe on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Joining me on this episode to see what we should and can be doing to keep America safe, is my returning guest, the brilliant Brandon Weichert, publisher of The Weichert Report. And author of  “Winning Space” and the soon to be published “The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy”. Brandon, who has been called a “brilliant and anxiety inducing scholar,” has emerged as one of our most well-informed, original defense intellectuals since the great Herman Kahn. He tells us what we do not want to hear, but need to know, about the gathering threats to our freedom and prosperity. He also offers solutions. https://www.youtube.com/embed/i7jrJ_1RvWA 3600 2022-06-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-6-13-22-part-2/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YW78SJpCJhM/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America 6/13/22 Part 2 A guest appearance by Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/YW78SJpCJhM 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-6-13-22-part-1/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4W4duIaWH6Y/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America 6/13/22 Part 1 A guest appearance by Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/4W4duIaWH6Y 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-6-8-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pHBf2sDCk8M/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America 6/8/22 A guest appearance by Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/pHBf2sDCk8M 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/lessons-from-the-street-stephen-schwarzmans-book-prompts-bill-to-compare-insights-into-the-world-of-money-with-john-tamny/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/joUZXHjUVtU/hqdefault.jpg “Lessons from the Street: Stephen Schwarzman’s Book Prompts Bill to Compare Insights into the World of Money” with John Tamny In this episode, my friend John Tamny interviews me about legendary Wall Street leader and Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman’s book What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence. There are many fascinating insights and lessons in Steve’s book which we can all benefit from. A few highlights: Steve Schwarzman started Blackstone with a unique strategic plan.  There’s a tremendous lesson in how he approached building his firm. For any young man or woman who wants to build a business, or any type of organization, Steve Schwarzman’s book would be a great place to start learning about “what it takes.” When Steve Schwarzman tells his team “don’t lose money” it’s about a mindset. Think through the downsides, what Jay Pritzker called “the horribles.” Both, in part, became billionaires from thinking this way. One of my favorite Steve Schwarzman Rules: “Worrying is an active, liberating activity. If channeled appropriately, it allows you to articulate the downside in any situation and drives you to take action to avoid it." Great advice. Private equity’s been demonized by a lot of people with agendas and who know nothing about it. True, it’s a competitive and tough business, but it’s created a lot of value over the past 4-5 decades. Look at the record. Do companies become woke because their young woke new hires demand it? Disney employees clearly seem to be running the asylum, not its CEO. Is this also true for Wall Street? One of ways our culture has changed, and not for the better, it that we seem to have lost the ideal of pursing excellence. In my private equity experience, making an investment successful was exhilarating. Under President Xi, China’s becoming “uninvestable” for Western businesses. Even Chinese private equity investors say China’s turned hostile to capitalism. No longer simply a competitor, China’s turned enemy. In “What It Takes” Steve Schwarzman writes that had we not had FAS 157 mark-to-market accounting, the meltdown we had in 2008 would not ha… https://www.youtube.com/embed/joUZXHjUVtU 3180 2022-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/cancel-culture-comes-to-banking-with-todd-zywicki-and-paul-watkins/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/07j61agc1ho/hqdefault.jpg “Cancel Culture Comes to Banking” with Todd Zywicki and Paul Watkins Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you were denied access to a bank account or a credit card or access to any kind of digital payment system? Well, it's happening and it's happening to an increasing number of people and organizations. Cancel culture has come to banking. PayPal, major credit card networks and banks have already stopped processing payments for organizations they deem “hate groups.” Remember “Operation Chokepoint”? Well, it’s evolved and gotten even more draconian. And cryptocurrencies, which some thought might be a safe haven, well, maybe not so much. Bitcoin was supposed to be a financial lifeline for the truckers in Canada, but instead, Canadian authorities ordered banks and crypto exchanges to block transactions from crypto wallets tied to the truckers. Seems like everything has now become political, including our digital money. Joining me for a chilling conversation about these threats are Todd Zywicki, who served as Chair of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Task Force on Consumer Financial Law and at George Mason's Scalia Law School, and Paul Watkins with Potomac Partners and Fusion Law Firm. He founded the Office of Innovation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and served on the Digital Financial Stability Oversight Committee's Subcommittee on Digital Assets. Our money has become yet another battlefront in the struggle to preserve a free society. Todd and Paul are serious men talking about a serious issue. Please invest the time to listen and learn. https://www.youtube.com/embed/07j61agc1ho 3540 2022-05-31T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/ukraine-explained-taiwan-explained-with-dr-stephen-bryen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BVY084bst6I/hqdefault.jpg “Ukraine Explained, Taiwan Explained” with Dr Stephen Bryen This episode takes a hard look at what’s really at stake for the United States with Russian’s war on Ukraine, and China’s aim to take over Taiwan. Joining me is one the wisest national security experts around, Dr Stephen Bryen. With 50 years of experience in foreign relations and national security, he’s seen it all. Called the Yoda of the arms trade, he was the Pentagon's top cop, the man whose job it was to ensure that sensitive technology would be kept from enemies, potential enemies and questionable allies. Stephen is the driving force behind the Center for Security Policy’s just published Stopping a Taiwan Invasion. It’s proposals, if adopted, will discourage any attack from China and strengthen peace and security in the Pacific. I’ve a lot of questions, and Stephen provides answers. And some deep insights. Was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine inevitable, or did the we provoke it? Why is Russia’s invasion failing? If Putin’s ousted, what are the odds that someone much worse takes over? How concerned is the veteran intelligence community that we could lurch into a nuclear war over Ukraine? Shouldn’t the Biden administration tell the Europeans and tell Zelensky, that it's time to sit down and figure this out? China is running a dedicated campaign to “uproot the rules based order that has existed in the Indo Pacific region since the end of World War II”. China is mounting its largest military buildup in history. China is ramping up its ambitions to take over Taiwan. And Joe Biden says we’ll go to war to prevent it. How would we win this war? Who would our allies be? Why would we now have more than ever? Why is Taiwan a much bigger issue for the U.S. than Ukraine? What lessons have the Chinese learned from Ukraine? What’s behind President Xi’s lockdown of Shanghai? Has Joe Biden finally gotten something right in drawing the line on Taiwan? There’s a lot more packed into this episode with Dr Stephen Bryen. If you’re looking for an easy-to-understand primer about what’s… https://www.youtube.com/embed/BVY084bst6I 3180 2022-05-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-federal-government-is-using-twitter-to-censor-speech-it-doesnt-like-with-jenin-younes-and-john-vecchione/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IHRRk9o4NV8/hqdefault.jpg “The Federal Government Is Using Twitter to Censor Speech” with Jenin Younes and John Vecchione Is this right and lawful? Well, we now have a test case to find out. In a first-of-its-kind First Amendment lawsuit against the federal government, attorneys Jenin Younes and John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, argue that the government acted wrongfully when it “directed social media platforms, including Twitter, to censor alleged “misinformation” about COVID-19.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/IHRRk9o4NV8 3600 2022-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-are-we-investing-american-retirement-dollars-in-china-with-frank-gaffney-and-roger-robinson/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cf7M6HHm0KU/hqdefault.jpg “Why Are We Investing American Retirement Dollars in China?” with Frank Gaffney and Roger Robinson The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is once again planning to allow federal employees’ to invest their retirement savings into companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. The FRTIB has decided to ignore directives by both President Trump - and President Biden - as well as strong opposition on Capitol Hill, to open a ‘Mutual Fund Window’ in June which would make available to Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) participants the opportunity to invest up to 25% of their savings in some 5,000 mutual funds. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cf7M6HHm0KU 3600 2022-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/john-tamny-and-i-dont-agree-about-everything-and-thats-ok/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b9ZGrVnhG5c/hqdefault.jpg John Tamny and I Don’t Agree About Everything, and That’s OK Author John Tamny joins me on this episode for a freewheeling back and forth about some of today’s big concerns. John, a free market fundamentalist and original thinker, almost always has a contrarian take on things. John’s books include Who Needs the Fed, When Politicians Panicked, Popular Economics and The End of Work. https://www.youtube.com/embed/b9ZGrVnhG5c 3120 2022-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-final-report-card-on-the-states-response-to-covid-19-with-phil-kerpen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TTXbpAxdsdg/hqdefault.jpg “A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID-19” with Phil Kerpen We’re more than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic. So by now, we should know enough to assess what we’ve learned about the measures our governments took to mitigate the virus?  What worked? What didn’t? Fortunately, we now have a comprehensive comparative study, published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, authored by University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan - and Steve Moore and Phil Kerpen of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/TTXbpAxdsdg 3600 2022-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-behind-the-scenes-story-meeting-with-the-bill-walton-show-team/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SfdbAUxzs6s/hqdefault.jpg A Behind The Scenes Story Meeting with The Bill Walton Show Team Listen in to a behind the scenes story meeting as the Bill Walton Show team speculates on what’s going on in the world. Starlink satellites and all the junk flying around in space, Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos, Ukraine, the domino theory, Biden’s open borders, Alyona’s Kazakhstan take on Russia, media’s monolithic coverage of Ukraine, inflation, cooking oil and fertilizer prices, the insane (perhaps) Shanghai covid lockdown, the fragmenting world order and the dollar’s reserve currency status, what’s going on with China and Russia, corporate profits at all time highs … and more. Send us your thoughts about what we should cover. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SfdbAUxzs6s 2100 2022-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/have-us-and-eu-blunders-led-to-putins-war-with-j-michael-waller/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rv7tcQmkDpc/hqdefault.jpg “Have US and EU Blunders Led to Putin’s War?” with J. Michael Waller In this episode I’m talking again with Dr. J. Michael Waller, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy. Mike’s Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today predicted the rise of the KGB, and inevitably, a Vladimir Putin. He was also Annenberg Professor of International Communication at the Institute of World Politics, and instructor in SYOPS operation at the Kennedy Special Warfare Center School at Fort Bragg. https://www.youtube.com/embed/rv7tcQmkDpc 2400 2022-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-4-25-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I5HDdsYLCqw/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America – 4/25/22 American pension funds investing in Chinese companies Economic problems with investing in Chinese companies Assessing the quality of American supply chains https://www.youtube.com/embed/I5HDdsYLCqw 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-part-2-4-18-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5pPA2EllqSE/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America Part 2 – 4/18/22 Bill Walton talks about the threat China poses to the Thrift Savings Plan https://www.youtube.com/embed/5pPA2EllqSE 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-part-1-4-18-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S_y1kchjGTM/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America Part 1 – 4/18/22 Bill Walton talks about the prospect of a Chinese digital currency, the eYuan https://www.youtube.com/embed/S_y1kchjGTM 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/are-we-misreading-putins-war-aims-with-dr-peter-vincent-pry/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bG41HitfXDg/hqdefault.jpg “Are We Misreading Putin’s War Aims” with Dr. Peter Vincent Pry This episode is a follow-up to my conversation a few weeks ago with Dr. Peter Vincent Pry about our concerns that our Administration’s responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine could lead to nuclear war. Today, we consider also an alternate possibility that Vladimir Putin is playing a much deeper game than most in the West have imagined. https://www.youtube.com/embed/bG41HitfXDg 2520 2022-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-brave-new-and-more-dangerous-world-with-brandon-weichert/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MyFdYnRqCU0/hqdefault.jpg “A Brave New – and More Dangerous – World” with Brandon Weichert Since the COVID-19 virus was loosed upon the world, either intentionally or accidentally, from Wuhan, China, the world has been fundamentally changed. The globalist economic and geopolitical fabric has been torn. There is no one single dominant power anymore and the post Cold War, unipolar world system is gone and is not coming back. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MyFdYnRqCU0 3600 2022-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-4-11-22-part-2/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9p-FfvOLF-8/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America 4/11/22 – part 2 Bill Walton talks about the “Masters of the Universe” on Wall Street and their plans for tomorrow’s monetary policy: “…in the case of Peter Thiel…he was speaking at…a cryptocurrency conference recently, and he called out Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink…all these men…have their financial models based in the old economy. And they have a lot at stake and a lot to lose…Nobody really understands what’s going on with their money right now, both in the United States and worldwide” https://www.youtube.com/embed/9p-FfvOLF-8 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-american-4-1-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4paVZ-xb4IU/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing American 4/11/22 – part 1 Bill Walton talks about the “Masters of the Universe” on Wall Street and their plans for tomorrow’s monetary policy: “…in the case of Peter Thiel…he was speaking at…a cryptocurrency conference recently, and he called out Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink…all these men…have their financial models based in the old economy. And they have a lot at stake and a lot to lose…Nobody really understands what’s going on with their money right now, both in the United States and worldwide” https://www.youtube.com/embed/4paVZ-xb4IU 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/americas-open-borders-with-ken-cuccinelli-and-russ-vought/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qp5Mo_htEuU/hqdefault.jpg “America’s Open Borders” with Ken Cuccinelli and Russ Vought “No borders. No walls. No USA at all.”      Chant by Antifa rioters marching in the streets of Denver. With Ukraine and Russia dominating the headlines, America seems to have lost focus on the border - and the war - that really counts. It’s not Ukraine, it’s America’s southern border with Mexico. The Biden Administration seems simply to have “opened it up.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qp5Mo_htEuU 3180 2022-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-with-frank-gaffney-3-28-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ad3-jkcakBg/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America with Frank Gaffney 3/28/22 A guest appearance by Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ad3-jkcakBg 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/taking-a-hard-look-at-our-dependence-on-china-for-our-drugs-with-rosemary-gibson-and-frank-gaffney/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oqnP79RSkPI/hqdefault.jpg “Taking a Hard Look at our Dependence on China for Our Drugs” with Rosemary Gibson and Frank Gaffney Thirty years ago, the United States, Europe, and Japan manufactured 90 percent of the global supply of the key ingredients for the world's medicines and vitamins. No more. China is now the largest global supplier. Millions of Americans are taking prescription and over-the-counter drugs made in, or with critical ingredients from China and they don’t know it and neither do many of their doctors. https://www.youtube.com/embed/oqnP79RSkPI 3600 2022-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/stops-along-the-way-with-brent-bozell/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hL9amPz0xaQ/hqdefault.jpg “Stops Along the Way” with Brent Bozell Growing up Bozell. Stops Along the Way: A Catholic Soul, a Conservative Heart, an Irish Temper, and a Love of Life. Talking in this episode with L. Brent Bozell III, author of Stops Along the Way and who is one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today. Brent founded and is president of the Media Research Center, the largest media watchdog organization in America; and ForAmerica, which the New York Times declared was “one of the greatest unexpected influences on the 2016 election.” Lecturer, syndicated columnist, television commentator, debater, marketer, businessman, author, publisher, and activist … https://www.youtube.com/embed/hL9amPz0xaQ 2940 2022-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-america-part-2-3-21-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/beWSsmEDj_c/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America Part 2 – 3/21/22 A guest appearance by Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/beWSsmEDj_c 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-on-securing-american-pt-1-3-21-22/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iJtTOMF3H1k/hqdefault.jpg Bill on Securing America Pt. 1 – 3/21/22 A guest appearance by Bill Walton. https://www.youtube.com/embed/iJtTOMF3H1k 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-nuclear-war-scenario-with-dr-peter-vincent-pry/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/92LKqHP7qX8/hqdefault.jpg “A Nuclear War Scenario” with Dr Peter Vincent Pry This is a very upsetting episode. I’m joined by my frequent guest Dr Peter Vincent Pry and we’re talking about Ukraine and the likelihood of nuclear war. Dr Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, served as chief of staff to the congressional EMP Commission, and director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum. Just recently, he published a piece titled, “The Nuclear Crisis Nobody Knows” “I think we're facing an unprecedented danger that we've never experienced in the nuclear missile age, worse than Cuba, a circumstance where we are on the threshold of a nuclear war, nuclear attack, from Russia.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/92LKqHP7qX8 2220 2022-03-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/ukraine-first-with-fred-fleitz-and-john-zadronzy/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BV7GtjzNQvk/hqdefault.jpg “Ukraine First?” with Fred Fleitz and John Zadronzy For a wide ranging overview of how and why the Biden’s national and homeland security teams have made America more vulnerable on virtually every front, start here. I’m joined on this episode by Fred Fleitz, Vice Chair of America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security and who served as Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council and  John Zadronzy, Director of America First Policy Institute’s Center for Homeland Security and Immigration, and who served as Deputy Assistant to President Trump in the office of Senior Advisor for Policy. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BV7GtjzNQvk 3600 2022-03-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-wests-new-totalitarianism-with-dr-naomi-wolf-and-jenin-younes/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LBqxKso9hTA/hqdefault.jpg “The West’s New Totalitarianism” with Dr. Naomi Wolf and Jenin Younes In the past two years, measures taken to deal with Covid have resulted in extraordinary losses of freedom in the West - in fact, all over the world - driven by government mandates and lockdowns. Now that it's clear that we're no longer in the throes of a pandemic, what next? https://www.youtube.com/embed/LBqxKso9hTA 2700 2022-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/race-marxism-with-james-lindsay/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZtIM4xGa0z0/hqdefault.jpg “Race Marxism” with James Lindsay James Lindsay is someone who truly understands Critical Race Theory and doesn’t believe a word of it. As James explains in this episode of The Bill Walton Show, “Critical Race Theory is a disaster. Critical Race Theory is the tip of a 100 year-long spear that's being thrust into the side of Western civilization. In its simplest terms, CRT is Race Marxism.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZtIM4xGa0z0 3180 2022-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-desecrators-with-matt-mercy-schlapp/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/slgH_g2IPLc/hqdefault.jpg The Desecrators with Matt & Mercy Schlapp The subtitle of Matt Schlapp’s new book, written with Deal Hudson, sums up well why this book is a must read.   Defeating the cancel culture mob and reclaiming one nation under God   They write: “For half a century, people of faith have seen traditional ideas of morality undermined as a cascade of progressive revolutions impacted society. The waves of change hit the shores, but most nevertheless believed that families, the Church, truth, and education would all weather the storm. https://www.youtube.com/embed/slgH_g2IPLc 3060 2022-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/ukraine-is-the-biden-administration-unleashing-furies-it-does-not-understand-with-dr-peter-vincent-pry-and-j-michael-waller/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u60zUnaog1g/hqdefault.jpg Ukraine: Is the Biden Administration Unleashing Furies It Does Not Understand? with Dr Peter Vincent Pry and J. Michael Waller There are growing calls among political elites in Washington for the United States to “do something" about preventing a Russian invasion of the Ukraine.  But do we have the military capabilities to stop it? Why do we want Ukraine to join NATO? Does Ukraine matter?  Why are American politicians who have been so soft toward Moscow for their entire political careers all of a sudden turn uber hawks against Vladimir Putin. https://www.youtube.com/embed/u60zUnaog1g 3480 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/govzilla-how-the-relentless-growth-of-government-is-devouring-our-economy-and-our-freedom-with-steve-moore/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/au3YlBKhJdA/hqdefault.jpg “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy—And Our Freedom” with Steve Moore On this episode we’re talking with economist Steve Moore about his terrific new book Govzilla. It’s a sobering, yet easy to read, tale of the gigantic expansion of government over the last 50 years, and especially over the last two years since COVID hit. “The virus became an excuse to massively expand the powers of government,” says Steve, “the size of government, the regulatory reach of government, in ways that I think we would've found unimaginable a decade ago.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/au3YlBKhJdA 2160 2022-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/ethics-at-the-heart-of-public-policy-with-ryan-anderson-and-roger-severino/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M2PHncdXpCk/hqdefault.jpg “Ethics at the Heart of Public Policy” with Ryan Anderson and Roger Severino America’s founding ideals and our nation’s rich Judeo-Christian heritage have been under constant attack from a so-called “progressive” Left for over a hundred years.  Yet as they’ve marched through and deconstructed America’s great cultural institutions, instead of the “progress” they claim, we’re seeing the opposite. It’s abundantly clear now that as the progressive elites prevail, the rest of us lose. https://www.youtube.com/embed/M2PHncdXpCk 3240 2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/george-f-will-on-american-happiness-and-discontents-with-don-boudreaux-and-john-tamny/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5uNsP5oRij8/hqdefault.jpg George F. Will on “American Happiness and Discontents” with Don Boudreaux and John Tamny In this episode we get to talk with George F. Will about his latest collection of essays, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020, and also about his magnum opus, The Conservative Sensibility. Joining in on the conversation are John Tamny, Vice President of FreedomWorks, editor of RealClearMarkets, and author of When Politicians Panicked, and Don Boudreaux, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, research scholar at Mercatus Center, who runs the go-to blog for free market economic thinking, Cafe Hayek. https://www.youtube.com/embed/5uNsP5oRij8 3600 2022-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/no-rights-no-games-with-chen-guangcheng-reggie-littlejohn-and-yaxue-cao/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DOvHyjGwpn8/hqdefault.jpg “No Rights, No Games” with Chen Guangcheng, Reggie Littlejohn and Yaxue Cao The 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing China opens a few weeks from now, and the International Olympic Committee's 2015 decision to have China host the event looks ever more dubious. Since then, it's become obvious to most observers that China, never a champion of human rights, is growing ever more oppressive. It’s Communist Party leadership has become even more deeply committed to preserving its monopoly on power through state sponsored repression, surveillance, and indoctrination. https://www.youtube.com/embed/DOvHyjGwpn8 2520 2022-01-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-great-reset-with-jay-richards-and-james-patrick/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9VSDmPBm42U/hqdefault.jpg “The Great Reset” with Jay Richards and James Patrick Unprecedented government measures to stop the spread of an unstoppable virus have morphed into mortal threats to our liberties and civil rights, not just here in the United States, but worldwide. First we were told that lockdowns, masks, and social distancing stop the spread of the virus. Do these things and we would be safe. There’s no clear correlation between these measures and the spread of the virus. https://www.youtube.com/embed/9VSDmPBm42U 2940 2022-01-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/energy-and-technology-realities-with-mark-mills/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/71en0OT-5Pg/hqdefault.jpg “The Future of Energy and New Technologies” with Mark Mills Today’s episode is a treasure trove of important facts that we all should know about technology, society and the future. My guest is once again Mark Mills, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute - who focuses on science, technology, energy, and future manufacturing technologies - and who has just published The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s Conventional wisdom as to how technology will change the future is wrong. And what is quite wrong is the view that the only technological revolution that matters will be found with renewable energy and electric cars. https://www.youtube.com/embed/71en0OT-5Pg 3600 2021-12-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/just-facts-about-the-virus-with-jim-agresti/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0zwe9LFOUdI/hqdefault.jpg “Just Facts about the Virus” with Jim Agresti Albert Einstein said science can only flourish in an atmosphere of free speech.  Today, despite claims about “following the science” with regard to Covid 19, this is simply not happening. Why? Because “they” have taken away one of the essential elements of science: allowing people to disagree based on facts learned through experiments and observation, reconciling practical knowledge and ends with scientific laws.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/0zwe9LFOUdI 3600 2021-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/wrath-america-enraged-with-peter-wood/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eTGDXI50r6M/hqdefault.jpg “Wrath: America Enraged” with Peter Wood Over the course of roughly four generations, from around 1950 to the present, American culture has been transformed from a culture that believed in the value of self-control into a culture that celebrates self-expression. And that “self-expression” has now twisted into a new form of anger - political wrath - which makes a performance art out of our darkest emotions. So argues my guest on this episode, Peter Wood, author of Wrath: America Enraged and 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project and President of the National Association of Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/embed/eTGDXI50r6M 2940 2021-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/challenging-leviathan-with-mark-chenoweth-and-jenin-younes/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3K8PDvLRQpc/hqdefault.jpg “Challenging Leviathan” with Mark Chenoweth and Jenin Younes In this episode, we're talking again about the coercive power of the Administrative State and its serious threat to our constitutional freedoms. No other development in contemporary American law denies more rights to more Americans. Joining me to discuss is Mark Chenoweth, Executive Director, and Jenin Younes, Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) a public interest litigation and pro bono advocacy law firm. https://www.youtube.com/embed/3K8PDvLRQpc 2880 2021-12-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-death-of-democracy-with-michael-pack/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mnJD6isM3_I/hqdefault.jpg “Is the Administrative State Democracy’s Death Knell” with Michael Pack Your eyes may glaze over when you hear people talking about the “administrative state.” But if you care about liberty, it’s long past time to start paying close attention to what the Administrative State is and how impervious it has become to election outcomes. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mnJD6isM3_I 2760 2021-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/whose-interest-does-big-business-serve-with-justin-danhof-and-matt-schlapp/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r_A5ZKqecTI/hqdefault.jpg “Whose Interest Does Big Business Serve?” with Justin Danhof and Matt Schlapp In the past decade, America’s big businesses have increasingly moved to the political left. For evidence, take a look at their actions and stances on critical race theory indoctrination, vaccine mandates, radical climate change agendas, boardroom “diversity”, doing business and making common cause with a hostile China, etc … on issue after issue they align with the “woke” left. Now even the Federal Reserve and the Securities Exchange Commission are weighing in to support these agendas https://www.youtube.com/embed/r_A5ZKqecTI 2640 2021-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/an-army-of-momma-bears-with-tony-perkins/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MDvMJQ_ilp8/hqdefault.jpg “An Army of Momma Bears” with Tony Perkins I open this show fondly quoting Shakespeare about how “one man in his time plays many parts.” He could have been writing about my friend and one of my personal heroes Tony Perkins Tony's indeed a man of many extraordinary and effective parts. He's president of the Family Research Council. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MDvMJQ_ilp8 2940 2021-11-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/marxisms-long-march-with-mark-meckler-and-eric-okeefe/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U3RqmIgnAxk/hqdefault.jpg “Marxism’s Long March” with Mark Meckler and Eric O’Keefe America is waking up to the capture of our institutions by the “progressive” woke Left. Beginning with K-12 education, universities, the media, and Hollywood, it’s now moved into many churches, our military and corporate boardrooms. This didn’t happen overnight. I https://www.youtube.com/embed/U3RqmIgnAxk 3120 2021-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/after-covid-recovering-our-liberty/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AaAGZfveb90/hqdefault.jpg “After Covid: Recovering Our Liberty” with John Tamny and Don Boudreaux It’s almost two years on from the onset of the Covid virus and we know a lot now that we didn’t then. Society should be healing. But we live in vitriolic and partisan times, and widespread disagreement abounds about what it was, what it is, what it isn’t and how to cope with it. Yet to those who understand how economies work, this much seems clear: governments’ blunderbuss one-size-fits-all lockdowns and mandates have turned a manageable public health problem into a social, medical and economic catastrophe. https://www.youtube.com/embed/AaAGZfveb90 2820 2021-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/standing-up-for-truth-with-kevin-hassett/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5yU30xaPt7E/hqdefault.jpg “Standing Up For Truth” with Kevin Hassett First year economics classes usually begin the semester with the principles of supply and demand. You learn that incentives matter and that to suggest otherwise is to betray basic principles of economics - and human nature. You learn that you can ignore or violate these fundamental laws, but that you cannot change them. You learn that throughout history the societies that have succeeded recognize and respect these economic laws - they use them to their advantage. https://www.youtube.com/embed/5yU30xaPt7E 2760 2021-10-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/afghanistan-china-and-an-unaccountable-congress-with-ambassador-pete-hoekstra/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e4ENfvvoifA/hqdefault.jpg “Afghanistan, China and an Unaccountable Congress” with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra In this episode we talk with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, formerly Chair of the House Intelligence Committee and now Chairman of the Center for Security Policy Board of Advisors. https://www.youtube.com/embed/e4ENfvvoifA 2580 2021-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/restoring-our-election-integrity-with-ken-blackwell-and-ken-klukowski/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uM5mnTJStTE/hqdefault.jpg “Restoring Our Election Integrity” with Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski Election Integrity:  Why we don’t have it, how we lost it and what to do about it.   In the election of 2020 we saw a dramatic loosening of the chain of custody of ballots. We saw an indiscriminate use of mass mail-in ballots. We saw a verification process junked and pushed aside. And as a consequence, we saw major irregularities in that election.  The result: a waning confidence among voters in the integrity of our election system. https://www.youtube.com/embed/uM5mnTJStTE 2280 2021-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/our-dunkirk-moment-with-steve-moore/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i29tPi_Svd4/hqdefault.jpg “Our Dunkirk Moment” with Steve Moore The Reconciliation Bill, which Congress is rushing to pass in a matter of days, will push America over the brink into financial and social catastrophe. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hellbent on this as her legacy project to turn the U.S. into a European entitlement state.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/i29tPi_Svd4 1740 2021-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/appearances/bill-guests-on-cure-america-with-star-parker/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7AOKeHqi7jg/hqdefault.jpg Bill guests on CURE America with Star Parker The $3.5 trillion spending bill proposed by President Joe Biden and his progressive friends on the Left called the “Human Infrastructure Bill” is being debated in Congress right now.  Most of it is to build the socialist paradise that Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dream about: new household entitlements, new employer mandates, Medicare benefits expansion and all kinds of corporate welfare subsidies in the name of the Green New Deal and industrial policy spending. The last thing the American people need is a slowed down economy with a bloated federal government that sends us further into debt.  We can’t afford it! The result will be higher taxes on corporations and on capital gains and when corporations have to pay more, then you and I have to pay more in gas prices, in food prices, in goods and services these companies provide. It is a disastrous way to approach an already troubled economy post Covid. On this week’s episode of CURE American, we bring together a group of experts to walk us through this $3.5 trillion progressive spending bill to tell us what’s in it and why it will hurt our economy. Steve Moore, economist, and founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity; Bill Walton, Managing Editor, Host and Executive Producer of The Bill Walton Show; Horace Cooper, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research; Tom McClusky, Vice President of Governmental Affairs for the March for Life; and, Richard Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government all join in the in-depth conversation. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7AOKeHqi7jg 3600 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/ahead-of-the-curve-with-john-mauldin/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qNfFB963eQ0/hqdefault.jpg “Ahead of the Curve” with John Mauldin In this Part 2 of my show with John Mauldin, we range far and wide peering into an optimistic future for humanity.  Near term, things look pretty bleak, but when you step back and look at the innovations and technologies that will end up enhancing and prolonging human life, the future holds a lot of promise. Billions of people have been lifted out of poverty in the past 50 years. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qNfFB963eQ0 3360 2021-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-afghanistan-debacle-what-it-means-for-americans-with-dr-stephen-bryen-and-kyle-shideler/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/En-R9c_3zgM/hqdefault.jpg “The Afghanistan Debacle: What it Means for Americans” with Dr Stephen Bryen and Kyle Shideler The Afghanistan debacle.  An in-depth look at its implications with Dr Stephen Bryen, Senior Fellow at the American Center for Democracy and Kyle Shideler, Director and Senior Analyst for the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, both with the Center for Security Policy.  So many questions. Why did we leave so precipitously? Who was behind it? Where do we go from here?  https://www.youtube.com/embed/En-R9c_3zgM 2940 2021-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-tbws-brain-trust-afghanistan-what-a-catastrophe/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R6sPU5Mbzo0/hqdefault.jpg The TBWS Brain Trust : “Afghanistan, what a Catastrophe” It's on everybody's mind right now. Emotions are raw. What were we doing there? Where we're going to go from here? What this means for the country, and the rest of the world, going forward, since we cannot trust this Administration’s leadership to protect America. https://www.youtube.com/embed/R6sPU5Mbzo0 1860 2021-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-america-must-remain-the-worlds-preeminent-seapower-with-russ-vought-and-arthur-herman/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jYjrpoGdoTA/hqdefault.jpg “Why America Must Remain the World’s Preeminent Seapower” with Russ Vought and Arthur Herman After decades of cuts to shipbuilding and maintenance, the United States Navy has been stripped down to a fleet barely larger than it was 100 years ago, in 1916.  Meanwhile, China has dramatically increased its spending on its Navy, as well as on its Air Force, cyberspace and electronic warfare capabilities. Alarmingly, Beijing is building islands in the South China Sea, threatening trade routes and menacing allies. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jYjrpoGdoTA 3120 2021-08-31T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/fingers-of-instability-with-john-mauldin/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UjXhZ_APccY/hqdefault.jpg “Fingers of Instability” with John Mauldin In this episode I’m joined by John Mauldin the best-selling author of Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market and whose “Strategic Investors Conference” is considered among the best events in the business. https://www.youtube.com/embed/UjXhZ_APccY 2940 2021-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/these-people-are-crazy-with-steve-moore/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3eSKdzHea9A/hqdefault.jpg “These People Are Crazy” with Steve Moore My guest this week is economist Steve Moore  Our topic: the economy and how the trillion upon trillion dollar spending orgy in Washington is going to cause irreparable damage to America. “This is an extremely dangerous time for our country. What happens over the course of the next three or four months will have decades worth of repercussions,” explains Steve. https://www.youtube.com/embed/3eSKdzHea9A 2100 2021-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/americas-intelligence-wars-with-ambassador-pete-hoekstra-and-fred-fleitz/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qbj9gMhJgzw/hqdefault.jpg “America’s Intelligence Wars” with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra and Fred Fleitz We are living in a complicated and dangerous time in America. American intelligence and national security should not be part of partisan politics but that is exactly what they’ve become. “We saw it towards the end of the Obama administration, and the transition into the Trump administration,” according to my guest, Ambassador Pete Hoekstra. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qbj9gMhJgzw 2880 2021-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/wokeness-exposing-its-grave-risk-to-americas-military/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gmqq1x7D34A/hqdefault.jpg “Wokeness: A Grave Risk to America’s Military” Today we are witnessing a growing threat to our American military. A threat that is capable of doing what no foreign enemy ever could:  Fracture the world’s greatest armed forces from within, through divisive political indoctrination and controls. That threat is called “wokeness.”  At its root, “wokeness” imposes the resentful mindset of an extremist few onto society - in this case the American military.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gmqq1x7D34A 3000 2021-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/previewing-the-covid-olympics/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N2C81DTgs6s/hqdefault.jpg Previewing the “Covid Olympics” As COVID cases continue to climb in Tokyo, the nation is preparing to host the world in what may wind up being the most infamous Olympic Games ever. The Bill Walton show team discusses the role the virus is already playing and impacting athletes. There’s also the issue of wokeness as members of Team USA are expected to protest the National Anthem, while the media and advertisers will be in their own competition to use every opportunity to promote social justice campaigns. https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2C81DTgs6s 1560 2021-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-dictatorship-of-woke-capital-with-stephen-soukup/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E_MVo0FN1J4/hqdefault.jpg The Dictatorship of Woke Capital with Stephen Soukup For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a methodical - and largely successful - war to control American institutions. Our universities, K-12 education, the news media, Hollywood, federal government bureaucracies … to name just a few … have all fallen victim to what the Left calls their “long march.” During most of that time American business and the military escaped infiltration and indoctrination. But now this has begun to change - and dramatically. https://www.youtube.com/embed/E_MVo0FN1J4 2880 2021-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/debunking-the-1619-project-with-phil-magness/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iS_xzZcdVg8/hqdefault.jpg Debunking the 1619 Project with Phil Magness It’s becoming quite clear that one of the central aims of Critical Race Theory is to delegitimize and diminish the political and moral achievement that is the United States of America. And with their 1619 Project, the New York Times has weighed in to rewrite American history by deconstructing institutions responsible for our prosperity and our success: free market capitalism and the United States Constitution. https://www.youtube.com/embed/iS_xzZcdVg8 3060 2021-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/talking-with-charles-murray/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IHBzng45rAU/hqdefault.jpg Talking with Charles Murray Identity politics, and charges of systematic racism and white privilege, pose an existential threat to the American experiment and risk tearing our country apart. In this episode, I talk with Charles Murray - one of America’s greatest social scientists - who has now weighed in on this crisis with his latest book: “Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America” https://www.youtube.com/embed/IHBzng45rAU 2700 2021-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/victims-of-communism-are-we-condemned-to-repeat-the-past/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5OaxHRa3xdg/hqdefault.jpg Victims of Communism: Are We Condemned to Repeat the Past? America has a problem. Positive attitudes toward communism and socialism are at an all-time high in the United States. Almost 40% of Americans now view them favorably and half of our kids in their 20s say they favor socialism. This demonstrates a stunning lack of knowledge of the evils of communism. https://www.youtube.com/embed/5OaxHRa3xdg 3240 2021-06-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/thinking-again-about-the-unthinkable-with-dr-peter-vincent-pry/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K44EPQo-ftg/hqdefault.jpg “Thinking Again about the Unthinkable” with Dr. Peter Vincent Pry This show comes at time that this episode’s guest, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, calls our “hinge of fate.” Our topic is his riveting paper "Surprise Attack: ICBMs and the Real Nuclear Threat" where he lays bare the world’s current and future nuclear warfare realities. It’s an issue that many simply do not want to think about. As Peter puts it, “when it comes to nuclear weapons, U.S. and Western strategic culture mostly thinks and acts in a state of denial and unreality. Nuclear weapons of mass destruction are antithetical to our ethos.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/K44EPQo-ftg 3180 2021-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-financial-regulations-are-reshaping-america-with-todd-zywicki-and-brian-johnson/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/woJMuwGmiH4/hqdefault.jpg “How Financial Regulations are Reshaping America” with Todd Zywicki and Brian Johnson If you think a show about financial regulation is likely to be boring, I ask you to think again.   Financial regulations are really about money.   And in particular, ordinary Americans’ money.   https://www.youtube.com/embed/woJMuwGmiH4 3240 2021-06-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/episode-136-why-republican-glenn-youngkin-could-become-the-next-governor-of-virginia/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ICdqF_aD-VA/hqdefault.jpg Why Republican Glenn Youngkin could become the next Governor of Virginia The most politically important election in America takes place this November - the race to become the next governor of Virginia. This race will not be just about Virginia. It will be the first statewide election since Joe Biden took office, and will also be a referendum: How do voters feel about where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are taking the country. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ICdqF_aD-VA 2820 2021-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-woke-cia-is-a-broke-cia-with-fred-fleitz-and-mike-waller/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KHuhoqsYnco/hqdefault.jpg “A Woke CIA is a Broke CIA” with Fred Fleitz and Mike Waller “I used to struggle with imposter syndrome, but at age thirty six I refuse to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be. I am tired of feeling like I'm supposed to apologize for the space I occupied rather than intoxicate people with my effort, my brilliance. I am proud of me, full stop.”    Is this a quote from a self-help workshop in a “safe space” on a university campus? https://www.youtube.com/embed/KHuhoqsYnco 2880 2021-05-31T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-tbws-roundtable-on-joe-bidens-horribles/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v_wxUJq249E/hqdefault.jpg The TBWS Roundtable on “Joe Biden’s Horribles” My friend Paul Teller keeps a running (and depressing) list of the destructive actions taken by Joe Biden’s Administration. Joe Biden has been in office for just a few months and already the list is a mile long.   Paul, who was a top aide to VP Mike Pence and is now his chief of staff, calls his list “The Horribles” The TBWS Team agrees that the name is apt. https://www.youtube.com/embed/v_wxUJq249E 1800 2021-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-future-of-policing-in-america/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TgfxtOG-tyE/hqdefault.jpg The Future of Policing in America The Bill Walton Show Roundtable worries about what the future of law enforcement could look like in this country. In many cities, seasoned officers are rushing to retire - causing a major deficit as those positions are becoming harder to fill. Increasingly, resisting arrest is becoming a badge of protest.  And rather than punishing law breakers, police officers are being demonized for doing their jobs. https://www.youtube.com/embed/TgfxtOG-tyE 1740 2021-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/combating-woke-capitalism-with-justin-danhof-and-matt-schlapp/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xwUn-Va9WCA/hqdefault.jpg “Combating Woke Capitalism” with Justin Danhof and Matt Schlapp For years, major American corporations have been drifting to the political Left.  Now that drift seems more like a tidal wave. Companies like Coca Cola, Delta Airlines … and even Major League Baseball have, for example, condemned Georgia’s legislature’s effort to protect free and fair elections.  And increasingly the very top echelons of many big corporations - the C Suites and the boards of directors - are filled with people on the left promoting a “woke” agenda. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xwUn-Va9WCA 3600 2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-chinese-dominance-of-your-medicine-cabinet-with-rosemary-gibson/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ef8ftSanlPU/hqdefault.jpg “The Chinese dominance of your medicine cabinet” with Rosemary Gibson When you think of all the things in your house that are "made in China", one thing you may not realize is how many medicines are. That bottle of aspirin? Made in China. Penicillin? Made in China. Even something as simple as Vitamin C is produced in China. And if that's not shocking enough, there's also a good chance your doctor doesn't even know where these medicines are being manufactured! https://www.youtube.com/embed/ef8ftSanlPU 3420 2021-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/refounding-america-with-mercy-and-matt-schlapp/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/REgLEA_lC9E/hqdefault.jpg “Refounding America” with Mercy and Matt Schlapp This past year has been filled with adversity, but with tough times can come great blessings. In my case, Sarah and I have found a wonderful blessing in our friendship with Mercy and Matt Schlapp and their five daughters. We all found ourselves locked down in our places in Madison and Rappahannock County, Virginia during the pandemic. So what did we do? https://www.youtube.com/embed/REgLEA_lC9E 2880 2021-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/weighing-the-cost-of-panic-with-jay-richards-and-john-tamny/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3trhl9oDD8A/hqdefault.jpg “Weighing the Cost of Panic” with Jay Richards and John Tamny In this episode, Bill talks with Jay Richards and John Tamny about the Covid-19 pandemic and the trade-offs between freedom and government mandated “safety.” Should governments have simply provided people with information about risks and precautionary measures, or were the microscopic instructions, lockdowns and mask mandates necessary? At this point the answer seems pretty clear. https://www.youtube.com/embed/3trhl9oDD8A 3000 2021-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-bard-and-the-bible/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7ObPSs1XD6c/hqdefault.jpg The Bard and The Bible For the past year or so, I’ve been reading in a daily devotional titled the The Bard and The Bible. In it each day is a quote from William Shakespeare, a related passage from the King  James Bible and a witty and wise reading of how they might relate to us today. With Shakespeare, and of course anything related to the Bible, increasingly banned from American school curriculums, we are losing touch with these cornerstones of our western culture. The Victorians celebrated Shakespeare and the Bible as the twin moral underpinnings of British civilization. And when American pioneers headed west in their covered wagons, the two books that they brought with them were the King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ObPSs1XD6c 2520 2021-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/an-actors-craft-a-conversation-with-tony-lobianco/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wWjVt5sFCIg/hqdefault.jpg An Actor’s Craft: A conversation with Tony LoBianco During the last several years, I have had the great pleasure of getting to know a wonderful actor, Tony LoBianco.  It’s the 50th anniversary of his iconic movie “The French Connection” where he played Sal Boca, and a perfect occasion to invite him on the show to talk about the acting craft and working with other creatives. A leading actor in films, TV and the stage, he's made over 100 films during the course of his career and along the way won an Obie, an Emmy, an Outer Circle Critics Award, and was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actor. https://www.youtube.com/embed/wWjVt5sFCIg 2880 2021-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-unsettling-truth-about-green-energy-with-mark-mills/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6ZrBeAH2UDA/hqdefault.jpg The Unsettling Truth About Green Energy with Mark Mills In this episode, Mark Mills, Energy & Tech expert at the Manhattan Institute, and I go in-depth about the perils of so-called “green energy.” Case in point: February's deadly blackout in Texas. Texas, with the most wind farms in the country providing 25% of its energy, learned what happens when the weather gets cold and the wind goes away. Just when you need electricity the most, it’s not there. https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZrBeAH2UDA 2460 2021-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/warriors-and-worriers-with-joyce-benenson/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zUnkr9bGIio/hqdefault.jpg Warriors and Worriers with Joyce Benenson What are the evolutionary differences between men and women, and how do they survive and thrive through differing competitive strategies?  In this episode, Dr. Joyce Benenson talks with Bill about her book Warriors and Worriers,which draws her extensive lifelong research on children's interactions. The result is fascinating array of studies and stories that explore the ways boys and men deter their enemies, while girls and women find assistants to aid them in coping with vulnerable children and elders.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/zUnkr9bGIio 2520 2021-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-strange-rabbit-hole-of-theory-with-james-lindsay/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BMVhPSHOBVM/hqdefault.jpg The Strange Rabbit Hole of Theory with James Lindsay If it's possible to have a fun and entertaining conversation about political correctness, critical race theory and the state of being "woke", this is it. Joining me is James Lindsay, PhD, Co-author of Cynical Theories and founder of the newdiscourses.com website and podcasts. James, who has been called the Donald Trump of Intellectuals (meant as an insult), because of his courage to take on political correctness, guides me down through the stranger and stranger rabbit hole of "Theory."   https://www.youtube.com/embed/BMVhPSHOBVM 60 2021-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/trans-men-in-womens-sports/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pix1OY-ME6w/hqdefault.jpg Trans Men in Women’s Sports On this episode, our TBWS Roundtable discusses the push by the radical woke left to let transgendered boy/girl athletes participate in girls and women’s sports.   After coming out strongly against trans men in women’s sports, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem recently vetoed a bill that would’ve banned it. Why? She says “it’s complicated” and she may be right.    https://www.youtube.com/embed/pix1OY-ME6w 1980 2021-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-mis-pricing-of-calvin-coolidge/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rAFqQCc9eJk/hqdefault.jpg The “Mis-Pricing” of Calvin Coolidge On this episode, we look into the life and presidency of Calvin Coolidge with Amity Shlaes, author of The NY Times bestsellers Coolidge, The Forgotten Man, The Greedy Hand and The Great Society. Amity is also co-editor of a fascinating new edition of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge revealing how he embodied the best of America's founding principles and the character of the American people. https://www.youtube.com/embed/rAFqQCc9eJk 2940 2021-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-wide-ranging-conversation-with-the-always-interesting-yaron-brook/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ReR8ifg7OeI/hqdefault.jpg A Wide-Ranging Conversation with the Always Interesting Yaron Brook On this episode, I’m talking with Yaron Brook, Chair of the Ayn Rand Institute, in a wide-ranging conversation that launches into the case for why the profit motive is a good thing. Capitalism gets a bad rap in the media and pop culture, but should business be epitomized by Gordon Gecko or Steve Jobs? Was the 2008 financial crisis caused by greedy Wall Streeters or by wrongheaded government policies?  https://www.youtube.com/embed/ReR8ifg7OeI 2820 2021-03-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-leadership-crisis-and-the-free-market-cure-with-john-allison/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tpmQ5ZG3aXE/hqdefault.jpg The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure with John Allison On this episode, I'm joined by John Allison, named one of the 100 most successful CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review. In this wide-ranging interview, we talk about how he went from growing up in a lower-middle income family in North Carolina to becoming the head of BB&T, the Cato Institute and author of "The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure". https://www.youtube.com/embed/tpmQ5ZG3aXE 2760 2021-03-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/cpac-trump-and-the-future-of-the-gop/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sQ7wX-DbmEE/hqdefault.jpg CPAC, Trump and the future of the GOP The TBWS Roundtable discusses former President Trump's CPAC speech, and what it means for Republicans going forward. Has he learned anything about shoring up his weaknesses? Will he attempt another run for President? Should he? And if not, where does the Republican party go from here?We also look at the future for Mike Pence. What role will the former VP play in the party? https://www.youtube.com/embed/sQ7wX-DbmEE 2100 2021-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/episode-118-just-the-facts/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/enviik_QnKU/hqdefault.jpg “Just the Facts” The phrase “Just the facts” has taken on new meaning with the creation of media-based fact checkers. However, the definition of truth varies based on the organization doing the research. I’m joined today by Jim Agresti, the President and co-founder of Just Facts as we talk about why what you see in the media is often agenda driven and what his organization does to find the truth. https://www.youtube.com/embed/enviik_QnKU 1680 2021-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/sim-city-covid-with-phil-magness-and-jeffrey-tucker/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qbyIxgBix7s/hqdefault.jpg “Sim City” COVID with Phil Magness and Jeffrey Tucker In this Episode, we continue our conversation with Jeffrey Tucker and are now joined by Phil Magness also with the American Institute for Economic Research regarding the current state of the nation due to the Coronavirus. How does the handling of the virus remind us of the video game "Sim City"? What does the future hold now that the vaccine is starting to be distributed? We also discuss what the role of politics has played in the pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qbyIxgBix7s 2340 2021-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-new-clarity-in-a-covid-world-with-jeffrey-tucker/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5E16B1_N4tg/hqdefault.jpg A new clarity in a COVID world with Jeffrey Tucker With the first anniversary of the emergence of the Coronavirus, Jeffrey Tucker head of research at the American Institute for Economic Research joins me for an in-depth discussion about what have we learned so far about the virus and what the future holds for our daily lives. We also talk about how 2020 was almost medieval, and how long it will be before we fully understand the pandemic's aftermath. https://www.youtube.com/embed/5E16B1_N4tg 2880 2021-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-covid-tunnel-with-phil-kerpen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eWm6jXyjHuI/hqdefault.jpg A light at the end of the COVID tunnel? with Phil Kerpen As Coronavirus lockdowns around the country are slowly starting to be lifted, I'm joined by Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment to talk about what shutting down businesses and social activities have meant for our economy and our social fabric. We also discuss what the future holds now that vaccines are starting to be administered. https://www.youtube.com/embed/eWm6jXyjHuI 2940 2021-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/wall-street-war-games-with-the-bill-walton-show-team/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kAc1JS1bKwc/hqdefault.jpg Wall Street War Games with The Bill Walton Show Team What caused the stock to skyrocket? What does it say about the future of Wall Street? How will the regulators react? Those questions and more will be answered during this in-depth conversation. https://www.youtube.com/embed/kAc1JS1bKwc 2640 2021-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/paul-krugman-vs-ayn-rand-with-tal-tsfany/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WBC_1oYap6k/hqdefault.jpg Paul Krugman vs. Ayn Rand with Tal Tsfany Tal Tsfany, the President and CEO of the Ayn Rand Institute joins me to talk about a recent article by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and how liberals are looking to rob Americans of the free will granted to them in the Constitution. We also discuss how Ayn Rand would react to all of this if she was still with us today. https://www.youtube.com/embed/WBC_1oYap6k 1740 2020-12-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/surviving-covid-with-dr-jay-richards/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qkUPYxDMgkQ/hqdefault.jpg Surviving COVID with Dr. Jay Richards Now recovered, Jay tells me about his personal experience with the virus, discussions he had with front line healthcare workers and why they don’t wear the masks that the rest of us wear. We also look at how vaccines will start a whole new debate in this country. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qkUPYxDMgkQ 2280 2020-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/commercial-real-estate-in-a-covid-world-with-john-scheurer/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xiftkyET140/hqdefault.jpg Commercial Real Estate in a COVID World with John Scheurer Commercial real estate expert John Scheurer and I discuss the current state of the market and where it’s likely to head once the Coronavirus is behind us. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xiftkyET140 2820 2020-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/do-we-need-masks/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/hqdefault.jpg “Do we need masks?” An episode of The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/t__rMPK_LRw 60 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/paying-the-price-of-panic-with-dr-jay-richards/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/feature-ep97.jpg “Paying the Price of Panic” with Dr. Jay Richards “The human costs of the emergency response to Covid 19 have vastly outweighed its benefits.” So argue, backed by a vast amount of research, scholars Jay Richards, William Briggs, and Douglas Axe, authors of “The Price of Panic.” For the first time in history, the world has shut itself down - by choice - for fear of a virus whose dangers have been dramatically exaggerated. Governments, with the support of most Americans, have ordered the closing of thousands of small businesses, schools, colleges, churches, sports events and most all of our civil society institutions. Overnight, "social distancing" - masks, 6 foot rules, no handshakes, no hugs - have become a moral obligation. We are now living under a “tyranny of experts” explains Dr Jay Richards. The world will reopen, and life will go on, but we are never going back to "normal.” And we need to recognize that whatever the future holds, we cannot make the same mistakes again. What have we learned? What will have been the total cost in lives, dollars and livelihoods in relying on advice from "science”? Who will be held accountable for the enormous human costs imposed by our leaders blundering “one size fits all” policy responses? Join me in my conversation with Dr Jay Richards who digs deeply and thoughtfully into the answers to these questions. And another big, big unknown. As the health risks of Covid 19 have begun to subside, a bigger and more dangerous pandemic remains: a pandemic of fear. Social media, 24/7 cable news coverage and political agendas have whipped up social contagion, a climate of fear far beyond the real risks of the virus. Where is this going? How does it end? https://rumble.com/embedJS/u4 2820 2020-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/making-a-difference-hillfaith-with-mark-tapscott/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/feature-ep96-2.jpg “Making a Difference: HillFaith” with Mark Tapscott “If you wanted to aim at the heart of the matter to bring about a more virtuous Washington DC where would you start? For Mark Tapscott, the award winning investigative journalist, editorial page editor and founder of HillFaith, the answer is clear: share the Good News of His Gospel with congressional staffers on Capitol Hill. “If you were asked, who’s the most influential but least well-known group in Washington, DC, if you really understand how things work in this town, you would say immediately, ‘Congressional Staff.’ There are about 20,000 of them. They are mostly young men and women, highly educated, very motivated, and very smart.” Mark, a member of the Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame and recipient of the CPAC Conservative Journalist of the Year, explains further: “I knew that God was calling me to some sort of ministry and I kept coming back to the fact that virtually everything I’d done in my career included, directly or indirectly, contact with Members of Congress and especially with Hill aides.” “They have a passion for public service and politics, who are also routinely over-worked, underpaid, and almost nothing gets done in Congress without them. They have tremendous power by virtue of their positions to influence public policy in this country, yet they may well be the most invisible power center in the nation’s capital.” What’s unique about Mark’s ministry is his focus on Christian Apologetics, based in logic, on science, history, on wherever the truth can be accessed. “While all truth is God's truth”, says Mark, “Apologetics is the ideal way to reach young people, particularly those on the Hill, unfamiliar with the truth of Christianity.” Mark is a remarkable man. Learn more about his story and his ministry here. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dkb61Hp_EA4 1560 2020-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/angelo-codevilla/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/episode-92-img.jpeg “The Covid Coup” with Angelo Codevilla “From early March 2020 on, the best-known authorities on epidemics—the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control— have presented the COVID-19 respiratory disease to the Western world as a danger equivalent to the plague. But China’s experience, which its government obfuscated, had already shown that the COVID-19 virus is much less like the plague and more like the flu. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ChGZxTBivRU -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/howard-zinns-war-on-history/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/episode-91-img.jpeg “Howard Zinn’s War on History” with Jarrett Stepman and Dr. Mary Grabar There is no historian like Howard Zinn. Certainly no other history book has taken the place of the Bible at the swearing-in of an elected official . But in 2019, Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History” was the sacred object on which newly elected Oklahoma City council member JoBeth Hamon chose to place her hand for her oath of office . https://www.youtube.com/embed/DeYknFPN-W8 2520 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/forget-covid-19-worry-about-emp-with-dr-peter-vincent-pry-and-frank-gaffney/ https://thebillwaltonshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/episode-90-img.jpeg “Forget Covid 19. Worry about EMP.” With Dr. Peter Vincent Pry and Frank Gaffney. It’s time to wake up to an existential risk that looms infinitely larger than anything posed by the Covid 19 virus.      Electromagnetic pulse (EMP). EMP can be caused by a naturally occurring solar storm, a nuclear weapon or something as simple as a manmade suitcase sized device and would collapse electric grids and electrical critical infrastructures all over the world A nationwide blackout lasting one year could kill up to 90 percent of the American people, through starvation, disease, and societal collapse. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oj9y7SDw0Fg -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-ayn-rand-matters-today-with-tal-tsfany/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L41ZB3yjQ04/hqdefault.jpg Why Ayn Rand Matters Today with Tal Tsfany Many of us have read Ayn Rand's novels especially, “Atlas Shrugged” and the “Fountainhead.” But I have been surprised to learn how her ideas and philosophy have continued to resonate throughout the world many years after her novels were first published.   To learn more about this I asked Tal Tsfany, President and CEO of the Ayn Rand Institute to come on the show to talk about the Ayn Rand phenomena.   Mr. Tsfany has a great personal story having been an software entrepreneur, investor and executive in both Israel and the United States.  In a fascinating conversation we talk both about Ayn Rand’s ideas and Tal’s personal journey toward her philosophy. https://www.youtube.com/embed/L41ZB3yjQ04 1980 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/enough-is-enough-with-donna-rice-hughes-and-colby-may/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KIfHZgHVMH8/hqdefault.jpg “Enough is Enough” with Donna Rice Hughes and Colby May Some of society's problems are just so upsetting that it's hard to imagine that they continue to exist, or in fact, are spreading. Well, this episode explores one of the worst: Internet child pornography and sex trafficking. Internet pornography been called the largest unregulated social experiment in history. https://www.youtube.com/embed/KIfHZgHVMH8 2880 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-conversation-with-michael-pack-head-for-the-u-s-agency-for-global-media/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dHLItv0KSJY/hqdefault.jpg A conversation with Michael Pack, Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media In part two of my conversation with Michael Pack, I talk with Michael about what it's like to be a conservative filmmaker in today's America and how documentaries have become almost the exclusive playground of the left. Michael Pack is an extraordinary man. President and co-founder of Manifold Productions, he has produced and directed over 15 documentaries, broadcast on PBS and has had an incredible career moving back and forth between making documentaries and also working in public television and information agency non-profits. He has been President and CEO of the Claremont Institute, head of Worldnet then part of the US Information Agency, and senior vice president for TV programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is President Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media. https://www.youtube.com/embed/dHLItv0KSJY 960 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/reality-economics-101-with-don-boudreaux-and-john-tamny/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Zw0jCO_Om5Y/hqdefault.jpg Reality Economics 101 with Don Boudreaux and John Tamny A must see and wide ranging conversation about all things economic with Donald Boudreaux, best-selling author, professor of economics at George Mason University who writes the popular blog Cafe Hayek and John Tamny, editor of Real Clear Markets, an editor for Forbes Magazine and the author of “The End of Work” and “They’re Both Wrong.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zw0jCO_Om5Y 1500 2020-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-true-human-costs-of-government-imposed-lockdowns-with-jim-agresti/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IeqAN5EYBtI/hqdefault.jpg The True Human Costs of Government Imposed Lockdowns with Jim Agresti Medical studies show that excessive stress and anxiety are among the most debilitating and deadly of all health hazards in the world.  Beyond their obvious effects like suicide and substance abuse—these mental stressors are strongly related to and may trigger and inflame a host of ailments like high blood pressure, digestive disorders, heart conditions, infectious diseases, cancer, and pregnancy complications. https://www.youtube.com/embed/IeqAN5EYBtI 2020-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/a-conversation-with-michael-pack-the-director-of-created-equal-clarence-thomas-in-his-own-words/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MNcU_OfJg7w/hqdefault.jpg A Conversation with Michael Pack, the Director of “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” Join me as go behind the scenes with writer, director and producer Michael Pack about the making of his extraordinary film about Justice Clarence Thomas.  Distilled from over 30 hours of interviews during a six-month period with Justice Thomas and his wonderful wife Ginni, for the first time, he tells his entire life’s story, looking directly at the camera, speaking frankly to the audience.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/MNcU_OfJg7w -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/post-pandemic-k-12-education-why-we-dont-want-a-return-to-normal/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TC6oFdXsbwc/hqdefault.jpg Post Pandemic K-12 Education: Why We Don’t Want a Return to “Normal” with Jeanne Allen What comes next when we emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown? What is “normal” is going to be like? Well in the case of America’s K-12 schools we should not want a return to normal, where “normal” means a nation where fewer than 30% of students - and fewer than 15% in poor communities - read, write, spell, do math or know history, science, or civics on grade level. https://www.youtube.com/embed/TC6oFdXsbwc 3600 2020-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/big-is-beautiful/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SgiMRkdkQIg/hqdefault.jpg “Big is Beautiful” with Robert Atkinson What do you think about the following statements? Small businesses are overwhelmingly responsible for job creation, innovation and American prosperity. Small businesses are more productive than big companies. And small business owners are the core of democracy in America. Yet Washington, controlled by big business and engaged in “crony capitalism,” systemically discriminates against small business. We all know this is true, right? Well, no, these things are not true. Or at least, mostly not true. Joining me to explain why is Robert Atkinson, author of “Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business” and Ron Nicol who led Boston Consulting Group’s Americas Practice and was global leader of its Media, Technology and Communications Group. Rob, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, is one of the country’s foremost thinkers on innovation economics. Ron has developed strategies for dozens of Fortune 100 Companies is considered one of the top 25 business consultants in the world. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SgiMRkdkQIg 3600 2019-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/calling-for-the-return-of-american-conservative-economics/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mQ48o1qla8M/hqdefault.jpg “Calling for the Return of American Conservative Economics” with Oren Cass “There is more to life than economic freedom. And there is more to economic freedom than economic freedom. A society that attempts to maximize everyone’s freedom at every moment will fail miserably in preserving individual liberty and limiting government over time.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/mQ48o1qla8M 3600 2020-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/assessing-beijings-power/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uihIvZoa_KA/hqdefault.jpg “Assessing Beijing’s Power” with Dean Cheng and Klon Kitchen China presents a vastly different challenge from anything America has confronted before. The United States economy has never been as deeply dependent on an oppositional government the way we are with China. We have outsourced significant portions of virtually every important supply chain to China. https://www.youtube.com/embed/uihIvZoa_KA 3600 2020-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/life-after-the-coronavirus-planting-the-seeds-of-growth-and-resilience/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7aoZQFyTihk/hqdefault.jpg “Life After the CoronaVirus: Planting the Seeds of Growth and Resilience” with Lawson Bader and Tracie Sharp The outbreak of the CoronaVirus has created a health crisis. But federal, state and local governments’ reactions to this challenge - however well intentioned - have created an economic crisis that will linger past any recovery from or stabilization of the spread of the disease. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7aoZQFyTihk 3600 2020-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/china-rx-americas-dependence-on-china-for-medicine/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MlvvhGvHNK8/hqdefault.jpg “China Rx: America’s Dependence on China for Medicine” with Rosemary Gibson and Frank Gaffney “Millions of Americans are taking prescription and over-the-counter drugs made in China and don’t know it and neither do their doctors. These are prescription drugs in the legal supply chain that are distributed to U.S. hospitals, sold in corner drug stores and grocery store pharmacies, and distributed to military hospitals and clinics around the world,” explains Rosemary Gibson. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MlvvhGvHNK8 3600 2020-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/masks-and-scarves-and-overdraft-protection-with-arnold-kling/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yLOnYrqD0LQ/hqdefault.jpg Masks and Scarves and Overdraft Protection With Arnold Kling This week I sought out Arnold Kling to learn more about some of his innovative ideas to deal with the health, economic and social fallout from the Covid-19 crisis. Arnold, who blogs at arnoldkling.com/blog, author of “Specialization and Trade” and “The Three Languages of Politics” and with a PhD in Economics from MIT is one of America’s more original and penetrating thinkers. https://www.youtube.com/embed/yLOnYrqD0LQ 2020-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-health-and-economic-crisis-created-by-covid-19-with-steve-moore-and-jay-richards/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gyf3y-49ivM/hqdefault.jpg The health and economic crisis created by COVID-19 with Steve Moore and Jay Richards Join me as I talk with economist Steve Moore and Dr. Jay Richards about the health and economic crisis created by the coronavirus. And how to respond without all of our freedoms and civil liberties being trampled. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gyf3y-49ivM 2020-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/steve-moore-on-the-trump-economy/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h3Pl_0p5oKU/hqdefault.jpg Steve Moore on the Trump Economy Last week I interviewed economist Steve Moore at a conference with conservative leaders. While the capital markets selloff and bad coronavirus news had not yet had hit galeforce levels, as it has this week, they were looming. https://www.youtube.com/embed/h3Pl_0p5oKU 2020-02-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/making-first-lady-and-life-in-the-screen-trade-with-nancy-stafford-and-nina-may/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JVxm8M1iUac/hqdefault.jpg Making “First Lady” and Life in the Screen Trade with Nancy Stafford and Nina May. Nancy Stafford, known to millions as Andy Griffith’s law partner on TV’s “Matlock” and Nina May, an award winning independent film maker, join me to talk about their new film “First Lady” a romantic comedy feature film premiering Valentine’s Day 2020. https://www.youtube.com/embed/JVxm8M1iUac 2020-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-2-the-big-lie-part-two-of-my-conversation-with-diana-west-and-frank-gaffney/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pCdzDFExOKk/hqdefault.jpg Part 2: The Big Lie – Part Two of my conversation with Diana West and Frank Gaffney Join me on The Bill Walton Show as Diana West and Frank Gaffney tell a vivid and chilling story about the machinations to end the Trump Presidency. https://www.youtube.com/embed/pCdzDFExOKk 2019-12-19T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-1-the-red-thread-inside-the-anti-trump-conspiracy/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/db3M4wk-gDA/hqdefault.jpg Part 1: The Red Thread: Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy with Diana West and Frank Gaffney The anti-Trump conspiracy is not about Democrats versus Republicans. It's not about the ebb and flow of political power lawfully and peacefully transferred. It is about globalists versus nationalists, and they're locked in the old and continuous Communist versus anti-Communist struggle, and fighting to the end whether we, the anti-Communists, recognize it or not. https://www.youtube.com/embed/db3M4wk-gDA 3600 2019-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/behind-the-scenes-of-the-conservative-movement-and-the-republican-party/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nC83qUiAQRE/hqdefault.jpg “Behind the Scenes of the Conservative Movement and The Republican Party” with Matt and Mercedes Schlapp Matt and Mercedes Schlapp give us a behind-the-scenes look at the conservative movement. Mercedes is the current communications director for the Trump/Pence re-election campaign and Matt is the chairman of CPAC. https://www.youtube.com/embed/nC83qUiAQRE 3600 2019-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/china-cyber-enabled-economic-warfare-5g-and-cyber-crime-with-klon-kitchen-heritage-fdn/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eKHEZ7q8xQI/hqdefault.jpg “China, Cyber-enabled Economic Warfare, 5G and Cyber-crime” with Klon Kitchen Cyber warfare is raging around the world, with China as the leading state actor. But unlike Russia, and unlike Iran, and unlike North Korea, China is deeply integrated into the US economy and many aspects of our national strength. This is one reason why Congress wanted to learn from my guest Klon Kitchen about the Chinese app TikTok. https://www.youtube.com/embed/eKHEZ7q8xQI 3600 2019-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/dick-bodmans-remarkable-career-and-life-lessons/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Bb0deGLQNv8/hqdefault.jpg Dick Bodman’s Remarkable Career and Life Lessons. What do you do with a good friend who has had a successful career in many fields, who seems to be good at everything, and is interesting on a wide range of topics? Well, in my case, I bring him on my show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bb0deGLQNv8 2019-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/an-impeachment-behind-closed-doors/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GKmFd9RhMFA/hqdefault.jpg “An Impeachment Behind Closed Doors” with Jenny Beth Martin Jenny Beth Martin discusses politics, the Trump impeachment and why she co-founded the Tea Party Patriots. https://www.youtube.com/embed/GKmFd9RhMFA 3600 2019-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-its-ok-to-be-a-black-republican/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CAG7b5Hxwd0/hqdefault.jpg “Why It’s OK to be a Black Republican” with Star Parker and Winsome Sears Star Parker and Winsome Sears discuss race, religion, poverty, and our addiction to government. https://www.youtube.com/embed/CAG7b5Hxwd0 3600 2019-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/theyre-both-wrong-but-wait-arent-there-three-languages-of-politics/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nI4s0xVVRyc/hqdefault.jpg “They’re Both Wrong, But Wait Aren’t There Three Languages of Politics?” with John Tamny and Arnold Kling John Tamny and Arnold Kling discuss the problems of political parties in the US - and why are political elites still buying oceanfront property if the world climate crisis is so dire. https://www.youtube.com/embed/nI4s0xVVRyc 3600 2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/were-in-the-midst-of-a-cold-war-an-economic-war/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IC--7lf7JcY/hqdefault.jpg “We’re in the midst of a Cold War. An Economic War” with Robert Atkinson Robert D. Atkinson, founder and president of ITIF, describes the United States role in the war for influence and control. https://www.youtube.com/embed/IC--7lf7JcY 3600 2019-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/is-climate-change-really-a-planetary-emergency-with-myron-ebell/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/de-k9REbT1E/hqdefault.jpg Is Climate Change Really a Planetary Emergency? – with Myron Ebell Is the climate debate fueled by overheated climate models, inflated CO2 emission scenarios, disregarded basic data on human health and well being, and relentless exaggeration by political interests claiming to speak for "the science"? https://www.youtube.com/embed/de-k9REbT1E 2019-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-2-who-owns-the-worlds-art-with-c-d-dickerson/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/97R4uU1W8UA/hqdefault.jpg Part 2: Who Owns The World’s Art? with C.D. Dickerson C.D. Dickerson, III, Curator, and Head of Sculpture Department at the National Gallery of Art, comments on issues around art ownership and repatriation - including art that was taken from Africa in the colonial era that now resides in museums all over the world. https://www.youtube.com/embed/97R4uU1W8UA 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-1-who-owns-the-worlds-art-with-cd-dickerson/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ImaF29DkC40/hqdefault.jpg Part 1: Who Owns The World’s Art? with CD Dickerson C.D. Dickerson, III, Curator, and Head of Sculpture Department at the National Gallery of Art, comments on issues around art ownership and repatriation - including art that was taken from Africa in the colonial era that now resides in museums all over the world. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ImaF29DkC40 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/social-media-speech-police-with-brent-bozell-and-dan-gainor/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8oZSdTHSrY8/hqdefault.jpg Social Media Speech Police with Brent Bozell and Dan Gainor Has Facebook corporate become a parody? They banned a Prager University video on the “Ten Commandments.” Their explanation? "Well, it mentioned murder." Maybe next time Prager should do a video on the “Nine Commandments.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/8oZSdTHSrY8 2019-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-2-why-we-need-to-care-about-space-warfare-with-kevin-freeman-and-frank-gaffney/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/weG8VZIZgIY/hqdefault.jpg Part 2: Why We need to Care About “Space Warfare” with Kevin Freeman and Frank Gaffney Our military has a disturbing tendency to keep fighting the last wars, not the likely future ones. Now a visionary general is being forced into retirement because he’s advocating a very different approach to counter Chinese aims to achieve dominance in space. https://www.youtube.com/embed/weG8VZIZgIY -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-1-frank-gaffney-and-kevin-freeman-on-chinas-war-with-the-united-states/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AXOA9nxErv8/hqdefault.jpg Part 1: Frank Gaffney and Kevin Freeman on China’s War with the United States For decades, the U.S. has given China preferred trade & economic status. In a long overdue effort, President Trump is now negotiating new and more balanced trade deals with China, but however effective new trade deals will prove to be, they cannot address the many other dangers posed by China's Communist Party. https://www.youtube.com/embed/AXOA9nxErv8 2019-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-2-money-greed-and-god-with-jay-richards/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/02na5DZGNE8/hqdefault.jpg Part 2: Money Greed and God with Jay Richards Economics as a discipline suffers from “physics envy” when it tries and fails to build mathematical models of the economy and society. Instead, it should be studying human behavior and focus on the intersection of health, morality, philosophy, wealth creation and how to bring people out of poverty, Jay Richards says on The Bill Walton Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/02na5DZGNE8 2019-06-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-1-money-greed-and-god-with-jay-richards/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J41-GwenV8k/hqdefault.jpg Part 1: Money Greed and God with Jay Richards We know from history and evidence all around us, which economic system works, and which one makes people the happiest. It's the economic system of free enterprise. But is it the most moral? Bill Walton explores the question with Jay Richards, author of the newly reissued book “Money, Greed and God.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/J41-GwenV8k 2019-06-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/deconstructing-the-federal-reserve-with-george-selgin-and-norbert-michel/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vrnUPA8HdYw/hqdefault.jpg Deconstructing the Federal Reserve with George Selgin and Norbert Michel If the Fed brought home a report card reflecting its performance since its creation in 1914, its parents would not be pleased. Its record for stability is among the worst in the developed world, and it has done little to fix the problems it was invented to address. https://www.youtube.com/embed/vrnUPA8HdYw 2019-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/chen-guangcheng-and-reggie-littlejohn-on-human-rights-in-china-with-huchen-zhang/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dZhUd4xyYC0/hqdefault.jpg Chen Guangcheng and Reggie Littlejohn on Human Rights in China, with Huchen Zhang Americans' theory that more trade with China would open up the country to more democracy has been proven wrong. In fact, say Reggie Littlejohn, Huchen Zhang and Chen Guancheng on The Bill Walton Show, they have backfired. "You cannot tolerate evil. You cannot treat evil with kindness," Zhang said. https://www.youtube.com/embed/dZhUd4xyYC0 2019-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-2-ken-fisher-thinking-in-ways-that-others-do-not-with-john-tamny/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dlY5Ddzd9_8/hqdefault.jpg Part 2: Ken Fisher: Thinking in Ways That Others Do Not, with John Tamny Ken Fisher on: coastal redwoods, dikes, efficient markets, quantitative easing, the limits of our knowledge, climate change, the fed, interest rates, why $100 billion isn't that much money, money flows around the world like water downhill, tree science, behavioral science, why philanthropy is immoral and bad for humans, optimization of scarce resources, Bastiat, financial system intermediation and why inequality is a good thing. https://www.youtube.com/embed/dlY5Ddzd9_8 2019-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-1-billionaire-investor-ken-fisher-on-donald-trump-and-politics-with-john-tamny/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AYJIqWf61FM/hqdefault.jpg Part 1: Billionaire Investor Ken Fisher on Donald Trump and Politics, with John Tamny Ken Fisher on: coastal redwoods, dikes, efficient markets, quantitative easing, the limits of our knowledge, climate change, the fed, interest rates, why $100 billion isn't that much money, money flows around the world like water downhill, tree science, behavioral science, why philanthropy is immoral and bad for humans, optimization of scarce resources, Bastiat, financial system intermediation and why inequality is a good thing. https://www.youtube.com/embed/AYJIqWf61FM 2019-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-some-states-get-rich-while-others-are-going-broke-jonathan-williams-and-seth-grove/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KmUe7QYlXy0/hqdefault.jpg Why Some States Get Rich, While Others are Going Broke-Jonathan Williams and Seth Grove There are right ways for states to manage their economies - and some very wrong ones. So if you wanted to make your state more prosperous, wouldn’t it be helpful to have the tools to determine how it will perform years into the future? They exist. https://www.youtube.com/embed/KmUe7QYlXy0 2019-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-2-ed-meese-and-ron-nicol-on-lessons-learned-from-the-trump-transition/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ECR0d-tl0Cw/hqdefault.jpg Part 2: Ed Meese and Ron Nicol on Lessons Learned from the Trump Transition Ed Meese and Ron Nicol on Lessons Learned from the Trump Transition https://www.youtube.com/embed/ECR0d-tl0Cw 2019-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-2-we-all-need-to-make-protecting-habitats-a-concern-ron-maxwell-and-skipper-darlington/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lEfXP6EOCKg/hqdefault.jpg Part 2: We All Need to Make Protecting Habitats a Concern – Ron Maxwell and Skipper Darlington Species and habitat protection are issues that can be separated from polarizing disagreements about climate change. Everyone - on both the left and the right - ought to be able to come together to protect endangered species and their habitats. It’s a problem that humans have created and one that humans can solve. https://www.youtube.com/embed/lEfXP6EOCKg 2019-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/part-1-half-earth-for-species-protection-with-ron-maxwell-and-skipper-darlington/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0bKk1MTxAAA/hqdefault.jpg Part 1: Half Earth for Species Protection with Ron Maxwell and Skipper Darlington The population of humans has almost tripled since 1950, and the impact on other species has been profound. Humans have absorbed vast amounts of habitat for living space and farmland, leading to the extinction of hundreds of species and threats to countless others. Ron Maxwell and Skipper Darlington join Bill Walton to talk about a radical but oddly simple and doable solution. https://www.youtube.com/embed/0bKk1MTxAAA 2019-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-socialism-fails-to-deliver-with-richard-rahn/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PjL8JN-A3ZQ/hqdefault.jpg Why Socialism Fails to Deliver with Richard Rahn “The economy of Venezuela has collapsed as a result of gross socialist mismanagement. Their currency is essentially worthless. To start over, the next government of Venezuela must re-establish the rule of law, protect private property rights and create a new currency.” So writes Richard Rahn, one of America’s most brilliant economists. https://www.youtube.com/embed/PjL8JN-A3ZQ 3600 2019-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/is-war-with-china-inevitable-with-adm-james-stark-and-dr-stefan-halper/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N-UHxEG4ry4/hqdefault.jpg Is War with China Inevitable? with Adm. James Stark and Dr. Stefan Halper In China, the U.S. confronts an adversary that saw itself as the Middle Kingdom –the center of the universe –for 3,000 years, then endured a century of humiliation and now seeks to return to what it sees as its rightful place in the world. Join Bill Walton as he and veteran Washington foreign policy experts Dr. Stefan Halper and Adm. James Stark discuss China’s comprehensive program to dominate its region and to challenge the U.S for cultural, economic and military superiority. https://www.youtube.com/embed/N-UHxEG4ry4 3600 2019-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/burn-the-business-plan-with-carl-schramm/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VYJNUeOUJSQ/hqdefault.jpg Burn the Business Plan with Carl Schramm An entire industry – mostly government-funded – has sprung up around the idea of creating entrepreneurs. Don’t buy any of it. Don’t buy college. Don’t buy business incubators. Don’t buy mentors – you probably know more about what it takes to succeed in your business than they do. https://www.youtube.com/embed/VYJNUeOUJSQ 3600 2019-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/american-medical-insurance-has-failed-to-keep-pace-w-modern-medicine-john-steele-gordon/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s1IlY_t_l5w/hqdefault.jpg American Medical Insurance has Failed to Keep Pace w/Modern Medicine -John Steele Gordon Did you know there was no health insurance until 1930 and that 90 percent of today’s medical care did not even exist in 1950? Yet, health insurance has not evolved to match the innovation or the demand. On this week’s edition of “The Bill Walton Show,” economic author John Steele Gordon and I discuss how our antiquated health insurance system has utterly failed to keep pace with modern medicine, how our healthcare system became such a tangled, costly mess and where we can find simple, free market solutions. https://www.youtube.com/embed/s1IlY_t_l5w 3600 2019-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/one-nation-ungovernable-with-wayne-crews/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LWVI8DhcB18/hqdefault.jpg One Nation Ungovernable with Wayne Crews By some estimates, the cost of government regulation in the U.S. exceeds $2 trillion. An amazing number. And while we’re paying a fortune for existing regulations, major new ones are coming out at the rate of 3,000 per year, so fast that the White House can only do a cost-benefit analysis on less than one half of one percent of them. https://www.youtube.com/embed/LWVI8DhcB18 3600 2019-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/chinas-three-warfares-with-dr-stefan-halper-and-admiral-james-stark/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kkDC6aAzlVg/hqdefault.jpg China’s Three Warfares with Dr. Stefan Halper and Admiral James Stark China is a mass of contradictions. Intellectual property thief. America’s largest trading partner. Home to 476 billionaires. Choked with air and water pollution. A rapidly aging population. And leadership eager to project its national will. https://www.youtube.com/embed/kkDC6aAzlVg 3600 2019-01-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/trumponomics-with-steve-moore/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IAG7YM8SylM/hqdefault.jpg Trumponomics with Steve Moore Ronald Reagan was a winner who believed in the boundless potential of America. Sound familiar? It's one of the reasons Donald Trump is succeeding despite the relentless criticism. He "has a finger on the pulse of millions and millions and millions of Americans." He beat 17 other candidates to get elected and then outsmarted Congress and his own advisers to get a much better tax bill. Learn how Trump gets what he wants on "The Bill Walton Show" with guest Steve Moore. https://www.youtube.com/embed/IAG7YM8SylM 3600 2019-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/what-both-the-left-and-right-miss-about-work-in-america-with-oren-cass/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EJo538Uhsw8/hqdefault.jpg What Both the Left and Right Miss About Work in America with Oren Cass I believe that growth can benefit all Americans, yet while our GDP has tripled in size from 1975 to 2015, average wages have barely risen. The response from both political parties has been to double down on policies that have failed to address this reality Maybe they're missing something crucial in their economic calculations. A focus on work. Author and scholar Oren Cass explains on my new podcast. www.cgtv.us https://www.youtube.com/embed/EJo538Uhsw8 3600 2018-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/financial-busts-why-are-we-always-surprised-with-alex-pollock/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hw1CwcTl-3k/hqdefault.jpg Financial Busts: Why Are We Always Surprised with Alex Pollock People look to the government to prevent future financial crises and too many trust that politicians and economic experts can create policies to protect us and our 401(k) plans. We shouldn't rely on them. These experts are smart, mostly well-intentioned people but they can't prevent the next crisis. No one can. Why is that? And why is a future crisis inevitable? I discuss these and many other questions with "Finance and Philosophy" author Alex Pollock. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hw1CwcTl-3k 3600 2018-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/how-to-restore-power-to-the-american-people-with-peter-wallison/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h0OFYs950Oo/hqdefault.jpg How to Restore Power to the American People with Peter Wallison Since the days of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, progressives have kept claiming that government bureaucrats know better than the rest of us. But putting more power into the hands of administrative agencies instead of our elected representatives leads government by the people to the road to extinction. American Enterprise Institute’s Peter Wallison and I explain why this is such a huge problem on my new podcast. https://www.youtube.com/embed/h0OFYs950Oo 3600 2018-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/bill-speaks-with-klon-kitchen-and-dean-cheng-on-reckoning-with-china/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7NLpV9TshZY/hqdefault.jpg Bill speaks with Klon Kitchen and Dean Cheng on Reckoning with China Over the past forty years, since Deng Xiaoping began his policy of “Reform and Opening,” the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has evolved from a less developed country to the second largest gross domestic product (GDP) in the world. Over the past 25 years, it has also steadily transformed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) into a force that is capable of influencing regional, and increasingly global, security environments. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7NLpV9TshZY 3600 2018-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-the-senates-ritual-defamation-of-brett-kavanaugh-threatens-every-american/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YTx1fjYgbpU/hqdefault.jpg Why The Senate’s Ritual Defamation Of Brett Kavanaugh Threatens Every American "Any rational observer of the Democrats' non-stop character assassination machine can see that something is seriously sick in our republic. Instead of allowing Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee were permitted to use trumped-up, hip-pocketed charges to stage a show trial more in tune with a totalitarian system." Stella Morabito - The Federalist https://www.youtube.com/embed/YTx1fjYgbpU 3600 2018-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-talent-trumps-taxes-with-john-tamny-and-ralph-benko/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DuY8x0Kxrdk/hqdefault.jpg Why Talent Trumps Taxes with John Tamny and Ralph Benko Lower taxes and less regulation are great for business, but some are thriving in high-tax states like New York and California. On my new podcast, Ralph Benko explains the “Tamny Axiom”. Hint: there’s something more valuable in those states than low taxes. https://www.youtube.com/embed/DuY8x0Kxrdk 3600 2018-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/cultural-hegemony-and-why-it-should-concern-americans-today/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UobDZKbhlsY/hqdefault.jpg “Cultural hegemony and why it should concern Americans today” with Ralph Benko and David Nammo Why do 53 percent of millennials prefer socialism to capitalism? Probably because they don’t know what socialism is and neither does Bernie Sanders and others who embrace it. But how bad can it get? Democrats might be moving further to the left but it’s absurd to compare them to Marxists, right? My podcast guest, Ralph Benko, says you might be surprised at how similar their beliefs really are. https://www.youtube.com/embed/UobDZKbhlsY 3600 2018-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/bill-speaks-with-haven-pell-pundificator/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WsIwWVAS-TU/hqdefault.jpg Bill speaks with Haven Pell, Pundificator The next time you feel the urge to join a major protest to condemn the elite, powerful forces who are supposedly making your lives worse, don’t bother. The event is most likely organized by elite, powerful forces who are getting rich off your activism while you don’t make a dime or a dime’s worth of difference. https://www.youtube.com/embed/WsIwWVAS-TU 3600 2018-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/entitlements-aka-promises-that-governments-cant-keep/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zZ8EbmeW_dk/hqdefault.jpg “Entitlements aka Promises That Governments Can’t Keep” with Jim Agresti The next time you feel the urge to join a major protest to condemn the elite, powerful forces who are supposedly making your lives worse, don’t bother. The event is most likely organized by elite, powerful forces who are getting rich off your activism while you don’t make a dime or a dime’s worth of difference. https://www.youtube.com/embed/zZ8EbmeW_dk 3600 2018-08-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-case-against-education-why-the-education-system-is-a-waste-of-time-and-money/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ypa9g-CBKSE/hqdefault.jpg “The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money” with Bryan Caplan It’s long seemed obvious that if we want to truly fix education, actually make it work for the 21st century, we need to kill a stockyard full of our sacred cows. And we had just the man for the job on The Bill Walton Show this week. Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University and author of “The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is Waste of Time and Money,” described the findings in his book and provided some stark recommendations based on them. First, he said, we need to understand what we’re doing in school. There is the romantic version, he said – you go, learn skills employers are interested in, then get jobs with those employers performing those skills. More likely is what he calls the “signaling school of education.” You mostly go to school to get certification, “a bunch of seals of approval saying, ‘Grade A worker’ or ‘Grade B worker.’” But, regardless of the grade, you need a seal. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ypa9g-CBKSE 3600 2018-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/chill-trump-knows-putin-is-kgb-expect-some-unconventional-success-with-russia/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QKUjGJ8whKQ/hqdefault.jpg Chill. Trump Knows Putin is KGB. Expect Some Unconventional Success with Russia “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War https://www.youtube.com/embed/QKUjGJ8whKQ 3600 2018-07-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/americas-crumbling-highways-with-bob-poole/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ltxpjd3FTnw/hqdefault.jpg America’s Crumbling Highways with Bob Poole Famed economist Milton Friedman called America’s highway system a “socialist enterprise” and he was right. America’s roads are in desperate need of repair and the federal government is clearly incapable of maintaining them efficiently. Drivers pay tens of billions of dollars in gasoline taxes every year and our infrastructure problems only seem to get worse. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ltxpjd3FTnw 1380 2018-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/americas-antiquated-air-traffic-control-system-with-bob-poole/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KfHSLpKxcv4/hqdefault.jpg America’s Antiquated Air Traffic Control System with Bob Poole Did you know when you text someone that you’ve landed at the airport, you’re using far more advanced technology than your plane’s air traffic controller? https://www.youtube.com/embed/KfHSLpKxcv4 3600 2018-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-schools-we-need-with-jeanne-allen-and-sarah-walton/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QHSwV0f3-Kw/hqdefault.jpg The Schools We Need with Jeanne Allen and Sarah Walton America’s K-12 education system and institutions were designed in a different era for a different society, and we are at grave risk today from this obsolete system, which fails to prepare all children to succeed as adults. In fact, the system we have now was never designed or intended to reach all children. https://www.youtube.com/embed/QHSwV0f3-Kw 3600 2018-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/its-time-to-get-serious-about-china-with-stefan-halper-and-pat-mulloy/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mTb_82xvqkw/hqdefault.jpg It’s Time to Get Serious About China with Stefan Halper and Pat Mulloy Just this year, the Chinese Communist Party held an election in the Great Hall of the People where Xi Jinping was voted “President for Life.” The vote was 2,958 for and six against. With this vote they proclaimed that China is now realizing its dream of national rejuvenation, and it’s grand strategy to restore its Empire. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mTb_82xvqkw 3600 2018-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/why-bernie-sanders-should-understand-human-agency-and-free-m/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BVWDelck8Zk/hqdefault.jpg Why Bernie Sanders should understand Human Agency with Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley My guest, Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley, the free market economist and moral philosopher, wants to sit down with Bernie Sanders over a cup of coffee to talk about how to achieve the goals he proclaims. There’s a right way and a wrong way, and he’s not going to get there the way he’s going. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BVWDelck8Zk 3600 2018-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/china-then-and-now-century-of-humiliation-to-a-4-trillion-trade-surplus/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iuPiSGkaZYQ/hqdefault.jpg “China Then and Now: Century of Humiliation to a $4 Trillion Trade Surplus” with Pat Mulloy and Stef Halper You’re looking at a country which is the most radical actor on the global stage since the French Revolution. https://www.youtube.com/embed/iuPiSGkaZYQ 3600 2018-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-politics-of-nostalgia-with-yuval-levin-and-arnold-kling/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KoBX8Wsnrfg/hqdefault.jpg The Politics of Nostalgia with Yuval Levin and Arnold Kling Every day, we’re confronted by headlines that reveal the ever-widening chasm between left and right in America. What’s driving this hyper-polarization? And are there any solutions? Thanks to a stimulating conversation with National Affairs Editor Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and independent scholar and economist Arnold Kling, I’m learning that there are some pretty fundamental cultural trends that we need to understand if we want to get at the roots of our frustrations. In part, they lie in what Yuval calls the “politics of nostalgia.” For Arnold, the author of The Three Languages of Politics, our speech is exacerbating America’s political divide. https://www.youtube.com/embed/KoBX8Wsnrfg 3600 2018-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/chinas-led-by-engineers-the-u-s-by-lawyers-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b5LO4vVF234/hqdefault.jpg “China’s led by Engineers, the U.S. by Lawyers. What could possibly go wrong?” with Riley Walters and Herman Pirchner How would you react if the government put facial recognition cameras everywhere and kept tabs on your every move - right down to to how many squares of toilet paper you are using? It's happening in China, as the communist government there clamps down on freedom and ramps up its economic and territorial ambitions in its quest to become the dominant player on the world stage. https://www.youtube.com/embed/b5LO4vVF234 3600 2018-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/is-free-trade-good-for-all-americans-with-ambassador-terry-miller/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6Yafkw9DGZM/hqdefault.jpg Is Free Trade Good for All Americans? with Ambassador Terry Miller This will go down in history as the episode of the Bill Walton Show where John Tamny referred to views I presented as utter nonsense and I called his naïve. https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Yafkw9DGZM 3600 2018-02-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/what-acting-teaches-you-about-you-with-leigh-wilson-smiley/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hBRniu6O7Fg/hqdefault.jpg What Acting Teaches You about You with Leigh Wilson Smiley It was the 21st episode of The Bill Walton Show, but there were a lot of firsts. For the first time, we warmed up for a show. It was not the cacophony of listening to an orchestra prepare to perform, although the difference between the sounds made during the warmup and the actual performance were almost as dramatic. Instead, there was deep breathing, sighs big enough to be felt in every bone in the body, and burbling. Yes, burbling. https://www.youtube.com/embed/hBRniu6O7Fg 3600 2018-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/our-disappointing-treasury-with-peter-wallison/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HRI-VnGRvdY/hqdefault.jpg Our Disappointing Treasury with Peter Wallison The American Enterprise Institute Fellow discusses the growth, and the threat of, the Administrative State. https://www.youtube.com/embed/HRI-VnGRvdY 3600 2018-01-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/are-you-lazy-or-is-it-your-job/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kazA7iFcyBE/hqdefault.jpg “Are you Lazy or is it your job?” with John Tamny John discusses his new book, The End of Work, and the importance of finding a vocation you love. https://www.youtube.com/embed/kazA7iFcyBE 3600 2018-01-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/arnold-kling-and-the-three-languages-of-politics/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_F_ThNNbYZs/hqdefault.jpg Arnold Kling and the Three Languages of Politics Common Ground with Bill Walton: Episode 18 - Independent Scholar Arnold Kling discusses his observations on the "three languages of politics" that pervade American politics. https://www.youtube.com/embed/_F_ThNNbYZs 3600 2018-01-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/block-chain-future-and-the-fcc-local-media-rule-making-w-george-gilder-and-hance-haney/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q8AxSB0RsKU/hqdefault.jpg Block Chain Future and the FCC Local Media Rule-Making w/ George Gilder and Hance Haney The Bill Walton Show: Episode 15 - Bill gets a briefing from George Gilder, who predicted the smart phone and a whole lot more... back in the 1980's. Hance Haney also joins the conversation to discuss his work lobbying the FCC. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q8AxSB0RsKU 3600 2017-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/bill-talks-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-with-adam-michel-and-rachel-greszler/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dERJIZvZCcg/hqdefault.jpg Bill talks Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with Adam Michel and Rachel Greszler It's beginning to look like an opportunity squandered. Our pro-prosperity president wants a pro-growth tax package, but our Republican Congress cannot break out of self-imposed constraints and pass one. (Note: The information in this show is current as of November 11, 2017) https://www.youtube.com/embed/dERJIZvZCcg 3600 2017-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/what-is-venture-capital-and-how-does-it-help-drive-cutting-edge-innovation/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q6JmCdkXXZQ/hqdefault.jpg “What is Venture Capital and How Does It Help Drive Cutting Edge Innovation” with Brett Gibson and Dan Mindus Technology is creating unprecedented wealth the world over, and venture capitalists find themselves in the midst of the best opportunities. https://www.youtube.com/embed/q6JmCdkXXZQ 3600 2017-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/republic-for-which-we-stand/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X6yJ5KyyY78/hqdefault.jpg “Republic For Which We Stand” With John B. Henry, Bill Nitze, Bruce Fein The Bill Walton Show: Episode 12 - Playwright John B. Henry and citizen actors Bill Nitze and Bruce Fein join fellow thespian Bill Walton to discuss "Republic For Which We Stand", a new play by Mr. Henry which portrays the behind-the-scenes struggle of the Founding Fathers and Mothers in drafting the constitution to give only Congress the power to declare war. https://www.youtube.com/embed/X6yJ5KyyY78 3600 2017-10-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/charter-schools-and-parent-choice/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KaO9tE01sbc/hqdefault.jpg “Charter Schools and Parent Choice” with Jeanne Allen and Johnny Taylor The Bill Walton Show: Episode 11 - What would it mean to education if we gave each child a backpack full of cash and let their parents determine which school should receive that cash? https://www.youtube.com/embed/KaO9tE01sbc 3600 2017-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/philanthropy-and-civil-society/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HcBjHqBVts4/hqdefault.jpg “Philanthropy and Civil Society” with J.P. DeGance and Leah Hughey The Bill Walton Show: Episode 10 - J.P. DeGance and Leah Hughey discuss the value philanthropy and how "civil society" can address to a host of challenges in America. https://www.youtube.com/embed/HcBjHqBVts4 3600 2017-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/taxing-and-spending/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QUMVrdC53zw/hqdefault.jpg “Taxing and Spending” with Romina Boccia and Adam Michel The Bill Walton Show: Episode 09 - I’m not sure what left the bigger impression on me after my visit with Romina Boccia and Adam Michel–the thorny difficulty of the federal government’s fiscal challenges or the mindsets of those we elected to deal with them. https://www.youtube.com/embed/QUMVrdC53zw 3600 2017-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/al-regnery-matt-schlapp-on-the-republican-party/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fesYWTG5Z88/hqdefault.jpg Al Regnery & Matt Schlapp on the Republican Party The Bill Walton Show : Episode 08 - You don’t hear much about the Tea Party these days, but perhaps you should. After all, as Al Regnery, publisher to the conservative stars pointed out it just elected a president. https://www.youtube.com/embed/fesYWTG5Z88 3600 2017-08-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-bill-walton-story/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GLZBRim_55M/hqdefault.jpg “The Bill Walton Story” with John Tamny The Bill Walton Show: Episode 07 - Political economist John Tamny flips the tables on Bill and interviews the man behind the podcast. https://www.youtube.com/embed/GLZBRim_55M 3600 2017-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-pursuit-of-happiness/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ruDDTMWjCcY/hqdefault.jpg “The Pursuit of Happiness” with Jimmy Kemp and Ralph Benko The Bill Walton Show: Episode 05 - Jack Kemp played a huge role in the successful tax policies of the 1980's. His son, Jimmy Kemp, joins Bill to discuss the legacy of his father and what's necessary going forward. Ralph Benko is a champion of supply-side economics as well, and adds to the discussion insight garnered from decades national experience. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ruDDTMWjCcY 3600 2017-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/achieving-4-economic-growth/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GLQEXdT3K_c/hqdefault.jpg “Achieving 4% Economic Growth” with John Tamny and Steve Moore The Bill Walton Show: Episode 04 - Bill engages economic experts Steve Moore and John Tamny on how to achieve the holy grail of economic growth.. four percent. https://www.youtube.com/embed/GLQEXdT3K_c 3600 2017-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-power-of-social-media/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qCl6oOrhpKo/hqdefault.jpg “The Power of Social Media” with Mike Thompson and Beverly Hallberg The Bill Walton Show: Episode 03 - Thanks to the Internet and, increasingly, social media, we’re more connected than ever. We have Facebook friends and Twitter followers. We use Snapchat and Instagram to show our spontaneous sides. We post, comment, like, share and retweet information like never before. We engage. We sell. We persuade. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qCl6oOrhpKo 3600 2017-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/heritage-scholars-take-on-todays-pressing-economic-issues/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/34YiLmSqxQs/hqdefault.jpg “Heritage Scholars’ Take on Today’s Pressing Economic Issues” with Jack Spencer and Norbert Michel The Bill Walton Show: Episode 02 - Bill sits down with two of The Heritage Foundation's top economic experts - Jack Spencer and Norbert Michel - to discuss economic policy, tax reform, the Paris Climate Agreement, Dodd-Frank and more. https://www.youtube.com/embed/34YiLmSqxQs 2820 2017-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/fixing-our-education-system-with-jeanne-allen/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w0YYCSr2-HE/hqdefault.jpg Fixing Our Education System with Jeanne Allen I’ve suspected this for some time, but after talking to Jeanne Allen, I’m more convinced than ever that school districts are among the top impediments to improving American education. https://www.youtube.com/embed/w0YYCSr2-HE 3600 2017-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/the-power-to-re-engineer-humanity-with-dr-robert-epstein-and-reggie-littlejohn/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NHaW7354OhI/hqdefault.jpg The Power to Re-engineer Humanity with Dr. Robert Epstein and Reggie Littlejohn Dr. Robert Epstein and Reggie Littlejohn describe how a leaked internal Google video describes their goal of impacting the beliefs, attitudes, purchases, and votes of 2.5 billion people around the world. https://www.youtube.com/embed/NHaW7354OhI 3180 -001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00