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Episode 228: “Google’s Utopian Vision and the 2024 Election” with Dr Robert Epstein and Jenny Beth Martin

05/30/2023

Guest(s): Jenny Beth Martin, Robert Epstein


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. We’ve known about this issue since at least 2 ...

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Episode 227: “It’s Time for the US to Use Its Power to Bring the War in Ukraine to an End” with Stephen Bryen

05/18/2023

Guest(s): Dr. 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 defense ...

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Episode 226: “The Weaponization of Loneliness” with Stella Morabito

05/10/2023

Guest(s): Stella Morabito


“Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated against each other.… Therefore, one of the primary concerns of all tyrannical government is to bring this isolation about.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism “Americans have long sensed a ...

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Episode 225: “Protecting Investors from an Overreaching Regulatory State” with Chris Iacovella

05/04/2023

Guest(s): Christopher A. 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 t ...

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Episode 224: “The FBI’s Ambitious New Plans” with J. Michael Waller

04/26/2023

Guest(s): J. Michael Waller


The Federal Bureau of Investigation is proceeding with plans to build a new headquarters which would be twice the size of the The Pentagon, the world’s largest office building. The new FBI headquarters is to be built on one of three sites in suburban Virginia and Maryland. Those sites are large parcels of 58, 61, and 80 acres. The Kremlin in Moscow —a walled ...

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Episode 223: The Differences Between Men and Women: Warriors and Worriers with Joyce Benenson

03/24/2021

Guest(s): 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 wa ...

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Episode 222: “What You Need to Know About Your Money and the Federal Reserve” with Cato’s Norbert Michel

04/12/2023

Guest(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 particip ...

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Episode 221: Are We Really Surprised We’re Having Another Banking Crisis?-Alex Pollock & Steve Dewey

04/05/2023

Guest(s): Alex Pollock


It looks like the bill is finally coming due after decades of reckless monetary policy and out of control federal spending. After 40 years of relatively stable prices, we now have raging inflation. Interest rates have risen dramatically. Mortgage rates have more than doubled. And commercial banks are now sitting on more than $600 billion of unrealized bond losses. Of course, and as expected, wi ...

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Episode 220: “Silicon Valley Bank: The Bill Finally Comes Due” with Rick Manning and Robert Romano

03/28/2023

Guest(s): Rick Manning


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 ...

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Episode 219: “The Labor Department’s Radical Agenda” with Pat Pizzella

03/21/2023

Guest(s): Patrick 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 ...

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Episode 218: “The Ugly Truth About the White House, the FBI and the Social Media Companies” with Jenin Younes and Todd Zywicki

03/08/2023

Guest(s): Jenin Younes, Todd Zywicki


Newly released documents show that the White House has played a major role in censoring Americans on social media.  Email exchanges between Rob Flaherty, the White House’s director of digital media, and social-media executives prove the companies put Covid censorship policies in place in response to relentless, coercive ...

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Episode 217: “Ukraine: It’s Time for Realism” with David Goldman and Stephen Bryen

02/28/2023

Guest(s): Dr. Stephen Bryen, David P. Goldman


“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 ...

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Episode 216: “What The Grateful Dead and Successful Dealmakers Have in Common” with Marc Morgenstern

02/25/2023

Guest(s): Marc H. 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 ...

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Episode 215: “To Shrink Government, Cut Taxes: How the States are Doing It” with Grover Norquist

02/16/2023

Guest(s): 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 American ...

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Episode 214: “Ukraine, The Balloon and the Loss of US Hegemony” with Brandon Weichert.

02/10/2023

Guest(s): 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 troo ...

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Episode 213: “It’s High Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine” with Stephen Bryen and David P. Goldman

01/31/2023

Guest(s): Dr. Stephen Bryen, 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 casualtie ...

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Episode 212: “The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change” with Dr Jerome Corsi, PhD

01/14/2023

Guest(s): Jerome Corsi


“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? Dr. Corsi, autho ...

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Episode 211: “It’s Happening According to Plan” with Kevin Freeman

12/20/2022

Guest(s): 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. And while ...

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Episode 210: “Office Buildings: Will We Ever Go Back?” with John Scheurer

12/13/2022

Guest(s): John Scheurer


"Commuting to office work is obsolete. It is now infinitely easier, cheaper, and faster to do what the 19th century could not do, move information, and with it office work to where the people are, the tools to do so are already here. The telephone two-way video, electronic mail, the fax machine, the personal computer, and so on."  Peter Drucker (1989) In 2020, over 30 years later, futurist and ma ...

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Episode 209: “The Money Confusion: Why Inflation Now?” with John Tamny

11/30/2022

Guest(s): 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 o ...

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Episode 208: “How Policy Responses to the Pandemic Continue to Shatter Our World” with Jeffrey Tucker

11/23/2022

Guest(s): 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 ...

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Episode 207: “The Red Trickle: Where Do Our Elections Go From Here?” with Paul Teller PhD

11/16/2022

Guest(s): Paul Teller


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 Republican ...

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Episode 204: “The Climate Change Industrial Complex: Trillion $$$ Promises That It Can’t Keep” with Myron Ebell

11/01/2022

Guest(s): 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 t ...

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