Liberty Beat Podcast

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 41

This week, the liberty beat crew set to work determining the future of humanity.  Listen as all our fates are discussed, and we determine the best course of action for humanity.

Also we bitch about border taxes and speeding tickets.

Topics:

• Mental environism
• Nuclear
• Abortion protests outside toronto high schools
• “Privacy is off the table”
• CISPA
• Border taxes
• Burkhas
• “Stunt driving” regulations

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 40

Episode 40?!  HOLY MOLY.  That’s right, the Liberty Beat crew has the toughness to withstand constantly having to talk about the ever encroaching power of the government for 40 episodes straight.

Topics:

• The Bitcoin crash
• Litecoins
• CFAA
• Proxy violence
• Quebec Bill 14
• Google CEO Demands Civilian-Owned Drone Regulation
• Free Android
• Canadian Mining Regulations
• Exhaust Regulations
• Red Light Cameras
• Roundabouts
• Hilarious Histrionic Historical Building Hijinks
• Casa Loma
• Winchester House

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 39

We’re considering soliciting donations, and adding more production value and additional bonus episodes.  We want to hear user feedback if you’re interested or not, so please visit libertybeat.ca and send us a message!

Topics:

• Bitcoins
• Bioshock
• The Monty Hall Problem (Let’s make a deal)
• QUEBEC - instagram
• LEAP
• Ontario + Quebec: Chinese Medicine — Concentrated benefits and distributed costs
• Medical licensing
• TSA CATSA knives
• Ontario - drunk driving
• Fuel efficient cars
• Airbags

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 38

The Liberty Beat crew is back from PAX East and full of stories about the land of the free to tell all our socialist comrades here in Canada!

Topics:

• Turns out going to the US doesn’t get you shot or stabbed, despite the prevailing Canadian opinion.
• PAX East
• Immigration hypocrisy.
• Boston: The great ‘Mooninite” bomb scare of 2007.
• Boston: The government sets up a social media sting operation to catch unauthorized concerts.  Watch out for Boston Punk Zombies!
• Boston vs. Chick-Fil-A
• Boston vs. WalMart
• Everyone vs. WalMart?
• Ultimate punishment: Be a cabbie in Boston
• Weev: Sentanced for playing with the URL bar at the top of his browser.
• TruthNeverTold vs. Bitcoins
• Racism
• Scientific Taboos

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Bonus 1 - Explaining How Bitcoins Work, In Depth

We had a great time at PAX East instead of recording our show when we were supposed to, but we did cook up a brief discussion about how bitcoins work, in depth, before we left so that we would have something for you this week.

We tried to keep things accessible to a layman while still being informative to a technical person, so hopefully this should be something everyone can enjoy, but if it’s too dry for you, we’ll be back to our normal format next week.

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 37 - Tim Moen

The guests are back!  We invited Tim Moen to join us to give us some sweet sweet rants on the topic of liberty.

In this episode, we teased that we might do a special bonus episode on the technical background behind Bitcoins.  Since the entire Liberty Beat crew will be at PAX East this weekend, we went and pre-recorded that bonus-cast and we’ll be publishing it next week :D

Topics:

• Tim Moen introduces us to the Non-Aggression Principle and the concepts of liberty
• Non-violent communication
• Shame
• You can’t argue your way to liberty
• Doped Olympics
• Selling organs
• Selling babies
• Argentina Financial Crisis
• Bitcoins

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 36

Well, Hugo Chavez is dead.  Kim Jong Il died not long ago.  Seems like now’s not a good time to be one of those ‘permanent head of state’ types.

Maybe the universe is taking revenge for Daylight Saving Time.  Didn’t they read Harry Potter?  Terrible things happen to wizards who mess with time.

Oh, wait, politicians don’t have control over time itself?  Why are they acting like they do then?  Hm…  Oh well, enjoy our latest episode! :D

Topics:

• RIP Hugo Chavez
• War
• Creating jobs
• Government Regulation
• Daylight Savings
• Fiat Currency
• Quebec’s Anti-homophobia campaign
• Quebec Prison Food poisoning due to mechanical dishwasher problem
• US Inland border checkpoint
• Drunk Driving
• Technology/Nerd stuff

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 35

We at liberty beat would like to apologize for what you’re about to listen to, our words will be badly chosen, and we apologize unreservedly to all who are about to be offended.  :)  Enjoy!

Topics:

• Tom Flanagan
• Why child pornography laws are wrong and must be repealed.
• Why banning narcotics is wrong and must be repealed.
• How Iceland politicians want to ban adult porn too.

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 34

Unfortunately, the amazing parade of guests we’ve been having lately has come to a temporary end.  This week, Dan, Dave, and Chinaman share their thoughts and get deep on the concept of morality.

Topics:

• Moral Relativism
• The Is/Ought Gap
• Revenue Quebec Black Boxes in Restaurants
• No way to run a business
• Listener Comment: The Government just trying to do the best they can
• Quebec Maple Syrup Cartel
• Political Advertising
• Voting fallicy
• CRTC and the black hole of Canadian Media
• strippers destroying the minds of children
• imaginary grenades
• school systems
• Ontario compels power companies to significantly overpay for solar power
• Environmental Protection

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 33 - Stephan Kinsella

Intellectual Property Attorney and outspoken libertarian Stephan Kinsella joins us today to give the most eloquent opposition to concept of ‘Intellectual Property’ we’ve ever had on the show.  Listen in while we explore the complex distortions created by this destructive system!

Topics:

• State Versus Freedom & Technology
• Special Guest: Stephan Kinsella
• Locke-ian Ideas & Intellectual Property
• Patent & Copyright
• First Sale Doctrine (Omega v. Costco)
• Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel & Trademarks
• WTO Antigua $25m Ideas
• Who owns the copyrights of a picture?
• Linking to copyrighted material
• Aaron Swartz, PACER & JSTOR
• Copyright & Plagiarism & Trademark
• Exception to the DMCA
• Ron Paul & the Domain Name Squatters
• Dead Space 3 & the farming glitch
• Contracts of Adhesion

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 32 - Ed Lemieux

Our parade of amazing guests continues as the other half of the Ed and Ethan super-duo joins us today to speak out for liberty!

And also, someone finally calls in to join us on the air.  Please do this more often, people! ^_^

Topics:

• Ed and Ethan
• Christopher Dorner
• Cameras Everywhere
• Voltage vs TekSavvy
• Intellectual Property
• Blackmail
• DistribuTel
• Copyright Infringement Doesn’t Cost Jobs
• MEGA
• IP Tax Loopholes
• NDP wants to eliminate Nickels and Cents
• Early childhood abuse
• Achievement versus work
• The Gun In The Room
• Quebec suicide prevention hotline doesn’t take 24% of their calls

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 31 - Sydney Roc

This week we get an expert on video games as it to relates to liberty.  Sydney Roc from the Gaming and Liberty podcast joins our usual crazy crew to talk psychology, technology, and his home province of Quebec!

Topics:

• Sydney Roc from Gaming and Liberty
• Skinner Boxes, and the motivations for playing games
• Metathinking
• Player Agency
• Assembly line work = Beating slimes!
• How games teach us useful skills in real life.
• China considering getting rid of their 12 year ban on game consoles. — Wait what?  China banned game consoles?
• The older generation and the casual game / hardcore game divide.
• PC vs. Console games
• Copyright Infringement!  Arrrr.
• OpenGameArt.org
• FreeSound.org
  
• Quebec: Politics, and language laws, schools, “culture”.
• Liberty is the philosophy of peace.
• Lack of libertarian choices in games (Grr @ Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
• Canadian health care and why it sucks.
• Dave’s libertarian strategy: Suck up as much tax funded benefits as possible, and get the cops to enforce all the stupid laws with no exceptions.
• Game censorship in Germany and Australia.
• Game black markets
• Crowd Funding

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 30 - Ethan Erkiletian

One half of the Ed and Ethan team joins the show again (This time with VoIP that actually works!), introducing some much needed dulcet baritone to counter our usual shrill cries of freedom :D

Topics:

• Ed and Ethan
• Where did you first learn about liberty?
• The left/right political divide.
• The difficulties of understanding liberty (Need to know everything about everything?)
• I, Pencil
• Cannabis
• Separate concepts: Opposing/supporting something / Supporting government action to that end.
• LGBT issues.  Should you even give a crap about someone else’s completely private life?
• Public displays of affection
• Children shouldn’t necessarily be shielded from finding porn, or punished for swearing.
• Daniel’s Dad
• Consistency, and its role in understanding liberty.
• Bus driver delays passengers outside in the bitter cold so he can have a smoke break.
• How practical is it to know and obey the law?  Impossible, it turns out.
• The symmetry between buying and selling.  Both sides have the right to decline the transaction.
• Is it right to stop someone from committing suicide by force?
• Health care! (Put three canadian libertarians in a podcast, and health care will come up :p)
• Inflation.  Where does it come from?
• Government Marriage (Why liberty lovers should oppose gay marriage laws?)

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 29 - Michael Shanklin

The Liberty Beat Crew interviews yet another luminary of the liberty loving world.  Joining us this week from that spiffy country to the south called ‘America’ is Michael Shanklin from VoluntaryVirtues.com

Topics:

• Michael Shanklin’s description of Voluntarism
• Why Voluntarism?
• Caledonia
• Privatized Security
• On Drugs
• It’s OK for the government to do it but not you.
• Law != Morality
• The Principle of Non-Aggression
• School
• Video Games
• Government as a Parental Figure
• Revolt Avoidance is the only incentive for Government
• Legal Tender
• Bad Loans
• Video Games and Economics
• Militarism
• Environment
• Private Property Ownership
• Corporate Definition
• Somalia
• Arbitration
• Intellectual Property
• Aaron Swartz

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)

Liberty Beat Podcast - Episode 28 - Stefan Molyneux

This week we have a very special guest star, Stefan Molyneux from freedomainradio.com joins us to talk about liberty and philosophy.

Topics:

• Intro
• Slashdot BBC Communist Party Shill Bloggers
• Voting and the Media
• Brian Kaplan: “The myth of the rational voter”
• Convince me not to vote!
• Ron Paul
• The Moral Case
• The Redundant Welfare State
• Idle No More
• Flu Shots
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Property Rights

Credits:

• Host - Daniel Benoy
• Co-Host - David Shepherd
• Co-Host - Chinaman
• Microphone Logo - VectorOpenStock.com (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License: Vector Graphics by VectorOpenStock.com)
• “Grassy World” Bumper Music - Matthew Pablo (Used in accordance with the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License)