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The Rollo and Slappy Show
by The Rollo and Slappy Show
In order to form a more peaceful and productive society, all transactions and associations ought to be voluntary. We explore economics, ethics, social issues, and anything else that pertains to libertarianism.
Episodes
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Episode 154 – Wasting Time Worrying About Waste
The state can be a pretty pernicious thing, infiltrating our minds even when we think we’ve inoculated ourselves. We decided to tackle a few issues that we might be a little more difficult to dump out. Sponsor Liberty Mugs Keep in touch with us everywhere you are Like us on Facebook Follow us on...
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Episode 152 – Who Needs Tokens When You Have Bitcoin?
We received an email last week from a listener regarding some points on decentralization and tokenization using altcoins for things like issuing stock in a company. We decided to do sort of a part 2 to last week’s episode to discuss these ideas. Do people tend to overuse the idea of...
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Episode 151 – Hold On, We’re Talking Bitcoin
This week, we run some victory laps around us warning about the intrinsic value of gold some time ago and then transition into some of the critiques made against hodling and Bitcoin being the one and only money. Items discussed A Bitcoin Maximalism Debate – Peaceful Treason Space Miners Race to…
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Episode 150 – That’s a Nice Bolo Tie, Mister with Steve Miller-Miller
It’s Episode 150, so we celebrate it by keeping Slappy off the episode with “technical difficulties” and bringing on Steve Miller-Miller to poke fun at libertarians and talk about some of his favorite things. Follow Steve Twitter, @blessyourgrind The Lolberts Monumental Waste of Time Sponsor...
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Episode 149 – Grayson Fritts: The Cop Who Is So Religious That He’ll Do Whatever the State Tells Him to Do
A preacher in Knoxville County, TN had a very controversial video of his sermons released. Grayson Fritts repeatedly told his congregation that that he believed that the Bible informs us that gays should be executed. We could just chalk this up to Fritts being a nutjob, but his other job makes…
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Episode 148 – The Tulsi Gabbard Question
We’re keeping the theme of handling someone being wrong, but we’re changing it up a little this week. What do we about someone like Tulsi Gabbard? She’s great on foreign policy but very bad on everything else. Sponsor Liberty Mugs Earn Bitcoin by using your credit card GetPei.com, use promo code...
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Episode 147 – Yeah, But He’s Wrong on That One Thing
As libertarians, we often find it difficult to agree with each other, so when we’re faced with dealing with the rest of the world, finding common ground on political and ethical issues can be exceedingly difficult. What do we do? As Bitcoin maximalists, how do we deal with the huge numbers of...
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Episode 146 – They Send Men to War, But at What Cost?
War is horrific and it has terrible effects on those who fight in them. Article discussed Hunters—father and son—hold town hall to discuss border security Sponsor Liberty Mugs Earn Bitcoin by using your credit card GetPei.com, use promo code jz6ei7 to get $10 Keep in touch with us everywhere you...
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Episode 145 – The Gun Boy, @NotGregoryM
You’ll shoot your eye out, kid! We welcome Greg, known as @NotGregoryM on Twitter, on the podcast to talk guns. I don’t think we’ve ever had a guest come on the show to talk about guns, so we’ll call him our resident gun expert. He’s a wealth of knowledge and an all-around good guy. Maybe […]
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Episode 144 – Life as a Marine in Afghanistan with @JTTRisky0861
What’s it like serving in the military in Afghanistan as you begin to question the war? We’ve all heard the dramatic stories about soldiers turned antiwar activities, but what was it like for the average Marine? Jared, known as @JTTRisky0861 on Twitter, is a former Marine who became antiwar and...
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Episode 143 – Talking About Peter Schiff’s Comparison of Gold and Bitcoin
Peter Schiff is well known in libertarian and Austrian economics circles for his outspoken support of free markets and critiques of government interference. He’s also known in Bitcoin circles, but that’s because he’s a vocal critic of Bitcoin and its competition with gold. After a couple of…
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Episode 141 – Dealing with Frauds and Scams in the World of Bitcoin
There’s an awful lot of noise in the Bitcoin space due to people trying to promote their altcoins. The most contentious debates and arguments happen in the Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash communities and the latest installment has featured people calling on Twitter to do something about the @Bitcoin...
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Episode 138 – “Let Me See Your Hands”
Vallejo police have released the video of the slaying of rapper Willie McCoy at a Taco Bell. A Taco Bell employee called 911 to report an unresponsive person sitting in a car. When Vallejo police arrived, they found McCoy as described, but they noticed a gun in his lap. They drew their guns and...
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Episode 137 – Yanking the Leash
Conspiracies exist and there’s plenty of odd accounts of events, but that doesn’t give someone license immediately go off the rails and make wild accusations of conspiracies while having almost no facts. It’s not a good look for us as libertarians. Bad people exist and they do some pretty awful...
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Episode 136 – Cracking the Egg of Capital Punishment
We’ve talked about how to deal with crime on past podcast episodes, but how should a libertarian society deal with an active aggressor? The recent “egging” of Australian senator Fraser Anning by a 15-year-old provides us with an opportunity to dig into this with a recent event. We’ve also…
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Episode 135 – Andrew Yang Is Clueless About Guns, But We Have Better Ideas
Democrat Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang is taking some flak for his thoughts on gun control. And he should because his thoughts are pretty bad, but that means he’s pretty popular among the typical bad idea machines. Slappy and I take this opportunity to talk through how we think a libertarian...
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Episode 134 – Bill of Rights for Domestic Workers?
Slappy and I came across an opinion piece where a local nanny was complaining about working conditions for domestic workers like cleaners and nannies. She was suggesting that a “bill of rights” is required to be placed into law by the city of Philadelphia to alleviate these issues. We read…
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Episode 133 – The Not-So-Civil War with Prof. CJ of the Dangerous History Podcast
Slappy and I welcome Prof. CJ of the Dangerous History Podcast to talk about his show and the recent epic 28-hour long series he did on his podcast, “The Not-So-Civil War.” We start with some general conversation about Prof. CJ and education, but then we dig into some questions we had about the...
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Episode 132 – You’re All a Bunch of Socialists!
There were some audio issues during post-production. We got them to reasonable levels but Rollo’s voice is a little louder than Slappy’s and a bit less crisp. Well, not all of you are socialists. But it’s interesting to notice how many on the right decry the left’s socialism only to succumb to…
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Episode 131 – Guy Swann of The Cryptoconomy Podcast Carries the Lightning Torch
We welcome Guy Swann from The Cryptoconomy podcast to talk about Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, Guy carrying the Lightning Torch, and bringing Bitcoin to the world. Items mentioned SLP52 Jack Dorsey & Elizabeth Stark – Bitcoin: Native Currency of the Internet – Stephan Livera Podcast...
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Episode 130 – We Interrupt Your Normally Scheduled Program…
Slappy and I have CarCampIt of the Friends Against Government podcast on the show to talk about some of the current goings on in the world. We talk a bit about Super Bowl commercials, abortion, and PETA’s Twitter account. Follow CarCampIt Twitter: @CarCampIt Friends Against Government Podcast...
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Episode 129 – How Do You Deal with Criminals in a Libertarian Society?
We take libertarianism all the way to its logical conclusion. That means we don’t want the state to exist for anything. This includes ways to handle criminals. Libertarianism answers the question of what constitutes a crime very well, but it’s not quite obvious what to do once we think we know…
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Episode 128 – What to Get from the Covington Catholic March for Life Media Debacle
I’m sure you’ve heard about it already, but there was an incident in Washington, D.C. at the March for Life. It sets up like a joke, but what do you get when you take groups of Native Americans, Black Hebrew Israelites, and students from an all-boys Catholic High School? Utter social media…
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Episode 127 – How to Deal with Racists with Quincy Johnson
This episode contains some language, so listener discretion is advised. We had the privilege of bringing everyone’s favorite truck driver, Quincy Johnson, on the show to talk about how to deal with racists and then chat a bit about politics. Follow Quincy Twitter: @QuincyLovesBBWS Sponsor Liberty...
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Episode 126 – Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin with Heavily Armed Clown
Bitcoin just turned 10 years old, so what’s better to talk about than Bitcoin to start the new year? We brought on Colin, known as Heavily Armed Clown on Twitter, to discuss how he got into Bitcoin, the economics behind it, adoption, the bear market, and more! Items discussed Mathbot.com JW...
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Episode 123 – Bitcoin Bomb Threats!
Bitcoin’s all time high was a year ago today. We’re in a bear market, so there’s been plenty of FUD being spread around by the no-coiners. We discuss some the recent Bitcoin bomb threat, criticisms, and some critiques on altcoins. Items discussedDon’t Buy Bitcoin. It’s Going to Crash!!!Episode…
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Episode 122 – Feeling Bullish on Taking Down PC Culture
The extreme leftists and social justice warriors keep getting crazier and crazier with no real end in sight. The latest victim of their silly whininess is Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray, who was “discovered”to have tweeted out an “anti-gay slur” when he was 15 years old. Fortunately, the vast...
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Episode 121 – Remembering the Death of Joseph Pacini at the Hands of the Police
At the end of the month, it will be four years since Joseph Pacini, an at the time 52-year-old man from Clifton Heights, PA, was gunned down by police following a charge of making terroristic threats. We immediately picked the story up as soon as it happened since it occurred so close to where we...
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Episode 120 – Should We Be Strict Capitalists? with Dean-O
Our friend, Dean-O, recently penned a piece on his site The Rogue File called “Why I’m No Longer a Capitalist (It’s Not What You Think)” where he has decided to transition away from being a strict capitalist in favor supporting a free market that allows for what he refers to companies that use…
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Episode 119 – The Real ID
I’ve been hearing about this Real ID that I’m supposed to be getting in the next few years, so I finally looked at what it is. It’s not good. Of course, the government will tell you it’s for your safety, but what else could they be using it for? CarCampIt joins us to discuss. And […]
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Episode 117 – Girl Slapping
Jason Stapleton got triggered when recent guest of ours Mance Rayder posted a screenshot of a kind of dumb conversation happening in his Facebook group. He then proceeded to whine about Mance and his views with his cohost. The problem, though, is that everything he accused Mance of thinking was...
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Episode 116 – Mance Rayder on unions, culture, and…
It’s been long overdue, but we finally got Mance Rayder on the podcast. We start with some conversations about unions, pivot to immigration and culture, and then go onto some talk about some issues we see among people resisting a world without the state. Keep up and enjoy! Items Discussed Episode...
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Episode 115 – Teachers and school
We’ve all had teachers and we’re all expected to put teachers on some holy pedestal of respect and awe. Is that misplaced? Are public schools the only poisonous place to send your children to be educated or do private schools suffer from many of the same problems. Do teachers get paid enough? In...
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Episode 112 – Chris Pacia challenges our Bitcoin maximalism
We’ve been talking about Bitcoin and promoting Bitcoin maximalism a lot. One of our friends offered to set us up to talk to Chris Pacia to debate and discuss some ideas around Bitcoin maximalism. Rollo ate a steak for dinner, so he thinks he’s ready. Grum once again decides to crash the party,...
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Episode 111 – Nullification with Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center
There’s not much we can do to fight the state, but one of the options available can be very powerful: nullification. We brought the expert, Michael Boldin, on to talk about all things nullification. Follow Michael Tenth Amendment Center State of the Nullification Movement Report @TenthAmendment...
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Episode 110 – How would fraud be handled in a libertarian society?
We can all agree that fraud is less than savory behavior, but is it Non-Aggression Principle violation level behavior? Is it simply lying? Regardless of how we categorize it, how would we deal with it in a free society? We’ve got some answers. Items discussed Prisons in a free society? by Bob...
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Episode 109 – What is Bisq and why are decentralized, non-custodial Bitcoin services important?
We’re still mashing the Bitcoin button for picking podcast episode topics, but this one is a little bit different because it’s fairly actionable. Rollo recently finally used Bisq to purchase some Bitcoin. Bisq is a decentralized, non-custodial Bitcoin exchange that offers some serious…
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Bonus Episode 108 – Gratuitous nerding out by “one and a half” engineers on the alleged moon landing hoax
CarCampIt and Birdarchist were discussing game theory and the possibility of a moon landing hoax in the most recent episode of their podcast. I, Rollo, had some ideas and disagreements on some of Car’s points, so I invited him to jump on a call to talk about it and release the first ever BONUS...
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Episode 107 – Why Bitcoin will be the one and only money
We’ve been dedicating a lot of time on the podcast and the blog about Bitcoin and we’ve been teasing our Bitcoin maximalism. Now it’s time to explain why we believe that Bitcoin is set to be the one and only money. Previous episodes mentioned Episode 90 – Bitcoin scaling problems and solutions…
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Episode 106 – CNBC’s take on Bitcoin and Rollo opens a Lightning Network node
Bitcoin has been in the mainstream for awhile now and the media has been running their fair share of stories. CNBC is running a special called “Bitcoin: Boom or Bust”. Based on their teasers, it looks like it will be quite the doozy—and not in the good way. And while they’re busy with that, the […]
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Episode 104 – CarCampIt on the concerns with the potential Bitmain IPO
He’s back. We welcome CarCampIt onto the podcast for the second week in a row, but this time we’re talking about something completely different. Car wrote a piece on Medium called “Bitmain 51% attack funded by an IPO?” where he breaks down how the currency and mining works for those completely...
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In order to form a more peaceful and productive society, all transactions and associations ought to be voluntary. We explore economics, ethics, social issues, and anything else that pertains to libertarianism.
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