Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government and Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality. Support this podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani TIMESTAMPS 0:39 - On a quest for the best life that you can achieve 4:02 - Happiness without morality or morality without happiness 5:27 - The interests of humans are at harmony 7:58 - Sacrifice is not good for you and the world 12:24 - Love is selfish 17:12 - Are soldiers sacrificial? 19:15 - The Fountainhead 23:33 - Communicating counter-culture ideas 33:58 - Epistemology 47:25 - Wealth, progress and happiness 1:01:52 - Closing remarks DON’S LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/donswriting Website: https://www.donswriting.com ARJUN’S LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani 

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#30 – Niklas Anzinger: Longevity, Crypto, and Network States

Ashley St. Clair is the Operations Manager at Babylon Bee and author of the children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds. This interview was recorded on Airchat. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:19 - The immigration crisis in the US 11:08 - DEI and Mark Cuban 14:29 - Anti-humanism and Gen Z 18:17 - The rise of Christian nationalism 22:32 - Elon freeing the bird 27:47 - What the birth control pill represents 33:07 - Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom 35:16 - Should you go to college? 38:37 - Elephants Are Not Birds Follow Ashley on X: http://x.com/stclairashley   

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#29 – Ashley St. Clair: Immigration Crisis, Free Speech, and Birth Control

Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:49 - Why Matthew wrote Fiat Food 5:29 - Restructuring the American diet after the gold standard 11:25 - The Seventh-day Adventist Church 16:09 - The word “science” has become a shield against criticism 18:19 -  On eating everything in moderation 21:04 - The CPI significantly downplays the effect of inflation 25:53 - The benefits of eating sound good  28:54 - How could a transition to the Bitcoin standard look like? 32:50 - Freedom and raising free children 36:21 - Advice for starting the carnivore diet and closing remarks Follow Matthew on X: http://x.com/Matthewlysiak Get Fiat Food from The Saif House: http://thesaifhouse.com 

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#28 – Matthew Lysiak: Fiat Food, Bitcoin, and Fake Science

Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200 people in the world to receive Follistatin gene therapy. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:39 - Biohacking for 25 years 7:23 - Follistatin gene therapy 11:15 - Farbood’s protocol and results after taking follistatin 15:38 - The FDA’s job is not to keep you alive and healthy 20:58 - Próspera and other startup cities 24:13 - Effective accelerationism 29:27 - On living forever 33:40 - The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m an effective altruist and I’m here to help” 44:40 - Action is always selfish 50:53 - Tips for the average person to get started with biohacking 57:00 - The importance of mobility and flexibility 1:02:14 - Steve Jobs and following your heart Follow Farbood on X: http://x.com/farbood 

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#27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart

Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper. He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript on Substack. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:00 - The commonalities (and differences) between Austrian economics and Popperian epistemology 14:34 - Young Popper’s socialism 25:35 - The sociology of philosophy 29:20 - Two different aspects to Popper’s approach to teaching 36:11 - The situation at the Institute for Humane Studies at GMU 45:45 - Popper’s personality, work ethic, and other interests 52:11 - Against the self-expressionist theory of art 56:24 - Why the ideas of Popper and Hayek aren’t mainstream 1:10:03 - Anarcho-capitalism 1:23:02 - Closing remarks If you are interested in Jeremy's Zoom based conferences on Karl Popper's work, you can contact him at: jeremy.shearmur@fallowfield.info 

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