LocoFoco Netcast

Let's call Robert Wicks our Facebook Sensei and listen to what he says about the world-shaking aspects of increased communications through social media and other modern technologies. Gutenberg, Bell, Marconi? Move over. The world is rushing towards peace.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/YprML2PLPPfH/

For this episode of the LocoFoco Netcast, co-hosts Timo Virkkala and Lee Waaks query Rocco Lucente and Olof Af Yggdrasil about the nature of the pandemic and its panicky, political reactions.

The podcast, as always, can be found on LocoFoco.net, and with podcatchers such as Apple's, Google's, Pocket Cast, and Spotify.

The full video is available on independent platforms BitChute and Brighteon, at BitChute.com/locofoco and Brighteon.com/channels/wirkman/ as well as in pieces on YouTube (eventually). The community can be reached at LocoFoco.us and LocoFoco.locals.com. Social media representation is @wirkman on Gab and other platforms.

This is a look at a whole bunch of books Timothy Virkkala and James L. Gill are reading or have read. A wide-ranging discussion, really.

Here are two pages referenced in the podcast:

Epicurean Freedom? wirkman.com/2020/07/06/epicurean-freedom/

https://www.budsartbooks.com/screwball-the-cartoonist-who-made-the-funnies-funny.html

More probably should be given, but it's late at night and some of us try to sleep when it is dark.

James Little Gill: My Monster Problem — and Ours [and] Cognitive Bias Parade — find both on Amazon.com.

Anthony Comegna — THE “Dr. LocoFoco” — joins Timothy Virkkala, once again, for an expansive discussion of the history of libertarian ideas in and around the successful AND tragic Loco-Foco movement of the 19th century.

Dr. Comegna is @DrLocoFoco on Twitter, and is Programs Manager for the Institute for Humane Studies: https://theihs.org/people/anthony-comegna/.

Mr. Virkkala is @wirkman on Twitter, Facebook and Gab, and blogs at wirkman.com.

LocoFoco Netcast can be found by typing in the URL LocoFoco.net, and the team can be reached at LocoFoco.us.

On YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ibsy4t5Z7Oc

Remember the old tests of the "Emergency Broadcast System," that we used to hear on radio and see on TV?

Here is an update.

It's also a kind of plug for the podcast: LocoFoco.net/LocoFoco Netcast.

Admiral Aqbar knows the underlying cause.

Timothy (@wirkman) Virkkala explains, and James Gill interrogates.

This podcast is available in audio at LocoFoco.net and via podcatchers such as Apple, Google, and Spotify.

https://youtu.be/VSOr0A7u49k

Michael Rectenwald, late of New York University, author of three recent books — Springtime for Snowflakes; The Google Archipelago; and his current book, Beyond Woke -- has made a transit from the far left to the . . . resolute and intelligent anti-left.

In this, the 14th episode of the LocoFoco Netcast, co-hosts Lee Waaks and Timothy Virkkala interrogate the "Deplorable NYU Prof" on not only Professor Rectenwald's life and work, but, especially, on the nature of today's woke left craziness.

And, at the end, the author reads from his work in progress, a novel entitled "The Virus."

You will hear it here first, folks.

The full-video version of this podcast will appear on YouTube within the day of publication on SoundCloud and via podcatchers such as Apple, Google, and Spotify: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnx8wnCLOiSRc5Vi5vrPXSA

Meet the IP Man himself: Stephan Kinsella. Stephan is a lawyer and a libertarian theorist who has done important work on the nature of rights and on intellectual property.

Your host for the LocoFoco Netcast, Timothy Wirkman Virkkala, had this notion to chat with Stephan about legal positivism, a subject upon which both of these libertarians have had somewhat heretical views -- but one thing led to another and they never got around to talking about that. Instead, here we have a wide-ranging conversation about life, the universe, and libertarianism.

This is the thirteenth episode of the LocoFoco Netcast, and it is a bit different from our usual fare. We let our hair down -- so to speak. Yes, the subject of hair comes up. As does motorcycles. And Ayn Rand as plagiarist. And the pyramids. And to what extent the State is inevitable and whether we came down out of the trees too soon. And intellectual property. And communism via 3d printers — well, you decide what to make of that!

The team can be found at LocoFoco.us, and this podcast is available on Apple, Google, and Spotify. The video version is available on YouTube.

Philosopher Kenneth Minogue warned of the dangers of political idealism. In this 12th episode of the LocoFoco Netcast, Kevin Rollins joins Timothy Virkkala to discuss their first impressions of Minogue’s challenge to libertarians and, well, all moderns and postmoderns.

Their discussion focuses on a short talk the late philosopher gave at University of Oxford in late 2009: https://youtu.be/8ypaEjLARCQ

Virkkala gives a short explanation of the name of the podcast, which, in turn, can be listened to in audio format at LocoFoco.net, and downloaded via podcatchers such as Apple, Google, and Spotify.

The video version is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F4xPxIUojzU

Another look at the coronavirus — this time the ECONOMICS of the lockdowns. There are other kinds of lethality than dreamt of in Dr. Fauci's philosophy.

This conversation is based on an article on FEE.org about the subject, and here the problems with lockdowns are explored in terms of the Seen and the Unseen, per Frederic Bastiat.

See: https://fee.org/articles/economic-lockdowns-kill-people-yes-literally/

This podcast can be accessed on Apple and Google podcasts, as well as Spotify and other podcatchers. If can be seen in video on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/i6YYCzbQZzM