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  • Gun Control Episode 3. Have you hugged your rifle today?

    In this episode we try to conclude our series on gun control and it's effects.  It went longer than any of us expected and as always is full of digression.  Also it got a little more sweary than normal.  Steve yells at Trent. Paddy names people he'd rather were Prime Minister in iambic pentameter.  Trent expresses his disdain for Jordan Peterson's most frequent podcast guest.


    Link to the Ivison Youtube video that Steve referenced, poorly.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2sEzUr41jk


    We'll be taking a bit of a break after this episode as we'll be scattering during the month of August.  We will reconvene in September.  As always, if you have any questions comments or concerns, please email [email protected]


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    3 hr 24 min
  • Gun Control Episode 2.1

    Welcome to our second episode on Gun Control.  Due to some time constraints we didn't get all the way through the material we wanted to cover, so there will be at least one more episode on this topic.  Sorry for stringing you along like this.  In this pod we back track a bit to cover why Paddy and I think that the Government in Canada is acting in bad faith with regards to gun control.  Then we tried to move on to cover some  of what we think are possible second and third order effects of gun control.  We hope you enjoy the episode.  Please direct any questions, comments or concerns to [email protected]


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    1 hr 13 min
  • Gun Control Part 1

    Today we take our first crack at gun control.  We try to focus on the 1st and 2nd order effects of gun control, while our next episode will attempt to take a crack at 3rd and 4th order effects.  Break out your aluminum foil hats for that one.

    As always if you have any questions or comments, please direct them to [email protected]


      Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

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    2 hr 11 min
  • Is Good Faith Dead?

    Today we take on Good Faith. The three of us certainly agree that there's a real lack of it in public discourse. The proper functioning of our western liberal democracies and indeed our societies, seem to depend on good faith to continue functioning in good order.  What does the death of good faith mean for us going forward?  Will we be able to function as free societies if good faith is lost completely?  Please listen in as we fail to answer these and other questions about whether or not good faith is dead or just on life support.

    We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.  Please share with your friends and leave a rating on Apple and Spotify.  If you could comment as well, we'd really appreciate it.

    You can send comments to us directly at [email protected]


    Audio Clip Links

    Justin Trudeau on electoral reform

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iin_d9rBrgE

    Barack Obama on liking and keeping your doctor

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44kyHOPEZV8


    Opening music link

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    Closing music link

    https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/tropicana


    1 hr 44 min
  • The Glossary Episode

    Thanks for tuning into Episode 2 of Radio Free Ortona.  In this episode, we try to come to agreement on terminology, so we can communicate more clearly with each other in conversations going forward. Then we digress to CEO compensation. Trust me, it's not nearly as dry as it sounds.


    Please send your comments to [email protected]


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    2 hr 2 min
  • What The Hell Is Wrong With Higher Education
    Welcome to the inaugural episode of Radio Free Ortona.  We're 3 people with some stuff in common and some stuff that gives us different perspectives, which is why there's 3 of us instead of 1 of us.  We know that the sense making infrastructure is broken, and 3 middle aged bald assholes aren't going to fix it.  But maybe we can, in our own small way, contribute to helping everyone try to make sense of the world.  The binary nature of most mainstream narratives is woefully inadequate for understanding any issue.  Our hope is to explore the issues of the day and discover their complex depths.  Hopefully we can relay some of this complexity to you.  We're not going to lie to you, if you came here looking for answers, you're in the wrong place.  We don't have any.  But if we hash this stuff out long enough, we might at least come up with some better questions.
    This week we try, and mostly fail, to figure out what's wrong with higher education.  Are students being served by what they're being taught at today's institutions of higher learning?  Is society?  What happens when you create a class of highly-educated under-employed people with five and six figure debt loads and few prospects for being able to earn enough to pay that off.  Also we ramble our way down more than a few rabbit holes.
    A couple articles that prompted today's conversation
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/the-most-dangerous-class/
    https://www.businessinsider.com/debt-delaying-marriage-causing-divorces-student-loans-mortgages-medical-auto-2022-3
    Please email thoughts and comments to [email protected]
    Thanks, and we hope you enjoy the episode.  Also I promise we'll try to better next time.
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    1 hr 48 min

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