The Secular Foxhole

Our show commemorates James Madison's birthday, March 16th. We recommend his Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments. Then we discuss topics in our news sandwich segment, and talk about the value for value model in the podosphere.

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Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• A Founding Father is Born on March 16, 1751
• James Madison Quotes About Religion
• In God We Trust motto on U.S. currency
• Religious affiliations of presidents of the United States
• Thomas Paine Memorial Association
• James Madison on PBS.org
• James Madison's Montpelier in Virginia
• Richard Salsman on Hamilton
• News Sandwich segment
• Blue Origin and Sierra Space developing commercial space station
• Starlink Explained: Everything to Know About Elon Musk's Satellite Internet Venture
• Value4Value.io
• Value 4 Value podcasts on Podcast Index
• Trader Principle
• App Making Bitcoin Payments Easier
• How to top up your Fountain Wallet with Bitcoin
• The Secular Foxhole podcast on Fountain app
• podStation on Twitter
• podStation Podcast Player (Google Chrome extension)
• Tallycoin
• Randsday
• Adam Curry on the Future of Podcasting, episode 3037 of The Survival Podcast with Jack Spirko

Episode 44 (33 minutes) was recorded at 10 PM CET, on February 25, 2022, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Veed.io.

Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value through Satoshis Stream (Bitcoin payments). Oscar Merry is ahead of the game, with his Fountain app. Make a micropayment transaction with the new podcast app, Fountain. You could also listen to our podcast on our own standalone app, by downloading it for free on Apple App Store and Google Play. 

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Robert Tracinski visits us again to expand on three of his recent articles, published in Discourse Magazine. We have a stimulating, thought-provking discussion. Why don’t you listen in?

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Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Swiss basic income campaign sets ‘Guinness’ record
• The Case for Neo-Classical Liberalism
• The Need for a Culture of Achievement
• In Defense of “Workism”
• What Does Ayn Rand Have to Offer to Our Era?
• “My Work Done My Way”
• ‘Cost Disease Socialism’ and the Crisis of Our Time

Episode 43 (56 minutes) was recorded at 8 PM CET, on February 4, 2022, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Veed.io.

Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value through Satoshis Stream (Bitcoin payments). Oscar Merry is ahead of the game, with his Fountain app. Make a micropayment transaction with the new podcast app, Fountain. You could also listen to our podcast on our own standalone app, by downloading it for free on Apple App Store and Google Play. 

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Today we talk with Kevin Osborne a local writer (Connecticut) who has written two fascinating books about America. Join us for a great discussion.

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Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• The Prometheus Connection (website)
• The Prometheus Connection (paperback)
• The Prometheus Frontier (paperback)
• The Prometheus Connection, America’s Original Spirit: Rise, Demise, Recovery (book review by Alex Bleier)
• The platform of the American Capitalist Party
• Mutekikon

Episode 42 (35 minutes) was recorded at 9 : 30 PM CET, on January 28, 2022, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Veed.io.

Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value through Satoshis Stream (Bitcoin payments). Oscar Merry is ahead of the game, with his Fountain app. Make a micropayment transaction with the new podcast app, Fountain. You could also listen to our podcast on our own standalone app, by downloading it for free on Apple App Store and Google Play. 

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Today we kick off "Rand's Day" with our "resident Philosopher" James Valliant. We discuss Miss Rand's legacy and artistic value as both a novelist and a philosopher.

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Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• We The Living
• We The Living (film)
• The Fountainhead
• Romantic realism
• Atlas Shrugged
• For The New Intellectual
• Faith and Force
• The Virtue of Selfishness
• Nietzsche’s Influence on “The Fountainhead”
• Ayn Rand Contra Nietzsche
• Ayn Rand’s Evolving View of Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics: The Case Against the Brandens
• Ayn Rand: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic) (50 Years of the Playboy Interview)
• Randsday
• "Celebrate Randsday, February 2nd. Give yourself a gift." - Ayn Rand Myths dot com

Episode 41 (51 minutes) was recorded at 10 PM CET, on January 13, 2022, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu. Transcript is provided by Veed.io.

Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value through Satoshis Stream (Bitcoin payments). You could also listen to our podcast on our own standalone app, by downloading it for free on Apple App Store and Google Play. 

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David Veksler joins the show to discuss Bitcoin basics to two extreme novices - your host and co-host. Though we barely scratch the surface, we hope this show is informative.

Call-to-Action: After you have listened to this episode, add your $0.02 (two cents) to the conversation, by joining (for free) The Secular Foxhole Town Hall. Feel free to introduce yourself to the other members, give us constructive feedback, discuss the different episodes, or check out the virtual room, Speakers' Corner, and step up on the digital soapbox. Welcome to our new place in cyberspace!

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• David Veksler's site, The Bitcoin Consultancy
• Fiat money
• Satoshi Nakamoto
• Bitcoin - cap of 21 million mined
• HODL
• Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
• Web3
• Podcasting 2.0
• Streaming Satoshis
• Gemini dot com
• Coinbase dot com
• Hot wallets vs. cold wallets
• El Salvador officially adopts Bitcoin as legal tender, buys $26M worth
• Crypto and the global financial system
• The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
• The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
• Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With: Why bitcoin will be the next global reserve currency
• Non-fungible token (NFT)
• Tom Brady's NFT
• Wallet Recovery dot info
• Vellum dot capital

Episode 40 (29 minutes) was recorded at 10 PM CET, on December 17, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu. Transcript is provided by Veed.io.

Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value through Satoshis Stream (Bitcoin payments). You could also listen to our podcast on our own standalone app, by download it for free on Apple App Store and Google Play. 

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Vinay Kolhatkar joins us to discuss the latest ‘bad’ news from Australia , among other similar topics.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• 2021 Index of Economic Freedom - The Heritage Foundation
• Two centuries of law guide legal approach to modern pandemic - American Bar Association
• How much authority do state and local officials have during a health emergency, such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
• Treatment for COVID-19 using Methylene Blue - Dr. Deepak Golwalkar
• Suspended Texas doctor who promoted ivermectin as Covid treatment resigns from hospital - NBC News
• Need for vaccine aspiration confirmed, why is this not being done - Dr. John Campbell
• Physicist David Harriman on the Savvy Street Show discussing conspiracy hypotheses, the 2020 presidential election, and the Deep State with Vinay Kolhatkar.
• The Dish (film)

Episode 39 (47 minutes) was recorded at 9 : 30 PM CET, on December 3, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu. Transcript is provided by Veed.io.

Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value through Satoshis Stream (Bitcoin payments). You could also listen to our podcast on our own standalone app, by download it for free on Apple App Store and Google Play. 

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Professor, economist, and author Richard Salsman stops by the foxhole to discuss his latest book, “Where Have All The Capitalists Gone?”

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Richard Salsman's website
• Where Have All the Capitalists Gone?: Essays in Moral Political Economy
• Rand’s Ethics and Say’s Law
• America at Her Best Is Hamiltonian
• Supply-Side Economics
• Harvard University names a devout ATHEIST as its new head chaplain who describes himself as 'humanist rabbi': Ivy League school says it's catering to the 40% of students who are NOT religious or agnostic

Episode 38 (66 minutes) was recorded at 9 : 30 PM CET, on November 26, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

Easy listen to The Secular Foxhole podcast in your podcast (podcatcher) app of choice, e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Gaana, Listen Notes, or one of the new podcast apps, on Podcast Index, supporting the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and Value for Value (Bitcoin payments) through Satoshi streams. You could also listen to our podcast on our own standalone app, by download it for free on Apple App Store and Google Play.

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Today we tour Greece, both ancient and modern, with Robert Begley, as he relates his experiences while traveling there.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Adventures in Greek Mythology, Philosophy, History, and Reality - Robert-Begley.com
• Lyceum
• Eudaimonia
• Martin's username on Twitter, LyceumPeripatos
• 300 (film)
• Hemispheres by Rush
• Aristotle's Lagoon
• Aristotle's Lyceum found
• The Aristotle Adventure: A Guide to the Greek, Arabic, & Latin Scholars Who Transmitted Aristotle's Logic to the Renaissance

Episode 37 (53 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on November 12, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

Today our special guest is Kerry McDonald, author of ‘Unschooled,’ and advocate for the separation of state and education, i.e., homeschooling.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
• Kerry McDonald - Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
• Daniel Hamlin
• Locke Vs. Lockdowns: Has America Lost Its Way?
• Cities Lead the Way in (Another) Massive Fall Exodus from US Public Schools
• C. Bradley Thompson
• Get School House dot com
• Outschool dot com
• How Three Women Sought to Sway Americans Away From Socialism
• The 2021 Curious Parent’s Guide to Education Options
• I, Pencil

Episode 36 (36 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on October 22, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.

Andy Clarkson revisits us with what he’s called, “The Hidden Gem” of Objectivism. Please follow along this PDF during the episode. The document is located on the Facebook group, The Impact of Aristotle Upon Christian, Islamic, & Jewish Cultures.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Exalted Moments (core paper from this episode)
• Exalted Moments blog
• Letters of Ayn Rand (book)
• Ayn Rand Institute
• Ayn Rand on Amazon
• Articles by psychologists Dr. Edwin Locke and Dr. Edith Packer (The Objectivst Forum)
• Impact Of Aristotle Upon Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Cultures (book) 
• Impact Of Aristotle Upon Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Cultures (Facebook page) 
• Six-Point Pattern Of The Aristotelians (YouTube series)
• Philosophy - The Ayn Rand Lexicon
• Psychology
• Objectivism
• Happiness - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
• Piece on Maslow
• Ayn Rand and stamp collecting
• Edwin A. Locke
• Edith Packer
• Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love with Passion & Reason
• Chocolat
• Eric Daniels: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - PragerU

Episode 35 (44 minutes) was recorded at 10 : 30 PM CET, on October 15, 2021, with Ringr app.. Editing and post-production was done with the podcast maker, Alitu.