Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com for 20 years, tells the story of being a covert government asset trapped in a deadly game of political espionage.

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Guest's Movie: The Enemy Within

Show notes for Ep. 2687

Dan Flynn joins us to discuss Frank Meyer, a friend of Murray Rothbard who played an important role in the development of American conservatism.

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Book Discussed: The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer

Show notes for Ep. 2686

The Preparation is the most important book I've read in 2025. This is not just some skip-college-and-save-money guide. This is a radical program for becoming a genuine renaissance man, and defying a system that churns out boring and indistinguishable drones. Co-author Matt Smith joins us.

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Book Discussed: The Preparation: How to Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous

Show notes for Ep. 2685

Bruce Fenton talks about politics and whether we should shun or embrace it, his portfolio recommendations, Western misconceptions about Saudi Arabia, and plenty of other intriguing topics.

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Guest's Twitter: @brucefenton

Show notes for Ep. 2684

The great Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, discusses increased institutional interest in Bitcoin, the price of Bitcoin, and what's wrong with mainstream economics.

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Guest's Website: Saifedean.com 

Guest's Twitter: @saifedean

Show notes for Ep. 2683

In this potpourri episode, I share the remarks I delivered at the Ron Paul 90th birthday BBQ, as well as my brief appearances while there on Kibbe on Liberty and Spaces X Josie.

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Show notes for Ep. 2682

Buck Johnson joins me for an episode recorded live at the Ron Paul 90th birthday BBQ event.

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Guest's Twitter: @buckrebel

Guest's Podcast: Counterflow: CounterflowPodcast.com YouTube.com/@Counterflow

Show notes for Ep. 2681

Vladimir Brovkin, my professor of Russian history at Harvard, updates us on the status of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and what developments we might expect.

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Guest's Latest Book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its Identity, 1913-2023

Guest's YouTube Channel: Vladimir Brovkin

Show notes for Ep. 2680

The great Dominic Frisby shares an investment portfolio that you can set and forget, and we further discuss bad decisions in the UK and the US.

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Guest's Twitter: @DominicFrisby

Show notes for Ep. 2679

At the Mises Institute last month I was asked to speak on the Covid issue, so I summed up the argument systematically and using some of the charts that explode the Fauci version of events.

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