• The Bart Baggett Show: The World’s Most Interesting People Podcast

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The Bart Baggett Show: The World’s Most Interesting People Podcast

By: Bart Baggett
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  • The Bart Show is a weekly podcast that brings you the world’s most interesting people. Hosted by author, comedian, and world-famous handwriting expert Bart Baggett, each week he takes a look into the minds of some of the funniest, brightest, and even the strangest people you would never meet on your own. If words like honesty, playfulness, success, authenticity, fun, and freedom resonate with you… The Bart Show will quickly become your favorite podcast. It’s a comedy show infused with personal development and psychology.
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  • Elizabeth Nolan Brown: The Rise and Fall of Reasonable People

    Elizabeth Nolan Brown: The Rise and Fall of Reasonable People
    Apr 23 2024

    “We’re a conspiracy-loving people,” says Elizabeth Nolan Brown, senior editor at Reason, a magazine which prides itself on debunking myth and emotion-based arguments from both the Left and the Right. On today’s episode of The Bart Baggett Show, she debunks a number of popular myths, including that the media was only ever a stalwart bastion of truth and integrity. In fact, she argues, with so many citizens acting as fact-checkers, the media is held to account more than ever.

    Of course, transparency has its drawbacks. She and host Bart Baggett discuss the intrusion of constant surveillance and the importance of end-to-end encryption to keep our communication private from an intrusive government. The excuse that encryption will allow bad people to hide their bad deeds is another way in which the government exaggerates danger and instills fear so that we’ll forfeit our civil liberties for a false sense of safety.

    What’s really behind the widespread conspiracy of a major sex trafficking circuit operating throughout the U.S.? Are aliens real? Are we really in a population decline? Elizabeth Nolan Brown, who also writes for libertarian feminist nonprofit Feminists for Liberty, answers these questions and more on today’s episode.

    Quotes

    • “It’s a little bit of a myth, actually. I do think that standards are somewhat different today; there’s a lot more opinion in certain news outlets today than there used to be. But this idea that we used to have this objective press that was infallible is really wrong and it’s just that we didn’t have people to correct them.” (2:56 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown)
    • “And the other thing is that like a lot like with the war on drugs...they use this as an excuse to invade everyone's civil liberties. There have been a lot of laws passed over the past decade and a half that allow more surveillance by police, allow more monitoring of social media, allow all sorts of things that we wouldn’t stand for except that people say, ‘Oh, it’s to stop human trafficking,’ ad they they use it as sort of a backdoor way to invade civil liberties of everybody. (8:03 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown)
    • “Free speech. Freedom of religion. Freedom of assembly. Freedom to avoid government surveillance, either in your physical space or in your digital life. That’s a big thing now, is that we’re fighting the same battles we fought in physical space now so much when it comes to your internet activity, your emails, your text messages.” (10:58 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown)
    • “Criminals are going to use everything. You have to find a way to stop criminals without invading everyone’s privacy.” (12:24 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown)
    • “There are a couple countries that have a "Yeah, go have sex go make babies" day. Which is actually one of the more benign things though. You also have government's paying people, trying to bribe people into having babies. You have Nordic countries doing a lot of free childcare and free mandatory parental leave and all these types of social welfare state things happening. There is no evidence that any of it is really working.” (13:49 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown)

    Links

    Learn more and subscribe to the Bart Baggett Show Fan Weekly Newsletter at https://thebartshow.com

    Links

    Connect with Elizabeth Nolan Brown:

    https://www.reason.com

    https://www.instagram.com/enbrown

    https://www.facebook.com/elizabethnolanbrown

    https://www.youtube.com/feministsforliberty

    Connect with Bart Baggett

    https://instagram.com/bartbaggett

    https://www.instagram.com/bartshowpodcast/

    https://www.youtube.com/@bartshowpodcast

    https://bartbaggett.com

    https://www.tiktok.com/@bartbaggett

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    22 mins
  • Spike Cohen "Troublemaker"

    Spike Cohen "Troublemaker"
    Apr 9 2024
    “Even if Congress were the most intelligent and incorruptible people… they should not choose for you. They are often idiots” —Spike Cohen discusses the problems with Democracy. “We have to show people that liberty works, it’s something that makes sense, it’s not just a theory,” says Spike Cohen, founder of the organization “You Are the Power'', which works to see justice for community members who’ve been wronged by their local governments. In this episode of The Bart Baggett Show, Spike Cohen tells the story of one pastor who sheltered and fed the local homeless population in his church, and the local government responded by seizing the church. Why are local community leaders not allowed to feed the homeless? The answer will surprise you. Politics is a dirty game, as Spike saw firsthand as vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian party in 2020. He and Bart talk about the real story behind the two World Wars and what he sees as the problem with handing power to a handful of power-hungry people like those who govern the US. If Spike had any aspirations toward power or status, a diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis in 2016 gave him a new perspective. He explains how, far from being an obstacle, this served as a catalyst for many great changes in his life. Join today’s discussion as Spike Cohen and host Bart Baggett discuss imposter syndrome, dress swapping, and how Spike got his name (and why he had to steal it back from a dead dog). Quotes “I want to kill the narrative that libertarians can't win and change it to not only can libertarians win, but when we win, the people win for a change, too.” (4:47 | Spike Cohen) “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And the thing is, the more that you centralize that power into one person, or even a relatively small group of people. In DC we’re basically ruled over by 546 people, 435 in Congress, 100 in the Senate, nine in the Supreme Court and one in the White House. 546 people are making day to day life and death decisions for over 350 million Americans across a gigantic landmass and multiple islands and so forth. And even if these were the most intelligent and incorruptible people they still couldn't possibly know as well as you do what you need. And of course, they aren't the most intelligent people. They're often idiots, and they're certainly not incorruptible.” (10:42 | Spike Cohen) “A lot of people who are successful have status, but their self esteem is actually pretty low. So the more successful they are the more they feel validated. And then temporarily, they feel good enough, but it's a never ending drug of validation.” (18:21 | Bart Baggett) “In 2016, I was diagnosed with MS. It forced me to rethink every aspect of my life down from what I ate, to how I operated, to what I thought about myself and everything else. And now, I'm living on purpose. And that has completely changed my mindset on everything. I'm not chasing status anymore. I'm chasing a vision that I have for what I'm trying to do and that now when I go to bed at night, I am excited to wake up the next morning to do the next thing.” (18:55 | Spike Cohen) Links Learn more and subscribe to the Bart Show Fan Weekly Newsletter at https://thebartshow.com Links Connect with Spike Cohen: https://www.facebook.com/literallyspikecohen https://www.instagram.com/literallyspikecohen https://www.youtube.com/literallyspikecohen https://www.tiktok.com/@literallyspikecohen Connect with Bart Baggett https://instagram.com/bartbaggett https://www.instagram.com/bartshowpodcast/ https://www.youtube.com/@bartshowpodcast https://bartbaggett.com https://www.tiktok.com/@bartbaggett Meet Bart Baggett and Spike Cohen at FreedomFest this year. https://freedomfest.com/ coupon code for $50 discount “bart50’ Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm
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    23 mins
  • Lily Tang Williams: Freedom is my Congressional Platform

    Lily Tang Williams: Freedom is my Congressional Platform
    Mar 26 2024
    “Liberty is my North Star. Without it…you are just a slave.” Lily Tang Williams understands and appreciates freedom in a way that only someone who grew up without it truly can. Lily is running for Congress and she intends to win. A U.S. citizen for many years now, she’s watched the country grow to resemble more and more the Communist China from which she originally fled. To help turn things around before it’s too late, she is running for U.S. Congress. She joins The Bart Show to discuss the warning signs of Communism and Marxism. Why is free market Capitalism under attack? There is a danger of trading security for freedom. As propaganda and revisionist history continue to blur the line between fact and fiction, Lily and Bart explain the importance of broadening and diversifying where we get our news. They discuss what governments do to people who speak up and Lily’s plans for Congress. Bart even announces her in good mental health when Lily’s handwriting reveals she’s a perfect fit for politics. In a playful yet informative conversation, they discuss important questions like… Is healthcare a human right? What distinguishes fairness from justice, equity from equality? Join today’s discussion to learn from a woman who has been on either side of freedom and knows exactly where she wants to be. Quotes “I'm an American. I want freedom. You know, 90% of people in New Hampshire are white people. I feel very welcome there. Most people have the traditional value of the New Hampshire motto ‘Live free or die’. They say that if she gets it, she will be a fierce fighter for freedom and challenge the socialists in Congress. I'm kind of new, they don't know me that well. But once they find out what I stand for, they respond very positively.” (3:37 | Lily Tang Williams) “This goes so deep, because I've spoken in Beijing. I have many, many fans across Europe. I've spoken in Poland, which was Communist just 20 years ago. And when I'm interacting with these amazing people, and they really, really want the idea of being an entrepreneur is very foreign. The idea of “No, I gotta make my business, I gotta make my paycheck. I have to hire employees.” And they're like, Well, what about you know, we just want to work for the government. We just, we expect security…trading your liberty for security for things like communism is such a disastrous road.” (4:44 | Bart Baggett)“It’s a form of limited free market Capitalism.. China took off economically. What do you know about today's China? People want to be entrepreneurs and want to become rich…When you have a bad system like Socialism or Communism, these individuals have no incentive because you don't get rewarded when you work hard. Remember, Obama said, ‘You did not build that. I took that as such an insulting attack on my free entrepreneurship.’” (10:38 | Lily Tang Williams)“To me, political freedom and economic freedom go together. In China today, it may be like in the 80s or 90s you could start a business pretty easily. But without the rule of law as private property owners, private corporation owners, you don't have the guarantee of the protection of your private property. Look at what happened to Jack Ma, the billionaire who disappeared for a few months in China. Well because he criticized Chinese regulators.” (14:50 Lily Tang Williams) Links Learn more and subscribe to the Bart Show Fan Weekly Newsletter at https://thebartshow.com Links Connect with Lily Tang Williams: https://www.lilytangwilliams.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lilytangwilliams https://www.youtube.com/lilytangwilliams https://www.facebook.com/lily4congress Connect with Bart Baggett https://instagram.com/bartbaggett https://www.instagram.com/bartshowpodcast/ https://www.youtube.com/@bartshowpodcast https://bartbaggett.com https://www.tiktok.com/@bartbaggett Sponsored by Freedomfest. https://freedomfest.com coupon code “bart50” Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm
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    30 mins
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