Nick Hudson, Actuary and Man of θύμος visits us in the studio to discuss the genesis and driving force behind PANDA , the Pandemics Data and Analytics think tank he co-founded in 2020 to shine an objective analytical light on the enormous piles of nonsense shoveled at us daily since February 2020. Join us for a buoyantly Enlightentaining discussion, including such exciting tidbits as how the Upper West Side of Manhattan correlates to some slices of South African society and how much of the human...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Wolfram Research will be familiar to many people for their advanced computation tools. Separately, in the public policy arena, Conrad Wolfram has founded https://computerbasedmath.org and written a book, The Maths Fix , all part of an effort to improve how we teach mathematics in our schools. If you are one of the people who find or found mathematics a challenging subject in school and are looking for improved ways of teaching this critical subject so that more people gain the practical skills f...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 16
How lucky can one State get? It's starting to appear that the Almighty has a particular preference for The Last Free State in America, Florida. A focused, clear-thinking, entrepreneurial patriot has decided to fix his patch of America by running for Mayor of Orange County. Freedom-loving family man Chris Messina (https://chrismessina.com) is campaigning to be the next Mayor of Orange County. He dropped by the Messy Times studios in the county next door to talk about his background, his faith, hi...
Apr 19, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 15
We at Messy Times love nothing more than great, driven people building businesses and developing communities on principles of free choice and rational markets. Founder, Chairman and CEO D'Arcy Rahming has deep experience to show that the only way to foster better economic and social development is through private capital growing the economic pie with more participants, rather than governmental zero-sum approaches to cutting up a pie that already exists. ArawakX launched in August 2021 and will b...
Mar 30, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 15
We are honored to be joined by Dr. Kenneth Dekleva for a fascinating discussion spanning the role of physicians in the US diplomatic corps, the process of open source analytics as a tool to aid US government understanding of world leaders like Putin and how the art of analytical profiling contributes to critical decisions made - often in real time - about how America and its allies deal with opponents in global affairs. Tune in for a series of insights into a fascinating yet largely opaque compo...
Mar 20, 2022•58 min
Jeffrey Tucker, Founder of the Brownstone Institute joins us for an in-depth conversation on issues of passing import, like societal cohesion, trust in authority figures, the remote possibility of honesty and dignity in any of the people perched atop our governmental structure. Y'know, the small stuff. Tune in! Enlightentainment does not get much more fundamental!
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Thomas Harrington, Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College (https://www.thomassharrington.com) visits Messy Times for a rollicking discussion about the radical changes in American behavior over the last thirty years. Is it weird that the most educationally overprocessed - in terms of years slogging through higher education - people in our society are susceptible to the obviously irrational dictates of power-hungry nitwits? Can a nation of illiterate, innumerate sheeple operate ...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Ari Pine, veteran trader and Co-Founder of the crypto trading firm Digital Gamma braves the Messy Times studios for a Valentine's Day discussion. Until recently, people knew that money was stateless and currency was local; crypto enthusiasts have "discovered" this ancient fact and made it shiny new. Why does the USD seem immune to the forces of financial gravity? What's this whole crypto thing about anyway? How does one trade markets without guidance from traditional financial analysis? Are Amer...
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Larry David did a great job hyping #FTX during the Super Bowl. Closer to the actual functioning of crypto derivatives markets, we welcome Larry Thompson, current Chairman of Ledger X LLC which was bought by FTX in October 2021. Join us for a thoughtful discussion ranging across Larry's impressive career on Wall Street, his transition from traditional finance to the digital markets, and what these new evolutionary market moves mean for broadening financial opportunity and freedom across national ...
Feb 16, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Combat Control, one of the most important arms of US Special Operations Forces, remains opaque to most Americans. Despite being the crucial connection between ground and air forces to coordinate bombings and overall flight operations in a war theatre, they have not gotten the same amount of public fame as their counterparts in the Army Rangers or Navy SEALs. That relative anonymity is about to end, beginning with this episode of Messy Times. I am joined in the studio by two retired Combat Contro...
Feb 06, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 9
We are delighted to have John Faso visit us for a discussion about foreign policy, charter schools and the political realities underlying elections. John served in the 115th Congress from 2017-2019 representing the 19th Congressional District in upstate New York. Prior to his stint in Congress, he was in the New York State Legislature where his most important contribution - in Messy Times's opinion - was in championing New York's charter school legislation. You can learn more about John's backgr...
Feb 02, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Melissa Martz, Candidate for the US House of Representatives, joins Messy Times for a refreshing dialogue about our lively and invaluable Constitution and how her sense of Justice outraged by recent developments has moved her to run for Congress. Child sex trafficking, fentanyl overdoses, oppressive governmental overreach – she touches on it all and more! Join us for a welcome and invigorating conversation and be sure to visit Melissa’s campaign website www.melissamartz.com for more information ...
Feb 02, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 11
We are delighted to have James Fok visit us to share insights from his deep experience in the global capital markets and more specifically at the coalface of integrating two different financial systems. One is the generally accepted set of rules evolved over centuries with origins in Western Europe, and the other is the newly powerful emergent economic power from Mainland Communist China. His excellent book Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets is written for...
Jan 26, 2022•54 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Can birds lie? Do birds lie? What are they chattering about anyway? Do feathers make the bird? These questions and more may or may not be answered by evolutionary biologist Jeremy Hyman during his highly Enlightentaining turn on Messy Times. Tune in! And be sure to buy his book: Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication: Ballentine, Barbara, Hyman, Jeremy, Webster, Mike: 9781501753428: Amazon.com: Books...
Jan 24, 2022•21 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Most people pay no attention to capital market structure, which is a wonky name for the ways in which a society interacting with regulators and governments creates the rules and practices for trading stocks, bonds, commodities and real estate. We are delighted to begin a series of discussions on regional market structure issues and developments with David Alvarez, a long-time expert in global capital markets, with specific expertise in Latin America. Pull up a chair! We deliver pithy brilliance,...
Jan 19, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 5
We are joined in the Messy Times studio by Jim Thompson, one of the most knowledgeable experts on the global coal markets. Our discussion ranges widely across the impacts to everyday Americans' quality of life and cost of living that arise from current fossil fuel "policies." Sit back, relax with a soothing beverage and tune in for a highly Enlightentaining discussion. You'd better hope your local power utility has enough coal on hand to generate the electricity required for you to hear our comp...
Jan 14, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Messy Times is focused in 2022 on positivity. It is easy to give everyone a sharp adrenaline burst of righteous rage by pointing out the details of myriad governmental failings. But everyone else does that, which is partly why our levels of civility in engaging with others has been crumbling to dust. Joining us for the first episode of 2022 is our old friend Heshy Tischler, who spends his time at the coalface of helping people fight off a hostile government in ways large and small. Have a listen...
Jan 07, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 1
A friend gave me a copy of a letter a local child wrote to Jen Psaki in the White House, thanking her for explaining why a treadmill is a luxury item that he does not need. Pete Buttigieg if he ever returns from paternity leave should be proud of his many accomplishments.
Dec 15, 2021•7 min•Season 3Ep. 5
The US Surgeon General issued an advisory titled "Protecting Youth Mental Health," which calls attention to the severe damage done to American children during the course of the Wuhan "pandemic." It may or may not be worth your time to read it, but Messy Times provides a 7-minute précis which strikes - as ever - to the heart of the matter. Excellent civilizations prioritize children over adults, not the other way around.
Dec 09, 2021•8 min•Season 3Ep. 9
We at Messy Times are such fierce advocates for freedom that we have already been canceled by Woke Tech. We are joined in our passion for free people exercising their free will in free markets by the Honorable former Chairman of the CFTC, J. Christopher Giancarlo. His wonderful book CryptoDad has just been released. Buy a copy - it's a brilliant handbook for non-specialists, which will help you fight the fight against government mandarins who want to control every aspect of your life, from what ...
Nov 06, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Former Minister Qujaukitsoq has deep experience in Greenland politics, having had portfolios including Mines, Labor, Finance and the Foreign Office. Now in private practice as a consultant, he joins Messy Times for a wide-ranging discussion touching on details around pending changes to the Minerals Act, the long and interesting history of dating-without-marriage between the United States and Greenland and a few other things besides! Tune in! Americans in particular don't get a lot of accurate ne...
Nov 04, 2021•51 min•Season 3Ep. 2
The Square Mile of Ancient Roman Londinium now serves as the United Kingdom's centre for financial services. Its freemen can drive their sheep over Tower Bridge without charge and when convicted of a capital offence, enjoy the privilege of being hanged with a silken rope rather than rough, savage hemp. Beyond enjoying and maintaining those ancient liberties, excellent City of London politicians like Mark are busy engaging the world post-Brexit and wrestling with the complexities of the Communist...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 1
We at Messy Times love nothing more than delivering excellent news about wonderful people doing positive things for their communities. We are delighted to host Allan Chemnitz, the President of Innovation South Greenland for a discussion about the economic and political development of Greenland, the bright prospects for business and clarifying some misconceptions about Greenland spread by irresponsible journalists who fail to check their sources.
Oct 28, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Special update: You can only hear this here because the debate was taken down by some unaccountable YouTube censor sitting in its gender-fluid cubicle in Silicon Valley for "medical misinformation." Yup! We did it, folks! We got CANCELED for having a reasoned debate! Mask mandates! A topic no one is bored of by now! Useful, reasonable tool slowing the spread of viral infection? Pointless kabuki performance art designed by the Statist Left to stifle dissent? Stopping a virus with a t-shirt mask i...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 35
There are 60 container ships sitting idle off the California coast, due to Comrade Newsom's freedom-quashing law banning truck drivers and others from running their own businesses, which dumb law's impact is magnified because of the insane and pointless Biden vaccine mandates. Supply chains across the nation are grinding to a halt. Inflation is skyrocketing as goods become scarce - in large part due to transportation and logistics problems all caused by the incompetence of the Biden Unity Govern...
Oct 15, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Messy Times is honored to have Bepi Pezzulli join us for a robust discussion on the lost cause of European freedom and the lines of battle drawn here in the United States over the same whiny Marxist nonsense that has sapped Europe of its former vigor. His clarion call for renewed Thatcherite policies and a strong educational emphasis on the virtues of entrepreneurship is refreshing. #BepiPezzulli is the author of L'Altra Brexit and, among other roles, Secretary General of Italia Atlantica , a ce...
Oct 11, 2021•38 min
Rational Americans want real data about any vaccine's efficacy, its risks and whatever statistics are available, so each person can make decisions for themselves and their families about which vaccines to take. The Biden Unity Government in its fervor to hide any of these facts from the American public has run roughshod over proven medical research processes and routinely trashes the rule of law and rational due process in its ideological mania. Two RNs visit Messy Times to provide a frontline l...
Sep 28, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 34
We at Messy Times love highlighting people building businesses around positivity. With a country driven to artificial antagonism by a deeply corrupt media who long ago gave up reporting objective news, we are delighted to take a break from the incessant negativity to showcase innovative people working hard to create their own way in the world. Austen Alexander joins host Christopher Messina to discuss his entrepreneurial path from pizza making, grass cutting and part-time car audio repair into a...
Sep 22, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Newsom should be recalled today. Will he be? An exhortation ahead of the polls opening. Good luck, Citizens of California in defeating the Californistan Comintern!
Sep 14, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Finally we can get some ideological balance in the ivory tower! The American Left have whipped themselves into a state of irrational fear over the Wuhan Virus, so many professors are quitting their jobs because they believe "teaching is not worth risking their lives." Yahoo! Time for rational Americans with PhDs to flood universities with CVs! The Left know how to seize an opportunity. Rahm Emmanuel said to never let a crisis go to waste. Well, here is a panic wholly manufactured by themselves, ...
Sep 09, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 26
