Bill Rice, Jr. joined us in the Messy Times studios on 1 December 2022 for a fascinating dialogue. His research indicates that the Wuhan Virus was present in the US population much earlier than the 2020 start date claimed by the Government. Settle back with a mug of spiked eggnog and a plate of chocolate rugelach. Allow us to Enlightentain you during this festive season. How long do you think blood is stored before being used?...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 21
MessyTimes is honored to have Jim Hawes visit us to discuss his experience in fighting the free-market capitalist corner over a long and exciting career. Upon the expiry of his operation's classified status, Jim wrote a wonderful book about his work in Central Africa in 1965, Cold War Navy SEAL: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa . We touch on his valuable service to the nation and humanity by shooing Che Guevara out of Africa so the Bolivians could do ...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Dr. Alexander shares the Six Main Lies Fauci, Birx and the rest of these clowns told us all about the Wuhan Virus. There are myriad little lies emanating from the big ones, but covering the Big Ones is exhaustive, exhausting and infuriating enough. He is the author of the recently published book Presidential Takedown , writes for Brownstone and has a great substack called the Alexander COVID News . He brings an invaluable perspective as a doctor and epidemiologist recruited by President Trump in...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Bruce de'Medici returns to the Messy Times studios to discuss the recent brilliant idea for the US government - meaning YOU, the taxpayer - to backstop massive insurance losses which insurance companies don't feel like paying when a cyber attack causes billions of dollars in damage to American companies. Bear in mind both the attacked company AND the insurance provider entered into a cyber insurance contract voluntarily in a free market. The insurance company is not offering to share the profits...
Nov 30, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Your Enlightentaining Host trusts a priori Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston and blogger https://streetwiseprofessor.com/ on the basis of his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. Beyond that ironclad qualification of intellectual honesty, Craig has demonstrated repeatedly the fortitude to speak truth to power, when power is making serious mistakes in policy and regulatory interpretation. Join us as we kick around those fraudulent criminals at FTX wh...
Nov 22, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 16
There is a great deal to the colossal mess of the bankruptcy of FTX, the almost absurdly mismanaged "crypto exchange" run by Sam Bankman-Fried and, well, apparently no one else. @Messy Times is honored to host Fred Grede who aside from being a fellow University of Chicago alumnus is a very experienced exchange executive and the former bankruptcy trustee who for a decade worked out the Sentinel Management Group collapse starting in 2007, which featured significant financial fraud. Join us as we t...
Nov 19, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Because the impacts from this colossal fraud will be felt for years and the bad news will continue to unfold, Joshua Henslee and your Enlightentaining Host just couldn't resist sorting through the sordid stupidity a bit more. The new CEO of #FTX is a very experienced workout executive who oversaw the Enron bankruptcy and wrote in his filing for FTX than he has never seen such insane incompetence and lack of operational and financial controls. Who on earth would give this shlub and his weaselly l...
Nov 18, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 15
FTX is the most recent example of why good financial regulatory guard rails are a splendid idea. In an ideal laissez-faire world, the market would sort out the criminals from the honest people. In reality, every lying scumbag like Sam Bankman-Fried who stole billions from customers and gave $40 million to Democrats this election cycle (second only to George Soros) destroys confidence in the market and massively impacts the global economy. Unfortunately, that makes some basic risk management and ...
Nov 17, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Freedom, Liberty and the sovereign right to self-defense are the small, unimportant ideas that occupy Laura DiBenedetto's day. We are delighted she visited us in the Messy Times studios for an Election Day discussion covering many things ranging from the insane #Amnesty the Leftists so desperately want, after their destruction of children and damage to society over their manufactured Wuhan Panic, to the dangers posed to free people by an arrogant set of globalist elites. Tune in for a robust dis...
Nov 11, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Hard on the heels of the ludicrous, offensive and insane article written by a professor at Brown University that we should "all" grant each other "Amnesty" for all the bad things "we" said to each other during the Wuhan Hysteria, Emily wrote one of the best rebuttals to that absurdity. I am delighted to welcome her to the Messy Times studios to discuss why the Left ruined the country, destroyed children's lives and are now trying to get us all to forget their horrendous perfidy. Those of us who ...
Nov 08, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 12
This podcast was begun in the midst of the Wuhan Panic, its main topic being how insanely, blatantly and perniciously were public officials lying to us about nearly every aspect of this disease. We have since moved on to a range of other fascinating topics and guests, but we are especially delighted to have Dr. Harvey Risch join us in the studios to discuss his direct experience with the madness and politicization surrounding a bad seasonal flu, which resulted in appalling damage to the children...
Nov 06, 2022•58 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Bret Stephens came by the Messy Times studios for a wide-ranging yet unified theoretical conversation. Wide-ranging because we cover a range of topics from current themes in American censorship, the restriction of "accepted" thought in the public square, January 6th: The Musical! and the enduring uniqueness of the American Project. Unified theoretically because despite holding some opinions in common and some at odds, the proper way to cope in a free society is not to censor speech or refuse to ...
Oct 22, 2022•54 min•Season 3Ep. 10
We're delighted to have Craig Wright of nChain back in the studios for some more organic Socratic give and take. Extending beyond the nuances of Intellectual Property, how patents do or do not work and infusing the vicious political fights of our times are the ghosts of thinkers past. It's not just the battles over #Bitcoin as #BTC or #BSV. When you hear people screaming in the public square about what's "fair" or how/if government should intervene in the markets to make things "equal," you're h...
Oct 18, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Harvey Silverglate visits the Messy Times studios only to discover there is no daylight between us. Your Enlightentaining Host suspected that would be the case, having read and loved Harvey's brilliant book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent . During a wide-ranging conversation between two free speech absolutists, we touch on a few topics of little controversy. Abolish the FBI. Plea Bargaining is Extortion. Harvard is Broken. The Harvard Corporation runs the University, incl...
Oct 16, 2022•53 min•Season 3Ep. 10
#Bitcoin started as a libertarian revolt against central bank fiat currencies and value-detractive rent-seeking from credit card companies and banks for online payments processing. Somewhere along the way, as BTC HODLers accumulated large amounts of theoretical wealth, in large part due to extremely low interest rates from The Federal Reserve, the tone shifted from opposition to begging for help to keep the BTC priced fluffed up. So much for revolution and decentralization as a core principle. J...
Oct 15, 2022•58 min•Season 3Ep. 6
#Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr visits the Messy Times studios fresh off his trip to Norway. He was visiting the oil-rich Scandinavian paradise to report on the defamation case against a Norwegian schoolteacher who likes to spend his time online hurling adolescent insults at people he has taken a dislike to, in this case, the Chief Scientist of nChain, Craig Wright. So far as I care to bother to discern, this guy Magnus Granath goes by the online moniker HODLONAUT and has spent years sending ...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 6
With 30 days before the American midterm elections, Heshy and our Glittering Host dive into the imponderable mysteries around Voter Apathy. The Political Class has managed to be universally reviled AND to keep themselves in power. How is this possible? How can 80% of New Yorkers hate the crime and decay of their city but only 11% of registered voters bother to go to the polls? Get involved, people, it's only your government if you bother to get involved in voting these clowns out of office to be...
Oct 10, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Ed Martin came by the Messy Times studios to talk about his role as the President of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and the important work that Phyllis began decades ago which the Eagles continue in her name and spirit. Grab a soothing caffeinated beverage, settle back and have a listen to what reasoned discussion about principles-driven policy sounds like. It'll be startling to those accustomed to the hysterical lies of the popular media, so if you feel a sense of dissonance or intellectual discom...
Oct 07, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 4
For those normal humans who prefer to live in an aesthetically pleasing built environment, we're in luck! The #Arkitekturupproret is upon us! Strap in, strap up and fight the New Classical Fight! Michael Diamant joins us via an encrypted connection from his anti-Modernist bunker in Stockholm, whence he discourses on the horrendous violations of human rights committed on the daily by architectural malpractice. Tune in to find out why he created the awesome website New Traditional Architecture &am...
Sep 25, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Lawyer, engineer and entrepreneur Bob Seeman dropped by the Messy Times studios to share his criticisms of Bitcoin as currently implemented. Bob is a deep thinker as well as the author of Coinmen and an upcoming book written under his pseudonym Nakaloco. Join us as we dive into the depths of relative versus absolute value, what constitutes an asset, how and if regulators ever add value and other enticing topics! Brace for Category 4 Enlightentainment. Once you've heard Nakaloco-san bash the livi...
Sep 22, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Experienced attorney and cyber insurance expert Bruce De'Medici visits the Messy Times studios for a robust and highly Enlightentaining conversation about the cyber risk ecosystem. Bruce focuses on helping small and medium sized businesses grapple with a very hostile environment, which sees them buffeted on all sides by hackers, nation-states, insurance companies and their "own" - HAH! - government. Messy Times is pleased to announce an excellent new relationship with CoinGeek as our sponsor. We...
Sep 21, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 1
We are delighted to have Kurt return to the studios to further untangle the general public's confusion about how Bitcoin actually works. Join us to discover why environmentalists and power grid operators should love Bitcoin miners, what a SHA-256 hash is (you know you were afraid to ask), why a basic laptop used to get you 6 Bitcoins every 10 minutes and how all of this resembles little children hunting for Easter eggs in an overgrown lawn.
Aug 21, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Messy Times is delighted to welcome Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli in the studio for a deep dive discussion about green bonds, carbon markets and separating substance from greenwashing fluff in the capital markets. It is not every day that we get to host a former City of London Aldermanic Sheriff for a dialogue about the perils of non-financial accounting and how "stakeholders" are trying to separate investors from their money in the name of very fuzzy concepts around "justice" expressed in...
Aug 16, 2022•50 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Free people using free markets is the only thing that has ever lifted people out of poverty. From Irish mutual societies to the advanced Internet of Economics, tune in for a rollicking intellectual ride connecting LEGO kits to #DLT on the way to global prosperity free from the stifling rent-seeking of companies that COULD offer truly low-cost effective solutions, but choose not to by sustaining artificial barriers with high costs. Greg Chew's company @QPQ Global has created the universally avail...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Messy Times is delighted that Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert, Jr. dropped by the studios. Join us for a truly #Enlightentaining discussion. Highlights include why Small Blockers are the Social Justice Warriors of Bitcoin, why Ludwig van Mises was the bomb and how money - O! The sweet crypto irony of it all! - distorted Satoshi's original vision into the hodge podge mess we're now trying to sort out.
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 12
We are honored that @Joshua Henslee dropped by the @Messy Times studios for an in-depth conversation about blockchain, how Bitcoin (BTC) differs from Original Flavour Bitcoin (BSV), why massive numbers of "cryptocurrencies" share correlated characteristics with one market factor, how far these "new" markets have drifted from #Satoshi's original intent, and how real applications and real value will be created from the ashes of this first enthusiastic phase of goofiness. Tune in for a blockchain-p...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Experienced mining CEO Mark Saxon visits Messy Times to discuss the paradox at the heart of our industry. Humanity's present and future depend critically on the materials we mine from the earth and the food we grow. So why are so many investors reluctant to commit the capital required to grow this fundamental input to the success of society and a flourishing, environmentally healthy planet?
Jul 20, 2022•46 min•Season 4Ep. 2
We are delighted and honored to have Minister Høegh Kenneth Høegh visit the Messy Times Messy Times studios for a wide-ranging discussion. During a lively conversation, we cover current trade and investment policy for Greenland, the glorious tourism opportunities its natural and cultural wonders provide and of course, the topic near and dear to my heart, mining. We even touch on a bit of the intertwined history between Greenland and the United States going back to US Secretary of State Seward. T...
Jun 27, 2022•51 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Craig Wright, Chief Scientist at nChain , visited the Messy Times studios for a wide-ranging discussion around technical intellectual property, the origins of blockchain, Bitcoin, the myriad applications and potential confusion about the technology and a future comprised of one blockchain versus the current diverse portfolio of blockchains we have now. We even mourn the loss of Little Britain and poke fun at the woke....
Jun 13, 2022•49 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Maureen Tatsuko Loughnane is the Chicago Executive Director of the non-profit Facing History and Ourselves . I am delighted to welcome an old friend and college classmate as she shares Facing History's mission, its origins and the important role it plays in supporting our nation's middle and high school teachers in what is arguably the most important job in our society - preparing young minds to participate thoughtfully and responsibly in a society whose government is run by the people, for the ...
May 23, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 65
