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Enjoy conversations with Black authors live at largest gathering for literary creatives and filmmakers

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Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso faith and religion, the impact of religion on societal norm, Chapters: 0:52 - Book Club - Man, Economy, and State 2:11 - Elasticity of demand 3:17 - Outlay 5:47 - Speculation and equilibrium 12:13 - Digging into religion and personal experiences of faith and institutional religion 19:21 - Science, observation, the scienti…

Joe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss the nature of supply and demand economics and whether markets work only for those things that are merely wants, rather than needs, or if regulation is necessary to make sure people are able to meet their needs. Chapters: 0:08 - Book Club - Man, Economy, and State 1:32 - Expanding a sample economy to multiple econo…

Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso discuss rights and come to an agreement on what rights are. The conversation uses healthcare as an example to explore what is and isn't a right and goes through many examples. Ultimately, the question whether citizens are slaves of the state is addressed with a thought exercise. Chapters: 0:22 - Book Club - Man, Economy, …

Joe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss and try to define a free society and what it would look like. They go deep on thinking about a society without government and whether it would work and speculate on how. Chapters: 0:12 - Book Club - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State 1:10 - Transition in Rothbard from individual actors to societal interactions 3:1…

Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso discuss the nature and acceptability/unacceptability of discrimination. The discussion touches on freedom of association, remedies for unreasonable discrimination, and becoming that which we claim to oppose. Chapters: 0:26 - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State 3:01 - Rationality of decisions of individual actors? 5:39 - In…

Joe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss common ground found in a free website providing the service of identifying where you align and disagree with ideologies, parties, and candidates. The discussion evolves into touching on fairness, rights, and the purpose of law. Chapters: 0:01 - The podcast now has a name (but you already knew that) 0:19 - The Poli…

Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso use reports that the hacker group, Anonymous, targeted Donald Trump as a starting point to discuss vitriol, discourse, power, and emotion Chapters: 0:12 - Introduction of our topic - the level of discourse and attacks by Anonymous on Donald Trump 1:07 - Reactions to reports of Anonymous attacking Donald Trump - would such…

Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso dive into the nature of democracy, government, power, and corruption Chapters: 0:01 - Welcome and Hello 0:59 - Inflammatory statement and opening to the discussion: Democracy is a disaster 3:52 - Incentives, alignment, intent, and reality 6:32 - Distinguishing levels of government 8:23 - Legalization of marijuana and the …

Joe Macaluso and Dave Rael introduce the "Politely, Up Yours!" podcast and describe their intent in creating the show. You meet both hosts and get a brief introduction to who they are and the approach the show will take. Chapters: 0:00 - Wecome and Hello 0:44 - Meet Dave 1:37 - Meet Joe 2:37 - Where the hosts categorize themselves politically 3:40 …