Miscellaneous
In the one hundred and third episode, Todd and his panelists long-time Libertarian Party activist Alvin Anders and Libertarian Party of New Mexico State Chair Mike Blessing discussed the following: 1. The Brad Spangler ruckus and mess began on January 22, 2015 (which was a Thursday) in which Spangler in his drunken stupor unveiled for the first time on Facebook that he had molested his daughter when she was 10 in 2004. How did the movement respond? You figure it out. 2. Christopher Cantwell's articles on Spangler's public confession and his daughter Zoe Spangler's public statement became a source for heated discussion among many libertarians. Should she have been childified and infantilized now that she's 20 and a fully-grown adult woman? Should she still wear that Scarlett letter of victimhood as a badge of honor for the rest of her life? Is she right to tell us that rape culture and the Patriarchy are problems in our society or is she full of shit? Tell us because we'd like to know. 3. Obama's State of the Union speech was a disaster in the making. He made so many promises as well as many lies about our economy, our health care system, our foreign policy, and so on. What said you? 4. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was now supporting the government's net neutrality campaign. But wasn't EFF in favor of civil liberties, especially in the digital age in which we all live? 5. Were measles the next outbreak after last year's Ebola ruckus? That's what the medical industry, the mainstream media, and the U.S. federal government wanted us to believe. What's next next year, the mumps? Polio? The Hanta virus? 6. Should the State have fully vaccinate your kid despite the measles outbreak? Or should these vaccines have been voluntary? Rand Paul was against mandatory vaccines while the Democrats and many Republicans supported those mandated endeavors. What did you think? 8. Radio Shack began to close its stores' doors after announcing that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Did the retail chain see it coming? Did we all see it coming? Does it matter in the grand scheme of things? Let's think about it. 9. The Ross Ulbricht trial closed, with the Silk Road founder being found guilty on all seven counts (and not four as Free Talk Live's Ian Freeman thought he would). Were we surprised? Should he have had that website to begin with? Did he know the risks? Furthermore, should the State have made him out to be a real-life Tony Montana? Libertarian Party Vice Chair Arvin Vohra came on at 8:25 p.m. EST, staying on until 9:27 p.m. EST to discuss his video-recorded and written Obama's State of the Union speech response, what Obama got right and why the President dropped the ball on the economy, health care, and just about everything else, the current state of the Libertarian Party and the movement, etc. Would the LP finally rise to power to put an end to all of this insanity? Let's find out. [*Note: The show ran longer than two hours, specifically 2 hours and 45 minutes because the extra 45 minutes was the show aftershow. Jim and Will couldn't do the show because Jim had to do a double shift at his job, and as for Will, I don't know where he is.]