The Liam McCollum Show

Benjamin Seevers joins Liam McCollum to discuss local municipality politics, malinvestment and empty shopping centers, Soviet Union abuses of Indigenous peoples, private law, and more. linktr.ee/bseevers

Sam Husseini (@samhusseini) joins Liam McCollum (@MLiamMcCollum) to discuss the state of journalism, the potential for left-right cooperation, RFK jr., and the origins of COVID.

Jeremy Cordon, founder & CEO of Goldback (@Goldback_Inc), joins Liam McCollum (@MLiamMcCollum) to discuss The Goldback, a privately funded alt-currency made of gold that is used as local money in various states.

Joseph Solis-Mullen is an independent journalist whose work has been published by the Mises Institute and the Libertarian Institute. He joins Liam McCollum to discuss his recent article "The Fake China Threat, Then and Now," the history of US-China relations, and China’s current military capabilities.

Robb Wolf (@robbwolf),⁠ author of Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat, joins ⁠Liam McCollum⁠ (@MLiamMcCollum) to discuss health freedom, the right to transact, decentralization, and whether red meat harms you and the environment. Watch Decentralized Revolution @LPMisesCaucus ⁠ TakeHumanAction.com

Peter St. Onge joined me today to talk about the 2023 banking crisis and whether it's the beginning of a steeper collapse. We also talk about the threat of a CBDC, Austrian business cycle theory, the role of interest rates in an economy, and what a free market banking system would look like. • Ask An Austrian with Peter St. Onge: https://www.youtube.com/live/8E7UiIKHtis?feature=share • Follow Peter St. Onge on Twitter: https://twitter.com/profstonge • Follow Peter St. Onge on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/profstonge • Follow Peter St. Onge's Substack: https://substack.com/profile/311641-peter-st-onge

Peter St. Onge joined me today to talk about the 2023 banking crisis and whether it's the beginning of a steeper collapse. We also talk about the threat of a CBDC, Austrian business cycle theory, the role of interest rates in an economy, and what a free market banking system would look like. • Ask An Austrian with Peter St. Onge: https://www.youtube.com/live/8E7UiIKHtis?feature=share • Follow Peter St. Onge on Twitter: https://twitter.com/profstonge • Follow Peter St. Onge on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/profstonge • Follow Peter St. Onge's Substack: https://substack.com/profile/311641-peter-st-onge

Ethan Holmes and I discussed the one-year anniversary of the Ukraine invasion in the newest episode of my podcast. I asked him whether we should call it the one-year anniversary of the war, and we examined the nuclear threat, the prospects for peace, how goalposts have changed, and how to achieve ascetic liberty in spite of the fact that our government appears to be driving us toward the precipice of WWIII and nuclear armageddon. Notes: • https://twitter.com/the_posts • https://twitter.com/MLiamMcCollum • Ep. 90 Ethan Holmes on the Ukraine-Russia Conflict and Prospects for Peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajXGVzMGiXg&t=3541s • Ep. 75 What they don't tell you about the Russia-Ukraine situation w/ Ethan Holmes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtcCv3eCGfo&t=2s • Ep. 102 Retired Lt. Col. Darin Gaub on Montana's Defend the Guard Act (HB 527: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDIanj0nRfk&t=491s • My Substack titled, "Retired Lt. Col. Darin Gaub endorses Montana's Defend the Guard Act": https://liammccollum.substack.com/p/retired-lt-col-darin-gaub-endorses • A Libertarian Analysis of War and Collective Punishment (and how collateral damage escalates war): https://liammccollum.substack.com/p/a-libertarian-analysis-of-war-and

Lt. Col. Darin Gaub from Montanans For Limited Government, Restore Liberty, and Montana Freedom Caucus joined me to talk about why he supports Montana's Defend the Guard Act. The bill is being supported by a coalition of Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats, constitutionalists, antiwar activists, and veterans. • Darin's written testimony: https://www.realcleardefense.com/.../defend_the_guard... • Write the House Energy, Technology, and Federal Relations committee to say you support HB 527: https://leg.mt.gov/web-messaging/ • Sign the petition for Defend the Guard: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/promo/532 • My substack titled "MT Rep. Lee Deming talks Defend the Guard and Nullification": https://liammccollum.substack.com/.../rep-lee-deming... • Ep. 97 MT Rep. Lee Deming: Taxation is Theft, Defend the Guard, and more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBtNwCLYAE • Ep. 5 Sgt. Dan McKnight Calls to Bring Our Troops Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb83vhLVxY8&t=39s • Ep. 50 Sgt. Dan McKnight Challenges Foreign Policy Hawks John Bolton and Liz Cheney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjobwSxOZj0&t=756s • Montanans for Limited Government: https://mtflg.org/ • Restore Liberty: https://restore-liberty.org/ • My tweet about Defend the Guard with an ad about the bill: https://twitter.com/MLiamMc.../status/1626760880892571650...

Patrick Macfarlane from Vital Dissent invited me on his podcast on Feb. 3, 2023, to talk about my testimony in front of the Montana capitol, the alleged Chinese spy balloon, and the state of US-China tensions. Show Notes: www.vitaldissent.com/246

A resolution in support of the war in Ukraine and Article 5 of NATO was introduced in a Montana legislative committee on Monday. For some context, the head of NATO's strategy council, Admiral Rob Bauer, said this weekend that NATO is ready for "direct confrontation" with Russia. The US is currently going down a dangerous path, racing toward war on many fronts. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea... It’s not in our interest. We need diplomacy now. The Montana legislature almost unanimously passed HJ9 opposing endless wars last session—I wrote about it when it happened (https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/montana-becomes-first-state-to-pass-resolution-against-unconstitutional-wars/)--and thankfully, the legislature refused to renege on that resolution by passing a statement in favor of another, but much more costly war. Only three days after this testimony, the State Department reported that a Chinese spy balloon was spotted in Montana and potentially surveilled our "sensitive nuclear weapons." These are a part of the “nuclear sponge” meant to draw strikes away from DC that I talk about in this video. Notes: • The video of my testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_gQD2C-Ls&t=1s • Link to proponent and opponent testimony against HJ3: http://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20170221/-1/46949?agendaId=249632 • My appearance on Vital Dissent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rIGPsr-Ugk&t=830s • Missoula Current article about the nuclear sponge titled “‘NUCLEAR SPONGE:’ WHY IS U.S. SPENDING $100M TO UPGRADE MISSILES IN MONTANA?”: https://missoulacurrent.com/nuclear-weapons/ • WaPo article about the nuclear sponge titled “The nuclear missile next door”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/buried-nuclear-missile-silo-montana/ • "Why Are We Rebuilding the 'Nuclear Sponge:' https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-are-we-rebuilding-%E2%80%98nuclear-sponge%E2%80%99-94371

UPDATE: Only three days after this testimony, the State Department reported that a Chinese spy balloon was spotted in Montana and potentially surveilled our "sensitive nuclear weapons." These are a part of the “nuclear sponge” meant to draw strikes away from DC that I talk about in this video. A resolution in support of the war in Ukraine and Article 5 of NATO was introduced in a Montana legislative committee on Monday. For some context, the head of NATO's strategy council, Admiral Rob Bauer, said this weekend that NATO is ready for "direct confrontation" with Russia. The US is currently going down a dangerous path, racing toward war on many fronts. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea... It’s not in our interest. We need diplomacy now. The Montana legislature almost unanimously passed HJ9 opposing endless wars last session—I wrote about it when it happened (https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/montana-becomes-first-state-to-pass-resolution-against-unconstitutional-wars/)—and the legislature shouldn’t renege on that resolution by passing a statement in favor of another, but much more costly war. Notes: • Missoula Current article about the nuclear sponge titled “‘NUCLEAR SPONGE:’ WHY IS U.S. SPENDING $100M TO UPGRADE MISSILES IN MONTANA?”: https://missoulacurrent.com/nuclear-weapons/ • WaPo article about the nuclear sponge titled “The nuclear missile next door”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/buried-nuclear-missile-silo-montana/

Patrick Carroll, Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, joined me to discuss his articles titled "Young Montana Entrepreneur Is Being Legally Barred from Hauling Trash Because Established Players Don’t Want the Competition" and "Food Truck Owners Sue North Carolina Town over Anti-competitive Regulations." He steel mans the case for these protectionist laws. Then he refutes them by explaining the nature of prices, the function of entrepreneurs, the problems with central planning, capitalism’s "creative destruction," and the role of the consumer. Links: • Find links to the other platforms I'm on here: https://linktr.ee/liammccollum • Patrick's piece on the Montana case: https://fee.org/articles/young-montana-entrepreneur-is-being-legally-barred-from-hauling-trash-because-established-players-don-t-want-the-competition/ • Montana case: https://pacificlegal.org/case/competitors-veto-montana-junk-hauling/ • Patrick's piece on the North Carolina case: https://fee.org/articles/food-truck-owners-sue-north-carolina-town-over-anti-competitive-regulations/ • North Carolina case: https://ij.org/case/north-carolina-food-trucks/ • Patrick's author profile: https://fee.org/people/patrick-carroll/ • Follow Patrick on twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickc1995?s=21&t=B71ohNHfE5nqnom_AM7odQ • My interview with Kendall Cotton discussing Montana's free-market healthcare reforms: https://youtu.be/rygVUm_-qAQ

How warhawks equate the people and government to justify violence against innocents, and how a libertarian theory of foreign policy can be used to analyze war and justice properly. • Find links to my social media accounts and the other podcatchers here: https://linktr.ee/liammccollum • A Libertarian Analysis of War and Collective Punishment: https://liammccollum.substack.com/p/a-libertarian-analysis-of-war-and • Yemen: https://liammccollum.substack.com/p/tester-daines-and-rosendale-re-yemen • Dave Smith, Jimmy Dore, Craig Jardula: Can the anti-war Left and Libertarians work together?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB5if8CCrQc&t=789s • Dan Sanchez's Toward a Theory of Peace and War: http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/toward-a-theory-of-peace • Ask An Austrian: https://lpmisescaucus.com/ask-an-austrian/

•Find me on other platforms here: https://linktr.ee/liammccollum •Ep. 86 The FBI raid at Trump's Mar-a-Lago, 87,000 new IRS agents, and more w/ Lee and John Deming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Bzax-EAJg&t=3089s •Ep. 85 Rep-Elect Lee Deming on His Campaign, Decentralization, Abortion, the Fed, 2A, and more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKpn1B5hzQ •Ep. 79 Lee Deming announces his run for HD 55: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2suLcR5DzFg&t=1071s •Ep. 73 Supreme Court strikes down OSHA mandate w/ Lee Deming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFF7qJkuW0&t=964s •Ep. 55 Lee Deming Talks Liberty, Education, Nullification, and more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7r2UNe5UnU&t=48s

Chris Enget from Concerned Veterans for America joined me again to discuss the America's Warrior Partnership report that found the veteran suicide rate is more than double the VA's estimate. Find my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/liammccollum • Article on the report: https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-finds-veteran-suicide-1-37-times-greater-than-va-reports • Chris's opinion piece on Tester: https://billingsgazette.com/opinion/columnists/chris-enget-tester-has-chosen-politics-over-veterans-best-interests/article_c77a7660-0de5-11ed-80a8-23a6853efb46.html • My last interview with Chris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2659DMME_H0&t=76s • https://news.antiwar.com/2021/04/22/montana-becomes-first-state-to-pass-resolution-against-unconstitutional-wars/

• https://liammccollum.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile • https://linktr.ee/liammccollum

• My episode with Dan Sanchez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhNa9qqiSFE&t=3290s • No Treason: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/spooner-no-treason-no-vi-the-constitution-of-no-authority-1870 • No Treason audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G82sz76kGJc • My linktree: https://linktr.ee/liammccollum • Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/MLiamMcCollum • Spooner and the Science of Justice: https://liammccollum.substack.com/p/spooner-and-the-science-of-justice • Vote! It's Your Right!* : https://liammccollum.substack.com/p/vote-its-your-right

Dan Sanchez joined me to talk about the power of ideas, daily writing, and proper messaging. We talk about his recent article in which he explains how John Locke was the most dangerous man in the world, Leonard Reed's methodology for spreading liberty, Libertarian Party New Hampshire's messaging, how to "Civilize Thyself," the importance of ideas and daily writing, how Grant Morrison learned to stop worrying about the bomb, and so much more. • Follow Dan Sanchez on Substack: https://substack.com/profile/2409604-dan-sanchez • Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanSanchezV • Follow Dan's work at FEE: https://fee.org/people/dan-sanchez/ • "Big Tech and Free Speech: How Both the Left and the Right Are Wrong" by Dan Sanchez and Liam McCollum: https://fee.org/articles/big-tech-and-free-speech-how-both-the-left-and-the-right-are-wrong/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLiamMcCollum My linktree: https://linktr.ee/liammccollum

•Ep. 49 with Reed Coverdale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of5YJUkAE8c&t=645s • Reed's M1 Garand video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GbbBSblfQ_A • Jeremy Kauffman's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBzavZ40TQj-sVjP9Jmb8w • Reed's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ReedCoverdale Follow me on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MLiamMcCollum:f Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLiamMcCollum My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/liammccollum

How the West Brought War to Ukraine - Medium essay: https://medium.com/@benjamin.abelow/western-policies-caused-the-ukraine-crisis-and-now-risk-nuclear-war-1e402a67f44e How the West Brought War to Ukraine - Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0991076702 War with Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1510745815?tag=simonsayscom

• https://twitter.com/the_posts • What they don't tell you about Russia-Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtcCv3eCGfo • Ethan Holmes on Russia, Dostoevsky, and Altruistic Libertarianism • War (and Peace?) discussion: Russia-Ukraine developments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlcbNjDjtWM&t=4888s

• Montana Citizens Council on Judicial Accountability • WSJ article on MT corruption: https://www.wsj.com/articles/conflicts-of-supreme-judicial-interest-11640648182 • Article on judiciary email scandal: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/01/04/montana-judiciary-caught-lobbying-against-judicial-accountability-in-email-scandal-n1546435 • Judges recuse themselves: https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2021-04-02/justice-judge-recuse-themselves-in-case-over-new-judicial-appointment-powers • Tactical Civics: https://tacticalcivics.com/

Notes: • Ep. 66 Clint Russell on Inflation, the Fed's Destructive Policies, and Yellen's Insane Tax Proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj8V-D2TOq4&t=16s • Follow Clint on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod • Subscribe to Liberty Lockdown: https://www.youtube.com/c/LibertyLockdown

Clip from my interview with a military spouse from Montana: https://youtu.be/c6HsEdPlloo