Claim OwnershipBob Murphy Show
Subscribed: 1,037Played: 81,096
Subscribe
© Copyright 2025 Robert Murphy
Description
The podcast promoting free markets, free minds, and grateful souls.
450 Episodes
Reverse
Adam Haman returns to participate in the 2nd installment of his "book club" with Bob. Last time, they reviewed The Dark Knight Returns, while this time they review The Man Who Was Thursday, a classic philosophical thriller.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.The link for the 2025 ExPat Money Summit.GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday.This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Brothers.Dave Smith’s Part of the Problem episode 1306.The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Daniel Kuehn is a labor economist with the Urban Institute. He has an interest in the history of economic thought, and joins Bob to discuss his forthcoming Journal of Economic Perspectives (Vol 39, No 4) article on WEB Dubois' work on marginal productivity theory, when it was still in its infancy.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, ExPatMoneySummit.com.Daniel's page at the Urban Institute.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
In another crossover, Adam Haman returns to critically assess Dave Smith's intriguing arguments regarding the firing (with FCC pressure) of Jimmy Kimmel.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.The link for the 2025 ExPat Money Summit.This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Brothers.Dave Smith's Part of the Problem episode 1306.Bob's article in The Misesian on identifying businesses allied with the State.The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
1Spike Cohen returns to the podcast to elaborate on the tremendous success of his organization, You Are the Power. By simply spotlighting particular government officials abusing their position, his network can give people an incentive to do the right thing.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, ExPatMoneySummit.com.The You Are the Power main page.BMS ep 369 featuring Spike Cohen on his adventures.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Adam Haman returns to discuss various controversies that have arisen in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.The link for the 2025 ExPat Money Summit.This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Brothers.Glenn Greenwald showcasing Charlie Kirk on Netenyahu regime.The Kyle Kulinski discussion of Kirk on stoning gays.The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Jake Boldig was the one to introduce Bob to two previous BMS guests (Jonathan Menn and Protais Nshogoza). They all work for ECLEA--Equipping Church Leaders in East Africa. Jake tells Bob of his recent adventures in the Congo.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, ExPatMoneySummit.com.The homepage of ECLEA.BMS ep 392 with Jonathan Menn (founder of ECLEA), and BMS ep 411 with Dr. Protais Nshogoza (survivor of Rwandan genocide).Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Adam Haman returns for another cross-over, this time discussing the video and commentary surrounding the US military strike on a motorboat off the coast of Venezuela.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.The link for the 2025 ExPat Money Summit.This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Brothers.The Glenn Greenwald discussion of Rubio and Trump on Venezuela.The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Pastor and apologist Lee Strobel recently appeared on Tucker Carlson to discuss his new book on angels and demons. But Bob focuses on Strobel's own journey from atheism to faith, and his description of near death experiences.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The Tucker Carlson interview of Lee Strobel.This episode’s sponsor, ExPatMoneySummit.com.Strobel's new book, Seeing the Supernatural.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Adam Haman returns to discuss three recent news items involving the Trump Administration: the Intel acquisition, the firing of and lawsuit by Fed Governor Lisa Cook, and the possible judicial repeal of some of the tariffs.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Brothers.Bob's recent appearance on reason's Just Asking Questions podcast, to discuss Intel.The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Ray March is an economist with the Free Market Institute (where he studied under Murphy years ago) and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He joins the podcast to discuss his recent op ed in the Washington Post.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, ExPatMoneySummit.com.Ray March's Washington Post op ed.Ray March's Texas Tech page.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Mathematician Ian Deters returns to the podcast to summarize the results of his computer simulations of a simple model of "free banking," as guided by Bob's instructions. His report has some good news and bad news for Bob.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, ExPatMoneySummit.com.The website of Ian Deters, including contact info. Ian Deters' appearance on the BMS ep. 287 defending the use of infinite sets in higher mathematics.Bob's recent Human Action podcast episode explaining the Rothbardian view of free banking (and the in-built limits to credit expansion).The Selgin-White 1994 JEL article laying out their model of free banking.Bob's QJAE article critical of the Selgin-White approach to free banking.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
In a new type of crossover episode, Adam Haman and Bob Murphy provide an in-depth analysis of Frank Miller's classic graphic novel, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. They also relate Miller's depiction to other treatments of the world's greatest detective.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Brothers.The anniversary edition of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (graphic novel).Links to old Batman clips (one and two). The YouTube version of the animated Dark Knight Returns (Part I and Part II).The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Alex Bernardo hosts the Protestant Libertarian podcast. He recently had Bob on, to explain why American Christians should care about the Federal Reserve.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, PersistSEO.com.The homepage of the Protestant Libertarian podcast.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Adam Haman returns for another crossover, this time reviewing a fascinating, 18-minute video which makes a strong case that "they've been lying to us about nuclear power." As always, Adam and Bob don't trust anybody, even the fellow YouTuber.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Brothers.The "Maxinomics" YouTube video making the case for nuclear power.Links on the Navy rates of cancer, pop article and journal article.The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
David R. Henderson is a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He joins Bob to discuss a recent substack post, in which he reproduced the article Hoover ran in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. David and Bob then discuss parallels with current events.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, PersistSEO.com.David R. Henderson's substack.An article explaining the Niger yellowcake forgeries.Daniel Ellsberg's book on the US nuclear weapons program.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
In another crossover episode, Adam Haman asks Bob about his doubts/concerns on various parts of Richard Werner's recent appearance on the Tucker Carlson show. This discussion is on the heels of Bob's episode of the Human Action podcast with Jonathan Newman, where they responded to Werner's interview from an Austrian economics perspective.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Brothers.The Richard Werner appearance on Tucker Carlson.Bob's Human Action podcast episode with Jonathan Newman, discussing Werner.Bob's infineo blog post going over the accounting; his latest HA episode walking through these examples.The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Martha Bueno is a popular advocate for liberty whose parents fled communist Cuba. She is part of Lyn Ulbricht's new organization dedicated to freeing nonviolent offenders suffering from cruel sentencing.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, PersistSEO.com.The homepage for MACS (Mothers Against Cruel Sentencing).Martha Bueno's X profile; the profile for MACS.Lyn Ulbricht's interview on the BMS.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Patri Friedman has a long career in promoting real-world projects for creating free cities. Originally he was associated with seasteading, but he has since focused on an opportunity provided in Honduras.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode’s sponsor, PersistSEO.com.Patri's Twitter account. The homepage for Pronomos Capital.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Mel Whitte--who goes by the humorous Twitter handle @Villgecrazylady--was perfectly poised to realize the ostensible arrest file on Gaza whistleblower Tony Aguilar was an obvious fake. She explains to Bob how she realized Aguilar's critics were lying.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this interview.Tony Aguilar's first and then second appearance on Tucker Carlson.Mel Whitte (@VillgeCrazyLady)'s thread on X. Bob's argument with "Green Beret Nap Time" about the street address.This episode’s sponsor, PersistSEO.com.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Adam returns for another crossover, this time to discuss Peter Thiel's fascinating conversation with Ross Douthat.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this conversation.This episode's sponsor, The Swan Brothers.The Thiel/Douthat interview.BMS ep 421, building a billionaire's bunker.Bob's article explaining the distinction between Hayek's knowledge problem and Mises' calculation problem (of socialism).The HamanNature substack.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States
Joe Rogan & Darryl Cooper are so ignorant they are unaware that Hitler did not call his followers 'Nazis' nor 'Fascists'. You can review their work & see that they have NEVER said, "Hitler did not call his followers 'Nazis' nor 'Fascists'." They are so ignorant they are unaware that Hitler's flag symbol represented "S means SOCIALIST" (a top discovery by Historian Dr. Rex Curry). Soviet socialists joined German socialists to start WW2 into Poland & onward. Stop misgendering Hitler.
Best Bob Murphy episode EVER!!! Well done Mr. Murphy, the adjustment of his voice to long suffering in one hour, while he's laughing internally. Oooph. Love that Owen. Become bears is the medium
Bob Your argumentation that you open with is completely wrong as is all your Covid arguments because they're based in little more than your personal, irrational Fear. You can claim all you want to be against government lockdowns and mask mandates but you and your irrational behavior and unreasoned fear are the basis for their existence. so long as you endorse their rational you endorse their existence. But to your poor understanding of the arguments, on the one hand the mask mandates are allegedly rationalized by the false beliefs of asymptomatic super spreaders, the very thing you also irrationally fear, and the idea that everybody or anybody has the virus and is highly contagious. This is why everyone "must wear masks." Neither of these have any basis in reality and in fact are as much proven wrong as is possible. Thus the idea that in a country wear they haven't had a new case in over 3 weeks yet the mask mandate is still in effect with extreme penalties is evidence that the mask
Math IS Something as Oxford Mathematician John Lennox points out. It's socking the willful ignorance and cognitive disconnect shown when naturalists assume only the natural, material world exists and they claim to prove it with the use of immaterial, eternal things that do not exist in the material world like Reason, Ideas, and Logic... and of course "Natural Laws" Like Mathematics To provide a naturalistic reason for Something instead of nothing you have to actually start with nothing, as in nothing at all. That is no reason no logic no math, no natural laws, no intelligence, no such thing as so-called natural selection, no elements no... , nothing exists. Then start from there
I think he actually sugar-coated it a bit but It's nice to see Bob finally awoke to the clear reality of what the SCAMdemic was all about- Ushering in the "Global Reset" and the NWO. The draconian lockdowns and absurd rules make it abundantly clear this was never about a virus. The mindless believers in the media propaganda living in terror were and still are being used
Why are grown men, with all of the real shit going on, worrying about fantasy entertainment for children?
damn straight thank god for Bob!
Just wondering if Bob is going to have this buffoon back on given everything that happened and all the disinformation she gave in the interview. One of the several shootings in CHAZ was by the armed security, which she denied existed, Spraying bullets into a vehicle. she also lied about the gardening and the signs begging for stuff
So what you're saying Murphy is... you're a proponent of the dollar-milkshake theory!
Had to stop at 20
left and right are useless constructs
as long 0l
strongly disagree with this episode, bob
Keep it up, mr. Murphy.
Great interviews and Murphy humor; keep it up!