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Elevating voices of liberty and solutions rooted in freedom. Hosted by Kevin Wilson and Tim O'Connor. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afreesolution/support
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Tim thinks libertarians need to find solutions that would save social security, Kevin thinks the best solution is to move on to something else
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Kevin and Tim end up talking about Israel and Gaza stuff for a while.
The plan to save us from shrinkflation
The eclipse is making people panic. Should they?
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Kevin and Tim talk about the government suing Apple's iPhone for illegal monopolistic practices
Tim comes out on the governments side sometimes, owns an iPhone.
News about the bridge collapse in Maryland
Sometimes accidents happen
Tim's rapid fire news segment
NY makes weed legal and somehow we all lose money thanks to government incompetence. WXXI Story
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Supreme Court Justice asks whether the 1st Amendment hamstrings government
So many hypotheticals
Texas requires ID to watch porn
Ride Share minimum wage fails
Immigration is broken for businesses and people
Should illegal immigrants get gun rights?
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Kevin has another kid now
NYS Gov Hochul puts national guard on NYC subway to check bags
This will get dystopian quickly
A fight about Blackrock, the nature of capitalism
The State of the Union
Drug laws and zoning
Banning TikTok (or forcing the Chinese Communists to Divest)
Bitcoin mutterings
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Kevin and Tim do an episode talking about libertarian themes in pop culture
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Tim praises NYS
Mitch McConnel stepping down (from leadership only)
Spending bill struck down?
The IVF ban explained
Elizabeth Warren should stay out of Wendy's surge pricing
CA Gov Newsom may have given out special favors on minimum wage
A long tangent on fast food and diet
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Kevin and Tim roast Tucker Carlson's Russia propaganda
The economics of why food seems cheaper in some countries compared to the US
Police don't face many consequences for car crashes
Acorn Cop mag dump
Anarcho-tyranny?
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Kevin and Tim talk about the Tucker Carlson interview. Was that journalism? Soft ball interview? Propaganda?
Tim thinks Putin knows his history and trusts him more than Hillary Clinton
Putin thinks selling nationalism will convince people he has a just war
A detour on the overlap between nationalism and identity politics
Shockingly, the NYS film tax credit is a huge loser
Kevin thinks Hochul is right about one thing
Listener questions
Groundhogs for some reason
Is Biden too old for this?
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The immigration bill is a political mess
Were immigrants coming legally back in the old days?
What does the immigration bill do?
Open borders?
Ties to Ukraine and Israel aid
Do the feds need to do something about urban pharmacies closing?
Bird Spies
Kevin convinces Tim to train some birds to do his bidding
Woke Kindgergarten
Should the federal government regulation the size of Dorito's bags
Tim agrees with Elizabeth Warren's diagnoses of shrinkflation, but not the solution.
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Tim thinks climate activists are going to take away his ability to grow food at home
Kevin is talks about how efficient farming has gotten
Government has decided to subsidize NIMBYs, making building projects even harder
Degrowthers hate the poor
We aren't ready for UAPs
Tim praises Nikki Haley
RFK Jr. wants the Libertarian Party nomination
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The government was trying to prevent Bills Mafia from feeding the pit
Tim's more serious take that taxes on athletes hurt the only NY based NFL team
Republican politics
Should we just give Alaska back to Russia?
Shady politics in Arizona
News rapid fire
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Did NY Gov Hochul need to be involved in the Bills snow delay?
Are travel bans a good idea?
Context on the Red Sea / Houthi stuff
Is it the US Navy's job to defend trade routes?
Where do we cross the line from self-defense of US military resources to offense? Do we need a declaration of war?
Iowa caucus results - Libertarian Party edition
Iowa caucus results - GOP edition
Listener comments
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Tim thinks Oneonta is making some good moves on parking
Kevin is not a fan of subsidized parking anywhere
How other towns are dealing with this
Do we need government for parking or mass transit? What do libertarians do?
Do you have the right to drink raw milk?
Consumer debt
Elon's drugs
Aliens in Miami
A tangent on magnets
A further tangent on Start Trek, deep space 9.
The great material continuum of the ferengi.
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Kevin and Tim talk about the end of local elections.
Is higher voter turnout a good metric to work towards?
Should the Thruway be free?
NYS Gov Hochul vetoes a non-compete ban
Attack in Rochester?
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Tim and Kevin talk about great solutions to advance freedom in 2024. Some are practical and political popular. Some are more of a stretch.
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Nuisance points coming to Norwich, NY?
How it ends up working out in Rochester
Rochester trying to get rent control again
What happens if we constrain supply and subsidize demand in housing?
Kevin talks about the housing virtue signalers
Will a new bill in Congress get corporations out of housing and lower rent? (No)
Trump kicked off ballot in Colorado
How gun control hurts low income people defending themselves
Is NY forcing Chick-fil-a to open on Sundays?
Could we get someone more qualified to manage the new thruway rest stops?
Merry Christmas
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Thomas Daniel Quiter joins Kevin and Tim to talk about finding new ways to achieve mobility independence with fighting for the right to repair his power chair, helping others do the same, and voluntarism.
The absurdity and frustration of mobility support in government programs
Right to repair
Open source and voluntary solutions to fixing those problems.
Mobility Independence Foundation - https://themif.org/
RapAdapt -http://rapadapt.com/
Wheelchair van for Devin - https://libertymemesfoundation.org/donations/devins-van/
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Kevin and Tim talk about NYS Elder Parole (automatic parole hearings to everyone 55+ who served 15 years).
What is jail supposed to accomplish?
FDA adding new regulations to lab tests, failing to learn the lessons of COVID
Justice for George Santos
Should you take government subsidies?
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The most ridiculous anti trust lawsuit ever. Will a merger of Subway and Jimmy Johns lead to a sandwich monopoly and higher sandwich prices? (No).
What is the FTC even doing?
Kevin finally gets mad enough about political stupidity to rant about it
Is left-wing TikTok into Osama Bin Laden now?
Tim tries to defend some points, Kevin doesn't have it
When contrarianism gets weird on the left and among libertarians
The right got the Niagara falls rainbow bridge story wrong
Would football exist without public schools
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