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Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

MacFall — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:54:32 GMT

I've lived in the Pittsburgh area for all but the first year and a half of my life. Quinn is syndicated now nationwide. I still listen from time to time, because he's really one of the most astute observers of politics, and not economically ignorant compared to, say, Hannity. I think he'd be qualify as a genuine minarchist if he weren't scared into security-statism with the bulk of the rest of the conservative herd.

On a tangent, my location tag, "The steel bucke of the Rust Belt", is Quinn's endearment for the 'Burgh.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

Robert P. Churchill — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:17:19 GMT

I've gone through close to 90% of the stuff that's available. Paul Cantor's lectures on culture and the arts was probably the most mindblowing individual experience I've had but all of it is unbelievably helpful and transformative, especially when the same material is re-examined in recurring events from year to year.

Really freaky to hear that there are other Quinn listeners out there. I used to hear him in Pittsburgh and even went to his first "Churchill Night" (named for Winston, not for me) where the idea was to smoke cigars and drink port at an old place called Kangaroo's.

Can't listen to all those pro-war guys, though, and most don't really know enough about economics to be interesting. While they are great at pointing out the foibles of the left one observes in time that the right is guilty of all the same things (and vice versa). Eventually you just have to go in a different direction. I will credit Limbaugh for this, though, and Camille Paglia has commented to similar effect, he has broken the establishment stranglehold on permissable thought and he has done many years of yoeman's work in slowly educating lots of people about certain things. Not a bad place to start if that's all you have...

Anyway, the internet is fantastic and LVMI's decision to make so much first class material available for free (both for its own sake *and* as a loss-leader) will do more good for more people than almost anything I can think of.

Thanks again.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:03:18 GMT

Twirlcan:
I wish I had access to them when I was a truck driver years ago...

Now you shamed me into cleaning out some space on my ipod so I can do something useful while driving.

Where to start though...

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

MacFall — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:12:52 GMT

BWF89:

MacFall:
I was referring to "conservative" talk radio. I used to be a big fan of Quinn, Beck, Rush, Hannity et al. Now it just makes me cranky.

I used to be a big fan of Michael Savage.

Yeah, me too. I still prefer him to all the others, because he hates both major parties. But he's a big protectionist, and that's a deal breaker for me.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

BWF89 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:20 GMT

MacFall:
I was referring to "conservative" talk radio. I used to be a big fan of Quinn, Beck, Rush, Hannity et al. Now it just makes me cranky.

I used to be a big fan of Michael Savage.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

gussosa — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:03:19 GMT

I would like to have Human Action and Man, Economy & State in mp3. Oh, and the De Soto book too!

Any intern with a nice voice to read them aloud?

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

Niccolò — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:09:35 GMT

I'm really itching for the rest of ASC to be uploaded.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

nje5019 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:02:29 GMT

I thought i'd use this thread to thank the Mises Institute for all the uploaded audio content, as well as the streaming audio during things like the ASC. Such a wealth of education in audio form has been instrumental in sparking my interest in Austrian Economics, so i can't thank you enough.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

Inquisitor — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:00:38 GMT

Personally, I love Dr Reisman's lectures. He has an excellent speaking voice. Hoppe is good too, very clear. Long, Murphy and Sechrest are great too.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

MacFall — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:45:20 GMT

BWF89:

Morty:
I know you said you don't like talk radio, but I have to recommend Free Talk Live anyway.

I was going to recommend that as well.

I was referring to "conservative" talk radio. I used to be a big fan of Quinn, Beck, Rush, Hannity et al. Now it just makes me cranky.

I've never listened to FTL, I guess I'll have to remedy that. Thanks to both of you for the suggestion.

Who is your favorite? I have trouble with Mises dialect. I feel warm with LeFevre's.

I think I enjoyed LeFevre's commentaries the most as a whole, although I find I agree with the conclusions reached by Rothbard, Hoppe, Block, etc. more than LeFevre's. Also, Block's seminar on Radical Libertarianism was probably the most interesting to me (not that any of the Mises.org media is uninteresting. I think Long's lectures were the most enlightening intellectually.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

MacFall — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:44:00 GMT

jtucker:

That's actually astonishing! I'm glad we are upload this stuff!

As am I. I have mises.org to thank (profs. Hoppe and Reisman in particular) for nudging me down the path that finally brought me out of my statist fog sometime last year when I read (actually, "listened to") The Ethics of Liberty. And I now have what I can guiltlessly call a "healthy obsession" with Austrian economics - a worthy academic pursuit that my former life lacked.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

BWF89 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:18:04 GMT

Morty:
I know you said you don't like talk radio, but I have to recommend Free Talk Live anyway.

I was going to recommend that as well.

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

Inquisitor — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:40:20 GMT

Ugh... I'm still going through Roderick Long's lectures. It'll take me forever to even get half way through the media list!

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

jtucker — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:38:33 GMT

That's actually astonishing! I'm glad we are upload this stuff!

Re: I have run out of mises.org media. :(

Morty — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:23:11 GMT

I know you said you don't like talk radio, but I have to recommend Free Talk Live anyway. It is a real libertarian talk show. One of the main hosts is an an-cap and the other a minarchist (they also have various other co-hosts throughout the week, most of them an-caps). It is really great, does a 2 hour (not including commercials) show six days a week, and gives all its archives away for free.

http://freetalklive.com/