Provoked with Darryl Cooper and Scott Horton - EP:46 - A Really Big Show!

Episode Date: May 16, 2026

Scott Horton is joined by special guest host Tom Woods to discuss Scott's appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, which dropped earlier today (May 15)! They also discuss Thomas Massie’s Kentucky pri...mary race and all the recent INSANITY in the Ziobot campaign against him. Chapters: 0:36 Welcome! First Up: the Rogan After-Action Review! 3:24 War Talk and Mistakes 4:17 Threads and Nuclear Fear 7:51 Rogan Audience Boost 10:16 Clinton and Palestine 15:13 Massey Under Attack 15:25 New Book Spotlight 18:19 JFK and Conspiracies 20:40 Back to Massey 26:03 Fox News Smears 33:25 Dirty Campaign Tactics 40:10 Super Chats Begin 42:32 Rothbard at Rest 44:44 Massey Poll Watch 46:21 Russia and Hantavirus 48:27 Best Debates Ever 51:36 Why Big Platforms Matter 56:28 Gallrein Won’t Debate 58:12 Rothbard Books Recs 1:03:54 Hoppe Picks 1:04:43 Rogan, Gaza, and Youth 1:07:41 Sign-off (Cleaned up w/ the Podsworth app. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podsworth.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) Provoked show site: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://provoked.show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Darryl's links: X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@martyrmade⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.martyrmade.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Scott's links: X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@scotthortonshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://scotthortonacademy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://libertarianinstitute.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://antiwar.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://scotthorton.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://scotthorton.org/books⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.scotthortonshow.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:49 End this war. You're watching Provoked with Daryl Cooper and Scott Horton, debunking the propaganda lies of the past, present, and future. This is provoked. All right, kiddos. Welcome to the show. It is provoked. I am Scott Horton. I'm half of this show. Usually it's Darrell Cooper, aka Martyr Made America's Most Honest and Thoreau Historian. But tonight we've got, well, America's second most honest. The great Tom Woods, as I used to joke, author of more than half of all the books that have ever been published and a good friend of the show. Welcome, Tom. How are you, sir? I'm doing great, Scott, but I'm doing especially well because this was the day that the Scott Horton Joe Rogan appearance was released. And this is a consummation much to be celebrated because for years, years your fans have been saying, man, we got to get you on Joe Rogan. And it finally happened.
Starting point is 00:02:02 Yes, that's true. And it went real well, I think. You know, I guess I can't say that I said anything in the interview that was very special compared to my usual interviews. I do a lot of interviews. You know, sometimes I'll spend all day, Thursday, being interviewed and say the same thing over and over and sometimes twice on the same show. And so I don't know that the interview of me was that great other than just the venue itself and that I was able to finally get on there and say this stuff to a whole new audience. and hopefully that'll, you know, help raise the entire issue or, you know, some of the substantial issues and in details that we discussed to broader attention and things like that.
Starting point is 00:02:43 So is there... Well, that's the thing. For this, you don't need anything that's wildly original. You have a brand new audience in, you know, I'm sure there's a fraction they've heard of you, but it's largely a brand new audience. They just need Scott Horton, you know? They need what you've been telling everybody else. And so does it...
Starting point is 00:03:01 Is it nerve-wracking being on with Joe in that you know it's a big audience and this is like a big deal and all that? Or are you just kind of past all that now? Well, I mean, I was telling myself not to be nervous just because I know how to talk about the subject matter. I do it so much. And then I thought, I'm going to get a long fine with him. Oh, yeah. And you guys did. You got along great.
Starting point is 00:03:23 It was fine. It was just like I hope, basically, you know. From the time I got there, him and all these guys were really nice to me. and everything was very nice and whatever. So I gave him a pipe as a little present at the beginning of the year. We had a little camaraderie about our mutual admiration of Kurt Messker, who is just an absolute riot. I don't know if you've ever seen his comedy,
Starting point is 00:03:45 but the guy's just in Tasmania, Dela, I just loved him to death. So we had a good little talk about that to start off, which is fun. And then got into the wars, talked about Iran, talked about Ukraine. and I admit I'm kicking myself there are a couple times like, man, I said Hans Dietrich Genscher was the former minister of Britain when I... Everybody knows that was a mistake because just listen to the name. It's not English at all. There's this dumbest thing in the world. I do that sometimes. I one time called for Glenn Greenwald to be taken out and shot, but I meant Wolfowitz. And it was something that Greenwald had written
Starting point is 00:04:19 about Wolfowitz, but I was like, this Greenwald out of taking out of food. I didn't say the wrong words. It's like a verbal typo. And then I did it again, like almost immediately where I called, first I called Germany, Britain, and then I called, or maybe first I called Britain, Russia, when I was saying Threads is the Russian version of the day after. When I was trying to say it's the British version of the day after about Margaret Thatcher getting England into a war with Russia. And by the way, by the way, so as you said, Threads really is the British answer to the American TV movie The Day After, which I was, I mean, I'm a little older. than you, Scott. I watched that as a, as like a preteen, even though my parents, you know, told me I was forbidden to watch it because I thought I would be scared to death, which I was,
Starting point is 00:05:04 but I wanted to tell them that's half the fun. I want to be scared to death, you know, so I snuck around and watched it. But I only watched threads about two years ago, and anybody listening to us, if you haven't heard of it, it was made around like 1984 or something. And it's not, let's say the day after is literally about the day after a nuclear exchange. but threads takes you a month after, two months after, a year after,
Starting point is 00:05:31 and it is, I watched it because one of my favorite musicians in his book, Stephen Wilson, in his book, is listing movies that he likes, and he mentions threads, and he says,
Starting point is 00:05:41 let me tell you something about threads. Nothing good happens to anybody in this movie. And then as it's going along, only worse things happen. And I thought I have to see this. So it's very, very much worth seeing.
Starting point is 00:05:54 that was one of my lines that they hated or just did not understand at all at Oxford, where I said, of course we can't fight Russia. Haven't y'all seen threads? Which, they're a college kids. Of course, they haven't seen threads. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's an English movie, and you know it better than they do. I said, London would be gone.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Oxford would be gone. The survivors would be burning Empire Strikes Back action figures for cooking fuel. Yeah. That's a scene in that movie. Right, right, right. But see, as you were telling me on the phone the other day, I mean, these people, you know, they're college kids, they're Oxford students. So they know they're not going to be fighting in any particular war, although a war like that doesn't really matter if you're fighting or you're a civilian. Because if it comes to that, it's not going to make a distinction between those.
Starting point is 00:06:44 But they have this idea that high sounding language is more important than not dying in a nuclear war. Yeah. It reminds me of in 1998 when India and Pakistan were testing their nukes and nobody was paying any attention because it was the same week that it was Seinfeld's final episode. So that was the only thing anybody cared about. But anyway, India and Pakistan were testing their atom bombs. And I forgot, I guess it was CNN or whatever, showed a Pakistani general telling the cameraman, you tell those Indians, we're not afraid of their atom bombs. as though your fear of them or not makes a bit of difference when you're splitting atoms over your head using them together even worse, you know? But yeah. So I'm kicking myself over, I had a couple of verbal little typos there.
Starting point is 00:07:36 I forgot Belt and Road Initiative when I'm trying to talk about China's project to build a big highway across Eurasia, which, dude, that was so stupid. Of all the brain farts to get what I was. I'm here. to make sure that you don't go overboard being hard on yourself. Because it's two and a half hours of nonstop intellectual exertion.
Starting point is 00:07:59 You know, I mean, you've got to give yourself some grace here. I'm glad that you liked it. I actually was afraid that I was a little too heavy on the details of some parts, too, where I needed to calibrate my delivery a bit. You know, I don't know, man, whatever. I'm always going to do that after action kind of thing, you know, the problems. But the thing is me and he liked it, so it was good. You know?
Starting point is 00:08:20 Yeah, yeah, and he wants your number, which is good. But I mean, it's because the thing is you have, even though you're not an academic, you have the instincts of a teacher. You have knowledge and you wish there was some way you could pump it directly into another person's brain. Now, by the way, Scott Horton Academy, you can do that. That's true. But that's your instinct is you've got the knowledge. You want to give it to people.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Oh, look at that. Look at you. You're showing off with your graphic capabilities here. That's right. Well, somebody made that for me, of course. That's nice. Scott Hall of the Academy of, thanks to Tom Woods, I have this academy where you guys can come and learn all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Yeah. So, yes, I'm giving it like at least an A, you know, a minus maybe, but like good enough, man for me. Yeah. So Scott sent me the link early today to Joe Rogan's YouTube channel. And he sort of semi-jokingly said, keep refreshing this. Well, you know, jokes on you
Starting point is 00:09:21 because I did do that. And then eventually you came on. A little bit after that that Dave told me, he texted me and said, by the way, it usually comes on around noon your time. So, oh, okay. So I went and did some work in the garage for a minute and came back. All right.
Starting point is 00:09:38 Yeah, and there it is. Yeah. So there you go, man. For all you people who always wanted to see me on the Joe Rogan show, it finally happens over there. So after this, go watch it. And the other benefit of that, Scott, is that the more you're on these huge shows, the more YouTube likes your name because it associates your name with lots of views. So then you go on another show, you know, like a schmuck like me, and it elevates me.
Starting point is 00:10:02 You know, I get extra views because it has the name Scott Horton in it. I should just put the name Scott Horton in there even when you're not on now. Yeah, that's good, man. I also, and this almost never comes up, but I had a chance to accuse Bill Clinton. of selling missile technology transfer stuff to China for campaign cash, which, you know, year of the rat and all that stuff from a long time ago. Nobody pays attention to this stuff anymore, but I got to, I got all the names right and everything too. I've one time screwed them up, but I got them right this time.
Starting point is 00:10:34 And so, yeah, I even got you a little Waco reference that they started the Iran War on the anniversary of the Waco raid. So threw that in there. It's worth six cents. Unless you have something planned, I want to ask you a Bill Clinton. question if you don't mind. Yeah, do it anymore. All right, so there's this Bill Clinton quote.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Now, I don't know when he said it. Maybe it was after he left office or what, but he said something like this, that the Palestinians were offered a state. They didn't want it. Instead, they just wanted to kill Jews. Oh, God. So how do you respond to that? Rolling my eyes, basically.
Starting point is 00:11:10 Yeah, I'm giving you a meatball over the plate here, Scott. Yeah, I mean, so what happened was. Probably like the second most generous offer, the Israelis ever gave the Palestinians, was at Camp David at the year 2000. But it was nothing like a real Palestinian state. And it was all cut up and for almost all of it, they wouldn't even show them a map.
Starting point is 00:11:34 And it was essentially not even really a complete offer. And then Arafat didn't accept it. And at the time, Bill Clinton promised Arafat that, look, man, I understand. It's the Israelis who are being intransigent here and are dragging out the process in such a way to make sure that a deal is impossible. So don't worry.
Starting point is 00:11:54 I'm not going to throw you under the bus and blame you for this if it falls through. And then he turned right around and threw him under the bus and blamed him for it all falling through. When, you know, there's a book called The Secret History of Camp David. The Truth About Camp David, there is, by Clayton Swisher, where he goes over all of this
Starting point is 00:12:14 in great detail. He was there. I believe working as security at the meeting, but then later, I don't know if it was for his PhD or what, when interviewed all the principals and everything, went back over it all and interviewed everybody. I guess his original experience was, hey, that's not what happened. I was standing right there.
Starting point is 00:12:32 And then he went and wrote a book about it, you know. And then, in fact, there's a semi-famous clip of Zabigna-Brasinski dressing down Joe Scarborough on the morning Joe show. So, of course, the Big New Brzezinski's daughter, Mika, is the co-host and wife of Joe Scarborough. And so they would have Zabignewon from time to time. This is Jimmy Carter's National Security Biser, sort of the Democratic Henry Kissinger. And Scarborough starts saying that. Oh, yeah, I tried to give him a two-state solution, and they refuse to accept it because they'd rather fight away.
Starting point is 00:13:07 And Brzezinski is like, this is just the most absolutely absurd and sophomoric thing. and just totally dresses him down and insults him and says you'd have no idea what you're talking about. And all the actual actual was at Tabah later. And of course, I forgot the exact timing, Tom, but it was, I believe, right after Camp David, when they still had the future meeting scheduled was when Ariel Sharon took his troops
Starting point is 00:13:33 and went to the Temple Mount. And that was what kicked off the second Intifada, which then, of course, made the compromise that much more difficult. And it was too late at Tabah. but then Ehud Barak-based elections, and Bill Clinton was out, and W. Bush was coming in. And then the question was, and Colin Powell hold off Dick Cheney and the boys,
Starting point is 00:13:52 and the answer was, no, he cannot. So, of course, after September 11th, Colin Powell said, we've got to do a two-state solution boss. You got a 90% approval rating. This is the key to our terrorism problem. We've got to take care of it. And Bush agreed, but then lost. The Israelis and the Israeli lobby in America
Starting point is 00:14:10 based him down and made him back. down and he did. So anyway, this is a great myth of the Israel lobby and the Israeli regime, that they tried to give them a two-state solution and they just wouldn't take it. Like, okay, even if that was true, well, why don't you do it now, then? Why haven't you done it this whole time? How come the offer was only good in the fall of 2000, but never after that? Because it's a bunch of bullshit. That's why. Give me a break, dude. They want that land. They call Judea and Sumaria,
Starting point is 00:14:42 and they claim that their religion that they believe in says that they can have it if they want it. So isn't that convenient? And that's the way that goes. But yeah. Oh, did I say why Darrell isn't here? Darrell doesn't feel good. That's why Darrell's not here.
Starting point is 00:14:56 Oh, okay. Well, I think I know what. He was on the Tom Wood Show this week. You know what? I was going to mention that, and I have it in my nose right here, but I didn't remember what they meant. It takes a couple days to recover from that experience,
Starting point is 00:15:08 as you well know. It was a really good interview. Very interesting subject matter. And then, man, I forgot what it was. There was something that y'all start talking about later in that show that I wanted to discuss with you, but I don't remember what it was anymore. It's really interesting. Something he was talking about. Well, if that doesn't come back to you, I certainly have something that I want to get off my chest.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Go ahead. Let's hear. All right. Well, look, I don't know that I have a whole lot to say that people haven't heard about it already. and yet I still think everybody wants to hear about it anyway, even though we've heard it over and over. And that is what's what's been going on with this Thomas Massey race in Kentucky. It is so wild.
Starting point is 00:15:49 So before you do that, because I want to spend a whole segment on that. Okay. I was planning on that. Oh, good. But before we do that, I talked about this last week, but I want to show everybody that the book is now out. Oh, great. The World War II Institute's 20th book.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Get that glare off of there, you. The Libertarian Institute's 20th book. The Trump assassination plots, what the investigations missed, and why it matters by the great investigative reporter Ken Silva. And he, I don't know if he got his start writing for us. Maybe he did. But he's been a longtime writer for the Libertarian Institute. And he, of course, now runs headline USA,
Starting point is 00:16:26 where he does all his great original investigative reporting there. And he's the best. I read, you know, a much earlier version of this a few months back. I still need to sit down and reread it before I interview him about it. But I know that he's just the best of the best. There's no red herrings and rabbit trails and BS here other than him following them and explaining what it all really means in a way that is completely reliable. For everybody, he wants to know the background of this stuff,
Starting point is 00:16:55 or at least as much as can be known at this time. So that's it. Libertarian Institute.org slash books. And you can find all 20 of our great books, and including now this great one by Ken Silva. So that's pretty good. You guys have been putting out great stuff. I mean, I say that not simply because you publish one of my books.
Starting point is 00:17:16 You really have some great- It's right here. Diary of a Psychosis. Diary of a Psychosis. So Diary of COVID.com, check that out. It's a really good book website. But I'm very much looking forward to, I don't know if we're supposed to spill the beans, so I'll just simply say the, I assume, upcoming Keith Knight book.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Hey, Tom, they're saying that you're really quiet. Oh, let me see if I can fix that. You sound good to me, but maybe turn your gain up a little bit there. So, yes, sorry about that. All right, well, I'll see what I can do, but are we supposed to say that Keith Knight has a book coming out? Because I think I just spill the beans about it. Oh, you can't. I think you can back off that mic a little bit.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Now you're a bit hot. But, yeah. No, I don't think that's a secret that Keith, yeah, Keith is writing a book about World War II. Yeah. He really did a podcast where he had just finished reading. Winston Churchill's, I believe, seven-part book about World War II, his history of World War II. And Keith is finding some bad stuff in there, man. Pretty sure. Better him than us. I don't want to read that.
Starting point is 00:18:21 Yeah, I know. Actually, I kind of do, but, you know, Keith is just a heat-seeking missile when it comes to picking out the parts of that that you were supposed to overlook, you know what I mean? It's one of these things where I think about, all right, I'm 53. I can estimate how many years I probably have left. Can I really spare the hours on this? I'd rather just let Keith do it. Yeah, seriously. Fair enough. Yeah, like JFK.
Starting point is 00:18:46 Somebody else will solve it. Yeah. When you said that on Rogan, I thought Scott just said my exact opinion. Because I do get asked because I'm a historian and I'm a bit of a contrarian. So sometimes people want to know what's my opinion on the JFK thing. and I think, well, there are a zillion books on it. There's no, I don't think there's any explanation that's 100% ironclad proven to the point
Starting point is 00:19:09 where you'd have to be unreasonable to reject it. So that means I'm going to read 100 books and still not feel conclusive about it. Leave that to other people. That was my exact same reasoning even as a high school kid. Yeah. And like I was conspiracy boy at the time. And I was happy to just go ahead
Starting point is 00:19:26 and assume the Alan Dulles did it, but I didn't. I didn't care to, like, try to make that case to anyone else because I didn't think I could prove it. I just sort of believe that, that, yeah, it must have been. I mean, they put him in charge of the investigation. So, like, yeah, had to have been him. That kind of thing, you know, I don't know. So, yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:45 In fact, hey, a chat room guys, tell me, does he sound too hot now or it's okay? Let me know about that. We're going to get to y'all super chats, too. Oh, audio great now. They like it. All right. Well, as long as they like it. As long as they like it, man.
Starting point is 00:19:57 It's good. I was a little worried you're up in the red there. but it sounds like maybe we're right. All right. So, oh, that's funny. This guy wants to have a Kurt Messker, Darrell Cooper, Scott Horton, debate on 9-11.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Boy, I don't know if that's a good idea. I'll tell you what, I would love to just stand around in a parking lot and debate 9-11 with Kurt Metzger all night long, dude. That guy is hilarious. I'm not sure if it would be the best podcast. But I love that guy. He is so funny, dude.
Starting point is 00:20:27 I saw someone in the comments on the Rogan thing actually said, and I'm sure this is a real quote where it is Kurt Metzger. Dude, everybody knows that most cavemen were gay. Rogan. Dude, what are you talking about? Medsker. Oh, you don't know that? He's so funny.
Starting point is 00:20:50 Anyway, he's the best. He's the best guy on every conspiracy theory in the world at the same time. It's fun, dude. It's like, um, Francis C. Deck only, not actually insane, but just like at the edge, maybe. Good. Okay. Anyway. Anyway, so here's Ken's book.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Let's talk about Thomas Massey. Then we'll do some super chats. Yeah. But if he's Massey, you know, unlike Dr. Paul, he did not deliver two-thirds of the population of his district. And so that is working against him. On the other hand, man, he has been a loyal representative and the most true blue Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Starting point is 00:21:29 type of sort of a daydream that you could possibly imagine having in this little old former constitutional republic of ours here, Tom. And it seemed like his seat was always safe because they knew that they liked him and trusted him and that he's a good guy and always voted the right way. And then apparently,
Starting point is 00:21:47 just literally some money from some Israeli billionaires and some Fox News spin is very possibly enough. And then he was basically blacklisted from Fox News for about 18 months, so he couldn't get his perspective out there. And the boomers get all their opinions just from Fox News, which explains this crazy poll, I assume you saw, showing just how radically different the older people are from the younger people on Massey versus the other guy. I mean, it's, I've never seen a numbers break like that. but I'm sure it's because of that and Massey has a theory
Starting point is 00:22:28 that Fox did that not entirely spontaneously but because of White House pressure and they don't want to antagonize the White House unnecessarily so so much the worst for Massey I mean I don't know yeah
Starting point is 00:22:43 yeah total blackout there just keeping them off of Fox where nobody you know in those age groups can see him but now I'm looking on on X and I'm seeing that young Americans for Liberty are sending all these young people to Kentucky. There are all these influencers and media people saying, I'm dropping everything and I'm going
Starting point is 00:23:03 to Kentucky and we're going to do everything we possibly can. And that some of it is that they're trying to make sure the older people know the primary is going on on Tuesday and that the younger people, you know, don't know that it's going on. So we got to go down there and get the word out. So it's incredible all these people doing this. Like there's excitement unlike anything since the wrong. Paul days. And I just thought to myself, could you imagine being on the other side and saying, yeah, I want to be on the side where nobody wants to go to work for the guy? I mean, who's saying,
Starting point is 00:23:35 I'm going to drop everything. I'm going to drop my work, my family, whatever, for a week so I can go work for Ed Gal Rhine. No one. I never even bothered to learn how to say his name. Well, I know it's Gull Rine because I think it was Cliff Maloney who wants to call him Gal Rhino. So that helped me remember the pronunciation. There you go. That fits. Yeah, no, something else. You know, you think about all the politicians who are willing to say that, yeah,
Starting point is 00:24:03 Ron Paul was right. He sure was. When it doesn't matter at all, when Paul's long retired, when nothing that he said is at issue at the moment. And they're just free to say that like, well, if you like Ron Paul, you should like me too or something. Well, here's a guy who has essentially Ron Paul's exact voting record in the Congress right now and all those same people line up against him and accuse him of anything they need to.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Today I asked Grock, do we have any evidence that, let's see, John Paulson, Miriam Adelson, or Paul Singer, the three Zionist billionaires bankrolling the nonentity, the empty suit, have ever been to Kentucky? Now, I mean, that doesn't, you know, I sent Massey a donation. I have, well, I have been to, I take that back. No, I have been, I've been to Lexington. So I actually have been to Kentucky. But I was just curious, you know, have any, I mean, you're going to, you're basically buy, I mean, let's face it. They're trying to buy the seat.
Starting point is 00:24:59 We all know that. And they're trying to put this ridiculous empty suit in that seat, which is an insult to any American patriot. So I asked Grock, is there any evidence that any of these people have ever set foot in Kentucky? And it said, I have searched and searched and searched. And there is no evidence that any of them. And of course, I'm sure they haven't because they view Kentucky.
Starting point is 00:25:21 as like a backwater of the empire. People like them don't go to Kentucky. People like them tell people in Kentucky what to do, or they tell people in Kentucky what they're going to sit back and take, or they tell people in Kentucky what they're supposed to like and support. And unfortunately, the boomers in Kentucky sit back and listen and take notes. Oh, yes, certainly, Mr. Paulson, sir, I will support the... You just give me an empty suit who repeats five boomer slogans,
Starting point is 00:25:48 and that's all I need. I mean, that is demoralizing. However, it is encouraging to see that there's a generation of people who are not influenced by stuff like this, which means that maybe the future would be a little brighter than the present. Hope so. Let's say get their censorship regime, you know, fully ensconced. That algorithm dictate anything. I'll be watching YouTube and be like, oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:12 The YouTube computer god used to show me this guy's stuff all the time. I totally forgot about him. Yeah. I can sign up. I can subscribe to whatever I want. It still only shows me whatever it wants to show me. Yeah. It's true. We do live in Francis E. Dex, paranoid fantasy now.
Starting point is 00:26:32 Yes, so, yeah, now Massey is funny. I saw, I think you wrote about this too in your daily email, maybe, about this claim that, oh, Massey votes with the Democrats 90% of the time or something like that. Yeah. What are you out of your mind? They had a commercial with, they did, had AI do a Photoshop there and make it look like he was walking, holding hands with Elon Omar and. And AOC.
Starting point is 00:26:57 AOC. But then, so, you know, like the, they do the community notes on X there. And the community knows, I was like, no, this guy has the most anti-Democrat, anti-Biden, anti-Obama. Yeah, it turns out, which I had known until this, that he voted with Biden 1.8% of the time, which is the lowest amount anybody in the entire house voted with Biden.
Starting point is 00:27:24 Like, that's a record. Nobody voted with Biden less often than Massey. So it's basically people have been just fed some crazy. So one of the things I said in one of my posts was go tell your grandmother the real truth about Massey and then drive her to the polling place. Yeah, seriously. And, you know, I can get it.
Starting point is 00:27:43 If you're just a Republican, you know, Fox News watching sort of rank and file type that, you know, there's always been such a thing as a rhino, right? A liberal Republican, a Northeastern establishment, liberal guy who's soft on guns and pro-gay marriage and whatever, this kind of thing. They're still nominally Republicans. They call them Republicans in name only when really they're sort of Ted Kennedy
Starting point is 00:28:06 types. And then you just take that label and you can stick it on somebody who is essentially on almost everything to the right of the rest of the, the Republican Party and go, he's to the right of the people complaining about him. Yeah. And then they go, yeah, see, that guy's a rhino because he's different from us and whatever. And then so if you're just a regular consumer of that sloganeering, then I guess that kind of makes sense.
Starting point is 00:28:29 They said that he voted the same way that the Democrats did know on some of the things that Trump wanted to do or whatever it was. And then the presumption is the president was doing the right thing. So this guy was doing the wrong thing to oppose it instead of, wow, Trump must have really been effing up. if Massey wasn't willing to go along with it, which if you know anything about the guy should be the presumption going forward there.
Starting point is 00:28:50 But, and yeah, it is kind of demoralizing when, like, come on, this guy's been in Congress for, I don't know, 12 years now or 16. 14. So they should know that like, nah, man, I don't know what they're saying about him, but I know that I, at least I'm going to give this guy the benefit of the doubt for a minute.
Starting point is 00:29:09 And I'm not saying that, I would do that really for any politician. and he's probably the only guy that I respect that much in all of politicianhood in the country right now. I mean, it's not a matter of like party or anything. It's just you can tell where the guy's at where he's always been on this stuff.
Starting point is 00:29:24 And in fact, you know, as a Ron Paul guy, I would say he's been getting better and better lately, right? Definitely. For one of my frustrations with him was he always seemed to be sort of default anti-war but not very interested in foreign policy and not very interested in pushing his luck on the issue. where, and maybe that was what kept him safe.
Starting point is 00:29:44 He decided to finally stick his neck out on, of course, the very worst thing about America, our relationship with Israel. And they're coming for him over it. And so ironically, right, where Miriam Adelson is literally in Israeli, who married an American Jewish billionaire, who is rich because he owns casinos in communist China.
Starting point is 00:30:05 I mean, not really communist, but sort of, kind of, in Macau. And like, and this is who Americans, American conservative Christians answer to is an Israeli heiress of a Chikam gambling fortune? This is crazy. Like how in the world is this the American system here? There's, you know, as Cooper was saying on your show, there's no force organized to prevent it. Maybe this was the interesting thing y'all were talking about, about how the Israeli lobby is
Starting point is 00:30:32 able to get away. Now that old, you know, skull and bonesish wasp, Rockefeller type establishment is gone, the only real organized establishment in America is the Israeli government. Nobody else really has their act together enough to oppose them, you know? Well, I had Daniel McAdams from the Ron Paul Institute
Starting point is 00:30:52 on sometime in the past week or two, and I asked him, and I'm going to ask you the same thing, if he had seen this video, it seems like Marya Madelson is at some Jewish conference every three days or something, and she's up on stage being interviewed by somebody, And this question was, what they were trying to do was get the audience, which is, of course, all sympathizers, to get more involved. And they were holding Miriam Adelson up as, you know, the exemplar of getting involved. And what he was trying to say was, obviously you've written big checks, but there's more to it than just writing checks. Like you've built relationships with people. And then he said, so I'd like you to share with our audience, how is it that you come to have influence over? American politicians.
Starting point is 00:31:39 And her answer, Scott, was, is it all right if I don't answer? She said, I'd like to be truthful, but there's some things I prefer not to say. Now, and I said to Daniel, could you imagine an answer more design to encourage conspiracy theories than that answer? So then Dave Smith texts me and says,
Starting point is 00:31:58 where did you, I have to see this video. Where did you get this clip of Mary Madison? So I sent him the link. But, I mean, so it's, So she's written an unbelievably large checks. She and her husband when he was alive.
Starting point is 00:32:12 And then she goes and gives answers like this. And then we have that clip of Trump asking her if she prefers Israel or the United States. She doesn't like answering questions, Scott. She doesn't like answering them. I know. Yep. It's just as blatant as can be.
Starting point is 00:32:27 And we all know the answer is bribes and blackmail. That's it, you know? And hell, as Snowden revealed, although the New York Times of Washington Post never ran it, It is in the Guardian under Greenwald's byline that the National Security Agency gives their entire hall to the Israelis every day. Everything they intercept,
Starting point is 00:32:47 which is virtually everything in the world, they turn over to the Israelis. So like my old bumper sticker I used to sell was the National Security Agency, blackmailing your congressman since 1952. That goes to the Israelis as well. Everything that they have on your congressman, they give to the Israelis.
Starting point is 00:33:06 the Israelis have on all of us. So, you know, as I was saying to Rogan in that interview, that, you know, if you were the Israeli regime, then you have one priority that outranks every other priority by a million, which is keeping America in line, keeping America available, keeping America compliant and America's political system under control. There's nothing else that matters to them. Without that, they're completely screwed.
Starting point is 00:33:36 At the very least, it's their greatest insurance policy. And it's much more important even than their relationship with the European states or anybody else. And so we can, but that means it's on us to tell them, no, screw you, man. This is our country, not yours. Right. Right. I want to mention something that our friend Clint Russell speculated on. I mean, we can't prove it, but he certainly made me think. So a couple of days ago there was some dumb, I mean, it turned out to be nothing.
Starting point is 00:34:09 There's some scandal involving Massey and then you look at it. It's sad. There's nothing that it is especially. Yeah, talk about that, please, would you? Yeah. So the gist of it was he was, you know, he was with some woman and she's claiming that because she broke up with him, he worked to get her fired from her congressional job. But she's speaking out of both sides of her mouth and the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
Starting point is 00:34:34 congressional office that's involved said she had a 90-day probationary position we didn't renew it and we didn't renew it because of concerning behavior on her part which is a diplomatic way of saying she's crazy basically so it was it was stuff like this and so anyway so what we know now is that the the woman's friend whom she mentioned by name in her quote-unquote deposition has come out and said well look i kind of know about the circumstances here and her whole exaggerated story about Massey paying her hush money and whatever is all nonsense. Massey gave her some money to help her with X, Y, and Z had nothing to do with any of this. She was complaining about the congressional office she was working in long before any of this stuff with Massey. So that
Starting point is 00:35:19 has nothing to do with anything. And this is her own friend. This all happening one week before the election seemed a little suspicious to me. So it's just one thing after another. It turned out to be basically no big deal at all. But when it hit, all we heard was girlfriend, hush money, you know, so it was demoralizing to his base temporarily. And so what happened was,
Starting point is 00:35:40 if you looked on the betting markets, all of a sudden, you got Massey's line here, probability of winning, and it goes vertically downward, just straight down. Right. And so people like Dinesh DeSuzza
Starting point is 00:35:54 took like a screenshot of that and tweeted that out and said, I don't know if the charges are true, but I know that Massey's chances are tanking. Well, come to find out, Dinesh was paid to post that. And it became a big scandal on Twitter that Dinesh was paid to post that. I can assure you, you can pay me anything you want. I'll just pocket the money and do what I was going to do anyway.
Starting point is 00:36:17 You know, like I would never post something because somebody told me to say it. So there's been a scandal about that. When you can bet what was going on on those betting markets, too, was that the Zionist. Well, this is Clint's thing. Money, right? Yeah. is that a whole lot of money went into those betting markets at that moment to produce that result, to have the demoralizing effect. But the thing is, for that to continue, that's a big financial commitment.
Starting point is 00:36:45 You'd have to really keep that going. And so now the betting markets have stabilized again, and they have Massey having a greater chance of winning than losing. But so Clint's theory was that they did this as an op against, and you know, not so much to turn people. who were pro-massy into anti-Massie people because the story wasn't strong enough for that. It wasn't scandalous enough, but it was enough to confuse and demoralize people temporarily
Starting point is 00:37:11 and then capitalize on that. I mean, it's, it is unbelievable these people are capable of. And then to watch the MAGA people whose own president has been subjected to crazy wild accusations by crazy people, you know, they,
Starting point is 00:37:30 they pretend like, like, well, this must be a big scandal. And we have to take everything with the utmost seriousness and not be the least suspicious and take everything at face value. Are you the same people who look the other way at all these other things from Trump? You know, and by the way, I agree with them. Those things were, I don't believe Trump raped somebody in the bathroom at Bergdorfs. One of the wealthiest people in the world and he wants to have sex in a bathroom at Bergdorfs.
Starting point is 00:37:59 I'm sorry, I don't believe it. I'm sorry, I don't believe that. That doesn't have the ring of truth to it at all. But, you know, and I'm not the biggest fan of Trump. But I look at that and I say that's probably a hit job. But they won't show that same courtesy to Massey. Even though Massey defended Trump through two impeachments and on the January 6th stuff, he never fell for any of that either.
Starting point is 00:38:20 So it only goes one way with this guy. Yep. Yep, exactly. Loyalty to him is always demanded, never return. Yeah. And look, we all know what they're pissed off about. Because he's against foreign aid Israel, and he pushed to release the Epstein files. Right.
Starting point is 00:38:35 It's not because, yeah, they're not worried about his position on farm subsidies. You know, any other position they disagree with them on, they would overlook that in a heartbeat. I mean, the fact that Trump was even saying to Federman, the senator from Pennsylvania, that I'll endorse you like crazy if you become a Republican, it goes to show everything's negotiable except Israel. Because Federman is terrible on everything, and they would accept it all. Yep. Well, I still think Massey's going to win, man. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:39:05 I do too. I mean, knock on wood, I do too. But it's close enough that you can't be complacent. And then today Alex Jones tweeted out, well, now Massey's got a 28-point lead. And what he means is that the prediction markets are way up in Massey's favor. He does not have a 28-point lead. And we have to make sure we're not saying stuff like that because then it'll sound like, oh, he's going to run away with it.
Starting point is 00:39:30 I guess we don't need to work. We're not out of the woods on this. We have to fight this thing. So I actually corrected Alex Jones on Twitter and said, you have to clarify this. Don't go around saying he has a 28. He's not going to win by 28 points. I mean, there'd be nothing better than that, Scott.
Starting point is 00:39:46 That's part of how Hillary Clinton lost was telling everybody it's so in the bag. You don't even need to bother voting because someone else is going to do it for you. Yeah. No, you have to act as if it's the left. And by the way, the left is usually pretty good on this. information carefully. But, I mean, really, the left is really good on this, like in terms of fundraising. They always act as if, you know, we're one year away from the Nazi party taken over and the Ku Klux Klan coming back and whatever.
Starting point is 00:40:14 And meanwhile, they've won every major cultural battle for the past 50 years and they portray it as, you know, whereas the Republicans are just the opposite. You know, like Republican radio hosts write books about why we're winning when actually you're getting routed in every turn. right all right man let's do some super chats all right let's do that
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Starting point is 00:41:13 So help support my coffee dealer, Phil Pepin and his great coffee company, Moondos, artisan coffees, go to Scott Horton.org slash coffee. And then also next week, I am going to the Libertarian Party National Convention. and I'll be given a couple of speeches, but one of them is going to be on Sunday and is going to have me, and I'm not sure if this is the best flyer of a post or not, is going to be me, Dan McKnight, Aaron Day,
Starting point is 00:41:38 and who else is on there? That's I say. Oh, and Garland Nixon, that's interesting. But more importantly, Joe Kent is going to be headlining our event. Oh, okay, that's good. Machine, yeah, Joe Kent, formerly the head of counterterrorism in the second Trump term, who resigned over the Iran War, is going to be there.
Starting point is 00:41:56 And so that is the dang old. In Grand Rapids, Michigan is where it is. And that is starting next Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And especially, you know, Mises caucus delegates, but all kinds of delegates, especially, you know, isolationist ones on foreign policy. If you got nominated to go or named a delegate to go to the convention, please show up because there's going to be a big fight over the International Association of Libertarian parties, which is run by a guy directly connected.
Starting point is 00:42:26 to the National Democratic Institute and the gross revolutionaries in Georgia and you can't make this stuff up. So you got the right wing of the Soros movement, I guess, the libertarian wing of the George Soros regime change industry trying to infiltrate the goddamn libertarian party. So everybody who's going to not allow that to happen
Starting point is 00:42:44 needs to show up and make sure that that does not happen. So thank you for your attention to this matter. We will see you there. And so now, yeah, the super chats, man. We got a bunch of them. Lots of people said nice things about me on Rogan. Thank you, everybody. Appreciate that very much.
Starting point is 00:43:01 This guy says, Darrell vote Andy Briner for your U.S. Congress seat. Well, Darrell ain't here, and I don't know who that is, but maybe he's a decent guy up there in Idaho somewhere. Eden and Scott, Tom, hope you're doing well. I'm visiting Rothbard's grave tomorrow, says Mike libertarian.
Starting point is 00:43:17 Wow. Well, that is very nice. I've never done that. Interesting. I've walked by his apartment building in Manhattan, which is on 88th Street and Broadway, by the way. Oh, yeah, you showed me that, right? And I showed Keith Knight that.
Starting point is 00:43:33 Oh, right, right, right. Yeah, I pulled him away from a conference to go down like 10 blocks and say, that's where Rothbard lived. Oh, right, right, right. Yeah. So, let's see. Michael says he saw the Rogan appearance and it was good. He says,
Starting point is 00:43:49 Horan out for the fallen Dr. Pepper that lost its life on the Rogan episode. It was just a little bit. The can was almost empty. I should have it over by my right hand, though. That's how I usually do is... Live and Learn. Yep. And then let's see.
Starting point is 00:44:03 Northern Maine. Longtime anti-war supporter, Marta Maid subscriber and Tom Woods listener. Thank you, sir, for the $10 there. Tom sound is much lower. Well, we fixed that, I think. Here we go. Now we just need to Scott back for that OKC discussion.
Starting point is 00:44:19 This is Patrick Pillow there, Libertarian Overwatch. I agree with that. congratulations from Eskimo Joe. Thank you, sir. And let's see. There's like things. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:44:33 Can I say, while you're taking a drink, can I tell you something? I sent an email to one of my mailing lists today, and it was subject line was Scott Horton on Joe Rogan. I knew that would get people open. And I said, it finally happened. We've been waiting for years. Scott was on there. And then I said, the listeners of that show,
Starting point is 00:44:49 we're going to get two and a half hours of Scott Horton. but you are going to get a full week of Scott Horton if you come on the cruise because Scott's coming with me. There you go. That's not a bad transition in that email. That's some pretty good marketing on your part. I feel my book sales are doing. Maybe they'll reflect my great success on the YouTube tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:45:12 All right. So let's see. This guy says, Scott, please have, oh, this was the 9-11 one. Yeah, we saw that. This one said, have any advice on how to get Austin Padget to agree to accept and obey with me? I want to crystal that clown after accusing Paul of Israel's. You know, this is just, I think that that guy is best ignored. He's most well known for being married to a lady who accomplished something.
Starting point is 00:45:40 I don't know why anyone should have to suffer listening to him. Yeah, I don't think it does any good, just ignore. Yeah, yeah, I have no attention to us. Our latest Barras poll has the race at 50.6 to 49.4. Oi, in favor of Massey. That could be a better spread. But turnout will decide the race. The youth will carry Massey.
Starting point is 00:46:02 It's going to be close. Yeah, but that scares me. The youth will carry Massey. They said that about other candidates, too, and the youth were going to carry Bernie Sanders. The youth get drunk and don't show up is the problem. Whereas the boomers are going to vote if it is the last thing they do. Yep.
Starting point is 00:46:18 It's funny because the boomers, weren't they supposed to be hippies? But man, they're so... I wish if they were just hippies, they'd drop out and leave us alone. I know. Seriously, go out to the farm and reconnect with nature. Well, I can see this comment,
Starting point is 00:46:33 and I appreciate it. It's a nice word of thanks to you and me. Very nice, very nice. Thank you. Yes. It was about how me and you both been like this for a long time. Yeah, which we have.
Starting point is 00:46:45 So, okay, well, that's all the ones who are willing to pay. Oh, here's one more. lads can a true alliance be made with Russia even with POTUS gung-ho yet all the think tanks having the idea preferring volcanization theft well I would not suggest
Starting point is 00:46:57 that we should have any kind of alliance with anybody and particularly the Russians I guess we don't need to take their side but we should definitely be backing off and trying to get along as best as possible I think the all the claims about Russian revanchism are overblown
Starting point is 00:47:15 I say that right that's how I hear it said Yeah, I mean, as Victoria Newland admitted, like, eh, actually turns out Russia's kind of a paper tiger. Look how much trouble they're having just taking eastern Ukraine. They're not even talking about taking Western Ukraine, much less. Oh, then they're marching to Romania and Poland and Germany and France. Come at. They're not doing none of that.
Starting point is 00:47:38 So even Victoria Newland can dismiss the danger of Russian military power after all, then I think we can agree with that since it confirms our bias in this case. if you guys get the Hanta virus on the cruise, Tim Dillon will have Pete Hegseth blow you up. That is probably a real danger. We should look out for that. Which, by the way, I'm no doctorateician or anything, but I thought that you only can get hanta virus
Starting point is 00:48:03 if a rat pisses on your coat can or something rather than getting it, you know, passing it between people, right? Or not? I haven't looked into it at all. I refuse. I refuse to know anything about this. It's my attitude this time around. I didn't look at it this time.
Starting point is 00:48:19 I only know that from before. They were like, yeah, this lady died and they couldn't figure out what happened. It turned out a rat had pissed on her Coke can. She was out at the lake, enjoying a nice Coca-Cola classic and the sunshine with her family. It turned out had this terrible virus on it.
Starting point is 00:48:34 And I was like, God dang, I hope. You know, I always, like, spit on the top of my Coke can and kind of wipe it down a little bit ever since then. But that was a long time ago. So I don't know if that actually helps kill viruses. probably, but you know, I don't know. Well, you got... What's your favorite...
Starting point is 00:48:52 Oh, man, we still got 10 minutes left. Give me, give me. But... Well, while we're waiting for that, when you look back on, you know, obviously you've had like high profile appearances, high profile debates, sometimes you've just been on a panel on Pierce Morgan
Starting point is 00:49:07 and you're up against several different people. Is there any one of these that stands out to you that you're just so proud of and satisfied with and you really, really nailed it and you got your opinion out there, and maybe you smashed a bad guy in the process. Is there one that really stands out? Yeah, I mean, I guess the Bill Crystal
Starting point is 00:49:24 what is the big one? Yeah. And everybody cheered for me and all that stuff. Yeah. The, I like the Wesley Clark ones, because he's just got nothing. He represents basically the best of the war party. And it's no good.
Starting point is 00:49:37 And he treats you with respect when he speaks to you. He doesn't, he doesn't, he's not contemptuous toward you. Yeah. The one I kind of. regret is the Neil Ferguson just because I hate that son of a bitch so much. And your contempt for him was so obvious. And I knew that that was going to happen. And in fact, I think I'd just been arguing with some horrible SOB on Twitter about something. And so before I went on with Neil Ferguson, I called a friend and sat there and smoked a bowl of weed and tried to chill out a little bit. Hey, buddy,
Starting point is 00:50:09 I'm about to go on and debate this horrible guy. And I'm in a really bad mood. So I'm trying to like, I'm just going to chill out a little bit here and talk to my friend for a second before. I do. And then didn't help. Didn't help. And like on my first answer, the moderator interrupted me after I made one point. He's like, so what is your case? I made one point. He goes, okay, let's stop right there and let
Starting point is 00:50:31 Neil Ferguson talk now. And then he immediately goes, oh, these are Russian talking points. I just want to smack his stupid bitch face. And then so I just acted like that immediately. But like, yeah, dude, I can hate Neil Ferguson. He should have died in the Iraq war in a horrible, bloody death and didn't, unfortunately, and is still here.
Starting point is 00:50:51 But I could have handled that better, but I still completely beat his ass. He had no facts, and I destroyed him, even though it was two-on-one with his pathetic Hoover Institution pal trying to jump in and save him. The whole time I'm talking, the moderator's going, uh, uh, but, uh, uh, uh, uh, trying to just stop me from winning, which I did anyway. Fucking punk, bitch. I pushed that Neil Ferguson right down the stairs if I ever, on. It would be hilarious.
Starting point is 00:51:20 But yeah, so they probably shouldn't have put me in a debate with them. But anyway, yeah, the rest of them are basically the same. You know, it's, you know, it's just like in your intro, man. They got this three by five index card of allowable opinion. And everybody who's part of the discussion already agrees on all those facts. I just go in and say, well, that's not true. And then I bring up other things. John Bolton says, well, we should arm Baluki dissidents.
Starting point is 00:51:45 And I go, yeah, but he means Jundala, the same guys have Barack Obama back that did the head shoppings and the suicide bombings back in 2012 or whatever. And then so I get to ruin their little presuppositions because I actually already know more about it than they do. And so that's how I usually get. So the significance of having you and also having Dave on big shows
Starting point is 00:52:10 is that without you guys, that perspective does. not appear. It's the debate still, even in 2026, is still basically taking place in a very narrow range. And you, in the tradition of Ron Paul, show up and refuse to play by those rules. And you say, well, what about this? You've left out this entire possibility. What if we thought about it this way? And the way that you then proceed to argue is to give evidence that the interventions in the past have been disastrous and that everything that they're confidently pronouncing now has either been tried or would be a catastrophe or is based on half
Starting point is 00:52:51 truths or whatever, no one else is going to do that. And so I consider it, like if somebody says, you know, I don't like Dave Smith as a commentator, I immediately think, well, this person doesn't understand anything. You know, you should, you should be cheering for Dave because without Dave, there is, this side's not represented. And like Pierce Morgan likes Dave because, yes, he's quick on his feet, and he brings numbers, but also because without Dave or Scott Horton, frankly, this perspective is absent. And I'm really glad that finally because of the decentralization of media, we actually have a chance to have, and we force these people to acknowledge our existence and acknowledge the existence of a way of thinking that they would like to pretend is not there, but it is there.
Starting point is 00:53:41 Yep. In fact, I'm real grateful for Pierce Morgan for that, for giving me out, to get on there in that way. Yeah, he was very gracious. He was, I think he was genuinely happy to meet you in person in London. And look, you know, as I was saying to Joe Rogan on the show, that back into W. Bush or the Obama years,
Starting point is 00:54:01 the idea that we would be allowed to be on CNN and debate with these guys in a place where it really matters was just unheard of. But we can go on here before. And his show is bigger than any CNN show or whatever. So it's equivalent and then something to being allowed on TV. And like John Bolton, I should have said this on Pierce Morgan, that the young Americans for Liberty asked
Starting point is 00:54:19 John Bolton to debate me years ago, and his people responded with, John Bolton will not be debating Scott Horton. And so I should have said, ha, yeah, because he's afraid of me, because I'll whip his ass up and down in front of everybody like I'm about to do right now after he's done, and it's our turn to talk. And then what I do, we sat there three or four different points of things that John Bolton said, I got to pick on him for it. Now, he hasn't a solution. He hasn't a solution for how to solve this problem. He talks about arming these dissident groups, but he's talking about Kurdish communists and Baluki suicide bombers and all these things. Like whatever, he can't withstand this kind of scrutiny. And so somehow, you know, it's not equivalent. He was the national
Starting point is 00:55:02 security advisor. He was the deputy secretary of state for arms control and prevention and whatever. So it's not that I'm his peer. He's like from AEI or whatever, but I'm peer enough that I can be right after him on Pierce Morgan show and contradict all the things that he said. And so that is a new invention in American media or British whatever media. And it is effective.
Starting point is 00:55:26 I mean, this was the same dynamic that we would see on the Kennedy show. And I really am sorry that I got her fired. I'm sure it was my fault because I would cross the line and say stuff that was a little too much for Fox business. But when she would have us on there,
Starting point is 00:55:39 be me or Dave or Spike Cohen oftentimes, even Hannah Cox and some of those other libertarians. Like whenever there's a libertarian on that show versus the Democratic consultant and the Republican consultant, we'd just destroy them, right? Like they'd have Corey, what's his name, the school choice guy. Oh, DeAngelis. DeAngelis, yes, yes, of course.
Starting point is 00:56:02 Good guy. I'm sorry, Corey. Forgive me for spacing on your name. Or like any of us, anytime we'd be on there, watch Spike Cohen on there versus anyone. And he just completely destroys him. Dave Smith too or me or whoever. Because we just have that advantage. We just know so much more about it.
Starting point is 00:56:17 We care so much more about it. We already thought so hard about how both sides are wrong. So oftentimes then we can make like a funny quip about how, well, at least you're not as wrong as that guy about this same thing or whatever kind of thing, you know, about the contradictions and all that. So yeah, I think if we have the platform, it should be advantage us. And, you know, like if Mike Baker wanted to debate me on the Joe Rogan show or something like that, I'd be happy to do that. I think I'd be just fine. You know, like former foreign policy guy,
Starting point is 00:56:46 meet new foreign policy guy. And let's see, you know, comes down to it at the part where he resorts to, no, they just hate us. Well, I got more answers than that. I don't have to stop it a cliche. I got extra things I read. So, well, that thing about Bolton not being willing to debate you kind of brings us full circle because one of the distinguishing features of Ed Galrine is his refusal to debate Thomas Massey. Right. And when you add, you. ask him about that in person because he finally, I think it was starting to be an embarrassment that he was running a Biden in the basement campaign. So he started to have a few public events, but it's like 11 silver hairs show up and that's it. But people would ask him, why won't you
Starting point is 00:57:28 debate Massey? And his answer, I'm not kidding. His answer is, well, I'm debating him right now. Yeah, but see, we don't mean like in a cutesy weird way. We mean like he's here, you're there, and you guys are answering the same questions, you know? So he won't do that. And, So what's interesting is all these people attacking Massey on Twitter, almost none of them even mentioned Gall-Rine's name because they know it's embarrassing. Because they know the strategy was we're going to hide this guy away. We're going to be as ambiguous about his positions as possible. We're definitely not going to debate.
Starting point is 00:57:59 And we're just going to let the millions of dollars do their work and see if that does the trick. And I mean, I don't care who you are. You have to know that is a pussy way of running a campaign. And it's embarrassing. And so they don't even mention his name. They don't even mention his name. They just don't like Massey. Yeah, well, who's your guy?
Starting point is 00:58:16 Tell me about your guy. You know, the guy who doesn't even have a hundred Kentucky donors, you know, tell me about your guy. Yeah. And, you know, they could try to hype up. Well, he was a ranger or whatever, but they don't even really try to push that stuff. I guess he just doesn't. Yeah, I don't know what.
Starting point is 00:58:31 It does. I mean, he was a Navy SEAL. I mean, they have that. He was. I thought he's a Ranger. Yeah, he's a Navy SEAL. But, I mean, yeah. I mean, but once you say that, then you realize he got nothing left.
Starting point is 00:58:41 Yeah, tar you guys with him. All right, more Super Chats. What do you call a Federation flagship with no Clingon Bridge officer? Completely worthless. Boo. Oh, later. That was for you.
Starting point is 00:58:55 Let's see. This guy says, nice guy, I still have those five provoked books. You sent me for free. Was that just a mistake? Because you ordered one pre-order and then I just couldn't stop sending them to you
Starting point is 00:59:05 out of duplication things. We'll drop them off at your local libraries. People need those, man. Okay, here we go. This one's more for you, I think, Tom. One of the most essential, less known Rothbard and Hoppa books you'll recommend. I've got...
Starting point is 00:59:19 Okay, well, if you have 17 of them already, chances are you going to have the ones that I recommend? Well, the way that's good. I know of Rothbard that was kind of... The latest publication by him was... The... Oh, God. Now, I can't think of it.
Starting point is 00:59:36 The one with the glasses on the front, that was his essays that he wrote for that San Francisco paper or something? Oh, I know what you mean. Was it what he wrote for the Rothbard-Rockwell Report? I don't think so. The Rothbard-Rock-L report essays of... A good time had-by-all or some kind of thing. What was it called, dude?
Starting point is 00:59:52 Okay, I don't know that one. That was not... But I'll say... You'll find it. You say something. All right, so I'll talk a little bit. So the case against the Fed is a great book title, but I don't think it's that strong of a book
Starting point is 01:00:06 compared to his lesser-known book, The Mystery of Banking. I think the mystery of banking is a better, more thorough book. You'll understand it better. The case against the Fed is so short, I think he wanted to do a short little overview, but I think it suffers for being so short in that particular case. So I do like the mystery of banking. I like economic controversies because I also like the academic side of Rothbard,
Starting point is 01:00:30 not just the popular side, although I love that. But the academic side, economic controversies is a collection of his most important published scholarly articles. and what's interesting about them is they're refreshingly clearly written. You know, a lot of academic articles, shall we say, are, you know, clarity is not what they're known for, whereas you can read an academic article by Rothbard. And, you know, if you're reasonably educated, you can understand it without any real problem. So there's that. What did you want to go get?
Starting point is 01:00:59 Do you remember it? Oh. I'll talk about this one while I Google it. This one is fantastic. This is a little monograph. You can read the whole thing online. Oh, is it, I can't see it well. But is it the one about foreign policy and Wall Street and stuff?
Starting point is 01:01:14 Wall Street banks and American foreign policy. And Justin Ramondo wrote a forward to it, I think. Yeah, and I think it has, no, it has the introduction is by Anthony Gregory. And then the afterward is by Justin Ramon. Okay. I think. Okay. It's really great.
Starting point is 01:01:30 You know what it is? It's like the John Birch Society conspiracy theory history of the 20th century, the Morgans and the Rockefellers and the World Wars, only as Murray Rothbard instead of John McManus. But my understanding of that is that they found that. So it's like an extremely long essay that they published as a small book. Right. But they found that, I think, posthumously.
Starting point is 01:01:50 And it was in some investment newsletter he had written, you know, some small circulation investment newsletter. He writes this, you know, magisterial tract about Wall Street banks and American foreign policy in an investment newsletter where it's gone. It's forgotten. It's lost. no one's ever going to find it again.
Starting point is 01:02:08 So they pull it out and said, no, this needs to be published. People need to read this thing. He's incredible. Of course, there is the book, I wrote the introduction to it, the betrayal of the American right, which is semi-autobiographical
Starting point is 01:02:21 about his own intellectual trajectory, which is very worth reading because it's also kind of a history of the old right. So that's worth reading. That was a manuscript that had been around for decades and he'd been working on it, passing it around,
Starting point is 01:02:33 getting thoughts about it, and then finally it was published, not too terribly long after he died. And I had always wanted to read. I'd heard rumors that it existed. And then I got a chance to actually do the, you know, whatever little tiny edits and then write an introduction for it.
Starting point is 01:02:49 That was pretty good. I'm just kicking myself. I can't even find it on Amazon. The latest one, it's blue and it has just glasses on the front. I know the glasses. I do, but I can't think of that time. Because, again, it was after his death
Starting point is 01:03:03 and it's a collection, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. as a collection of lost essays. And it was only published like within the last, definitely within the last 10 years. Oh, no.
Starting point is 01:03:15 Classified. I'm trying to think of what. They just found it. Like, was strictly confidential. Strictly confidential. The Volker Fund memos. That is a great book. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:25 But that's different though. No, it's, it is different, but I'm glad we thought of it because you won't think to read this book. It's called strictly confidential. So when Rothbard was younger, the Volker Fund, which had, the Volker Fund paid
Starting point is 01:03:38 his salary when he was at NYU. So it was a bunch of businessmen who wanted to use some of their spare money to fund libertarian and Austrian economic thought. And one of the things they asked him to do was to write book reviews. Like, you know, new books come out,
Starting point is 01:03:53 you know, give us a critique. And he's got an essay in there about some American history book. And he goes on and on, and like I specialize in this material. And he is critiquing it on a level that I could, not dream of doing.
Starting point is 01:04:07 And it is an absolute pleasure to read. And these were not meant to be read by more than three or four people. And now you have a chance to read them. So the book is called Strictly Confidential, the William Folker Fund essays of Murray Rothbard, something like that. Yeah. Now for Hapa, obviously everybody reads Democracy, the God that failed. But the two books of his that I read first were the economics and ethics of private property and a theory of socialism and capitalism.
Starting point is 01:04:37 Those are not to be overlooked. Right. All right. So I got Eric answering me here. He says, yes, I had an intro by Justin. Is that right? Had an intro by Justin? See if he can remember the title of the dang thing.
Starting point is 01:04:47 It's driving me nuts. And I don't know what I did with it because I saw it when I was unpacking here and it should be in my Murray Rothbard section up there, which I have another kind of Murray Rothbard section here, don't I? All right. Next to my Tom Woods section, you can see. Right?
Starting point is 01:05:02 It's not one of these, though. I don't know what I do with it. Anyways, well, what the hell? Well, I'm making one last check. Are there any other questions? Oh, let's see here. What do we got? Ask Pierce Morgan if Winston Churchill was an anti-Semite.
Starting point is 01:05:18 I'll try to bring that up next time in the moment. Ryan McMakin was on Lotus Eaters the other day. I don't know what that is, but I like Ryan McMacon. This guy says he liked the appearance on the Tucker show. That was a lot of fun, man. Oh, yeah. Me and him are buds now. Neil Ferguson.
Starting point is 01:05:37 It's pronounced Neil. Yeah. Is nearly as ridiculous as his wife, and that is really saying something, considering how she's hardly even a human being, just a mascot, sort of a sock puppet of the anti-Islamic right in America. You need to demonize all Muslims
Starting point is 01:05:51 so they can justify Israel murdering some of them and stealing all their property. That's really embarrassing for them. Scott, regarding your comment, last week, never underestimate your efficiency. We should all aspire to end wars. It's worth it even if a single innocent life is safe. Well, thank you for that.
Starting point is 01:06:10 I try not to aim too high that way. I'm not disappointed, but I'm trying to, at least, as I was saying last week, at least show up, be a place where people can find the truth if they're looking for it. Did I see Gad sad the other day on... Joe Rogan, yes. Yes, I didn't know, but I saw Dave Smith's review of it
Starting point is 01:06:29 where he played some clips. and yeah, it was pretty ridiculous. He did, like, the former libertarian Walter Block tries to just, anytime you make any point about Israel killing people, they always just resort to some insane, you know, cliched analogy that makes no sense whatsoever. So like, okay, maybe the CIA overthrew the government of Iran and installed a fascist dictatorship.
Starting point is 01:06:55 Then, like, you're saying that that led to consequences? Well, that's like blaming big. very white for a guy who, you know, because people have sex and then have a baby and then that baby grows up to commit a crime. Yeah, okay. Zionism, man, you guys really suck at making arguments. I guess that's why you have to just murder people and steal their property and not even bother trying to argue your case. Well, I cast a magic spell. It says I can do whatever I want. Oh, okay. That's very impressive. The youth don't drink anymore, Tom. This guy says, I don't know what that's a reference to.
Starting point is 01:07:31 Well, yeah. There's data that shows that, like, weed use and alcohol use. That's the book. What? Mr. All-Captal letters guy? I couldn't find it. That is.
Starting point is 01:07:44 Well, I went to the Meesa's Institute's page of Rothbard books, and they didn't have it on there. Yeah, what's the deal? This guy says we're fucking nerds. There it is. Never a dull moment. A libertarian look at the 60s, and it's got glasses and a bow tie.
Starting point is 01:07:59 What did I say? a good time was had by all. Close enough. Something like that. I knew that was called. It should have been titled that. Oh, leave me alone. I would have been better.
Starting point is 01:08:10 Hell out of here. Thank you, Tom, for sitting in for Daryl. I had a great time, buddy. Yeah, it was great. My pleasure, Scott. Thanks for having me. All right, you guys. Hang tight and I'll click the outro.
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