Fountainhead Forum

Todd Wood is a journalist with Creative Destruction Media. He has traveled to Russia, Ukraine, and other nearby countries. He is also the author of four novels. We talk about the war between Russia and Ukraine. This video was censored on Youtube, so it is not there. https://creativedestructionmedia.com/ https://ltoddwood.com/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B006O2QAUW

Douglas Tuman is on the Monero Talk podcast. He talks about how and why Monero is more private than Bitcoin. He also discusses his upcoming conference Monertopia.

Tone Vays began his career in finance and has worked as a professional trader. He worked with Bear Stearns when the company went out of business. He has been part of the Bitcoin community since 2013. He also runs a conference called Unconfiscatable. He also talks about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has family in both countries. https://unconfiscatable.com/ https://tonevays.com/ https://thefinancialsummit.com/ This is not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice.

Brandon Jones has the Be Dadly podcast. He is the father of two sons and a certified parenting coach. He talks about raising boys with positive parenting. https://www.bedadly.com/

Joshua Rodriguez is running for President. He is seeking the nomination of the Libertarian Party in 2024.

Mathew Crawford has worked in finance and has been involved with cryptocurrency since 2017. He has some interesting insights into the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. He also has many insights into what is wrong with the class of intellectual elites, who have created so many problems in the world. https://roundingtheearth.substack.com https://rumble.com/c/RoundingTheEarth

Juan Galt has written for _Bitcoin_ magazine and has been working with Bitcoin for a decade. We talk about pre-mining and how to recognize cryptocurrency scams from legitimate projects. We discuss proof of work as opposed to proof of stake. We discuss his doubts about Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency in the world, and Monero, the privacy coin.

Larry Bowen had a long career in the US Navy. In his second year in the Navy, he was aboard the spy ship, _USS Liberty_. On 8 June 1967, Israel attacked the ship for reasons which are still not known. Larry tells the story of how the administration of Lyndon Johnson worked to cover up the attack. He tells the story of how fighter planes were sent out to help the _USS Liberty_ and that the planes were ordered to return on two separate occasions. He also tells the story of how the survivors of the attack were ordered to say nothing about it. Larry also tells the story of his own life and the lives of his shipmates since the attack.

Gor Badalyan founded the Ayn Rand Center Armenia. We discuss Armenia's long history. We discussed their not-so-friendly relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan. We talk about prospects for peace in the Caucasus region.

L.B. Muñiz does the Been Awake podcast. He has been involved with the libertarian movement and is currently considering "post-libertarianism." We also discussed James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, Andrew Tate, and the mission drift of organizations. This was recorded several days before O'Keefe's resignation from Project Veritas.

Tatiana Moroz is a libertarian musician who also works on cryptocurrency projects. She discusses both things in this discussion. You can find more about her music at: https://www.tatianamoroz.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@UCmkxu_0z2sWXqqQ1iSwI6Qw Her latest album is called _Love Songs for Idiots_. This is her sixth album. She is involved with cryptocurrency. Go here: https://tokenly.com/

Irakli Iagorashvili is the founder of Ayn Rand Center Georgia. We talked about the history of Sakartvelo (Georgia) and how the nation has advanced since the end of the Soviet Union.

Bill Hill is a Bitcoin advocate living in Boracay in the Philippines. He has helped many businesses in that area to adopt and use Bitcoin with the Pouch application. We also discussed the future of Bitcoin around the world and life as an American expat in the Philippines. https://pouch.ph https://pouch.ph/retreat2023

Vinny Eastwood talks about the horrible reign of Jacinda Ardern as prime minister of New Zealand. He discusses her war on gun rights, free speech, and civilization in general. He also discusses the overall corruption of the country. https://www.thevinnyeastwoodshow.com/

Ezra Wyrick is a teenager working for the Liberty Youth Coalition and editor of _Mises_ magazine. He talks about teen life during covid hysteria and how his generation views politics. He also discusses growing up with access to smartphones and social media. Liberty Youth Coalition https://libertylyceum.com/

Michael Badnarik (1954-2022) was a software enginner and ran for President on the ticket of the Libertarian Party in 2004.

Marc Tancer is the owner of Taggart Trading, a firm which trades in coins and precious metals. He also interned at the Foundation for Economic Education and the Institute for Humane Studies. He was elected to the Board of Supervisors of the Palm Beach Soil and Water Conservation District. He has been active with the Libertarian Party of Florida since he moved there. We also talk about Ron DeSantis. https://southfloridabullion.com/

Justin Vacula has two podcasts--Hurdy Gurdy Travel and Stoic Solutions. We discuss the following topics: Andrew Tate and his non-stoicism How many husbands will Mikhaila (daughter of Jordan) have? making money playing Poker using credit card offers for cheap travel and other benefits stoic philosophy and its application to life Marcus Aurelius and other stoics https://justinvacula.com/ https://hurdygurdytravel.com/

This panel is a tribute to the life of Steve Kubby (1946-2022). Steve was an activist for marijuana and played an important role in drafting California Proposition 215. He was a cancer patient in his early 20's. and used medical marijuana to stay healthy. He ran for Governor of California in 1998 and for President of the United States in 2008. https://kubby.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kubby

Jennings Wright is a world traveler and sailor who has visited over 60 countries. She world-schooled her children and works with her anti-poverty organization in Uganda. She shares her opinions on poverty in Africa and where she thinks the world is headed. https://10eighteen.org/

Roslyn Ross was introduced to Ayn Rand's novels by the actress Cheryl Ladd as a teenager. She is the daughter of hippies who went to a boarding school on an academic scholarship. She was successful there and moved on to Wesleyan College. She discusses her experiences of going to school with spoiled brats. A mother of three, she also discusses raising children and having a family, in spite of what she was told by her parents and Ayn Rand. Finally, she discusses having a farm and life as an expat.

Courtenay Turner is a personal trainer. She has been visually impaired and hearing impaired for most of her life. She also does the Courtenay Turner Podcast Truth Sleuths.

Vickie Karp has been an activist for election integrity after having questions about the Presidential election of 2000 and 2004. She stresses that election integrity should never be a partisan issue. She believes that hand-counted paper ballots are the only way to go. We also discuss more recent elections, including Brazil.

Tania Rak is a Ukrainian who is currently in Warsaw, Poland. She talks about Ukrainian history under the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and the Russian Empire. She also discusses more recent Ukrainian history as well as the current situation in Ukraine.

Jesse Walker has been on staff at _Reason_ magazine for over 20 years. He also worked for _Liberty_ magazine. He has written two books during his career. _Rebels on the Air_ is about pirate radio. _The United States of Paranoia_ is a history of conspiracy theories. Jesse is also a movie buff and worked in radio in college. He is "the most colorful libertarian I know." He is on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Walker He is on Blogspot here: https://jessewalker.blogspot.com/ His page at _Reason_ is here: https://reason.com/people/jesse-walker/