Malcolm

So Stef did a video not to long ago about Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip and his diagnosis with terminal brain cancer. If your a fan of the Hip or live in Canada, you've probably heard of the controversy surrounding the ticket scalping of the shows of the band's final tour. If you haven't heard, basically because of the popularity of the band and the huge rush to see their last shows, it is a perfect opportunity for ticket scalpers to buy up tickets and sell them for enormous profits. Some tickets are going around ten times their original price. This has caused a lot of anger from the fans towards scalpers, who couldn't get tickets for the show because they sold out in minute. Now they have to pay out the ear to scalpers if they want to go. I myself tried this morning to get tickets and they sold out within the first 20 minutes of the sale. The uproar of fans has cause headlines in Canada. http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/tragically-hip-fans-disappointed-as-concerts-sell-out-in-minutes-1.2929847 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tragically-hip-presale-tickets-sold-out-1.3607493 http://www.moneysense.ca/news/the-tragically-hip-tickets-scalped-heres-how-its-done/ A lot of people now are calling for the state to step in and "fix" the problem. This scares me. In Ontario ticket scalping was recently made legal. Now some people are talking about making it illegal again or bringing in price controls. In my frustration over the situation, even I have been a hard time trying to think of a solution to the controversy. Is there a free market solution to this issue? Is there even a problem to begin with? Is scalping tickets wrong? I'd love to hear anyones thoughts.

As much as I personally want Trump to win. It's gonna suck for me when a bunch of Hollywood liberals move to Canada because they're so incensed.

This would be a great policy if it were applied economically. Just saying. The Prime Directive is frustrating because it seems to imply all cultures are equal and some moral relativism. Making it seem incredibly leftist. Having a policy of pause, before jumping into foreign affairs does seem like a good idea though. Maybe it would have been nice it were adopted towards the middle east in the early 2000s. But the fact that it's portrayed as such a ridged and blanketed policy, makes it extremely problematic when it comes to dealing with the moral issues in the show. Which is why they always break it. Like most government policies, it doesn't seem to be well thought out.

In my experience, there has been only a couple of people in my life that I could share this show with, where they would actually listen. For the most part I knew they would like it in advance because I know they are the kind of people who are open to talking about philosophy, politics, and other tough subjects in a rational manner. Most people are closed off from even bringing up these subjects in conversation. Let alone diving into an hour long show that is going to challenge their beliefs and biases. And if you do try and talk about them, they lash out. Sadly, it seems so many people have been irreversibly indoctrinated by public schools and pop culture, into not questioning anything important. Leftism, nihilism, and anti-intellectualism seem to be very present in a lot of peoples minds. Therefore I'm hard pressed to even try with a lot of people. Unless I feel like agitating them. When I first started listening, I did not notice any verbal ticks or find Stef's voice irritating. I found him to be very easy to listen to. He's an excellent speaker. I think if you are someone who is close minded or unreceptive to the kind of things that are talked about on Freedomain radio, then you are going to find excuses not to listen. I guess this could be considered a symptom of a false self, but I'm no expert on that theory. I have had some difficulty with people who just didn't want to commit to hour long videos. This is one I can kind of understand. I tell them to listen to podcasts instead. I have had been surprised by a few people who got into the show and love it now, where I had no idea that they would like it. This has made our friendships all the better.

Milo Yiannopoulos on would be just too fun for me, if he came on the show. Having Roger Stone back on would be great too. I do love the random guests that aren't well known though. It might be cool to have on some more historians to come on as well. I really like the history videos.

The whole thing is really disappointing for me too. I used to really like Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder, but since the Trump phenomenon started, a lot of conservative personalities started to show there irrationalities and emotional biases. It's very perplexing since conservatives typically are very aware of the Left's irrationalities, fallacies, miss information, and bias in the media. But since Trump came around, a lot of them have been pulling the same crap. I stopped listening to Crowder when I heard him regurgitate the myth of "Trump could have made more money by just investing the money he got from his Dad, instead of starting his business with it." And this whole Michelle Fields thing with Shapiro, White Knitting to the rescue has basically made him a right off for me too. These are people who obviously know how to fact check. Also especially know not believe what you hear in the media. But when it fits their anti Trump narrative they just accept it as true and move on. There has been a huge riff in the right wing community since this election started. As someone who would have identified or at least sympathized with conservatives in the past, it's very sad and has forced me to rethink a lot of things...