The Liberty Blues Network

Liberty Blues Network

The Liberty Blues Network, hosted by Shawn Osborne, is your uncompromising source for bold libertarian ideas and no-holds-barred conversations that put individual liberty first. This network is home to three distinct shows: - **The Liberty Blues** — Hosted by Shawn Osborne with co-host Jon Phillips, featuring raw, in-depth interviews and discussions on core libertarian issues: criminal justice reform, non-interventionist foreign policy, ending the welfare-warfare state, sound money, free markets, and dismantling political coercion. Guests include liberty candidates, activists, and thinkers who stand firm on principle. - **Libertarian Los Angeles** — Shawn Osborne dives into grassroots libertarian activism, California politics, local policy battles, and strategies for advancing freedom in one of the most challenging environments for liberty. Expect panels, interviews, and updates focused on real-world movement-building. - **A Progressive and a Libertarian Walk into a Bar** — Civil, principled cross-ideological debates that defend libertarian values against progressive arguments, highlighting the flaws in statism while exploring any rare areas of overlap. If you're passionate about individual rights, voluntaryism, limited government, and rejecting the status quo, The Liberty Blues Network delivers the content you won't find in mainstream outlets. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe today, leave a 5-star rating and review to help spread the word, and share with fellow advocates of freedom. #TheLibertyBlues #LibertyBluesNetwork #Libertarian #LibertarianPodcast #IndividualLiberty #FreeMarkets #LimitedGovernment #NonAggression #Voluntaryism #EndTheState #LibertarianLosAngeles

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    Liberty Blues Ep.140 author Dave Freer

    Dave Freer is the author of some 25 novels and a lot of shorter works. He’s been a Dragon Awards finalist twice, a Hugo finalist, and won the 2023 Prometheus Award for his novel CLOUD-CASTLES, and the 2026 Libertarian Futurist Society Special Award for Young Adult fiction. After his conscript service in Medical Corps, he blundered into Ichthyology, became the Chief Scientist for the Commercial Shark Fishery in the Western Cape (South Africa), before going on to manage two large commercial fish farms, which he escaped from into writing SF/Fantasy, because he thought the spelling requirements were easier. Writing scientific papers and modelling had taught him everything he needed to know about fantasy, the fish-farms everything he needed to know about implausible disaster. The Science part he’s still working on. He now lives on a remote Island in the Bass Strait, between Tasmania and Australia. It has a weekly 10-hour ferry service, and a daily 16 seater plane service, a population of 0.2 per square mile, and is still not quite remote enough for anarchy to work, but as remote as he can be and still stay married. He lives a chaotic experiment in self-sufficiency, enjoying his hunter-gatherer diving, fishing and occasional rock-climbing. A contrarian by nature he likes to argue, but will do so logically and rationally, and sometimes changes his mind. He uses his writing to not so much prescribe, but to make his arguments and let the reader reach their own conclusions.

    Liberty Blues Ep.140 author Dave Freer
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The Liberty Blues Network, hosted by Shawn Osborne, is your uncompromising source for bold libertarian ideas and no-holds-barred conversations that put individual liberty first. This network is home to three distinct shows: - **The Liberty Blues** — Hosted by Shawn Osborne with co-host Jon Phillips, featuring raw, in-depth interviews and discussions on core libertarian issues: criminal justice reform, non-interventionist foreign policy, ending the welfare-warfare state, sound money, free markets, and dismantling political coercion. Guests include liberty candidates, activists, and thinkers who stand firm on principle. - **Libertarian Los Angeles** — Shawn Osborne dives into grassroots libertarian activism, California politics, local policy battles, and strategies for advancing freedom in one of the most challenging environments for liberty. Expect panels, interviews, and updates focused on real-world movement-building. - **A Progressive and a Libertarian Walk into a Bar** — Civil, principled cross-ideological debates that defend libertarian values against progressive arguments, highlighting the flaws in statism while exploring any rare areas of overlap. If you're passionate about individual rights, voluntaryism, limited government, and rejecting the status quo, The Liberty Blues Network delivers the content you won't find in mainstream outlets. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe today, leave a 5-star rating and review to help spread the word, and share with fellow advocates of freedom. #TheLibertyBlues #LibertyBluesNetwork #Libertarian #LibertarianPodcast #IndividualLiberty #FreeMarkets #LimitedGovernment #NonAggression #Voluntaryism #EndTheState #LibertarianLosAngeles