So Much Controversy, So Little Laughing - Cooper, Walsh, Chapelle Reactions | Hn 292

Adam Haman (0:07)

Hey, Adam. So, you were asking what we were going to talk about this week, and I thought that I dug down deep into Darryl Cooper's history, and I found him in a school play as a kid, and he was really embarrassing. And then I also found him leaving a drunken voicemail to a girl he was seeing in college, and I thought we could play all of that and just dissect it and make fun of him and call him a dweeb or something.

Bob Murphy (0:32)

Okay. I think 18 people will enjoy that very much.

Adam Haman (0:36)

I can't be possibly telling the truth. Bob, what are we talking about this week?

Bob Murphy (0:40)

We got a lot of stuff that we're talking about today, folks. We're going to cover a quick post script on the Darryl Cooper stuff, and then we're going to cover the Dave Chappelle controversy, and then we've got clips from some would-be libertarians leaving their most un-libertarian view, and we're going to shortle.

Adam Haman (1:01)

So-called.

Fake. Doppelgangers. Yes.

Bob Murphy (1:08)

Okay. So, a lot of material for you, folks. So off the bat here, from last week, I was reflecting upon our episode, and I do relisten to the episodes that I did with Adam, folks, and I find them quite enjoyable. And usually, this is, I'm not even kidding, a lot of times, like, oh, Adam was making a good point there, but like, I was trying to think of the way I was going to phrase the next, I'm like the obnoxious guy in the conversation who isn't listening to you. I'm just waiting for my turn to talk. So that's often. But then I go back and listen. So imagine if that guy recorded everything and then went home later and played and said, oh, that guy was making a good point. So, anyway, two things, folks. One on the issue of, hey, there's areas like, oh, the police don't even go to that part of town, and the residents there asked them if they like the anarchy. Am I right?

And so we had made the point about, well, no.

If it were true that the police literally didn't go there, then, for example, there wouldn't be any drive-by drug shootings because some enterprising person would just set up a storefront with bulletproof glass and checkpoints and da-da-da-da. And, of course, the reason that doesn't happen, and hence why drug deals do still have to happen in dark alleys and things like that, and parking garages, is that if somebody tried to set up something like that, the local church pastor would complain and the police would shut it down. Right? So that's what or, you know, businesses pay like large scale Home Depot over just paying people less than the minimum wage. Why don't they do that? Because they would get in trouble, they get fined, right? Even if it's in a bad neighborhood where the police don't typically go, right? So things like that. But then I thought of even more obvious one that's not as esoteric as, you know, citing companies hiring Rothbardian defense agencies or something is just your, your job is anything where you work from home, you just need an internet connection. If there were really areas in the United States where you could go, and you know, the police will not go there under any circumstances, you would just relocate there and then you'd never pay taxes. You know, you could still travel around, it's just, you know, but and you realize we because what would happen? It's like anyone's going to come arrest you, right? So for all these reasons, I'm just pointing out in case people think I'm just quibbling or something that no, that's kind of the point is they're trying to point to an area where the police don't answer 911 calls is, oh, that's anarchy for you. And I'm saying, no, it isn't. If it were genuine anarchy in the sense that we mean, then businesses could go there wouldn't have to pay income tax. And you might say that they'd be subject to roving warlords who would extract more than the IRS would. Okay, but that's a separate claim. And I'm saying, we're not testing that right now. That we don't know because that's not a test right now. We don't know because, no, the police would go there and they would arrest you for tax evasion. And they would go there if you tried to hire a thousand guys and have them wear flak jackets or whatever. That was your private security forces. No, they would go there and stamp that out. Okay, and also, I'm sure some people might have heard that. Oh, that sounds like South America with their drug lords and the government forces battle with the...