Hot Water History

Apr 17 2025 169 ep. 66 mins 16

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Gary Richied and Charlie Westerman preview their book -- A Twisted History of the United States -- and comment on other historical/current events through the lens of freedom.

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A Splash of Catholic Economics

Apr 17 2025 48 mins

In anticipation of some hot summer days, The Catholic Boys of Sound Economics (featuring a Jew nonetheless) replace the ol'Chicago Boys to refresh our holy understanding of the not-so-dismal science. Gary opines that Murray Rothbard's MAN, ECONOMY, AND STATE reinforces fundamental Catholic doctrines pertaining to divine law, natural law, and human cooperation. All truth--especially

Hands On Capitalism

Apr 11 2025 74 mins

Heretics and apostates gravitate to the State because it fits them and serves their true master's needs. It strikes at individual rights, human freedom and even at the division of labor. Alternatively, true anarchism which is capitalism, and true capitalism which is anarchism shine as imaginative yet attainable alternatives, especially for those nauseated by the propagandized statu

New Detroit

Apr 03 2025 49 mins

City finances and economic doldrums have real effects: restaurants shuttered, businesses seeking greener pastures, and commercial districts empty. Chicago appears to be on the accelerated path of Old Detroit from the 1970s and 1980s. Thus is always the unavoidable path when government insinuates itself into every nook and cranny of what would otherwise be a functioning free market.

H.L. Mencken

Mar 27 2025 71 mins

Grok A.I. says that Gary sounds and writes like the great H.L. Mencken, and Gary is just plumb honored. Blush inducing. After introducing Mencken, both he and Charlie analyze some prominent and eloquent quotes from the eminent son of Baltimore. Mencken humbled more fools and crumbled more bad arguments than fellow Baltimorean Edgar Allen Poe offed characters in his stories. Quoth t

Not Patrick's Ireland

Mar 20 2025 66 mins

Conor McGregor visited the White House on St. Patrick's Day to report that the apparatchik-snakes have returned to the island in the form of parliamentarians and ministers. The doors were swung open by a purposeful abandonment of Christ the King in Ireland (and indeed greater Western Europe) in favor of a 'messianic megalomania' authored by the likes of Bill, Keir, Ursula, and Chri

Devils in D.C

Mar 13 2025 77 mins

The installation of apostate bishop Robert McElroy as cardinal archbishop of Washington occasions a reflection on the demon's playground that is D.C. In all of that darkness centered there, the good and the righteous--those filled with beatitude--shine all the brighter in Rachel Mastrogiacomo, Archibishop Vigano, and Thomas Massie. True martyrs all who remind us that the dawn from

DarkNotes: Wolf of the Deep

Mar 09 2025 90 mins

In our second, long-awaited DARK NOTES episode, we put historian Stephen Fox's WOLF OF THE DEEP through the HotH2OHistory wringer. Part biography of the intrepid Raphael Semmes, part account of his exploits as the captain of the feared C.S.S. Alabama, Fox recounts the adventures of the raider, his crew, and the ship that made Union vessels shudder during the Civil War. Where it get

Sniff

Feb 24 2025 62 mins

A whole lot stinks in the State of Ukraine, from off-the-grid biolabs to rank corruption, and to sustain the crimes, innumerable lives have been sacrificed on the altar of neo-con, geo-realpolitik. But, sadly, the Nulands, Pompeos, Bidens, and Zelenskys of the world are nowhere near as shrewd nor practical as ol'Otto von Bismarck. His volleys were calculated and murderous; theirs w

Trim the Fat

Feb 17 2025 66 mins

Elon Musk sure does get around. From trimming the fat from morbidly obese D.C. to smashing ass with another rando, this guy really sticks to his word. He wants smaller government and higher birth rates.Midwit randos on Twitter fail to understand or enjoy lighthearted and yet captivating memes featuring Austrian economists.The rats are jumping the rat ship in the Washington D.C. met

Tariff Deez Nuts

Feb 06 2025 59 mins

With the Donald channeling William McKinley--another president who never saw a tariff he didn't like--the time has come to revisit sound economics and the free market take on import taxes. Spoiler alert: just like all other forms of state plunder, tariffs wind up benefitting the few at the expense of the many. Unless one wishes to find himself in a whole array of reductio ad absurd