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As we say on Wall Street, "Everything before the 'but' is nonsense." Too many people talk in big words about how “important and valuable” something is, but when it comes time to write a check or take an action, they suddenly disappear. My guest and instant friend on March 31, 2025 is the exact opposite of that. There is no “but” in his life – if he believes in something, he takes immediate responsibility and action. Oded Rahav is a man of vision and abounding love for this world and humanity, which is in and of itself something of a miracle, given that he is Israeli and has endured this latest outburst of hateful evil from his neighbors, along with many prior eruptions of genocidal hate. He has the energy of a dozen people and turned a passion for long-distance swimming into a foundation to restore the Dead Sea – a body of water of immeasurable value to the human journey. Tune in while we discuss the Dead Sea Guardians.  ⁠https://deadseaguardians.org/ ⁠The conversation is informed by the fact that Messina's Federal Budget, written by our Host, inspired Elon Musk to create DOGE.  Strong moral intention can lead to real world solutions that inspire and create stronger, healthier societies. There are many good projects in the world. Many valuable ideas worth donating to. This is one of them. Not only is this an initiative that everyone should support, but as we discuss on the podcast, you should get some skin in the game.Help us work towards a solution. Buy the ticket - take the ride. Swim out into the ocean. Love instead of hate. Make some art. There are many ways large and small to get involved in healing the Dead Sea and by extension, Israel and her neighbors. You can make any size donation on the Guardians website. You can ALSO benefit yourself, the larger economy and the Dead Sea by buying a Gaju (Bitcoin 3.0) mining license. You can start mining Gajus immediately; a portion of every license subscription will go to support the Dead Sea Guardians directly. ⁠https://gajumining.com/shop/?ref=Mess1na⁠  

In these insanely difficult times, with mobs of evil Islamists and Western Jew Hating Leftists marching in the streets of Europe and North America on a daily basis, the Jewish people come once more to Pesach, the ritual remembrance of our escape from bondage in Egypt under the Pharaohs.There are still Israeli and American hostages held in the cesspool of Gaza by the evil #Fakestinians, who are so demonic they not only strangled two little children to death in front of their mother, but also kept their bodies as bargaining chips and shields for more than a year. Beyond the misery and anger at our external enemies, Jews also grapple with a bizarre phenomenon - that of self-hating Western liberal Jews who side with the Islamists who want to kill us all. It has proven true time and again, that when I look for guidance to the departed Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of blessed memory, he has unfailingly already written deeply and carefully about the issue I am wrestling with.Ahead of Pesach, I read Rabbi Sacks's essay, "The Ambivalent Jew."Am Israel Chai, Good Pesach and Shabbat Sholom.Confusion and death to our enemies.

People sure do love to hate Jews. The ancient hatred has exploded into the public square since 7 October 2023. I am fortunate to live in the Last Free State in America, Florida, where our wonderful Governor and the fine, moral folks who inhabit this blessed peninsula, will not put up with lunatic Hamas lovers marching in the streets calling for the death of Jews.Joining me for a discussion on 10 March 2025 is Dena Tauber, who has a smart and brave Substack highly worth reading: https://denatauber.substack.com/ As Dena lives in New York, where the vast sleazebags like Mahmoud Khalil have spent the days since 7 October 2023 cheering for the Fakestinians and their vile, poisonous obsession with Jew Murder, often without consequence, or at least until the Biden Administration left power.Have a listen, leave some questions and comments and do the boring but important bits like hitting Like and Subscribe to spread the awareness of Jews who are standing up and telling our evil enemies they will not prevail. Am Israel Chai.

Chuck Ellis is doing his civic duty in the Great State of Maine. We cover a range of fun topics, all focused in increasing American individual freedom after four years of Democrat Administrative State Nanny State Evil.Check out his podcast and Substack:https://charleschuckellis.substack.com/podcast

Inflation and fiat currencies have made slaves of everyone but a very few insanely rich people.Satoshi Nakamoto's vision as laid out in the whitepaperBitcoin : A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash Systemwas designed to create true economic freedom for everyone on the planet by a radical opening of access to economic opportunity and by providing each individual with the ability to own their own wealth, as opposed to having it "lent" to them by an all-powerful, centralizing set of intermediaries.The dollar, euro, yen and every other fiat currency are not money. Each of those is a promissory note, a debt instrument. Only gold is money - it is scarce, fixed in quantity and hard to extract from the earth.Similarly,real Bitcoin is money because it costs time and effort to extract via cryptographic puzzle solving.Greg Chew and I bring good news to all mankind, and to whatever additional species we may meet as we fling ourselves ever outward into the inky black futility (pace Kurt Vonnegut) of interstellar space.TheGajumaru is the peer-to-peer interplanetary electronic cash system for the next 5,000 years.When one is free to trust The Message (Gajus as cash) without having to trust The Messenger (banks, governments and commercial platforms), money is non-corruptible and free of anyone's control.Bitcoin 1.0 (BTC) was a wonderful proof of concept, but it has failed as money because it became functionally useless and a Ponzi scheme.Bitcoin 2.0 (BSV) was an improvement but is still not a fully functional blockchain.Bitcoin 3.0 (Gajumaru) is the final and actual implementation of an actual blockchain that actually works.You're welcome, everyone.

The nation is watching - in delight - as Trump's team moves swiftly to dismantle decades of Deep State un-Constitutional centralized control over Americans' lives.Well, sad face Lefties are miserable about it, but that's OK because we're done with their Liberal Boomer nonsense.The revolution - for transparency, lowered costs, smaller government and more freedom - is even coming to The People's Republic of New Yorkistan!My good friend Heshy Tischler is on the ballot for City Council. The Establishment has thrown everything they can at him to keep him from shining light into their seedy darkness but he is poised to win!Find out more and support him - as I have - athttps://heshytischler.com.New York and America are back to winning!Our long national nightmare is over!

Join us in the Messy Times studios for a riveting discussion about abusive government overreach which should scare the daylights out of every American.Chris Kuehne served his country as a Marine for 22 years. Wounded seriously, he was eventually honorably discharged.Have a listen to his story, including how he found himself at a Constitutionally protected First Amendment demonstration on January 6th 2021, and the insane lengths to which "his" government went to entrap him and then so badly stress him out for four years to that he finally capitulated to a plea deal for a Class C Felony, even though all he did was stand around for 30 minutes inside a small part of the Capitol building after an FBI informant prodded him to do so.He served time in a Federal prison, got out and just last week was granted the first #J6 #pardon from President #Trump.Tyranny wins when good men and women stay silent.I will never understand the insane Leftist #tyranny of the #Biden Years and all the crazy damage the Democrats did to our country.Pay attention to Capt. Kuehne's story. If you think that this could never happen to you, you're living in a dream world. We must make sure that tighter restraints are put on the government, to prevent this happening to another good American.Oh, and it goes without saying that this is one more piece of evidence that we need to abolish the #FBI.

Taking time out of his day while visiting with the Lizard People of the World Economic Forum is Greg Chew, Founder and CEO of QPQ AG in Switzerland. Have a listen as we discuss sound money, the Davos reaction to Donald Trump's inauguration, the internationalists’ full intention to learn absolutely nothing from the mandate Trump got from the American people and how we can take back our individual sovereignty, keep our data from being a wealth-generating machine for the Lizard Elite and return to a true capitalist economy based on the Gajumaru for sound money and an actual blockchain that actually works. Learn more and improve your life:  https://gajumaru.io/ Get Enlightentained© and improve your understanding of the complex world: https://messytimes.show Grab a drink and some popcorn - this is the best of Davos you're going to get from anywhere!

Rod Eggert, Professor of Mineral Economics at the Colorado School of Mines visits the studios for a discussion about the evolution of mining in America and globally, mining education and public attitudes towards resource extraction. Everything in your world depends on the minerals mining companies take out of the ground. How much do you know about how that all works? Here's a pack of insights you owe it to yourself to glean!

Have a listen to two Westerners who have lived, studied and worked in Islamic countries as we present the objective fact of the war Islamofascists began and which half the Western leaders pretend is not even happening. You can find Nachum's musings here: Moral Clarity: Truths in Politics and Culture | Nachum Kaplan | Substack

Karen Hunt joins us in the Messy Times studios to relate a small piece of her exciting life story. In this episode, we focus on the industry of fake marriage to Western women in Luxor. Karen's written and illustrated books, has a wealth of life experience and is an eloquent advocate for women living free lives, secure from abuse. We first bonded over our disgust for Islamist terrorism and the appalling stupidity of Western Useful Idiots who cheer for intolerant evil. You can find her writings here: Break Free Media | Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek | Substack

The Woke Madness has been slain. Rational governance is nigh! The Nation rejoices after emerging for the long evil winter of Marxist absurdity. William and Christopher just pile on!

It turns out that insisting there are 97 genders and demanding boys be able to beat girls in collegiate and high school sports, while creating insane inflation and trying to hold Israel back from punishing evil Islamist terrorists was not a winning electoral solution. Who could have guessed? Join David and Christopher as they lay out a beautiful vision of twelve solid years of GOP governance, beginning with an immediate set of actions to improve our nation. The Biden-Harris Border Jumpers should line up to leave, because it's going to be worse for them if we have to go find them first.

Following on from the micromanaging distrust of the American people shown by ObamaCare's insane decree for businesses to issue tax forms for any transaction over $400, the Democrats are at it again!   Democrats have this bizarre obsessive fantasy that something horribly nefarious is going on with Americans making free choices. So with all the truly pressing issues facing the nation, the Biden Unity Government wants to force "your" bank to report you to the Federal Government every time you take $600 dollars out of "your" checking account.    Call your Congressional Representatives, Senators and the White House to ask why they are so keen to know when you do anything with $600 or more in what you are deluded enough to believe is "your" money.  Use the helpful link here to find your totalitarian overlords, er, representatives:  https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member   Don't forget to follow Messy Times on Spotify!

George was born in Prague in 1953, spent his young life there, then moved to Israel which was a fascinating change from an urbane, Central European city, then on to Iceland and Canada and now living here in the Last Free State in America, Florida. As a Jew born behind the Iron Curtain, then living in the Holy Land and now watching these Islamist scum and their useful idiot Western Leftist Hamas fangirls marching in the streets calling for the death of Jews and destruction of Israel, George has some very important observations to make. Oh, the things we cover! Grab a glass of something soothing, light a cigar and join us for a chat between musician and banker, a generation apart but equally convinced the evil Marxist fungus growing throughout Western Civilization in combination with a radical strain of intolerant Islam must be expunged if our society is to survive. You can find George's writings here: https://georgegrosman.substack.com/

There is a very important election coming up next week. I am delighted to have William Stroock drop into the Studios on the beach in the Last Free State in America. Not every election is as important as every other. This one is huge - eight years of the Deep State trying to imprison the man who wants to right size the Federal Leviathan and get Big Gummint out our lives in the Red Corner. In the Blue Corner, a laughable accident of good old fashioned Political Casting Couch meeting DEI obsessions. We take a stroll through Gen X's political choices going back to Bush v Clinton up to today's utter madness. We cover the appalling nastiness of the Kavanaugh Lynching Circus and the fact that only Amy Klobuchar acquitted herself even remotely well. We touch on the cynicism of the Democrats who spent 40 years milking Roe v. Wade as a fund raising terror tactic, but never when they had the Congress and the Oval Office ever passed a national abortion law. Dive in! Grab a beverage and a cigar and join us for a rollicking ride. As you will no doubt be inspired beyond belief by our chat, be sure to check out William's books and his occasional writings. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4245941.William_Stroock https://williamstroock.substack.com/ ⁠ Remember - hit like and subscribe, even if you hate the episode. In the words of the late, great Senator John Blutarsky, It don't cost nothin'.

There is an old adage, Three Jews - Five Opinions. There is no mystery what I think about the evil Fakestinian death cult that attacked Israel on 7 October 2023. Please have a listen to a great discussion with a woman who writes a Substack called The Liberal Jew. Enjoy our discussion across generations and political lines. I sure did! Don't forget to follow Messy Times on Spotify or whatever podcasting platform you enjoy!

The explosion of Jew Hatred in North American streets and universities since 7 October 2023 has been appalling. Masha Kleiner writes a compelling series of essays on Substack called ⁠Canadian Zionist Chronicles⁠, describing in great detail the proliferation of Jew Hatred in British Columbia and the rest of Canada. She joined me for a discussion on 8 October 2024. She is extremely worth listening to.

Yahya Sinwar, who was also on the U.S. wanted list for actively plotting to kill American citizens, masterminded the October 7th genocide, during which more Jews were murdered in a single day than at any time since the Holocaust. He orchestrated the invasion of Israel, the mass murder, sadistic sexual abuse, and kidnapping of elderly Holocaust survivors, men, women, and children—both Jews and Israeli Arabs. He commanded his army of Palestinian terrorists not only to kill but also to torture their victims, including babies who were burned alive in ovens, while filming the atrocities for the world to see. All of this was an attempt to conquer Israel and murder every Israeli citizen in this devilish spree of violence. Today we celebrate his passing at the hands of the IDF. Am Israel Chai.

We are delighted Elizabeth Rand took time out of her busy schedule to swing by the Messy Times Studios for a discussion about the appalling rise of public Jew Hatred in America, and how the group she founded to help mothers of Jewish students navigate the various minefields popping up around the nation. Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA) started organically following the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel and the subsequent rise in antisemitism on college campuses. Originally formed as a forum to express concerns and provide support to parents, MACA has grown exponentially and now has more than 60,000 members committed to providing non-partisan support and assistance to college students in order to end a culture of campus antisemitism. MACA’s mission is to secure the safety of Jewish students through advocacy, education, and calls to action. You can find and join MACA's Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/xfbY2PS1vZDk11iF/?mibextid=K35XfP Don't forget to follow Messy Times on Spotify!

We are lucky to have a deeply knowledgeable and insightful American patriot visit us in the Messy Times studios. Gary Aminoff is the Chairman of The American Freedom Alliance, educating younger generations about the threats to Western Civilization. Not only does Gary understand the complexities and corruption inherent in our Federal Budget, my pet preoccupation, but he ran against the lunatic Leftist Maxine Waters who has been in Congress for 34 years, while her Congressional District has only gotten poorer and more dangerous. Gary explains the economic crisis we are in both during our chat and on his Substack: https://substack.com/@garyaminoff Beyond our fiscal disaster, Gary and I discuss the Democrats' drift into outright Jew Hatred and how the nation has come to such a bad pass. Joe McCarthy had a good idea, but he was soft on Commies in comparison to what needs to be done to rid America of this insidious evil. Enjoy! Don't forget to follow Messy Times on Spotify!

Join Alex and Christopher for a lively discussion about the perils of the sheeple in Russia, America and Europe bending over instead of fighting absurd totalitarian dictates. Elections! The World Health Organization! Fake Emergencies! United Nations workers invading Israel to kill, rape and take hostages back into Gaza. The world blaming the Jews for everyone else's insane hatred. It's remarkably hard to remain calm amidst the insanity engulfing the world. We offer some tips for surviving the next few months. Find Alex's writing here: https://substack.com/@alexilex1 Find Christopher here: https://substack.com/@christophermessina Don't forget to follow Messy Times on Spotify! Otherwise, you'll have severe FOMO. Don't let that happen to you!

Qaid Farhan Al-Qadi, 52, of Rahat is free after 326 days in Hamas captivity. He was returned home by the IDF and ISA. A married father of 11, he worked as a security guard in Kibbutz Magen, where he was kidnapped on October 7th. He is in stable medical condition.

This wonderful, clear, concise, logical and objectively accurate - characteristics not shared by Jew Hating Hamas Fangirls in the West - letter from a Professor of Islamic History, Arabic and Persian was recently republished on Substack's Voice of the Shofar account: An Incredible Letter from a non-Jewish Scottish Professor to his Students Who Voted to Boycott Israel (substack.com) It is sadly as timely now as it was when he wrote it in 2011 in response to one more pack of Western idiots babbling about the lie of "apartheid in Israel." Have a listen. If you still believe the lies about Israel, go do your own research, as the good Professor suggests.

Sally Prag wrote this essay which you can find on Substack: The Hidden, Hated Jew (substack.com). I liked it so much that I decided to broadcast her words to a wider audience. I have watched the growth of Jew Hatred for decades in the West as a mixture of neo-Marxist morons got into bed as Useful Idiots for Islamists hell-bent on Jew murder and the destruction of the West. Those two strains of evil "thought" erupted into the daylight on October 7th, 2023. 2% of Americans who went to bed on October 6th as Americans, went to bed on October 8th as Jews. The Jew Haters fantasize about recreating 1938-1945 in Europe. They are finding to their grave misery that we are not hiding and quivering in fear this time. We bash back and bash back harder than they ever expected. Plus this time we have a nation, an effective army and a strong ally in the United States, no matter how many Jew Hating Marxists have burrowed into the State Department. Have a listen to Sally's words.

Messina's Federal Budget, the 15-year labor of love on behalf of Christopher Messina's fellow Americans, is available for purchase on Amazon. Our Gracious Enlightentaining Host is recording his reading of selections from the book. In the book, he recommends which Federal Departments are to be modified and which are to be abolished immediately. Overall, his suggested budgetary changes take us from today's insane $7.7 TRILLION in spending, to a far more manageable, rational and affordable $2.2 TRILLION. In today's selected reading, Mr. Messina tells us about the absurd rationalizations offered by champions of ObamaCare, notably serially wrong Leftist Paul Krugman. Enjoy!

This was filmed in front of the White House on 6 June 2024. In this clip, a young American man is calling for people in the crowd to join Hamas in jihad against Israel and calling for the overthrow of the US government. My commentary is interspersed with his vile calls for treason and Jew Murder.

Pure Jewish Anger by Daniel Clarke-Sennet I'm reading it for you. I suggest you go read it again yourself. on Substack. Every single Western Useful Idiot who hates Jews and loves Hamas can choose which rear cheek to kiss.

Written words don't suffice. We need to call out these evil people with at least as much energy as they put into lying about Israel defending itself from terrorists. My response to the Jew Hater Francesca Albanese at the Jew Hating United Nations takes under six minutes to convey. Brevity is the soul of clear-eyed morality. Truth is always one of the first casualties of any war but this insanity in which the global Left in combination with Islamist death cultists has managed to spin the most bizarre fabrications and inversion of objective reality is astonishing. It would never have occurred to me that ANY NATION would be criticized for rescuing hostages being held by terrorists. The sheer insanity of blaming anyone but the Gazans themselves for any collateral damage done during the IDF rescue operation shows you how sick and twisted these people have become. Hot tip for anyone that cares: If you don't want to get shot by the IDF, don't hold Israeli citizens hostage in your home. Amazing that needs to be spelled out, but such are the times we live in. AM ISRAEL CHAI.

Jewish scholars - both religious and secular - discuss in depth the implications of the pagan prophet Balaam's description of the Jewish people: From the peaks of rocks I see them, From the heights I gaze upon them. This is a people who dwell alone, Not reckoning themselves one of the nations. (Num. 23:9) In this season of Pesach, I read the essay written by Rabbi Jonathan Lord Sacks of Blessed Memory, in which he discusses the potential meanings of the People that dwells alone. Not even 80 years after the Holocaust, evil scumbag Jew Haters are tromping around American college campuses, cheering on the murdering thugs of Palestine. No one seems to care. Have a listen. The Jewish People have survived and left to the dustbin of history numerous Empires who were laser-focused on our eradication. We're not so worried about Leftwing middle class Marxist twits who learned about Israel from TikTok ten minutes ago. To enjoy your Enlightentaining Host's words of wisdom on a far more prosaic topic - the US Federal Budget - go to Amazon to buy a copy of Messina's Federal Budget: https://a.co/d/hnd8LMI It is Amazon's #1 New Release in Cultural Policy! Who knew that was a thing?

Civic engagement is a prerequisite if we, the citizens, want to enjoy competent public governance. Ben Franklin warned us that we'd have this Constitutional government if we could keep it. Make no mistake: there are strong Leftist activists whose sole goal in life is to destroy our Western Civilization based in individual rights and responsibilities. They adore Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and the Chinese Communists' totalitarian control of the population and want to bring that fun misery here to America. Attorney Bobbie Anne Flower Cox has been practicing law for 25 years. Formerly an attorney in Manhattan with the international law firm of Nixon Peabody, LLP, Attorney Cox now heads her own office, Cox Lawyers, PLLC. Attorney Cox has extensive experience in bringing lawsuits against municipalities on behalf of her clients. She has an impressive track record in fighting cities, towns, and villages against unjust and erroneous assessments that the government levies against her clients’ properties. When the government-manufactured Panic took hold under the flimsy excuse of a worse-than-average flu season, Attorney Cox stepped up to represent New York lawmakers and citizens against excessive government overreach, helping to curb the ever expanding arm of the government as it illegally reaches further into all aspects of New Yorkers’ everyday lives. Have a listen to her explain the mad illegal lawmaking by the New York State Executive Branch, how she fought it and why Kathy Hochul and Letitia James are still wasting tax dollars to reinstate a tool of totalitarian terror against the supposedly free citizens of New York. You can keep up with her never-ending fight for Americans' Constitutional rights here: https://attorneycox.substack.com/ and https://coxlawyers.com She is @attorney_cox on Twitter or whatever Elon is calling it now, for those of you inclined to brave that cesspool. To buy a copy of Messina's Federal Budget: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1549949 And of course, LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN' in the immortal words of Senator Bluto Blutarsky, who would support Bobbie Ann 100% were he in the Senate today.

Today's episode is the epitome of the #Enlightentainment that @MessyTimes was founded to provide in ample portions and frequent doses. Who doesn't love a prurient view into the lives of evil men? Half of Netflix and Hollywood is all about drug lords and mobsters. Ever wonder how much of what you see is fiction and if there is any fact at all? Brian Dennard spent years in clandestine service to the US and visits the Messy Times studios to discuss the early days in the 1970s when the American government was most concerned about the proceeds of drug money going to foment Marxist revolution abroad and here at home. Tune in for a rollicking tale of Alberto Sicilia-Falcon, La Tigressa Irma Serrano, Mexican President Echevarria, Jose-Lopez Portillo and why the matador Gaston Santos thrust his groin at massive bulls in the ring. You will learn a great deal not only how the Latin American drug trade got its early growth in the 1970s, but also get a sense of how those early beginnings turned into the colossal financial beast full of violence and futile attempts at control we are familiar with now. LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN' in the immortal words of Senator Bluto Blutarsky.

Kurt Wuckert, Jr., Chief Bitcoin Historian visits the beachside studios of  @MessyTimes  to talk about #Bitcoin and all its implications. Every 210,000 coins or roughly four years, the block reward of Bitcoin is cut in half. Every infrastructure player in Bitcoin has to find ways to make money on transaction volume instead of the block reward. The bootstrapping subsidy was designed to help the Bitcoin ecosystem develop to the point where a natural economy would take hold.   Fifteen years in, the Bitcoin experiment is getting near the point where real economic transactions need to take the place of subsidy-chasing. Bitcoin (BSV) is no weirder than HTML for the Internet. Most users don't understand how the Internet works, but they use it. Same thing here. Huge businesses can be built using blockchain data and payment rails, without you thinking about it. Come on in! The #blockchain is fine! Together we will connect another 4 billion people to the economy, providing a path for true freedom and economic liberation which will drive every Leftist, control freak Progressive Statist completely insane - an added if delicious bonus. For more of Kurt's wisdom, check out  @Kurtwuckertjr  and his weekly show on  @CoinGeek .   https://christophermessina.substack.com/ for more details and sheer Enlightentainment.   LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN', to quote the immortal Senator Bluto Blutarsky.

The evil Gazan Government still holds Israeli hostages - both alive in perpetual terror as well as the rotting corpses of murdered Jews - 138 days after their rape, torture and murder spree of October 7th.Samantha has a robust social media following on Instagram, where she is a consistent voice of reason and advocacy for the safety of Jews in hostile world: https://www.instagram.com/samanthaettus/ What everyone needs to bear in mind is that none of the idiots - whether highly educated or dragging knuckles - yapping and screaming about "Israel" and "Palestine" give a gnat's burp in a hurricane about the geopolitical specifics of the Gaza-initiated war. They hate Jews. Period. And they've found a great, "safe" way to march in the streets calling for another Holocaust - they pretend suddenly they care about Israel and the 75+ years it has been beset by evil hatred. The message to the Jew Haters of the world - especially in America - is that whether you're a casual weekend hobbyist only going to the "Free Palestine" rally because the cute girl you're trying to get with asked you to come along, or a committed, rabid, ready-to-attack-the-first-Jew-you-see maniac, you will not be tolerated. Jews will not hide and cower from you. We - and all moral people who know you losers for what you are - will push back against your aggressions and stand proudly on the side of Western Civilization. The evil Islamic death cults - Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, the Iranian government - have been lying to their people for 100+ years now. The Jews are not leaving their homeland. There has never in history been a country called "Palestine." These evil morons instead of building a prosperous society alongside their Jewish brothers who had come home after the Romans ran them off their land, chose to worship pointless Hate and claimed they would destroy Israel. All they know how to do is destroy and frankly, they are not very good at that. They've been trying since 1947 - every war Israel has ever fought , including this one, has been a defensive war in reaction to aggression. This is the point of the spear for Western Civilization. There are not "two sides" to this conflict. There is a rational nation defending itself against evil terrorist chaos. If you're a Jew, be loud and proud about it. If you're a rational moral human being of any religion - or none - stand strong and decide your Western culture is worth defending against those who want to destroy it.

Find out why Stephen Fry’s Alternative Christmas Message landed so well this year, on a channel opposite King Charles’s chat to the Kingdom. Richard Bermitz has a long and storied career in UK sport advertising. Join us for a fascinating conversation about the history of the business of sport in the UK and then Europe more broadly. In addition to getting a crash course in the dynamics of sporting clubs, fan loyalty and the commercial reality underpinning your favourite teams, Messy Times fans searching for current affairs insights are in luck! Richard is a member of the UK's Jewish community. We discuss how the evil events perpetrated by the Gazan Government on 7 October 2023 have impacted communities across the UK, Europe and the US.

Greg Ward has a tremendous depth of experience in the things that matter most: music and creative coding. He joined our Glittering Host in the Messy Times Studios for a discussion about the true power of blockchain technology. The original Bitcoin as described in Satoshi's white paper is all about radical economic inclusiveness. The strong uses cases of peer-to-peer micropayments along with the power of immutability to strengthen cyber security are some of the finest applications of free human empowerment ever devised. Conversely, there are the Forces of Totalitarian Evil in the world like PayPal who are trying to use their dominant technological and market position in combination with the fact that 99.9% of users of technology never read the EULA (End User License Agreement) which can be modified after they've signed up for a service, to demand societal conformity and groupthink. Greg is a Co-Founder of SmartLedger Solutions and its subsidiary company Certihash, which provides a radically improved cyber security detection service. Tune in to learn why your best remediation for contractual integrity is either the public blockchain or - second best - an army of 2,000 spear-wielding Kayapo.

We are living in difficult times, what the glitterati call Messy Times. Sadly, it is looking very likely that we're going to look back on this period in history as being relatively peaceful compared to what is coming down the track at us. Tune in as Robert Patrick and our Enlightentaining Host ponder the major issues of today, including the horrendous eruption of anti-Jewish hatred in America and Europe "because" evil terrorists of Hamas murdered 1,400 innocent, unarmed people and took another 200 civilians hostage. While you wrap your mind around that insane illogic, we are delighted for you to have an active listen to our discussion, which we hope will bring some clarity for those confused and some light to pierce the overwhelming darkness so many are experiencing. Most listeners will know Robert from his excellent career on film and screen. I've had the pleasure of getting to know him from the work we do on behalf of our military veteran community. Your Glittering Host is on the Board of Directors for the Combat Control Foundation and Robert is the CCF's Ambassador. Robert additionally is very active with TAPS Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. We urge you after listening to this discussion to immediately go to those websites and make a donation - no matter how small. The connectivity, recognition and support for our veterans matters as much as the dollar amounts you are able to afford.

Imagine a government plan designed to achieve these wonderful goals:    1. Make electricity SIX TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE. 2. Destroy America's security by removing our radar and missile systems' ability to see over the horizon to detect incoming threats. 3. Deprive people of healthy seafood or at least make it three times as expensive.  4. Take American tax dollars and give them to Scandinavian countries' pension funds for the long-term benefit of Scandinavian companies and workers.  5. Oh, and kill lots of whales by deafening / blinding them while building the magical machines which deliver these wonderful benefits.  In a better - not even perfect - nation, this insanity would not occur.  In that hypothetical nation, if someone raised such a bad idea, rational voices in government would tick off all the negative consequences to, say, destroying marine life to build pointlessly expensive electricity generation and the whole thing would stop.  Sadly, we do not live in such a nation.  Thank Heavens for driven citizens such as Meghan Lapp, who has dedicated thousands of hours to digging deep into this mess - all on her own time - to tell the rest of us how stupidly damaging the fallout from ridiculous political convictions can be.  I will not steal her thunder; have a listen to this conversation.   There are myriad lessons to be gleaned from this madness.  One is that NOAA and any other agency tasked with delivering analysis to the government must be a purely scientific enterprise, with its staff insulated from budgetary or other concerns.  We all watched what happened when "science" became divorced from reality and became one more political plaything.  Here is another example of that abuse of the objective scientific process in pursuit of ridiculously damaging political aims.  For those who wish to dig deeper, Meghan provided some helpful links:  Save Right Whales (www.saverightwhales.org) Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (www.rodafisheries.org) An Examination Into Offshore Wind Industrialization https://www.youtube.com/live/j9MY7G8pi5M?si=G0_1XsBidT03NGw0 Cape Wind Info | Cape May County, NJ (www.capemaycountynj.gov)     Information on the lawsuit against Vineyard Wind, taken by the Texas Public Policy Foundation- two short videos here: https://youtu.be/vlFwRIWRwf0?si=8XoNdGZMpcZASqgM and https://youtu.be/2F-bBTsK04k?si=QOpChT7k0ZCOx_3o  

Fellow Native New Yorker, now proud resident of the Last Free State in America, Florida, Andrew Gutmann joins us in the  @MessyTimes  studios for a wide-ranging but focused conversation about the need to root out the insidious evil of Marxism in American life. He achieved accidental fame for penning a letter of protest to his daughter's school in New York City - a private school called Brearley which for decades was a beacon of educational excellence, but during the Wuhan Hysteria and the BLM Summer of Love 2020 turned into a racist, CRT-pushing propaganda factory. That letter went viral. Andrew cogently sums up the main ills of the Woke Ideological Disease: 1. The woke loathe free speech; their relentless campaign to silence voices they disagree with has become their non-stop obsession 2. The woke hate capitalism, based as it is on personal freedom. 3. The woke's focus on groups, not individuals goes against the entirety of Judaeo-Christian Western civilization and the Constitution. 4. They insist on denying objective reality, hence the nonsense around "dozens of genders;" their power comes from forcing people to say publicly things they know are insane. 5. The woke loathe democracy and our system of meritocracy; their entire focus is on leveling outcomes rather than setting fair conditions for people to compete in. During our talk - spoiler alert! - we added a 6th symptom of Wokeism: 6. The woke hate religion and hate the family unit, because both resist the godless materialist chaos of Marxist conception. None of this is new to scholars of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought. In the American context, the Marxist Left have taken advantage of Americans' relative ignorance of the true nature of Communism/Socialist to hide behind words like "justice" and "equality," which they have perverted into their exact opposites. After realizing the same thing I did, that New York has become a Marxist cesspool of illogic and Leftist totalitarianism, he moved his family to Palm Beach County and is now running for Congress (FL-22) to help reverse the horrible radically leftward tide the nation has been suffering under. To learn more, donate and support this excellent candidate whose sensibility, morality and clear comprehension of the Constitution is badly needed in Congress, please go to: www.andrewgutmann.com. After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment about parents' rights in education and the need to reverse the decades-long impact of Marxist indoctrination on our schools, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc

In today's episode of Bizarre Leftist Hypocrisy, we find the doyens of the environmental movement so befuddled that they're swearing allegiance to oceanic wind farms which are killing whales by the dozens. David Blackmon came on the show as a follow up to the interview he did with Meghan Lapp, Fisheries Liaison for Seafreeze Shoreside.  I will not steal the thunder from that interview, which I urge you to watch at  The Energy Question #65  but will summarize her findings to let all the ocean- and whale-lovers out there that all these massive wind turbines and their associated construction and infrastructure are absolutely killing whales.   We'll be offering for sale soon some Messy Times Save the Whales - Ban Offshore Wind Farms bumper stickers. In keeping with the Big Environmental Win brought about in the 1970s by such memorable bumper art as "Nuke the Gay Baby Whales for Jesus!," we at @MessyTimes and @davidblackmon6807 hope to drive a - pardon me - sea change in attitudes about the Energy Absurdity Church ruining our world. Listen in!  Lunatics are killing the whales while pretending otherwise and are gaslighting the living bejesus out of all of us.

I had the pleasure of meeting Zach Resnick at the London Blockchain Conference earlier this year. Now that we're both back in the Western Hemisphere, Zach paid a visit to the  @MessyTimes  studios for a deep dive into his career as an entrepreneur and how his journey has been interwoven with blockchain technology, most recently #BSV, or Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, the bitcoin protocol based on the original white paper, versus #BTC which has diverged from that original vision in myriad ways. Tune in for a rollickingly enlightentaining discussion. Find out more about Zach and his investment firm at unboundedcapital.com.

David Blackmon joined us in the studios for a wide-ranging discussion on the virtues of affordable energy, debating whether insanity or perfidy motivate Apocalyptic Climate Cultists and the general messy madness of our age. David knows of what he speaks - having deep expertise and long experience in the oil & gas industry. For a fun pre-episode game, try to guess whether our Brilliant Guest or your Glittering Host has more biting calumny to heap on the ridiculous #ESG fraud which has destroyed more value than even Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley have combined. Either way your bet breaks, we promise you sheer #Enlightentainment at its finest! Added bonus material with sneak previews into the 2024 Election Cycle including educated guesstimates of how many of us will be rounded up and indicted as co-conspirators before the polls open! Enjoy!

Messy Times is focused on making the American military culture and its people available to a wider audience. Only 7% of Americans are either in the military or family members of our all-volunteer force. Our Enlightentaining Host is privileged to serve on the Board of Directors for the Combat Control Foundation. Tom DeSchane had a 28-year career in Combat Control, retiring as a Chief Master Sergeant, after entering the Air Force for four years to pay for college. He joins us in the studios to give his perspective on CCT as a career, how this Special Tactics group operates with other branches of the military and some guidance for people considering this as a career. You can learn more about this Special Operations branch of the Air Force at Combat Control Foundation. After this video, hop on over there to enjoy the wealth of information and please leave a donation to support our veterans and their families. A donation of any size is welcome - as important as the dollars raised is the number of people who take the time to donate their hard-earned money as a way of expressing appreciation for the hard, difficult and dangerous work our military volunteers perform on our behalf.

Jack Pitts and I shared a stage at the London Blockchain Conference. We were mesmerizing. For those unfortunate souls who missed the big event, we bring you this discussion. He is the founder of SLictionary, a brilliant, blockchain-enabled Web 3.0 version of the processes which created the Oxford English Dictionary. A self-learning dictionary which grows in accuracy and comprehensiveness the richer the user-contributed corpus grows is just the shot in the arm the English etymological industry needs! Check it out: https://www.slictionary.com/ Be sure to vote for the Messy Times definition of "unicorn" while you're there!

We are delighted to be joined in the  @MessyTimes  studios by Connor Matthews ( @TheControllerMMA ) who shared with us a bit about his journey involving an early interest in martial arts, to MMA (mixed martial arts) to accidentally signing up for the Air Force's Special Operations branch after first hearing what the SEALs had to say about a career in the Navy. Your Enlightentaining Host is honored to serve our military veterans as a Board Member of the  @CombatControlFoundation.  One of the perquisites of our relationship with the CCT community is being able to participate in events with our phenomenal active-duty military community. Connor was part of a group that spent a great day together with candidates in the current training pipeline recently. We discuss some of that from his point of view about what it takes to succeed in the rigorous washout machine that is Special Operations training. Every American would sleep better at night if they understood the caliber of motivated volunteers and the rigorous training and selection process they go through, all in order to fight to protect our national interests. To check out Connor's fights either live or via ESPN, go to his YouTube channel Connor Matthews - YouTube or his Instagram: Connor Matthews ⚡️👊🏼 (@thecontrollermma) | Instagram. I know I'm going to move mountains to be ringside for his upcoming Las Vegas fights! After hearing Connor's story, hop over to the Combat Control Foundation website and make a donation to this awesome cause - any amount is welcomed, as part of our support for our veterans is demonstrating by sheer numbers of donors how much we value what they and their families have sacrificed for us: https://www.combatcontrol.team/Donate-to-the-CCF . It's simple; do it now.

Ray Nayler wrote a great novel, The Mountain in the Sea. The Enlightentaining Host of  @MessyTimes  was so delighted by the book that he wrote a book review and reached out to Ray to invite him for a visit to the studios. The conversation that follows is the result of Ray's saying yes to that invitation. Ray is a deep thinker with wide-ranging international experience and a persistent curiosity which drives him to learn more and to express what he learns in his writing. Beyond or as part of his writing, he's spent a great deal of time examining how information flows - or fails to flow - in society, and the implications that has for a healthy town square in which people of goodwill but differing ideas can engage in robust debate. Enjoy! You can find more of Ray's work at www.raynayler.net. After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from our discussion, might we suggest that you check out CoinGeek's ⁠Bitcoin 101 free course⁠ offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: ⁠https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc If you're picking up what Messy Times is laying down, you're welcome to provide whatever support you can via our crypto tip jar: HandCash: $MuddyWaters

We are delighted to have Dr. Ken Dekleva join us for a deep and wide-ranging conversation across his areas of expertise. Ken covers a lot of intellectual and practical ground in his second visit to the studios. A prolific author as well as a Senior Fellow at the George H.W. Bush Center for U.S.-China Relations, Ken's experience spans the globe. His deep experience is not only represented in historical knowledge, but directly in current international affairs and innovations in healthcare, not only for military veterans but for patients of all kinds. We discuss a few of the #mental_health advances he champions, including #telemedicine which he already uses in his medical practice. That is just scratching the surface - please grab a soothing beverage and settle in for a great discussion. In addition to the range of sources discussed in the episode, we remind our listeners to check out The Cipher Brief for the best reporting and analysis on national security issues. After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from our discussion, might we suggest that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc

Florida is already the Last Free State in America. Because of that, it is attracting talent from all over the other 49, which is making it a bastion of free market innovation. It's obviously the best place to be, which is why  @MessyTimes  would never consider broadcasting from anywhere else. Aside from hosting rampant innovation in Enlightentainment, up and down the peninsula, many towns have become blockchain and tech boom towns. Charles Hwang shares how he became involved in Bitcoin (BTC), what Lightning Capital is doing with Layer 2 networks and how he sees the cryptocurrency space developing. In the course of our discussion, Charles provides the most cogent defense of the Small Blocker position your Glittering Host has yet heard.   After the usual admonition to hit Like and Subscribe, we'd love it if you provided your thoughts below on the Small Block v. Big Block debate. It's not quite 1990s East Coast - West Coast beef, but potentially far more impactful to us all than Tupac and Biggie were.

China wants the world to accept the renminbi as a reserve currency. What are their reasons for suggesting an alternative to the US Dollar? Was Bretton Woods a mistake? Is Purchasing Power Parity a reasonable way to value a currency? Money is international but a currency is national; how many people care about that distinction? Has anyone ever gotten a date by using monetary theory as a pickup line? Is the paradigm of a "cold war" drawn from the Soviet-American 20th century headbutting a useful frame to examine the actions of the Chinese government? Has the Dollar's role at the core of the international financial system been a net positive or negative for the United States? Tune in to hear James Fok's highly informed take on these important issues and Your Enlightentaining Host’s nostalgia over the bezant.

It's a weird thing about history. One can visit, say, ancient European city centers and marvel at the architecture, in full knowledge of horrific war crimes and atrocities committed on the very streets one is currently strolling on, nibbling pastries and snapping selfies. All that happened a long time ago, so - to steal a line - at this point, what difference does it make that babies were snatched from their mothers' arms and dashed to the pavement right here where I'm dropping powdered sugar on my sweater? When war is happening in the here and now, however, it seems somehow tasteless to express any concern about urban design and respect for tradition. Private-jet-setting-on-the-taxpayer-dime Climate Nag John Kerry in a supreme fit of tone-deaf absurdity urged Vladimir Putin to "be aware of Russia's carbon emission / climate commitments" while he began his evil invasion of Ukraine. This came as Russian planes were bombing a maternity hospital in Mariupol. So if the Carbon Gadfly can burn jet fuel for thousands of miles while hectoring people about the supposed existential threat posed by carbon emissions and express a preference for clubbing Ukrainian children to death rather than running tanks over them, I think it's okay to ruminate on architectural issues in a postwar Ukraine. Urbanist and architectural traditionalist Michael Diamant joins us in the  @MessyTimes  studios to discuss his deep convictions about the destruction of Western architecture being caused by the same underlying root cause that leads to the rampant idiocy around "pronouns" and other, bizarre-to-normal-people social phenomena. How, you might well ask, does a commitment to urban renewal along the lines of building things people like to live in rather than brutalist Soviet silly boxes, play into a consideration of the war ongoing in Ukraine? Tune in to find out! Afterwards, flush with enthusiasm, peruse Michael's architectural musings: https://twitter.com/michael_diamanthttps://www.facebook.com/groups/Klassisknyproduktionhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/  After getting a fresh dose of urbanist Enlightentainment, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? In an era fraught with architectural disruption it is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc