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lowwattliving
10 years ago

Wow. This young man is going places. I’m a little jealous and proud at the same time that he is on the right path so much earlier than I was. Also, Jack: I just sent you a voice message and email about function stacking Nick with another one of your guest. I think it could be amazing for both.

Gabriel
Gabriel
10 years ago

Great interview! Nick is also a cohost on the Freedom Feens which also features Ben Stone the Bad Quaker. Jack was there some kind of conflict between you and Ben and is it resolved? A lot of people would be glad to see you at Porcfest and liberty forum!

Gabriel
Gabriel
10 years ago

That is a sad chain of events to be sure, while I disagree with the strategy of voting I can see the argument for doing it defensively. And unfortunately I can see Ben Stone reacting in that way based on two of his podcasts where he was very nasty and vindictive towards individuals he had been friends with before (google search his website for Gary north to bring it up).

Both you and Ben are great voices and I hope you’ll still consider attending liberty events like LF and porcfest in the future, there are many people out there including myself who value your knowledge and integrity.

Gabriel
Gabriel
10 years ago
Reply to  Gabriel

Appreciate the reply, very well said. Principles, honor, and integrity are just as important to modern survival as the what and the how-to.

Agoraculture
Agoraculture
10 years ago
Reply to  Gabriel

I asked Jack the same question on Liberty Forum (TSP 1488) and PorcFest in an email this week. I didn’t have the chance to thank Jack for attending Liberty Forum, doing so much for the FSP, for spending time with the community, for the TSP coins and for the Scotch. I also wanted to thank Jack for the interview advice where I discovered that our retirements are being covertly nationalized by being steered into government bonds (TSP 967-968). I owe Jack a huge THANK YOU! It is indeed true that no other speaker is as accessible with Jack, let alone a big name, room-filling speaker. Room and airfare doesn’t cover the cost of these events. Food and booze are pricy; I live locally and spent $300 in the 3 days I was able to attend. Jack was most generous in buying drinks for his fans. Throw in car rental, incidentals, boarding the dogs and the opportunity cost and it could easily cost several thousand dollars. It is truly a labor of love. Liberty Forum is moving to a larger venue – the Manchester Radisson, so they will need speakers.

Shawn
Shawn
10 years ago

Man that kid is inspiring! I wish I knew what he knows when I was 16.

Alex Shrugged
Alex Shrugged
10 years ago

Jack asked whether I knew the meaning of “goat” in the context he explained on the podcast.

I loved learning the context as Jack understood it. I’ll use a quote to illustrate how I understood it….

Charlie Brown: “So I drop the fly ball and we lose the championship! I could have been the hero…. instead I’m the GOAT. The other team is carrying their manager home on their shoulders…. Heroes ride…. Goats walk. I wanted so much to be the hero. But I always end up being the Goat! No matter how hard I try, I always end up being the Goat!”

I now return you to your regularly scheduled podcast.

Alex

Insidious
Insidious
10 years ago
Reply to  Alex Shrugged

I take the meaning to be ‘the [scape]goat’..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating

Agoraculture
Agoraculture
10 years ago
Reply to  Alex Shrugged

“He has been a terrible administrator and caused needless deaths through his incompetence.”

Fitting that the nation’s capital was named after Columbus!

UnentitledMillennial
UnentitledMillennial
10 years ago

If I were him I’d be building a micro-house for his deal with his dad to drop out. That counts as a house right?

Nickbert
Nickbert
10 years ago

Re: Economic restrictions on US citizens
The restrictions related to US tax policy, FATCA, and difficulty in banking abroad are actually the BIGGEST single obstacle and disincentive for us in our plan to relocate and build our business overseas this year. The reporting burden is going to be a royal pain and I have to take special care in how I structure the business and the ownership of it and how I receive any pay/income from our endeavors (the foreign tax exemption only counts for earned income). But for the time being our banks in Mongolia are still happy to have our business, and the tax, regulatory, and long-term economic climate is still far more favorable. Not to mention that if the selfish and dysfunctional US gov’t is this determined to keep me on the US “economic reservation”, it just makes me suspect that breaking away from it (not that moving abroad is the only way to do so) is that much more important.

– Nick

Nickbert
Nickbert
10 years ago

I hope my son and daughter will be like this young man when they’re his age 10-15 years from now. Not necessarily with farming/ranching (unless they find a desire for that), but just having a drive to explore, try new things. and being unafraid to find their own path and break from the herd. I’m banking that their ‘unconventional’ experience growing up in both the US and abroad (and being outside the US public school system) will help with that.

– Nick (not the one from the podcast ;^)

Jeff
10 years ago

Window dressing asside what functional difference is there between government and organized crime? There are differences in emphasis and procdures. The thug is more direct usually but they both extract resources, claim to protect, enforce their will with the threat of violence, fight with similar neighboring groups, claim to be the good guys, etc etc.

a Wiggins
a Wiggins
10 years ago
Reply to  Jeff

I agree with Jeff. Functionally much the same. I often think of the government as a form of mafia. And both Mafia and government seem to attract a certain percentage of persons who enjoy being thugs.

Duane
Duane
10 years ago

Jack , where can I find the break down of taxes on gas/diesel fuel. I heard a comment on your show about this, I think once I find out this info, get some stickers made with the data and where the info came from. Place the stickers on the pump every time I refuel. Maybe awareness will bring on change.

Agoraculture
Agoraculture
10 years ago

Very inspiring episode! Nick will be going far and now I want to raise yak! How is the ROI on meat production?

Biohacker Dave Asprey said on the Joe Rogan Experience #274 that the yak he ate in Tibet was as delicious as the finest grass-fed beef. Yak butter tea inspired him to make Bulletproof Coffee. Yak butter is especially high in nutrients and essential to survival in the harsh Himalayas. However, these Himalayan yaks were very large and forage on high altitude plants and lichens. I hope that we can get the same benefits with the smaller domestic yak, raised at low altitudes and pastures. I gotta locate some yak and find out!

Brooke
Brooke
10 years ago
Reply to  Agoraculture

Interesting about Dave Asprey and his yak experience. I listen to the JRE sometimes when I am intrigued by the guest and topic, but I missed the Dave Asprey interview. Time to bring back the yak!

Agoraculture
Agoraculture
10 years ago
Reply to  Brooke

Brooke- Here is the link to a transcript: http://www.bulletproofexec.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Joe-Rogan-Experience-Transcript-274-with-Dave-Asprey.pdf
Dave Asprey would be an awesome guest on TSP – Paleo, grass-fed, organic, survival, business and technology…. Biohacking would be a great new concept for TSP. I don’t know him, so I can’t ask him to fill out a guest form, though.

Doug O
Doug O
10 years ago

Wow, I wish I would have been as mature and aware at 16 as this young man! PS if you want some great Yak comedy go on YouTube and search “man on a buffalo”!!!

John Paul Smajda
John Paul Smajda
10 years ago

JACK YOU TOTALLY STOLE MY IDEA!
I was/am going to make a line item “cost of USDA compliance” charge once I started selling my rabbits off the farm! I was even going to do an “on the farm” discount. (In the state of TN, I can sell meat I process on the farm, only on the farm. To sell at Farmers Market, retail or restaurants, I have to

Ok, so I may have been inspired by Joel Salatin’s shipping charge that he includes on his bill. But thats besides the point. It would be both my way of educating people on the cost of compliance and encourage people to come to the farm.

John Paul Smajda
John Paul Smajda
10 years ago

oops, to soon on that post comment button.

JACK YOU TOTALLY STOLE MY IDEA!
I was/am going to make a line item “cost of USDA compliance” charge once I started selling my rabbits off the farm! I was even going to do an “on the farm” discount. (In the state of TN, I can sell meat I process on the farm, only on the farm. To sell at Farmers Market, retail or restaurants, I have to get it processed by a USDA facility. The closest one being at least an hour away!

Ok, so I may have been inspired by Joel Salatin’s shipping charge that he includes on his bill. But thats besides the point. It would be both my way of educating people on the cost of compliance and encourage people to come to the farm.

Pete
Pete
10 years ago

Jack: @ some point in this interview you suggested that it would be useful if gasoline taxes were displayed at the point-of-sale. This is done here in Kaliforniastan, however it is printed only in English, so most consumers are unaware…