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The Bill Walton Show
In-depth and thought-provoking conversations with leaders, thinkers, artists, entrepreneurs and activists. Smart, original and interesting people…lovers of freedom and the American idea.
Episodes
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Episode 171: "Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy—And Our Freedom" with Steve Moore
On this episode we're talking with economist Steve Moore about his terrific new book Govzilla. It's a sobering, yet easy to read, tale of the gigantic…
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Episode 170: "Ethics at the Heart of Public Policy" with Ryan Anderson and Roger Severino
America's founding ideals and our nation's rich Judeo-Christian heritage have been under constant attack from a so-called "progressive" Left for over a hundred…
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Episode 169: George F. Will on "American Happiness and Discontents" with Don Boudreaux and John Tamny
In this episode we get to talk with George F. Will about his latest collection of essays, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020…
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Episode 168: "No Rights, No Games" with Chen Guangcheng, Reggie Littlejohn and Yaxue Cao
The 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing China opens a few weeks from now, and the International Olympic Committee's 2015 decision to have China host the event…
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Episode 167: "The Great Reset" with Jay Richards and James Patrick
Unprecedented government measures to stop the spread of an unstoppable virus have morphed into mortal threats to our liberties and civil rights, not just here…
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Episode 166: "Energy and Technology Reality" with Mark Mills
Today's episode is a treasure trove of important facts that we all should know about technology, society and the future. My guest is once again Mark Mills…
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Episode 165: "Just Facts about the Virus" with Jim Agresti
Albert Einstein said science can only flourish in an atmosphere of free speech. Today, despite claims about "following the science" with regard to Covid 19…
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Episode 164: "Wrath: America Enraged" with Peter Wood
Over the course of roughly four generations, from around 1950 to the present, American culture has been transformed from a culture that believed in the value…
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Episode 163: Challenging Leviathan with Mark Chenoweth and Jenin Younes
In this episode, we're talking again about the coercive power of the Administrative State and its serious threat to our constitutional freedoms. No other…
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Episode 162: "Is the Administrate State Democracy's Death Knell" with Michael Pack
Your eyes may glaze over when you hear people talking about the "administrative state." But if you care about liberty, it's long past time to start paying…
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Episode 161: "Whose Interest Does Big Business Serve?" with Justin Danhof and Matt Schlapp
In the past decade, America's big businesses have increasingly moved to the political left. For evidence, take a look at their actions and stances on critical…
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Episode 160: "An Army of Momma Bears" with Tony Perkins
I open this show fondly quoting Shakespeare about how "one man in his time plays many parts." He could have been writing about my friend and one of my personal…
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Episode 159: "Marxism's Long March" with Mark Meckler and Eric O'Keefe
America is waking up to the capture of our institutions by the "progressive" woke Left. Beginning with K-12 education, universities, the media, and Hollywood…
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Episode 158: "After Covid: Recovering Our Liberty" with Don Boudreaux and John Tamny
It's almost two years on from the onset of the Covid virus and we know a lot now that we didn't then. Society should be healing. But we live in vitriolic and…
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Episode 157: "Standing Up For Truth" with Kevin Hassett
First year economics classes usually begin the semester with the principles of supply and demand. You learn that incentives matter and that to suggest…
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Episode 156: "Liberty or Lockdown" with Jeffrey Tucker
It is hard to overstate the assault on civil liberties we are witnessing in America today. What began over a year and a half ago as temporary government…
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Episode 155: "Afghanistan, China and our Reckless Congress" with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra
In this episode we talk with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, formerly Chair of the House Intelligence Committee and now Chairman of the Center for Security Policy…
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Episode 154: "Restoring Our Election Integrity" with Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski
Election Integrity: Why we don't have it, how we lost it and what to do about it. In the election of 2020 we saw a dramatic loosening of the chain of custody…
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Episode 153: "Our Dunkirk Moment" with Steve Moore
The Reconciliation Bill, which Congress is rushing to pass in a matter of days, will push America over the brink into financial and social catastrophe. House…
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Episode 152: "The Administrative State vs Our Civil Liberties" with Phillip Hamburger and Jenin Younes
Joe Biden has mandated that businesses with more than 100 employees require every worker to be vaccinated or face weekly testing. It's estimated this will…
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Episode 147 Part 2: "Ahead of the Curve" with John Mauldin
In this Part 2 of my show with John Mauldin, we range far and wide peering into an optimistic future for humanity. Near term, things look pretty bleak, but…
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Episode 151: "The Afghanistan Debacle: What it Means for Americans" with Dr Stephen Bryen and Kyle Shideler
The Afghanistan debacle. An in-depth look at its implications with Dr Stephen Bryen, Senior Fellow at the American Center for Democracy and Kyle Shideler…
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Episode 150: The TBWS Brain Trust : "Afghanistan, what a Catastrophe"
It's on everybody's mind right now. Emotions are raw. What were we doing there? Where we're going to go from here? What this means for the country, and the…
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Episode 149: "Why America Must Remain the World's Preeminent Seapower" with Russ Vought and Arthur Herman
After decades of cuts to shipbuilding and maintenance, the United States Navy has been stripped down to a fleet barely larger than it was 100 years ago, in…
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Episode 148: "Vaccine Mandates?" with Professor Todd Zywicki and Jenin Younes
On June 28th 2021, George Mason University announced its reopening policy related to the COVID-19 for the fall 2021 semester. The policy required all…
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Episode 147: "Fingers of Instability" with John Mauldin
In this episode I'm joined by John Mauldin the best-selling author of Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market and whose…
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Episode 146: "These People Are Crazy" with Steve Moore
My guest this week is economist Steve Moore Our topic: the economy and how the trillion upon trillion dollar spending orgy in Washington is going to cause…
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Episode 145: "America's Intelligence Wars" with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra and Fred Fleitz
We are living in a complicated and dangerous time in America. American intelligence and national security should not be part of partisan politics but that is…
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Episode 144: Wokeness: A Grave Risk to America's Military-w/Lt.Gen.Boykin and Dr. Waller
Today we are witnessing a growing threat to our American military. A threat that is capable of doing what no foreign enemy ever could: Fracture the world's…
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Episode 143: Previewing the "Covid Olympics" with The Bill Walton Show Team
As COVID cases continue to climb in Tokyo, the nation is preparing to host the world in what may wind up being the most infamous Olympic Games ever. The Bill…
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Episode 142: The Dictatorship of Woke Capital with Stephen Soukup
For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a methodical - and largely successful - war to control American institutions. Our universities, K-12…
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Episode 141: Debunking the 1619 Project with Phil Magness
It's becoming quite clear that one of the central aims of Critical Race Theory is to delegitimize and diminish the political and moral achievement that is the…
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Episode 140: Talking with Charles Murray
Identity politics, and charges of systematic racism and white privilege, pose an existential threat to the American experiment and risk tearing our country…
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Episode 139: Victims of Communism: Are We Condemned to Repeat the Past?
America has a problem. Positive attitudes toward communism and socialism are at an all-time high in the United States. Almost 40% of Americans now view them…
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Episode 138: "Thinking Again about the Unthinkable" with Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
This show comes at time that this episode's guest, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, calls our "hinge of fate." Our topic is his riveting paper "Surprise Attack: ICBMs…
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Episode 137: "How Financial Regulations are Reshaping America" with Todd Zywicki and Brian Johnson
If you think a show about financial regulation is likely to be boring, I ask you to think again. Financial regulations are really about money. And in…
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Episode 136: Why Republican Glenn Youngkin could become the next Governor of Virginia
The most politically important election in America takes place this November - the race to become the next governor of Virginia. This race will not be just…
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Episode 135: "A Woke CIA is a Broke CIA" with Fred Fleitz and Mike Waller
"I used to struggle with imposter syndrome, but at age thirty six I refuse to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be. I am…
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Episode 134: The TBWS Roundtable on "Joe Biden's Horribles"
My friend Paul Teller keeps a running (and depressing) list of the destructive actions taken by Joe Biden's Administration. Joe Biden has been in office for…
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Episode 133: The Future of Policing in America
The Bill Walton Show Roundtable worries about what the future of law enforcement could look like in this country. In many cities, seasoned officers are rushing…
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Episode 132: "Combating Woke Capitalism" with Justin Danhof and Matt Schlapp
For years, major American corporations have been drifting to the political Left. Now that drift seems more like a tidal wave. Companies like Coca Cola, Delta…
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Episode 131: "The Chinese dominance of your medicine cabinet" with Rosemary Gibson
When you think of all the things in your house that are "made in China", one thing you may not realize is how many medicines are. That bottle of aspirin? Made…
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Episode 130: "Refounding America" with Mercy and Matt Schlapp
This past year has been filled with adversity, but with tough times can come great blessings. In my case, my wife Sarah and I have found a wonderful blessing…
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Episode 129: "Weighing the Cost of Panic" with Jay Richards and John Tamny
In this episode, Bill talks with Jay Richards and John Tamny about the Covid-19 pandemic and the trade-offs between freedom and government mandated "safety."…
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Episode 128: "The Bard and the Bible" with Bob Hostetler
For the past year or so, I've been reading in a daily devotional titled the The Bard and The Bible. In it each day is a quote from William Shakespeare, a…
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Episode 127: "An Actor's Craft: A conversation with Tony LoBianco"
During the last several years, I have had the great pleasure of getting to know a wonderful actor, Tony LoBianco. It's the 50th anniversary of his iconic movie…
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Episode 126: "The Unsettling Truth About Green Energy" with Mark Mills
In this episode, Mark Mills, Energy & Tech expert at the Manhattan Institute, and I go in-depth about the perils of so-called "green energy." Case in point…
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Episode 125: Warriors and Worriers
What are the evolutionary differences between men and women, and how do they survive and thrive through differing competitive strategies? In this episode, Dr…
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Episode 124: The Strange Rabbit Hole of Theory with James Lindsay
If it's possible to have a fun and entertaining conversation about political correctness, critical race theory and the state of being "woke", this is it…
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Episode 123: Trans Men in Women's Sports
On this episode, our TBWS Roundtable discusses the push by the radical woke left to let transgendered boy/girl athletes participate in girls and women's…
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Episode 122: The "Mis-Pricing" of Calvin Coolidge
On this episode, we look into the life and presidency of Calvin Coolidge with Amity Shlaes, author of The NY Times bestsellers Coolidge, The Forgotten Man, The…
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Episode 121: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with the Always Interesting Yaron Brook
On this episode, I'm talking with Yaron Brook, Chair of the Ayn Rand Institute, in a wide-ranging conversation that launches into the case for why the profit…
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Episode 120: The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure with John Allison
On this episode, I'm joined by John Allison, named one of the 100 most successful CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review. In this wide-ranging…
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Episode 119: CPAC, Trump and the future of the GOP with the TBWS Roundtable
The TBWS Roundtable discusses former President Trump's CPAC speech, and what it means for Republicans going forward. Has he learned anything about shoring up…
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EPISODE 118: "JUST THE FACTS"
The phrase "Just the facts" has taken on new meaning with the creation of media-based fact checkers. However, the definition of truth varies based on the…
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Episode 117: "Sim City" COVID with Phil Magness and Jeffrey Tucker
In this Episode, we continue our conversation with Jeffrey Tucker and are now joined by Phil Magness also with the American Institute for Economic Research…
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Episode 116: A new clarity in a COVID world with Jeffrey Tucker
With the first anniversary of the emergence of the Coronavirus, Jeffrey Tucker head of research at the American Institute for Economic Research joins me for an…
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Episode 115: A light at the end of the COVID tunnel? with Phil Kerpen
As Coronavirus lockdowns around the country are slowly starting to be lifted, I'm joined by Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment to talk about what…
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Episode 114: Wall Street War Games with The Bill Walton Show Team
On this episode, the BWS Roundtable discusses how thousands so called amateur investors got everyone talking about GameStop and Robinhood. What caused the…
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Episode 113: From Biden to Brady: Looking back on January 2021 with John Tamny
As we start a new year, I'm joined by my friend John Tamny with Freedom Works and Real Clear Markets to recap the events of the past month. We talk about the…