Politely, Up Yours!
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 8 years ago -Politely, Up Yours! with Joe Macaluso and Dave Rael is a podcast seeking to explore the depths of philosophy, politics, society, government, religion, and human interaction. It also intends to be a shining becacon of virtue and civil interaction.
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Episode 008 | Politely Up Yours - Religion
July 19, 2016 00:00 - 54 minutes - 50.4 MBDave Rael and Joe Macaluso faith and religion, the impact of religion on societal norm, Chapters: 0:52 - Book Club - Man, Economy, and State 2:11 - Elasticity of demand 3:17 - Outlay 5:47 - Speculation and equilibrium 12:13 - Digging into religion and personal experiences of faith and institutional religion 19:21 - Science, observation, the scientific method, and faith 20:49 - Progression of human knowledge; morality and ethics; the state as religion 24:13 - Sources of wisdom, ins...
Episode 007 | Politely Up Yours - Needs And Wants
May 25, 2016 00:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBJoe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss the nature of supply and demand economics and whether markets work only for those things that are merely wants, rather than needs, or if regulation is necessary to make sure people are able to meet their needs. Chapters: 0:08 - Book Club - Man, Economy, and State 1:32 - Expanding a sample economy to multiple economies 3:39 - Self-maintenance of market equilibrium 6:34 - Supply and demand and the capability/incapability of markets to serve needs as wel...
Episode 006 | Politely Up Yours - Rights
May 16, 2016 00:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBDave Rael and Joe Macaluso discuss rights and come to an agreement on what rights are. The conversation uses healthcare as an example to explore what is and isn't a right and goes through many examples. Ultimately, the question whether citizens are slaves of the state is addressed with a thought exercise. Chapters: 0:22 - Book Club - Man, Economy, and State 1:06 - Psychic Revenue 2:00 - Exchange and the division of labor 4:06 - Buying the same goods from different suppliers: differen...
Episode 005 | Politely Up Yours - Free Society
May 09, 2016 00:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBJoe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss and try to define a free society and what it would look like. They go deep on thinking about a society without government and whether it would work and speculate on how. Chapters: 0:12 - Book Club - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State 1:10 - Transition in Rothbard from individual actors to societal interactions 3:10 - The "choice to be a slave" 5:55 - From hegemonic association to voluntarism 9:39 - What is a free society? 13:47 - Preventing coercio...
Episode 004 | Politely Up Yours - Discrimination
May 03, 2016 00:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBDave Rael and Joe Macaluso discuss the nature and acceptability/unacceptability of discrimination. The discussion touches on freedom of association, remedies for unreasonable discrimination, and becoming that which we claim to oppose. Chapters: 0:26 - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State 3:01 - Rationality of decisions of individual actors? 5:39 - Incompleteness of information 7:31 - Consumer goods and producer goods 8:39 - Our main topic of the day - Sexuality as illustration of the ...
Episode 003 | Politely Up Yours - I Side With
April 25, 2016 00:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBJoe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss common ground found in a free website providing the service of identifying where you align and disagree with ideologies, parties, and candidates. The discussion evolves into touching on fairness, rights, and the purpose of law. Chapters: 0:01 - The podcast now has a name (but you already knew that) 0:19 - The Politely, Up Yours! book club 3:10 - Can groups be actors or only individuals? 6:07 - Democracy as a restaurant 8:39 - Encountering and experi...
Episode 002 | Politely Up Yours - Hacker Vitriol
April 20, 2016 00:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBDave Rael and Joe Macaluso use reports that the hacker group, Anonymous, targeted Donald Trump as a starting point to discuss vitriol, discourse, power, and emotion Chapters: 0:12 - Introduction of our topic - the level of discourse and attacks by Anonymous on Donald Trump 1:07 - Reactions to reports of Anonymous attacking Donald Trump - would such actions be a fight for freedom or an immoral act? 3:40 - Thoughts on the nature of Donald Trump 4:21 - Nuance regarding the Trump rhetoric ...
Episode 001 | Politely Up Yours - Democracy Is a Disaster
April 19, 2016 00:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBDave Rael and Joe Macaluso dive into the nature of democracy, government, power, and corruption Chapters: 0:01 - Welcome and Hello 0:59 - Inflammatory statement and opening to the discussion: Democracy is a disaster 3:52 - Incentives, alignment, intent, and reality 6:32 - Distinguishing levels of government 8:23 - Legalization of marijuana and the criminality of possession 9:42 - Citizens United, Bernie Sanders, and the power to overturn 10:54 - The nature of democracy 11:52 - “A d...
Episode 000 | Politely Up Yours - Description of the Show
April 18, 2016 00:00 - 6 minutes - 5.59 MBJoe Macaluso and Dave Rael introduce the "Politely, Up Yours!" podcast and describe their intent in creating the show. You meet both hosts and get a brief introduction to who they are and the approach the show will take. Chapters: 0:00 - Wecome and Hello 0:44 - Meet Dave 1:37 - Meet Joe 2:37 - Where the hosts categorize themselves politically 3:40 - Objectives for the show Resources: Developer On Fire Product Manager