Episode #100: Celebration

We thanked our listeners, sponsors, VoiceAmerica Team, including our sound engineer Matt Weidner, the founder of VoiceAmerica, Jeff Spenard, and our Executive Producer Robert Ciolino, our “dreammaker.”

Ed and Ron talked about the 30 guests they’ve had on since the first show ran on July 4, 2014. Two of those guests have been on twice (Rabbi Daniel Lapin and Doug Sleeter).

A special thank you to all of the following guests for appearing on TSOE:

Deirdre McCloskey, August 8, 2014
Rory Sutherland, August 29, 2014
Howard Hansen and Steven Geske, September 12, 2014
Father Robert Sirico, October 17, 2014
Reed Holden, Oct 31, 2014
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Nov 14, 2014 (twice: April 1, 2016)
Tim Williams, Dec 5, 2014
Jody Thompson, ROWE, CultureRx, Dec 12, 2014
Thomas Sowell, December 19, 2014
Adam Davidson, Jan 9, 2015
Jules Goddard, Jan 16, 2015
Dan Morris, Feb 6, 2015
Joe Pine, March 6, 2015
Robert Cross, March 13, 2015
Anthony Clark, March 20, 2015
Dan Ariely, May 8, 2015
Brad Smith, May 22, 2015
Kevin Mitchell, PPS, June 12, 2015
Lee Cockerell, Disney, June 19, 2015
Greg Tirico, July 17, 2015
Jennifer Warawa, August 14, 2015
George Gilder, Sept 11, 2015
Daniel Susskind, Jan 8, 2016
Mark Koziel, AICPA, Jan 15, 2016
David Wells, Matthew Burgess, John Chisholm, Feb 19, 2016
John Jantsch, Duck Tape Marketing, March 11, 2016
Paul Kennedy: The OBK Story, March 18, 2016 (done live in UK)
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, April 1, 2016
Dr. Mark Miller, April 22, 2016 (Books: The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, and Fueling Freedom)
Astronaut Rick Searfoss, May 6, 2016
Doug Sleeter, Part I, June 10, 2016
Doug Sleeter, Part II, July 1, 2016

Access to all of these shows can be found on our archive page.

Memorable Shows

Scroogenomics, Nov 28, 2014 (“Black Friday”)
Business Lessons from A Christmas Carol, December 18, 2015
Our First Free-Rider Friday, January 30, 2015
Live from Sage Summit July 28-30, 2015
Famous Last Words, October 9, 2015
Live at the VeraSage Symposium, Nov 20, 2015
Live at the Texas Libertarian Party Presidential debate, April 9, 2016

Carry-Over Items from Last Two Shows

Ron eat crow for wrongly predicting Brexit vote would lose. www. predictit.org and a lot of the polls got it wrong, too.

Proposed referendum names for other countries thinking of leaving of the EU:

Quitaly
Dumpmark
Byerland
Withdrarsaw
Portgugone
Madriddance

As a follow-up to our shows with Doug Sleeter on the blockchain, Ron discussed the “Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast” hosted by Trace Mayer. Two shows he listed to and enjoyed: an interview with Jeffrey Tucker and one with Dr. Adam Back, a legend in Bitcoin developer circles.

Dr. Back discussed his innovation of Sidechains, which is one of the pet projects on the developer’s wish list of “cool features.”

A sidechain essentially suspends your Bitcoins on the main blockchain, then sends them to a smart contract guided sidechain, with proof of suspension, and grants you equivalent use of the Bitcoins on the sidechain.

It’s a way for them to add new features in a modular way. For instance, a sidechain could be used to run an airlines’ frequent flyer program, or for anything where you might need a ledger with special features.