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🎙️ Big Questions with Big John — where curiosity meets courage. Hosted by Big John, this long-form interview show dives deep with comedians, thinkers, creators, and contrarians who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. From politics and culture to comedy, philosophy, and free speech, each episode asks the questions others won’t — and lets guests speak freely about what they really believe.
Big John hosts The Big Questions with Big John, a society show with 46 episodes published.
Americans say they believe in free speech. Then the speech gets ugly, offensive, dangerous, politically inconvenient, or useful to the other side. In this episode of Big Questions with Big John, Jonathan Rauch joins Big
We built the most productive civilization in human history. We’re also the most anxious, the most isolated, and the least trusting of any generation on record. Brink Lindsey spent two decades at the Cato Institute defend
What if one of the most hated Supreme Court cases in American legal history was not the villain you were taught it was? David Bernstein, constitutional scholar at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School, joins Big Jo
The Libertarian Party has a strategy problem, and Jacob Hornberger says it’s destroying the movement from within. Hornberger is the founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation, a former U.S. Senate candidate, and a Liber
Megan McArdle is a Washington Post columnist and trained economist who has spent two decades mapping the fault lines where money, policy, and institutional failure collide. With the national debt crossing $36 trillion an
Political philosopher Kevin Vallier, author of Trust in a Polarized Age, joins Big John to map the doom loop connecting social distrust and political polarization — and why COVID may have been the event that broke Americ
The system isn’t just broken; it was built this way. Lars Mapstead ran for president on one theme: unrig it. Lars Mapstead is a tech entrepreneur and 2024 Libertarian presidential candidate who argues that the two-party
Why is it that the left, the right, and libertarians can talk about each other — but never to each other? Dr. Arnold Kling, MIT-trained economist and author of The Three Languages of Politics, breaks down the invisible f
What happens when socialism takes everything from your family — not once, but twice? Martha Bueno’s parents escaped Castro’s Cuba, rebuilt their lives in Venezuela, and then watched Hugo Chavez destroy it all over again.
Does your vote actually change anything — or is ignorance the price of admission? Constitutional law professor Ilya Somin argues that political ignorance isn’t a failure of education or media — it’s a rational response b
“All laws ultimately come down to somebody with guns coming to make you do their bidding.” Is that really how freedom works? Dr. Aeon J. Skoble — Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University — joins Big John t
What if the people writing our laws aren’t just incompetent — but acting with bad intent? Jim Babka has spent decades inside the libertarian movement — from press secretary for presidential candidate Harry Browne to figh
The government says sex trafficking is exploding. The real numbers tell a very different story — and bad data is being used to destroy free speech online. Reason Magazine senior editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown exposes how c
Cathy Young reveals the terrifying reality of growing up in the Soviet Union, from secret police surveillance to her family’s harrowing Gulag survival stories. We discuss the dangers of authoritarianism and why the moder
Is the public school system designed to educate children or train obedient workers? We break down why “Unschooling” is the ultimate exit strategy for parents who want to raise sovereign, independent thinkers. In this epi
Is focusing on the White House a waste of time? Political organizer Cliff Maloney reveals the “25% Rule”—a mathematical path to taking over a State Legislature and bypassing federal gridlock entirely. In this episode of
Is a centralized state actually necessary for law and order, or is government obsolete? David Friedman (author of The Machinery of Freedom) breaks down the mechanics of Anarcho-Capitalism and explains how a private marke
Legendary Casting Director Marc Hirschfeld reveals the untold stories behind TV’s biggest hits. Discover how he found Ed O’Neill for Married with Children when no one else saw the vision, and the rigorous process of asse
Does true freedom require a spiritual connection to nature? We explore why the path to anarchy might just be Pagan, and how to separate liberty from the Left-Right paradigm. Logan Albright (Free the People) joins Big Joh
Discover the “Master Algorithm” that took Antonio T. Smith Jr. from sleeping on the streets to building a tech empire. This isn’t just a story—it’s a brutal look at personal responsibility, the limits of AI, and how to b
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