Bear Attacks Destroyed This Libertarian Utopia | Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling Interview
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show.
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, author of A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear, a book about what happened when libertarians took over a small town in New Hampshire with the one goal of dismantling its government and then the bears arrived. Matthew is an award-winning author, longform writer and investigative international journalist based in New England and his work has been featured in the Associated Press and USA Today.
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Topics Discussed
The small world of bear authors
Axe Cop
Libertarian Utopia
Problems with Libertarian utopia
Bears arrive
Burying the lead
People that would move to a Libertarian utopia
The Libertarian pastor
New England’s history with bears
Bear vs llama
Subscriber Portion
History of utopia’s
Fordlandia
Epcot
Matthew’s diverse and oddball career before journalism
Small town journalism
Ethan story
Why we need small town journalism
Vampires in New England
10 questions
11th question about reaching out to the other side
Transcript
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| 0:46.0 | Bears! |
| 0:48.0 | Libertarians, guns. |
| 0:51.0 | Lama's, shipping containers. |
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