H From the Multicultural Headquarters of the Future Capital of the Free Thinking States of America known as Los Angeles,

this is the Drunken-Daoist Podcast.

Tonight, it's interview time again as political commentator, amateur historian and true podfather Dan Carlin joins us to discuss teaching folks to think for themselves, changing your opinion when the facts change, living life tight but loose, wild-cart throwing

gods of history, the mysterious LA family running around in dance fair pants, and wanting

to let you all know if the show's too smart for you it's not his fault.

And now, quietly awaiting my one-way ticket to Guantanamo, I'm Rich Heavers.

And my partner in crime, answering hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised little finger,

Danieli Bolle.

Away we go.

go.

Welcome back everybody a very exciting episode today in honor of the number 23.

We managed to get the man himself Dan Carlin on the on the skyline which sounds

pretty decent it's not as nice as the dulcute towns off our own mics but

uh before we get any further ladies and gentleman Daniellele Bulle.

Hey hey hey hey Skype yes that's a first we're never done this before we don't really

want to do that that much in the future either but we more than happily make an

exception for Dan Carlin because he's just too cool of a person to get a chance to

chat with so we'll you know we'll continue doing live episodes I mean not live but you know in live episodes for the most part and then there's going to be

the occasional exceptional in super random cases such as this one but yes we are at

episode 23 we just finished chatting with Dan. Was incredibly fun.

So let's take care of business quickly so you guys can jump into our conversation.

First, a couple of things. I know several of you have

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