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Viva Frei - Recovering Former Litigator! From Law to Politics & Beyond

He's Running for Governor of New York State! My Interview with Larry Sharpe - from Life to Libertarianism to THE RUN FOR NEW YORK!

Viva Frei - Recovering Former Litigator! From Law to Politics & Beyond

David Freiheit

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4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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0:00.0

Larry, you know what's really funny?

0:02.8

The first picture that I got of you, I said you look like my brother, but now seeing you

0:07.6

live, you get that you look like the guy from Breaking Bad?

0:11.8

I do. Which guy?

0:13.4

Well, the one who ended up getting the guy who owned the Hermando.

0:19.4

Oh, yes. Oh, he's's pretty cool I like him yeah he's

0:22.9

cool you've never gotten that from anybody in real life no not at all but I'll take it look I'll take it I look I look I look I look I look I look I look I'll take who I can get like I'll take who I'll I'll I'm gonna send you a picture of my brother back when you had when you had facial her you look exactly like my brother like holy cows why did why did your you know your team send me a

0:39.4

picture of my brother sir larry how go as i get

0:42.1

older i take the beard off because too much gray so well i know how you're born in 68 which makes

0:48.5

i was 11 years older than me so you're 57 years old i am i look i look good though you look you look extremely good. Seriously, when I was watching you, I thought we were the same age. And then when I went to your Wikipedia page, just to see what the Wikipedia says about you. You did not get called a far right extremist on Wikipedia. So I think you must be not trying hard enough. I, I am not a far writer unless you are a mainstream lefty, in which case, then I am a far stream rider.

1:13.5

Correct. Yes.

1:14.3

The very far left actually like me.

1:18.2

Well, I say at some point the very far left sort of meets around the backside of the circle and becomes the far right.

1:22.6

If you go far enough left, you actually get your guns back.

1:25.4

People don't realize that.

1:26.3

You got to go past Bernie, though. Like you really got to go far. If you go far enough left, you actually get your guns back. People don't realize that. You got to go past Bernie,

1:28.0

though, like you really got to go far. If you go far enough left, you actually get your guns back. Yeah, but the problem with that, you go far enough left, you get your guns back. And that's only because they want to use them against Nazis. I don't want to be hyperbolic. You're not wrong, but I'm just saying you don't get your guns back, so I'm saying.

1:42.3

So, yes.

1:43.1

Larry, for those who don't know, I mean, I gave the 30,000 foot overview that you are a businessman turned. I don't know when you turned libertarian. You've now run several times for, I would say three times for the governor of New York. Three times for governor of New York. Correct. This is my third time I'm running now. And in 2018, I got 100,000 votes, got ballot access for Libertarian Party in New York State, first time ever. And then the next year, I crossed the state again, trying to build on what I was talking about. And we actually had 107 local victories in New York State. New York State went from zero libertarians to 107 libertarians in one year. And that is one of my most

2:20.6

proudest things that I was able to help achieve. And that was because we got on the ballot.

2:24.2

For those you don't know, New York State is terrible with letting you on the ballot. You just

2:27.6

cannot get on. Last year, New York State was the only state in the entire union that actually

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