LoLP Episode 54: Ty Hicks - Can Students Help Achieve Liberty in North Korea?

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🗓️ 2 October 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair welcomes in Ty Hicks, a college student who is active in leadership roles with two of the leading student groups dedicated to advancing liberty, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) and Students for Liberty (SFL.) Ty describes how he became a an advocate for liberty, and how his student activism led to his involvement in the Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) Project. Marc and Ty discuss the the difficulties faced by citizens of North Korea, and how LiNK helps to bring awareness to the situation and help refugees escape and adapt to live a more free life. Visit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.6	Oh! Welcome to the Lions of Liberty podcast.
0:44.7	Here is your host, your guide, your shining beacon of liberty,
0:49.4	Mark Clare.
0:51.8	Hey there, everybody.
0:53.3	Welcome to another edition of the Lions of Liberty Podcast.
0:57.2	You know, it's that show where this crazy 30-something libertarian goes on rants and advances
1:02.9	the ideas of liberty, or at least I give it the old college try.
1:08.9	Now, speaking of college, you know, back when I was in college, I didn't really give it the old college try.
1:16.7	When it comes to all this liberty stuff, I was somewhat apolitical, really, when I first went to college, and I started to develop my political views a little bit in college, thanks to a good friend of mine, Howie Snowden,
1:28.0	who you heard from last week on our latest Libertarians in Living Rooms drinking liquor,
1:35.8	The Origin Special. He sort of pointed me down that path. But if I was going to be honest,
1:41.7	which I may as well, it's just you and me here, right guys?
1:44.7	You know, I spent a lot more time partying and fudcing around and not really paying attention
1:49.6	to this kind of stuff back in college than I should have been, nor were there really any
1:54.1	groups for people with a sort of libertarian bent back in my day, as they say.
1:59.4	You know, nowadays, I'm so inspired by all the young people I see
2:02.8	out there working hard to advance the ideas of liberty through various organizations,
2:08.0	doing all the things I wish I could go back and tell my younger self to do, slap them in the
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