I read and hear a lot about how bad the Federal Reserve is for America. The cries for “Audit the Fed” continue to grow louder. Inherently I understand that government intervention always causes market distortions but trying to explain how the Federal Reserve detrimentally impacts the economy at a level that the average person can understand has proved daunting. But I am going to give it a shot in this episode and the next one. In this episode I am going to introduce you to the Federal Reserve – explain what it is, why and how it was created and explain how it creates money. Episode #28 will be spent looking at the Fed's record over the 100+ years of its existence and argue why it should be abolished. Show Notes: Creature from Jekyll Island, Edward Griffin The Myth of Fed Independence – Mises.org End the Fed, Ron Paul Numerous writings and podcast from the likes of Ron Paul, John Tamny, Tom Woods, Fee.org and Mises.org. ----------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! Check out the "END THE FED" shirt inspired by this episode. The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available at Rumble, Thinkspot, Brighteon and on BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

As I thought ahead to the publication of this week’s episode, I noticed that it would fall on the week of Christmas. I glanced up at my bookshelf and pulled down my copy of In Defense of Faith by David Brog and I realized the message Brog presents in that book was a perfect foundation from which to base this week’s episode on. Brog describes his book’s purpose as a rebuttal to the claim that people of faith are responsible for our greatest sorrows, bloodshed, war, hatred. His primary message is the Judeo-Christian tradition has been an overwhelming force for good throughout history with its message of equality and sanctity of all humans combined with the call to love one another. It’s the idea that all humans are made in the image of God and, therefore, are worthy of respect. When you look at the atrocities committed in the world over time, you will notice that most of them were perpetrated with a purposeful rejection of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Show Notes: In Defense of Faith, David Brog ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! Check out the "The World Needs More Jesus" shirt partially inspired by this episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page The video of this episode is available at Rumble Thinkspot, Brighteon and BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram. Truth Social: @TruthQuestPodcast GETTR: @TruthQuest_PC Twitter: @apathyreigns The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Order a copy of one of my books, Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect.

Another fiscal year has come and gone and another spending resolution deadline is looming. It seems like every year we go through the same exercise with the political class arguing and casting blame on each other over who is going to cause the latest, pending government shutdown. Well guess what? It is largely inconsequential. The amount of federal spending that Congress actually controls is around 14% of the budget. So we are supposed to tie ourselves in knots over a minuscule part of the budget while the federal government continues its ever-expanding march into unconstitutional areas of American's lives. It's all an unnecessary distraction from the real problems that plague our nation and it is a distraction from Congress' abdication of most of their constitutional duties. Show Notes: Shock Report: 86% Of Government Spending Is Now On Autopilot - IBD Report: 86 Percent of Federal Spending Now on Autopilot - NewsMax GAO - Government-Wide Inventory of Accounts with Spending Authority and Permanent Appropriations, Fiscal Years 1995 to 2015 “No Deal” – Government Shutdown Inevitable, Blamescaping Begins Everything you need to know about a government shutdown What closes when the government shuts down Government shutdown spreading pain as it takes hold in Minnesota Federal Government Shutdown: Impact on Food Safety May Compound Over Time Dana Carvey - Church Lady - "Isn't that special?" The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books, Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available at Rumble, Thinkspot and on BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

We are told that protective tariffs are necessary to save jobs. We are told that high-wage countries like the United States cannot compete with low-wage countries like Vietnam and China. We are told that the dumping of products needs to be addressed with protective tariffs. But we are never told the whole truth. Politicians and mainstream news outlets never really evaluate the whole picture when it comes to tariffs. They never explain who really pays. They never ask the question: What about the consumer? Listen to learn the truth about tariffs? Show Notes: Woodrow Wilson and Tariffs The New Tariff of Abominations? Why Tariffs Won't Create Jobs or Help the Auto Industry Harley-Davidson is Right and Trump is Wrong The Economic Illiteracy of Tariff Man Tariffs and Americas Early Economic History Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt - Chapter 11. Who’s “Protected” by Tariffs? President Trump's Predecessors Learned About Steel Tariffs the Hard Way Economics Was Invented to Refute Trump's Tariff Arguments Tariffs Worked in History When They Warded Off All Other Taxes Free Trade Let's Us Turn Corn into Cars Tariffs: The Taxes That Made America Great - Pat Buchanan The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Rumble, Thinkspot, Brighteon and on BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

The federal government is not supposed to be this gargantuan entity that is involved in virtually every aspect of our lives. The states created the federal government via the Constitution. They granted the federal government a few powers while all others were left to the states. Unfortunately, modern America's political system is a far cry from the Founder's vision of limited power at the federal level. Fortunately there is a method whereby the power that the federal government tries to wield can be checked. That method is called nullification. Nullification is the practice whereby states resist federal actions that they deem unconstitutional. In this episode, I introduce you to the concept, dispel quite a few inaccurate assumptions made by mainstream news outlets and so-called historians and provide you with several examples of nullification efforts currently going on today. I owe a debt of gratitude to Tom Woods and The Tenth Amendment Center who have written extensively on this subject. Show Notes: Nullification - Tom Woods Tenth Amendment Center - Nullification Overview Tenth Amendment Center 2018 State of the Nullification Movement Report Nullification: The Rightful Remedy - Documentary Nullification: Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 NullificationFAQ.com Tenth Amendment Center Publishes Episode #23 ----------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! Check out the "Few and defined; Numerous and indefinite" shirt inspired by this episode. ----------------------------------------- The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Rumble, Thinkspot, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

This is the fourth episode focusing on a Christian apologetic topic. In Episode #5 we talked about The Truth About the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Episode #10, we covered The Truth About God and Evil and in Episode #15 we talked about The Truth About Prayer. What I want to talk to you about today is the remarkable (and dare I say, miraculous) story of a carpenter named Jesus from a map dot in the middle of the Middle East who lived over 2,000 years ago and the truth about the impact He left on the world.  I’ve heard Jesus Christ called a lot of things but the most accurate word is “radical”. Let me know if you agree after listening to this episode. Show Notes: Who Is This Man - John Ortberg I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist - Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek CrossExamined.org One Solitary Life ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! Check out the "The World Needs More Jesus" shirt partially inspired by this episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page The video of this episode is available on Rumble, Thinkspot, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram. Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of one of my books, Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. Truth Social: @TruthQuestPodcast GETTR: @TruthQuest_PC Twitter: @apathyreigns GAB: @TruthQuestPodcast The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page

For those of you who are fans of Rush Limbaugh, you know that every year on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving he reads an excerpt from his 1993 best-seller, See I Told You So. It is his way of setting the record straight about the holiday we are about to celebrate. In this episode, I read this excerpt as my way of trying to get to the truth about Thanksgiving. Show Notes: See, I Told You So, Rush Limbaugh Brion McClanahan Show Episode #189 - The First Thanksgiving John Stossel: Happy Thanksgiving! Reason TV: The Pilgrims and Property Rights PragerU: America's Socialist Origins Mises.org: Thanksgiving Celebration and Free Enterprise Daniel J. Mitchell Happy Free Market Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, Redistributionism, and Libertarianism Thanksgiving Socialism and Free Enterprise The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

President Trump recently stirred up a hornets nest when he mentioned that he was considering signing an executive order ending birthright citizenship. As you might expect progressives went crazy, while Democrats and establishment Republicans denounced and/or, in the case of Senator Tim Scott (SC) or outgoing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, politely “disagreed” with the President. Either way, this provides us with an opportunity to examine the Constitution and, being the constitutional geek that I am, I cannot resist. Show Notes: Birthright Citizenship Opponents Should Not Rely on 14th Amendment Congressional Debates - Tenth Amendment Center Does the 14th Amendment Grant Citizenship to Children of Foreigners - Tenth Amendment Center Birthright Citizenship What the Constitution and Common Sense Say - Tom Woods Episode #1273 An Objective Guide to Birthright Citizenship - American Thinker Should Birthright Citizenship be Abolished? - New York Times The Question of Birthright Citizenship - National Affairs Citizenship Without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Policy, Peter Schuck The True History of Millstone Babies, Ann Coulter Libertarian Critique Birthright Citizenship - Mises.org Episode #183 - Brion McClanahan Podcast - Citizenship and the 14th Amendment The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, Brighteon and on BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

Do you ever question the amount of time and energy spent fretting about the politics coming out of Washington D.C.? The Founding Fathers never thought that the average American would spend much time pondering the goings-on in D.C. After all, the federal government's power was constitutionally restricted. In this brief episode, I suggest an alternative to our seemingly unending focus on all things D.C. Show Notes: Washington D.C. is Beyond Reform, Focus on Your State The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. This episode is available on Thinkspot, Brighteon, BitChute and Rumble. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

Gun control is one of the most contentious issues in American politics. The pro-Second Amendment, pro-gun arguments are so much more persuasive and based on facts, common sense, and logic that gun control advocates should be embarrassed to even engage in an argument.   Successfully arguing this issue really only requires you to repeat the words of gun control advocates back to them with a little commentary. The illogical nature of their arguments and the place of ignorance from which they often argue is quite easy to identify and dismantle for any intellectually honest person. Show Notes: More Guns, Less Crime – John Lott, Jr. The Naked Constitution – Adam Freedman Control - Glenn Beck The 2nd Amendment Empowers Women More than Lapel Pins. www.wrongaboutguns.com Prager University – Is Gun Ownership a Right? Praesidium - Short Film Cato Institute - Tough Targets When Criminals Face Armed Resistance CrimeResearch.org - Sixty-Eight Defensive Gun Uses by People Carrying Guns in Public Over the Last Three Months Daniel J. Mitchell Gun Control Works in Europe, Where Do Terrorists Get their Weapons? Now there Are Four: Another Honest Liberal Debunks Gun Control The Bill of Rights, Gun Ownership, and the Constitution The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. Episodes are available at Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

The reason the American healthcare system is in such a mess is because of decades of government intervention and the third-party payer system. If we reduce government involvement and bring back capitalistic, free market principles, conditions will improve; it’s almost guaranteed. In a nutshell, real healthcare reform can be accomplished by encouraging a patient-centered, market-based system that eliminates or, at least, minimizes government involvement in the system. True to the title of this episode, I will walk you through some concrete examples of how the American healthcare system can be reformed. Show Notes: How to Reform Health Care in America When Health Insurance Works: A Look Inside Switzerland's Healthcare System Repealing Obamacare Won't Fix the Healthcare Mess The Evil-Mongering of the American Medical Association Fee.org Healthcare Sharing Ministries Three Ways Regulations Make Healthcare More Expensive Why Doctors Should be Certified Like Airline Pilots Mises.org Stop Hating High Deductible Health Plans The Problem with Government Licensing Schemes Not Every Health Condition is Insurable How to Rollback Bad Health Care Laws The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books, Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble and on BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

Every year the country waits with bated breath over the latest Supreme Court opinions. If we were living true to the Constitution, this would never happen because the Supreme Court is not supreme when it comes to deciding the constitutionality of a law! Think you disagree? Listen to learn the truth about the Supreme Court. Show Notes: Tenth Amendment Center published Episode #16 Books: Men in Black, Mark Levin Origin Intent, David Barton The Naked Constitution, Adam Freedman The Tenth Amendment Center: Who Made the Supreme Court King? No, Enforcing Unconstitutional Acts Will Not Save the System Vetting Kavanaugh According to the Constitution The Supreme Court's Job is to Protect Americans from Democracy Thomas Sowell Explains Wickard v. Filburn Mises.org: The Supreme Court is Much Too Powerful The Supreme Court: Why the Stakes are So High Why We're Losing Freedom - Prager University Kris Anne Hall The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books, Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

In this episode we explore what prayer is and how we are supposed to approach it. Tim Keller's book, Prayer and Oswald Chamber's daily devotional, My Utmost for His Highest serve as my primary sources. We cover St. Augustine, Martin Luther, and John Calvin's advice on prayer. We take a closer look at the model prayer given by Jesus, The Lord's Prayer. We also discuss intercessory prayer, the idea of "Thy Will Be Done", meditation, the Holy Spirit and praying in Jesus' name. Hope you enjoy. Show Notes: Prayer, Timothy Keller My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! Check out the "The World Needs More Jesus" shirt partially inspired by this episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram. Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of one of my books, Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. Truth Social: @TruthQuestPodcast GETTR: @TruthQuest_PC Twitter: @apathyreigns GAB: @TruthQuestPodcast The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page

There are a lot of things wrong with the Obamacare law passed in 2010. Besides the fact that the law is unconstitutional, I outline four other things that are wrong with it: #1 - The way the law was drafted #2 - The way the law was passed #3 - The way the law was upheld by the Supreme Court #4 - The consequences of the law Show Notes: If Obamacare Is Constitutional, then Why Did the Founding Fathers Bother with a List of Enumerated Powers? Healthcare is Not a Federal Power Would You Prefer Privatization or a Death Panel? Obamacare and the Odious Anti-Constitutionalism of Chief Justice John Roberts Good Morning Liberty Podcast - Obamacare Back in Court: What's Happening and What Needs to be Done? The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books, Pritical Thinking,The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble and on BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

In this episode I recount a conversation I had a few months ago with someone in my family. It was a short but wide-ranging discussion mostly about national politics but the actual content is less important than the lessons I drew from it. Show Notes: Americans Grapple Recognizing Facts In News Stories The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble and on BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

This is the second of four healthcare-related episodes. In Episode #9, I discussed the truth about healthcare in America as a way to lay the groundwork for the other three – the truth about socialized medicine, the truth about Obamacare, and the truth about real healthcare reform.  The truth about socialized medicine or government-run medical systems is wherever it has been implemented, the results have been people suffering from shortages, rationing of care, long wait times, a lower level of care, there is no incentive to shop for better prices (or better service), and the denial of experimental drugs, innovative procedures, and new technologies. Why would we willingly endorse and enroll in a healthcare system that has proven to be inferior to the one we currently have? Why would we willingly put our health in the hands of a bunch of faceless bureaucrats who could care less about us personally? What is it about other nations' socialized medicine programs that is worthy of emulation? Show Notes: Daily Mail - Nearly 1,200 People Starved to Death in NHS Hospitals The Guardian - NHS Budget Squeeze to Blame for Longer Wait Times Basic Errors Killing 1,000 NHS Patients a Month Study Shows Another Great Moment in the Annals of Government Run Healthcare Does Britain Have the Best Health System? Only If You Ignore Outcomes Who Was Charlie Gard BBC - NHS Rationing Leaves Patients in Pain BBC - Long Waits for Surgery Have Tripled in Four Years Parents of U.K. Boy With Tumor to Fight Extradition PragerU - What's Wrong with Government-Run Healthcare? The False Promise of Canada's Health Care System The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page. Order a copy of Shawn's books, Pritical Thinking,The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

Today we are going off the beaten path of politics, public policy, economics and Christian apologetics. We are going to talk about the life lessons reinforced by playing the latest video game craze, Fortnite. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, it is fashioned after the fight-to-the-death competition in The Hunger Games. You parachute onto an island with 99 other players and struggle to survive until there is only one player or team left standing. Every parent of a 10-25 year old is aware of this game. Some parents restrict playing time, others just complain about how all-encompassing or addicting it seems to be. It is, to say the least a worldwide phenomenon. Despite its addictive nature, the game teaches and reinforces many life lesson. In this episode, I cover 20 lessons. The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

Let's be honest, if you are looking for a reason not to believe in God, the world is more than willing to supply you with one - the existence of evil is just one of many. It also happens to be one of the more persuasive reasons. Atheists, agnostics, and non-Christians complain all the time about how “harsh” and “evil” the God of the Old Testament appears to be. And the ever-present question of how can a good God allow so much cruelty to exist is a legitimate question worthy of an answer. My intent with this episode is to present you with information that I have come across over the years as I continued my truth quest in regards to the question of God and evil. At this point in my journey, I feel like I know about three-quarters of the story. There are still areas where I am not clear but, perhaps this episode will spark some discussion on the Truth Quest Facebook page and you can help fill me in on the rest of the story.   Show Notes: If God, Why Evil – Norman Geisler The Story of Reality, Gregory Koukl The Proverbs Project, Shawn Brodof Young Couple Trying to Prove Human Kindness Among Cyclists Killed by ISIS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! Check out the "The World Needs More Jesus" shirt partially inspired by this episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram. Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is also available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute and Brighteon. Truth Social: @TruthQuestPodcast GETTR: @TruthQuest_PC Twitter: @apathyreigns The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page

I have several healthcare-related episodes in the works including one on Obamacare, one on socialized medicine, and one on healthcare reform. In order to lay the groundwork for those future episodes, I thought it was important to discuss healthcare in America in general and dispel some myths or lies or propaganda (depending on your perspective). If you listen to the the mainstream media, liberal think tanks, or national Democrats, you are left believing that the American healthcare system is no better than some third world countries. While the bashing of the American healthcare system has been relentless, is it the truth? Listen and find out! Show Notes: Cato - Why Healthcare Costs too Much Ten Surprising Facts About American Healthcare National Center for Policy Analysis Mises - Lecture of American Healthcare Pritical Thinking Healthcare Chapter Citations The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is also available on Thinkspot, Rumble, Brighteon and BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

In my book, Pritical Thinking, I wrote that Social Security was doomed from the start. It is nothing more than a government-sanctioned, intergenerational Ponzi Scheme! It is unconstitutional and should be abolished.  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not truthful with the American people when he was pushing the legislation that eventually passed. Social Security will be insolvent by 2034. There are other alternatives currently implemented by dozens of countries around the world. Why doesn't the United States adopt one of them? Show Notes: Daniel J. Mitchell Good News From Washington - Social Security Only $42 Trillion in the Hole The Global Private Social Security Revolution Reforms to Sweden’s Retirement System and Lessons for the United States How to save Social Security The Ever-Expanding Fiscal Burden of Social Security Chile’s successful privatized SS system The Second Social Security Crisis The Case for SS Personal Accounts Social Insecurity The Committee For A Responsible Federal Budget Jacob Hornberger Social Security is Socialism The Socialism of Social Security Mises.org Social Security's Winners and Losers Social Security's Black Hole Has Arrived Social Security is a Terrible Investment Social Security Cannot Survive in its Present Form The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

This episode will tackle the issue of climate change or global cooling or global warming (depending on what decade in which the issue is being pushed). Specifically we are going to review this topic from the perspective of the propaganda, lies, and deception that surround the topic. The list is long but I tackle five instances: The Hockey Stick Temperature Chart. The claim that 97% of climate scientists are in agreement. The University of East Anglia scandal. Al Gore's movie, The Inconvenient Truth The ridiculous claim that "the debate is settled" and "there is consensus". The bottom line is, with such a prolific history of data manipulation, lies, and propaganda, why is there a lack of healthy skeptism around the claims made by climate change alarmist? Show Notes: Canadian statisticians, Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick (hockey stick) PragerU - 97% Claim Debunking the 97% Claim FriendsofScience.com - 97% Claim The Moral Case for Fossil Fuel - Alex Epstein PragerU - Paris Climate Accord Wall Street Journal - Climate Change Has Run Its Course Pritical Thinking - Global Warming citations The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, Brighteon and BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

Today we are going to talk about former San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback, Colin Kaepernick’s 2017 national anthem protest. I was prompted to record this episode after reading an article in my local sports section by Associated Press writer Paul Newberry as he used the opportunity of the opening of NFL training camps to complain about the fact that Colin Kaepernick is still unemployed. I love one-sided articles like this because it offers a great opportunity to point out both bias and common ground and, of course, providing ample opportunity to offer up counter-arguments. Show Notes: Fatal Force - Washington Post Remember Kaepernick, Reid as training camps open The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute.com and Brighteon.com. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.  

Today I am going to lay out facts about this historical event – the resurrection of a man known as Jesus of Nazareth. For those of you who are Christians, I believe this conversation will bolster your faith. After all, without the resurrection, Christianity is nothing; our faith is futile. 1 Corinthians 15:17 For those of you who are atheists, agnostics, undecided and anywhere in between, just consider this an ancient history lesson and simply ingest what I share. Perhaps it will change or tilt your heart in His direction. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! Check out the "The World Needs More Jesus" shirt partially inspired by this episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, Bitchute and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram. Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of one of my books, Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. Truth Social: @TruthQuestPodcast GETTR: @TruthQuest_PC Twitter: @apathyreigns GAB: @TruthQuestPodcast The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page

We are going to tackle the minimum wage issue with facts, figures, economic laws, and logic rather than, what we usually get - emotional calls for the wage rate increase using illogical arguments that are in direct opposition to economic law. I want to start with a quote by Thomas Sowell from his epic book, Basic Economics that really lays the foundation for this discussion. On page 237 he said: “By the simplest and most basic economics, a price artificially raised tends to cause more to be supplied and less to be demanded than when prices are left to be determined by supply and demand in a free market. The result is a surplus, whether the price that is set artificially high is that of farm produce or labor.” Show Notes: The Real Minimum Wage is $0.00 - New York Times, January 14, 1987 2014 Congressional Budget Office Study Harvard Business Review study, March 2018 eattle minimum wage Minimum wage is bad for low-skilled workers – Daniel J. Mitchell Economics in One Lesson chapter on minimum wage - Henry Hazlett Real World Examples of How the Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs - Daniel J. Mitchell Part II of Contra Krugman: The Book - Minimum Wage Minimum Wage Hikes Are Killing Jobs in California's Poorest Communities, Study Says Congress Seeks to Boost the Minimum Wage and Teen Joblessness Fee.org How Shake Shack is Dealing with Minimum Wage Guess Why Hundreds of Busboys Just Lost Their Jobs Restaurant Chain Announces Bankruptcy: Says Minimum Wage Hike to Blame The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, BitChute, and Brighteon. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.

In America we are living through a perpetual constitutional crisis. The heavy restrictions placed on the federal government by the United States Constitution have been largely ignored for most of the country's history. We have experienced both small and incremental steps in the power and growth of the federal government (federal agencies, bureaucracies and regulations) as well as large and unprecedented leaps (the Alien and Sedition Acts, the internment of Japanese, The Patriot Act, and NSA spying). In this episode I hope to influence the way you look at the federal government going forward - through the eyes of the Founding Fathers. As mentioned in previous episodes, questions are powerful methods of persuasion especially when you require skeptics to answer them. In Episode 2, I posed the question "WHAT ABOUT THE BABY?" Today I will pose the question, "WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION?" This is a question I hope you ask every time you evaluate the actions of our elected and unelected officials in Washington, D.C. Show Notes: Founders Constitution - University of Chicago WhereintheConstitution.org Bridge of Spies Movie Clip - What makes us American? The Perversion of the Presidency - Tenth Amendment Center blog post Tenth Amendment Center Publishes Episode #3 Economic Liberty and the Constitution - Daniel J. Mitchell The First Question We Should Always Ask - Is this authorized by the constitution? ----------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! Check out the "Few and defined; Numerous and indefinite" shirt inspired by this episode. ----------------------------------------- The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of Shawn's books - Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The video of this episode is available on Thinkspot, Rumble, Brighteon and on BitChute. Check out short highlight videos of each episode on Instagram.