The Bart Baggett Show: The World’s Most Interesting People Podcast

“We don’t do what we know we should with money, we do what we’ve practiced,” explains today’s guest Heather Wagenhals, TV host, author, speaker, financial wizard and race car driver, who can spot a poser from a mile away. She joins the Bart Baggett show to explain that becoming wealthy starts with telling yourself a different story about money. Our upbringing, she says, shapes the way we view weal...

"One thing you learn: the world does not stay the same," says Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine. He joins The Bart Baggett Show to explore what sets billionaires—like those on the annual Forbes 400 list—apart from the rest of us, beyond just their wealth. The answer is both practical and refreshing. This same practical mindset has enabled Forbes Magazine to thrive in the digital age...

“America’s moving, in my opinion, in a bad direction,” says today’s guest, Roman Balmakov, director of the new documentary “No Farmers, No Food: Will You Eat Bugs?” As a reporter with the Epoch Times, founded by Chinese immigrants to counter the narrative of the Chinese Communist Party-controlled media, he joins the Bart Baggett show to discuss media bias and the current state of American journali...

“Everyone knows a sex worker,” says Ariela Moscowitz, but due to shame, stigma, and the associated risks, “nobody wants to talk about it.” As the director of communications at Decriminalize Sex Work, Ariela advocates for the removal of all criminal and civil penalties for consensual adult sex work. Additionally, the organization opposes a regulatory model gaining traction in the United States.   T...

“We always want to put people in categories,” says Mark Skousen, “if we believe in individualism, let’s treat everyone as an individual.” Mark, the founder of Freedomfest, clarifies that the event is not just a political conference for Libertarians but a “renaissance gathering” for people from all backgrounds who value thinking and living freely. On today’s episode of The Bart Baggett Show, Mark e...

“Moral of the story: be so good at what you do that not even attempted murder will hold you back.” Comedian Brittany Hunter is very good at the many things she does, including creating the content for a major nonprofit law firm which hired her despite genuinely believing that she had tried to stab her ex-husband.    She never actually did—though she admits to lying to avoiding getting into trouble...

“Community is everything,” says today’s guest Larry Sharpe, a business consultant, entrepreneur and Libertarian political activist. Growing up with a single mother who was an addict and a felon, Larry learned first-hand that the government is not here to help you. In fact, it might be working to keep you down once you fall. On today’s episode of The Bart Baggett Show, he explains the importance of...

Lou will still tell the joke that isn’t allowed in some circles.  His audience doesn’t want “woke comedy” or watered down dirty jokes.  It just has to be funny. Today’s guest standup comedian Lou Perez feels comfortable making the jokes that other comedians feel too scared to make.     In Lou’s new book, “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: The Death and Rebirth of Comedy” he reflects about the days wh...

“We’re a conspiracy-loving people,” says Elizabeth Nolan Brown, senior editor at Reason, a magazine which prides itself on debunking myth and emotion-based arguments from both the Left and the Right. On today’s episode of The Bart Baggett Show, she debunks a number of popular myths, including that the media was only ever a stalwart bastion of truth and integrity. In fact, she argues, with so many...

“Even if Congress were the most intelligent and incorruptible people… they should not choose for you.  They are often idiots” —Spike Cohen discusses the problems with Democracy.    “We have to show people that liberty works, it’s something that makes sense, it’s not just a theory,” says Spike Cohen, founder of the organization “You Are the Power'', which works to see justice for community members...

“Liberty is my North Star. Without it…you are just a slave.”  Lily Tang Williams understands and appreciates freedom in a way that only someone who grew up without it truly can. Lily is running for Congress and she intends to win.    A U.S. citizen for many years now, she’s watched the country grow to resemble more and more the Communist China from which she originally fled. To help turn things ar...

For anyone to write and publish a book is a remarkable achievement. Swedish comedian, writer and political satirist Aron Flam not only wrote a bestseller, but with his book he helped change Swedish law.    Before the release of “Det här är en svensk tiger” (“This is a Swedish Tiger”), Sweden had one of the weakest protections of parody, satire and comedy in the Western world. As a result of Aron’s...

“Even when I tried to get serious, I’d mess up and the song would go goofy. I’d start off as Ice Cube and end up as Will Smith. I wanted to be a good rapping funny dude.”    For a guy who grew up questioning what he read in the Bible, Afroman’s trajectory to stardom, beginning with his worldwide breakout hit “Because I Got High” draws some pretty strong parallels–even parables.    Rapping since he...

“Gratitude is the gateway to positivity,” says Tom Corley, CPA, financial planner and author of seven books about wealth building, including the original “Rich Habits.” And positivity, as it turns out, is the gateway to wealth. If there’s one trait self-made millionaires share, Tom has found, it’s a positive mindset.    When you take stock of what you have, rather than what you don’t have, you pro...

“Magic without humor is inhumane,” says Doc Dixon, a comedian magician, who luckily for his audience, delivers both in equal measure. He keeps the audience laughing so that they never see the magic trick coming, resulting in what he calls “mind seizures.” For Doc, it’s just as important to be fun as it is to be funny.    This cat-and-mouse dynamic of delivering the unexpected may be an extension o...

Maj wants to make sure that no one is left out of the capitalist system. He shares business and marketing secrets he learned both from his time selling shoes at Foot Locker and from selling DVDs and weed on the train in his native Philadelphia. Anything you do, he says, turn it into a free market enterprise.    Maj cites 50 Cent and actor Ryan Reynolds as shrewd businessmen who knew how to negotia...

“If you have blood, you’re allowed to have an opinion.” As a young multi-disciplinary artist who spent her early years on Tumblr, Salomé Sibonex witnessed firsthand the beginnings of the current wave of cancel culture where ideas that are deemed offensive are shut down and people are denied the right to speak based on their immutable characteristics. Now that this trend is firmly in the mainstream...

Siam Pasarly is lucky to be alive.  Siam saw firsthand people hanging off of the wings Military plane desperate to escape Afghanistan when the Taliban retook the country.  For those on the wrong list, escape was the only way to avoid imminent torture and execution.   Siam eventually did escape through a series of desperate measures evacuated just after the Taliban regained control of the country i...

“Violence is just very interesting, ya know?” says Yoshi Obayashi whose fascinating life story serves as the basis for his truly unique brand of dark comedy.   Yoshi’s interest in violence started early, when his father took him to visit the home of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Today, Yoshi continues to take “murder tours,” visiting sites related to terrorists and high profile murderers, and...

Chris Trew is on a mission: to spread the word about the life-changing power of improv comedy. “Why learn improv?” if you’re not a comedian, actor, or have any intention of ever setting foot on stage? As the self-described “comedy person” and founder of Hell Yes Creative explains, “This stuff has real-life implications. No matter what you're doing, if you have a job or a passion that involves comm...

“I don’t think failure is a choice. You’re going to fail over and over again,” says Emily Austin, though it’s difficult to imagine her as anything but a success. At only 22 years old, she interviews basketball’s finest as an NBA sideline reporter and host of The Hoop Chat podcast. She even served as a judge in the 2022 Miss Universe pageant—after a failed attempt to run for Miss New York. It wasn’...

“That’s the name of my next comedy album: Badass Seventh Grader,” says Lou Santini, who joins the show to talk about this and other of his early experiences along the way to becoming a successful comedian. Is he a badass, or is everyone else just what he calls an amateur, people with no common sense who are doing life wrong? Whether it’s people going slow in the fast lane or Hollywood executives w...

Building a corporation of happiness is similar to building happiness in your own life. Know your why, what, and stay true to your values. “A culture needs to be created intentionally,” says Chuck Salvo, Chief Happiness Architect at SALVO Innovative Solutions. Baggett discussed how Chuck spent 15 years developing the blueprint for happiness among the employees at the Disney Institute.    Nurturing...

“You might be the funniest politician ever since Trump,” Bart exclaims about Mike ter Maat, who joins the show today in the midst of running for president of the United States on the Libertarian ticket. If he wins, he may or may not be the first president of the United States to be named Mike. One thing he knows for certain is that a sign saying “no molestar the alligators” means something entirel...

“My life is like a frickin’ Dickens novel,” says Aidan Park, comedian and author of “The Art of Being Yay.” Born in Korea to an unconventional family, Aidan learned to spin the dramatic and often tragic events of his early life into comedy gold. Growing up gay under the ultra conservative values of Korean culture and the Baptist Church, he was subject to a lot of shame-based programming and he adm...