The Dan Norton Show

18 September 2025 Livestream #52 0:00 Intro 4:17 Forthcoming David Pakman video, Sam Seder videos 16:11 Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, FCC (Robert) 31:08 If you don't like taxes, why not move? (Aasaa) 33:48 Will Durant and The Story of Civilization; reason v. faith, the duel between Plato and Aristotle; my review article (Joseph Kellard) 52:50 The chat Leader board; time delay test; infinite looping of my str...

14 September 2025 Livestream #51 0:00 Intro 3:47 Western civilization; reason vs. faith; freedom & democracy (Simon) 11:00 Dr. Peikoff's DIM Hypothesis & integration (Simon) 18:05 Will Durant (Greg) 21:53 Super stickers (Stephen Harper) 28:22 Brief summary of Objectivism: reason, egoism, and capitalism (Jasmeet) 36:38 Call w/ Mark Moses on local government and free markets Mark's background with A...

10 September 2025 Livestream #50 0:03 Intro, miscellaneous 5:24 Charlie Kirk is shot; free speech 12:23 Free will & moral responsibility; compatibilism 17:46 The FCC & the Internet; misc. 24:55 Reaction video to my first call to The David Pakman Show 28:26 My calls to The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder 43:01 Call w/ Holden Mitrione Charlie Kirk (whom Holden debated) The Fountainhead Paul's comment o...

6 September 2025 Livestream #49 0:00 Intro Robert and Amy Nasir's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RobertNasir 9:44 My YouTube metrics (screen share) 15:11 Ayn Rand's prophetic nature (Greg) 27:16 Ayn Rand & Aristotle, on productiveness, slavery (Greg) 31:57 The Middle Ages and its dates, transition to the modern world (Greg) 36:16 Is it self-interested to oppose immigration? (RW) 53:44 The three...

2 September 2025 Livestream #48 0:00 Intro, Holden Mitrione 8:18 Transgender issues and Rand's view (Tom Harrison) Rand on femininity etc. 39:40 Call w/ Holden re: The Fountainhead, etc. 1:17:22 Engaging with chat on self-interest and sacrifice (Evolutionary, Audrey, Matthew) The meaning of “subjective” and “objective” 1:43:40 Break. I forget to re-connect Zoom to YouTube after I first came back f...

29 August 2025 Livestream #47 0:00 Intro 6:04 Chat with Holden Mitrione (who debated Charlie Kirk), an econ major new to Ayn Rand Utilitarianism Libertarianism Ayn Rand Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology Ayn Rand’s fiction, life, and the Objectivist movement The morality of capitalism and history Utilitarianism and capitalism Free market economists and their philosophical views My history re...

0:00 Intro to my interaction with communist streamer Straighterade (Erin) 8:01 Setting up the first segment from Konstantin Kisin's Triggermetry interview with Ann Coulter re: Vivek Ramaswamy and my first exchange with Erin 13:59 Erin says Ann Coulter is racist and doesn't treat Vivek as an individual; I ask if communism treats people as individuals 18:36 Erin says she's a communist and that I ask...

25 August 2025 Livestream #46 0:00 Intro 3:00 Reading update: Early American history Townshend Acts 13:10 "No taxation without representation." 20:52 Is taxation theft? 25:17 Communist streamer Straighterade (Erin) thinks I'm trolling her in chat. I react. 2:02:51 Engaging with my chat about the video I just reacted to 2:17:44 Testing cutting the Zoom-to-YouTube connection and reestablishing it 2:...

21 August 2025 Livestream #45 0:00 Intro 3:40 My YouTube monetization Engaging with chat re: Ayn Rand quote (Robert) 27:23 My debate with Jolah Politics Engaging with chat re: fatalism/determinism 37:44 Wittgenstein and nominalism (benji) 55:30 Free will vs. determinism w/ caller (benji) Introspective evidence Falsifiability Libet's experiments (I misstated the title of Alfred Mele's book. The cor...

0:00 Intro 1:21 Ayn Rand, libertarianism, coercion, and authoritarianism 10:03 Capitalism and history, individualism and collectivism 16:52 Current U.S. politics: Trump, Democrats & Republicans, the long-game 22:05 Coercion, water pollution, private property 26:33 The U.S. Constitution, voluntary funding of government, foreign policy 34:15 The growth of government and the rate of progress 38:12 Re...

17 August 2025 Livestream #44 0:05 Intro New background Atheism 1:09:31 Anarcho-capitalism (usernameryan) 1:52:06 Reading update: Albany Plan 1754, Stamp Act 1765 1:58:31 My Reddit thread on capitalism/mixed-economy 2:27:00 Be part of my first 1,000 subscribers? And get a perk? 2:45:34 Will I call The Majority Report with Sam Seder again? (usernameryan) 2:54:27 Antitrust Engaging with chat, outro...

14 August 2025 Livestream #43 0:02 Intro, Reddit, etc. 13:48 Reading update: Early American history, Stamp Act, Indians and tribalism, First Thanksgiving Individualism vs. conformity Are sentient robots or digital consciousness possible? Is consciousness reducible? 1:18:08 Call with Latent Prion 1:24:30 Break 1:32:15 Call with Latent Prion (continued) Moral realism vs. moral anti-realism Facts vs....

11 August 2025 Livestream #42 0:03 Intro 1:58 Reading update: Early American history, Navigation acts 12:28 Carjacking video X Polling chat about whether to show insults, etc., on X Blocking insulters, etc. on X 42:00 Replies on X re: immigration Art 51:38 Art vs non-art (Theo) Can paint smears (e.g., Jackson Pollock) count as art? 1:00:20 Decoration vs. art, Rand’s definition of art Timing out B...

8 August 2025 Livestream #41 0:07 Intro, new subscribers, last livestream in Videos section 10:25 My X analytics 19:39 My OCON photo, etc. (Friend Harper, Robert, Jason) 34:52 The Majority Report: Not sure I'll call it again (H Charlie Bodkin) 43:27 Reading update: Bible/God 1:02:06 Break til 1:10:12 1:11:44 Call with Friend Harper Who wrote the Bible? My reading about the Constitutional Conventio...

2 August 2025, Livestream #40 0:04 Intro 2:29 Welcome to my 35 new subscribers from Facebook! 4:22 [I cut about seven minutes of the original livestream at this point due to audio problems. You can see my Facebook post and hear the music that goes with it here: https://www.facebook.com/dan.norton.1428/posts/10164321952288338.] 7:08 Also need 4,000 hours of watch time in the last 12 months to be mo...

31 July 2025 Livestream #39 0:03 Intro 4:02 Fake Gaza images https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkrHh-d4FA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQx1Qy5Z5fA 11:24 Bible/Israel reading update 14:30 Internet connection problem starts 24:38 Israel (continued after connection problem) 29:38 What New Deal program are we happy that Reagan cut the most? (Ben Franklin) Spending/tax cuts under Reagan 44:15 Interne...

29 July 2025 Livestream #38 0:11 Intro 4:24 Update on my reading about Israel and the Bible Stream time/length; possible topic: Social media replies; engaging with Uzi and others in chat 39:38 Call with Uzi from Israel Aliyah (bet) & Ha'apala Air raids in Israel He heard my superchat on Yaron Brook's show 47:30 Defining what ethics is The principle of two definitions Ethics as a guide for how to l...

19 July 2025 Livestream #37 0:00 Intro, miscellaneous 6:27 AI overview of last stream 15:00 Testing phone # masking in Zoom 26:54 First chats of the day (Cleric and Bach) 32:05 Call w/ Dr. Bach Ho about honesty, etc. Lying on a resume 1:16:23 "White lies" 1:23:15 Polling the chat on whether lying on a resume is moral 1:35:22 Inducing principles Engaging with chat while Bach takes a break 1:57:32 O...

16 July 2025 Livestream #36 0:00 Intro, OCON in Boston 21:57 Leviticus 42:19 My post re: ICE raids on Facebook Poll re: virtual background 58:54 Break for several minutes 1:22:22 Commenting on comments on my Facebook post on ICE raids Miscellaneous, 2:27:55 Pronouncing “Prague” 2:39:57 Justice vs. vengeance, and 9/11 (Jason) 2:48:22 Break 2:59:46 Justice/vengeance and super heroes 3:09:52 Jason Ad...

28 June 2025 Livestream #35 0:00 Intro, reading update 6:18 Stolen concepts, “value,” “Property is theft,” free will and knowledge, “ought implies can” (Matthew Stroud) 41:01 Commenting on the last stream’s chat (Evolutionary Capitalism-Utilitarianism, RW, Matthew Stroud). Commentary ends at 1:47:50. Engaging with chat 1:52:03 Break for a few minutes Engaging with chat (continued) about anarchy, c...

25 June 2025 Livestream #34 0:00 New background 4:28 My appearance (of sorts) on The Yaron Brook Show (via someone's Super chat) 11:18 NY Mayoral race (John), cross-promotion with Meghann? 13:59 The Objectivist definition of self-interest, etc. (Evolutionary Capitalism-Utilitarianism, Robert Nasir, RW, John) 55:07 The role of pain w/ Wade Passage from Rand about pleasure/pain Levels of consciousne...

21 June 2025 Livestream #33 0:00 Intro, some astronomy talk Is the universe finite? Is the universe expanding? Time dilation Blocking someone (Darwin?) Specialization & philosophy AI's impact on humans Time dilation The unity of knowledge Charles Tew Utopia 1:01:26 Break for about six minutes Utopia (continued) and infinity Progress vs. Luddites Worthiness and productivity Time Blocking another ac...

18 June 2025 Livestream #32 0:09 Intro, reading update: The Book of Genesis 5:25 Man's smallness/weakness in the Bible relative to God vs. Rand's view of yourself as the highest value, pride 8:59 Man's life as the standard of value Virtues as evidence of how Rand understands "man's life" 14:45 Heroes in Ayn Rand's novels, standards of measurement/value 20:59 Blocked chatter from last show 22:55 Wh...

14 June 2025 Livestream #31 0:00 Israel & Iran www.patreon.com/DanNorton www.paypal.me/DanNorton11 #aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #debate

11 June 2025 Livestream #30 0:00 Intro, update on reading, video scripts Engaging with chat 13:09 The Bible, who owns the land in Palestine? (Darwin) 22:10 Call w/Wade re: capitalism The political spectrum as defined by freedom and coercion Economic vs. political power Respect and capitalism Capitalism and the endless pursuit of money Money and influence, capitalism and alienation Helping others M...