We mount our Battle Stags and take a less serious turn, and move from a movie masterpiece to a movie that’s barely a movie in Gentlemen Broncos which was a suggestion by our guest, Ben “Dirty J” Johnson.
A mostly peaceful wildfire, probably from a maskless gender reveal that was conducted without proper social distancing, has de-nadded my co-host rendering him unable to connect to the internet so it is just me and Dirty J on this one. However, we do intend to create some bonus content so we can all hear Robert’s take on this and bask in his hate that I fully expect him to have for this one.
We get into intellectual property, the time value of money, plagiarism, and I even cram in a convoluted sports analogy as we discuss this quirky movie by the director of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.
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Google Description for the film
Gentlemen Broncos
When a teenager attends a fantasy writers’ convention to meet his idol, he discovers his idea for a book is stolen by the novelist and passed as his own.
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Our Guest:
Our guest is Dirty J who is a fan of the show and suggested that this movie would make a good discussion as it relates to intellectual property and other topics.
Here is the email he sent us to kick off this whole thing:
movie idea from a fan
hey y’all, big fan of your podcast, relatively new listener. Just wanted to maybe suggest a movie, and a very interesting one on a couple levels. The movie is called Gentlemen Broncos, and it is very terrible. To put it in perspective, the notoriously bad movie The Room got a significantly higher rotten tomatoes score. Gentlemen Broncos is a movie that’s so terrible it would be fun to laugh at and pick apart. The one redeeming quality, and the reason I thought of suggesting this movie, is it is heavy on the theme of intellectual property and what may constitute theft of such a thing. I’d also be honored to be the guest speaker for an episode about this movie, but it wouldn’t hurt my feelings any if you choose someone else. listening to the episode after you guys subject yourself to this work of “cinematic art” would be enough lmao. If y’all want to bother following up on this, just hit me up or whatever.
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Dirty J made an excellent guest and I am sure that even without Robert being able to make it to this episode, that it still turned out pretty, pretty, pretty good.
Show Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_Broncos
15,000 changes to the dictionary!
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Time Value of Money: A value of a dollar now is more than the value of a dollar you won’t get for a year:
https://mises.org/library/dmvp-mvp-controversy-note
(so not exactly “time preference” but related, in a way)
A brief history on the libertarian view of intellectual property:
https://mises.org/library/fight-against-intellectual-property
The views of 4 different libertarian theories on intellectual property:
Mises on Copyrights:
https://fee.org/articles/mises-on-copyrights/
Murray N. Rothbard on “Patents”:
“It is by no means self-evident that patents encourage an increased absolute quantity of research expenditures. But certainly, patents distort the type of research expenditure being conducted. For while it is true that the first discoverer benefits from the privilege, it is also true that competitors are excluded from production in the area of the patent for many years… Moreover, the patentee is himself discouraged from engaging in further research in this field, for the privilege permits him to rest on his laurels….”
My article on IP:
Boldrin and Levine’s book with empirical arguments:
“Intellectual property” – patents and copyrights – have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for “pirating” music – and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation – do we need them so that we all may enjoy fine music and good health? Across time and space the resounding answer is: No. So-called intellectual property is in fact an “intellectual monopoly” that hinders rather than helps the competitive free market regime that has delivered wealth and innovation to our doorsteps. This book has broad coverage of both copyrights and patents and is designed for a general audience, focusing on simple examples. The authors conclude that the only sensible policy to follow is to eliminate the patents and copyright systems as they currently exist.
Kinsella’s book with theory and legal arguments:
This essay will change the way you think about patents and copyrights. Few essays written in the last decades have caused so much fundamental rethinking. It is essential that libertarians get this issue right and understand the arguments on all sides. Kinsella’s piece here is masterful in making a case against IP that turns out to be more rigorous and thorough than any written on the left, right, or anything in between.Would a libertarian society recognize patents as legitimate? What about copyright? In Against Intellectual Property, Stephan Kinsella, a patent attorney of many years’ experience, offers his response to these questions. Kinsella is altogether opposed to intellectual property, and he explains his position in this brief but wide-ranging book.
And finally, my tirade about Hess’ films getting less and less box office and a related article.
And finally, a more succinct version of my random sports analogy:
A pitcher can do well the first time or two through the lineup, but then the batters start figuring the pitcher out.
I then related to Kaepernick being pretty good at first because of his relatively unique style of play.
But defenses started to figure it out.
And the style of play lent itself to getting physically worn down, so the athleticism declined as well.
https://www.outkick.com/madden-kaepernick-memes/
Sort of like how I thought Dwayne Wade would not be able to maintain his high-level of play back when the Heat won with him, Shaq, and GP.
Wade proved me wrong though.
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