How Often to Re-Listen To HB's Radio Archives?

[TripleB]

I listened to all of HB's radio show archives a few years back when I first got interested in the PP. Then I re-listened to them again about 1 to 2 years afterward, as I was considering transitioning into the PP and wanted to really be sure I understood everything he said.

I'm thinking about going through them again and perhaps re-listening every few years. Does anyone else feel the urge to re-listen? It's almost like a "church" to me where listening to the "gospel" helps solidify my desire and will to remain in the PP, but ideologically I am against churches and blind faith/dogma.

I guess the difference is that at real church there's magical hand-waving in the sermon to explain everything and in HB's radio archives, he uses economic facts. In that regard, HB is more like a science show than a church.

[Lone Wolf]

I'm slowly going through a second pass listening to the radio shows myself and I'm often surprised to hear something that I missed before or "re-remember" something that I had more or less forgotten.

It's not a very church-y experience for me, really.  I don't currently feel much need to be galvanized.  It's just nice to listen to someone with their head screwed on straight talk about investing for a while. 

[Jan Van]

After downloading them, I tagged them and added an album picture so they show up all nice and neat in PowerAmp on my phone. 

I listen to them on occasion, after having gone through the whole lot. And I'm now going through the "Rule your World!" series, and reading the "How I found freedom" book...

Does that make me a HB groupie?

[Lone Wolf]

I listen to them on occasion, after having gone through the whole lot. And I'm now going through the "Rule your World!" series, and reading the "How I found freedom" book...

Would love to get the "Rule Your World!" series but the price tag was a hill I couldn't climb just yet.  Maybe I'll have to request a Christmas gift from Mrs. Lone Wolf and the wolf cubs...  

[MediumTex]

I listen to them on occasion, after having gone through the whole lot. And I'm now going through the "Rule your World!" series, and reading the "How I found freedom" book...

Would love to get the "Rule Your World!" series but the price tag was a hill I couldn't climb just yet.  Maybe I'll have to request a Christmas gift from Mrs. Lone Wolf and the wolf cubs...  

I have probably listened to the whole "Rule Your World" series four times now.  It's awesome.  No one is going to agree with 100% of it, but it provides great insight into how HB's mind worked and the rhythm of his thinking.

It was easily worth $99.  I'm really amazed that the recordings survived at all.  I think HB had no intention of ever publishing them--they just happened to be laying around after his death and his wife thought some people might enjoy listening to them.

As I listen to them, it's interesting to hear how the people in the room with him (based upon the questions they were asking) were not necessarily grasping the scope and subtlety of the worldview he was describing for them. 

Simply transcribing the recordings would make a terrific "new" Harry Browne book about freedom, government and investing.  It's also tantalizing to hear him talk to the group in broad terms about what he saw coming in the future (this was 1967), including dollar devaluation, gold as a long term investment and an extended bear market for stocks.

[Lone Wolf]

Thanks for the reviews on the series.  It really does sound like great material.

Simply transcribing the recordings would make a terrific "new" Harry Browne book about freedom, government and investing.  It's also tantalizing to hear him talk to the group in broad terms about what he saw coming in the future (this was 1967), including dollar devaluation, gold as a long term investment and an extended bear market for stocks.

How does someone make calls this good without getting a swelled head about their ability to predict the future?

If that had been me and all those predictions had come true, I fear I'd have been convinced that I was special and "saw things the 'sheeple' didn't".  I probably would have spent the next 40 years strutting around in my mystic robes and clutching my crystal ball crowing about how right I was.

Yet Browne did the opposite.  After all that, he still concluded that the world was uncertain to its roots and that ultimately the timing of his calls depended on a large element of luck.

If there's one element that I hope to "draw out of" the Browne material that I read \ listen to, it is some insight into how to think with that much clarity.  It's generally far easier to flatter my own ego or preconceived notions!

[moda0306]

LW,

Definitely... I mean, go back and listen to Ron Paul (a man I like and respect) in 1980-1981... he was preaching the collapse of the dollar.

Then there's this guy whose made a fortune on his prediction from the late 60's, and he comes into that same time period with the same information (and same political philosophy) and says "hold on a minute."  All in the face of what his colleagues were probably saying.

I respect that immensely, and in spite of any political disagreements, it's hard not to get down-right religious about this guy and his clarity of thought and ability to articulate things that open our minds.  I can't wait to listed to the audio-book of is "Freedom in an Unfree World" book.  Some of the quotes and points I've heard made from that shed a light on far more than investing... and using some of those ideas, without even reading the book, I've given my parents a lot of mental tools with which to enjoy their retirement, despite any problems they have with where our country is headed and what our generation has been handed.

[WildAboutHarry]

I keep a CD of the show archives in the car and listen occasionally.

It would be great if someone could produce a transcript and index for the radio shows...

[dualstow]

I relisten to at least one show whenever I have a plane, train or bus to take, which is often.