02
Aug
2011
Bob “Diamond” Murphy
[UPDATE: I swapped in a video from a better angle and that included my opening joke.]
What a way to cap off Mises U last week… Seriously, this band–Fly By Radio–is awesome. Here’s their official promo. The lead singer and guitar are Austro-libertarians and were at Mises U all week. They saw me on Monday doing karaoke, one thing led to another…and here ya go:
If you’re curious, I’d say there were easily 500 people in the crowd, only about 200 of whom were Mises groupies. I was getting fist-bumps from Auburn students who had no clue why I said, “Let’s hear it for Ben Bernanke!” when I first took the stage (before the above clip begins).
(Note: I’m tagging this post “karaoke” but we have now entered uncharted waters for this humble economist.)
Awesome 🙂
I like when the lead singer said “that just made my night”
Robert Freakin Murphy
You know our movement is making progress when Bob Murphy becomes a rockstar!
haha, you were great Robert Freakin Murphy
Wow, can’t go back to Lonnie’s after that!
Can’t help but sing along … loudly!
Great post!
Bob, don’t quit your day job! 😉
Marek, I know, what a catastrophe! I’ve never been booed off stage like that when talking about economics. I’m lucky that crowd let me escape with my life.
Thought your “Market for Security” session was great. I’ve heard you speak on this topic before and think you’re doing a great job of refining your material and delivery.
Robert,
Work on those high notes. A couple were well… slightly flat.
Your mid-range is in tip top shape though.
I’m pretty sure they’ll never be as good as GWAR!
this redefines ‘rockstar’ economist.
A piece on Ben Bernanke you might like:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/drunken-ben-bernanke-tells-everyone-at-neighborhoo,21059/
what an awesome night that was! it sucked that it was also our last night there