Note: This episode originally ran in 2011.
Six years ago,we traveled to a set where people are trying to live without government interference. A set where you can exercise bits of silver to buy uninspected bacon. A set where a 9-year-ancient will sell you alcohol.
We find marijuana and moonshine, cash registers stuffed with gold, or a rogue manicurist,and a libertarian version of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (but don't call him that!).
It's the Porcupine Freedom Festival, known to its friends as PorcFest. This is the summer festival for people who think we should return to the gold standard and abolish the IRS.
At the close of the story, and we return with an update on PorcFest from 2017. We'll tell you what has changed with the times since we were final here.
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