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Just Right

Just Right is a weekly shortwave radio show. Hosts, Bob Metz and Robert Vaughan analyze issues from a viewpoint of individual rights, freedom, and capitalism.

002 – Feminist Hysteria, Gun Rights, Tax Slavery

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Apr 262007

In this week’s broadcast of Just Right, we revisited the controversy surrounding the Western Gazette’s April Fools spoof edition, which had sparked an orchestrated campaign by local feminist groups to suppress humor and satire on campus. Having now examined the spoof issue myself, it becomes clear that the outrage was manufactured over harmless parody—a cartoonish nonsense that no reasonable person could interpret as advocating violence against women. Yet, activists seized upon exaggerated interpretations, leveraging sympathy for genuine victims to demand apologies, resignations, and even the discontinuation of future spoof editions. This is the hallmark of lobbyists who exploit emotional issues to advance control over speech and thought, all while ignoring the broader context of satire that poked fun at everyone.

The discussion extended to the pervasive sexism in Canadian politics, where leaders across all major parties obsess over increasing female representation in legislatures, not based on merit or voter choice, but through discriminatory quotas that favor one sex over another. Women already enjoy full equality of opportunity, yet this push reveals a deeper agenda that undermines individual qualifications in favor of collectivist engineering.

We also addressed the intellectual fallout from the tragic murders at Virginia Tech, rejecting calls for stricter gun control as a solution. True security lies in recognizing the fundamental right to self-defense, rooted in individual rights—a principle that deters tyranny far more effectively than disarming citizens. Blaming objects for human evil misses the point entirely.

Other matters included the misleading rhetoric of “cleaning up the environment,” which ignores the reality that wealth and technology, produced through free markets, are the only means to genuine improvement—not rationing or anti-industrial mandates. High gas prices were explained through basic supply and demand, refuting claims of corporate gouging and highlighting how profits signal the need for increased production.

Finally, the Fraser Institute’s revealing report on taxation demonstrated that the average Canadian family devotes 45% of income to taxes—far exceeding spending on necessities—amounting to a form of modern slavery when government claims nearly half of one’s labor. A shift to consumption-based taxes would restore fairness, privacy, and freedom. These issues all point to the same polarity: freedom versus control, individual rights versus collectivism—and finding the balance that is just right.

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001 – Left and Right: An Orientation

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Apr 192007

Here we are with the very first broadcast of Just Right. I’m Bob Metz, stepping up to the microphone after the retirement of Jim Chapman and the end of Left, Right, and Center. I make it clear right from the start: this isn’t about being right-wing, it’s about being just right – that philosophy of freedom, reason, individual rights, voluntary choice, and tolerance that stands in stark contrast to the left’s statism, force, collectivism, whim, and intolerance, whether it comes wrapped in conservative or liberal packaging.

I lay out the real meaning of left versus right, drawing from Plato and Aristotle all the way to today’s issues like abortion (neither ban nor subsidize), Sunday shopping (treat it like any other day), and pornography (freedom of speech, not bans from the religious right or the feminist left). All Canadian parties? They’re all on the left in my book.

Then I dive into that campus controversy over the Western Gazette‘s April Fool’s spoof – a satirical piece that had the usual suspects screaming for apologies, sensitivity training, ethics codes, and even removing editors by vote. I defend it as legitimate humor and free speech, exposing the intolerance behind calls to censor “offensive” content, the myth of a “rape culture” in the West, and the feminist agenda that confuses sexuality with sexism while demanding force and funding to silence dissent. Throw in some history on pornography laws, the Fraser Committee, and the real story behind Linda Lovelace. I Even touch on a few TV shows like Drive, Lost, and that brilliant Firefly.

In the end, defending freedom of speech, individual justice, and reason against the forces of censorship and collectivism is what being on the side of freedom is all about – and that’s Just Right.