BONUS Ep. 1409 The Progressive Rock Episode, with Big Big Train's David Longdon
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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The best band you've never heard of is Big Big Train, which Brad Birzer told me about for the first time on this very podcast. If you're used to conventional radio hits, your life is about to be improved, I promise you. You did not realize music could be this good. The great David Longdon, Big Big Train's lead vocalist, joins us for this episode. Guest co-host Brad Birzer of Hillsdale College and Progarchy joins me as guest co-host.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 14009, bonus episode. |
| 0:03.9 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.5 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:16.5 | What a delight this is for me, and I hope for you also. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm joined today by two people, special guest co-host today, Brad Berzer. You know Brad from previous episodes in which we've discussed |
| 0:29.6 | history, but we've also, at least in the more distant past, discussed music on this show |
| 0:35.4 | together. And Brad is an authority when it comes to progressive rock, |
| 0:40.3 | having been with the Praguearchy website for quite some time. |
| 0:44.8 | Well, I'm absolutely delighted to welcome to the program today, David Longdon, who is the lead vocalist for Big Big Train, |
| 0:51.2 | which is by far the best band you've never heard of. It is criminal how underrated |
| 0:57.8 | they are. Brad and I, I remember Brad telling me when we first talked about them, he honestly |
| 1:03.4 | thinks they are the best band of the past 20 years, that there's just nobody, nobody better. |
| 1:08.8 | And that is an amazing thing to say. And we also think David Longdon |
| 1:12.8 | may be the best rock vocalist there is. An amazing thing, right? So here we are talking to him. |
| 1:19.6 | Big Big Train has a brand new release. Their new album is called Grand Tour. When we're talking about |
| 1:25.0 | that, I'm going to link to some of my favorite music of theirs, also at tomwoods.com slash 1409. Of course, I'll have a link where you can get the new album. |
| 1:33.1 | But this is the kind of music that makes your life better. It improves your life. It doesn't |
| 1:37.9 | just make you tap your foot a little bit during the day. It improves your life. You will have a better life now that you know about the music of |
| 1:45.1 | Big Big Train. And we're going to talk about that right now. Brad, I'm glad to have you here |
| 1:50.2 | with me as co-host and welcome to David Longdon. Thanks to both of you gentlemen. |
| 1:55.9 | Hello, thanks for having me. Brad and I are just delighted to be talking to you and my my kids are envious, my daughters, of which I have five, have heard you in the car so many times. |
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