The Tom Woods Show, episode 958, bonus episode.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here.

All right, you know by now that I do a bonus episode.

That's to keep people happy who want

their five libertarian episodes per week. But occasionally I want to stray from that and talk about

something that I just happen to be interested in. And I don't want to assume everyone listening

is also interested in it. Although you darn well should be, because progressive rock is our topic for today,

and that is very interesting. And this is something that I'm telling you will improve your life.

It will make you a happier person if you learn about this music. And I'm delighted today to welcome

Dave Weigel onto the show to talk about it with me. And before I get to Dave,

let me tell you that at the end of our conversation, please do stick around because I want to

tell you about a music-related website created by a listener of the show that if you like this

stuff, you may find interesting, particularly if you are a musician or an aspiring musician

yourself. So we'll get to that after I talk to Dave

Weigel, who is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post and author of the new book

The Show That Never Ends, The Rise and Fall of Prague Rock. Dave, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. All right. I enjoyed reading this,

the show that never ends. And I learned a lot from this, even about bands that I've loved for

years and years, and I thought I knew everything. But I learned a lot of really neat stuff in here.

And there's an interesting story arc that carries us through the musically tumultuous 70s and the punk era and

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