The Tom Woods Show, episode 1027.

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

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

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here. Talking today to Stefan Molyneux, who's a guy who makes me look like a lazy bum in terms of

content creation.

He's got well over 3,800 podcast episodes over at freedomainradio.com.

He also has a YouTube channel with a tremendous following.

And in terms of his podcast, he's had well over 250 million downloads. He is the author most recently of

The Art of the Argument, Western Civilization's Last Stand. Stefan, welcome to the show.

Thanks to much, Tom. It's great to be here, get to chat again. I'm glad to have you here

on episode 1027, because as we were saying just before we went on, by an interesting coincidence,

that happens to be your favorite number. So how about that? So, 1,027 it is. It's these joyful

coincidences that coalesce to know that you're going to be producing some quality thought

content. That's right. That's right. So you have a brand new book, The Art of the Argument, and of course we want to talk about that, and we're going to use that as a springboard to hit all kinds of topics.

It seems to me that in the age of social media, we need some kind of a primer on the argument probably more than ever.

So why don't you start off by explaining what in fact

it is that you mean in this book when you use the term the argument? Well, the term just popped

into my head while we were bringing this topic up, Tom, which is blindfolded butcher. And,

you know, being a butcher, you know, whatever your culinary tastes or ethics, being a butcher

is a precise and difficult job, something you wouldn tastes or ethics, being a butcher is a precise

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