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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1034 Comedian Owen Benjamin Defies Thought Police

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Actor and stand-up comedian Owen Benjamin lost not just a gig but also his agent and his management when he suggested that elementary-school children whose parents want to support their "gender transition" probably shouldn't be given hormone blockers. He hasn't backed down, and now, blackballed virtually everywhere, is building up an independent career apart from these creeps.

Show notes for Ep. 1034

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1334.

0:03.5

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

0:08.1

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

0:14.3

Folks, if you're living in terror of your SJW boss and colleagues, it's probably time to start a side hustle online. And as somebody

0:22.2

whose self-published books, created a successful podcast, been a successful affiliate marketer,

0:27.9

and many other things, I can tell you step by step what to do. And as a matter of fact,

0:33.0

I've done that in my free ebook, Five Paths to an Online Income. Check it out at paths to income.com.

0:41.0

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here talking to Owen Benjamin, who has had a successful career as an

0:46.4

actor and a stand-up comedian, ran afoul of the thought police on the most ridiculous issue

0:53.4

imaginable.

0:54.7

We're going to talk about that, and yet he is still prospering.

0:58.3

He just released a crowdfunded comedy special that we'll talk about, and he's an example

1:04.5

of how you can, in fact, carry on despite attacks by the crazy people.

1:13.7

He also hosts the podcast, Why Didn't They Laugh, which is a very interesting podcast indeed, and no doubt we will talk about that as well.

1:19.5

Owen, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me, man. I can't get over what happened to you.

1:24.9

We're going to get to that in a minute, but I knew you were a good guy when

1:28.1

Dave Smith and Michael Malice vouched for you. You know, Michael Malice vouches for you, you know,

1:33.3

I'm 70% of the way there. But then when Dave Smith jumps in, okay, all right, we got a good guy

1:38.7

on our hands. Let's talk about what happened to you at the University of Connecticut, because

1:42.9

apparently, according to the news reports, you said something profoundly controversial.

1:48.1

Yes, it was very controversial. I said that three-year-olds shouldn't be allowed to choose gender

1:54.1

and then be put on hormone blockers. And I got in a bit of an argument on Twitter with this guy who's, I really don't

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