The Tom Woods Show, episode 180.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Very glad to welcome Mark Ripeto back to the show.

Mark is a very well-known strength training coach.

He is the author of numerous books, including the huge-selling, starting strength, basic

barbell training.

We're going to talk about the general subject of state licensing of various professions,

but particularly in this case, of course, for fitness coaches and personal trainers.

Mark, welcome back.

Tom, thank you for having me.

It's always good to be on your show and I enjoy your perspective on everything, and I'm just proud to be here.

Well, I appreciate that, and I got some very interesting feedback last time.

I had a ton of people saying, you've got to have this guy back on, and then I had some people saying,

what?

How could he say, X, Y, or Z?

And I thought, that's the perfect guest.

That's exactly the kind of guest I want to have.

So today we're going to

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