Ep. 1136 Dave Smith on Speaking Forbidden Truths on CNN; Plus: the Rotten State of Comedy, and More
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dave Smith, the libertarian comedian whose comedy special Libertas spent three weeks as the #1 comedy album on iTunes last year, joins me to discuss his wonderful CNN gig, where he gets away with telling truths you'd be hard-pressed to find on any network. Plus: the awful state of comedy, whether liberty will come via a series of small changes or a handful of major ones, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1136. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.2 | Folks, Bob Murphy and I are doing it again. Contra Cruz, 2018. You know you want to join us. |
| 0:20.2 | You've seen how much fun it is. Everybody who's joined us absolutely raves about it. It is the vacation of a lifetime. Check it out at contracruise.com. |
| 0:31.6 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. A little carpeting update for you. Told you I'd be getting my home office carpeted to deal with this horrible |
| 0:38.5 | audio problem, and that should solve it. Well, it came time for the carpeting day, and the carpet |
| 0:44.4 | people told me, well, we rolled out the carpet that we ordered, and there was a huge, I guess, |
| 0:48.2 | flaw right down the middle of it. Couldn't be fixed, so they have to order me more carpet. |
| 0:52.9 | So for the past couple of episodes, |
| 0:54.9 | I've been sitting here under two bed spreads here. One of them is a Hello Kitty bedspread. |
| 1:00.9 | Another one's just a pattern. And it's dampened down some of the echo, which is good. |
| 1:08.6 | Not so good for my dignity, but is there any length I won't go to for you folks |
| 1:13.1 | listening in? Anyway, you didn't even need to know that, but that's how transparent I want to be |
| 1:18.8 | on the show. Most of the shows, most of the episodes are done without being under a hello kitty |
| 1:24.7 | bedspread. But this is a bedspread episode. |
| 1:28.7 | And joining me for that is Dave Smith. |
| 1:31.3 | Dave Smith is back here on the show. |
| 1:33.5 | If you don't know Dave Smith, I'm telling you, this is a guy you're going to want to follow. |
| 1:38.5 | In fact, I just had somebody in my private group, which you can join at SupportingListners.com, by the way. |
| 1:44.7 | And Dave is a member. |
| 1:45.9 | Dave's a member at SupportingLessner.com. |
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