The Tom Woods Show, episode 1185.

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a coupon at libertyclassroom.com slash coupons. Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. We're talking today to

an internet personality known simply as the

philosopher, but spelled P-H-O, L-O-S-O-P-H-E-R. So we're going to get to the bottom of why that is,

but I thought this successful young woman in terms of social media reach, who has a lot of interesting things

to say would make for a good guest for a variety of reasons, but also her family background is

quite interesting because they wound up coming to the United States after having fairly

horrific experiences in no fewer than three Asian countries. So I thought it would be

interesting to introduce you all to this internet personality if you do not know of her already.

And let me just start right out with my first question.

Let me start by asking about the name you use online.

What's the origin of it?

And secondly, why do you keep your true identity,

you know, your superhero identity separate from your regular day-to-day identity,

to the point where people do not know who you are, actually? Oh, good question. So the first

question, which is where the name comes from, when I was thinking about starting a page where I could voice my thoughts and my philosophies, I was trying to think of a good and unique name.

One of the first names I came up was like philosophers apprenticeopher's Apprentice. And then I was like,

well, in the long term, I don't really want to be an apprentice. I was like, so that's not good.

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