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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1216 The Standard Narrative of US History, Smashed and Stomped on

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

News, Politics, Government

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What we learned in school: decentralization is stupid and backward, and the progressive way forward is for you stupid rubes to centralize power in the hands of your betters. This episode is the anti-that.

Show notes for Ep. 1216

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1216.

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, when you're on social media defending the libertarian position on health care,

0:18.4

oh, you get called all kinds of fun names.

0:22.0

While I've got just the antidote, my free e-book, Your Friends Are Wrong About Health Care. Check it out at your friends are wrong

0:28.8

wrong.com. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Well, I've got a neat little talk for you today. Oh, my goodness,

0:35.2

this one's about six years old. You can see how long it took me to

0:37.9

start my podcast. Early on in this one, I say, yeah, you know, I think I'll probably have my own show.

0:42.9

Yeah, it didn't happen for like a year and a half. So when on my entrepreneurship email list,

0:47.7

if you're on that one, when I tell you once in a while that some of my best advice is just go ahead and do whatever the thing is that you're planning on doing.

0:55.6

Instead of waiting until every duck is in a row, so to speak, just understand that's coming from hard experience.

1:02.0

I mean, I had the idea for this show so long before it actually occurred, before I actually launched it.

1:09.2

It's embarrassing to look back at this talk from something like April 2012.

1:14.1

The episodes didn't start getting cranked out until September 2013.

1:18.5

And I'm sounding like I'm on the verge of doing it.

1:21.4

Oh, my goodness.

1:22.6

So that's just, that's not good.

1:24.6

The second thing is, and I make another mistake early on, I say that the song Siberian Khatru from Yes came out in 1971.

1:32.0

Of course, that's not true.

1:33.3

That's when they released the Fragile album.

1:35.3

Siberian Katrue is on close to the edge from 1972.

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