The Tom Woods Show, episode 1220.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Joshua Smith is our guest once again. Joshua was a candidate for

chair of the Libertarian National Committee. He currently holds an at-large position on the

Libertarian National Committee, and he's been rather high profile

ever since he got elected to that position, and in particular, he's been involved pretty

heavily in the controversy over the so-called Libertarian Socialist Caucus and what that may

mean for the party. So there's plenty to talk about. Josh, welcome back.

Thank you so much for having me, Tom. So you are a member of the Libertarian National Committee.

I am. That's a change from the last time I talked to you. Give us the story. I was not quite at the

convention, although I was at the convention. I wasn't really at the convention. I went to

New Orleans for the Meese's caucus event, and then just to kind of frankly screw with people,

I went over to the site of the convention just to walk around. And frankly, there were a lot of

well-wishers there and a lot of great folks, people I hadn't seen in a long time, a lot of them were

there. And I saw you and I was telling people you were the man. So give us the background of

the whole story. Yeah, absolutely. And can we just up front talk about how cool it was to be able

to lay claim to having Tom Woods trying to whip votes for your chair election at the very last minute.

Yeah, I ran into a couple of people who were such big well-wishers and they were planning to vote for

the other guy, let's say, one of the other guys. And I said, what the heck? Come on. What kind of Woods people are you?

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