Ep. 1225 Eric July on Libertarianism, the Black Community, and Dealing with Critics
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eric July, whose band Backwordz hit #1 in Billboard's Alternative New Artist category, joins me to discuss -- in addition to his epic battle with rapper Talib Kweli -- what libertarianism has to say to the black community, whether he feels oppressed every day (I ask him sincerely, since Talib feels oppressed every day), how he responds to accusations that he's betraying the black community by being a libertarian, and plenty more.
Eric was the emcee at my 1000th episode event; if you haven't seen it, make some popcorn and settle in for a fun night. tomwoods.com/1000
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1225. |
| 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, in school, we got a sanitized upside-down version of the history of the U.S. presidents. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, I'm going to bring you the real history. |
| 0:22.7 | Check it out at freehistorycourse.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Eric July joins us once again. |
| 0:29.6 | Very glad to be talking to Eric, who was my emce at the thousandth episode event of the Tom Wood Show. |
| 0:37.0 | You should watch that if you haven't already. |
| 0:38.9 | The video is linked at Tom Woods.com slash 1000. It's hilarious. It's great weekend viewing. |
| 0:45.0 | You'll really enjoy it. Just get some popcorn. Sit with a loved one and you will be absolutely |
| 0:50.6 | positively entertained. But I don't mean to suggest that that, by any means, is Eric |
| 0:55.1 | July's greatest accomplishment. As a matter of fact, he's the front man for the band Backwards, |
| 1:00.1 | which has had great success with its album Veracity. In fact, it hit number one alternative new |
| 1:05.9 | artist on Billboard, and on Heat Seekers, it hit number two. So it had tremendous Billboard success. |
| 1:12.9 | He is also the head of multimedia at Being Libertarian, which you can check out on Facebook and at |
| 1:19.6 | being libertarian.com. Eric is as hardcore a libertarian as they come, and I've got a whole bunch of |
| 1:25.9 | things to ask him about. Eric, welcome back. |
| 1:28.8 | What's going on? |
| 1:29.7 | It's good to be back, Tom. |
| 1:31.0 | You know, I love it here, man. |
| 1:32.1 | And we've obviously had an interesting, I guess, a week if you want to call it that. |
| 1:40.0 | But, man, it's good to be back, and I appreciate you having me back on. Well, all I can say, Eric, is you have more stamina than I do because I just signed out of that thing after a while. |
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