Ep. 1290 How Jeff Deist and I Advise a Child Who Wants to Run for President
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A 9-year-old boy wrote me a letter not long ago, part of which asked me about politics, because he describes himself as "very interested in running for president someday." Jeff Deist and I discussed the kind of things children that age might want to think about when it comes to politics, without turning them into 9-year-old cynics.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1290. |
| 0:03.1 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
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| 0:35.1 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. It's Thanksgiving Day as this episode is being released, so happy Thanksgiving to all you folks in the United States who are listening to this episode on the day of release. And with me today is Jeff Diced for a highly unusual episode. I received a letter some time ago from a nine-year-old boy, and you'll find out in a minute what the letter was all about. |
| 1:00.8 | And I did want to try to answer it, but I wasn't sure do I want to do an episode where I'm speaking to the nine-year-old boy, or do I want to do an episode where we're partly doing that, but we're |
| 1:11.7 | also partly wrestling with some of the ideas involved for the enjoyment of an adult audience. |
| 1:17.7 | And I think we're probably going to be going back and forth a little bit here. |
| 1:21.0 | Jeff Dice, of course, is the president of the Mises Institute, which is the most important thing |
| 1:26.0 | in the world, to me. Certainly in the libertarian world, |
| 1:29.5 | it is the cream of the crop right there. And Jeff is just an amazing and highly, highly underrated |
| 1:37.5 | thinker. So I thought, Jeff, let's you and I talk about this. So let me bring Jeff on here. |
| 1:42.5 | Jeff, welcome back. Hey, good afternoon, Tom. Good to talk to you. |
| 1:45.9 | Happy Thanksgiving to you. Yeah, it was great seeing you for a whole week on the Contra Cruz. |
| 1:50.7 | That was a very, very, very enjoyable experience. And I'm working feverishly to figure out how I can get |
| 1:56.6 | my kiddos on that one next year, which I hear is going to the Great White North of Alaska. |
| 2:02.2 | That is correct. Beyond the Great White North. Yes. |
| 2:04.3 | That's right. July 5th through the 12th will be, 2019 will be in Alaska. And it's just going to be epic, as they say. We're just waiting for them to finalize the website to sign up for that, but you're going to want to jump on that one, folks. |
| 2:18.7 | So, yeah, it was a great time, and Jeff was an integral part of that. |
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