The Tom Woods Show, episode 1394.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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Took some time off this weekend. Well, I'd usually take the weekends off anyway, but in particular

this weekend because it was Amy's 13th birthday.

She's my middle daughter out of the five, and we spent a lot of time together and did some fun things.

So what I'm going to do for you folks today, rather than, again, leave you orphans here with the podcast, is I'm going to share with you a talk from my past. Now this one does not have

the, oh, I don't know, the woods wit that you've come to expect over the years. This one's

very straightforward because I was speaking to a group of retired folks. I believe they were called

the Auburn University Lifelong learners or something like that. And this was back when I lived in Auburn, Alabama, and I was a resident scholar at the Mises

Institute. And on the side, I was giving this little lecture series in American history to this

group of retirees. So I didn't try to do Woods humor. And I tried to sound as reasonable as

possible, so it was not to scare them away.

But anyway, in this talk, I talk a little bit about what happened in the 1920s in American history,

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