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🗓️ 22 May 2019
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On day two of Michael Malice week we discuss humor and the dissident Right: how it uses humor, whether some things are too serious to joke about, humor as an essential tool against the state, and more.
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0:25.2 | Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. It's day two of Michael Malice Week on the Tom Wood Show. We're discussing his brand new book, The New Right, a Journey to the Fringe of American Politics. I thought today we would talk about humor and whether there are limits to humor, |
0:39.5 | are there some areas that are off limits to humor, the use of humor by the new right and memes |
0:45.9 | and all this sort of stuff. And of course, Michael as, well, a humorist in his own right and a troll |
0:52.5 | of sorts surely has some thoughts to share with us on that. |
0:56.6 | And it's an interesting topic, I think, to dig into. |
1:00.2 | And it does touch on the subject matter of his book. |
1:03.0 | Michael, welcome back. |
1:04.2 | Thanks, Tom. |
1:05.0 | It's been a while. |
1:06.1 | Yeah, it seems like only yesterday. |
1:08.1 | And actually, it was only five minutes ago. |
1:10.5 | All right. |
1:12.1 | We're talking about humor today. We're going to talk about humor with the new right as the backdrop, but also |
1:18.4 | just humor as a phenomenon and whether there are limits to it or whether there are some things |
1:23.0 | that are off limits, stuff like that. But I want to start up by reading what I, one of the |
1:27.2 | things I loved in |
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