The Tom Woods Show, episode 1468.

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All right, I know podcast hosts tend to tell listeners things about audio that they just don't care about.

But, hey, I got to be me, all right?

And I just want to mention, I just returned from a trip, and I stupidly put a piece of my podcast equipment inside checked luggage.

So, of course, it's getting banged up all over the place and didn't work anymore.

So I need to get another such piece of equipment.

By the way, you may hear lightning in the background.

Normally, I would wait for the lightning to subside.

It's extremely loud.

But I just can't wait.

I've got to get this thing recorded.

Anyway, so in a day or so, I'll have the equipment that I want.

So right now I'm using an old mic and I don't know. If it doesn't sound like Tom Woodshowy, I'm aware of that. We're working on.

Anyway, today we're talking about Lysander Spooner and John Locke and the subject of consent.

Because people say, well, the government exists thanks to the consent of the governed. That's where it gets its legitimacy from. And John Locke tried to argue this too. And Lysander Spooner was having none of it. They were of course not contemporaries. Locke was writing in the late 17th century and Lysander Spooner was writing in the 19th century.

But they were confronted with the same problem of how do we derive the powers of government from popular consent when the people can't really give any consent formally.

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