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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1491 How This Metal Vocalist Became a Libertarian (Hint: Ron Paul is Involved)

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Phil Labonte, the outspoken libertarian frontman of the band All That Remains, joins me to discuss how he became a libertarian, how his views compare to those of other people in his genre, how the Internet has changed the music industry for better and worse, and a lot more.

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Show notes for Ep. 1491

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1491.

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

Hey, everybody, tell me if this sounds like you. You're debating health care with your

0:17.4

interventionist friends, and you just can't seem to hold your own. They immediately claim the moral high ground, and you just don't know how to respond.

0:24.8

Well, check out my free e-book, your Facebook friends are wrong about health care, and you will be shocked.

0:30.5

Yes, even you, a veteran libertarian, will be shocked at just how solid the libertarian position is.

0:36.2

Pick it up for free at your friends are wrong.com.

0:41.3

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:42.7

What a great episode I've got today.

0:44.2

I'm with Phil Labonte, who is the vocalist for the band All That Remains, which has been around for quite a while, over two decades, as a matter of fact.

0:52.8

We're going to be talking about that as well as his libertarianism and how he arrived there

0:57.4

and a bunch of other interesting topics.

0:59.9

He's a great guy to follow on Twitter.

1:01.9

We'll mention that in a minute.

1:03.6

I sometimes just sit him reading his Twitter feed and Michael Malice's Twitter feed.

1:08.6

Just make me happy.

1:10.0

So you'll want to follow him on

1:11.6

Twitter. Anyway, enough of this. Let's bring Phil on. Phil, welcome to the show.

1:15.2

Hey, Tom. How you doing? I am doing great. I couldn't be happy you're talking to you. I had somebody

1:19.6

suggest that I have you on and then I went over and found you on Twitter. And I thought, I said,

1:26.0

hey, holy cow, I'm actually already following this guy on

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