Ep. 1711 Rep. Thomas Massie Against the Fact-Free COVID-19 Hysterics

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Thomas Massie, U.S. Congressman from Kentucky, joins me to discuss the correct, non-hysterical response to COVID-19, along with electric cars, crazy spending bills, and standing alone against the media establishment and both major political parties.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, episode 1711.
0:03.2	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.7	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.2	The Tom Wood Show.
0:13.2	Folks, by now you've probably noticed that news about the virus is almost always
0:18.0	fact-free hysteria these days. So you need my brand new free ebook.
0:22.2	Your Facebook friends are wrong about the lockdown.
0:25.9	Go pick it up at wrongaboutlockdown.com.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. I'm delighted to welcome Thomas Massey to the program,
0:34.0	US Congressman from Kentucky since 2012. He's got quite an interesting story apart from his
0:39.9	congressional career. So I'm going to actually let him tell a little bit of that at the very
0:43.6	beginning and then we'll get into some discussion of what's going on in the world today.
0:47.6	But I couldn't be happier to have him on. Congressman, welcome to the show.
0:51.3	Hey, thanks for having me on, Tom.
0:53.2	All right, I've been a fan of yours for a long time. I think you're doing tremendous work.
0:57.2	A lot of important things to ask you about here.
0:59.6	But I hope we could start, especially for folks who know, they know your name, they know you're
1:04.6	a good guy on our side. They know something about you and MIT, but that's as far as their knowledge
1:10.4	goes. Could you give us like maybe the three minute Thomas Massey life story?
1:15.6	Sure. Okay, I grew up in Appalachia in the county where I'm living right now.
1:21.5	Went to public school K through 12. Mom was a nurse. That was the beard distributor.
1:26.4	I took things apart and experimented with stuff. I might have built a few black powder
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