The Tom Wood Show, Episode 2052, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

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Hi everybody, Tom Woods here, JP Cortez is with us today. He is policy director at the Sound Money

Defense League, and he spends his time promoting the ideas of sound money, but particularly

at the state level, looking for ways that the states can push back and try to promote the ideas

of a money that cannot be manipulated by the regime, and we increasingly see if we didn't already

the importance of that idea. JP, welcome to the show. Hey Tom, thanks for having me on.

I guess I've probably known you forever, seeing you around the Mises Institute and stuff,

and I don't think you've ever been on the show, have you? No, this is my first time at an honor.

Yeah, I think it's been almost a decade since our first meeting at the Mises Institute so long ago.

I thought you're going to say it's been almost a decade since you've been snubbing me on the Tom

Woods show, which I would have taken that in stride if that's what you wouldn't have seen.

I wouldn't have seen it for my invite. You got Bob Murphy all over the place, but I can't get

even a bone. Oh no, you're doing really great stuff. So before we get into this state level stuff,

which I find interesting because I think so many people seem to be of the mindset that,

and maybe it's only implicitly that the way this mindset that either it gets done at the federal

level or nothing happens. And sometimes we have to come up with second best solutions because

it's kind of hard to get things to happen at the federal level given the cesspool that exists.

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