The Tom Wood Show, Episode 2066, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

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Hey folks, a lot of your friends believe that deregulation caused the financial crisis of 2008

just as fervently as they believe that lockdowns are the solution to COVID-19.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. I've got a pretty darn good one for you today,

and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get the audio of this, so I did do a little bit of a

summary episode of it last week, but this is so, so much better. I've been talking a little bit

about an event I went to. And I speak at a lot of events, but I was particularly happy with this one

because as I mentioned, I spoke at an intercollegiate studies institute event early this month, February

2022, and it was too an audience that was largely unfamiliar with me, and I kind of like those,

because might as well spread the word, right, beyond the usual quarters. And I had the opportunity

to appear on a panel alongside my old friend Dan McCarthy, whom I have known for a really long time,

probably going on 20 years. And I consider him to be one of the smartest people I know, honestly.

He has a tremendous amount of knowledge on topics that I find interesting. And we were talking about

the recent history, let's say, of the conservative and libertarian movements and the various splintering,

the neo-conservatives, the divisions within libertarianism. But then we spent most of the time

talking about practical issues facing the country and big tech, of course, being one of them and

COVID being another. And I think we had a very good give and take. We don't agree on everything,

and you'll hear that. But Dan's not crazy or unreasonable or uninformed or unsharedable.

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