Ep. 208 The Start to World War I
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2014
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hunt Tooley, author of The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War, discusses the factors that combined to produce World War I.
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| 0:00.0 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:09.9 | In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:14.9 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:16.4 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.2 | Oh, why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | Let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them. |
| 0:25.9 | Don't be afraid. |
| 0:26.7 | I'll be afraid. |
| 0:28.2 | Prepare to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.2 | An idea who his time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived. |
| 0:41.0 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:42.3 | No, his mind is not for rent to any government. |
| 0:47.0 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It's Monday, July 28th, 2014. |
| 1:01.8 | And today begins World War I week on the show. It's going to talk about the background and |
| 1:07.2 | origins of the war today. We're going to talk about some consequences of the war |
| 1:11.1 | throughout the week. Very, very important. It's 100 years ago today that Austria-Hungary |
| 1:19.1 | declared war on Serbia, and that led to the sequence of events that ultimately culminated |
| 1:25.2 | in this world war. Before we get to that, I want to tell you guys, |
| 1:29.9 | I'm back home now from Alabama. I've been at the Mezes Institute for a week. I spent that week |
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