Ep. 2268 Homeless and (Seemingly) Hopeless, to Success and Happiness
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
My wife's uncle, Paul Laino, has rather a stirring story to tell: after spending four years homeless and addicted to drugs he cleaned himself up and now makes, let's just say, a very comfortable income as the Scrap & Pallet Man on YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Wood Show Episode 2268. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.9 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. |
| 0:11.5 | The Tom Wood Show. |
| 0:13.4 | Hey everybody, we all know it is time for us to break up, |
| 0:17.3 | but everybody's status quo bias is standing in the way |
| 0:20.8 | of this obvious and humane solution. |
| 0:23.8 | Check out my brand new ebook called National Divorce, |
| 0:27.6 | the peaceful solution to irreconcilable differences, |
| 0:30.8 | which you can get for free at nationaldivorce.com. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:36.9 | Well, nepotism is alive and well here on the Tom Wood Show, |
| 0:40.4 | because I am featuring a member of my family today. |
| 0:43.8 | This is actually Paul Lano is my wife's uncle. |
| 0:47.8 | That's right. |
| 0:48.6 | Paul, you got here on your own merits, |
| 0:50.6 | not because of the special privilege of, |
| 0:52.8 | you know, indirectly being related to me. |
| 0:54.7 | This is entirely on your own merits. |
| 0:56.8 | I am thrilled to talk to you because when I first met you, |
| 1:01.1 | maybe you were a year or so into the YouTube stuff |
| 1:04.0 | that you do, and you were already having great success |
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