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You're listening to The Tom Woods Show.

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

It is episode 2,685 of the Tom Woods here. It is episode 2685 of the Tom Woods show. And I'm very glad to be

joined today by Matt Smith. Now, Matt is an extremely impressive guy in this sense. He has just

written a book that I had an electronic copy of for review purposes for this very episode that you're listening to.

And then as soon as I finished it, I went immediately to my computer in order to print copy because I decided I absolutely have to have this thing.

Co-authored with his son Maxim and with our great friend Doug Casey. It's called The Preparation,

how to become competent, confident, and dangerous. I think it's one of the most valuable things

I have come across in terms of genuinely helping people to become something great in a very long time, maybe the best thing I've ever seen

in that regard. So, Matt, welcome to the show. Well, thank you. And thank you for those

compliments. That means a lot. Coming from you, it really does. Well, Matt, I just purchased something

I already own. I mean, what does that tell you? So I don't want people, this is not another one of these things

about, you know, college is a waste of time and money and you should go do this instead because then

you won't have so much debt at the end. I mean, that's true. You won't have so much debt at the end.

And yes, it's true that simply following the path that's laid out for you by others,

especially in 2025, may not be the best one to take.

All that's true.

But this goes so far beyond that in terms of making yourself into somebody you want to be,

making yourself into not just some cog in a machine with hyper-specialization,

but an interesting person, the kind of person others want to emulate, others want to be around,

the kind of person who fascinates people. This is how you become that. But let me start with, if I may, Matt,

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