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hi everybody tom woods here it is episode episode 2686 of the Tom Wood Show. And I'm delighted to welcome our friend Dan Flynn, our new friend. We've sort of known each other, known of each other, but he's now a friend of the Tom Woods show, having been a guest. And he is the author of the brand new book the man who invented conservatism the

unlikely life of frank s mire and i'll tell you something dan when i was in college i got really

interested in the history of conservatism and libertarianism so of course i read that george nash

book you know the history of what was the history of conservative

intellectuals in America?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Something like that.

Intellectual movement since 1945.

Conservative intellectual movement.

That's right.

And that book, you know, even if you don't necessarily agree with his different categories,

that really gives you a lot of good grounding in some of the names, the events, the books, the ideas.

And once I started there, then I wanted to read some of the books that were referred to in there.

So I read in defense of freedom by Frank Meyer, and you can be assured, Dan, that it was sitting there untouched on the library shelf, just waiting for me to read it. No one else chose to take it out. So I want to start off, though, with... First of all, let me explain everybody. Frank Meyer is a figure of enormous importance. And if this is not a name that rings a bell, I know there are many other things you could do with your time. As John Stossel told me once when I was about to be on his show, he said, look, there are a lot of TV channels out there, and some of them have dancing girls on them.

So we have to be really interesting or otherwise people.

So what I'm saying is watch the dancing girls later.

You're going to like learning about Frank Meyer.

I want to start with the fantastic story

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