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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com for 20 years, tells the story of being a covert government asset trapped in a deadly game of political espionage.
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Guest's Movie: The Enemy Within
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know. |
| 0:08.8 | You're listening to the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:18.5 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2687 of the Tom Woods show. And we are joined by, I don't know how to describe him. I mean, he's one of the most interesting people I know. I'll put it that way. And that's Patrick Byrne, who for 20 years was CEO of Overstock.com, I guess from what I understand from the film, |
| 0:38.6 | a $2 billion e-commerce company, holds multiple degrees, including a PhD in philosophy from Stanford |
| 0:45.5 | University. And by the way, just in case we ran out of material, Patrick, which is impossible. |
| 0:51.8 | But just in case, I like to have an ace up my sleeve. So I actually jotted down. I bet nobody's ever asked you in an interview, what was your dissertation in philosophy on? So we're going to fall back on that in case we run out of stuff, okay? If the normal conversation is exciting enough, you can go to John Balls and, you'd love it. |
| 1:11.8 | You would appreciate it. It was a bit of a bunch. |
| 1:12.8 | We'll save that for the end. |
| 1:14.8 | Okay, fair enough, fair enough. |
| 1:16.0 | So I just watched with my wife the three-part film The Enemy Within, which I understand |
| 1:21.3 | was released just earlier this year. |
| 1:23.7 | And this tells us about, let's just say, the other side of your life, the side nobody knew about |
| 1:30.2 | until, you know, several years ago when you started talking about it. |
| 1:34.0 | Besides, no one was ever supposed to know about. I never thought anyone would know about |
| 1:38.2 | until 50 years after I was dead. |
| 1:41.3 | And yet, yeah, so here we are. So it's not even like you went from being a CEO to engaging in, I don't know if we |
| 1:49.3 | want to call them undercover activities. |
| 1:51.4 | I don't know how you want to describe them. |
| 1:53.0 | Activities for the U.S. government, but yet in a way, I don't know, it's hard to describe |
| 1:58.4 | because there are so many parties involved here. |
| 2:00.9 | But I'll just say the film walks us through various claims that you've made, |
| 2:07.2 | and we see over the course of the film, which I would describe as a combination, |
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