Ep. 45 | Why We'll Never Need a Pencil Czar | Guest: Tom Woods
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Tom Woods, historian and podcaster extraordinaire, joins Heaton for a philosophical romp through the Enlightenment. By focusing on "spontaneous order" and how the concept has redefined power and civilization, you'll get ample evidence for why we'll never need a Federal Department of Shoes, a President of Physics, or a National Podcasting Commissar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:14.0 | welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:16.0 | And joining me momentarily is Tom Woods. |
| 0:19.0 | He is a best-selling author historian, a fire hose of economic knowledge. |
| 0:22.0 | He is the host of the Tom Woods show, and I personally |
| 0:27.4 | know Tom because we have done Escape the Room together and also we've been to a Broadway play together |
| 0:32.2 | on top of a couple other |
| 0:33.1 | adventures so I'm just I want to brag we're chummy he is smart he is |
| 0:36.5 | frighteningly knowledgeable and I am going to talk to him about a particular |
| 0:41.0 | concept that came out of the Enlightenment that I think is one of the most powerful concepts to ever hit human civilization and I'm excited for him to help unpack it for me. |
| 0:50.0 | And then afterwards we'll do some listener feedback. But before we get into all of that, I do have to pay the bills. |
| 0:55.3 | So we're going to do a quick word to our sponsor. |
| 0:58.8 | Something's off with Andrew Heaton is brought to you by Kilbitol, |
| 1:02.2 | the anti-homicide pill by Silverthorne Pharmaceuticals. |
| 1:06.6 | It's your big day, the parole board, you walk into the room and you're intimidated by all the |
| 1:11.6 | serious people in suits and pantsuits sitting at a table. |
| 1:14.5 | They look grim and determined you've been in prison for 20 years for killing a man. |
| 1:19.5 | Mr. Redding, do you regret killing a man? |
| 1:22.0 | The Alpha Parole Lady asks? |
| 1:23.9 | Yes, you say. |
| 1:25.2 | I do. |
| 1:26.4 | Do you think you'll kill again? |
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