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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 464 How to Help Your Friends Understand Why You're an Austro-Libertarian

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What is it, exactly, that makes Austrian economics so compelling, especially to someone who believes in freedom? This episode will help you explain it to your skeptical friends.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 464.

0:04.3

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:09.1

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:15.3

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:17.4

I've got a bunch of interesting shows coming up this week. So before we get to today,

0:21.6

I want to tell you about them. Tomorrow we're going to be talking about the War on Cash with Charles

0:26.5

Hugh Smith. This is a very important topic. So definitely listen in for that one. But also, I've got a

0:32.3

couple of debates coming up, one of them this week, and I would love to get the other one scheduled

0:36.4

for next week. Actually, three debates, but two of them involve Walter Block. One of them this week, and I would love to get the other one scheduled for next week.

0:38.2

Actually, three debates, but two of them involve Walter Block. One of them is going to be a debate on

0:42.2

Rand Paul. Yes or no to Rand Paul. So we'll have Walter saying yes, somebody else, mystery

0:48.7

guest saying no, and that'll be very interesting. Both sides can hash it out, and you can decide for

0:53.7

yourselves.

0:54.9

Then the other debate with Walter is, I haven't asked him about this yet, but I know his view is he'll debate anybody anywhere, any time, is we're going to get Bob Murphy on here, and they are going to debate the subject of an earlier episode, is it okay for libertarians to take government money?

1:15.7

And Walter will argue in the affirmative, and Bob Murphy will argue in the negative.

1:17.6

Very, very interesting.

1:18.9

That's going to be a lot of fun.

1:26.4

And then also, there's been a lot of talk about an Article 5 convention as a good step forward for liberty in America.

1:29.7

And I'd like to host a debate on that subject in the next couple of weeks. And I've got two excellent people in mind, one pro and one con,

1:37.4

who will entertain you and inform you. So this is going to be great stuff. I like this debate

1:42.6

format. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. These are some pretty good topics. And I've, in fact, I got the idea for the Article 5 convention topic from the Tom Woods Show Elite Facebook group. I call it that tongue in cheek, the Tom Woods Show elite. But I have this private Facebook group for people who support the show through supporting listeners.com.

2:01.3

And when I heard that suggestion, I thought, yes, yes, we're going to debate that topic because

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