Ep. 494 Tom Covers Over Three Thousand Years of History
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I discuss with Richard Emmons of the Ron Paul Homeschooling podcast my course Western Civilization to 1492, which consists of 180 video and audio lessons. We cover the ancient Hebrews, Homer, the pre-Socratics and Socrates, the Roman Empire, and early Christianity, all the way through Scholastic philosophy and on to the Renaissance.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 494. |
| 0:03.9 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.7 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, everybody, if you're interested in more libertarian podcasts, let me recommend to you the |
| 0:19.3 | Jason Stapleton program hosted by my friend |
| 0:22.1 | Jason Stapleton. Monday through Friday, he gives you a libertarian look at the news. Check him out |
| 0:27.3 | at jasonstapleton.com. Welcome, everybody. Today we're going to be talking about history. I'm going to |
| 0:33.4 | be talking about 3,000 years worth of history, maybe 3,500 years worth of history, |
| 0:40.3 | courtesy of the Ron Paul homeschooling podcast with host Richard Emmons. I'm going to play |
| 0:45.4 | for you a recent episode I did with him, and it's a very interesting and challenging episode |
| 0:49.8 | because he would just throw topics at me from thousands of years of history and then ask me |
| 0:54.9 | to elaborate on them. So I was really kept on my toes and I hope you'll find my answers interesting. |
| 1:01.4 | Remember to check out the free e-book I just produced on Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders is |
| 1:06.5 | wrong. You can check it out at Bernieiswrong.com or by texting the name Bernie to 33444 and you get your |
| 1:15.1 | free ebook. It covers all kinds of topics that he brings up and I think you'll find it educational |
| 1:20.7 | and fun to read. So do please check that out. All right. Let's turn things over now to my |
| 1:26.6 | conversation with Richard Emmons. |
| 1:28.3 | Everything we're talking about, I mean, this course and how to get it and all that stuff is up at on today's show notes page, which is tomwoods.com slash 494. |
| 1:39.3 | If you're interested in Richard's podcast where he talks all about the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum. |
| 1:47.9 | You can find that at Ron Paul homeschooling.com. |
| 1:51.7 | And then if you want to join the Ron Paul curriculum, make sure you join it through Ron Paul homeschool.com, which is my own site, because that and that alone gives you |
| 1:57.8 | $140 worth of free bonuses. |
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