The Tom Woods Show, episode 500.

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

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

Hey, everybody, if you're interested in more libertarian podcasts, let me recommend to you the

Jason Stapleton program hosted by my friend Jason

Stapleton. Monday through Friday, he gives you a libertarian look at the news. Check him out at

jasonstapleton.com. Tom, I'd like to congratulate you on 500 episodes of the Tom Woods show.

Welcome everybody to episode 500 of the Tom Woods show. Of course, we heard

the voice of a man you will all recognize. In fact, I told him when he asked, should I identify

myself? I said, nope. My listeners will have their intelligence insulted if Ron Paul feels like he

needs to say, I'm Ron Paul. They all know it's you.

So it was very nice of him to send along that greeting to us today. Episode 500, unbelievable.

Been going at this for about two years now, slowly and gradually building up a very nice audience.

And I thank you for listening, for your kind words, for... slowly and gradually building up a very nice audience.

And I thank you for listening, for your kind words, for supporting the show in various ways.

It's extremely gratifying.

And there is more work on my end than I make it seem on the show, and it's very rewarding to know that a lot of people really are benefiting from it.

You can check out everything we've done on the show at tomwoods.com slash episodes.

I guarantee you'll find something interesting in that archive.

And of course, subscribe to the show for the next 500 episodes while you're there at tomwoods.com, the show, of course, is delivered for free every single weekday.

Today, I decided I would invite onto the show two people from an institution that has done so much to shape who I am today.

And that, of course, is the Meesa Institute, and two people I thoroughly

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