The Tom Woods Show, episode 659.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Yes, I did miss an episode yesterday. It's the first time in

probably at least a year that it was a weekday and I didn't produce an episode, but doggone it.

It was a lot of pulling my hair out and just a lot of time-consuming work recovering from the horrifying technical ordeal we had that I've been telling you about regarding the feed.

Of course, if you're on my email list, you know all about the details of that.

So I think we've finally got things back up and running.

There's still a couple of things on the website itself that somehow, I think, because of a recent WordPress update, somehow got screwed up. So the podcast player on the site,

in order for it to work right now, you have to click the pop out button, and then when it pops out,

you can press play and listen. But we, so we have a little bit more work to do. I've got to find

the people who coded the site initially and get them to fix whatever went wrong when WordPress is up today. Anyway, just totally crazy and I just needed a mental health day. And I thought, you know, I have done all those bonus episodes. You know, like that McCaffrey one was just, was worth like three episodes. So I'm not going to rebuke myself too much, and I appreciate everybody's

patience. So we're coming back with a bang today, however. And by the way, we've got a couple.

We've got some great episodes coming up next week. I got Doug Casey coming back on the show. If you

know who he is, he is just always great to talk to. I wish I could talk to him every week. Norman Horan's coming back. It's going to be really good.

But today it's Michael Malice. Michael has a column on Trump, but really it's more on the U.S.

presidency in general. And there seems to be a bit of a problem where some people, their critique of Trump, is just that he's a buffoon or he's too crude or whatever.

And this just so totally misses the point, if you ask me, I mean, if they're coming to, you know, if we're going to bomb people, I don't care if the person bombing them is crude or sophisticated.

That's sort of beside the point.

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