Ep. 694 After Brexit, American Secession?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Michael Malice discusses his recent Observer article in support of the secession of American states. I throw some common objections at him, and the result is our usual festival of knowledge and fun.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 694.
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0:38.5	Hello everybody, Tom Woods here. Another Michael Malice episode for you. We're talking about Michael's column in the Observer that I'm going to be linking to at tomwoods.com slash 694 on the possibility of
0:45.1	American secession. After all, we had the Brexit vote not long ago, and that went contrary to
0:52.3	most people's expectations. So, well, another thing contrary to most people's expectations.
0:55.2	So, well, another thing contrary to most people's expectations would be that there'd be some kind of independence movement in the United States.
1:01.9	So we're going to talk about that and what the case for that might be and how to handle some common objections.
1:08.2	Michael is – now I think it's safe to say Michael is a semi-frequent guest on this here program.
1:15.2	He's an even more frequent guest on Kennedy on the Fox Business Network, but you can also
1:20.4	find him on Fox News.
1:21.9	And the other day, we found him even on TLC, of all places.
1:26.5	Michael is a celebrity ghostwriter. You can check him out
1:29.7	at Michael Malice.com. Michael Malice, welcome back to the show. Thanks, Dr. Woods. We're talking
1:36.0	today about secession and in particular about a column you wrote for the observer. People should
1:40.7	read your observer column, for heaven's sake, or we should do an episode on well if not each one then a whole lot of them
1:47.2	because they're always great so i've got this one linked at tom woods.com slash uh 694 and you wrote it in the wake of the
1:57.4	Brexit vote which was as of the time of this airing a couple of weeks ago.
2:02.7	And first of all, I assume I know where you stand on this, but a few people kind of surprised me
2:07.9	on this. So that was a good thing, right? The best possible thing. All right, so best possible thing.
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