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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 705 What's Right with Freedom, and What's Wrong with the Candidates

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's pretty thin gruel, to put it mildly, for freedom lovers in 2016, so I spent the opening talk at this year's Mises University program (hosted by the Mises Institute) contrasting the free society with what Trump and Clinton have to offer. Zingy stuff.

Show notes for Ep. 705

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 705.

0:03.4

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

0:08.2

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0:14.3

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0:18.3

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0:22.1

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0:31.6

Hello everybody, Tom Woods here. I am now back from Auburn, Alabama, where the Mises Institute is, had a tremendous week there,

0:39.9

awful lot of fun. I was hoping to do an episode. I was hoping to do 705 while I was there and

0:46.3

have that be last Friday's episode. And it just never quite worked out. I was just constantly on

0:52.8

call or there was something going on or I was being interviewed

0:55.3

or one thing or another. And plus, finding a quiet spot when there are a couple of hundred people

1:01.6

at the Mises Institute is a little tricky. So I'm afraid I was not able to do one for Friday,

1:07.1

but we're back to normal here. I think we're finally, finally, really back to normal,

1:11.8

and I'm going to be able to do a whole bunch of episodes all at once and start releasing them.

1:16.3

So, sorry about the lack of a Friday episode, but I hope this one will make up for it.

1:22.7

It's actually my birthday, by the way, as I record this, August 1st, 2016, I turned 44 today. There you go.

1:32.4

All right. What I want to do for today's episode, tomorrow I've got a real zingy one. It should be a

1:38.5

lot of fun. Better not tell you just yet to make sure it goes through. I don't want to get your

1:43.5

hopes up and then

1:44.1

disappoint you, but it's going to be a fun one. But today we got a fun one too. And this is the opening

1:49.6

talk I gave at the Mises University program. This is the week-long program for college students at the

1:55.5

Mises Institute puts on that was very important in my own intellectual development, and it's always a

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