The Tom Woods Show, episode 720.

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

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here.

Brad Berzer is back on the show with us once again.

We're talking about mythology, very broadly conceived, and how the stories that we tell are related to the subject of freedom.

And we're going to go all the way.

We're going to be going through so much material here. Brad has a brand new course on this for Liberty Classroom.com going from the ancient

Greeks all the way up to J.R.R. Tolkien, who he takes up almost half the course, actually. And it's

wonderful, of course, is everything that Brad does. So you'll want to check it out at Liberty Classroom.com. I'll have some coupon codes on today's show notes page, Tom Woods.com

slash 720. This, by the way, remember Liberty Classrooms totally different from the Ron Paul

curriculum. Ron Paul Curriculum is a homeschool program for K through 12, and although the

courses I created for it, I think, are more than

suitable for adult education, Liberty Classroom is more self-consciously aimed at adult enrichment.

And boy, will you be enriched if you listen to Brad Berzer. Now, I do want to add one thing.

Brad has just recently returned from a trip, and we were working, he was in his home office instead of his work office, so he didn't have the usual microphone that he uses. And before you think, oh, here we go, another podcaster who's obsessed with audio, I just want to point out, neither one of us realize that this home microphone has a

problem with cross talk. So when he and I are talking at the same time, his microphone's cutting out,

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