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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 742 Show Listener Resigns from the Military

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Jason Stopper, a regular Tom Woods Show listener, recently resigned his commission in the U.S. Army, and now seeks to become a paramedic -- so he can heal people rather than harm them.

Show notes for Ep. 742

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 742.

0:03.8

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

0:08.4

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

0:14.5

If you're a homeschooling parent and you're tired of running yourself ragged,

0:18.5

then check out the self-taught Ron Paul curriculum. And check it out

0:22.1

through my special link where you get three free bonuses totaling $160. My special link,

0:28.9

Ron Paul homeschool.com. Hello, Tom Woods here. We are doing something a little unusual today.

0:35.8

I'm taking a listener of the show,

0:38.4

in fact, a member of my supporting listeners program.

0:41.5

You can join that elite group at supporting listeners.com.

0:45.3

Lots of goodies.

0:46.0

You don't necessarily get on the show,

0:47.8

but you do get a lot of goodies.

0:49.4

And he's in that private Facebook group,

0:51.7

and he wrote me a very nice note,

0:53.5

maybe about a week ago, telling me

0:55.9

about the transformation in his life that occurred after he started reading libertarian

1:01.4

materials and including my own, as well as listening to the show. And he's decided to resign his

1:07.9

commission in the U.S. Army where he'd been an officer. And he had thought throughout his life as he was growing up that this was the career he'd have. So it's quite a turnaround, quite a reversal for him to say, you know what, I can't do this. I'm going to have to do something completely different. So he was sending me just a nice thank you note, and I said, why don't you come on the show? Let's talk about it.

1:28.5

I don't talk to enough of the listeners, and this is an interesting story, so let's talk about that.

1:33.9

So we are indeed going to talk about that. I'm going to be linking to him where you can read his writing and stuff at tomwoods.com slash 742.

1:42.5

Jason, welcome to the show.

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