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Ep. 746 Trump's Missed Opportunities: Lew Rockwell and Tom Discuss the First Presidential Debate

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Did Trump land a knockout blow in last night's debate? For those of us wanting to see Clinton smashed on live TV, the answer -- according to Lew Rockwell and me -- is unfortunately not. Here's our analysis, punchy as always, of what went down.

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The Tom Woods Show, episode 746.

0:04.0

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and enter code Woods. Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here, and I think you know what this episode is all about.

0:39.7

Of course, it's another post-debate commentary.

0:43.3

You haven't had one of these in months and months now, but Lou Rockwell is here for the traditional post-debate discussion.

0:51.6

Of course, you know, Lou is the founder and chairman of the Mises Institute at

0:55.4

Mises.org, M-I-S-E-S-D-org, one of the greatest websites in the history of the world.

1:01.0

This alone makes him one of the world's great benefactors for all good folks out there.

1:06.5

He also served as chief of staff to Ron Paul. He publishes Lou Rockwell.com, which all the cool people read every day. And he's all around a great guy. When you're at Lou Rockwell.com, you want to look at his blog. And he's got two blogs there. And particularly, you want to look at the political theater blog, because there you can follow Lou's commentary. In fact, I'm going to ask Lou about the future,

1:28.7

the political theater blog in just a minute. But I love reading that political theater blog because

1:33.6

boy, does he dig up some juicy stories. Lou, good morning. Good morning, Tom. Great to be with you,

1:38.6

as usual. And after our long hiatus. Yes, I know. I know. It's been awful. Well, I don't know if, no, actually,

1:46.2

not having to watch a debate's been good, not talking to you's been awful. Before we get

1:50.8

started, what's going to happen to the, can you tell us what you're planning to do with the political

1:54.2

theater blog after the election? Well, I think I'm going to just see what people want by how much

1:59.6

they read. So there are people who want to continue it, especially if Hillary is in the White House. There'll be a lot of hot stuff to talk about. But with Trump in the White House, too, there's my guess. So it may continue if there's readership. It gets great readership now. And that's what's going to determine I'm going to continue it.

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