The Tom Woods Show, episode 791.

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44222. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking today about, I believe it's Major General

Smedley Butler, who is the author of the great, short little

work, War is a racket. A lot of libertarians know about that work, and it's interesting coming

from a man like Smedley Butler. And joining me to talk about him is C.J. Kilmer, who hosts the Dangerous History

Podcast. He's known as Professor C.J. We'll get you the links to that in just a minute. This

podcast combines history and libertarianism in a way I've not seen done anywhere. And as you will see,

the archive of this podcast is really just a treasure trove of wonderful, wonderful listening.

So I want to urge you to check that out. And let's get chatting about our subject today.

CJ, welcome to the show. Thanks, Tom. It's great to be here.

To be on the Tom Wood show for a libertarian content creator is sort of like being invited on the tonight show when you're a comedian.

So I'm absolutely stoked to talk to you. Oh, that's great. That's great. Well, let's hope that, you know, I would say that maybe you're Seinfeld, but you've already produced so much content on your podcast. Now, I want to talk about, of course, Smedley Butler. We'll get to that. But first, let's talk about the fact that you have had a successful libertarian podcast for years now, and you have produced a lot of episodes. And that interests me too. And it also interests a lot of people who listen, people who say, we kind of also would like you to pull the curtain back on your own operation and tell us how you do this. I mean, I've produced almost 800 episodes. People are curious about that. Well, I'm curious about your situation. You have degrees in history and you've been teaching history. And then at some point, you decided you're going to do a podcast. How did that come about?

Right. Well, I've been teaching history for over 10 years now. I have a bachelor's and master's in history. No Ph.D., though, for a variety of reasons, kind of quit while I was behind on that.

But actually, never even got rolling on it. But anyway, a couple of years ago, I decided to start a podcast.

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