The Tom Woods Show, episode 848.

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free trial plus an automatic 25 smacker discount. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, still under the

weather, but not so much that I can't have a conversation with Dave Smith, who is just such a fun guy to talk to. I told him,

let's just treat this like you and I are talking on the phone. We'll make an episode out of it.

That's an episode. You and me talking on the phone. Well, anyway, Dave Smith is a stand-up comedian.

He's host of the podcast. Part of the problem. You can catch him on Fox Business and Fox News on Kennedy and Red Eye in particular,

and you can follow him on his website atcomicdaivsmith.com. I'll have a lot of links

including his social media at Tom Woods.com slash 848. and we wanted to talk today about should we just right

off the left or or what because Dave has a bit of a different perspective on this and I thought

why not let's bring Dave on we'll hash this out Dave welcome back oh thanks for having me Tom it's an

honor this has been much too long you were on I haven't checked but it was but it was, I don't know, something like episode 12. I don't know. It wasn't that long ago, but it was a long time ago. And now we're finally getting you back on. You might have been with Peter Schiff at the time. Who knows? Yeah, who even knows, right? I might not even have had kids yet. My life was totally different. It was a different world, Tom. Kids were chanting

and the Fed instead of build that wall. Yeah, it was a whole different, yeah, or burn that building

and smash that Starbucks. It's just, it's not the same. Yeah. It doesn't have the same ring,

you know, doesn't have the same ring. Well, anyway, I'm glad to talk to you today because you,

first of all, you and I get along great and I think what you do is great. Well, anyway, I'm glad to talk to you today because you, first of all, you and I get along great and I think what you do is great, and I'm really glad to know you. And you are going

to make a something of a correction of me. And now this is, you know, back to back here. I just

had that weasel Michael Malice on. And, you know, he's always looking to correct me over some

piddling bit of nothingness, whatever. And then, but, but you are, you're, you're less

obnoxious than Michael Malice. That's for sure, but that doesn't say much. But you,

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