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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 858 How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Basing myself on the Harry Browne book of the same name, I discuss how in my own life I've found freedom: from neoconservatism, from academia, and from povertarianism. Fun!

Show notes for Ep. 858

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 858.

0:03.1

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

0:07.7

Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:13.9

Folks, we're doing it again.

0:15.4

The Contra Cruise is setting sale later in 2017.

0:18.9

The most fun you will ever have on any vacation ever, hosted by Bob

0:24.4

Murphy and me featuring special guests, the first of whom that we've announced is Scott Horton,

0:30.3

the great foreign policy expert. Check it out at contra cruise.com.

0:35.9

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Just returned from San Diego where I had an excellent

0:39.7

time. And by the way, both of my groups, when we did the escape rooms, we both escaped,

0:46.2

because I did a couple of them during the day. So thanks a lot for being awesome people. I treated,

0:52.8

because it's like 20, 30 bucks to get into one of these escape

0:55.4

rooms. So I treated, it was my treat. I took some of my supporting listeners and we did a couple

1:01.0

of these and everybody had fun. It was just a great time. Exhausting day, but it was a great time.

1:06.6

If you don't know what an escape room is, Google it and check one out in your city. From now on, when I travel, I'm going to try to arrange it that I'll do an escape room with some of my supporting listeners while I'm in town.

1:18.0

Anyway, why was I in San Diego?

1:19.6

Because the Mises Institute was having an event there.

1:24.3

It was a short event, but it was wonderful with many wonderful people. Patrick Byrne,

1:30.5

CEO of Overstock.com, was the keynote speaker. Well, I gave a talk at the urging of Jeff Dice,

1:35.7

the Mises Institute president, called How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. Now, obviously,

1:40.8

that is the title of a famous book by Harry Brown, a great libertarian.

1:45.9

And what Jeff wanted me to do was to take that concept and apply it to my own life and show how you can actually get a lot of freedom for yourself in this world.

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