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🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Eric July, the frontman of Backwordz, a rap/metal band, returns to discuss Veracity, the band's debut album, which debuted on the Billboard charts at #5 for hard rock (not to mention #2 on the Heat Seekers chart and #1 on the Alternative New Artist chart). And guess what: it's full of libertarian and Austrian messages. You'll be blown away.
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 887. |
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0:40.7 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Eric July is back on the show, and I couldn't be happier. |
0:46.8 | I've had Eric on before, and just before that appearance, I was, of course, told what a great guy he was. |
0:47.9 | He's a musician, and he's a libertarian. |
0:50.0 | And, you know, I've sort of heard that story before. |
0:52.4 | He's a such and such, and he's also a libertarian. |
0:54.4 | And you talk to the person, and it's sort of like, I'd like to smoke some pot and maybe taxes are 5% too high. |
1:01.5 | And that makes him a libertarian. I think we're so desperate to discover people who are libertarians. |
1:06.3 | If they're celebrities, we just drop the bar way, way low. But with Eric, you can keep that bar as high as you |
1:13.4 | want because he is going to scale it every single time. He is a hardcore Rothbardian. I mean, |
1:19.6 | there ain't no getting around that. And his band backwards, which is B-A-C-W-R-DD-Z has got an album out now called Veracity that you are just not going to |
1:32.6 | believe. Will you see the song titles on this thing? It is amazing. And it's great stuff. |
1:39.0 | It's not like you have to treat them like a charity case. Well, they're libertarians, so we've got to go out and support |
1:43.7 | them to that. and support them. |
1:49.0 | To that, you know, enough of that. We've heard enough of that. How about libertarians produce good quality stuff and we'll just go buy it anyway? So Eric's a great guy. He's published on a variety |
1:55.1 | of libertarian websites. In fact, he's been urging me to be interviewed by him, and it's just been a matter of |
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