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Ep. 893 This Episode on University Life These Days Goes Weirdly Off Track (in a Good Way)

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This is a great discussion with Brett Veinotte, host of the School Sucks Podcast, that starts off about university shenanigans, then turns to my writing (which some have considered too harsh) on the left, then turns to my insane workaholism, its roots, and how I conquered it.

Show notes for Ep. 893

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 893.

0:03.4

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0:08.0

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

0:14.5

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0:22.0

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0:25.0

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0:28.7

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:30.2

This is a great little episode here because it's a conversation I had with Brett Vonat,

0:35.1

who hosts the School Sucks podcast. And before you say, hey, education is important, that's exactly his point.

0:43.6

He's saying there's a difference between traditional American schooling and education.

0:49.1

He's in favor of the second one.

0:51.2

Well, anyway, he's got a terrific podcast.

0:53.2

You can check it out at

0:54.9

SchoolSucksproject.com. Anyway, he came to my event at Yale, I guess, a couple of weeks ago now.

1:02.9

It was an event that was like a debate. You really have to attend a Yale political union event

1:08.5

to get what the whole thing is about. But I went there and argued

1:12.8

in favor of a resolution supporting the idea of state secession. I want to talk about something

1:19.1

controversial, and I thought, this is about as tame a controversial thing as I believe. So this is a good

1:25.5

toe in the water for these Yale types, and it was such a great event. They're still trying to get me video and audio, official video and audio. The trouble was the microphones weren't working. And so I don't know how good the quality is going to be. They don't really make much of an effort to record these things. If you go to

1:44.3

YouTube and you type in Yale Political Union, almost nothing comes up, even though they do this

1:49.0

every single week. There is an amateur recording of the event. I'm just waiting to see if I can get

1:53.7

something a little bit better because the sound quality, particularly with the acoustics in that room,

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