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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 900 Politics Isn't All There Is, So Cheer Up

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Gonz Trevino grew up in Mexico, and has created half a dozen successful businesses before age 30. (He also works with Jason Stapleton, the libertarian podcaster.) He says politics hasn't played a major role in his life. Just creating half a dozen successful businesses.

Perfect for episode 900.

Show notes for Ep. 900

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 900.

0:02.9

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.

0:13.8

Folks, today's show is brought to you by the good folks at Casper.

0:17.5

Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com slash Woods and using

0:24.5

promo code Woods.

0:26.9

Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. How about that episode 900? Wow, pretty good. So my thanks to

0:33.2

everybody for listening consistently and for spreading the word about the show and sharing it on social

0:38.3

media and helping me to grow the audience. I really appreciate that. I want to say before we get to

0:43.2

our guest today, something that I forgot to mention when I had Eric Brakey on the show several

0:49.5

episodes ago. He's the state senator in Maine, who is a Ron Paul guy. And he told me, I just forgot to

0:57.2

mention it, that one of the bills that he managed to get through in Maine was a right-to-try bill,

1:04.4

which is a bill that says if you're, more or less if you have a terminal illness, but there's some potentially

1:11.7

life-saving medication that hasn't yet gone through the full FDA approval process, you can

1:18.8

nevertheless give it a try because obviously what have you got to lose, right?

1:22.8

You would think this would be obvious.

1:24.4

Of course, with the U.S. government, it's not obvious, but they passed this in Maine.

1:29.8

And Eric was the guy. And he told me that he first heard about this kind of bill on the Tom

1:36.9

Wood Show when we talked about one of the episodes on the 10th Amendment Center and that this had

1:43.6

been successful in a number of other states,

1:46.2

so he decided to give it a try. So how about that, right? I mean, that's a great thing. Somebody's

1:51.0

life could be saved from that. So that's wonderful. Very glad to know about that.

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