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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 908 The Pope and Libertarians: My Response

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Not long ago Pope Francis made some disparaging comments about libertarians. They were really a string of cliches. Here's my response.

Show notes for Ep. 908

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 908.

0:03.2

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

0:07.8

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

0:14.3

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0:18.7

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0:23.3

just pay for shipping. Check it out at harries.com slash woods. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. I'm finally

0:30.6

getting around to talking about the Pope Francis comments about libertarianism. I realize it's a little

0:35.3

bit late, but better late than never.

0:42.6

It's, I think, probably going to be a short-ish episode. I've had a couple of really long ones the past couple of days, so this is a short one for you. I want to start off very quickly

0:48.7

telling you that it looks very, very likely, like basically 100% likely, that this year, 2017, September 7th,

0:58.2

I'm going to do a live event in Orlando for the 1,000th episode of the show. Michael Malice is a

1:04.8

confirmed guest. I've put out feelers to another possible guest who'll join me there. I want to get at least one or two more

1:12.3

after that. And who knows what exactly, what the format will be, but it'll be awesome and great and

1:19.1

exciting. So it's going to be in the Orlando area, which is not far from where I live. It's

1:24.1

going to be Saturday, September 9th, toward the evening.

1:32.2

I'm going to have a special dinner beforehand just for the supporting listeners of the show,

1:36.2

Supportinglisteners.com, and I'm covering the whole thing.

1:40.3

So you're going to get in for free, and you're going to like it.

1:42.8

So mark that on your calendar.

2:01.8

Saturday, September 9th. Get over to Orlando. I'll have the venue details very shortly. We're working out the arrangements right now. And it's going to be if the Contra Cruise weren't already the event of the year, this would be the event of the year. The 1,000th episode, you know you want to be there. Plus Orlando, you can do all kinds of things.

2:06.3

You can make a weekend out of it, right? There's no shortage of things to do in Orlando.

2:11.0

And plenty of escape rooms, I might add, in Orlando. Some good ones. I can give you some advice,

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