The Tom Woods Show, episode 913.

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

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

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

Quick announcement before we get to our guest, Christopher Voss.

There is indeed going to be a 1,000th episode special event in Orlando,

featuring special guests Michael Malice, Tom DeLorenzo, and at least one other yet to be announced,

and the MC of the event will be Eric July, who has been a guest on this show twice and is a successful musician

and all-around great guy. So how can you not attend? It's going to be free, although I am

going to ask you to register, so I don't go crazy trying to estimate the size of the group.

So I will have links for you very soon. It's going to be September 9th. That's a

Saturday at the Rosen Center Hotel in Orlando. I'll also have, for those of you who actually

want to stay over in the hotel, we'll have a block of rooms, and I'll be able to give you a discounted

rate. So just hang on until I can give you a link, but I want you to save the date in the meantime. Eric July is the MC.

What are you crazy? Not being here, you've got to get here. So we're going to have a lot of fun,

and I'm looking forward to that. Today we're talking to Chris Voss, who is one of the preeminent

practitioners and professors of negotiating skills in the world. And in particular, I want to

talk about his book,

Never Split the Difference, Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on it. He spent 24 years, Chris

Voss did, working in the FBI crisis negotiation unit as a hostage negotiator and was the FBI's

chief international hostage and kidnapping negotiator from 2003 to

2007. And I was just getting so much out of reading his book, which somebody recommended to me

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