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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 920 Discussion with YouTube Personality Sargon of Akkad on Libertarians (He's Not One) and Leftists (He's Definitely Not One)

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Carl Benjamin, known online as Sargon of Akkad, has built up an enormous online following thanks to his compelling and controversial YouTube videos. He identifies with no particular ideology, but says he feels the greatest kinship with libertarianism, even while he does sometimes criticize it. By popular demand, he and I have a freewheeling discussion, and we touch on his video on the violent leftist group By Any Means Necessary.

Show notes for Ep. 920

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 920.

0:03.2

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

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.5

Folks join Bob Murphy and me for the Libertarian event of the year, the Contra Cruise.

0:20.3

And this year, we're joined by special guests, including the great Scott Horton, the foreign policy expert you love from the Tom Wood's show.

0:29.4

It's filling up faster than ever, so book right now at contracruise.com.

0:36.1

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here.

0:37.6

By popular demand, Sargon of Akad joins us.

0:41.5

I'm speaking, of course, of Carl Benjamin, who goes under that name, and don't worry, I'm not revealing anything I'm not supposed to say.

0:48.5

That is generally known.

0:50.5

It doesn't take too much effort to find that out.

0:52.9

But Carl's a very interesting guy. He posts

0:55.6

a lot of very compelling and sometimes controversial content on YouTube where he has a massive audience.

1:04.3

He is not a libertarian, but he's sympathetic. He's had at least one major recent video where he's

1:10.6

gone through and responded to some

1:12.8

libertarian arguments. So I thought we might have an interesting discussion. But in particular, he had a

1:17.2

video on that violent left-wing group called By Any Means Necessary. And I liked it so much, I thought,

1:23.7

let's get him on. We'll talk about that and talk about whatever the heck comes up. So, Carl,

1:27.4

welcome to the show. Hi. Thanks for having me. You've got a tremendously successful YouTube

1:32.5

channel. You've been putting out tremendous content. You have a fantastic following.

1:38.4

What is the number of YouTube subscribers you have as of this recording?

1:43.4

623,000 on my main channel.

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