The Tom Woods Show, episode 959.

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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. I am coming to you from the Mezes University week-long summer program of the Mezes Institute.

This is the event that made me who I am, for better or worse.

And now I'm on the other side of things on the faculty.

And for what I believe is the fourth year in a row, I delivered the opening talk at this event.

And I'm going to share that with you now as today's episode.

If you are a sort of a newbie, let's say, and you are unfamiliar with the name Murray Rothbard,

you are especially going to need this episode.

You're going to learn a lot, and you're going to know what you

need to do next, which is to read yourself some Rothbard. So check out the show notes page,

tomwoods.com slash 959. And here we go. What could be more fun than talking about Murray Rothbard

in the opening lecture at Meese's University? Answer, actually having Murray Rothbard give the opening lecture at Meesa University. Answer, actually having

Murray Rothbard give the opening lecture at Meesa University, which is what I got to experience as a student.

And all you get is this pale imitation talking about him. But that's the difference between

1993 and 2017. But Murray Rothbard was one of my most significant intellectual influences, and I'm always glad to have an opportunity to talk about him.

So I've been asked to talk about how he influenced me, what I learned from him.

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