The Tom Woods Show, episode 9669.

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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

I'm out of town today, so I'm going to play for you a talk I gave years ago, probably 2009.

And by the way, later this week, I actually have some very engaging guests coming up. If we can get them scheduled this week, it'd really be great.

But I think you'll know them when you hear them. I'll try and remember to point them out to you.

But I've got some guests coming up that I know you're going to want to hear from. But for now,

I do have this talk from 2009. It from. But for now, I do have

this talk from 2009. It's quite some time ago, I suppose, but this was a talk I delivered. I'm

pretty sure in Philadelphia at a campaign for liberty event. Back in those days, they had a practice

of on a Friday night, they'd have rah-rah speeches by me and by Ron Paul and

people like that. And then on Saturday, they would have us give more, maybe theoretical,

but more academic style talks where we would be trying to teach things instead of just rallying

people. So one of the things I talked about and the topic for this

episode today is the origin of rights. We talk about individual rights a lot, but where do they come from?

What are they grounded in? Can they be defended? Are they just arbitrary? So what I do here is

really a historical review of different rights theories that have existed over the years.

And I wonder if today maybe I would do a better job, although I don't think you'll be super duper disappointed or anything, but I've learned a lot since then.

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