The Tom Woods Show, episode 984.

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Homeschool.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, and by popular demand, Mark Ripeto joins us today.

What an interesting guy to talk to for so many reasons.

Mark is a strength training coach and author.

He's worked in the fitness industry since the late 70s.

He's been a competitive powerlifter. He's

coached national and international level athletes. But he's also been a notable iconoclast in a number

of areas that we'll talk about. And he's also a tremendous entrepreneur creating important

things of his own that we're going to talk about too in cases where he thought

almost everybody else was totally full of it. So he's bold and brilliant and also a libertarian,

as it turns out. So plenty to talk about with Mark Ripito. Mark, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Tom. Appreciate your asking. You have been in high demand among my listeners for quite a while.

They've said I should have you on.

And then I looked into your background.

I thought, I've been an idiot and a fool not to have this guy on.

So I have a lot of things I want to ask you involving, of course, strength training,

but also diet, politics, all kinds of sorts of things. But let's start off

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