Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West. This is Philosophies this. Thank you to the

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you're buying something from Amazon. I hope you love the show today. So I

bet there are at least a few thousand people out there that got a notification

on their phone. Oh look, a new episode of Philosophies this. I saw the title of

the episode, Iron Rand, and the grab their steering wheel sort of screamed a

little, leaned over into the passenger seat and felt a moment of bliss as their

car went over the freeway overpass and cascaded down into the ravine below

where we like to keep our homeless population in this country. I'm sure there are

many of you out there. See because Iron Rand is kind of a controversial

figure in philosophy. You know, I thought this episode was going to be a lot easier

to put together than it ended up being thought I was going to finish it four or

five days quick turn around from the last episode. It ended up taking over two

weeks because of just how hard it is to find reasonably unbiased information about

this stuff. And I told myself, if I'm going to do this thing, I don't want it to be

like everything else out there. I want to try to make it the gold standard when

it comes to understanding both sides of this debate of whether Iron Rand is a

philosopher or not. Now I've read a lot of commentary about Iron Rand over the last

two weeks. And what the people that do the commentary on her seem to want you to

believe is that one of two realities is true. Either Iron Rand is a philosopher and

she created an elaborate system that overthrew the ideas of many thinkers before

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