All right, welcome to another T-Rex talk. Today we're going to be talking about the author P.J. O'Rourke,

who is one of the most influential authors in my life. He's not one of the most influential

authors ever, but when I read his books, they had a very definitive way, I think that they

really affected the way that I thought about things. And one of the things that I want to try to communicate to you guys is why that was.

Although I actually, I had trouble figuring out why he was so influential, because it wasn't

like he had a tremendous influence on my actual worldview.

I think my worldview was pretty well defined at that point based on a whole

bunch of different factors. And I didn't really exactly learn a whole lot from him about libertarianism.

He's known as an extremely influential libertarian and was a research or a research fellow or

senior fellow at the Cato Institute, very important for libertarian thought,

but more old school libertarian thought, not modern Instagram libertarians. Modern Instagram libertarians

are more, I don't know, anarchical, I think, is probably the way that I would put it.

So as we talk about PJ Work, I want to explain kind of a little bit of where he came from,

mostly because he died recently, and so he's been on my mind quite a bit.

What his books meant to me, what his books meant to the world in the 20th century,

and some of the lessons that we can learn from these.

So one of the things that is, I think, really important about PGO Work is he didn't start

out wanting to be a conservative icon by any means. He actually started out the exact opposite of that.

He actually started out as a weird, commie, peacnick liberal type.

He was a draft dodging, long-haired, drug using.

I forget what all of his adjectives are, but he described himself as this very countercultural

hippie loser. As he watched the world

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