Hey, folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast. This is going to be a good one. I am sitting with my friend

Jeffrey Tucker, who is the president and is it fair to say founder of the Brownstone Institute,

where I am a proud fellow. Before I say more about what I see at Brownstone and ask Jeffrey what he sees, Jeffrey,

welcome to Dark Horse.

Well, it's so nice to be here.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm really looking forward to this discussion because, Brett, I think I'm going to tell you some

things that you don't know.

Wow.

You know, it would not be the first time.

In fact, I would say I was thinking back in preparing for today's podcast, I don't think I've missed a gathering of Brownstone since the first one you invited me to. I can't remember exactly when that was. But I'm hooked because Brownstone is many things and describing it is not a

simple matter, but I think it is the only institution of any size that I have been part of or

witnessed from the outside that seems to function as intended.

It's quite an accomplishment.

Well, and that's a consequence of a lifetime of experience in seeing things go wrong.

So, right.

So once you eliminate all the things that you know go wrong, then you're left with maybe an institution that could possibly function well. I'm going to knock on wood, but so far, it's really, I'm just thrilled. We have a tiny staff. And you see what's happening to the separate clubs. We've got now 15 separate clubs. I think we're going on 20 all over the country. Most of them sell out every single week. We've got now,

we're working on our 22nd book. I'm putting the finishing touches right now on a book

that I think you're just going to love. It's the first book on the Great

Barents Declaration. And the book is edited by Martin Kulworth and Jay Baudicharya. And the purpose

of the book is to just provide a thorough documentation of the declaration, the FAQs, the defenses of it, the attacks on it, the disputations, the debates, the disputes, and everything that unfolded from that.

And if you can believe it, this book is going to be, I think, we haven't done the index yet, but it could be, it's about 750 pages.

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