Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your weekly sanitarium to help you recuperate from the news, brought to you by the magazine of free minds and free markets. I'm Matt Welch,

slightly feverish joined by Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman I think, and Catherine

Mangue Ward. Hello everyone. Howdy.

Hey Matt.

Happy Nogrony Week.

Is it?

It's a nachrony week folks.

Yeah, for real.

Is it already where I was going with this.

Yeah. Well it starts out happy mad and then it gets a little angrier by Friday

Sounds like this podcast speaking of angry Catherine I understand that youbsomped some people last week in a debate about freedom.

Do you want to brag?

Sure.

The word curb stomped, I would say, is probably a little too strong in the sense that we debated whether the American dream was alive and well my side was me and Tyler Callan the other side was David Leianhart and Baskar Canc. The original vote, the pre-debate vote was 71% in favor of my side and the post-debate

vote was 72% in favor. So a curb stomping indeed.

Congratulations Nick Gillespie for one testified that you did a wonderful job.

Oh yeah, it was fantastic.

Good fancy event put on by our pals at Fire and Free Press and generally a good time

And I got to tell you Matt when Tyler Cowan took his top off, the crowd went wild.

The crowd actually did go wild at one point when Tyler

shuffled through a giant stack of papers

in order to whip out the exact wording of a contested study. of

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