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THE TOM WOODS SHOW: THE INTERVIEWS 2013 Contents A Special Note from Tom Woods (Please Don’t Skip This!) 1 Please Check Out What I Am Spending Hours and Hours and Hours Doing 3 The Heroic Tenth Amendment Center (Michael Boldin) 19 Ben Swann and Independent Journalism (Ben Swann) 25 Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson (Ian Anderson) 32 The DUI Racket (Warren Redlich) 37 Why Nonintervention? (Daniel McAdams) 45 Guns 101 (Larry Pratt) 52 Murphy Answers Questions I (Robert P. Murphy) 59 States’ Rights and the Founding (Kevin Gutzman) 66 The Primal Blueprint (Mark Sisson) 73 Libertarianism 101 (Walter Block) 81 The Neocons: Who They Are (Daniel McCarthy) 90 The Future of Bitcoin (Erik Voorhees) 97 Is Sweden a Good Model? (Per Bylund) 103 Fix the Economy: End the Fed (Hunter Lewis) 109 Lew Rockwell Remembers (Lew Rockwell) 115 Murphy Answers Questions II (Robert P. Murphy) 123 The Crony Capitalists (Hunter Lewis) 131 The Recycling Scam (Floy Lilley) 137 Keynes and His Errors (G.P. Manish) 143 Do We Need the State? (Gary Chartier ) 149 WWE’s Kane: Libertarian (Glenn Jacobs (Kane)) 156 Ron Paul Continues the Fight for Freedom (Ron Paul) 164 The American Police State (John Whitehead) 170 The Paleo Solution (Robb Wolf) 177 But…Somalia! (Ben Powell) 184 Be Prepared (Jack Spirko) 190 The World’s Happiest Country? (Christian Bjørnskov) 198 That Australian Minimum Wage (Ben O’Neill) 204 The Skyscraper Curse (Mark Thornton) 210 The Revolution of 1913 (Tom DiLorenzo) 216 What’s Up With Iran? (Daniel McAdams) 223 Murphy Takes on MMT (Robert P. Murphy) 230 David Friedman on Statelessness (David Friedman) 238 Will Robots Take All Our Jobs? (George Reisman) 245 The Gettysburg Address (Richard Gamble) 253 The Not So Wild, Wild West (P.J. Hill) 260 The Free State Project (Carla Gericke) 266 How to Do Economics (Danny Sanchez) 271 Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? (Enrico Gnaulati) 277 Foolproof Thanksgiving Turkey (Heather Woods) 283 What’s Wrong With the Economy? (Robert P. Murphy) 289 Mind Your Own Business (Phil Giraldi) 298 The Conservative Mind (Brad Birzer) 304 The Paramilitary Police (Will Grigg) 317 Before the Welfare State? (David T. Beito) 326 Nullify the NSA! (Mike Maharrey) 333 Bitcoin: Objections and Replies (Erik Voorhees) 342 Foreign Policy Briefing (Daniel McAdams) 349 Against the State (Robert Higgs) 357 The Poverty Cure (Michael Matheson Miller) 365 Separating School and State (Sheldon Richman) 374 Doug Casey on the World (Doug Casey) 381 Want to Lose Weight? Don’t Count Calories ( Jonathan Bailor) 388 How to Be Tom’s Best Friend—and Get Transcripts of All Episodes, Forever 396 Appendix: Tom’s Solo Programs, 2014 397 A Special Note from Tom Woods (Please Don’t Skip This!) I launched the Tom Woods Show as a Monday-through-Friday podcast toward the end of September 2013. Ever since I’d started filling in as a guest host on thePeter Schiff Show in 2011, people had been asking when I’d have my own show. I was flattered, but I was alsopretty busy. Fast forward to late 2013, and the idea seemed more and more attractive. The main reason was this: the work I was doing for Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum was so time-consuming that I could no longer do the writing and blogging I once did. If I had a daily program, though, I could still address the issues of the day, and still feel like I was contributing to the cause, even while my homeschool work was otherwise consuming me. And incidentally, although I’ll discuss Ron’s homeschool program in the next chapter, let me give you an idea of what’s involved. Each full-year course in this K-12 curriculum runs 36 weeks, with five lessons per week. That’s 180 video lessons per course. Plus edits, finding readings, formulating, assignments, etc. Now multiply all this by three and a half courses, which is what I am creating, and you are at 630 videos on history, economics, and government. It is exhausting. So the podcast was a way I could continue to help spread knowledge and information, while still pouring most of my energy into this unbelievable workload. But as I look at this book, and look back on what was covered on the program in 2013 alone, when I was still getting my feet wet as a podcast host, I am quite pleased with what we accomplished. Thanks to my many great guests, we were able to cover an enormous variety of topics, such that this free e-book you now own is a veritable primer on liberty. One of my favorite compliments has been that although many of my guests are not widely known within what we might call the liberty community, listeners love them. They are pleased to know that the intel- lectual heft of our movement is even greater than they thought. The transcripts you’ll find in this book have been edited for clarity. People rarely speak in paragraphs, and reading the unfiltered spoken word can be difficult and unpleasant. We’ve polished the text just enough to make it easily readable, but without eliminating the texture of the spoken word. 1 2 The Tom Woods Show: The Interviews 2013 These transcripts are only of the interviews I did in 2013. They don’t include my opening and closing banter. They also don’t include the shows I did without a guest. It’s just too much work to take 30 min- utes of straight talking and edit it into readability. Those programs, listed with dates in the Appendix, you’ll just have to listen to. I’m giving this book away, though if you enjoy it and would like to chip in toward the expenses asso- ciated with putting it together—transcriptions, editing, e-book formatting, cover design, etc.—I accept donations gratefully at TomWoodsRadio.com, via my Supporting Listener program. But more important is that you enjoy the book. We broadcast the program for the first time every weekday at noon Eastern at TomWoodsRadio.com, and then it’s available as a podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or any other podcatcher. Before we get to the program transcripts, I want to take just a moment to let you know what I’m up to these days. Will you take a moment to have a look at the next chapter? Then it’s on to the awesomeness. Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening. Tom Woods April 2014 Please Check Out What I Am Spending Hours and Hours and Hours Doing – and It’s Not the Tom Woods Show Even if you have no interest either in homeschooling or in adult enrichment, I implore you to read this as a favor to me. Ron Paul has been wanting to create a homeschool program since at least 2008, when he first raised the idea with me. Now that he’s out of Congress, it can be done. Dr. Paul is convinced that a homeschool program is not just an effective way to carry on the ideas he has promoted all his life. It is indispensable. If the tradition of thought that Dr. Paul represents is not handed on and cultivated, it will wither away. As parents, though, we’re interested in more than just advancing ideas. We want our children to get the best education they can. When students complete the program at RonPaulHomeschool.com, they will know an enormous amount about the freedom philosophy -- because, unlike the traditional classroom setting, we also present the other side of the story. How many times have you read something by Ron Paul or a Ron Paulian scholar about history, or economics, or government, that you didn’t learn in school? How many great thinkers have you discovered in adulthood who were never introduced to you as a student? Students in this program won’t have the same problem. They’ll learn real history and economics (among many other subjects), and they’ll learn it the right way, the first time through. The people, events and perspectives left out of the usual presentations of this material will actually be taught to them. Put simply, they’ll graduate knowing who Ludwig von Mises and Frederic Bastiat were, which is more than we can say for more than 99 percent of high school (and even college) graduates today. In addition to getting an education in which the freedom perspective is systematically incorporated rather than ignored or presented in caricature, students will also: 3 4 The Tom Woods Show: The Interviews 2013 • learn how to speak in public with confidence; • become a good writer -- a skill few adults share; • learn (with your permission) how to run a blog and a YouTube channel; • learn how to start a home business. Our students won’t just have a lot of valuable knowledge, in other words. Our students will be effective communicators in speech and in print, will have a leg up on their peers in promoting themselves and their work online, and will have absorbed a healthy entrepreneurial spirit. The program comes with a money-back guarantee. To join the site and its Q&A forums, it’s $250 per family, no matter how many children are in the family. After that, individual courses are $50 per full- year course per child. Each of those $50 courses consists of 180 video lessons, plus reading and writing assignments. I am pre- paring four courses: three full-year courses, and one half-year course. My courses also include an audio file for each lesson so parents, too, can listen during their commutes to what their studentsare learning.