An Evening with Tom Woods | Thomas E. Woods. Jr.

[@CAngel57ful]

The more I listen to you Tom Woods, the more I love what you say and I gotta have more.

[@immaculatesquid]

CAngel57ful same

[@iu4743]

3 years later and he’s absolutely right about KZbin making his ideas immortal in a time when leftism is spreading so rapidly Tom woods is making me realize I’m not stupid for thinking principally

[@soapbxprod]

Oh God in Heaven- Dr. Woods- you are the finest mind on the face of the earth. I'm weeping with joy for the third time... This is the most profound address that I have ever heard. Bless YOU!

[@Charlesperalo]

The Walter Block joke I love how the entire audience knows what he's joking about. Yet 99% of Americans don't know Walter Block and probably 90% don't know how to pay chess.

[@pretorious700]

Tom is brilliantly logical and painfully honest. He's the exact opposite of the lunatics in charge of the US now.

[@loganmillslagle3022]

Absolutely brilliant I wish everyone in the world could see this just once

[@evokelabs]

It got very powerful at the end there. Thank you Mises for all your great work and I take what many you had to say too heart.

[@Wesker1982]

Tom Woods is always awesome

[@TauseefHisbani]

Defending the undefendable is one of those books that I read and then I walk over to the wall banging my head against it because it is like drinking fresh water in the desert.

[@KeeganIdler]

To make a ham sandwich from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

[@allanmherrera]

But what about an apple pie? Where do we start for that?!

[@CurtHowland]

57:40 That happened to me a few years ago. I walked into a grocery store and stood there, and it just washed over me: The entire cuisine of the WORLD is at my fingertips, I can have ANYTHING! Wow.

[@bluesparrowfish]

8:00 he is right i am a mises hermit, over one year and im still on the audio section. went from audio mesis dailys to lectures, now im on the books.. all most finished with every thing rothbard on audio

[@cheesechoker]

Tom Woods is always an entertaining speaker, but the section about his personal feelings on the Gulf War was actually quite moving. I'm going to check out "We Who Dared to Say No to War".

[@Ethercruiser1]

Interesting concepts: 1) The Law of Association, & 2.) Society can function without central direction.

[@maxtp948]

Wow that really was inspiring. 👍👍👍👍

[@ikester8]

@Charlesperalo That book was my first introduction to Dr. Block many years ago. I'm very glad to have been able to meet him a couple of times at Mises. He is an amazingly funny and generous man, but don't be on the wrong side of him in a debate!

[@godofallbums]

you need to come back to Seattle.last time you were here i didn't know who you were,you deserved more rock star

[@VictorLepanto]

Yes. Precisely my point, thank you for agreeing w/ me. I'd remind you that just because something is simple, doesn't mean it is false. 2+2=4 is simple, it is also true. That is how it is w/ the greatest truths, they are simple but difficult to live.

[@BinanceUSD]

Why the 11 dislikes?? Tom is so nice.

[@Hashishin13]

Nice more misesmedia!

[@TomWoodsTV]

For MotoWanderer (for some reason it's not letting me respond to specific comments), I recommended Googling George Reisman and workplace safety for the logic of the argument.

[@TheSkoaler10]

TomWoodsTV I love your speeches Dr. Woods. I listen to them and many others from the Mises Institute everyday after work. I am working towards becoming a Misesian economist and building Praxeology and the freedom movement.

[@Hands2HealNow]

TomWoodsTV thank you. For the sake of saving young people so many false theories by beginning with the Anti-Mass Murder folks, and or the autonomy of the individual with human rights within optimal interdependence of community. Ive never been able to afford higher learning and due to a head injury auditory expression is optimal. Thank you for your generosity of view. All that said, please address the twisted mind that does enjoy enslaving others. It seems opium, cocaine, theft of resources from indigenous people such as in Congo.

[@Hands2HealNow]

Michelangelo Praxeology??

[@TeBeAyennounced]

Blech. Skeeze bar. I need to find out where this place is in Auburn. I'm upset I didn't hear about this till now.

[@Elmgren76]

Here in Sweden, an organisation hands out an annual "Lenin prize" to authors, musicians and what have you. Not a single critical word about this in the media. It's reported like any other award.

[@utubercoolosis]

At 06:24 Tom mentions speaking on 'Economic cycles before the fed'. Does anyone have a link to that video?

[@utubercoolosis]

@NicosMind Thanks, will watch.

[@NicosMind]

I would have loved to have heard more about Stalin and how bad he was. Well Stalin, Lennin et al. Anyone got any good sources? KZbin videos or books to recommend?

[@JoshuaHults]

hes so rite ! its how i found out

[@DavosJamos]

The Bob Murphy tie comment made me genuinely laugh out loud

[@BarrySlisk]

@evandonghue2 But they DID NOT have sound money :) Btw. I don't think unsound money was the cause of WWII. WWI was the cause. The cause of WWI was not unsound money, I don't think. Just states with hunger for more territory and power.

[@caisamadrid]

@NicosMind Try "The Soviet Story" I think you can find it on youtube

[@NicosMind]

@greenbean1984 Thanks for the reply. As long as i dont see people being tortured, or close up pictures im alright. I dont like to think on it too hard either. But yeah ill have to give The Soviet Story a look. Toms 2 minutes of talking about it has definitely intrigued me. Especially cause one of my facebook friends has put Lenin down as an inspiration and hes been trying to run for government!!! A bit scary like but i friended him mostly for that reason. Try and open his eyes toward capitalism

[@Brownyman]

"This corner..."

[@jwinter228]

105 views? what up?!

[@NicosMind]

@utubercoolosis I dont know of the video that hes talking about but this Mises vid from George Selgin is very good watch?v=yLynuQebyUM

[@Xasew]

@utubercoolosis Google: economic cycles before fed woods mises There's no video (yet?), it's just audio. The media page at the LvMI site is quite extensive; you can pretty much spend the rest of your life there.

[@MotoWanderer]

Tom Woods may be one the most entertaining and bright public speakers of our time, and although right on many issues, he tends to beat everyone with the same stick and the same mistrust. For example, when he talks about OSHA, he only mentions fatality rate, but he never mentions injury rates. OSHA main job is preventing and reducing work related injuries. Free market is great but no business, however free, will spend 1 cent more than it can get away with on safety equipment. Maybe Mr. Woods needs to visit a few third world countries to see the condition of workplaces (American Corporations) and then compare them to the very same inside the United States. Free market has never provided safety for the workers, because in the eyes of the number crunchers, people are expendable. Now you may argue that what business would want to lose a worker instead of buying PPE? But the reality is that they do it all the time. A factory button pusher can be replaced in a matter of minutes. Consumer and worker protection laws did not come about because the government wanted it, majority of them got in place in spite of what government thought of them. Now is OSHA a perfect agency? You'd be a fool to call it that but to relegate it to a bunch of hacks who don't know anything is just as foolish. OSHA is not working not because it's unnecessary, it is crippled because of many factors and free market argument is not one of them. You can read the excellent paper "The OSHA mission found and lost" by Khalid Elhassan to learn more.

[@Hands2HealNow]

MotoWanderer There are good places for ethical considerations of improvements....But there are too many loopwholes for authoritarians to personally profit from promoting some product. ie the Mr. Churtoff and the air port scanners.

[@caversmill]

Fantastic video, watched it the whole way through while gf nagged me to stop watching "boring stuff"! We really need a greater libertarian/Austrian presence in UK, the Adam Smith Institute, and to lesser extent Cobden Centre, do a great work but if we are to avoid the return of Socialism in the UK we need these kinda people shouting from the rooftops!

[@djordjebokun882]

Y'all got Mises UK now, which is great.

[@GreaterGood2024]

You should've watched some porn.... That would have interested the GF

[@BarrySlisk]

@SeppLainer Why?

[@evandonghue2]

@BarrySlisk One of the best ways to understand history is to understand monetary history_

[@NicosMind]

@caisamadrid thanks

[@TreachMarkets]

@BarrySlisk I suggest you read his full opinion on these matters, rather than arguing over hearsay.

[@Keimh3regPeh2uMeg]

Lol. He just described me and these mises media youtube videos @ 8:29

[@BarrySlisk]

@TreachMarkets I don't think I dare know more. I'm already trying for forget that he is religious.

[@cfountain72]

@VictorLepanto I know the 2007 debate very well; he said nothing of the sort. However, if you worship our gov't and think its foreign policy decisions are infallible, there isn't much more to discuss.

[@matthewmorter9679]

tom i loved you before but now i am in love with you. i would give anything to study under you or sit in your classroom.

[@soapbxprod]

Me TOO! I'm 10 years Dr. Woods' senior, but I will sit in my student's desk and LISTEN! :)

[@evandonghue2]

@BarrySlisk "Who started WWI and WWII doesn't really matter." Its not "who" but "what" started these conflicts and it does matter if you care to not relive their tragedy_ A key lesson to take form germany/ww1/ww2 is that opportunistic dictators grow out of economic turmoil/inflation/bad monetary policy/bad foreign policy, when all else fails, these dictators send the young off to die in some hell hole far away from their homes/families_

[@countallwriteins]

Hope it's not Wendell Murphy Ham produced by smithfield foods! See Dominion by Mattlew Scully

[@Mister.Psychology]

"An Evening with ..." - aahhh, man. Such a pointless title. Terrible, I'll skip. "An Evening with Tom Woods" - amazing title! Instant click from me.

[@evandonghue2]

@BarrySlisk " I don't think unsound money was the cause of WWII. WWI was the cause. The cause of WWI was not unsound money," The inflation was triggered by a huge increase in the nation's money supply, caused in part by the heavy demands of the reparations placed upon Germany following its loss in World War I_ WW2's root cause was unsound money_

[@Samsgarden]

Are you suggesting the federal govt should be completely dismantled for state sovereignty to hold water? i.e. federal courts, military, arbitration of law etc, promotes nationalism.

[@asierra1492]

first its a federal government not a national government. what tom woods says is that the people of the each individual states are the sovereign. if tom woods argued the USA was a nation he would have said the combined people of the 50 states are the sovereign. Also, the states dont obey the federal government, they obey the compact they made with the rest of the states, which is the constitution.

[@r0bh0lmes]

I think Tom Woods may make an Austrian out of me yet.

[@AnotherUserNamedPaul]

@caversmill "...if we are to avoid the return of Socialism in the UK..." I thought that boat already left.

[@BarrySlisk]

@SeppLainer Listen I'm not a historian. Who started WWI and WWII doesn't really matter. My point is that you are not always to blame because some one attacks you. And if some one attacks a friendly neighbor then I don't see that it is so bad to help. Yes "innocent" soldiers will die, but if stronger countries can attack other countries without consequence then even more people will die in the longer run. Moral Hazard in a way.

[@cfountain72]

With all due respect, Ron Paul was the most authentically 'catholic' person running in 2012. No one is more pro-life (in the fullest meaning of what that term can mean) and more inline with Catholic teachings than he is---and he's not even a practicing Catholic. Peace be with you. Google "Honoring Pope John Paul II A Consistent Pro-Life Figure"

[@Sigridovski]

We are all repeaters; parrots, until we understand more.

[@BarrySlisk]

@TreachMarkets Yes the Treaty after WWI had a part to play but Germany also started WWI, so.....Besides I'm sure history is littered with examples not involving treaties. Like...Iraq-Kuwait (is it spelled that way in English?) :) And it may be dumb to make Germany pay that much but did Polen, Denmark and Belgium have anything to do with that? Things happen sometimes which is not in your control and Tom Woods think that nobody to help the victims. I wonder if he is against a police force?

[@Visfen]

@Charlesperalo And probably 19% couldn't understand either chess or Walter Block

[@Mister.Psychology]

Here is the toaster making video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4Cnq4Jtgd-Sptk

[@caversmill]

@pretorious700 nope

[@vaultsjan]

Moto Wanderer. "Free market is great but no business, however free, will spend 1 cent more than it can get away with on safety equipment." This claim could be true for some kind of very low skill job (cleaner would not qualify but maybe gardener working with rake). For a good worker, employer needs to invest and work. If\youve ever been on some kind of team lead/management position you\d know how much hassle it is to replace people.

[@BarrySlisk]

@oldstyleliberal I think I have been patient but you all keep wanna avoid the issue by talking history. My remarks in that regard was purely illustrative, not the main point. I think for the sake of my blood pressure I will leave it here. You obviously have not interesting insights. Thank you.

[@BarrySlisk]

@SeppLainer Let's say I lack understanding of history. Fair enough. Can we get back to the point? That in Tom Woods opinion we should do nothing when strong countries attack their neighbors. I'm glad USA helped Denmark when Nazi-Germany occupied us.

[@NecessariusVerum]

Lmao.

[@MetalAcitistJim]

@Charlesperalo pay chess, I think they buy things all the time

[@BarrySlisk]

@BarrySlisk No, not not :)

[@VictorLepanto]

I bet you don't even know what I was referencing w/ my remark about Guyana & Cool-aid. How could you, Dear Father, the Great Genius of Our Age, The Most Reverend Doctor Wrong Paul never told you about Jim Jones & HIS mindless cult so how could you know what your supposed to "think" about that? One megalomaniacal cult leader isn't going to point out other megalomaniacal cults to his mindless nattering drones.

[@ReallyLazyMe]

And given how concerned about Iran what about Pakistan which has nuclear weapons n is falling apart as u worry bout Iran .. How bout the 100,000 soviet nuclear scientists that r not bein taken care of n there loyalty is questionable at best .. N ur worried about Iran .. Are u serious ?? .. U talk bout people drinking Ron Paul's cool aid u need to think whose cool aid are u drinking ..

[@imonlyamanandiwilldiesomed4406]

"You couldn't be a commie or a fascist" As if there's a difference, Tom.

[@VictorLepanto]

You said nothing of the sort. But incoherent & incomprehensilbe statements from a member of the Wrong Paul Cult (TM) are to be expected.

[@derekzoolander]

Mf doom

[@pretorious700]

@caversmill get a smarter gf

[@TreachMarkets]

@BarrySlisk At least he's not a statist, that's the worst kind of religion.

[@pretorious700]

what simple minded nonsense