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Ep. 2501 The Wildest Libertarian Party Convention Ever, with Clint Russell

Ep. 2501 The Wildest Libertarian Party Convention Ever, with Clint Russell

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Ep. 2501 The Wildest Libertarian Party Convention Ever, with Clint Russell

Ep. 2501 The Wildest Libertarian Party Convention Ever, with Clint Russell

Ep. 2501 The Wildest Libertarian Party Convention Ever, with Clint Russell

Ep. 2501 The Wildest Libertarian Party Convention Ever, with Clint Russell

Thursday, 6th June 2024
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0:02

Get ready to take a flamethrower to

0:04

the official narrative and learn what the

0:06

elites don't want you to know. You're

0:09

listening to the Tom Woods

0:11

Show. Hey

0:19

everybody, Tom Woods here, episode 2500-1

0:23

of the Tom Woods Show and I'm here

0:25

with Clint Russell. Clint, I wanted to

0:27

talk to you. First of all, Clint Russell, you all know Clint Russell

0:29

or you ought to or you will after today. Liberty

0:32

Lockdown is his podcast. He's all over the

0:34

place. You can't miss the guy basically.

0:37

And I wanted to talk to him last week about

0:40

the whole Trump at the Libertarian Convention

0:42

thing and he wasn't able to

0:44

record until a certain day and I have an arrangement

0:46

with my tech people that I have to have all

0:48

the episodes in by X minus

0:50

two days from when Clint could do it. So it

0:52

just didn't quite work out. But I feel like

0:55

now we've got the Trump conviction so I wanted to get

0:57

an episode out on that and I'm hoping that by the

0:59

time you see this, I got that episode out. But

1:02

I feel like there's still some lingering interest in

1:04

this whole LP matter because there are a

1:06

lot of people who invested a lot of time

1:09

and resources and moral support at

1:11

the very least into that

1:13

thing. And it seems to

1:16

have been a very wild convention, maybe

1:18

more so than any in

1:20

the history of the party. And Clint

1:22

was right at the heart of it. So I thought, you know, what the

1:24

heck? What's the harm? Let's talk about it.

1:26

So Clint, let's do that. Yeah. Thank you

1:28

for having me again, Tom. By the way, I

1:30

found your book, the

1:32

story I told you last time where now

1:35

I have it signed. I'd sitting right over there. It

1:37

says to Clint best wishes, Tom

1:39

Woods, May of 2021. And

1:42

that was when I first met you and I said,

1:44

you don't know my name yet, Tom, but you will.

1:46

And I just laughed and then you laughed and now

1:48

you know my name. So it's just so cool. So

1:51

because with that, Clint, you are the one in 1000

1:55

cases of people saying something like that.

1:58

Yeah. Okay. Yep. But you

2:00

know, by the way, my most embarrassing moment

2:03

related to that was when I talked to

2:05

a guy who already was a name, but

2:07

I wasn't familiar with him and that's Phil Labonte of

2:10

All That Remains. Because when I met

2:12

him back in like 2012, I was still

2:14

like a complete goody two shoes on, you

2:16

know, in terms of the music I listened to. And

2:18

I still like all that stuff. And he

2:20

was saying, yeah, you know, I'm in a band and you

2:23

know how many people come up to me and say they're in

2:25

a band clip? Like half the world. It's like the number of

2:27

people who say they're working on an awful, it's everybody. Check

2:30

out my mixtape, yeah. Yeah, exactly. And I said, oh

2:32

yeah, you know, I hope you do well. And then

2:34

I realized it's all that remains. And then finally, and

2:36

then I know we're gonna get into this LP stuff.

2:38

But my favorite story of being at a

2:41

concert, and I have been at, I mean, probably

2:43

close to 100, is my wife and

2:45

I went to see All That Remains. And Phil knew that

2:47

we were gonna be in the audience. They came to our

2:49

town. And partway through the show,

2:51

he says, this is just

2:53

such an amazing audience. You guys are

2:56

just great. And you know what's more,

2:58

I understand Tom Woods is in the

3:00

audience, and the place goes dead silent.

3:02

Like not a peep, nothing. The Venn

3:05

diagram of the overlap between our audiences

3:07

is nothing. But my

3:09

wife and I clapped and cheered. And so when

3:11

I saw Phil after, I said, those two people

3:13

cheering, that was her and me. That

3:16

was about it. It's still pretty cool to

3:18

be shouted out during a concert. Oh, I mean, it was great, but

3:20

it was just so funny the way it works. We

3:23

were definitely. All right, so, no,

3:25

you know, the thing is, we could go from start to finish,

3:27

but I just wanna pick things that I think are interesting. So

3:30

you were running for the VP slot. Just

3:33

explain really quickly what the rules are. Like how

3:35

does that work in the libertarian party? How do

3:37

they decide? Because we know that when the other

3:39

parties, they just announce, hey, I've chosen

3:41

so and so, and that's the end of it. What

3:43

happens here? Well, this is

3:45

exactly why I knew that RFK Jr. wasn't gonna

3:48

be an actual player in the LPs because he

3:50

announced Nicole Shanahan over a month ago. And I

3:52

was like, oh, okay, well, I'm

3:54

sure they've looked into it. And I'm sure they know that

3:56

that's not really possible because the way the

3:58

LP works is that the. delegates get

4:01

to select both the president and the vice presidential candidate.

4:03

And they do not have to like each other. They

4:05

don't have to have the same vision or worldview or

4:08

speaking style or anything. So that's

4:10

how it works is that there's multiple rounds

4:13

of elimination voting, then the

4:15

presidential candidate is selected and then immediately

4:17

when that's finished, the vice presidential

4:20

voting rounds begin by the delegates. So

4:23

it was a crazy Sunday. I ended up losing

4:25

47% to 51% and

4:28

I wish the best to the

4:30

ticket that ended up winning, but

4:32

I think they are going to have a major

4:35

uphill slog. Yeah, I mean,

4:37

Clint, I think you dodged a bullet to be

4:39

honest with you, even though I'm not saying that's

4:41

sour grapes, that's not sour grapes. No. That's

4:44

given the way it turned out, if it had turned out

4:46

differently, maybe you would have wanted to win, but in these

4:48

circumstances, I mean, you don't wanna be caught

4:50

up in this. So, all right, well, first of

4:52

all, I know you've had plenty of interaction

4:54

with Vivek before, but you had this opportunity

4:57

to interact with him on stage at

4:59

the convention. What was that all about and how'd that go? Well,

5:01

it went really well. Vivek is

5:04

basically a surrogate for Donald Trump. He

5:06

travels the country, he stands

5:08

outside courthouses and says how innocent he

5:10

is. And now apparently he also debates

5:13

third party vice presidential candidates.

5:16

And it ended up being more

5:18

of a round table. It was Dave

5:20

Smith moderating and they had

5:22

podiums set up because Vivek and I know

5:25

each other because Dave knows Vivek. We

5:27

said, hey, let's just put some

5:29

chairs around. Let's do a little half circle.

5:31

Let's make this more conversational. And

5:33

that's what we did. There's a lot

5:35

of respect from all sides. So there was no

5:38

real shouting matches, but I did

5:41

get a whole bunch of standing ovations because I couldn't

5:43

help, but had a few good one

5:45

liners. And he actually gave

5:47

me a fist pound mid applause

5:50

line one time. So I liked the guy a

5:52

lot. I spent some time with him in Iowa

5:55

and he's just a best I can tell

5:58

He's pretty close to us, ideologically. So.

6:00

I'm I'm glad that it didn't become contentious, and

6:02

I'm glad that he, and I mean I'm maintain

6:04

respect both before and afterwards. I'm

6:07

getting them back on here just that he's outta

6:09

town that I'm out of town, but we're gonna.

6:11

Work. I'd what this thing he posted

6:13

on twitter about. Buzz! Feed.

6:16

And. His proposal to them as was absolute brilliant.

6:18

so I'm I don't know they want to spoil

6:20

that I might to. Talk. To him about

6:22

that. In. Person. But surely

6:24

though, I'm. I can think of things

6:26

that I would say to vague. And

6:29

one of them would be one of the would be. Look. There's.

6:31

Something wrong. Now I at this

6:33

point. I'm. Very sympathetic to Trump

6:35

because of what's happened to of legally.

6:38

I. Think you have to be outta your my not

6:40

to be. It would be exceedingly petty at this point

6:42

not to be. After. What's but? I

6:44

mean this is this affects. All. Of

6:46

us, what's happened to the legal system? But.

6:49

All the same. I. Would still say to have

6:51

a vague. Dave. Smith Try to

6:53

kind of get you to admit that may

6:55

be Trump shouldn't have appointed Nikki Haley anything,

6:57

you know? I mean he. And. Even

7:00

their you couldn't bring yourself to say

7:02

a you had to say well I'm

7:04

not about Monday morning quarterbacking Donald Trump

7:06

if is Dave says I'm like why

7:08

am I do A lot of us

7:10

and. I mean like if you kit. You.

7:13

Don't worry, I think for all his faults I

7:15

think you could publically. Say look. Mitt.

7:17

Romney made some bad choices

7:19

and personnel. But. I really respect

7:21

him and whatever. Why couldn't you say that

7:23

about Donald Trump is are some the matter

7:25

with that guy that he can't take even

7:27

a tiny obviously deserve criticism like that? Think

7:29

I would have asked him that. Yeah,

7:32

or I mean I think that the

7:34

sad reality is that there is a

7:36

real cold a cult of personality around

7:38

Donald Trump. And I I don't think that.

7:41

Well. I. Think that it is as much

7:43

about Trump as it is about his base. Would.

7:45

Yeah, weird thing to say, but. There's. A

7:47

these major loyalty tess.

7:50

Like. Almost feel to you have to demonstrate to

7:52

the. Trump. I

7:54

don't know whatever. They perceive him to

7:57

be this deity like figure. And if

7:59

you remember. when Vivek was still

8:01

running for president in Iowa, actually,

8:03

while I was there, he said, you know,

8:05

there's a real distinct possibility. They try and lock Trump

8:08

up and maybe he does get locked up. And then

8:10

what are we going to do? Like it'd be good

8:12

if we had someone like me that was still on

8:14

offer, you know, speaking as Vivek, because

8:17

otherwise maybe we get left with Nikki Haley and

8:19

like, no, that's the last thing this country can

8:21

have. So that was his sales

8:23

pitch to this one random lady out

8:25

in Iowa. And the clip goes out,

8:27

it goes super viral. And the Trump

8:29

base is like, you traitor. Like

8:31

we knew you were running for president, but we didn't

8:33

know that you meant it. Like, this is crazy. You

8:35

know, and it was, you know, a real

8:38

moment of clarity for me that like, Oh, yeah,

8:40

if you challenge Trump at all, the

8:42

entire MAGA, you know, Make America Great

8:44

Again, America First movement really flips against

8:46

you. So I think that's the biggest

8:48

challenge is that like Vivek

8:50

clearly has areas of significant

8:53

disagreement with Donald Trump, but he

8:55

doesn't really espouse it or he doesn't, you know, express

8:57

it. And I think I understand why. Or he expresses

9:00

it, but he doesn't portray it as a disagreement with

9:02

Trump. He just says, here's some of my opinions. Now,

9:04

the other side of it is actually what alarmed

9:06

me. Not like I didn't already know

9:09

what we were dealing with, but there was

9:11

a moment where I think

9:13

Vivek started to think, I

9:16

might actually have a fighting chance after all

9:18

in Iowa. And suddenly

9:21

Trump went and said,

9:23

Vivek is not, he's

9:25

not a Make America Great Again guy. And

9:28

so suddenly they turned on him. But

9:30

about three days later, after

9:32

the voting, he's welcomed on the

9:34

stage and everybody loves him. So it's like,

9:36

that's not normal. Okay, everybody, that's not normal.

9:40

I don't begrudge you if you say, I think

9:42

Trump is the least damaging of the candidates.

9:44

But I do think it's weird. If

9:47

you'd like to guy, then dislike the guy,

9:49

then liked him again in the course of

9:51

one week because another guy told you to

9:53

like, that's not normal. You know, no, you

9:55

would never accept that in any other context. Right.

9:58

Exactly right. I Mean, this is why I say

10:00

it's kind of a cult like movement. Yeah, And.

10:02

I don't wanna have to cook. I don't want to

10:04

have to use language like this. but she. Yeah.

10:07

You know, I mean I get All you have to do is

10:09

say. You. Know we have an imperfect

10:11

situation here. But. On. Balance.

10:13

I think this is the best choice, but this is

10:15

like. Yeah. Kind of not so.

10:18

But yeah, I mean he's basically they're supreme leader

10:20

and you know, not all of them. I mean

10:22

so I know what I'm horses are that are

10:24

totally rational but I'm just right members time. But

10:26

this particular kind of person. I. I

10:29

don't personally. Know anyone like that

10:31

actually? But. I see them on T V

10:33

and I see through on social media exposure. Yeah,

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Want to talk more Libertarian party stuff? Yeah,

11:44

and I know that people may say, well

11:46

that's kind of old news and I know

11:48

it's old news, but you know, I

11:51

just can't help you know I'm sorry, I just

11:53

it's only been a week. Come on, this is

11:55

a big the. I know it's not that long

11:57

right? In the end you know there were made.

12:00

You're presidential candidates at the things. So yeah

12:02

so I or to I talked about the

12:04

Trump. Appearance with Jeff Dazed

12:06

and Dan Mccarthy think those pretty

12:08

good conversation. But there.

12:10

Are other things talk about two? And one thing

12:12

I didn't talk about. Because. Now

12:14

I think it's a footnote in the history books,

12:16

but. Still, I'm a gossip.

12:19

I. Like gossip. I'm. A gossip kind

12:21

of guy. I like the backstory I like to

12:23

buy way this is true of me and a

12:25

lot of different ways. I. Don't mean like

12:27

I. I want to read the National Enquirer,

12:30

but I mean like if I follow a band and

12:32

I really like them. I. Have all their

12:34

albums, I. Know all the personnel

12:36

changes. I know who has bad blood

12:38

with home. I. Know. When they

12:40

wrote what Song under what Circumstance Religious.

12:43

I. Can't help but. I I like that I like the

12:45

backstory so I'd like deal of the yellow bit of

12:47

backstory here. So. The.

12:49

Way the voting works. Yes,

12:52

the nomination process works. At the

12:54

Libertarian Party convention. My understanding is.

12:56

You. Have rounds of voting. Until.

12:59

A candidate hits fifty percent. And.

13:02

Whoever either is lower than five

13:04

percent or is the lowest vote

13:06

getter gets eliminated each round. Did.

13:09

I explained about right. Yeah, I think

13:11

that's exactly right. Okay the norm. not very

13:13

much in the weeds on the stuff but

13:15

I was on the floor saw I saw

13:17

that happening. so I just gonna deduced the

13:19

your rich and all that I'm yeah new

13:21

the algorithm but yeah certainly that's correct. Okay

13:24

so some people are

13:26

asking. And. My inbox is

13:28

full of this. Stable. Asking

13:30

how is it possible. That. Good,

13:33

normal, Libertarians who are

13:35

well schooled. And. Who

13:37

aren't fooled by every single left

13:39

wing fad that comes along. You.

13:42

Know that if those people managed to quote

13:44

unquote take over the party. How. Is

13:46

this bizarre outcome possible? With.

13:48

Someone who I get that on paper.

13:51

he's probably for free markets or whatever.

13:53

But. You know? at this point I think we have.

13:55

To be grownups, hear and understand. What?

13:58

Time it is and what's really have. Putting

14:00

in our society. And. I.

14:02

Feel like I'm on one side and that

14:04

person's on another. Joe. How was

14:06

it possible to get this outcome? A.

14:09

Can you answer that without necessarily have? To

14:11

drag anybody through. Another

14:14

round of. You. Know what?

14:16

right? I'll. Do my best. I

14:18

mean it's very complicated story I laid out

14:20

the very lengthy explanation on Will Be Locked

14:22

on a few days ago and but the

14:24

short version is that there was in a

14:27

warring tribes within the Libertarian party and. They're.

14:29

Called the Brags the pragmatics which are

14:32

really just the progressive versus the missus

14:34

caucus which is my people. Are

14:36

people as far as or just or as you

14:38

into the mix and on? The difference I think

14:41

is that. The. Pragmatics or.

14:44

There's. Still, Libertarians for the most part. but the

14:46

issue is that ended. This is my analysis of

14:48

the many of them All disagree with my assessment

14:50

on this. Some. Of them are just

14:52

really boring folks that don't like the fact that

14:54

in a we may be profane from time to

14:57

time or we may make. Off. Color

14:59

jokes in that they're just very like buttoned

15:01

up stuffy people. Some of them are that.

15:03

But. The majority of them are not. The majority of

15:06

them, in my opinion, are the types of folks

15:08

that have really imbibed of critical theory. They.

15:10

Have a very identity area world view which

15:12

it is far as I'm concerned is anathema

15:15

to libertarianism. Their. Collective is that

15:17

at the end of the day that's

15:19

what I see in and they are

15:21

obsessed with racism and trans phobia and

15:23

homophobia and they think that America has.

15:26

Many problems, but that's a very high

15:29

on their list. And I think that

15:31

the Macys Caucus season the opposite way.

15:33

that we see financial ruin because were

15:36

thirty five trillion dollars in debt, We

15:38

see civilizational decline because I'm in a

15:40

population reproduction. We see the potential for

15:42

world or three be these multiple proxy

15:45

wars, a nuclear powers. I. Just

15:47

think that our priorities are very different. And

15:50

as far as I'm concerned, I. Think

15:52

that. as a consequence of having

15:54

a critical theory i did italian

15:56

perspective on things they have in

15:58

a sense because some racists themselves

16:00

thinking that, you know, you

16:02

have to go out of your way to

16:05

craft a system that looks after minorities. And

16:07

it's like, that's just not libertarianism. Like

16:09

that's not, so that's the main divide. Yeah,

16:12

I've heard some of them say, well,

16:14

if black people are X percent of

16:16

the population and their net worth on

16:18

average is only Y percent of what

16:20

other peoples is, then there must be

16:22

systemic racism. No, there mustn't. I

16:25

mean, that's a huge leap. No, there, so

16:27

I guess Thomas Sowell would be unacceptable to

16:29

them. Because he has a million explanations

16:31

for this, all of which are benign. And,

16:35

you know, for heaven's sake, there has

16:37

literally never ever in all of recorded

16:39

history been a time when

16:41

there is more, quote, trans acceptance than

16:43

today. Literally never. Or gay acceptance, I

16:46

mean, goodness gracious. Literally never. You

16:48

have absolutely every power center in society

16:50

on your side, literally never.

16:53

And to say, well, that, that's our main,

16:56

I'm glad you live in a society like

16:58

this where you're comfortable enough that you can

17:00

be worried about nothing. Because that's

17:02

nothing compared to the real problems in the

17:04

world, that's nothing. We literally conquer

17:06

nations and put up gay pride flags. You

17:08

think that you're oppressed. In fact, you're probably

17:11

the real flag of our country at this

17:14

point. So it's just bizarre to me.

17:17

It feels like they're living in the 1950s or

17:19

something. Like

17:21

it's just not reality though. Like there

17:23

is very, very minimal oppression against these

17:26

groups. And it's very hard

17:28

to relate to those people, just to be

17:30

perfectly honest. Like I don't see the world

17:32

the same way that they do. And let

17:35

me add one other really important point. Because

17:37

they perceive things in this way. I don't

17:39

know how this correlates exactly. I think it's

17:41

like the blue pill versus red pill type

17:43

of divide. But they get every single topic

17:46

wrong in real time. And then they catch

17:48

up to us years later. Yeah. I've

17:50

seen it over and over again. Like they're

17:52

messed up and they're standing in line. They're

17:55

listening to the science with Fauci. Like they

17:58

are wrong over. and

18:00

over and over again, they're wrong on Russia,

18:02

Ukraine off the bat. They don't have any

18:04

idea about the backstory. They're wrong in Israel,

18:06

Palestine. Like, sure, they'll stand with us on

18:08

the right side of the demand when it

18:11

says like, hey, don't send troops, don't send

18:13

money over there. Like they can get that

18:15

right, but they get everything else wrong. They

18:17

buy into the corporate narrative on everything off

18:19

the bat. And then maybe 12 to 18

18:21

months later, they finally figured out, as far

18:23

as I'm concerned, that makes you worthless. Our

18:26

job is to change the conversation in this

18:28

country. If you were going along with the

18:30

corporate narrative for the first 18 months after

18:32

every story drops, you are useless to me.

18:35

So that's my take. Oh yeah,

18:37

absolutely. And come on with

18:40

the previous leadership, considered it

18:42

an embarrassment that people like you and me

18:45

were against the whole lockdown and mask

18:47

thing. Exactly. They considered that an embarrassment.

18:49

Like, yes, if you absolutely were pulling

18:51

their toenails off, they would say, yeah,

18:53

it shouldn't be mandatory, but we should

18:55

still be doing it. It didn't do

18:58

anything. Now, let's leave

19:00

aside the liberty aspect of it. It

19:02

didn't do anything. And you want to challenge

19:04

me on that? Good luck. I

19:07

wrote this book, Diary of a Psycho. I sent you a

19:09

copy of Diary of a Psycho. Yeah. It's

19:12

amazing. I mean, you can't defeat me on this. Nothing

19:16

came of it. It was all

19:18

for literally nothing. And

19:20

notice that it was me, you, Dave,

19:22

like the three guys that they hate

19:24

the most. Yeah, right. Who

19:27

nailed in the beginning? Exactly. Because

19:29

we could see. I could see as the numbers were coming in, this doesn't

19:31

do anything. And it absolutely doesn't.

19:33

And so that was what

19:35

I said at the Soho Forum with what would

19:37

have been my debate. I laid that

19:39

thing out better than I ever have. So

19:42

anyway, I finally had time to catch up

19:44

with Dave the other day about this whole

19:47

thing. And simultaneously, it was weird. I mean,

19:49

I'm not just a Dave fan boy,

19:51

but I was actually listening to part of the problem

19:53

while I was texting with him. And

19:56

he told this story in this episode of his own

19:58

recap episode. that he's walking around

20:01

it. And as with any of these things,

20:03

when you're somebody like Dave, you

20:05

can't walk five feet without somebody wanting

20:07

to get a picture or something signed

20:09

or whatever. And it's fun and great.

20:11

I mean, who doesn't love being

20:14

appreciated? But he says somebody walked up

20:16

to him wearing a phong and

20:19

said, you know, I'd like to

20:21

debate you on your immigration stance. And

20:24

so Dave said, well, you know, I did

20:26

just release this episode with Bob Murphy,

20:28

you might go listen to that. So no, I

20:30

mean like right now, I think we should have a give

20:32

and take. Now, first of all, even

20:34

if you weren't dressed in a phong, I

20:37

don't wanna use autistic in a negative way, you know

20:39

what I mean, as a pejorative, but like

20:41

how, let's just say socially inept would you

20:43

have to be to think, it's

20:45

appropriate for me to take a guy on

20:48

whom the demands on his time are

20:50

unbelievably great with the whole world wanting

20:52

to talk to him, but he really

20:54

needs to step away from that and

20:56

talk to me. It's extreme entitlement. Yeah,

20:59

and I'm wearing a phong because

21:03

I'm so clueless about how the world

21:05

works. I think that's what I'll do

21:08

and probably people will take me seriously. Yeah,

21:11

right. I mean, that is

21:13

also once again the divide. I mean, yeah,

21:15

sure, maybe Dave and I don't dress as

21:17

well as you do, Tom, but there still

21:19

is a level of seriousness with which we approach

21:21

these things. And I think that- I've never seen

21:23

you in a phong. No,

21:25

no, I mean, you'd have to

21:27

go back to my college days for that. I'm

21:31

kidding, I don't even think I did it then, but I

21:33

know exactly the gentleman you're talking about. He was

21:36

the one that was tackled, I don't know if

21:38

it was secret service or security during the Trump

21:40

speech. That very same person

21:42

was standing up on a chair,

21:44

holding up a sign, trying to

21:46

block out the view of the

21:48

thousand or so Trump supporters that

21:50

were standing or sitting behind the

21:52

more libertarian front area where I was

21:54

at. And it's like, there's

21:57

just a big difference between us and them, you know?

21:59

And I know that- That's also collectivist type of

22:01

talk but like I am but I you

22:03

know I actually saw these teams and like

22:05

there's a big difference like these from my

22:07

vantage point the people that are not in

22:09

my camp of the Libertarian party. many of

22:12

them are just not very serious people are

22:14

they don't seems as if it's a club

22:16

for them. It seems as if it's like

22:18

that's where they get their social interactions. It

22:20

yes them feel better about their lives. I

22:22

was not that guy. I had a great

22:24

life before the Libertarian party all have our

22:27

life after it. I am there because I

22:29

want to set. The world? Free or not.

22:31

really the world. I want to set my town,

22:33

my state a little bit more free. My family,

22:35

my loved ones like. that's what I really care

22:38

about. I was never involved because I wanted to

22:40

be no. Hang. Out with you people,

22:42

get smith minutes like that's not what of.

22:44

Therefore I yeah political parties as a tool.

22:46

I love many of the people there particular

22:49

that Mrs Cock his folks. yeah to the

22:51

Mcardle she's raise April so you know that's

22:53

my outlook. There's just a real different approach

22:55

when it comes to like what is the

22:58

purpose of Libertarian party or my gets a

23:00

tool to try and get some liberty minded

23:02

policies enacted. Actually could I just transition quickly

23:04

into why I think Dave may be. Overselling.

23:08

The failure of this. Oh. Please

23:10

yet love to hear that? Yeah, so. On.

23:12

His show yesterday it finally he finally got

23:14

a chance to put a recap out and

23:16

obviously Daves falling on his sword in he's

23:19

taken all the blame and. I respect

23:21

the hell out of him for, but it's totally unnecessary.

23:23

I think that the guy has done. More.

23:25

For. Really? Bail P

23:27

or Libertarianism then probably anybody over the

23:29

past few years So and certainly over

23:31

the past month at me. What he's

23:33

done over the past month is unbelievable

23:36

going on such enormous shows. So.

23:39

I. Think that he's overseeing that. but I think more

23:41

than that. He's. Overstating the failure

23:43

of the me he says caucus

23:45

a particularly if. What? We're being

23:47

told about. The. Cabinet.

23:50

Position is like. Did. You

23:52

hear this part of the Trump's speech where

23:54

of yeah delay idol thing. So yeah I

23:57

mean if that's true, that. My.

23:59

Understanding is it is. is true that Ross

24:02

Albrecht will be, his sentence

24:04

will be, I forget the terminology. Commuted?

24:06

Yeah, commuted, thank you. His sentence will be

24:09

commuted on day one. That's a life saved.

24:11

I know Lynn Albrecht, that's very personal to

24:13

me. That is an incredible victory. And

24:15

then Trump's offer was that he was

24:17

going to put multiple libertarians on essentially

24:20

the criminal justice review board. If

24:22

that's true, hundreds, maybe

24:25

thousands of lives get saved because

24:27

of the pressure that the Mises

24:29

Caucus within the Libertarian Party put

24:31

on the GOP to ultimately concede

24:33

to our demands. That's high level

24:36

power negotiations. That's a big deal. I mean,

24:38

if you could save some lives, that's a

24:40

really big deal. Also, there's the

24:43

talk of him potentially putting someone in his cabinet.

24:45

There's also the chance that Vivek appears

24:47

to be, as far as I'm concerned,

24:50

the favorite for the White House in 2028. And

24:54

he's way closer to us than Donald Trump

24:56

is. So I think

24:58

that there's lots of reasons for hope, particularly

25:00

when the Libertarian Party

25:02

hasn't gotten any concessions,

25:05

as far as I know, from any major

25:07

party in history. Now, the

25:09

question, the big piece of doubt

25:11

is, will Trump follow through? And

25:14

we don't know. So the answer is, if he

25:16

wins and if he gets in there, and if he does

25:18

the things that he said to us, well,

25:21

then that's the biggest win we've ever had. So

25:24

I just wanted to reframe it as,

25:27

there's a real chance that hundreds of people's

25:29

lives are saved or improved

25:31

because of our efforts. And that's a big deal.

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Ross were freed, that would be the

26:48

most important thing the Libertarian party had

26:50

ever accomplished. honestly. Right! It

26:52

is such an injustice and. I.

26:55

Can't imagine a of course I've met his mother

26:57

a bunch of times cause she's a great advocate

26:59

for him. She came on, you know, when I

27:01

used to do the contract cruise. I'm doing a

27:03

new cruiser next year, but. She. Came on

27:06

the cruise one year and gave a talk

27:08

to everybody explain the situation and I just

27:10

can't imagine the weight that that woman carries

27:12

on her shoulders every single day. And.

27:15

And I will say he's very, very

27:17

lucky to have a mom like that

27:19

who is absolutely tireless in advocating for

27:21

him so could not agree more. Even

27:24

the prospect. Of. Having this reversed

27:26

is A And but not only

27:28

that, Suddenly. You notice

27:30

the trend and google searches for the name

27:32

Ross Ulbricht. That shot through the

27:34

roof. So the awareness of the situation

27:37

is now much higher than it was

27:39

before. So. Let's say, even

27:41

if Trump screws you, You. At

27:43

the very least, way more people know about

27:45

the situation. And. There's a greater likelihood

27:48

that something could at some point happen and

27:50

then consider this to what if the by

27:52

the administration says hey, that's a win for

27:54

Trump, he might get a million Two million

27:56

additional Libertarians to vote for him just for

27:58

Ross Ulbricht. We pardon Ross

28:00

in July. Let's just rip the

28:02

wind right out of his sails. Okay, awesome.

28:06

I mean, that would be a great outcome too. But

28:08

the thing is they, I believe that the Biden

28:11

people are so full

28:13

of spite and viciousness

28:16

that even though that makes

28:18

perfect strategic sense, they just couldn't bring

28:20

themselves to do it. I

28:22

would love to think otherwise. Yeah, and they

28:24

might, they might not. They probably won't,

28:26

as you said, but I'm just saying, I totally

28:29

agree with your analysis. It's a really big deal.

28:31

I had Lynn Ulrich on my show, I don't

28:34

know, almost two years ago now, and it's the first time

28:36

I've ever cried on my show. Oh

28:38

my, yeah. I couldn't hold it in. It was

28:40

just, it was so beautiful, her

28:42

love for her son, but also so heartbreaking.

28:44

Because I think at the time he had been in

28:47

prison for nine years, it's like nine

28:49

years, man, for a website. Like this

28:51

is unreal. It's just such a grave

28:53

injustice. I hope we discover that little

28:55

by little, as long as he's stuck in there, he's

28:57

been writing a book because

28:59

would I ever like to read that? No kidding.

29:02

Well, and let me just say one other thing is like,

29:05

the offer from Trump is not just

29:07

some simple horse trading. Like what

29:10

he was saying, now I don't, again, I don't

29:12

trust politicians. I find it very hard to believe

29:14

that any of this is true, but

29:16

he was basically offering an alliance.

29:18

He was saying, hey, how about

29:20

we just combine forces in

29:23

perpetuity? Like, let's just do this. And

29:26

that's a very interesting angle. I mean,

29:29

that is basically, you know, paleo strategy

29:31

on steroids. Like if they will actually

29:33

bring us in, if they will actually

29:35

put us on their team and make

29:38

us consultants to who

29:40

will be in his cabinet or who

29:42

does deserve a pardoning, that's

29:44

a big deal. If they put us

29:46

in charge of being economic advisors or

29:48

have some say when it comes to

29:50

foreign policy, imagine a Scott Horton, not

29:52

even being in secretary of defense, that's

29:54

pretty delusional, but imagine him just having

29:56

an ability to do one of

29:58

those Scott Horton calls calls you up in the middle

30:00

of the night, and he spends an hour and a half, just two and

30:03

a year off about, you know, how Bush destroyed

30:05

Somalia or whatever. It's like, that's

30:07

a big deal. So I think that's

30:09

very interesting. Whether or not it bears

30:11

fruit is kind of TBD, but I

30:14

think it's a monumental, potential paradigm shifting

30:16

thing. Well, I'm happy to

30:18

say that I shouldn't mention names, but it'll

30:20

probably be obvious. That there was

30:22

somebody who became pretty high profile over the

30:25

past year or so, whose

30:27

team would regularly write to me

30:29

and say, our guy could use

30:31

a briefing on such and such topic, who's

30:33

your best guy? And I would

30:35

line them up and they would have the meeting.

30:37

And this happened at least three times on three

30:40

super important topics. So I feel

30:42

like, you know, that's not bad. No,

30:44

that's amazing. And again, I would actually

30:46

be quite happy, although I don't see any

30:49

prospect of it, but I would

30:51

be content just to get Colonel McGregor back

30:54

in a higher profile position in

30:56

the Defense Department or somewhere, because

30:59

he's got good views and he's really

31:01

smart. He doesn't take any guff from

31:03

anybody. So he's not easily,

31:06

you can't rattle him because he knows too

31:08

much. So he

31:10

would be tremendous. And he has the

31:12

most sober analysis on Russia,

31:15

Ukraine, Israel, Palestine. Like he

31:17

doesn't approach it from our

31:19

camp's position. He's just like, this

31:21

isn't winnable. This is

31:23

extraordinarily dangerous. This isn't in our country's interests.

31:26

It's not in our national interest. Like that's

31:28

his analysis, but I could not agree more.

31:30

He would be an amazing addition to the

31:32

Trump team if that's possible. So

31:35

tell me about the mood when

31:37

it became, at what point in the

31:39

seven rounds of voting, did you

31:41

actually begin to think Chase might win

31:43

this thing? Not until round five.

31:46

I mean, because the way it works

31:48

is there, as these people get knocked

31:50

off, the person who or the team

31:52

that gets knocked off, their delegates ultimately

31:55

scatter to the wind. They go into

31:57

whatever camp is their second choice. It

32:00

was like. Thirty. Four percent or something

32:02

like that for wrecked and world and they'll be

32:04

like twenty six percent like there was a big

32:06

yeah. I didn't think that they could make

32:08

it up necessarily, and in truth, they wouldn't have

32:11

been able to make it up. So it comes

32:13

down to. Basically. A for horse

32:15

race one of those horses doesn't

32:17

have a head cold Noda men

32:19

of the above of but the

32:22

three horses that mattered were Term

32:24

Are and Chase and Writing World

32:26

and they knew that in that

32:28

round. They. Had to make a deal and

32:30

they made that deal. They. Reached out Chase

32:32

Albers team reached out to to my. On.

32:35

The floor. I'm stand there watching it happen. So they

32:37

reach out to him and they say. Are.

32:39

To mot says. You. Give me

32:41

the Vp slut. And. I will

32:43

or of your support Huge! Throw your delegates

32:45

to me for Vp. All through my delegates

32:47

you for president like they create a ticket

32:49

in real time. Like. In

32:51

a heartbeat. And in that moment, Like.

32:54

We realize, okay, that is enough. If

32:56

they combine their forces, it's gonna be

32:58

very close. Like probably. Fifty. One

33:00

forty nine, one where the other. But that is

33:02

A that's a that. That was our only chance.

33:04

So. They yeah coalition built in the

33:06

twenty third. Our. Highs. And

33:09

Dave. And. Even right the world turn

33:11

around me and they say cause a term outcomes over

33:13

them he says hey. Gimme. The

33:15

same deal ago with you guys. So basically

33:17

they're as he's asking them. A

33:19

scumbag his ask if he's as good

33:22

the hey Gimme Clips slot and I'll

33:24

throw my delegates to you guys. So.

33:27

They turn to me because they're decent human beings

33:29

and they say clint, are you good with this

33:31

It takes me about fifteen seconds because I buy

33:33

think about like what that ticket ultimately looks like

33:35

and I'm like a man. Really like. Or

33:38

can have a cop okay his eyes and then

33:40

is like fifteen seconds later and I just say

33:42

look if he gets the deal done I won't

33:44

like so many people have put in so much

33:47

work to make this happen. I would like out

33:49

at least one presidential ticket with the top messenger

33:51

that it least says what I believe. Or.

33:54

make it out and make the offer they make

33:56

the offer and ten seconds later to mock goes

33:58

to chase oliver anyways yeah So yeah,

34:00

yeah, yeah. And the thing is he'd been telling

34:03

people that he recognized that it would

34:05

be terrible for the party to get,

34:08

have chase at the top. So not

34:10

that I want to, he was right. Yeah. Well, not

34:12

that I want to insert any contention

34:15

into the situation, but chase, just

34:17

so you know, the guy

34:19

you have on your ticket thinks you're a

34:21

disaster. I've just, you know, that's going

34:23

to be something you might want to talk through at

34:25

some point, you know, maybe with a therapist or a

34:28

third party or something, but it's going to be rough.

34:30

Okay. It's kind of like

34:33

a Trump Pence situation. Maybe I

34:35

don't know, but yeah, same energy for

34:37

sure. Yeah, but I mean, my main

34:39

takeaway was like, man, I don't like,

34:42

and I've been saying this for months, but

34:44

politics is just so dirty. Like, what are

34:46

we talking about here? Like, this is to

34:48

be the president and vice presidential candidate for

34:50

the Libertarian Party. We're going to get 1%

34:52

of the vote. If you're lucky, this election

34:54

cycle since RFK juniors in there and you

34:56

guys are willing to backstab and just, you

34:58

know, be so shady. And this is another

35:00

dividing line between I think our camps is

35:02

that my perception of the Mises caucus folks

35:04

is that they're honorable people that really want

35:06

to help, you know, make

35:09

the world more righteous. Like, it's not

35:11

just about winning power. Like, I want

35:13

to win power because I want more righteous

35:15

people in power. Like, that's my perspective on

35:17

these things. And a lot of these people

35:19

are like lie, cheat, steal, just

35:21

do whatever it takes to get in that

35:23

slot. And I'm like, I don't relate to

35:25

you. I think you're a bad person. If

35:27

you're willing to do that to try and

35:30

get the VP slot of the libertarian ticket.

35:32

I know. What kind of person are you?

35:34

If you get in real power, you will

35:36

be a total corrupt lunatic. Yeah. So hard

35:39

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yourself. Monetary Hyphen metals.com/woods. So.

37:07

I guess I'm going to push a little bit on the spot here.

37:09

Clint So. Where. Are you in terms

37:11

of the Libertarian Party today? The

37:14

very tough question because it's will First it's

37:16

pretty fresh in a like. the the last

37:18

is pretty fresh. So. Dave.

37:20

Has already said he's taking a bit of

37:22

a step back. I feel like I probably

37:24

will over the next five months just because.

37:27

Like. I have to distance my brand

37:29

of Libertarianism from the Chase Oliver Termite

37:31

brand of Libertarianism. Like I don't relate

37:33

to these people they're going to message

37:35

in a very woke way. They're already

37:37

holding up signs that say you know.

37:40

Racism. Doesn't live here whatever garbage,

37:42

yeah, latitude, and it's like I just

37:44

I don't want I don't want to

37:46

be connected to them at all. Once.

37:49

That passes. you know i'm

37:51

not at all opposed to still being involved

37:54

with the libertarian party in fact the mrs

37:56

caucus took twenty of twenty five board seats

37:58

for the next to use sew [unk] Yeah,

38:00

the progressive wing is in control for

38:02

the next five months, but the

38:04

Mises caucus still has control. And I

38:06

think that once his disastrous presidential run

38:08

is over, there's a still a

38:10

chance to build something really special, but

38:12

I'll have those conversations once we get closer

38:14

to that. Cause for now, I'm

38:16

not going to be assisting this ticket whatsoever.

38:20

If you found out in 2028 that the vague was

38:23

going to get the GOP nomination, would

38:25

you go GOP for that election? I

38:28

mean, particularly if I get to see him

38:30

in Trump's cabinet, if he

38:32

actually like gets to implement some of

38:34

his policy proposals, cause in terms of

38:36

rhetoric, yeah, yeah, I would. But

38:39

in terms of action, I would like to just

38:41

see that he's the real deal because there are

38:43

some major shifts in his political

38:46

worldview over the past few years that I

38:48

want to make sure he's sincere. So that's the

38:50

only thing holding me back from being a pretty

38:52

big, vague supporter is that I don't know if

38:54

he's telling me the truth. I mean, he is

38:56

a politician and I don't know. And I don't

38:59

trust politicians. I'm a libertarian. What can

39:01

I say? Yeah, no, I hear you. So

39:03

would you say there was a highlight of the weekend for

39:05

you? I mean, it's gotta be, okay, other

39:08

than being on the stage with Dave and Vivek. Yes.

39:11

What would you say? I mean, yeah, you walk away

39:13

with some real disappointment, no doubt, but do

39:15

you walk away with memories that you'll

39:17

cherish? Oh, so many.

39:19

I mean, like this is why it's, some

39:22

people were very upset with my breakdown

39:25

of the debate that I did on my show. Cause

39:27

I was just like, this was such a great week.

39:29

Like this might've been the best week of my life.

39:31

It was so awesome. And I lost. And

39:33

they're like, oh, you don't care at all. It's like,

39:35

no, no, no, you gotta understand. I

39:38

mean, we're not gonna win anyways. So like

39:40

this for me is always about experience, building

39:43

who I am as a person. Like I've

39:46

suffered terrible stage fright

39:48

or anxiety forever. So

39:50

this is the first time in my life in the

39:52

biggest moment on the biggest stage,

39:54

talking to the most important people

39:57

I've ever engaged with. I open for freaking

39:59

Donald Trump. for God's sakes, like, can we

40:01

just put into perspective how unbelievably

40:03

crazy that is that some dude playing beach

40:05

volleyball four years ago and running

40:07

a mortgage company is now opening up for

40:09

the former and future president of the United

40:11

States. Yeah, I mean, I had

40:14

an amazing weekend and I've never

40:16

performed better and I did it on the

40:18

biggest stage and I'm just so thrilled with

40:20

that. And more than that, what

40:22

really made me feel good is that

40:25

from that debate performance on Friday night,

40:28

it was like the wind had been basically

40:30

barely blowing in our sails and then it

40:32

was just like, like I felt for

40:34

the first time as if I had been, you

40:37

know, the day for our camp, like it

40:39

absolutely reignited the passion. On Saturday, everyone was

40:41

just locked in. They were like, we got

40:43

this, like this, there's no way. Like Clint

40:45

just beat Vivek Ramaswamy in a debate, every

40:47

conversation round table. He had the better highlights.

40:50

I don't wanna say beat, but they

40:52

were like, how could they possibly

40:54

go against him? How could they possibly

40:56

go against the Mises caucus ticket? They

40:58

say that we're basically faux fake Republicans.

41:00

Well, did it look like it? Did it

41:02

look like that? Did it look like he was playing softball

41:04

with him? So I don't know. It

41:06

just kind of reignited the flame

41:08

ever so briefly, felt just phenomenal. And then

41:11

all the hugs and love and everything else.

41:13

I mean, it's a beautiful thing. I still

41:15

love those guys. So yeah, that

41:18

for me, the highlight highlight though, was

41:20

after that debate, Dave, you

41:22

know, behind the stage, just

41:24

gives me a big hug and he says, Clint, I

41:26

couldn't have done anything better. And I was like, that's

41:29

it. I did it. That

41:31

is beautiful. Dave says that there's

41:33

nothing better than that. That is

41:35

high praise. Dave is such an

41:37

incredibly effective communicator. And

41:39

you know, look, maybe this will be viewed as

41:42

petty, but you know, I've been called worse. When

41:45

I think about the two, you know, like

41:47

the divide between us and the other people

41:50

in the party, I think, well, I

41:52

think our side has the more impressive

41:54

people in general. I

41:56

mean, Dave is a very impressive guy, which

41:59

is why. he winds up

42:01

despite having dissident views, he

42:03

winds up on huge platforms

42:05

again and again and again. He's

42:08

just vastly better than he's vastly

42:10

better than any of us in a lot of cases. But

42:14

certainly, I mean, who have they got? And

42:17

I also think, even though I know

42:19

Michael Malice is not a political guy, and he certainly would not

42:21

be in the LP, I sometimes

42:23

think, well, who would you like to hang out

42:25

with on the weekend? You got Dave,

42:27

Scott Horton, Michael Malice,

42:29

Clint Russell, or whoever

42:32

the hell. You know what I mean? Star

42:34

child, that dude didn't even thought. It just,

42:36

you know, the incredible thing that has

42:38

happened to me here, Clint, is that I went

42:40

through my time as a young man being

42:43

the nerd, you know, not in the cool

42:45

crowd. And suddenly, I feel

42:47

like at least in the party of nerds,

42:50

I'm on the cool side. I'm not in the stuffed

42:52

shirt, vote for Bill Weld side. I'm

42:54

on the cool rackle side all of a sudden.

42:57

And I kind of enjoyed that. Heck

42:59

yeah, man. And then I think Dave plays a big part

43:02

in that. I think like

43:04

what has held the libertarian movement

43:06

back a lot to like normies

43:08

is that so many of our messengers,

43:11

present company excluded, but so many of our

43:13

messengers just come across as like kind

43:16

of autistic, like boring, you know,

43:18

like just too in

43:20

their heads and not enough

43:22

charisma, not enough emotional intelligence.

43:25

Charisma is what we lack. Yes,

43:27

a hundred percent. Yeah, but our

43:30

side has more of it, I'll say. Yes,

43:32

of course. But I mean, Dave plays

43:34

a huge part of that. I mean, the whole reason I

43:36

got so inspired is because I heard Dave on Rogan in

43:38

2016. And I was like, oh,

43:41

it's funny Ron Paul. Like

43:43

that's what I heard. I was like, it's

43:45

charismatic, funny Ron Paul, who's more

43:47

profane and more, you know, my speed.

43:49

Same age as me. I was like, this is it. We

43:52

got our guy. And, you know,

43:54

I think that's what's enabling us to reach

43:56

audiences that we've never done before, is that

43:58

If you can say it in a way, that's. Not just compelling.

44:00

Also, Daves a good looking dude, but

44:03

he's also funny. so it's like this

44:05

is the package Man like. that's how

44:07

you actually breakthrough. You take or wonky.

44:09

You know, academic ideas and you can

44:11

now get them on Tucker Carlson and

44:13

Candace Owens and tonight debating Andrew Cuomo

44:15

and Patrick Ben David. I mean, the

44:17

dude is just absolutely crushing right now,

44:19

so I'm thrilled. Are

44:21

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44:34

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