Ep. 2802 Was MLK, Jr., "Color Blind"?

0:00Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know. You're listening to The Tom Woods Show. Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here, Episode 2802 The Tom Woods Show. I apologize I'm not in my lovely studio. I am instead in a somewhat weirdly lit Denver hotel room for this week's meeting of my elite mastermind, but I want to talk about a book that came out, well, I thought 20 years ago. I finished writing it 20 years ago and I was all set to have this commemorative 20-year retrospective episode. And then I flipped through and see that the copyright date is 2007. I remember, I wrote it in 2006, but it came out at the beginning of 2007. So we're a few months premature. So the copyright date will not permit me the full celebration. However, I think we can give the old man a little allowance here. And the book is hideously titled 33 Questions About American History.

1:04You're not supposed to ask. I had that as a working title and I thought sooner or later somebody's going to come to a senses here. Maybe it's the agent, it's the publisher. Somebody will step in and say we cannot use that terrible title. However, I'm sorry to report nobody stepped in and that's the title we have. 33 questions about American history. You're not supposed to ask. I've got a linked on the show notes page, Tomwoods.com, such 28.02. So let's go through a couple of these that are probably controversial, even among some folks who might ordinarily listen in. And the first one, of course, has to do with Martin Luther King Jr. because I titled the episode that way. And what's happened here is that Neocons, people like, let's say, I'm thinking about people in particular who write about this topic. Let's say a Newt Gingrich, people like that, want to portray Martin Luther King. As being essentially a Neocon, just like that, that he favors everything they favor. He favors a colorblind meritocracy. He does not favor radical programs of economic or social reconstruction that all he wants

2:09is simply. And then they go on and quote the couple of lines they know from the I have a dream speech. And they say what's happened is that the left has just grossly misinterpreted Martin Luther King's message. He was not a crazy radical. He was actually a conservative like them. That's what they want people to think. This seems a bit implausible that basically everybody around him, including his own family members, have misunderstood him. Seems like an awful lot of misunderstanders out there. So we got to tell the truth, right? What's the point of being here? We're not going to tell the truth. So is that the case? Is it the case that Martin Luther King wouldn't have wanted compensatory programs? Well, in fact, he did and he said that multiple times. So I want to talk about that. First of all, what's happened is a lot of people have just read the one speech and they think, well, that's all I need to know. And what we instead have, and I've got a bunch of passages from Martin Luther King in the book, and I'm not even sharing them all here. So one of them is that the United States quote must incorporate in its planning some compensatory

3:12consideration for the handicaps. He meaning the black man has inherited from the past unquote. And then as if to address the neocons directly, he says the black man is quote, not struggling for some abstract right, but for a concrete and prompt improvement in his way of life. So we're agitating for improvements in our material condition, not simply some abstract achievement of some philosophical goal, but something that involves the immediate improvement in the physical condition of the black population. So when contemplating what, in fact, the white population owes to the black population, MLK said that quote, not all the wealth of this affluent society could meet the bill, a massive program by the government of special compensatory measures, which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law, unquote, is what is called for. So he's not saying this in secret.

4:15These are positions that he took very much in public. And you can say, well, but that's exactly what was called for fair enough, but that's not the image that the neocons have portrayed of him, that he's the great conservative whose legacy they are trying to protect against leftists who will mispertray it. Then by 1967, we have quote, the vast majority of white Americans are racist, either consciously or unconsciously. So again, this is not a matter of somehow the movement that Martin Luther King led just went off the rails and who knows how and it got derailed by people who just didn't understand his message. The stuff about everybody's a racist is already right there. But then likewise, for years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions of society. These are his words, a little change here, a little change there. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values. Is that a conservative message? Then he says, maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.

5:18Hmm. And then he says that now this one, I don't have the exact quote, but you can easily find it. He said that you begin to start asking questions like why do people have water bills in a world that is mostly water? So it's capitalism is conspiring against the common man. But of course, the problem with that complaint is that only a small fraction of all the water in the world is actually drinkable. So that starts to help explain the, give you the answer to that problem. So when you look through the entire corpus of the work of Martin Luther King, what you've do not find is Newt Gingrich. What you do not find is Ronald Reagan. What you find is pretty much what you hear from Jesse Jackson and other people who have been accused of distorting King's message. That you see that that's King's message. But it's King's message has been distorted by the Neocons, which is not a surprise because that's all they do 24 hours a day is make things up. So whatever you want to say about Martin Luther King, at least understand what it was that

6:21he was calling for. And it was not simply the establishment of a colorblind meritocracy. Instead it was yes, it was this. It was a redistributive plan that would involve the redistribution of both wealth and opportunities from white to black families, which is exactly what happened, which is exactly what happened. And if you look at the DEI figures that we started to see over the past 10 years, this is not a matter of well, we have one group that has suffered many disadvantages. So if there's a small difference in qualifications, maybe the group suffering that disadvantages deserves a benefit of the debt, that is not what we're dealing with small disadvantages here. If you look at the typical American high school, it's a four year difference in academic achievement on average, a four year difference, 12th to 8th grade in terms of academic accomplishment between whites and blacks. It's an enormous difference. So what the cause of that difference is people have debated over and over, but there's

7:25no debating that that difference is there. So again, this is not a matter of well, one group is 1.3% behind the other. And so, well, maybe they had to really struggle to get to that point. And maybe that shows some real character. And so maybe we'll give them the benefit of the doubt, give that person the job or the promotion or the college admission or the full boat, like the full ride at the university, like let's pick one at random Columbia University, where I'll tell you, when I was at the history department, we saw the people who were getting full scholarships in graduate school, almost none of them finished. And they did not distinguish themselves. They would have done fine at second or third tier schools, no doubt about that. But as far as I know, as I can think of one of them who finished. So it's not what they say in your seventh grade textbook about what happened. It is not. So the other one I want to talk about early on in 33 questions has to do with the founding fathers and immigration. Now they had a diversity of opinions on this, but of course at the same time, we should realize that not one of them ever for a moment contemplated the situation of today.

8:29It would not want to, it would never even have occurred to them. The kinds of immigration that would be taking place on such a large scale into the US would have been considered preposterous to them. So it's all the more remarkable that long before such a thing was even contemplated by anyone, nevertheless, you see Thomas Jefferson warning about the potential problems of mass immigration. You see Alexander Hamilton warning about these potential problems. Benjamin Franklin, you almost can't believe. If you just changed a few words around to make it less obvious that it's Benjamin Franklin and you posted some of this stuff on social media, you would be accused of it. You would be called every name in the book. And then you could say, well, I'm just quoting Benjamin Franklin and then nobody would know what to do. I mean, the left knows what to do. All the founding fathers are evil and terrible, but I think normal people are past that now. But Thomas Jefferson, again, we could quote a lot, quote a lot. But here's what Jefferson says. These principles, meaning the principles of government that you find in the old world,

9:29with their language, they will transmit to their children. Now so he's talking about large scale immigration. The people will bring with them the principles of their home countries, which are antithetical to American principles and their language. They will transmit this. He says to their children in proportion to their numbers. This is Jefferson still. They will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction and render it a heterogeneous incoherent, distracted mass. And then he says, suppose 20 millions of Republican Americans were thrown all of a sudden into France. What would be the condition of that kingdom? If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here. Alexander Hamilton, again, among many other comments he made in this regard, says, the influx of foreigners must therefore tend to produce a heterogeneous compound to change and corrupt

10:31the national spirit, to complicate and confound public opinion, to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all important. And whatever tends to a discordant inter-mixture must have an injurious tendency. Hey gang, in a world run by deranged psychos, you got to look to all woods here to get you through. And of course, when it comes to tax planning, you want that done by somebody who hates the tax man, you know, with the same burning passion you do. That only stands to reason. Well, I happen to know such a guy and I know him really well. He's in my elite mastermind, which is the top experience I offer. And he's been listening to the Tom Woods shows since the very beginning. He's been in the woods world in every possible way someone could be. And that's the great Matthew Sursley. He helps liberty minded folks just like you keep more of your money and stay out of trouble with the IRS. So if you're a business owner or you're a high W2 earner paying at least 40K a year in

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12:32Based on what I read on social media, people have no idea what the founding fathers had to say about topics like this about the concerns of foreign influence in general over the United States about excess favoritism to one country. So I will urge you, you don't even have to go by 33 questions. You can, you'll find it at tomwoods.com slash 20802 and you can click on it and buy 33 questions. But I'm going to tell you how you can get a book for free that is a, it's a compilation, it's a series of excerpts from the founding fathers on the subject of immigration, naturalization and aliens. And it's very, very helpful. The thing is up till very recently was very hard to find a copy of this compilation. You could find a PDF, but it's hard to read and it's old and it's grainy. So I created a brand new edition, newly typeset, easy on the eyes that you can have for free. And it's part of my unapproved library, all the books in that library are free.

13:33So you need this one though. You definitely need this one because it will give you a different perspective on things and it will show you that the cartoon version of history is rarely the correct one. So unapproved library.com is where you should go and get that. You get several books there, but this one in particular, the founders, the republic on immigration, naturalization and aliens in a cleaned up brand new typeset book. You get it in ePub if you prefer to read it on eReader, you get it in PDF. It's great. So unapproved library.com. So if you look at the 33 questions, one of them has to do with the founding fathers and immigration, one of them has to do with Martin Luther King in affirmative action. One of them has to do with where the American Indians really environmentalists, right? Because when I was growing up, when I was a really little kid in the 70s, there was this TV commercial and there was an Indian man and he was shedding a tear because of the terrible white man who thinks only about himself and doesn't mind environmental damage.

14:35And turns out this is also a cartoon. The idea of states rights, you talk about states rights with anybody and you may as well be speaking to a brick wall because people will say, well, we all know what the state's rights to do what? And they'll say it's all about slavery. All right. Well, when you actually read about the history of states rights, what do you find? Well, the first time to a very, very significant degree that states rights come up is in 1798 about the Alien and Sedition Acts. The most offensive portions of which involved incursions against free speech that you could not criticize the president or the Congress. You could criticize the vice president, by the way, because he belonged to a different party that was Thomas Jefferson. But the president of Congress, you could not criticize. And obviously there was be a lot of criticism of that. First amendment certainly, but also 10th amendment. Where did the states ever delegate to the federal government, the power to police speech? So there was a big uproar about that in 1798. And eventually Thomas Jefferson got elected and he pardoned everybody who had been convicted

15:38under it and he returned all the fines paid with interest. But then we get to the early 19th century and where are the appeals to states rights coming from from the northern states? And they're coming from the northern states because of the Jeffersonian embargo, which they believed to be unconstitutional. So we see that on numerous occasions, we see Daniel Webster, who was a staunch unionist, saying that if the federal government should even contemplate the use of military conscription because raising armies in the constitution doesn't just mean any all way you could raise an army. In 1814, Daniel Webster, who was a staunch unionist, said that if the federal government should even contemplate the use of military conscription, which he said was not envisioned in the constitution. Raising armies is not the same thing as forcing somebody into the military. I mean, remember Russell Kirk, who is more right wing than you, described military conscription as, quote, slavery in the 20th century.

16:39So that is the standard view that the state does not own your life in that way. He said that that would be grounds for the states to interpose to protect their people against the federal government. So that does not involve slavery, except in the sense of the federal government trying to enslave people to carry out whatever its ambitions are militarily. And then of course, there was the controversy over the tariffs in the early 1830s. And then in 1850 and thereafter, we see states rights being appealed to by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. In fact, they quoted Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky resolutions in opposition to slavery, arguing that the way the fugitive slave clause of the constitution was being carried out was unconstitutional. Even though there is a fugitive slave clause in there, you can't force people to take part in helping out with a capture of fugitive slaves. So in other words, the story of states' rights from the early republic all the way down to the middle of the 19th century tells a completely, an unknown story for the vast majority

17:45of Americans, unknown. So anyway, the rest of the book all kinds of fun things. The biggest unknown scandal of the Clinton years, the real story of the Wild West, which almost nobody knows. The question of American liberals, were American liberals really anti-war? Yeah, they didn't like the Vietnam War eventually, when everybody didn't like it. But the mainstream American left supported the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War. In fact, they condemned the nation magazine, the flagship left liberal magazine, condemned Robert A. Taft, Mr. Republican. For his concerns about the Korean War and his concerns about the use of presidential war powers to deploy Americans all over the world, they basically suggested that maybe he was in co-huts with the Kremlin. That's the establishment left for you. That's the anti-war left for you. And you just go on and on by and large, these people are not anti-war. Bill Clinton was not anti-war. So if you're thinking, why can't be anti-war?

18:45Is that going to make me like a liberal? No, won't. No, I want to make you a hard right guy, because war is the most revolutionary thing a state can do, which is why a right-winger stays away from it, when it can possibly be avoided. Then the old question you get in school, did the Iroquois Indians influence the US Constitution? Well, the basic gist of this, I'm supposed to just be telling you about what's in the book, but the basic gist of this is, in effect, Benjamin Franklin said something like, look, if these savages can create a confederation, then surely we can do the same. That is the extent of the so-called influence. Did desegregation of schools significantly narrow the black, white educational achievement gap? You can take a wild guess about that. Was the Civil War, quote, all about slavery, or was something else at stake as well? Now all your friends are going to say, look, I can read right in the secession documents that slavery is mentioned. So you're just some crazy neo-confederate. All right, well, you got to reach chapter 10, because there's something way bigger at stake

19:49in that war. Then can the president send troops anywhere he wants? Is it true that World War I was a great economy? Not really. How about George Washington Carver? Was he at one of America's greatest scientific geniuses? The guy who worked with the peanut, is that true? So we get into that. Was the Constitution supposed to be a living, breathing document? Did the Indians help the pilgrims grow corn? Otherwise they would have starved. Is that true? Is discrimination the explanation for why we have racial differences in income and job placement? This is one that Thomas Sol is tremendous on. He goes through all the data and he just tells you the answer. So we'll give you a little summary of that. Let's see. The whiskey rebellion. How come American wages rose over time? Was that because of labor unions? What made American wages go up over time? Give me the answer to that. Was capitalism the cause of the Great Depression? Oh my gosh. All your high school teachers are absolutely certain that it was capitalism run amok. All right. Well, that ain't it. And then the 1930s, economy the 30s.

20:50And then the commerce clause, the general welfare clause and the necessary and proper clause. These are the ones that your social studies teacher will tell you, basically allow the federal government to do anything it wants. So all right. Well, let's go back and see what they said about it. What did they say these things meant? Foreign aid programs. They have anything to show for themselves. Did Bill Clinton really stop a genocide in Kosovo? That's what we were told in 1999. There was a genocide going on and Bill Clinton wisely stepped in. Why is Bill Clinton stepped in and took care of it? All right. So that's the stuff that you get in 33 questions about American history. You're not supposed to ask. You can get that at Tom Woods.com slash 28.02. Just click on it and there you go. But in terms of the, and now I have other things I want to say, but in terms of the book I told you about about immigration and the founding fathers, you can get that for free. You don't even have to go to Tom Woods.com slash 28.02. You can just get that for free at unapprovedlibrary.com. So unapprovedlibrary.com. He haven't done that yet.

21:50Go do that. There's some very good books in that library. Hey, gang, here's another walker. They tell you to defer your taxes by saving in a 401k or IRA because you're retired. In a lower tax bracket. But if that were true, where are so many retirees in the highest tax bracket of their lives? Well, it's time to get the truth and discover a better way to grow and protect your money. Bank on yourself is the proven retirement plan alternative banks in Wall Street don't want you to find out about with bank on yourself. Your money is guaranteed to grow no matter what the stock market does. Your principal and growth are locked in even when the market's crash. When you work with a bank on yourself professional, you'll see how you can access your cash value, income tax free, and protect yourself from the coming tax tsunami. And unlike a 401k or IRA, you can access your money before age 59 and a half for emergencies or opportunities with no government penalties, no restrictions and no questions as. You can get a free report that reveals how you can bank on yourself and access your money income tax free in retirement, joy, enjoy guaranteed growth, and have more control

22:55over your money. A bank on yourself professional can answer any of your questions. Go to bankonyourself.com slash woods and take back control of your financial future. That's bankonyourself.com slash woods. So those are the kinds of questions that kept all woods up at night thinking I cannot tolerate the very thought that Americans have the wrong ideas of these various questions. So I sat down and wrote them up, came up with this ridiculous title for a book and sent that out there into the world. Well, nowadays I'm asking different kinds of questions. Now political questions a lot of them are still the same. But nowadays I'm thinking about, well, what are practical things that people like you and me ought to be doing when we look around and we see what a mess society is? And I don't just mean in terms of the strife that we feel, one group pitted against another. There's certainly that. But I mean, even on the economic level, for example, since 2020, going up to the time

23:56I'm recording this in 2026, it's hard to believe that the United States dollar has lost 29% of its value in six years, six years, 29% of its value. That is a crime against everybody. But in particular against young people trying to build something, how can you build anything? If they're going to siphon off 29% of the value of your dollar. Now in the old, old, old days, centuries and centuries and centuries ago, when people used metallic coins and the regime at that time would call in the coins, clip some of the metal out of them and then send them back, everybody knew what was going on. Like your coin isn't worth as much anymore. Nowadays nobody knows why. That's the problem. Nobody knows why. Why is the dollar losing its value? Well, they think, well, it's greedy businessmen. Okay, why were greedy businessmen so much greedy or just between 2020 and 2026? I mean, it's just that dumb, absolutely dumb, zero curiosity kind of answer.

24:57And of course, the answer is obviously the Federal Reserve system. What other explanation could there be? It can't be that, well, energy prices went up and when energy prices go up, that forces up everything. That is not the answer. And the reason that's not the answer is if energy prices go up and you have to spend more money on energy. That means you have less money left over to spend on all other things. So that puts a gentle downward pressure on all other prices other than energy. Where would the money come from to support not just high energy prices, but also everything else being high? Where's the money coming from to bid those prices up so high? The only source of that of all prices going up, not just prices in one sector going up because of unique circumstances there, but therefore prices everywhere else are gently declining. That we can explain. Okay, there's something oddball going on in one sector of the economy, but all of them at once, what could account for that other than they're just pumping money and credit into the system so that high prices are even feasible over here at the same time they're

26:01happening over here. So I'm asking questions like this because I would get for years and years and years as a public speaker, people coming up to me afterward and saying, I agree with everything you say, but now what am I supposed to do? I agree with everything you say. What am I supposed to do? And there are a lot of things that you can do in your local area. For example, I have somebody in one of my communities, my school of life community, I have a woman who is in a deep blue area. But dog, Gannett, she got that mask mandate overturned. How did she do that in a deep blue area? Well, the answer is inside my community, so take a long time to explain how she did it. She gave a whole speech to my conference about it. But the point is this that each one of us, everybody listening to this has something. Some particular area of expertise or some specialized knowledge that would be beneficial to the rest of us. And I thought, what if we all came together and shared the knowledge that we have? Somebody's really, really great at getting you up to speed on homeschooling, for example. Another person is really good at advising you on where to put your money.

27:04When if you just sit there, you're going to lose 29% of its value in six years. So what am I supposed to do with it? In other words, everybody's got a little something, a little piece of this puzzle. Like how do I cope in a blue environment? How can I rally people to accomplish good and important things even when I'm hopelessly outnumbered politically? Well, I have people who are good at that. And I thought, what if we all just, instead of the stuff about was George Washington, was his legislation that he signed, was all good? Or, I mean, I'm interested in George Washington. I'm a U.S. historian. I like that. I think nowadays, I don't think most people are saying, our problems are, we don't know enough about George Washington. Or our problems are, we don't understand this or that philosophical question well enough. I think more of the question is practically speaking, how do I shepherd my family through really, really weird, deranged, dangerous, and difficult times? I think those are the kinds of questions people are asking.

28:07I'm very happy to still write about U.S. history and I sell books about that subject and I offer courses on that and I'm never going to change on that. But I also think we ought to be thinking about these practical things. So for example, how do you homeschool your kids when you are absolutely certain you can't? You think you can inoculate your kids against gender theory, but you know what a lot of parents thought that, a lot of parents thought that, and then the unthinkable happen. So how do you inoculate them against it? What's the simplest way to build a solo, pre-nure business? So you don't have to work for some jerk who is in every way you're inferior. How can you become a better negotiator so you can get what you want in nearly every situation? All these sorts of things and again, how do I manage my money? How do I control my spending? All these sorts of things. How do I relocate successfully to a part of the country that can stand the side of me when I'm on a budget? Entirely practical questions. For several years, I've held a conference where I don't even allow you to give a talk about George Washington. It has to be something that the people in this room can make immediate use of as they

29:10tried to cope with living in a deranged world. That's what we talk about. So I'll give you an example. I have a gentleman in one of my communities and he and his wife wanted to have another child, but they weren't so sure they had the financial means to make it happen. So he went to, he consulted his accountability group because in my school of life program we have accountability groups where everybody would break up into small groups and every week you check in on how you're doing and whatever your goal is and you make connections and you get advice and you are able to sprint ahead to whatever it is you want to achieve. And what he wanted to achieve was I want to make enough money to have another child. So his group advised him about how to prep himself to get a better job. And you know what? He went out and got that job because of that group because of my community. You know, got that job and by the way, they had the baby six months ago. Now we could have spent our time writing more about the Federalists in the 1790s. And again, I have nothing in principle against that, but the hour is late, people, the hour

30:12is late and we have nobody coming to save us. It's just ourselves. That's the kind of thing that happens all the time. That kind of accomplishment is happening all the time in my Tom Woods School of Life because what we've done is we've taken everybody who everybody has something to contribute. You don't think you do, but you do. We'll find it. But yet also everybody has something they need. I need something to explain to me this or help me accomplish that or introduce me to somebody who can help me do this. And that's what we do. And not to mention we teach everything under the sun. If you're in this group, you're probably paying lower taxes now because of what we talked about that. And if you're in this group, you're probably getting stronger because we also teach, we also talk about health and fitness and not whatever they were teaching in 1983 about what you should be doing, aerobics or whatever. We actually teach about things that actually work in the here and now because your physical health is also really important. You can't enjoy freedom if you're confined to a bed. You can't really enjoy freedom. So we talk about all these things about keeping our families prosperous, secure, safe from

31:15craziness, keeping our bodies in good physical condition, keeping our brain sharp, accomplishing things, keeping our money safe and growing. So in other words, crazy lunatics are running everything, but yet not only are we going to survive, we're going to thrive. So those are the kinds of questions I ask nowadays. And I'd like it if you gave it a try and I so want you to give it a try. Then I'm going to give you 11 really good things, really cool things, really, really amazing things. Absolutely for free for just giving it a try for a month. So check it out at 11FreeBees.com. That's where spell out the word 11, 11FreeBees.com and get a taste of what we're all up to. And here you're going to run into a lot of people you know, if you've been around this movement anytime for any length of time, you're going to go in there, you're going to meet a lot of people you know, you're in here. Yeah, that's right. The action takers and the doers are in here accomplishing great things instead of writing angry letters to the editor, which doesn't do anything. I mean, yes, okay, I would rather have an angry letter to the editor than nothing at all.

32:20But instead of just letting out pent up frustration, let's put that to good productive use in this crazy time in US and world history and build a community that can support all of our families and all of our goals and all the good decent things that we want to accomplish in a world that really frankly hates our guts. So I built this community and I'd like it to join me in it. So 11Freebies.com, check it out that way because that way you get 11 free things. Why not do that? So that is that everybody. I have a murder mystery dinner party coming up in San Diego in January, 2027. And if that sounds interesting to you, contact me. I'm an easy person to find online. You can just go to my website, Tomwoods.com. And you will see a way to contact me. If that interests you, these are fun. We're doing one in Denver this very week. We've done them all over the country and they're a wonderful night out with like-minded people

33:22in your area. You'll make new friends and we'll just have a great time. You don't have to memorize anything or know anything about how any of this works. Everything will be explained that night. It's a delicious meal and a wonderful time. So I will, I hope be adding more dates in 2027. And for now, I've got the San Diego murder mystery dinner party. I mean, how many podcasters are offering you a murder mystery dinner party together? Right? It's a wonderful time and I hope you'll be able to take advantage of it. So check that out. Write to me, Tom at Tomwoods.com. If you're interested in that and I'll get you the information. Thanks everybody. See you next time. Make yourself and those you love, less vulnerable to the regime, both mentally and physically. Get more for Bid and Information. TomSfreeBooks.com and be sure to subscribe to the show wherever you listen. See you next time. Like the sound of the Tomwood show, my audio production is provided by Podsworth Media.

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