mark skousen, how did this get started? >> actually, 2007, maybe even earlier because when i was made president fee, foundation for economic education, the oldest free market think tank, but it kind of, well, it fallen into obscurity with cato and heritage and reason being the big libertarian, conservative type of organizations. i was made president of fee and i said what can i do to joust our fee? let's have a fee fest and a national convention and do it in the most libertarian city in the world las vegas, 850 people show up and ben stein as our speaker, and i loved the idea of getting together like this so i started a for-profit organization called freedom fest instead of fee fest,and we've been going great guns ever since and a couple thousand people show up every year in vegas. when they shut us down in 2020 the next year we went to mt. rushmore, rapid city. >> rapid city. >> had a great time there, we had a huge turnout and then we went back to vegas and last year in memphis. so we now do every other year in vegas and

. >> entering is about to be his daughter of 25 plus books mark skousen, will get to those amenities off of the founder of this maturing gathering called freedom press and mark skousen, how did this get started. >> actually 2007, maybe earlier this month big president of the foundation of magic and all this premarket think tank but it's kind of fell into obscurity with cato and heritage and reason being the really big libertarians conservative conservative definitive-organization and i was like will continue to jumpstart this and i said let's have a national convention list with the most libertarian see the world, las vegas is a big success we had 850 people show up and then ben stein is a keynote speaker. and fourthly come as i get a fundraising itself and last for your beloved of the idea of getting together like this and so i started a for-profit organization called freedom fast is that free fast and would be going great guns ever since. we have a couple of thousand people's whatever your biggest they shut us down 2020, for the next year we went to mount rushmore a and we had a gr

but he's also the founder of this libertarian gathering called freedom fest mark skousen. how? how did this get started? actually, 2007, maybe even earlier, because when i was made president of the foundation for economic education, it was the oldest free market think tank. but it kind of fell out, fallen into obscurity with cato and heritage and reason being the really big libertarian conservative type of organizations. george made president v and i said, what can i to jump start the. and i said, well, let's have a feed fest. let's have a national and let's do it in the most libertarian city in the world. las vegas. and it was a big success. we had 850 people show up. we had ben stein as our keynote speaker. and unfortunately, i was not very good at fundraising. so only lasted a year the president fee. but i love the idea of getting together this. and so i started a four profit organization called freedom past instead of dfs and we've been going great guns ever since and. we have a couple of thousand people show up every year in vegas. when they shut us down in 2020, we the ne

but he's also the founder of this libertarian gathering called freedom fest mark skousen. how? how did this get started? actually, 2007, maybe even earlier, because when i was made president of the foundation for economic education, it was the oldest free market think tank. but it kind of fell out, fallen into obscurity with cato and heritage and reason being the really big libertarian conservative type of organizations. george made president v and i said, what can i to jump start the. and i said, well, let's have a feed fest. let's have a national and let's do it in the most libertarian city in the world. las vegas. and it was a big success. we had 850 people show up. we had ben stein as our keynote speaker. and unfortunately, i was not very good at fundraising. so only lasted a year the president fee. but i love the idea of getting together this. and so i started a four profit organization called freedom past instead of dfs and we've been going great guns ever since and. we have a couple of thousand people show up every year in vegas. when they shut us down in 2020, we the ne