Good podcast.

Hello, Andrew Bustamante.

It's good to be back, brother.

Welcome back, dude.

I appreciate it.

Before we start, tell the new listeners and or viewers who you are and what your background is.

Yeah, absolutely. My name is Andrew Bustamante. I'm the founder of Everydayspy.com. I am a former covert CIA intelligence officer, and now I teach people

spy skills for everyday life and everyday use to get an unfair advantage at work, insecurity,

and life is good for me, man. What part of the CIA, what division of the CIA were you in,

what exactly were you doing in the CIA?

Yeah, so CIA doesn't have your traditional divisions like you would think of with like the

Army or the Navy or the Air Force. CIA is all covert, but there's, you know, general breakdowns by

directorate. So I came from what was called the National Clandestine Service, NCS. It's also sometimes

called the Directorate of Operations,

but we are the undercover field operative kind of element of CIA. So one of the main reasons,

one of the main things I want to talk to you about today, obviously, is this whole thing going on

with Russia and Ukraine, this whole war. What is your take on everything that's going on over over there and what the, uh, the U.S. narrative is? Yeah. So, um, so it's funny. I'm going to, I'm, I'm

super hot on this topic right now. And I'm also very hot about the fact that like people are,

are speaking out against Spotify hosting Joe Rogan because people on Joe Rogan's podcast disagreed

with the mainstream narrative about COVID or whatever. So if I get you kicked off of Spotify,

I'm very sorry. You definitely won't. We'll probably get kicked off YouTube, but that's okay.

We have way more viewers on Spotify. So here's the thing, right? What's happening between Russia and

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