Well, hello, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone listening in to today's newest edition of

VORW International, the podcast that I do. Thank you all for tuning in to this new program.

Hope everyone out there listening in right now is feeling and doing all right.

This program is the 2023 Predictions episode. Yes, indeed, it's January of 2023. Happy New Year

to everyone out there listening in. And as I do on a yearly basis at this point, I always

try to release a program in January of each year where listeners and myself, but mostly

I want this to be focused on the listeners will give their predictions for the upcoming

year. So for the program today, really, the format is quite simple. In the last show that

I did, I invited listeners to send in their submissions and predictions for the next program

that I do. And then of course, this is the program. I will be reading them on the air. For

the most part, I will let the predictions speak for themselves, but periodically I will have

some general thoughts and commentary. But for the most part, as I mentioned, I don't want

to try to say, oh, this prediction holds more weight than that one I want you as an audience

to listen in. Think for yourself and go from there. Now, I will say this as a warning.

This program reaches a wide variety of listeners from a wide variety of backgrounds and a wide

variety of ideologies and world views. You are, without a shadow of a doubt,

going to hear views in this program that you vehemently oppose and disagree with.

This is your opportunity to bail out if you would like.

What I have noticed, since I've already recorded, the bulk of the program, and I've gone through

all of the predictions, it's pretty much a 50-50 ideological split between left and right.

So with that said, as happy as I am to see that this program is able to reach, I should say,

a varying audience. And I certainly like that quite a bit. I know that a lot of people,

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