Happy Thursday folks and today we're going to double your pleasure because you're going to get not just one but two of the most brilliant critical thinking minds in Ireland. We have Eddie Hobbs on. Great to see Eddie.

Oh thank you. Thank you, Weaver. Nice to talk to you again. Always is. And our interview actually down in, I don't know, Bali de Hobbavre, or somewhere down the wastes of Cork, went very...

Skibbreen during the summer.

Yeah, that went down really well. So a lot of truth bombs there.

But today we're going to go crazy on truth bombs because your book, and it's shown in the background here, that the cannon is balkying it out.

That's my new 75 inch screen, is breaking the silence.

And this book came out a few months ago. It's essentially free, though great if people can

donate. But it goes through and catalogs the rise of totalitarianism, which is clear and present

to some people, but only the minority.

And this hopes to illustrate to maybe less aware people just how bad it's getting.

Yeah, well, the objective of the book really was to try and condense four years of being in this area,

looking at it, going to, as you know, going to conferences, reading conferences reading books doing the research I wanted to try and produce something that people who are already in our

echo chamber and I cover that in the book by the way which we'll get into in a moment

could could actually give some one of the naps as I call the NAPs the nearly awake

persons and because that's all we can

convince at this stage those that are completely and utterly involved in the manufactured ignorance

around the whole thing are and are happy to stay in it will not be rescued it's going to take a

major shift for that to happen we know know that that's not just me.

That's from the research, from the works of Professor Matthias Desmond, who you've interviewed,

and I did recently as well.

He's bringing out a second book, by the way, in 2025, where he gets into propaganda in a big way.

And so I get into, so the book is quite extensive. Like it's nearly 500 pages long.

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