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Hello, Connor Eccles.

Hey, Bob. How you doing?

I'm doing okay. I'm going to introduce us. I'm Robert Wright, a publisher and editor-in-chief of the non-zero newsletter, Connor Eccles, managing editor of the non-zero newsletter. And you've just, you decided not to stay in your socialist paradise? I was, I'm surprised. I thought you'd be filing from Cuba for the rest of your life, but yeah, you thought I was going to stick around. There, there might have been some uphill battles there. It's a bit of a bit of a challenging environment on the, on the journalism side of things. But I guess if I would have gone towed the government line a little bit, maybe I, maybe I could have stuck around. I assumed you would.

I mean, you're an actual, you know, you're an actual lefty.

Living, breathing socialist.

Yeah, I wouldn't say that Cuba is my ideal version of socialism, but maybe we can talk about that later.

It's certainly got its challenges, to say the least.

Meanwhile, there's a whole other issue of the Earthling, the Friday edition of

Nanzar a newsletter that will hit newsstands all over America not long after we tape.

That's right.

That's right.

And you have a very strong lead this week.

You're back. You had initially given a few weeks,

allowing me to be sort of the editor, guest editor, I think is the term we use, but your

influences come roaring back with a piece on this Manus AI stuff.

Well, we're still kind of in the twilight zone, I guess, which I wouldn't mind staying in,

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