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In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the nation through a series of radio

broadcasts known as the Fire Side Chats. His aim was to reassure the common man that our society

would recover from its troubled times. Well, we're far from 1930 and I deal with a different kind of

fire. For a new era of worldly frustration, we offer a fresh conversation. I'm Greg Karlwood

and these are the Hire Side Chats. How we doing out there, Hire Side Chats, from

Sonny San Diego, I'm Greg Karlwood, and you know I can't complain. Well, as long as I ignore the

rampant corruption deeply rooted in our system, the suppression of truth across many areas of life,

and of course the engineered outrage triggers that trip up so many people when I wish we could all

just get along. But what are you gonna do? Despite these things, one of my favorite subject areas

lately has been trying to construct a more accurate model of reality and earth science,

and that picture gets clear every day. After great conversations with previous guests like

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