Hey everybody, I'm really, really happy today. I have a guy that I've admired for many, many years,

Matt Taiibi, you know, all of you know, if you've ever been part of any kind of insurgency in the

last 22 years, he played such a useful role in explaining to Americans in the rest of the world,

beginning on Wall Street, you know, what in layman's terms and very with, you know, beautiful

poetic language and a lot of humor and just a knack for these killer phrases that you come

up with explaining to people how power is really wielded in the American political and financial

landscapes and who's in charge and sort of how this sausage making takes place and the gruesome

inhumanity of some of these people and child, child, childishness of some of the people who are in

charge of everything, you know, how inept and how inexplicable and inappropriate is to put these

people in charge of the world, the masters of the universe actually, you know, do not have any

clue what they're doing and you've shown that better than anybody. Let me read a little of your,

your, your visual bio, Matthew, he's the author of Four New York Times bestsellers and award-winning

columnists for whirling songs. His recent book Hate Inc. is a turbocharged take on how the media

twist the truth, the truth to pit us against each other. And let me read a little of your,

your Wikipedia, you were born in 1970. I think you're, are you Polynesian?

Irish and Filipino, basically.

Irish, Filipino. You reported on finance media, politics and sports, a former contributing editor

Rolling Stone. Tai-Ebe began a freelance reporter working the former Soviet Union. He later

worked as a sports journalist for the English language newspaper that Moscow town. And so this

is your second career. And in 1997, Tai-Ebe and Mar Games co-edited the title and newspaper

exile. Well, that is when you are 17 years old, is that right?

I was 27. I had actually played just before that. I was playing pro basketball and mongolianly.

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