Research that resonates.

He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.

Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done,

chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington.

Be very prescient, Eric Eggers.

Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.

We're going to take information that we've learned, that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,

and we're going to try to go further.

Great investigative reporting, Peter.

You're the only one doing it. Thank God.

Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.

This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

Hello and welcome to The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. I am Eric Eggers filling in for Peter Schweitzer,

who is out today? And so if I'm in for Peter, the question becomes who is in for me?

And that would be this very Natalie attired gentleman, Seamus Bruner. You know him as the author of the trend setting book, Contrologarchs. He created the word of the year in Australia in

23. Chamis Bruner, what have you done in 2024? Because I feel like you're slack. And if no

country has adopted a word you invented as its word of the year, then what is even the last year

meant to you? Well, actually, it's now all over the world. It is the number one book in Croatia,

Slovenia, Bulgaria. Germany's got control of

Garks, Canada. So over a dozen countries we expanded to. It just launched into Croatia.

And believe it or not, Seamus has talents beyond self-promotion. We're going to talk about some

of his research skills and they're going to contribute to this podcast, which is going to be on

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