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hi everybody tom woods here it's episode episode 2626 of the Tom Wood Show. And I'm very glad to have Brian Istead with us today. And I've just recently gotten to know, Brian. He's a Canadian. I know I've got a sliver of you out there who are in Canada, who whenever I complain about things in the U.S.,

you write to me and say, well, it could be worse, you know, you could be in Canada, but I don't

know, there are pluses and minuses of everywhere. But Brian has an interesting background that

lends itself to a revisiting of the COVID matter. And I know that I have listeners who understand that even though that happened a few years ago,

it's still of lasting significance.

Because remember, if we get the story wrong, then the next time they try to pull this,

they'll use COVID as justification for the next thing.

Well, remember all the lives we saved

all those years ago. We got to keep hitting this. You know, you cannot, you cannot let this thing

get out of hand. I mean, it's like the Great Depression in the U.S. Well, we've all been told that

that was because we had laissez-faire capitalism and we needed to crack some more skulls and we would have prevented the great depression. And so then when we have downturns, we say, well, you don't want the

Great Depression again, do you? So we have to do X and Y. We just can't let that happen. So I'm

really glad to have Brian here with us. Now, Brian, describe for the folks exactly what your background

is and why that would have had anything to do with this.

Yes, sir. So thanks for having me on. Real quick about me, I spent about 11.5 years, almost 12 years in the Canadian military as a junior officer. I joined as an infantry officer in the

reserve, moved over to the regular force army, which is what you guys call active duty, I think.

So a full-time military move from

the infantry into military policing. And military policing is where I got a deployment to Iraq

as a close protection team leader, which is a fancy way of saying a bodyguarding team lead

for high-ranking officials and important people in Baghdad. Then I moved into the intelligence

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