Greetings dear listeners, this is another episode of the Remnant Podcast.

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goods and services or legal contraband. Let's skip over all the usual give us likes and reviews

and get straight to the conversation. Today we are one of these rare times where sort of

like with Scott Lensacom, I'm bringing in somebody who I feel like I know but I don't actually

know and then we've met for the first time mere minutes ago so we may up, may end up you know,

smashing each other over the head with broken bottles. Who knows? But I have with us Ian Bremer,

who is the president and founder of the Eurasia group. So he is, I think, a single drop of his

tears would cause Steve Bannon to burst into flames and he has come up with a new book on the Us

versus Them, The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremer. Ian, welcome to the whatever this is.

Thanks. Good to have you here. I'm happy to be here. It's a nice place. So one of my favorite

questions when I'm on a book tour, which is amazing how often you don't get asked it, is

what's your book about? So what's your book about? Okay, let's start that way. Well, I mean the book

is about the fact that a lot of people, particularly in the developed world but increasingly all over the

world, are unhappy about the business community, the media and particularly the establishment

on the political side. That is, Trump is symptomatic but not in any way a driver,

a force of that, Brexett, same thing. And it's getting a lot worse. Right. And so this, the fact

that globalism, the fact that I grew up with this idea that we would have more open borders and

more free trade and we'd be the global policeman and that was something that not just our elites

said would be good for them but actually would be good for all of us. That hasn't worked.

I talked for them but it hasn't worked for the rest of us and it's causing far greater divides

in society which I think that pendulum is going to swing a lot farther before it comes back. I'm

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