Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey.

Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. His name is Etienne di La Botti squared. He has written a book that I read through, and I highly recommend people check this out. I'll put a link to get the book.

The title of the book is government, the biggest scam in history, how intergenerational organized crime runs the government

media and academia.

And you can find his stuff on Substack at Art of Liberty as well as his website, which is

artof liberty.org.

So I will put links into the show notes for this show.

But I highly recommend people check out this book.

And it shows just how bad things are.

And I've kind of been watching the news,

the corporate media in the last week about what's going on in Washington.

And just like the overt criminality of these federal agencies, the FBI, DOJ.

It's embarrassing.

Like, I'm embarrassed for them.

But Etienne can talk more about that. He's very well

now. We had a very long free show. We're talking about a lot of interesting issues, but Etienne,

welcome to the show. Hey, William. Great to be with you and with your audience. Awesome. So for people

not have heard your name or your background, can you kind of talk about your interest in this concept of

voluntarism and what led you up to putting together this book, government, the biggest scam in history?

Sure. So, I mean, I've had a really kind of interesting background. I've been, you know, I've been a

tech entrepreneur. I've been living. I've been in my youth, I ran a national third party political campaign. I worked at one of the big four think tanks. I worked on Wall Street. I used to live outside of Washington, D.C., where I was a member of Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia's largest CEO networking organization. So I've gotten a chance to see kind of the

government up close and personal and the financial system up close and personal. And, you know,

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