Okay, guys and gals, thank you so much.

Oh, no, don't turn it off, Frank.

Such a good song.

Such a good song.

How has your weekend been?

I've been working my ass off to get here with you tonight. It's really just,

I don't know, it's one of those things I do. When do I get back to the boys and girls over there at the

studio? Well, here you are. Here I am. All right, so listen, James Corbett, if you don't know,

he is, well, he's been around for a while and he's still

going strong and he's somebody that I think a lot of you are going to like if you don't

already know who he is. In fact, you might have known him from a lot of the, I put a lot of

his classics into our after hours programming. Good stuff there. And tonight we're going to have a little bit of him on with us

live. So James Corbett is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work I have been following

for, like I said, about 15 years now. In 2007, James started the Corbett Report website, which is

linked in the description of this episode,

as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics.

Since then, he has written, recorded, and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media

for the website, including a podcast and several regular online video series.

I can now proudly say he's also been on, quite frankly.

And James, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on. Well, it's been a, been a long time,

and I'm so glad we got to meet. And I don't know, I have to keep reminding myself that you

live in Japan. And does that sometimes feel like an insufficient distance away from the madhouse

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