Hello, everybody. Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

Today it's going to be me solo, or I should say, me without my co-host, Abby.

And I will be interviewing Pierce Redman.

And Pierce is the host and creator of Porkin's Policy Radio.

He's also heavily involved in the Boiling Frogs podcast and has been doing a series with

Tom Sucker called The CIA in Hollywood that I recommend everybody check out.

Some very interesting connections there that most people probably aren't aware of.

He's also been doing a really interesting commentary on the show Homeland.

How are you doing, Pierce?

I'm doing good, Robbie.

I'm really excited to be on Media Roots today.

So thank you for having me. Yeah, this is my first time having you on. I'm really excited to be on Meteor Roots today, so thank you for having me.

Yeah, this is my first time having you on. I don't know why we didn't do this a lot earlier.

Well, yeah, no worries there. You and I have been talking a lot recently about just how surreal it is and how strange it is that this sort of new Cold War scenario and again, just to clarify, I don't mean Cold War in a literal sense, I mean it more in

sort of the, you know, because it's hard to come up with another word really to describe what's

going on,

but basically a new confrontation with Russia, Russia with NATO allies, and sort of, you know,

the geopolitical situation right now.

You and I end up talking about it a lot and kind of wondering why there aren't more people bringing light to this.

And you're one of the only people, honestly, that I know on the internet are really anywhere

that is plugged into what's going on in regards to this.

And I can actually talk to about it.

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