Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast Inside Rail.

I have the trepidacious honor and pleasure sitting with returning guest, Jessica Rose, who is a fellow at the Brownstone Institute, as am I, making her a fellow fellow fellow.

She's also a fellow at the Independent Medical alliance. If I didn't say it just a

second ago, she's an independent scientific researcher, a biologist, and she is in northern Israel.

Can't say more about where at the moment, but we will get into that.

She is obviously juggling the reality of bombs and fragments,

and I'm sure she will tell us, raining down from Iran,

and may have to go suddenly, if that happens, we'll pick up the conversation another time.

In any case, Jessica, welcome to Dark Horse.

Hey, thanks for having me back.

It's really nice to see you again.

Great to see you.

I wish it were under better circumstances.

But in any case, I'm hoping to get a sense for what is going on on the ground

as much as you can tell us and also in the social environment.

But before we get there, let's just establish the basics.

Where were you born?

Ottawa, Canada.

And when did you move to Israel?

In, well, actually, I didn't move right away.

I got invited to do my PhD and I'd never been here before.

And because, you know, this kind of situation that we're in now happens occasionally.

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