Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

We'll get you from point A to point B.

But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own.

But if you'll wait right here

in just about the two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now here's

your Ralph Cramden of the Airways, Eric Mott, Texas. Folks, welcome to what we like to call hour two.

We just call it that.

It's not really hour two.

It comes after hour one.

We don't know what else to call it.

So we call it hour two.

I have as my guest today in both hours, Ivan Rakeland.

Ivan, how do you sum yourself up?

If somebody says, give me like, you know, the one or two sentences on

who you are, because you're a fascinating figure. Your background really has prepared you for this

moment. I thought about this. And I think the top line of what people would describe me as is that

I spent a quarter of a century in our military apparatus

in the intelligence community. And I thought that I was fighting for our constitution and what

was right. And when I started to observe the incestuous generational rot and started looking into it

further, it activated me. It's embarrassing. At some point in the last couple years,

it was embarrassing to be an American citizen. And so I'm not just going to sit idly by while these

corrupt actors continue to destroy my country. Like, I have just as much as a vested interest

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