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In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the nation through a series of radio

broadcasts known as the Fire Side Chats. His aim was to reassure the common man that our society

would recover from its troubled times. Well, we're far from 1930 and I deal with a different kind of

fire. For a new era of worldly frustration, we offer a fresh conversation. I'm Greg Karlwood

and these are the Hire Side Chats. Happy days are here again, people from sunny San Diego,

I'm Greg Karlwood. Welcome to the little show Inside the Big Show because when you really get

down to it, so much of reality is crafted around us by culture creation occultus like a bad

Broadway play entitled How to Bring About the Apocalypse. And it seems like they have a version

for every genre, flavor, and subset of reality as the tyrannical think tanks take your mind wherever

they want it to go. And as you probably know by now, most of this work is done through the arts

and entertainment. Our guards are down, our brainwaves properly recalibrated, and our mind primed to

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