John McAfee Is On The Lam!
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ep. 26 John McAfee is a cybersecurity expert, international fugitive, and political activist. He joins Heaton to discuss his 2020 presidential campaign, and more. Much more. Lots more.
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| 0:16.4 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, the only news and politics show you can find with more italics than Caps Lock. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I am excited to kick off 2020 with you. |
| 0:22.3 | Orphans, today we're going to go on a field trip. |
| 0:26.0 | A field trip to... |
| 0:28.0 | Well, I don't know where, because my guest refused to confirm his location. He is quite |
| 0:35.2 | literally a fugitive from the law. And to make things even more interesting, he's |
| 0:40.8 | about to be portrayed by Michael Keaton in a biopic called King of the Jungle. |
| 0:46.0 | John McAfee is a cyber security expert, a cryptocurrency analyst, a political activist, and quite possibly a madman. |
| 0:54.0 | More on that in a moment. |
| 0:55.6 | Now I take the input and guest requests from Patreon supporters of this show seriously. |
| 1:00.5 | And recently some of the show's patrons |
| 1:02.2 | asked me to interview this rogue tech |
| 1:04.8 | magnate who literally spoke to me via webcam inside of a Faraday cage at an |
| 1:11.2 | undisclosed location. He swears a lot so if you've got a people on Patreon to fill out a survey to improve the show which was massively |
| 1:24.1 | helpful thank you if you did that one of the questions I asked was what's the best |
| 1:28.3 | thing I can do to give you guys value for your monetary support and the |
| 1:31.3 | main answer was do bonus content only available to |
| 1:35.0 | patron supporters so I'm gonna try that out this week in the episode that we're |
| 1:38.8 | listening to right now you're you're just stick a board this is. I'm going to explain who John McAfee is and then we're going to go on a weird journey with him. |
| 1:48.0 | Later in the week there will be a special Patreon only episode in which we go a little bit further, a little bit |
| 1:55.2 | broader, and I explain the two camps dueling it out for the soul of the Libertarian Party. |
| 2:02.4 | Plus, what I think would be the most brilliant third-party ticket |
| 2:06.4 | imaginable for 2020, and a master stroke Joe Biden could play if he decided to do it, |
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