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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. Here we go, Hire Side Chats. Another day, another deep dive

into the unseen things that make the world go round from sunny San Diego, Amgra Karlwood.

And many of us are well aware by now that the world is really run from the shadows,

the hidden hand, the invisible empire, the puppet masters of the capstone cabal, call it what you want,

but what you don't learn about in school is the true power of these secret societies,

think tanks and interlocking organizations set on shaping the world in their image.

Yes, the oily appendages in the nefarious view are firmly wrapped around nearly every aspect of life,

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