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hayes review he does fantastic analysis of globalism over there welcome to geopolitics and empire nick

thank you very much for having me i'm really looking forward to the conversation yeah you know i

first found you on telegram. I use many platforms to seek information, Telegram X, email lists,

websites. I'm always looking at footnotes, other podcasts that I listen to. I go through the people

that they're talking to. And so you're, you know, you're doing, I very much

enjoy the work that you're doing. And if you want to just tell us briefly, you know, who is Nick

and what is A's review? Yeah, thank you. So, so I'm, I'm from the UK and I started doing this

around a year ago. And what happened was that I was experimenting with book reviews.

I started making book reviews on YouTube. And then somebody told me about a program called OBS. And then

in that program, there's a little button that says, go live. And I thought, huh, I wonder what happens

if I clicked that. And then I started doing live streams. And now I do live

streams of books, book readings. And I just read through the book from start to finish. And I try

and pick books that are interesting and relevant. But I really focus on books that I'm surprised

exist and I never heard of before. So to me, it's a learning journey and it's really something that I do

because I'm interested and I'm motivated to learn. And I think, well, if I'm, if I want to know what's

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