I want to welcome everyone back to the Piquaneda show.

I'm going to take a little break from the Spanish Civil War series and, yeah, maybe have

one that'll go a couple episodes, maybe three.

Thomas, how are you doing?

I'm well.

Thank you.

Thanks for hosting me as always.

As always.

Thank you.

So this is a subject that a lot of people that we know,

that we're close to bring up often. And some of the comments I've seen you make are a lot more nuanced than a lot of just the, the pylons and and the you know what I'm talking about.

So when it comes, I guess really, I know it's so everyone says JQ, the Jewish question.

If we want to even go from there and use that term, when did you first consider

it? Well, I mean, based on where I grew up, it was always like at the forefront of my mind,

even if not in a developed capacity. You know, I grew up on the North Shore in a town that was like literally half Jewish.

And the rest of the people there were, you know, like people who I guess in turn, I mean,

the rest of the people were who that, you know, the Census Bureau used to call white ethnics.

You know, like, so I was obviously had a lot more in common with the latter than the former, but I was, I was like this kind of like minority of one, like in this town. Okay. And, um, you know, it, uh, that, that, that causes one to kind of reflect upon, you know, his own circumstances, you know, if you're at all thoughtful even as a kid. That's, and that's, you know, and I mean, yeah, I kind of an odd upbringing, but it's these people, I mean, first of all, these people online, and I say that just because they're basically just like internet guys, but this idea that if you're right wing, you're like the Jehovah's Witnesses

and you've got to like take the message to the people and wake them up. I mean, that's,

that's idiotic for all kinds of reasons. That's not what we're doing. It's not going to do what we're

doing. But it's also, anybody who's at all engaged kind of with the world, like understands,

you know, that America is basically a uh, basically, uh, a Catholic,

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