Welcome to the Denny's Hall. And I know I always started to be excited about this

week's special guest, but I really am. It's Patrick Wood. Back, I think it's our third

podcast, isn't it, Patrick?

So, yeah. And so much has happened since we last spoke. I was just thinking, you must be looking

at the events in the world now and just thinking, I saw all this coming. I've been writing

about this for the decades and nobody took me seriously or hardly anyone. And now, look,

suckers, I was right.

Yeah. I guess that's kind of the history of the world in a way. And I don't take any, any

metaphor necessarily, but there have always been people who were, were the early warning

signs, you know, this saw stuff coming. And people didn't listen and policies just continued

the way they were and they got themselves deeper in a hole. And now look at us, you know,

we're just so deep in a hole. It's not even funny.

Well, the classical analogies, of course, Cassandra, who, who, who prophesied the truth

and her curse was that no one would listen. I'm sure it's, I'm sure that she, that was

an archetype, which is, yes, yes. You know, I, I should, I should say that back on December

18, which is 18th December is not that far away right now. It's Christmas time. December

18, 2015, that's seven years ago now. Yeah. Unbelievable. Well, that was a date that I declared

war on technocracy. And not because I wanted to declare war on them, but they had declared

war on us. And so I wrote back then, America is being methodically and purposely conquered

by an unseen enemy. Our shields are down, our people are asleep, our weapons are almost

non-existent. The war has been waged and stealth. So the enemy has not yet been identified

until now. That was seven years ago. And only now are people finally really starting to

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