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Today we're joined by Ryan Christian, his second round here on geopolitics and empire.

It's been quite a while.

Of course, he's from the Last American Vagabond, the Last American Vagabond.com.

One of the No. Uno alternative, Gerija Independent Media media outfits. How is this, Ryan? I appreciate that, man. That means a lot coming from you. Thank you. I'm doing well, and it's nice to be back to join you again. I really enjoyed our conversation last time, so I'm looking forward to getting into many different topics. Yeah, I want to get your broad take on what's happening. I think last time we focused a lot on the biosecurity state because we were in the thick of it, right? COVID-1984. But maybe to start with your plight, with what's happening with you, whatever you want to tell us about it, as well as, you know, getting your thoughts on the state of

non-mainstream media, you know, alternative or independent media. It seems that many are under

constant attack and threats. This includes financial issues, trying to stay afloat because it's a tough

business, attacks by the government intelligence agencies mainstream media itself slander right private

individuals or outfits attacking independent media and so you know your thoughts in the

wider space you know we can get into the mammies there's there's there's there's

grifting there's I think you knowration. The deep state is certainly infiltrating

independent media. And then what's what's happening with you right now? Yeah, thanks for,

thanks for getting into all this, too, because it's a, it's a difficult situation. You know,

if those have been doing this long enough, remember the time, we're're not that long ago where even the concept of censorship was sort of like a conspiracy theory, right? Like the YouTube conversation, you're being censored like, oh, you probably did something wrong or, you know, like there's all, they just got brushed away. And so now we've gotten to a point at least where it's kind of common knowledge that this does happen. There's just become, as usual, it's conspiracy theory,

and then no, here's how it's happening,

but here's why we've always been doing it.

And so, you know, it's a difficult situation even still,

because, you know, trying to bring this to the forefront,

the conversations, people, you know, sometimes perceive it as using this

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