Ben Myceles from the Midest Touch podcast here. So for anyone out there looking to replace a midterm sized hole in their lives like me, we have a treat for you. We here at the Midest Touch Network are releasing our first podcast mini series and we couldn't be more excited about it.

And as you know, it's called American Syop and we previously played the first episode from American Syop. It's a completely mind bending true crime thriller with some very relevant political implications.

The good way to think of it is it's sort of like if Forest Gump and Fight Club had a child and it's a true story. So it's about West Clark, Jr. The son of the four star general who ran for president in 2004 as his father becomes a prominent figure West Jr. starts getting targeted by intelligence operations and shady international characters.

In 2016 he gets surrounded by a cult goes insane and while having a psychotic episode leads 4,000 veterans in a protest against the standing rock oil pipeline. And I'm just telling you you're going to be shocked by how much the story informs and knocks up against important political events today.

We're working with a great team on this. It's directed by Jack Brian from a bunker crew media. They're the guys behind Kremlin file and the vice show Q and on the search for Q. Jack also directed the Trump Russia documentary active measures and also producing it with us is Stacy share.

We're produced Django unchanged and contagion and we couldn't be more excited to be working with her on this as well. So we are going to play for you right now episode 2 we previously played episode 1 episode 1 is called Genesis.

And in this episode West Jr. enters the film industry where he is almost immediately targeted by intelligence operations as well as shady Hollywood players and he discovers that sometimes these worlds overlap.

Here we're going to play for you the full episode of American sia episode 2 Hollywood Babylon you can check out our feed also where we played episode 1 Genesis and if you want to catch up on all of the episodes of American sia go right now and check out American sia wherever you're listening to this podcast just search American sia PSY OP American sia

sia check it out subscribe to the American sia podcast page we're going to be releasing one episode each week in the episode just get more incredible each week so I'm excited to share for you the full series but without further ado we will play for you now the full episode

2 Hollywood Babylon and don't forget to go now and subscribe to American sia up on the American sia channel wherever you get this podcast I'm Ben Myceles enjoy episode 2

Welcome back to American sia up a podcast mini series in 9 parts I'm Emily Bix continuing my conversation with Wesley Clark Jr. and our attempt to figure out what happened

Welcome back to this strange journey that brought me to a place I didn't understand so you know that thing about my Australian friend coming back from Macau I look at that with new eyes like 15 or 20 years later in looking at it now it feels like a blackmail operation

like how many other people who sold their tech companies get taken to Macau and put in compromising situations for sure and looking back on meeting delay when you saw that blow up in the news I thought thank God they never called me back

So as we go through this story because it's so complicated we are kind of breaking it up last week we talked about how you were a ripe target for operations based on the fact that your dad was a high profile general who had gone toe to toe with the Russians and outplayed them possibly leaving them wanting payback

Today we're going to focus mainly on your film career after you left the military this is when you believe you started getting targeted by both state run operations and by self interested individuals is there something about the film industry that makes it especially susceptible to operations and

grifters well absolutely first it's international so money moves between countries if you were trying to put people into a country a film would be a great way to do it it would be a great way to have cover but also most films lose money

so any business that loses a lot of money is a great target for money laundering when you put together grifters spies and movie producers the differences between them are are rather minor and it sounds like all of this somehow leads to the 2016 standing rock oil pipeline protests

I mean when I look back on my life I'm like all these things brought me here but yeah I actually think it's all tied together last week we ended in 2004 when your dad's run for office ended

today we're going to step back and focus on your life starting in 1996 right after you left the military we are starting after the gen of side in Bosnia by Serbian troops which ended when your dad negotiated for peace

while serving as a top presidential military advisor so I got out of the army in 96 loaded up the car drove out to Los Angeles I PA for like six months and I thought do I want to do this for the rest of my life so I sent out applications all over town

and I got a call back from Jersey films this woman is like so you're in the army huh I'm like yeah she goes can you put up a lot of bullshit and I said yes and I got hard

and the job I wound up getting at Jersey films was reading scripts so I was reading five to six scripts a day but I got really into writing stuff and we'd wound up optioning a

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