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podcast reviews that sort of stuff returning to the podcast has been quite a while is lecturer

in geopolitics and international and he's also an international politics PhD candidate Stuart

J Hooper welcome back to the podcast, Stuart.

Thanks so much, Vori. Great to be back with you and I haven't actually spoken to you one-on-one

since your TNT days. So, been a really long time. But always loved our discussions.

Love the fact that you come at this kind of straight down the middle. You're not really all the way

to the left or all the way to the right,

but willing to talk to everyone, listen to everyone and consider all sides, which apparently

more and more people just cannot do. So yeah, great to be back with you. Yeah, it's a minefield

where, you know, the left and right both get a few things right.

And both get many things wrong, I think.

And so we just kind of, lately I've been saying,

you gotta take off your red MAGA hat and think critically.

But also, and yeah, you do great analysis on your X in YouTube.

And of course, as of late, you're,

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