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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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GoodFellows celebrates its 100th episode with Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane reflecting on social, economic, and geopolitical lessons learned since their first conversation nearly three years ago. Also debated: the merits of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the spectacle of climate-change bloviation, plus the strategic implications of sending American heavy tanks to Ukraine (Lt. Gen. McMaster knowing a thing or two about the topic, having led armored cavalry regiments into combat).

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0:00.0	It took them just a few seconds to get up the breast of my tank.
0:03.7	About 10 seconds, actually.
0:05.2	In that 10 second span, we were able to get off two additional rounds
0:08.3	so the first round will be fired.
0:17.3	It's Tuesday, January 24th, 2023, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast
0:22.6	examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.
0:26.6	I'm Bill Whalen, I'm a Hoover Institution Distinguished Policy Fellow.
0:29.6	I'll be your moderator today, and I am joined to the company of our three Goodfellows.
0:33.6	We're doing this in person today at the Hoover Institution, joining me, the historian Neil Ferguson,
0:37.9	the economist John Cochrane, the Geostraditional, H.R. McMaster, Hoover Institution, senior
0:42.8	fellows.
0:43.8	All were in person today because this is a very special episode of Goodfellows.
0:47.2	It is episode number 100.
0:49.7	No off-ramp here is there, fellows.
0:51.3	It's protracted war, is what it is.
0:53.3	Per war.
0:55.0	It's a war of attrition.
0:58.0	Well, all three of you survived in 100 episodes.
1:00.0	So we're going to begin the episode by going back to where we began back in March of 2020.
1:06.0	And we're going to begin with the very first question that I asked the three good fellows, and let's roll the tape and take a look.
1:12.5	The model of the Hoover Institution is ideas defining a free society.
1:16.9	Let me repeat that again solely because I sometimes talk too fast, but to make sure the audience
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