*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

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0:00.0	Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire. Quick Reminder support the podcast. Your support is crucial. And the best way to do that is by becoming a subscriber, a paid subscriber on the substack. We do private weekly group Zoom chats every week or two to discuss current events and just shoot the breeze. I also do a weekly write-up of uh the news my own commentary
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1:07.9	And joining us for the first time is poet, musician, gypsy dissident, Florida-based
1:13.5	dystopian sound alchemist, Testamona. Welcome to geopolitics and empire, Tess. Hello, thank you for
1:20.0	having me. Thanks for coming on. And I only learned of your work a week ago, a listener of mine sent me a link to your new song
1:29.6	and music video, algorithm ghetto.
1:33.3	And we'll talk about that, which it completely blew my mind.
1:37.9	But before getting into algorithm ghetto and sort of the themes that you talk about, if you
1:43.8	want to tell us a bit about, you know, who is Testimona, your music, and your work?
1:49.7	Absolutely, yes.
1:50.7	So I think you definitely nailed it with the intro.
1:54.3	But essentially, I have been writing poetry since I was 10 and I have been making music. It was after I got sober from a drug addiction
2:04.0	at the age of 20. The music came into the picture. And that has been a big thing that has kept me
2:10.1	alive and on the path that I'm on ever since. But essentially, aside from all of that,
2:17.4	I am a lover of the human spirit and the evolution
2:21.4	of the human soul. So by default in today's world, that will make you a dissident. And so I use,
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