Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Culture War podcast.

This is not our last show of the year.

We actually have another show next week, but that's a pre-record.

So this one is going to be live.

And we're going to be talking about Civil War, World War III, Foreign Policy, National Security.

And there's a lot of stuff going on in the world, especially right now with, this is really funny.

I did a search because you know i love to for civil war and one of the

top stories was donald trump removed from ballot in colorado nothing in that story referenced in

any way civil war but apparently what's up nothing we're good okay apparently enough people

searched for civil war and clicked this story about Donald Trump's removal that there

is a clear correlation here. So we'll talk about a little bit of everything related to issues

of national and international security. Joining us today to talk about all of this is Eric Prince.

Nice to meet you, Tim. Nice to meet you. Who are you? What do you do? Well, born and raised in Michigan, Navy vet.

I was in the SEAL teams for a few years, built a business called Blackwater, a private military

contractor, sold that in 210, moved to the Middle East, worked on a project that ended Somali piracy, and I've done some

investing in frontier markets since then, and now I've developed a new phone.

Oh, cool.

Right on.

But needless to say, I think when it comes to issues of national, international security,

you're an expert.

I don't know if I'm an expert, but I have a lot of

scars and I have a lot of experience. And I've seen what worked in the many things that governments

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