Hi, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest. He comes to us all the way from Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

He'll be my first guest from there. Maybe the closest guest I've had to that is somebody in Thailand.

But his name is Dr. Matthew Mavak.

His last name is spelled M-A-A-A-B-A-K.

And he came to my attention from my friend Herboy Amorich, who operates geopolitics and empire.

I listen to a show all the time.

And he said, I've got a guess for you on this topic.

And I usually don't do a lot of fiction books, but these types of fiction books aren't really that fictional.

And I've done other ones about AI and kind of a technocracy and things like that, which are ostensibly fiction.

I've had recent guests on my show, The Collins Brothers.

And I ask that which is a really relevant question.

Is science fiction really fiction?

And the answer may be no.

It's closer to some kind of hybrid or something, but we operate.

You gestalt things.

We simplify things.

We put things in genre so we can understand them.

But if you're watching this on YouTube, one of my three YouTube channels, which I got back in the last couple months, two, three months, or X, or Rumble, or Rockfin, you'll see the cover of his book, The Electric Reckoning.

And the timing is really something else because I think we set this up last year.

Today is just January 8th, 2026, but in that time, so much has changed.

And even Germany has had like electricity problems, something that's really a first world country.

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