Ladies and gentlemen of the interwebs, I have shaved and gone totally clean.

I'm just kidding.

This is Chase Hughes.

If you don't know him, you should know him with some amazing insights about what it means

to be a potentially inadvertent, not a patsy, but a tool, asset, or agent of the state.

Behold.

So when I'm saying, like, somebody's an operative or whatever word you want to use,

they're not like walking around on their off time, pulling out their secret CIA ID card and

badging into the main building. That's not what happens. Even if you go back to Project

Mockingbird, they're just getting some talking points in a letter every once in a while. They're just saying, oh, you know what, don't have this guy on your show or don't allow this to be spoken about in your show or if they talk about this, you're going to cut it out. It's simple things like that, some very basic instructions. And the way that somebody like a Gen Z person might get recruited is, let's just use you as an example. Somebody comes up and says, hey, man, I love your podcast, yada, yada. They're in a restaurant, a bar, whatever. And they say, I have a serious question for you, though. Are you a patriot? Would you consider yourself a patriot? Now I've got you locked into identity,

right? And then I say, well, I have an offer for you, but before I show you anything,

I just want you to say, yes or no, would you be willing to entertain the offer and look at what

I have and it might be uncomfortable? Would you be willing to look at it? Sure. Yep. Stage one is, I show you all of your browsing history,

captures from your webcams on all of your phones and computers,

so you're doing the most compromising shit you could ever possibly imagine.

Every bad thing you've ever done, record it's in some way.

Got to pause there.

Got to pause there.

Embarrassing and bad are two different things, but this is an

amazing tactic that Chase Hughes is describing. I'll let it play.

I like your podcast. I think you're doing a great job and I want to protect you.

And I want to keep all this from the public eye. But we also want to give you $20,000 a month.

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