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How you doing?

Good to see you, Bob.

Good to see you, Ian.

Let me introduce us.

I am Robert Wright.

This is the right show, available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.

You are Ian Brimmer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group, a well-known

political risk research and consulting firm. You're also founder of the digital media firm G-Zero,

which gives me a chance to mention that I am publisher of the newsletter, Non-Zero.

I want to thank you for paving the way for that plug.

Ian, that was very nice of you.

And they've been aligned our two ideas, big concept they is for a long time now, to be fair.

You know, we do. There is a lot in common between our worldviews. We'll get to that. In addition to apparently a disagreement we have. So we're going to talk about a couple of things, actually. First, we're

going to talk about your brand new book, The Power of Crisis, How Three Threats and Our Response

Will Change the World. And when I say brand new, I mean like today, today is pub date, right?

Hours, literally hours new. Yeah. So it's still wet. That's how new it is.

Yeah.

And how does it feel? You're still in the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, tell with a book, you know, I mean, it's so much of you that you're putting out there. and your views kind of evolve of the ideas of the book as you start talking about it with other people as it sort of emerges into the public discourse. But so far, so good, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it if I wasn't excited about it. Well, good. Last, you know, you were on our show talking about your, another book of yours, Us versus Them, The Failure of Globalism a few years ago.

That was my last book.

Okay.

So we haven't missed a book in a couple of books.

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