Really happy to have you here. Do you want to start with the spy movie stuff? Let's start with the spy movie stuff.

So you have probably heard the term state sponsor of terrorism. It's not a commonly used term,

but the U.S. government occasionally will designate another country in the world as a state sponsor of terrorism.

And what that means is not just that there is international terrorism somehow associated

with that country.

It means the government of that other country is, according to the U.S., using its power

as a government, as a country, to sponsor international terrorism and terrorist

groups. So it's always and only a very small list of countries that get this very serious

kind of designation from the United States. Right now, I think there's only like four

countries on the list.

But it goes without saying, if the U.S. government has put another country on this list,

if the U.S. government has declared a country to be a state sponsor of terror, it goes

without saying the United States does not have formal diplomatic relations with that country,

obviously. But then, for the purposes of any good spy movie plot, you have to think, well,

okay, that explains what happens between the two governments. If the U.S. government declares

another country's government, essentially persona non-grata, right,

state sponsor of terrorism, obviously our government and their government are not going to have

relations. But our country is not just our government, right? Our country is also made up of more

than 300 million people. And you have to think, well, what would the U.S. government do

if an American person, an American citizen, decided on his or her own steam

that they were going to cultivate personal ties with a government like that.

Right?

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