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Did you ever have access to, let's say, government secrets that were so big that humanity could never find out about it?

Humanity is too big of a word. So I would say I have absolutely had access to secrets that would impact how the American

public would respond. What do you mean by that? Meaning I, the roles that I filled the operations

that I participated in were operations that were relevant and impactful to Americans. They were

relevant and impactful to other countries as well, but never humanity as a whole. And so, you know, Andy Boostamante. Welcome back, sir.

Hey, I'm happy to be here, Julian. Thanks for having me, man.

It's good to have you in New Jersey, man. It's, it's been a while. We did the one down

of concrete, which was great with you and Jim DiOrio.

Can't wait to do that again. But you always get requested, man. People always want to hear Bustamante again. After the last two episodes we did each week, they're like, bring them back in next week. I'm like, he lives in Florida. It doesn't work this way. And now you're the biggest spy in the world. Now, you know, it's crazy, man. It's crazy seeing how the internet has reacted from the first time we had a conversation to the conversation that we're having today. And what's wild is the stuff that you want to talk about today. Just the questions that you've kind of just given me to chew on coming up here are so relevant. I'm just super excited. Which questions were those? You said you want to talk about Syria? Oh, right. Right. You want to talk about Iran? You want to talk about, I mean, dude, what I love about coming up here is that you never talk about boring stuff. You always talk about relevant, impactful stuff. And I'll take that 100% of the days. Hey, that's what we're trying to do man i. I mean, it's, I never lose sight of fact that I'm some dude in a hat who works in a podcast on a podcast in his parents' house and there's a whole world out there of shit going on and guys like you were in the middle of that. And that is the beauty of having a platform like this. I get to talk to people doing cool shit around the world. So if we're going to have discussions on highly nuanced, complicated, crazy shit going on, I want to do it with guys who have been in the middle of it with espionage and everything and have to think about these things. And, you know, might still actively be working on it, too. That's always in that for sure. We had to hit that right away. The accusations keep flying. If I had time to spy on top of this, on top of this stuff that I'm already doing, I don't even know that it would pay the bills. I don't think it would be I'd make enough money spying if I had to work for CIA right now. Actually, I know I wouldn't. My company made more money last month than I made in a year when I was a CIA officer. It was mind-boggling, dude. First time that has ever happened to me. And it was absolutely mind-boggling, and it was absolutely one of those moments where you realize you did something right. You know, we always... So I don't know if you know this, and I don't know if I've told you this before. The average person has somewhere to the tune of 120,000 thoughts a day. Mm. Mm. Seventy thousand of those thoughts are negative thoughts. So the vast majority of the thoughts that we have on any given day are negative thoughts, right? And one of those thoughts that I know plagues me all the time is, did I make the right call? Did I make the right call? Did I make the right call? Because you never really know if you could have made a call differently, if it would have gone better.

But after doing the accounting last month, I was like, I made the right call.

Made the right call getting out of CIA, financially at least.

Made the right call starting a business.

And to think that I spent most of that month, you know, playing with my kids on the floor,

taking my wife out to dinner. It was a good month. That's pretty good. And you live in Florida, too. That helps. Always. Always. We got good weather this time of year around here. But in the winter, I keep thinking now, like, maybe the move is Miami. But anyway, yeah, there is, as we buried the lead right there out front, there is a lot of shit going on. one of the things that i've been talking with you on the phone a couple months ago when we're talking about Sean Ryan and

everything was about the state of the country though and like our place in the world and this is a topic

that you're really really good at delving into all the things that go into that and probably the most

prescient the most prescient thing you ever

said to me that was simple that made me reset like oh my god i was thinking of this all wrong was

when you said the only thing that matters is GDP and like that when you said that on that first

podcast we did i'm like of course why the What the fuck was I think in my whole life?

You know what I mean?

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