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Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest.

His name is Justin Staten, S-T-A-T-E-N.

And he just published a book, October, 24.

Full title is We the Puppets,

The Audience for the Best Illusion Ever Performed.

Timely Book. audience for the best illusion ever performed timely book we're going to go into detail on a bunch

of different topics that i think are on people's minds today really um this was published before the

election but just the illusion of democracy however being manipulated economically

rogian of the middle class a lot of stuff like that.

But he reached out to me.

He also has a podcast.

It's called In the Middle.

And so I'll put a link to the podcast as well.

But this is his first book.

And he hasn't interviewed anybody on it yet.

So I'm delighted to have him.

So Justin, Staten, welcome to have him. So Justin,

Staten, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks, William. Thanks for having me. I really do appreciate it.

And I was looking at your bio at the end of the book. You were in the military. Maybe you can talk about your background, what you've been reading and what led up to your publication of this book, We the Puppets. Yeah, so I'll just kind of go into, I guess, the whole bio, I'll try to give 30,000-foot

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