Hey, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. I guess today is CJ Hopkins, who I would describe as

honest as a like and his honesty gives him a clarity of clarity of expression and a kind of

landscape view of what's happening in our country today and across the world, which is this

unprecedented, I would say, emergence of totalitarian systems. And CJ has written about that

extensively and beautifully in a way that I was tempted to just take a chapter of my book

and devote it to his writings. And I quote him extensively in my book,

the CJ, you're a hard guy to get a hold of. I don't think you even own a telephone. But

something about the way that you see the world is really, really unique. And I think really

valuable for all of your loyal followers. And let me talk for a second. And let me give just a

little bit of an introduction. CJ is a very accomplished playwright who's had plays

different, you know, in Germany and England and all over the world. He is a political satirist.

How else would you describe yourself CJ? So that's pretty much it. I guess I'm

a novelist now too. I wrote a novel in 2017 of dystopian sci-fi novel. Maybe we could talk about

it a little bit later. It turned out to be sort of horribly prescient, you know, in terms of what's

been happening over the last two years. But yeah, that's pretty much it. Playwright, novelist,

political satirist. And what is your background in just my life story and a nutshell?

How do you explain that, you know, you've kind of arrived at the place where

you're kind of a guru in terms of, you know, critical thinking and of explaining to people,

being able to see with clarity and then explain with eloquence and precision to people in a way

that I just don't see, you know, anybody else doing, you're kind of in some ways like they,

you know, the modern version of Nome Chomsky. But if you read one of Nome Chomsky's books in the

60s, 70s, 80s or 90s, it was always revelatory because he had a capacity to interpret history in

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