I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekanino show. Today, I am here with Paul Farenthight.

How are you doing? Doing very well, Pete. Thank you for having me on. Whenever somebody appears

for the first time, I always ask them to tell a little bit about themselves. So as much as you want to give.

Of course. Well, many of your, many of your listeners who are

unfamiliar with me, a couple of the key things is that I was born and raised right outside

of the imperial capital of what we now call the global American empire. And my whole life,

I've pretty much spent around federal government types, contractors,

under secretaries.

I went to school with the children of senators and, you know, state department officials

and all that.

So like, you know, especially in Virginia, that is the, that is the, you know, the big thing once you get up in the region in northern

Virginia that I come from. And, you know, growing up, I was kind of a neocons neocon,

and as many were. And just coming around in 2016 with Donald Trump, I just started shifting and questioning

and internet culture and particularly like the 4chan meme culture started getting me into this

right wing thing. And I kind of, I've been kind of consuming content in the background for pretty much my entire adult life,

if not before my adult life, since I was in high school, really.

And only recently have I started to do any sort of what's called content creation.

You know, for those of you who are unaware, I am am a substack writer um i i don't really tend to

flatter myself by calling myself an outright writer i am a substack writer and i put out articles once a

week um my most recent article was on the south and it was um it was released to a very good reception

but um i don't just write nonfiction. I write short

stories. I write poems. I've actually, my mentor, Thomas 777, I've written a story set in his

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