I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Cignoness show for the first time.

Someone I've been talking to for a while.

It goes by Dark Enlightenment.

How are you doing, sir?

It's a pleasure and an honor to be here.

I'm a big fan of your show.

I think I first heard of you on an episode of Tom Woods,

and I followed you.

And I must have listened to 30 Pete C to 30 peak community shows in a row just

oh oh and he's got this guy and oh man I remember that and it was it was a wonderful

discovery and I love your program man it's really really good and uh in particular the stuff

you've doing with Thomas has been just absolutely outstanding. So,

you know, good job. Thank you so much. Yeah, man. Thomas is a treasure. I mean, we, he needs to be

protected at all costs, the information that he has. From now on, I'm just going to, I'm going to call

you DE. So, DE, why don't you tell a little bit about your background? So I'm in my, say, mid-early 40s,

ish. So I was right at that age to be radicalized by 9-11 and I had a brief neocon phase. And then

after about 03, when I saw what a rambling disaster, everything was turning into,

I got turned on to Dr. Paul.

Actually, in fact, no, I think I voted for in the 2000 election.

I think I voted for the Libertarian Party.

So I'd been like an, you know, edgy anarchist in high school, like, you know, 97, 98.

That'd be Harry Brown? Yeah, Harry Brown. And then, um, and then kind of took a neocon term

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