We are back! Returning from a two week break Josh and Paul spend this double-length episode discussing some of the major developments from the COVID lab-leak theory to wokism in the military. Recently, Dr. Fauci has disclosed that the NIH did, in fact, fund the Wuhan lab that may have been responsible for the leak of the COVID-19 virus. Meanwhile, Rep. Dan Crenshaw has created a website for reporting "woke ideology" in the military after the U.S. Army's new ad campaign received criticism for being woke.

In our Literature Review we examine "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and consider the applicability of the story to social media. This leads us to examine the question: how much do we Hyde ourselves?

In our segment "Fall of the American Empire" we discuss the future of China as a peer competitor to the U.S. Based on the work of George Friedman and Peter Zeihan we consider the fall of China in the next 30 years.

Thank you for tuning in! We will not be publishing an episode next week as we will be at Jon's wedding.