John Papola is a serial media entrepreneur committed to using storytelling for the advancement of human flourishing and individual liberty. He is he co-founder and CEO of Emergent Order Foundation in Austin Texas, and co-created the Keynes vs Hayek and Mises vs Marx economic rap videos that have reached 10s of millions of students and educators worldwide. John is the host of the Dad Saves America video and podcast series. The program is dedicated to exploring the biggest issues facing our next generation through the lens of heroic fatherhood. Before co-founding Emergent Order, he served as a creative executive at various Viacom brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon, and Spike. As a film director and producer, John’s feature documentary At The Fork debuted to critical acclaim.  His The Pursuit on Netflix starring NY Times bestseller Arthur Brooks is about the search for happiness and global prosperity. John's newest film To My Father premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this year. For more information, John's is EO.Foundation.com.

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Gary Null discusses progressive issues with some of the most remarkable minds in the world.

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Dr. Glenn Diesen is a professor at the Business School of the University of Southeast Norway, where he specializes in Russian foreign policy, geopolitical economics and Eurasia. He is an associate editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs and sits on the boards of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna, the Center for Nationalism Studies in Sarajevo, Serbia and at the Contemporary World Economy in Moscow. Prof. Diesen has published 11 books dealing with Russia and Eurasia, the European Union, NATO and the clash between East and West, which have been translated into multiple languages. His most recent release is "The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order" that looks at the Ukraine conflict as a symptom of the collapsing world order, the decline of US-Western global hegemony, and the rise of a new multipolar order that emphasizes the individual sovereignty of nations. Dr. Diesen was educated in Australia and received his doctorate in international relations jointly from Macquaire University in Australia and Vrije University in the Netherlands. He hosts a talk program on geopolitics, often co-hosted with Alexander Mercouris from The Duran, that can be viewed on the Glenn Diesen Youtube channel.

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William Pepper is an international civil and human rights attorney based in  New York best known for representing Martin Luther King’s accused assassin, James Earl Ray. In 1967, Dr. King had reached out to Dr. Pepper regarding an essay he had written for Ramparts magazine concerning Vietnamese victims of American napalm missions. He  was present at Dr. King’s famous Riverside Church speech.  William was the citizens chairman for Robert Kennedy’s run for the Senate in Westchester Country and also a counsel for Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan arguing for a second shooter. William received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia, a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts, a Juris Doctoral degree from Boston College and also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  His book -- “The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr” was the result of 39 years of research and gathering of documentation and sworn testimonies on new confirmed information that will revise the history behind the assassination of Dr. King .

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Ken McCarthy has been a lifelong advocate for natural medicine and exposing the corruption of medicine and is currently an author and publisher. Ken was an early pioneer in the movement to commercialize the internet. Time Magazine credits him with being the first to articulate click-through rate as a primary metric for making the internet commercially viable and was instrumental in the development of website banner ads.  His work as an environmentalist includes halting the construction of a coal-powered cement plant in the Hudson Valley and proper reconstruction of New Orleans' levees. Among his books are two volumes of "The Covid Con" and the Amazon bestseller "Fauci's First Fraud," which was important for informing Robert Kennedy Jr's The Real Anthony Fauci. His most recent book is "What the Nurses Saw" -- an investigation into the systematic medical murders that took place in hospitals during the Covid pandemic and the stories of nurses who fought back to save patients.   Ken's website WhatTheNursesSaw.com has a lot of important information, articles, interviews and videos to inform the public and citizens about the corruption in hospitals and medical facilities.

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Dr. Gary Null plays the award winning documentary "The Cost of Denial".

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Patrick Bergy is an IT security specialist, a former candidate for Supervisor of Elections, and an army veteran of the Afghanistan war. After leaving the military, he deployed around the world working as a military contractor providing IT support for the Department of Defense. One of Patrick's most notable projects was in pioneering social media psychological warfare, also known in the military as Interactive Internet Activities. This was at a time when social networks and smart phones were just taking off and Patrick understood their potential threat to American democracy and election integrity. IIA is basically the IT infrastructure behind fake news. In 2014, he started to speak out after observing how it was used in relation to the Michael Brown incident which sparked riots in cities. Patrick has written three books including an autobiography of his experiences, "Victim of the Swamp: How the Deep State Destroyed the 40 Year Old Private" and more recently two volumes of "Operation Shadowgate" about the efforts to suppress the banned documentary film Shadowgate and a tell-all about the nefarious collaborations between the government and the military industrial complex, the story behind Hunter Biden's laptop, and election corruption, and events leading up to January 6th.

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