This week The Pack is joined by SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce (@HesterPeirce on twitter).  Commissioner Peirce was appointed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by the President and was sworn in on January 11, 2018.

SHOW LINKS

https://www.sec.gov/biography/commissioner-hester-m-peirce

This week the Pack is joined by Dr. Matthew Hamill, a man with 14 letters after his name.  We discuss Monkeypox, HIV treatments and other infectious diseases. Dr. Hamill is a UK-trained physician in internal medicine and an expert in sexual health and HIV. He spent 3 years conducting research in Soweto, South Africa.

Sit Back have a drink and remember to use protection.

Links

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/matthew-hamill

This week The Pack is joined by Michael E. O'Hanlon @MichaelEOHanlon, a Sr. fellow at The Brookings Institution and best-selling author, regarding Russian aggression in the Ukraine, China policy and the future of NATO.

The Pack taps into Michael's expertise on Eastern Europe and explores the past, present and future of China's newest vassal state and its Governor, Vladimir Putin.  We talk military tactics and the potential for nuclear war.  Sit back in your bomb shelter and add iodine to your Bourbon.

Links 

https://www.brookings.edu/experts/michael-e-ohanlon/

This week The Pack is joined by someone who has as much knowledge of China and the CCP as we do. Matthew Tye is known by his millions of loyal Youtube followers as Laowhy86 (@laowhy86 on Twitter).

Laowhy86 lived in China for 10 years. He and his friend SerpentZA were among the first Youtubers in China to gain popular recognition. They started by filming and posting their travels around China, originally to promote their custom motorcycle shop. This led to the creation of two movies they released, “Conquering Northern China” and “Conquering Southern China”  

However, as Xi Jing Ping took power, they noticed that China was changing fast, and not at all for the better. Laoway86 and his family were forced to leave, or face off against the CCP.

Laoway86’s work is now banned in China. His films and posts expose the CCP for what it is, leveling tough criticism in exposing China’s ongoing crimes against humanity.

From genocide to state-sponsored human trafficking, we get confirmation of everything we thought was horrible about Xi and the Party.

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This week the Pack is joined by Joseph LaVorgna (on Twitter @Lavorgnanomics) who is a Managing Director and Chief Economist for the Americas at Natixis. Joe formerly worked for the White House as a Special Assistant to the President and Chief Economist of the National Economic Council where he was responsible for advising the President and the NEC Director on developments in the financial markets and the broader economy. Joe’s resume also includes time at Deutsche Bank where he was one of the leading economists on Wall Street. Joe also holds a Senior Fellow position at the America First Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. based think tank. He was ranked as a top economist in the prestigious Institutional Investors’ All-Star Fixed Income Survey for over a decade, so he knows the world of finance inside and out.

Joe gives us insight on topics ranging from stagflation to a pending recession and tackles the important questions like, “Why is my gas so damn expensive and how can we fix it.” We also touch on the Fed and the Treasury and the dangers of their new policies that many consider overreaching and creeping away from its mission statement. Sit back and have a couple of drinks, because even if the news current might not be good, nobody wants to get “Mushed”.

Show Links

Joe LaVorgna

Twitter

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U.S. Treasury Department Mission Statement

This week The Pack is joined by cyber supercop Joe Marasco.  Joe spent two decades with the FBI where he held several posts focusing on counter-intelligence, cyber-terrorism, human intelligence gathering (HUMINT). This segment is especially relevant now that so much of our lives and prosperity is online, and so many bad actors are out there targeting it. 

Joe kept you safe while you looked at memes and slept. He was on the front lines fighting crooks and terrorists of the virtual world, and also often stepped with his blue windbreaker and tactical boots into the real world of those cyber criminals and cyberterrorists, ruining their days and kicking down their doors for your internet safety. 

We ask Joe about what feels to him like a war of attrition, and what the public and government can do and is doing. We ask him why we don't hear more about what we are doing to fight back.  From warnings about TikTok to drone strikes on cyber-terrorists, Joe lets us know (what he can) about the government's response capabilities.

Joe is currently a critical infrastructure director, responsible for North America and Latin America for software company SAP.

Sit back, have a drink, and enjoy.

Links 

This week The Pack is joined by retired Special Forces (Green Beret) Master Sergeant Scott Neil, the COO of Horse Soldier Bourbon (on Twitter @HorseSoldierUSA). We talk about his military career and his other endeavors up to his co-founding of Horse Soldier Bourbon.

Scott was among the first to deploy after 9/11, and his exploits were featured in the blockbuster Hollywood movie ‘12 Strong’. After retirement, Scott wanted to help veterans and so oversaw and started several organizations dedicated to our Nation’s service members and veterans.

Later, a personal vision-quest took him on a world tour of whiskey distilleries. With some of the members of his former Special Forces A-Team, they decided to found Horse Soldier Bourbon. The process to start their own distillery was almost as difficult for them as when together they overthrew the Taliban from the backs of donkeys.

Sit back, listen and savor your Commander Selection, neat.

https://horsesoldierbourbon.com/

https://twitter.com/HorseSoldierUSA

https://greenberetfoundation.org/

https://www.facebook.com/GreenBeretFoundation

https://www.taskforcedagger.org/

The I Hung Up On Warren Buffett podcast returns this week to cover a special topic with two special guests, already familiar to some of our regular listeners.  Our panel today features Prof. Frank Partnoy and Soren Aandahl. Professor Partnory helps to mold future lawyers at Berkeley Law, while Soren is a reformed lawyer turned activist short. Together with The Pack, we dig into the fun and fraud of the founding first executive at the company formerly known as Theranos. 

Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on 4 of 11 the charges leveled at her, perhaps surprising no one other than herself and her newly minted baby-daddy. We ask our two experts where the trial was done right, and where they think there may have been missteps by both prosecution and defense.

Did Elizabeth Holmes convince the jury that she was victimized? Did the prosecution get a real win that will have a lasting impact on corporate law and help deter corporate crime? We also cover the yet pending prosecutions of her peers and discuss how much jail time Elizabeth Holmes and the others will do in stripes at federal tennis camp for former executives.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-partnoy-a13525/

Books by Prof Partnoy

This week The Pack is joined by is author Evan Hughes. (@evanhughes on TWITTER) We dig into Evans's latest creation, talk about some really evil people and some people who got screwed the least of which are the people who Insys Therapeutics killed.  It's drugs, death, and strippers. 

Evan has written for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York, The New Republic, Wired, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. He has also been published in the New York Times Book Review, n+1, Slate, The Awl, and Salon, among other publications. He is the author of Literary Brooklyn, a work of literary biography and urban history..

He is the author of several books, one of his books, turned major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, The Trials of White Boy Rick. 

And his latest, soon to be released, The Hard Sell.

The Hard Sell. tells the inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. I’ve read it, Carl read it and you should read it.

Sit back have a drink and enjoy. 

Links

https://www.evanhughes.co/

The Hard Sell

The week the pack is joined by a broadcast legend.... 

Jordan Harbinger,(@JordanHarbinger on Twitter) often referred to as “The Larry King of Podcasting,” is a former Wall Street lawyer turned interview talk show host, and a communications and social dynamics expert. A native of Detroit (Royal Oaks), and a University of Michigan graduate with a BA & JD.

Jordan has hosted a Top-10 iTunes podcast for over 12 years. The Jordan Harbinger Show receives over eleven million downloads per month, making it one of the most popular podcasts in the world.

His shows focuses on the skills of some of the most successful and interesting people on earth and shares their strategies, perspectives, and practical insights. He also does a fan-driven “feedback Friday” where he answers listeners' questions/problems. 

Jordan Harbinger has always had an affinity for social influence, interpersonal dynamics, and social engineering. In the past, he helped private companies test the security of their communications systems. On one occasion, he even worked with law enforcement agencies before he was even old enough to drive.

Jordan spent several years abroad in Europe and the developing world, including South America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He speaks five languages. He has also worked for various governments and NGOs overseas, traveled through war zones. He has also been kidnapped — not just once, but twice.

He’ll tell you the only reason he’s still alive and kicking is because of his ability to talk his way into (and out of) just about any type of situation.

https://www.jordanharbinger.com/

https://www.jordanharbinger.com/dan-david-putting-muscle-on-the-china-hustle/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanharbinger

https://www.facebook.com/thejordanharbingershow

https://www.jordanharbinger.com/courses/