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May 2025
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Episode #217 -- Stormy Waters and Naviga...

TOM LUONGO
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Commentator Stormy Waters joins the podcast for a discussion on the nature of power, how it projects and protects itself in the context of the current political and cultural battle for mindshare.  A meditation on quantum mechanics, the culture war and how those things intersected to leave Donald Trump alive and now in power in the US.

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