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Speaker 2: On very well?

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Speaker 1: Are you absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a

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conversation with you because you bring up a lot of

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subjects inside this book that really do pertain to where

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we presently are, and I just think that it's going

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to be a great conversation starter because people are going

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to bring their own personal experiences into it.

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Speaker 2: That's great, I think lot you think that way. Yeah,

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I think the timing for the release of this book

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Speaker 1: Did you know that going into this project though, or

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was it something that you just felt like we need

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to be talking about this, and I'm going to be

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the activator, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean this book. I mean, we've been working on

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this book for now more than ten years.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: So this has been my preostication, I would say, for years,

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the frame book that I said on this book, and

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you can understand how we got into the mess that

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we're into that right, So, and it definitely didn't happen overnight.

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think you know, what I wanted to basically bringing out

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in this book is the idea that everybody is responsible

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but I think it's very important to take this debate

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directly to the general readers to help them make sense

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what's really going on, you know, regardless of their background,

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so that we can make any smarter decision of our

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next step, because like you know, we could be heading

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into World War three at the rate of which we're going.

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Eram business, and as you know, I mean Israel. I

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whole topic about globalization is so misunderstood, okay, and it's

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been in way manipulated by political forces on both sides,

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that I think that, you know, I think it's time

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that someone like me, who's a product globalization, I think,

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you know, I like to think that I'm more qualified

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than most people in terms of writing this book to

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really not take a political stance, of an ideological stance,

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but simply set up the truth in a way that

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answer the can be understood by everybody. Again, to me,

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the most important about globalization is the fact that it

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touched everybody everywhere, regardless whether they know or not. And

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like for example, you know, I live in Israel, right

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last couple of weeks is the fact that a lot

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of people don't realize the war in Iran. It is

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absoually the first parts of the war between the United

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States and China. The reason why has managed to fight

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back as hard as they have it has lots to

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very reluctant to provide you run with the strategic backstop.

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actions against Venezuela that China decided to reassess, you know,

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the risk of staying on the sideline. So I think

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was very important for everybody to understand what this is about,

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one go will two other wo wolves in the past,

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something again everybody can understand. People will be entertained by

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a people will find it interesting. Ready, connect the doctors,

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and that's really the as here in this book to

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help people figure out how do how you know, basically,

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around the corner. The name of the book, Mary Go

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Round broke down. We are back with author David Wu.

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What people are doing right now is there either going

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to Google or they're going to chat GPT, or they're

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going to block and they're looking for answers, when in

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fact you're sitting here writing it inside your book and

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you're writing it in real life terms where they can

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doing it, and not something that's just slammed into a

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become an opinion maker. The problem is that said there

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are more opinions and there are facts, and that is

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that actually that people can say whatever they want to say,

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men rights and so and so forth. But the point

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decentralizing basically the narrative. But I think this is also

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very dangerous, and I'm just saying, like listen, I was

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born in this work of common parents. Okay, I grew

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up in Taiwan, but I was educated for the most

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part of the US and then and then I got

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my teach team in international trade at Club University. My

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first job was working for the International Monetary Fund. My

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first job in the private sector was actually in London

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working for a city bank covering all of emerging markets.

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My last job on Wall Street was the head of

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Global Interest Rates, Currencies, Emerging Markets Income Research, where I

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was responsible for the bank's forecast for over one hundred

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and fifty countries. I think, you know, I've been through

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hundreds of countries. I mean, I was very lucky. My

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jobs has actually introduced me a lot of people at

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different walks of life. I feel like I want, you know.

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to basically get something back, Okay, and I'd fit to

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write a novel drawing my own personal experience, but in

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a very broad way so that I wanted, you know again,

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you know, I would be I would be welcome. I

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would welcome in, I mean sort of push back my book.

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as I could because I feel connected, you know, about

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what's been going on in the last twenty years. We

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don't throw out the baby with the bath water, Okay.

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I'm also saying that, you know, there's a big difference

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between globalization and globalism. I'm against globalism, but I'm not

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against globalization, and there's a very very big difference between

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the two. So I'm just saying, like, you know, in

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this point. It's a very dangerous point, and I don't

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really how much I can do to move the needle.

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people to have more honest dialogue. And I think, again,

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novel so that everybody can relate. I'm guarantee you there

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are hundreds of characters in the book. I'm fairly certain

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everybody picking up this book will be able to find

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somebody they can identify with. And I think that is

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also what I'm trying to do, because in a way

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that globalize what's going on in the world today. It's

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not somebody else's problem. It's all our problem, whether you

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know it or not.

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Speaker 1: I love where your heart is. Where can people go

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to find out about you, David? Because ten minutes with

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you is not going to be enough time. They need

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to go in there and dive in there, and so

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they can make their way to a bookstore. I want

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them to physically put their hands on a real book

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this time around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So basically, first of all, you know, I now

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have a YouTube channel, so in case people want to

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know what I think about politics, geopolitics, economics, and technology,

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they can look me up on YouTube. David Rumbounds, Okay,

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you know it's great, so there's no obligation. I did

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this in order to again to engage people in you know,

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sort of a very honest but also rigorous dialogue about

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the four majors choices driving the world today. And if

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you want to read them about me, you know, it's

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my Wikipedia page. You can read up about me, you know,

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like just last last month and Your Time has published

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an article I wrote about my relationship with my wife,

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who's my co author, who's twenty years older than me,

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was published in The Modern Love section of the New

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York Times. If you are subscribe to New York Times,

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check that out. Because this is about our relationship, our

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loves and but she's my co author. I couldn't have

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written the book without her, so in a way, it

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also brings together our background. What makes this book different

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because our background could not be anymore just similar. And

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then you can find a book right now are It's

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available for pre order on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, you know, Stephen,

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Target and Walmart. The book will be coming out answered

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the in a week's time on March thirty. First. I

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love it.

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Speaker 1: Will you got to come back to this show anytime

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in the future. I want to continue this story growing forward.

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Speaker 2: Okay, sir, absolutely, Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Would you be brilliant today?

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Speaker 2: Thank you