Because I think Brazil is offering an alternative model to a lot of the things that we have been discussing, you know, the prevailing sort of, you know, late stage fascistic stage capitalism.

Absolutely.

The thing is that Brazil, and Lula in particular, his vision has always been developmentalist.

The idea is we need to protect the environment, clearly.

We need to protect the Amazon.

We need to protect these things, but we also need to develop.

We're not just going to say, oh, we don't need business.

But can you just explain for people who don't know why this Venezuela coming online is so dangerous and scary? And what was Plan Colombia? And like, how was Colombia sort of, you know, part of the broader war on drugs? And what did that do to the people there?

Take us back to the start and why that means so much to you and how you pay it forward today.

Yeah, happy to do so.

When I think about our apprenticeship program and here within Ireland and what we started over in Luxembourg, then there's certainly personal passion that I've got in this area to help sponsor these programs.

When I think about my own background, I've certainly been afforded opportunity and I certainly have been fortunate to have a great career at J.P. Morgan, but I too have come from a very non-traditional path.

Many might assume that have a career at J.P. Morgan or any large financial firm, then you need to come with a typical profile and certainly includes for having a full and extended academic career.

I'm certainly not with that.

And I left school at 16.

And what led you to continuing that thirst for getting the apprenticeships here then?

Can you talk about why you chose that framing of that there was a, a fight for the right for free speech and what it means for how we should understand the current crisis, which is, again, the 250-year anniversary and this rising wave, uh, that you were talking about in kind of our introduction to this, this, uh, episode?

Yeah.

This is really important because first off, I don't think people understand what the First Amendment actually says.

It's, like, a couple of lines, and I don't have it in front of me, but it essentially says, "Congress shall pass no law prohibiting the freedom of expression or the freedom of speech." So it, it's not even a, an actual right, right? It's just saying that Congress can't do something against our right to speak.

But it says nothing about private businesses.

It says nothing about communities.

So people are fired for standing up or speaking out, whatever, all across the United States.

What is the material relationship between Silicon Valley's business model and the erosion of, quote-unquote, "free speech"?

Are you a believer in the small-sided games, whether that's in training or otherwise? And, and what are the major benefits to just the smaller-sided games at every age group?

Yeah.

Listen, like, I mean, John touched upon it there about trade-offs.

There's always gonna be trade-offs like we've already spoken about in terms of the small formats and the bigger formats.

Um, I think the big thing jumping out at the moment is, um, the how's training gonna feel different to a game? You know, the kids absolutely love the game part, and normally it's, there's a big goal involved.

You know, there's a respect barrier, parents behind it.

It feels different.

And Foxy, would you, would you concur with that? Obviously not necessarily in 3v3 format, but if you're working with kids, maybe in your, in your sessions at, uh, Fox Academy, do you mix them all together? Do you naturally start grouping the more, you know, the stronger kids together? How do you normally approach that?

What was the intellectual appeal for you? Was it the science, the rigor of that, the challenge of translating science for the trier of fact? What sort of moved you into that sub-specialized area of practice?

Sure.

One of my great mentors that I had early in my career described your lawyer's career as sort of like an hourglass, where when you come out of law school, you really are a blank slate.

You have the ability to do lots of different things, and you're going to be asked to do lots of different things.

And so it'll get thrown into various types of cases with various subject matters.

And over time, you start doing something pretty good and people ask you to keep focusing on that.

And you get very, very good at that.

Is that useful to you?

And why Honduras? I mean, why not Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, countries that have hugeness and substance? And so why Honduras? Right, so

the very first thing is Honduras is home to the largest contingent of U.S. military officers in all of Central America.

What does that mean? So it is basically, it's not an official U.S.

base, but the soldiers and the officers in the military, the Air Force, have their people there.

It's the former U.S. military base, Palmarola, which is where they stationed all this stuff out of in Central America.

It's now called Sotocano, and it's officially a Honduran base because Honduras can't allow foreign bases there, but that's where U.S. soldiers' air force is based.

And so this is basically the staging ground for the United States in Central America.

It's not even on the radar that this danger we face and what it portends.

One of them says the government does not get special rules to gain an advantage in a prosecution.

They have to follow the Constitution.

They don't get to create loopholes to rig the system in their favor.

I spoke to Michael Fox with the Cato Institute, who filed a friend of the court brief in support of Abu-Amo.

The court just simply said that venue is what it was always understood to be, which is the place where the crime occurs, right? If you read the Constitution in Article three, it makes very clear that the proper venue is the jurisdiction where the crime was committed.

And the Sixth Amendment underscores that command, where it says, you know, the accused have a right to a public, impartial jury trial in the state or district where the crime was committed.

They have to follow the Constitution.

They don't get to create loopholes to rig the system in their favor.