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Tucker Lightman
Guest on The Pete Quiñones Show, appearing in the group reading of Edward N. Luttwak's 'Coup d'État'.
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Sep 16, 2026
Pete Reads 'Coup D'état' by Edward N. Luttwak with Guests - Complete Part 1 of 2
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154:04Tucker LightmanGUEST
I mean, [laughs] and be- because all of the, you know, the, the people who own the rubber plantations, the people who own the companies that make these places work, and, um, I don't know if Little Wack's gotten into the whole like resource economy trap yet.
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154:21Tucker LightmanGUEST
But if, you know, in, as in some places in Sierra Leone, or I forget where, um, during, uh, the Ebola outbreak like 10 years ago, um, I, I wanna say it was Liberia, but effectively, um, the, the management of the Firestone Rubber Plantation Company, or the, the Firestone Tire Rubber Plantation effectively became sovereign and like squished the Ebola outbreak.
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187:14Tucker LightmanGUEST
Uh, two, two things real quick, and then, um, I, I have obviously much less value to say than you guys on this one, but, um, you know, the purpose of an infinite game, the only, the only success condition of an infinite game, which is to say wielding power over time, is to survive, to continue to play the next round.
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187:40Tucker LightmanGUEST
And, you know, to, to talk about Schmidt here for a second, um, like what he's effectively talking about is, is sovereignty and who's wielding it.
