#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse

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So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. Okay, Rob Reed, thanks for coming back on the podcast. It's good to be back. So uh we've done, yeah, you probably have a better account of the number of podcasts we've done on this topic than I do. I mean, you we did one that was very

deep dive that it was, you know, more highly produced where it was almost like your audiobook framed by our podcast conversation. But we share this concern around biosecurity and pandemic risk and bioterrorism. Uh, and you have an update for us on um the fate of the Deep Vision project. Yeah, but before we jump into that, just remind people how you got to this topic. What do you, um, how did you come to be focused on this and and how much of your brand w with has it taken up late?

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