“The Wolf Den” hosted by Dan David

Episode 43 - Michael O’Hanlon - You sank my battleship, Russia vs. Ukraine, Xi Jinping’s newest vassal state

This week The Pack is joined by Michael E. O'Hanlon @MichaelEOHanlon, a Sr. fellow at The Brookings Institution and best-selling author, regarding Russian aggression in the Ukraine, China policy and the future of NATO.
The Pack taps into Michael's expertise on Eastern Europe and explores the past, present and future of China's newest vassal state and its Governor, Vladimir Putin.  We talk military tactics and the potential for nuclear war.  Sit back in your bomb shelter and add iodine to your Bourbon.
Links 
https://www.brookings.edu/experts/michael-e-ohanlon/

Episode 42 - Laowhy86 - Living in China, Whinny the Poo takes over, and exposing the CCP’s crimes against humanity

This week The Pack is joined by someone who has as much knowledge of China and the CCP as we do. Matthew Tye is known by his millions of loyal Youtube followers as Laowhy86 (@laowhy86 on Twitter).
Laowhy86 lived in China for 10 years. He and his friend SerpentZA were among the first Youtubers in China to gain popular recognition. They started by filming and posting their travels around China, originally to promote their custom motorcycle shop. This led to the creation of two movies they released, “Conquering Northern China” and “Conquering Southern China”  
However, as Xi Jing Ping took power, they noticed that China was changing fast, and not at all for the better. Laoway86 and his family were forced to leave, or face off against the CCP.
Laoway86’s work is now banned in China. His films and posts expose the CCP for what it is, leveling tough criticism in exposing China’s ongoing crimes against humanity.
From genocide to state-sponsored human trafficking, we get confirmation of everything we thought was horrible about Xi and the Party.Links
ADV Podcasts
Laowhy86 | YouTube
Laowhy86 | Twitter
Laowhy86 | Instagram
Laowhy86 | Facebook
How Does China’s Social Credit System Work? by Laowhy86 | YouTube
Is China’s Social Credit System Real? I Found Out by Laowhy86 | YouTube
Chinese Girl Tries American Chinese Food by Laowhy86 | YouTube
SerpentZA | YouTube
Conquering Southern China | IMDb
Conquering Northern China | IMDb
China Doesn’t Want You to Know About This Place by Laowhy86 | YouTube
Uncovering China’s Uyghur Propaganda Campaign by Laowhy86 | YouTube
Is China Rich or Poor? by Laowhy86 | YouTube
Black Mirror | Amazon
The Real Reason John Cena Apologized For Calling Taiwan a Country | Esquire
How China’s TikTok, Facebook Influencers Push Propaganda | AP News
Chained Woman in China – The True Story by Laowhy86 | YouTube
How I Escaped from China – The Untold Story by Laowhy86 | YouTube
How I Got My Family Out of China by Laowhy86 | YouTube
 

Episode 41 - Joe LaVorgna - Stagflation with a little ‘s’, what we can do to beat inflation, and investing with William Devane and Tom Selleck.

This week the Pack is joined by Joseph LaVorgna (on Twitter @Lavorgnanomics) who is a Managing Director and Chief Economist for the Americas at Natixis. Joe formerly worked for the White House as a Special Assistant to the President and Chief Economist of the National Economic Council where he was responsible for advising the President and the NEC Director on developments in the financial markets and the broader economy. Joe’s resume also includes time at Deutsche Bank where he was one of the leading economists on Wall Street. Joe also holds a Senior Fellow position at the America First Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. based think tank. He was ranked as a top economist in the prestigious Institutional Investors’ All-Star Fixed Income Survey for over a decade, so he knows the world of finance inside and out.
Joe gives us insight on topics ranging from stagflation to a pending recession and tackles the important questions like, “Why is my gas so damn expensive and how can we fix it.” We also touch on the Fed and the Treasury and the dangers of their new policies that many consider overreaching and creeping away from its mission statement. Sit back and have a couple of drinks, because even if the news current might not be good, nobody wants to get “Mushed”.
 
Show Links
Joe LaVorgna
Twitter
National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA)
U.S. Treasury Department Mission Statement

Episode 40 - Joe Marasco - Adding cyber-terrorists to the kill/capture list; protecting your data and your car warranty has expired.

This week The Pack is joined by cyber supercop Joe Marasco.  Joe spent two decades with the FBI where he held several posts focusing on counter-intelligence, cyber-terrorism, human intelligence gathering (HUMINT). This segment is especially relevant now that so much of our lives and prosperity is online, and so many bad actors are out there targeting it. 
Joe kept you safe while you looked at memes and slept. He was on the front lines fighting crooks and terrorists of the virtual world, and also often stepped with his blue windbreaker and tactical boots into the real world of those cyber criminals and cyberterrorists, ruining their days and kicking down their doors for your internet safety. 
We ask Joe about what feels to him like a war of attrition, and what the public and government can do and is doing. We ask him why we don't hear more about what we are doing to fight back.  From warnings about TikTok to drone strikes on cyber-terrorists, Joe lets us know (what he can) about the government's response capabilities.
Joe is currently a critical infrastructure director, responsible for North America and Latin America for software company SAP.
Sit back, have a drink, and enjoy.
 
 
 
Links https://www.cisa.gov/critical-infrastructure-sectorshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-marasco-110ba9174/

Episode 39 - Scott Neil - Green Berets. 9/11. Paying it Back and starting a bourbon juggernaut

This week The Pack is joined by retired Special Forces (Green Beret) Master Sergeant Scott Neil, the COO of Horse Soldier Bourbon (on Twitter @HorseSoldierUSA). We talk about his military career and his other endeavors up to his co-founding of Horse Soldier Bourbon.
Scott was among the first to deploy after 9/11, and his exploits were featured in the blockbuster Hollywood movie ‘12 Strong’. After retirement, Scott wanted to help veterans and so oversaw and started several organizations dedicated to our Nation’s service members and veterans.
Later, a personal vision-quest took him on a world tour of whiskey distilleries. With some of the members of his former Special Forces A-Team, they decided to found Horse Soldier Bourbon. The process to start their own distillery was almost as difficult for them as when together they overthrew the Taliban from the backs of donkeys.
Sit back, listen and savor your Commander Selection, neat.Links 
https://horsesoldierbourbon.com/
https://twitter.com/HorseSoldierUSAhttps://www.facebook.com/horsesoldierbourbon
https://greenberetfoundation.org/
https://www.facebook.com/GreenBeretFoundationhttps://twitter.com/Sept11Memorial
https://www.taskforcedagger.org/
 

Episode 38 - The Elizabeth Holmes Trial - What was right & wrong. How much time will she do & how screwed is Sunny

The I Hung Up On Warren Buffett podcast returns this week to cover a special topic with two special guests, already familiar to some of our regular listeners.  Our panel today features Prof. Frank Partnoy and Soren Aandahl. Professor Partnory helps to mold future lawyers at Berkeley Law, while Soren is a reformed lawyer turned activist short. Together with The Pack, we dig into the fun and fraud of the founding first executive at the company formerly known as Theranos. 
Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on 4 of 11 the charges leveled at her, perhaps surprising no one other than herself and her newly minted baby-daddy. We ask our two experts where the trial was done right, and where they think there may have been missteps by both prosecution and defense.
Did Elizabeth Holmes convince the jury that she was victimized? Did the prosecution get a real win that will have a lasting impact on corporate law and help deter corporate crime? We also cover the yet pending prosecutions of her peers and discuss how much jail time Elizabeth Holmes and the others will do in stripes at federal tennis camp for former executives.
 Sit Back have a drink and see who will win some tacos.Linkshttps://www.blueorcacapital.com/https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/frank-partnoy/#tab_profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-partnoy-a13525/
 
Books by Prof PartnoyAmazon 
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
The Activist Manifesto
Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets
 

Episode 37 - Evan Hughes - His new book, The Hard Sell, crime and punishment at an opioid startup.

This week The Pack is joined by is author Evan Hughes. (@evanhughes on TWITTER) We dig into Evans's latest creation, talk about some really evil people and some people who got screwed the least of which are the people who Insys Therapeutics killed.  It's drugs, death, and strippers. 
 
Evan has written for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York, The New Republic, Wired, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. He has also been published in the New York Times Book Review, n+1, Slate, The Awl, and Salon, among other publications. He is the author of Literary Brooklyn, a work of literary biography and urban history..
 
He is the author of several books, one of his books, turned major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, The Trials of White Boy Rick. 
 
And his latest, soon to be released, The Hard Sell.
 
The Hard Sell. tells the inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. I’ve read it, Carl read it and you should read it.
 
Sit back have a drink and enjoy. 
 
Links
https://www.evanhughes.co/
The Hard Sell

Episode 36 - Jordan Harbinger - Building an empire, twice, how to choke out your kidnapper, and getting a politician to BS less

The week the pack is joined by a broadcast legend.... 
Jordan Harbinger,(@JordanHarbinger on Twitter) often referred to as “The Larry King of Podcasting,” is a former Wall Street lawyer turned interview talk show host, and a communications and social dynamics expert. A native of Detroit (Royal Oaks), and a University of Michigan graduate with a BA & JD.
Jordan has hosted a Top-10 iTunes podcast for over 12 years. The Jordan Harbinger Show receives over eleven million downloads per month, making it one of the most popular podcasts in the world.
His shows focuses on the skills of some of the most successful and interesting people on earth and shares their strategies, perspectives, and practical insights. He also does a fan-driven “feedback Friday” where he answers listeners' questions/problems. 
Jordan Harbinger has always had an affinity for social influence, interpersonal dynamics, and social engineering. In the past, he helped private companies test the security of their communications systems. On one occasion, he even worked with law enforcement agencies before he was even old enough to drive.
Jordan spent several years abroad in Europe and the developing world, including South America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He speaks five languages. He has also worked for various governments and NGOs overseas, traveled through war zones. He has also been kidnapped — not just once, but twice.
He’ll tell you the only reason he’s still alive and kicking is because of his ability to talk his way into (and out of) just about any type of situation.Links
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/dan-david-putting-muscle-on-the-china-hustle/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanharbinger
https://www.facebook.com/thejordanharbingershow
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/courses/
 
 
 

Episode 35 - Peter Humphrey - The man who loved China, Part 2

Peter Humphrey, The Man Who Loved China
We jump right into the horrifying details of the arrest imprisonment, interrogation, and torture of Peter Humphrey.   Sit back have a stiff drink and cancel that trip to the CCP.
Peter spent 46 years in business, education, media, investigations, and philanthropy in China. His story is something everyone needs to hear not because of the tragedy of it, Peter does not want you to feel sorry for him. It should be a cautionary tale. His story should be an alarm for anyone who thinks Western values mean anything to the CCP.  
He currently wears many hats. He’s a political analyst, journalist, commentator, documentary adviser, and expert witness focusing on business in China. Peter has worked with Harvard University, King's College London, and RUSI. He has spoken at many universities and think tanks. He is a contributor to The Diplomat, Sunday Times, and Financial Times, and has advised many news outlets on China stories and documentaries.
Peter is a strident advocate campaigning against the PRC practice of forced televised confessions and donates his time to mentoring families of arbitrarily imprisoned foreigners in China.. What he may be best known for is when he and his wife were arbitrarily imprisoned in Shanghai for two years in 2013-2015 on false charges related to their work for GSK as a due diligence and anti-fraud consultancy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-w-humphrey-
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/asia/peter-humphrey-china-prisoners-intl-hnk/index.html
Recent activity:4 Feb 2021: Successfully campaigned against Chinese Communist-Party owned TV CGTN leading to UK regulator Ofcom stripping CGTN's UK license, which had been illegally held. A historical first.6 Dec 2020: Featured in a long article by CNN spotlighting arbitrary detention of foreigners in China and my pro bono role in mentoring their families.6 July 2020: Successfully complained and campaigned against Chinese Communist-Party-owned TV CGTN over it airing forced confessions. UK regulator Ofcom upheld my complaint. Fines were subsequently imposed in March 2021, A historical first.April 2020: Testified, by invitation, to the UK Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, on forced prison labor and forced confessions in China.June 2019: Successfully testified as an expert witness against the extradition of a Chinese national from Sweden to China.
Recent articles:Peter Humphrey was once locked up in China. Now he advises other prisoners and their families how to take on Beijing, CNN, 14 Dec 2020.
Forced prison labor has foreign prisoners in China packing Christmas cards for Tesco and oats for Quakers. Exclusive. (Sunday Times, 22 & 29 Dec 2019, 19 Jan 2020)
My Life Inside a Chinese Prison, by Peter Humphrey (Financial Times, 16 Feb 2018)https://www.ft.com/content/db8b9e36-1119-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a#myft:notification:instant-email:content

Episode 34 - Peter Humphrey - The man who loved China, Part 1

Peter Humphrey, The Man Who Loved China
The Pack and Peter go through his history through his imprisonment in a Chinese gulag for the crime of investigating the wrong person.   Sit back have a stiff drink and cancel that trip to the CCP.
Peter spent 46 years in business, education, media, investigations, and philanthropy in China. His story is something everyone needs to hear not because of the tragedy of it, Peter does not want you to feel sorry for him. It should be a cautionary tale. His story should be an alarm for anyone who thinks Western values mean anything to the CCP.  
He currently wears many hats. He’s a political analyst, journalist, commentator, documentary adviser, and expert witness focusing on business in China. Peter has worked with Harvard University, King's College London, and RUSI. He has spoken at many universities and think tanks. He is a contributor to The Diplomat, Sunday Times, and Financial Times, and has advised many news outlets on China stories and documentaries.
Peter is a strident advocate campaigning against the PRC practice of forced televised confessions and donates his time to mentoring families of arbitrarily imprisoned foreigners in China.. What he may be best known for is when he and his wife were arbitrarily imprisoned in Shanghai for two years in 2013-2015 on false charges related to their work for GSK as a due diligence and anti-fraud consultancy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-w-humphrey-
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/asia/peter-humphrey-china-prisoners-intl-hnk/index.html
Recent activity:4 Feb 2021: Successfully campaigned against Chinese Communist-Party owned TV CGTN leading to UK regulator Ofcom stripping CGTN's UK license, which had been illegally held. A historical first.6 Dec 2020: Featured in a long article by CNN spotlighting arbitrary detention of foreigners in China and my pro bono role in mentoring their families.6 July 2020: Successfully complained and campaigned against Chinese Communist-Party-owned TV CGTN over it airing forced confessions. UK regulator Ofcom upheld my complaint. Fines were subsequently imposed in March 2021, A historical first.April 2020: Testified, by invitation, to the UK Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, on forced prison labor and forced confessions in China.June 2019: Successfully testified as an expert witness against the extradition of a Chinese national from Sweden to China.
Recent articles:Peter Humphrey was once locked up in China. Now he advises other prisoners and their families how to take on Beijing, CNN, 14 Dec 2020.
Forced prison labor has foreign prisoners in China packing Christmas cards for Tesco and oats for Quakers. Exclusive. (Sunday Times, 22 & 29 Dec 2019, 19 Jan 2020)
My Life Inside a Chinese Prison, by Peter Humphrey (Financial Times, 16 Feb 2018)https://www.ft.com/content/db8b9e36-1119-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a#myft:notification:instant-email:content
 
Recent Lectures and Speeches:* Cambridge University Human Rights Law Society 17 Feb 2020, "Shanghaied".* Oxford University China Centre, 18 Oct 2019, "Shanghaied: China from Inside"* Council on Foreign Relations, 18 June 2018 Washington DC, "Trapped in China"

Episode 33 - Matt Eversmann - Black Hawk Down, James Patterson and helping our veterans

This week The Pack is thankful for American Hero Matt Eversmann (@EversmannMatt on Twitter). The former Army Ranger was featured in several books and films depicting his time in the Military and was the lead protagonist portrayed by Josh Hartnett in the hit "Black Hawk Down".  Matt now writes with James Patterson and helps veterans who are struggling to transition to civilian life.  First Sergeant (ret) Matt Eversmann personifies the qualities of duty, courage, and selfless service to succeed when ordinary circumstances become extraordinary challenges. On October 3, 1993, Matt was placed in charge of a group of Army Rangers to lead a daytime raid against an eager enemy militia. His inspiring story of survival was immortalized in the epic film, Black Hawk Down, which recounts the harrowing experience. For his actions on the battlefield, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor device. During his remaining time in uniform, he worked at the Army War College, taught at The Johns Hopkins University, and was finally deployed to Iraq where he lived with the Iraqi Army for 15 months during The Surge. He remained on active duty until May of 2008 when he retired after 20 years of service. His frustration with the typical hiring process for veterans fueled his desire to help others avoid the “veterans predicament,” where great servicemen and women are overlooked because of a broken hiring system. Since his retirement from active duty, Matt has worked in several industries in mid-level to senior-level positions. He was an operations officer in healthcare, an executive director in a non-profit, and a VP of leadership development for a data management company.
 
Eversmann Advisory
is a veteran-owned and operated organization with a diverse range of strategic partners who develop employment initiatives and strategically embed talent. We train exceptionally talented men and women to be more competitive in the market.
 
Matt is also the co-author of two books with James Patterson yes that James Patterson
E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes
They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories.  The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes.
 
Walk-in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors
These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women who’ve fought overseas from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is a rare eye-opening look into what wearing the uniform, fighting in combat, losing friends, and coming home is really like
 
Matt is featured in the 2008 PBS documentary “Send Me”
"Send Me" follows as he returns to combat with the U.S. military in the fight against ISIS and the Taliban. The film provides an insider's look into the lives of active-duty U.S. military personnel stationed in far-flung outposts overseas.
 
But what Former first Sergeant Eversmann is known for and detailed in two books and a movie you may have heard of
 
The Battle of Mogadishu: First-Hand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger with Dan Shilling
 
Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On
by Leigh Neville,
 
The Movie You May have heard of – Black Hawk Down
 The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-eversmann-a7647b4/
https://eversmannadvisory.com/

Episode 32 - Sam Reynolds - Dude where‘s my car? Microchips, Crypto and who knows what supply chain is anyway.

This week The Pack is joined by returning champion Sam Reynolds (On Twitter @thesamreynolds & @blockworks), a journalist with Blockworks based in Taipei. With Blockworks he covers digital assets and institutional investors in the world’s most exciting economies. 
Prior to Blockworks, he was an editor with Taipei-based Forkast News, where he covered blockchain throughout Asia. Sam also contributes to Wccftech, one of the largest technology news websites in the world. 
Sam is The Pack's go-to guy when it comes to questions on Crypto and the Microsemi industry. We dig into how microchips are being made, who the major players are, what is causing the bottleneck, what are the threats and when we will see a change.   We also touch on crypto and how microchip manufacturers and miners have a frenemies-type relationship.  It all gets wrapped up with some basic rationale of why the supply chain isn't helping anyone.   
https://blockworks.co/ - Understand the crypto markets in just 5 minutes.