First Half: James E. Fanell is a retired U.S. Navy captain, serving twenty-nine-years in the military and former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Bradley A. Thayer, Ph.D., is a founding member of the Committee on Present Danger China. They'll discuss how the US could have prevented China's rise to power. They argue the US directly contributed to China’s rise by using them as a source of cheap labor and allowing them to enter the Western economic system.

Second Half: C2C's investigative reporter Cheryll Jones presents her interview with filmmaker Frank Jacob on the topics of AI, consciousness, our future, and the timeline that people choose.