Best Evan Weiss Podcasts (2025)

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Paul Triolo on Nvidia H200s, Chinese EUV Breakthroughs, and the Collapse of the Sullivan Doctrine 1:25:09

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Happy holidays from Sinica! This week, I speak with Paul Triolo, Senior Vice President for China and Technology Policy Lead at DGA Albright Stonebridge Group and nonresident honorary senior fellow on technology at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis. On December 8th, Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that he would ap…

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Candace Owens Patron Bonus Content 55:19

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's May 2018 interview with Candace Owens. Daily Beast | Candace Owens: Hitler Was 'OK' Until He Tried to Go Global Candace Owens on Same Sex Marriage: "It's a sin" Clips used under fair use from JRE show #1125 Listen to our other shows: Cecil - Cognitive Dissonance and Citation Needed Marsh - Skept…

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Mark Sidel on China's Oversight of Foreign NGOs: Eight Years of the Overseas NGO Law 1:04:28

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This week on Sinica, I speak with Mark Sidel, the Doyle Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior fellow at the International Center for Not for Profit Law. Mark has written extensively on law and philanthropy in China and across Asia, including widely cited analyses of how the Chinese security s…

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#0049 - Season 2 Wrap Up 1:36:57

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break their own show on this second season wrapup. Clips used under fair use. Listen to our other shows: Cecil - Cognitive Dissonance and Citation Needed Marsh - Skeptics with a K and The Skeptic Podcast Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: https://www.patreon.com/alexgrohlmusic Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://w…

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Guest Host Iza Ding with Deborah Seligsohn: Inside COP30 in Belem, Brazil, and China's Climate Leadership 2:05:54

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This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to have Iza Ding as guest host. Iza is a professor of political science at Northwestern University and a good friend whose work on Chinese governance I greatly admire. She's joined by Deborah Seligsohn, who has been a favorite guest on this show many times. Deb is an associate professor of political science at Vil…

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#0048 - Mariana van Zeller 1:33:07

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's October 2025 interview with investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller. The Biden Border Crisis | Senator Cornyn Statistics on unauthorized US immigration and US border crossings by year | USAFacts STARTLING STATS FACTSHEET: Biden and Harris' Border Crisis Still Wreaking Havoc—at the Borders an…

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Murder House: Zhong Na on the Silicon Valley Tragedy That Exposed the Cracks in China's Meritocracy 49:58

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This week on Sinica, I speak with Zhong Na, a novelist and essayist whose new piece, "Murder House," appears in the inaugural issue of Equator — a striking new magazine devoted to longform writing that crosses borders, disciplines, and cultures. In January 2024, a young couple, both Tsinghua-educated Google engineers living in a $2.5 million Silico…

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#0047 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin [Triggernometry] 1:32:11

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's October 2025 interview with Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin from the Triggernometry podcast. Rex -v- Lucy Connelly - Sentencing remarks Farage's fascist past? Nigel boasted about his NF initials and sang 'gas them all', claims schoolfriend | The Independent Billionaires support groups behind '…

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Episode 228: Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World 1:07:57

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This week, singer/guitarist Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World chats about the heavy metal (and instructional breakdance) records of his youth, collaborating on a new track by Jay Som, and how he's attempting to take his critical ear out of the equation when enjoying music at home. The band's new EP, titled Something(s) Loud — a collection of post-pande…

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#0046 - Richard Lindzen & William Happer 1:29:14

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We break down Joe's October 2025 interview with Richard Lindzen & William Happer from the CO2 Coalition. Main event Guardian | Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial Skeptical Science | Debunking Joe Rogan, Dick Lindzen, and Will Happer Skeptical Science | Why a few degrees of global warmings matter THE MYTH OF THE 1970s GLOB…

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Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP on Nexperia, Export Controls, and Europe's Impossible Position 51:01

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This week on Sinica, I welcome back Finbarr Bermingham, the Brussels-based Europe correspondent for the South China Morning Post, about the Nexperia dispute — one of the most revealing episodes in the global contest over semiconductor supply chains. Nexperia, a Dutch-headquartered chipmaker owned by Shanghai-listed Wingtech, became the subject of e…

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#0045 - Elon Musk, Pt. 2 1:30:22

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We break down the interview with Joe's October 2025 interview with Elon Musk. Main event The Telegraph | German woman given harsher sentence than rapist for calling him 'pig' BBC | Man in court charged with sexually assaulting 10 year-old girl Propel | Can undocumented immigrants get food stamps (SNAP)? American Immigration Council | Asylum in the …

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Episode 227: Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids 1:20:59

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Having spent the last thirty years fronting The Get Up Kids, Matt Pryor has earned an honorary doctorate in sharing intimate, vulnerable moments on record and making them sound catchy as hell. Through albums like Four Minute Mile, Something to Write Home About, On A Wire and Guilt Show, he's galvanized thousands of songwriters to similarly lean int…

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#0044 - Elon Musk, Pt. 1 1:38:32

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We break down the interview with Joe's October 2025 interview with Elon Musk. Main event Yahoo | Here's how much California spends on each homeless person CBS Austin | Austin Public Library shooting suspect identified, accused of separate shooting on bus Guardian | Elon Musk allegedly took large amounts of drugs including ketamine while advising Tr…

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We Were Right: Kaiser and Jeremy Reunite to Riff on the China Vibe Shift 54:07

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This week on Sinica, I welcome back Jeremy Goldkorn, co-founder of the show and my longtime co-host, to revisit the "vibe shift" we first discussed back in February. Seven months on, what we sensed then has fully borne out — there's been a measurable softening in American attitudes toward China, reflected not just in polling data but in media cover…

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Lizzi Lee on Involution, Overcapacity, and China's Economic Model 1:24:51

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Lizzi Lee, a fellow on the Chinese economy at the Asia Society Policy Institute and one of the sharpest China analysts working today. We dig into the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th Party Congress and what it reveals about China's evolving growth model — particularly the much-discussed but often misunderstood push a…

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#0043 - QED Manchester 54:47

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Our Live performance at QED Manchester. Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: https://www.patreon.com/alexgrohlmusic Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracksBy Cross Pond Productions

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Episode 226: Tom Petty Producer/Engineer Ryan Ulyate 49:21

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Hot on the heels of his involvement with a new, one-step vinyl pressing of Wildflowers -- celebrating its 30th anniversary -- Ryan Ulyate talks today about working with Tom on late-career albums like Highway Companion, Mojo and Hypnotic Eye, as well as selecting tracks for The Live Anthology from literally thousands of performances over a three-dec…

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Foreign Affairs Editor Daniel Kurtz-Phelan on Shifting Views of China 1:05:08

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, editor of Foreign Affairs, about how the journal has both shaped and reflected American discourse on China during a period of dramatic shifts in the relationship. We discuss his deliberate editorial choices to include heterodox voices, the changing nature of the supposed "consensus" on China pol…

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#0042 - Bari Weiss 1:29:11

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We break down Joe's Jan 2020 interview with Bari Weiss. Wikipedia | Great Replacement conspiracy theory CNN | Hate crime charges filed in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left 11 dead SPLC | Pennsylvania man, Robert Bowers, charged with federal hate crimes, murder in shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue CBS | How Egypt's last Jews will mark Hanukkah,…

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The View from Behind Xi Jinping's Desk, with Jonathan Czin 1:19:43

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This week on the Sinica Podcast, I speak with Jonathan Czin, the Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies and a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. His new essay in Foreign Affairs, “China Against China: Xi Jinping Confronts the Downsides of Success,” challenges the dominant Western narrative of Xi Jinpin…

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#0041 - Gregg Braden 1:30:19

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We break down Joe's October 2025 interview with spirituality writer Gregg Braden. Natural History Museum | Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred within the past 50,000 years PNAS | Origin of human chromosome 2: An ancestral telomere-telomere fusion NPR | KQED: 22andHim Homozygosity for a Robertsonian translocation (13q14q) in three offspring of h…

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Episode 225: 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere' Preview w/ Warren Zanes (Executive Producer) 59:56

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If you were tasked with making a feature film about Bruce Springsteen, you could throw a dart and hit any number of career peaks worth covering. Instead, director/writer Scott Cooper chose to zoom in on the Boss' personal low, chronicled by author Warren Zanes in his acclaimed 2023 book Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Neb…

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#0040 - JD Vance Hosting Charlie Kirk's Podcast 1:36:03

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We step away from Joe Rogan to break down JD Vance's September 2025 appearance on the Charlie Kirk Podcast. The Guardian | Texts, plans and a confession: prosecutor lays out startling details in Charlie Kirk shooting NBC News | Right-wing terror attacks plunged in 2025, while left-wing attacks ticked up: study A comparison of political violence by …

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Episode 224: Joshua Hedley 1:14:09

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#0039 - Paul Saladino 1:42:36

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We break down the interview with Paul Saladino. Wikipedia | Goitre Skeptics with a K Episode 431 Effect of fruit and vegetable intake on oxidative stress and inflammation in COPD: a randomised controlled trial The 6-a-day study: effects of fruit and vegetables on markers of oxidative stress and antioxidative defense in healthy nonsmokers A hydroxyl…

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#0038 - Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan 1:33:53

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We break down Lex Fridman's September 2020 interview with Joe Rogan. Clips used under fair use from The Lex Fridaman Podcast #127. Listen to our other shows: Cecil - Cognitive Dissonance and Citation Needed Marsh - Skeptics with a K and The Skeptic Podcast Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: https://www.patreon.com/alexgrohlmusic Outro Credit - Soulful Jam T…

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The Symbolism of the Flying Tigers: Peking University's Wang Dong on the American Volunteer Group and its Historical and Diplomatic Usages 38:57

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Peking University's Professor Wang Dong (王栋), an international relations scholar at the School of International Studies at Peking University, where he also serves as Deputy Director and Executive Director of the Office for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding. Pro…

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#0037 - Christopher Rufo 1:34:34

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We break down Joe's March 2024 interview with Christopher Rufo. Chris Rufo: "The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." Newsweek | Kentucky Democrat Proposes Child Sex Dolls for Pedophiles A Review of Academic Use of the Term "Minor Attracted Persons" Congressional Record | Div…

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Jasmine Sun on Silicon Valley through a Chinese Mirror 1:11:18

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This week on Sinica, co-host Tianyu Fang makes his debut on the show to join me in interviewing his Stanford classmate and talented writer Jasmine Sun, who studies the anthropology of disruption. This summer, she took a trip to China with a group of friends with different levels of China experience, from people raised in the country to total novice…

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Yascha Mounk on China and Western Liberalism 1:22:03

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This week on the Sinica Podcast, I chat with well-known author and public intellectual Yascha Mounk about his recent fascination with China, his approach to learning about the country and learning Chinese, and his thoughts on how China fits into the current crisis of Western liberal democracy. 7:15 – Yascha’s experience of living in China and learn…

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#0036 - Gary Brecka 1:29:31

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We break down Joe's April 2025 interview with Gary Brecka Hydrogen Water: Extra Healthy or a Hoax?—A Systematic Review The effects of 6-month hydrogen-rich water intake on molecular and phenotypic biomarkers of aging in older adults aged 70 years and over: A randomized controlled pilot trial The Skeptic | Jordan Peterson is wrong: medical error is …

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What Did the September 3 Parade Mean? 1:43:11

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This week on Sinica, I speak first with retired Senior Colonel Zhou Bo, a frequent commentator on Chinese military and security affairs and a prolific writer now at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, and with Rana Mitter of the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Forgotten Ally, a book about World War II in …

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Episode 223: Noah Reid (Schitt's Creek) 1:17:07

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Before his profile as a musician exploded, actor Noah Reid thought of his songs as "a little closet that I could put my thoughts and feelings into." But in early 2018, that door came off its hinges. As his character Patrick Brewer, on the eventual Emmy-winning Canadian TV comedy Schitt's Creek, Noah performed a remarkably grounded and unfeigned aco…

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#0035 - Candace Owens 1:29:58

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's May 2018 interview with Candace Owens. CT Post | "We were children, I wasn't the only victim" The Hour | Schools pay $37,500 to Owens family Business Insider | Pro-Trump youth group TPUSA deleted a tweet mocking protective masks after its cofounder died of the coronavirus Wikipedia | Racial view…

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What Does China Want? The Authors of a New Paper Challenge the DC Consensus 1:29:32

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Dave Kang (USC), Zenobia Chan (Georgetown), and Jackie Wong (American University in Sharjah, UAE) about their new paper in International Security titled "What Does China Want?" The paper, which has generated quite a bit of controversy, takes a data-driven approach to examine the claim that China seeks global hegemon…

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#0034 - Tom Segura 1:28:47

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's September 2021 interview with Tom Segura. Tom Segura Twitter Rant US horse owners face ivermectin shortage as humans chase unproven Covid 'cure' | Coronavirus | The Guardian Wikipedia | Ivermectin Wikipedia | Nobel disease Wikipedia | Pierre Kory Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance BBC | …

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Trump's India Tariff Tirade: A Gift to Beijing? With Evan Feigenbaum 1:03:36

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This week on the Sinica Podcast, I welcome back Evan Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Evan served for many years as a State Department official, was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia among his numerous positions in government, and was instrumental in buil…

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#033 - Graham Linehan 1:41:10

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's 6th August 2025 interview with Irish comedy writer and "gender critical" activist Graham Linehan. Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms and Other Gendered Facilities - Williams Institute - https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/safety-in-restrooms-and-facilites/ Sociodemographics o…

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Episode 222: Evan Weiss (Pet Symmetry / Into It. Over It.) 1:13:56

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A lot has changed since Evan Weiss last came on this podcast over nine years ago -- marriage, a plethora of new music, and a deliberate "one in, one out" strategy to balancing his record collection. But one thing that's stayed the same (perhaps even increasing) is his steadfast drive to spotlight forgotten records of his heroes, friends or total st…

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#199 - Glare (Izzy & Toni) 46:35

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Step into another episode of Behind the Vinyl as we welcome Izzy and Toni of Glare into the interview room for an engaging and heartfelt conversation about their journey, their latest record, and everything in between. While some might say Glare "blew up overnight," the reality is far from effortless. The band has been putting in the work, grinding…

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The Engineering State and the Lawyerly Society: Dan Wang on his new book "Breakneck" 1:32:43

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This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to be joined by Dan Wang, formerly of Gavekal Dragonomics and the Paul Tsai Law Center at Yale University, now with the Hoover Institute's History Lab. Dan's new book is Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, and it's already one of the year's most talked-about books. In this conversation, we go beyond w…

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#0032 - Mike Baker 1:46:52

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's July, 25th interview with Mike Baker Twitter | Secretary Kristi Noem Southern District of New York | Ghislaine Maxwell Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors | United States Department of Justice THE GOVERNMENT'S SENTENCING MEMORANDUM on G…