1 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: This is gonna be ship, this is gonna suck, this 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: is gonna be trash because no one knows what's gonna happen. 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: I have not actually come up with a prediction yet. 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: I don't know I have this one. I have, I 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: hoped one that I came up with before the show. 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: Have we have we opened it? Yeah, we've already started. 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: Um we were supposed to. This isn't happen here. Everybody 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: podcast things falling apart? How to maybe make them fall apart? Less? Um, 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: Sophie pitched the great idea of why don't we do 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: an episode that is our predictions? It's really not my 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: idea when people ask, so this this was Sophie's idea. 12 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: That she's been Sophie's idea alone. It's sprang fully formed 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: from the sight of her head, like Athena from Zeus's skull. Um, 14 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: and we all agreed it was a good idea for 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: an episode, and that I did not come up with 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: the prediction. Did you get you know? So that's a 17 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: minute of time thinking about not second not even absolutely 18 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: love the Athena Zeus reference. That's how I tell people 19 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: I got Anderson. Yeah, Well, my prediction for the year 20 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 1: is that I'm going to keep making references to Athena 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: whenever I do something that pisses Sophie off, so that 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: I will it will absolutely work. Yeah, that's my prediction 23 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: for prediction. Okay, okay, okay, wait, before we go into 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: the to the to the big, bigger thing, I want 25 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: everybody to give one word prediction for how you would 26 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: describe this coming here. One word prediction. Borning, n F 27 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: t H. I was just gonna say fucked, but I 28 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: don't think because it's going to be hot too, I 29 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be that fucked. Actually, I 30 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: think I was gonna say mediocre. Yeah, I'm I'm was 31 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: seeing a lot of blandness, a lot of blandness. My here, 32 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: here's a prediction I'll make. I think that one of 33 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: the things that we were seeing last year, especially in 34 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: the streets, with like the far right being so much 35 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: more uh active, um than the left in a lot 36 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: of places and in a lot of ways, is UM 37 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: really tired. A lot of people on the left out, 38 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: a lot of organizers, a lot of street level people. 39 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: UM not just like oh I'm tired, but like I 40 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: was injured, Um, I'm fighting charges my funds were depleted. 41 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: I had to I couldn't keep going out because I 42 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: have a family and I had to deal with that 43 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: sort of ship. Um And I think, I don't think 44 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: that energy is back yet, but it always ebbs and flows, 45 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: and it does on both sides, because at the end 46 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: of the day, whether you're a fascist or a progressive, 47 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: people have x amount of energy, you know. Um And 48 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: I think we are, I leave, we are kind of 49 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: at the beginning process of folks on the left starting 50 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: to recover some of that energy. Um And I think 51 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: that that is a process we're going to see building 52 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: throughout the year. UM. I agree with that. Yeah, yeah, 53 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: and it will be a multi year process. And I'm 54 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm kind of hoping folks are ready to throw down again. 55 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: But but we'll see, like where that goes. We might 56 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: have like a few days of people throwing down in 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: the streets for some reason, like something bad may happen, 58 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: like like late summer. I I can I can definitely 59 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: see like a few days in July or August where 60 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: it's like, oh, is the thing starting again? And it 61 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: goes on for a bit and then it kind of 62 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: peters out. I kind of I definitely see that being 63 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: a decent possibility, um, because yeah, I think there will 64 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: be more energy for that this year and more mental 65 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: like like like ability to to do to do that 66 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: this year than yeah. But overall, I don't see anything 67 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: super eventful, and I hopefully just doesn't like anything and 68 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: then we get no. I mean, my my big eventful 69 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: prediction is that. And I will explain what this is 70 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: based on in a bit. I think we are going 71 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: to see a significant sized urban metropolitan area be rendered 72 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: uninhabitable either permanently or for a significant period of time 73 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: in the United States due to climate change. And part 74 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: of what this is based on is the December wildfires 75 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: that just destroyed a significant chunk of Boulder, Colorado. Right, 76 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: not talking about like New York City gets swallowed by 77 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: the waves, but like a place where there's a couple 78 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: hundred thousand people living, they're not able to be for 79 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: either ever or an extended period of time because a 80 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: climate based disaster hits. Um. Maybe it'll be a heat 81 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: dome type thing, Maybe it'll be like a wet bulb event. 82 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be um fires. Obviously always possible, Hurricane Tornado. 83 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: You know, we we saw enough just in the last 84 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: couple of months in terms of those like record hurricanes 85 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: that killed like a hundred people in um in the south, 86 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: or the fires sweeping Boulder right now and again fucking December. Um. 87 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: But but I do think there's a pretty good chance 88 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: we see something like that this year. I think my 89 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: big one is that, I mean, okay, so the the 90 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: obvious free B is that we're going to cross a 91 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: million COVID deaths or like the the the official count, 92 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: we were like we we've had war count. That's that's 93 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: the free b. The not free B is that like 94 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: it's not even a prediction. If that's that's that's that's 95 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 1: what I think. It's going to be warm in the summertime, yeah, 96 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: like you know, and the warm in the summertime is 97 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: probably like a bigger gamble at this point then yeah, 98 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: very very warm. But yeah. But but but I think 99 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: the real thing is that like there there is never 100 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: going to be never locked down the U S never 101 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: like you of the United States could die and there 102 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: would be no lockdown, like and this is you know, 103 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: and I think this this is the result of I 104 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: don't know, I wonder what you do. This my thesis 105 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: for what was going on, was that, Like I actually 106 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: think the like the like liberate Wisconsin stuff, I think 107 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: that actually worked. Like those number umber they were all 108 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: those giant like like a mount of people show up 109 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: with guns to captain. Absolutely it worked. Yeah, yeah, it worked, 110 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: and it was like but but they did. They did. 111 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: Usually works. It's a very effective way to get things 112 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: done well. And I think there's an important lesson here though, 113 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: which is that, like, so the state will never like 114 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: very very rarely will the state ever like directly like 115 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: they they won't immediately back down, right. What they'll do 116 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: is like they'll make an enormous show about how they 117 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: didn't grant any concessions, and then they will grant concessions. 118 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 1: Like I know. This is the thing with the riots, right, 119 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: It's like people are talking about why do we not 120 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: there's not gonna any more stimulus checks? Right. The reason 121 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: there's not gonna be more stimulus checks because nobody's rioting. 122 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: And you know, like what kind of stimulus checks you 123 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: get if a couple of targets get redacted? Yeah, like 124 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: you know if if if you burn down another police station, 125 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: we will up more stimulus checks. It's just that you 126 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: have to you know, there has to be in a 127 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: police station burned down, right, but like this is and 128 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: this is the this is the you know, the the 129 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: right was extremely effective at this right and in a 130 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: way that people just don't really talk about, which is 131 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: that it is now politically impossible in the US, Like no, 132 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: no one, no one will ever do anover lockdown because 133 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: people will show up with guns and they don't want 134 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: to do that, and they've decided that just just just kill, 135 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: just kill. Look, you know, we we've already killed the 136 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: entire population of Seattle, like they're dead. Like we'll just 137 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: keep killing more people, more people, and just never. I 138 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: think people often are going I think people on the 139 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: left attack the Biden's COVID response for a lot of 140 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: the wrong things. Like the thing that I I would 141 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: go after him for is like, yeah, we didn't he 142 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: didn't just say here's a bunch of money, don't go 143 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: to work, We're not going back to school, Like stay 144 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: at home. Here's a pile of cash, which might have worked, 145 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: it was worth a shot, But past that, a lot 146 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: of this was beyond By the time he came into office, 147 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: the the armed militant cultural movement against the idea of 148 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: COVID precautions was so advanced that like what do you 149 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: what what what more could have been realistically done other 150 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: than trying to give people enough money again to actually 151 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: stay home, which again is the thing I think it's 152 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: most fair to attack him on. Like okay, I mean 153 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: like ships beyond Biden and a lot. Yeah, but like 154 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: like I don't like, okay, it was like, well, what 155 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: could have been done? I don't know, like if you're 156 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: looking from the perspective of the state, they could actually 157 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: have deployed the intelligence services against them instead of doing 158 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: like one dumb and trapment plot, right, Like well, sure, 159 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 1: but that's that's also that starts before Biden and by 160 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: again by the time, I mean it's like you know 161 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,599 Speaker 1: but like like yeah, I called her bluff, right, have 162 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: want people show up to the capital, and then it's like, okay, 163 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,319 Speaker 1: here's the FBI like like that that that's a thing 164 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: that like if if you're a liberal status you could 165 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: do and they just don't want to because like, partially 166 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: I don't want the conflict of partially because it would 167 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: actually it would look like it would look really bad 168 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: for them heading into the midterms. It would look so 169 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: they're bad and and also I think this is less 170 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: The FBI is kind of much more centrist in terms 171 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: of their politics as an agency, but like there were 172 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: a lot of federal state Yeah, well, I mean the 173 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: most federal and state. Like I don't know that they 174 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: can rely on them like they do that they can. 175 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: Even even the FBI, it's like, yeah, they're using the 176 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: proud ways informants like on Higgins synechists like yeah, so yeah, 177 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: like they're not they're not, They're not. Like I have 178 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: an appreciation. What I will say is I have an 179 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: appreciation for the fact that by the time Biden was 180 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: in office, it may have been an unsolvable problem, which 181 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: doesn't let him off the hook for things that were 182 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: objectively bad decisions like not doing ship for stimulus, um, 183 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 1: like pushing to open the schools, like you know, a 184 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 1: number of other things that he's done. But also like 185 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: if he had done all of the right things, we 186 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: still might be at exactly this death toll because there 187 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: are cultural issues here that were very advanced by the 188 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: time he took office. UM. And I do think like 189 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: it's whatever, I'm not I'm not saying this to let 190 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: Biden off the hook or support the Democratic Party. I'm 191 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: saying this because people need to have an accurate conception 192 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: of the problem. Um, and the problem is so much 193 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: deeper than what a technocrat could have handled by making 194 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: smart policy at break break Yeah, we're back. Actual prediction 195 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 1: Republicans will win the Senate. Yeah, which seems pretty I 196 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 1: think there's a decent chance Democrats can keep the House. Um, 197 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure it's going to go back to 198 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: the Republicans. I mean, they are damn near in control 199 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: of the Senate as it is. Yeah, but they did. Yeah, 200 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: but I I do believe that's gonna happen. Um. And 201 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: let's see other which, yeah, it does, does not seem 202 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,559 Speaker 1: that's not that far fetched of a thing. And I 203 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: don't know. There'll be some other kind of tech faccory 204 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: the space between Elon Musk, Peter Thiel Silicon Valley, there's 205 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: gonna be I think there's gonna be some worsening development 206 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 1: of like tech like technocratic stuff, possibly in like possibly 207 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: with like the mask of trying to like fix climate 208 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: change or something. But I think they'll be a decent 209 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: growth of tech power and possibly they're like um cooperation 210 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: with the state or the state like fund giving more 211 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: explicit like funding and permission to tech power to like 212 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: do terror forming or like some geo engineering like that. 213 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: There's there's gonna be something related to that sphere that 214 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: is a it's going to get a lot more visible 215 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 1: than it is. My big tech prediction is that there 216 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: is going to be a crime against humanity at some 217 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: point this year, like on a massive scale, not like 218 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: just a mass shooting, but like a state level crime 219 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: against humanity. And we're going to find out that for 220 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: the last like eight months, Facebook had been paying the 221 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: perpetrators a significant amount of money as a result of 222 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: like some ill thought out ad program that they had. Yeah, 223 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: like we're going to we're going to leave to Facebook 224 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: actively funding and ethnic cleansing. Um, because some somebody thought 225 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: up some sort of affiliate program that was not well conceived. Um. 226 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: That's my fun tech industry prediction. My fun tech industry 227 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: prediction is that, uh, Jeff Bezos will increasingly become the 228 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: most cringe eest man in the world. Yeah, it is 229 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: very funny that the picture him on New Year's he's 230 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: just wearing a Dan Flash his shirt. He's he's absolutely 231 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: wearing a Dan Flash his shirt and that's incredibly fine, Robert, Robert, 232 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: that shirt costs him three thousand dollars because the pattern 233 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: is so comp very complicated, and how much the lines crisscross. 234 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: I I just I just don't like you insisting that 235 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: it's not as much money. But despite its complicatedness, that 236 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: that photo was my version of holiday Carne said to 237 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 1: everyone I know. Um, yeah, I think I think we're 238 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: going to see a lot more unions this year. Yeah, 239 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: that does seem to be a positive trend that we're 240 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: seeing is a lot more unionization and some significant successes 241 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 1: for and and a lot more like like general acceptance 242 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: of the concept of a union. Other prodiction related to 243 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: to tech industry stuff, I think one of the billionaire 244 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: space ships things is going to have a disastrous launch. 245 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: Positive prediction of spaceship is gonna build up with people 246 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: inside it as it tries to take off. That's that's 247 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: my positive prediction. That it can take some people with it. Um, 248 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: sorry to the people, Sorry to the workers who are 249 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,719 Speaker 1: gonna be probably harmed at that, but it can take 250 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: some people out, So it's gonna be funny. Um, that 251 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: is that's possibility. Also, Uh, there's gonna be a there's 252 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: gonna be a disastrous effect. Uh around Austin is right 253 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: that that's where that's where a lot of the spacehip 254 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: stuff is getting set up. No, no, no, no, it's 255 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 1: that's just where the offices are. It's like Chica. It's 256 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: like on the coast of Texts, not close enough to Austin. 257 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: Some some piece of a spaceship is gonna fly through 258 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: someone's house. No one's gonna care about it. Um, there 259 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: gets brought, gonna kill a family or something. No one's 260 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: gonna care. Nothing's gonna happen. It'll be fine. That Those 261 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: are my more my tech industry predictions related to spaceship stuff. Yeah, 262 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: um yeah. I I also think on on a more. 263 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: I don't know how the current civil war in Myanmar 264 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: is going to shake out, but I think there's a 265 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: chance that it becomes the first kay place where there 266 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: is a successful or at least partially successful revolutionary movement 267 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: that is to a significant extent armed via three D 268 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: printed weaponry. Um, they've all we've already seen a lot 269 00:14:54,080 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: of that deployed by the rebels in Myanmar. Um. I'm 270 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: interested in watching that because it's kind of the first 271 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: time we've seen that technology used on a meaningful scale 272 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: by people that aren't like organized crime. Um, and yeah, 273 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: I think it's still too early to tell, like how 274 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: much of an actual like whether or not it's just 275 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: kind of a distraction from the more meaningful aspects of 276 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: the struggle, or the more meaningful like kind of deployments 277 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: of weaponry and other tools and the struggle, or whether 278 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: or not it will actually play a significant role in 279 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: the armed struggle. But it's it's very much worth watching 280 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: if you're somebody who pays attention to insurgent movements and 281 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: what is increasingly possible as a result of new technology. 282 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: I have another really bad prediction. J K. Rowling is 283 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: going to release a book on gender. Go orci fund 284 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: to YouTube channel, yeah something, I think. I think there's 285 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: a decent chance she has been writing a book about 286 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: gender and she's going to release in two I think 287 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: that as an actual, actual series prediction, just go away, 288 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of liberal moms are gonna buy 289 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: it for each other and they're gonna read it and 290 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: it's gonna be bad. And that is that is my 291 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: that's my that's my horrible prediction. She could be so 292 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: beloved if she had limited her comments after publishing Harry Potter, 293 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: if she repeatedly telling people that are constantly shifting their pants, 294 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: if she just didn't use Twitter after anything at all, 295 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: and she could have been a different person. Just it's 296 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: it's the Dave Chappelle thing. Just stay off. We all 297 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: we all would have loved you forever if you just 298 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: just gone off and counted your money and left us alone. Yeah, 299 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: go be rich somewhere. It's fine to be done. It's 300 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: fine to be done being famous and influential. You you had, 301 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: you did great, you did great. You never needed to 302 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: come back. She I don't she did. I'm not sure 303 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: if she did great? She did? She did? She did again. 304 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: This is all colored. But if she had never back 305 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: into the public eye, all it would have been as 306 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: like you remember that lady who got like twelve year 307 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: olds to read seven d page books that one time, Like, 308 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,959 Speaker 1: people would not be as critical of the actual content 309 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: of the Harry Potter books. If she just hadn't kept 310 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: coming back and saying ship so that and and and 311 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: and then like didn't stop and then did not stop, 312 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: and then was told bad, really really bad, and then 313 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: kept doing it and kept doing it and kept doing 314 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,640 Speaker 1: it and kept doing it. You know what people should beat. Look, 315 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: if you're if you're listening to this and you're a 316 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: millionaire who was like hugely popular for some cultural reason 317 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: in the late nineties and early two thousand's, think about 318 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: Bill Waterson. Bill Waterson ends the most popular comic strip 319 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: in the history of comics and spends the rest of 320 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: his life and fucking Iowa painting landscapes and never talks 321 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 1: to anybody with a platform again, And I everybody loves 322 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: Bill Waterson. Like not a single person has a criticism 323 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: of Bill Waterson. Um, just do that. Just do what 324 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: he did. Just go paint landscapes in Iowa and don't 325 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 1: talk to journalists or get on Twitter. It's fine. Does 326 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: Bill Waterson believe regressive things about gender? Nobody knows because 327 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: he doesn't say anything. I think another prediction that is 328 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: actually decently possible. I think we will get more and 329 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 1: more cities and or states to decriminalize hard drugs in 330 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: in certain possession amounts UM. I think there is a 331 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: there's a number of bills going around California, UM and 332 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: a lot of other states, and I believe that will 333 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: be start to become more and more common, which will 334 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: be great. It would be nice if they get legalized. 335 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: But you know, get get get what you can for now. 336 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: Um yeah, speaking of drugs, Uh, here's CDD oil sponsored 337 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:59,479 Speaker 1: by heroin, by by big drug. Here we go have fun. 338 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: They say we're back. And I just want to let 339 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: everybody know that if if everything gets legalized, we will 340 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: be sponsored by meth amphetamine so fucking quickly it will 341 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: make your head spin. I will never turn down a 342 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 1: drug sponsor, um, except for like super foods. We don't 343 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: do super foods, we don't do brain pills, but heroin. 344 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,360 Speaker 1: I would advertise the ship out of heroin. I'm already 345 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: ready to advertise hero the hair lost. Drugs we don't do, 346 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 1: but heroin. M Hey is life depressing? You know, it'll 347 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: make easier heroin. I hated that I helped that bit. Uh, Chris, 348 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: you were you were saying something before break My My 349 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: one serious prediction is I don't think we've I think 350 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: we're going to get one more big like Latin American uprising, 351 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: and it will not in Argentina. I have been eating 352 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: ship for three goddamn years predicting it's gonna be Argentina. 353 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, they're getting an IMF bailout. Like it's 354 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: never Argentina. It won't be Argentina, it will be somewhere else. 355 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: But someone is, someone is going to spend like two 356 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: months doing a bunch of stuff that's extremely cool outside 357 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: of Argentina. I kind of think, um, I don't know, 358 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see what happens in Brazil because um, 359 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: it's hard to get a sense for the exact numbers, 360 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 1: but there's potential there. There is potential there with what's 361 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: happened in Bolivia and what's happened in Chile, There's there's 362 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: momentum in its exciting broad area. It was like I 363 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: mean like the os there's shoot, there's like enormous protest 364 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: in Brazil like all the time. Yeah, yeah, there's like massive. 365 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: It just hasn't sort of like like it hasn't turned 366 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 1: into like everyone fighting the cops and like yeah, and 367 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: maybe I don't know if it will because like I 368 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, this is this is this is 369 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: my vibes based interpretation of it. But it feels like 370 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: the the Workers Party has enough of a handle on 371 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: the protests that they're not going to sort of like 372 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: explode because the PT just wants to win its election 373 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: and get out of Bulson Arrow. But well, yeah, and 374 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean the possibility of any kind of like actual 375 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: revolutionary insurrection anything relies heavily on like that path not 376 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: working for people, like they're not that they're not being 377 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: that kind of safety. Then well, I mean I say this, 378 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: if they arrest Lula again, like yeah, I don't think 379 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 1: bos like I think will die in his own ship, 380 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: Like yeah, that might happen even if his party stays 381 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: in power. I mean that he was actively dying as 382 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: we would record this episode, which is very funny. Um 383 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 1: I got as a result of one of our ad 384 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: campaigns several or a picture frames uh this year, and 385 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: right now we're loading one up. That's just pictures of 386 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: sick Bulson Arrow to keep in my living room. So 387 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: anytime I walk past, I can look at JayR. Bolson 388 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: Naro and hacking up a lung or having ships sucked 389 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: out of his nose from its um, I will say, oh, 390 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: by my one more like very fast prediction about this 391 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: is that Kissinger is gonna live. He's not gonna die. Damn. 392 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: Chris allowed myself to hope for one for about I 393 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: allow myself to hope for about eight hours and I 394 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 1: think it's gonna live, but immediately wrong. I don't know. 395 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: It would have been pretty cool if Betty White's last 396 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: action had been some sort of anti TA takeout Kissinger. 397 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: She becomes the most loved American and human history, like 398 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: goes out just like jumping out of an airplane, Like 399 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: she parachutes into Kissinger's house with a flancing knife. I'm 400 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: gonna say, in Colorado, Oregon, or Washington, we're going to 401 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: get our first safe uh drug injections side opened. I 402 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: know they've been. There's pretty good shot they've been. They've 403 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: been very successful inside different parts of Canada, specifically maybe Whover, BC. 404 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: And I believe one of those three states is going 405 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: to get the first one. Um, I hope it's all 406 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: of them. You want to support some of those people 407 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: up in Canada go to Heroin Martin by a shoot 408 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: dope the cops hoodie. Yeah, but say like safe safe 409 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: drug injection and ingestion sites are have been have been 410 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: very good at preventing deaths in Vancouver, BC. And there's 411 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: just a good idea in general. And I will be 412 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,479 Speaker 1: excited at the prospect they're an incredibly good idea and 413 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,479 Speaker 1: they also if you're trying to again talk about this 414 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: to conservatives in your life, they're cheaper than just letting 415 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: people be addicted to drugs on the street because people 416 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: don't steal stuff. Also, they're heroin's free. Also, they won't 417 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: have ridiculous medical bills. They get paid by the state, 418 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 1: and they're more likely to seek treatment even if you 419 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: don't mandate that, especially if you don't mandate that, because 420 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: as a rule, people don't like having problematic addictions to drugs, 421 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 1: and if they can deal with their immediate needs and 422 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: also know that there's help available, they will often choose 423 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: to get help. So and I think I have I 424 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: have one more actual prediction is that a new Matrix 425 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: video game will be announced, and that is that is 426 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: all of my predictions. Oh, we should probably talk about 427 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: Matrix for briefly. That's what the people want. Garrison it 428 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,959 Speaker 1: and and for the record, this is going to be 429 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: controversial because some people have no taste, but we both 430 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: think it fucking ruled. It is possibly the best Matrix film. 431 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: It was really fun, it's it's very good. If you 432 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: think about it for any amount of time, it gets 433 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: very good in the way it addresses, um, the system's 434 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: power to incorporate revolt as a part of the system, 435 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: which was already teased inside me monetized aesthetic, yeah, reloaded, 436 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: but yeah, like the matrix using the weapon that wants 437 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: to find you against you, and the matrix weaponizing all 438 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 1: of your ideas against you. UM is very good. UM. 439 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: I know Lana put a lot of thought into this, 440 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: particularly around who's she is, how she's developed, and how 441 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: her work has been turned against her and what she believes. UM, 442 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 1: both by like the people and also like corporately in 443 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: terms of like achieving the correct amount of meta that 444 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,959 Speaker 1: it's not useless drivel while still actually being aware of 445 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: what it is. UM. I think was done well. I 446 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: know there's there's some people and like the postmodern thing, 447 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: who think it don't, who think it doesn't go meta enough, 448 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: And I think that's nonsense, because if you go any 449 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: if you if you point out that pointing out that 450 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: pointing out revolt against the system is part of the system, 451 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: then you've lost everybody, Like no one cares because you 452 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: can add on those layers endlessly and it's just dribble. Um. 453 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: So I think they got the correct amount of meta. Well, 454 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: then a band not not abandoned that idea but moving 455 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,199 Speaker 1: it on mean, like you know, you know, it's more 456 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 1: important than being meta is making friends and finding human 457 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: connections because going through the world like this isolated like 458 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: Thomas Anderson is when he's in the Matrix, as like 459 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,679 Speaker 1: as as games that are a big part of that 460 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: problem is that he's very nice. It did, and the 461 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 1: whole point is like, no, you need to find friends, 462 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,479 Speaker 1: find connections, get like like be have people around you 463 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: to build a network of and they actually start like 464 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: like loving other people is really one of the only 465 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: ways out of this looping cycle and layering of Matrix 466 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: is that we always live in um. It was. It's 467 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 1: a wonderful film. I can talk about I could. I 468 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: could talk about it for hours, but we could do 469 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,360 Speaker 1: a whole podcast about why we enjoyed Matrix four um 470 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: but it's it's pretty fun and my only the only 471 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: thing I'll add to that is a lot of people 472 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: fools is what I call them, are angry at the 473 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: fact that it ended with the Brass Against cover of 474 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: it was so good. It was, and it the cover 475 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: of that song opens an exactly so that the singer, 476 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: the lead singer of Brass Against became briefly famous mid 477 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: late last year, um when during while playing that exact 478 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: song on stage, sheinated into a fan's mouth and the 479 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: song that the cover that ends the Matrix starts at 480 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: exactly the moment where she pete in that guy's mouth 481 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: during the live show. And I am certain that Lana 482 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: Wachowski was planning to use the original Rage against the 483 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: Machine version of that song, and then that news dropped 484 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: and was like, well, let's get these Brass Against people. 485 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: I I want, I want the pist song on other 486 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: thing I want to They is reflecting on the analyst 487 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: as a character and how he relates to kind of 488 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: the meat space argument and how digital systems and algorithms 489 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: and social media operates. He if you listen to him 490 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 1: talk um and within the whole context, within the whole 491 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 1: context of the film, he um. They think there's actually 492 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: some more insightful points than what you might originally suspect 493 00:27:54,560 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: around like social media UM and digital nous versus realness 494 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: us UM just always you know, always a factor in 495 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: in Matrix films. But the way the way they handle 496 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: it in this film I think is a lot more 497 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: mature than all the topics they handle in their previous films. 498 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: And I mean there's just so many like really good, 499 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: like single lines that offer like really good like oh wow, 500 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: like that's just like a very good point, and then 501 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: they just move past them so like so effortlessly, like 502 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 1: you could focus on any one of those really good lines, 503 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 1: and they just offer up so many and at many points. 504 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: And I like that they turned the Mayor of Engian 505 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 1: into Ted Kaczynski. Um, it's just fun. Like at the 506 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: end of the day, it's just actually really fun and 507 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: it doesn't feel exactly like the other movies in the series, 508 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: which is what I want. I don't like reboots. I 509 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: wasn't a fan of the Star Wars reboot because it 510 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: was like I've seen this again, yeah, yeah, I like 511 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: I like that it. I like that a lot of 512 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: the action in this movie, right up until kind of 513 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: the end, feels perfunctory and like I like like kind 514 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: of saying like I don't care about this part anymore, 515 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: Like I've done the guy's fighting agents and bullet time. 516 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: Um that you know, at the end there's some more 517 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: some more loving action set pieces, but like from the beginning. 518 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: It's very much it's much more like a really fun 519 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: commentary on how Hollywood works and how the video game 520 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: industry works. There's a fucking mass effect joke in there. 521 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: There's a joke about like the nineteen nine or two 522 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: thousand Matrix video game that happened before Garrison was born. 523 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: It's so fun. It's it's just a lot of fun 524 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: as a movie. It's rad m well, um any any 525 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: other final final predictions before we wrap up this this 526 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: extremely well thought through episode that we've report our hearts 527 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: and minds into. We really did. Dr oz is going 528 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: to go down in flames. Oh I hope so, oh man. 529 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: I really have no idea what to expect from I 530 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: have no idea. I'm not making I'm not making any 531 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 1: prediction on that because I too have no idea. The 532 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: only thing that I'll say is that one way or 533 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: the other, it's going to be a bell weather. If 534 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: it like goes great for him and he wins easily, 535 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot more like Dr phil 536 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: is absolutely rolling into Congress. If that works for oz 537 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: Um and other other people who are kind of occupy 538 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: similar cultural spaces will do the same thing and then 539 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: we'll have congressional inquiries about whether or not this simple 540 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: trick will burn belly fat. It's gonna if it's like like, 541 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: if that's what happens, Like the think the thing Trump 542 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: is going to be remembered for like is being like, well, 543 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: the thing the thing Reagan is going to be remembered 544 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: for is being just like like fifty years ahead of 545 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: his time before we're literally all entirely ruled by just 546 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: reality TV stars mm hm, whose wives are great at 547 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: giving a head? Should I? Did anyone? Did everyone already 548 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: forget that Nancy Reagan throat goat discourse? Discourse? Everyone was 549 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: so exhausted. Yeah, if you didn't catch this, it's a 550 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: very well known secret and has been for like fifty 551 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: years that back before they got married and probably after. 552 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: Nancy was famous for giving the best blow jobs in Hollywood, 553 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 1: as as as Garrison tosses the cat every single episode. 554 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: So I disdained this discourse. Now, yeah, two, it's a year, 555 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: We're in it. Okay. My last prediction is I actually 556 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: do think this year is gonna suck slightly less. Did 557 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,239 Speaker 1: Now this is probably the big one. I'm gonna eat 558 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: it on, but like hopefully happen. Hopefully you're right about it. 559 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: So I'm um, no, yeah, I think that there's a 560 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: decent chance that we're that it's better. Um, it's at 561 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: least in some ways. The climate stuff, as it nearly 562 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: always will for the foreseeable future, will keep getting worse. 563 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: But yeah, I think there's actually a chance that COVID 564 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: will get better, not because of any policy decision, but 565 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: because Macron literally nine of human beings and in the 566 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 1: world get it, and those that survive COVID stops passing 567 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: on as much, which is kind of vaguely speaking, what 568 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: happened with you know, the influenza. I will be probably 569 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: foolish in making one more prediction, that is, like around 570 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: the fall, we will not see spikes as big as 571 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: we saw this last year. Um. I I do think 572 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: there will probably still be some, but I do think 573 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: the numbers are going to be generally trending down. Um. Yeah, 574 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: after O Macron hits its peak, just because how many 575 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: people will get infected, how many antibodies plus vaccines will 576 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,479 Speaker 1: be circulating, um, And how many people have already been 577 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: who don't take the vaccine have will already have like 578 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: died off. It's I do not saying that to be 579 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 1: like flip into to be like but it's like, I 580 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: just that's what's the world is that it's the world 581 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: that we live in. I hate it, but I do 582 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: hope and I do hope and some slightly predict that 583 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: we'll have less less spiking numbers around this next fall 584 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: and winter as we did of this current you know, 585 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: fall and winter season. I wouldn't mind ending on a 586 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: note of appreciation for the fucking booster because we got it. 587 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: You and I both garrison, as did most of our friends, 588 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: and had just a shipload of COVID flying around us everywhere. 589 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: I love a lot of infections, and we were fine, fine. 590 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: I have one of my friends got COVID and her mom, 591 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 1: who they lived in the same house, did not has 592 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: not gotten COVID because they're wearing masks and they got 593 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: the booster. And for for all my friends that that 594 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: did get COVID that had that were boosted, the vaccine 595 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: didn't shop there. You're not in the hospital. You're double 596 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: test positive on a rapid test and then test negative 597 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: on a PCR, probably because by the time he got 598 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: to the PCR, like the next day, his viral load 599 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,400 Speaker 1: was just so fucking low. Um, get the third vacs, 600 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 1: the vaccine works. Who could have predicted? Who could have predicted? 601 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: The things that are literally the entire basis of our 602 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: modern concept of the value of human life continue to 603 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: be very effective. All right? Well that that doesn't for us, 604 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 1: Um unplugged, Go spend time outside, touch grass, touch your mirror, 605 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 1: like trying to go through it, because trying to go 606 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 1: through your um, what's real? What's not? See if see 607 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: if maybe you were the digital Messiah and you have 608 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 1: been trapped in a simulation where you work at a 609 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: food lion, um and and you can break free of it, um, 610 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 1: but not fly anymore because now your girlfriends he does 611 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: he does fly with Trinity at the end, he does 612 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: fly with Trinity, sure m, just as we all can 613 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: only fly with with Cary, well with carry at Masson's Yeah, specifically, 614 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: who has gotten so much hotter as they did? All right, Well, 615 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:19,200 Speaker 1: that's that's where we are. 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