Speaker 1: This is gonna be ship, this is gonna suck, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be trash because no one knows what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I have not actually come up with a prediction yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know I have this one. I have, I
Speaker 1: hoped one that I came up with before the show.
Speaker 1: Have we have we opened it? Yeah, we've already started.
Speaker 1: Um we were supposed to. This isn't happen here. Everybody
Speaker 1: podcast things falling apart? How to maybe make them fall apart? Less? Um,
Speaker 1: Sophie pitched the great idea of why don't we do
Speaker 1: an episode that is our predictions? It's really not my
Speaker 1: idea when people ask, so this this was Sophie's idea.
Speaker 1: That she's been Sophie's idea alone. It's sprang fully formed
Speaker 1: from the sight of her head, like Athena from Zeus's skull. Um,
Speaker 1: and we all agreed it was a good idea for
Speaker 1: an episode, and that I did not come up with
Speaker 1: the prediction. Did you get you know? So that's a
Speaker 1: minute of time thinking about not second not even absolutely
Speaker 1: love the Athena Zeus reference. That's how I tell people
Speaker 1: I got Anderson. Yeah, Well, my prediction for the year
Speaker 1: is that I'm going to keep making references to Athena
Speaker 1: whenever I do something that pisses Sophie off, so that
Speaker 1: I will it will absolutely work. Yeah, that's my prediction
Speaker 1: for prediction. Okay, okay, okay, wait, before we go into
Speaker 1: the to the to the big, bigger thing, I want
Speaker 1: everybody to give one word prediction for how you would
Speaker 1: describe this coming here. One word prediction. Borning, n F
Speaker 1: t H. I was just gonna say fucked, but I
Speaker 1: don't think because it's going to be hot too, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be that fucked. Actually, I
Speaker 1: think I was gonna say mediocre. Yeah, I'm I'm was
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of blandness, a lot of blandness. My here,
Speaker 1: here's a prediction I'll make. I think that one of
Speaker 1: the things that we were seeing last year, especially in
Speaker 1: the streets, with like the far right being so much
Speaker 1: more uh active, um than the left in a lot
Speaker 1: of places and in a lot of ways, is UM
Speaker 1: really tired. A lot of people on the left out,
Speaker 1: a lot of organizers, a lot of street level people.
Speaker 1: UM not just like oh I'm tired, but like I
Speaker 1: was injured, Um, I'm fighting charges my funds were depleted.
Speaker 1: I had to I couldn't keep going out because I
Speaker 1: have a family and I had to deal with that
Speaker 1: sort of ship. Um And I think, I don't think
Speaker 1: that energy is back yet, but it always ebbs and flows,
Speaker 1: and it does on both sides, because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, whether you're a fascist or a progressive,
Speaker 1: people have x amount of energy, you know. Um And
Speaker 1: I think we are, I leave, we are kind of
Speaker 1: at the beginning process of folks on the left starting
Speaker 1: to recover some of that energy. Um And I think
Speaker 1: that that is a process we're going to see building
Speaker 1: throughout the year. UM. I agree with that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it will be a multi year process. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm kind of hoping folks are ready to throw down again.
Speaker 1: But but we'll see, like where that goes. We might
Speaker 1: have like a few days of people throwing down in
Speaker 1: the streets for some reason, like something bad may happen,
Speaker 1: like like late summer. I I can I can definitely
Speaker 1: see like a few days in July or August where
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, is the thing starting again? And it
Speaker 1: goes on for a bit and then it kind of
Speaker 1: peters out. I kind of I definitely see that being
Speaker 1: a decent possibility, um, because yeah, I think there will
Speaker 1: be more energy for that this year and more mental
Speaker 1: like like like ability to to do to do that
Speaker 1: this year than yeah. But overall, I don't see anything
Speaker 1: super eventful, and I hopefully just doesn't like anything and
Speaker 1: then we get no. I mean, my my big eventful
Speaker 1: prediction is that. And I will explain what this is
Speaker 1: based on in a bit. I think we are going
Speaker 1: to see a significant sized urban metropolitan area be rendered
Speaker 1: uninhabitable either permanently or for a significant period of time
Speaker 1: in the United States due to climate change. And part
Speaker 1: of what this is based on is the December wildfires
Speaker 1: that just destroyed a significant chunk of Boulder, Colorado. Right,
Speaker 1: not talking about like New York City gets swallowed by
Speaker 1: the waves, but like a place where there's a couple
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people living, they're not able to be for
Speaker 1: either ever or an extended period of time because a
Speaker 1: climate based disaster hits. Um. Maybe it'll be a heat
Speaker 1: dome type thing, Maybe it'll be like a wet bulb event.
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be um fires. Obviously always possible, Hurricane Tornado.
Speaker 1: You know, we we saw enough just in the last
Speaker 1: couple of months in terms of those like record hurricanes
Speaker 1: that killed like a hundred people in um in the south,
Speaker 1: or the fires sweeping Boulder right now and again fucking December. Um.
Speaker 1: But but I do think there's a pretty good chance
Speaker 1: we see something like that this year. I think my
Speaker 1: big one is that, I mean, okay, so the the
Speaker 1: obvious free B is that we're going to cross a
Speaker 1: million COVID deaths or like the the the official count,
Speaker 1: we were like we we've had war count. That's that's
Speaker 1: the free b. The not free B is that like
Speaker 1: it's not even a prediction. If that's that's that's that's
Speaker 1: what I think. It's going to be warm in the summertime, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know, and the warm in the summertime is
Speaker 1: probably like a bigger gamble at this point then yeah,
Speaker 1: very very warm. But yeah. But but but I think
Speaker 1: the real thing is that like there there is never
Speaker 1: going to be never locked down the U S never
Speaker 1: like you of the United States could die and there
Speaker 1: would be no lockdown, like and this is you know,
Speaker 1: and I think this this is the result of I
Speaker 1: don't know, I wonder what you do. This my thesis
Speaker 1: for what was going on, was that, Like I actually
Speaker 1: think the like the like liberate Wisconsin stuff, I think
Speaker 1: that actually worked. Like those number umber they were all
Speaker 1: those giant like like a mount of people show up
Speaker 1: with guns to captain. Absolutely it worked. Yeah, yeah, it worked,
Speaker 1: and it was like but but they did. They did.
Speaker 1: Usually works. It's a very effective way to get things
Speaker 1: done well. And I think there's an important lesson here though,
Speaker 1: which is that, like, so the state will never like
Speaker 1: very very rarely will the state ever like directly like
Speaker 1: they they won't immediately back down, right. What they'll do
Speaker 1: is like they'll make an enormous show about how they
Speaker 1: didn't grant any concessions, and then they will grant concessions.
Speaker 1: Like I know. This is the thing with the riots, right,
Speaker 1: It's like people are talking about why do we not
Speaker 1: there's not gonna any more stimulus checks? Right. The reason
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be more stimulus checks because nobody's rioting.
Speaker 1: And you know, like what kind of stimulus checks you
Speaker 1: get if a couple of targets get redacted? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you know if if if you burn down another police station,
Speaker 1: we will up more stimulus checks. It's just that you
Speaker 1: have to you know, there has to be in a
Speaker 1: police station burned down, right, but like this is and
Speaker 1: this is the this is the you know, the the
Speaker 1: right was extremely effective at this right and in a
Speaker 1: way that people just don't really talk about, which is
Speaker 1: that it is now politically impossible in the US, Like no,
Speaker 1: no one, no one will ever do anover lockdown because
Speaker 1: people will show up with guns and they don't want
Speaker 1: to do that, and they've decided that just just just kill,
Speaker 1: just kill. Look, you know, we we've already killed the
Speaker 1: entire population of Seattle, like they're dead. Like we'll just
Speaker 1: keep killing more people, more people, and just never. I
Speaker 1: think people often are going I think people on the
Speaker 1: left attack the Biden's COVID response for a lot of
Speaker 1: the wrong things. Like the thing that I I would
Speaker 1: go after him for is like, yeah, we didn't he
Speaker 1: didn't just say here's a bunch of money, don't go
Speaker 1: to work, We're not going back to school, Like stay
Speaker 1: at home. Here's a pile of cash, which might have worked,
Speaker 1: it was worth a shot, But past that, a lot
Speaker 1: of this was beyond By the time he came into office,
Speaker 1: the the armed militant cultural movement against the idea of
Speaker 1: COVID precautions was so advanced that like what do you
Speaker 1: what what what more could have been realistically done other
Speaker 1: than trying to give people enough money again to actually
Speaker 1: stay home, which again is the thing I think it's
Speaker 1: most fair to attack him on. Like okay, I mean
Speaker 1: like ships beyond Biden and a lot. Yeah, but like
Speaker 1: like I don't like, okay, it was like, well, what
Speaker 1: could have been done? I don't know, like if you're
Speaker 1: looking from the perspective of the state, they could actually
Speaker 1: have deployed the intelligence services against them instead of doing
Speaker 1: like one dumb and trapment plot, right, Like well, sure,
Speaker 1: but that's that's also that starts before Biden and by
Speaker 1: again by the time, I mean it's like you know
Speaker 1: but like like yeah, I called her bluff, right, have
Speaker 1: want people show up to the capital, and then it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: here's the FBI like like that that that's a thing
Speaker 1: that like if if you're a liberal status you could
Speaker 1: do and they just don't want to because like, partially
Speaker 1: I don't want the conflict of partially because it would
Speaker 1: actually it would look like it would look really bad
Speaker 1: for them heading into the midterms. It would look so
Speaker 1: they're bad and and also I think this is less
Speaker 1: The FBI is kind of much more centrist in terms
Speaker 1: of their politics as an agency, but like there were
Speaker 1: a lot of federal state Yeah, well, I mean the
Speaker 1: most federal and state. Like I don't know that they
Speaker 1: can rely on them like they do that they can.
Speaker 1: Even even the FBI, it's like, yeah, they're using the
Speaker 1: proud ways informants like on Higgins synechists like yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: like they're not they're not, They're not. Like I have
Speaker 1: an appreciation. What I will say is I have an
Speaker 1: appreciation for the fact that by the time Biden was
Speaker 1: in office, it may have been an unsolvable problem, which
Speaker 1: doesn't let him off the hook for things that were
Speaker 1: objectively bad decisions like not doing ship for stimulus, um,
Speaker 1: like pushing to open the schools, like you know, a
Speaker 1: number of other things that he's done. But also like
Speaker 1: if he had done all of the right things, we
Speaker 1: still might be at exactly this death toll because there
Speaker 1: are cultural issues here that were very advanced by the
Speaker 1: time he took office. UM. And I do think like
Speaker 1: it's whatever, I'm not I'm not saying this to let
Speaker 1: Biden off the hook or support the Democratic Party. I'm
Speaker 1: saying this because people need to have an accurate conception
Speaker 1: of the problem. Um, and the problem is so much
Speaker 1: deeper than what a technocrat could have handled by making
Speaker 1: smart policy at break break Yeah, we're back. Actual prediction
Speaker 1: Republicans will win the Senate. Yeah, which seems pretty I
Speaker 1: think there's a decent chance Democrats can keep the House. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure it's going to go back to
Speaker 1: the Republicans. I mean, they are damn near in control
Speaker 1: of the Senate as it is. Yeah, but they did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I I do believe that's gonna happen. Um. And
Speaker 1: let's see other which, yeah, it does, does not seem
Speaker 1: that's not that far fetched of a thing. And I
Speaker 1: don't know. There'll be some other kind of tech faccory
Speaker 1: the space between Elon Musk, Peter Thiel Silicon Valley, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be I think there's gonna be some worsening development
Speaker 1: of like tech like technocratic stuff, possibly in like possibly
Speaker 1: with like the mask of trying to like fix climate
Speaker 1: change or something. But I think they'll be a decent
Speaker 1: growth of tech power and possibly they're like um cooperation
Speaker 1: with the state or the state like fund giving more
Speaker 1: explicit like funding and permission to tech power to like
Speaker 1: do terror forming or like some geo engineering like that.
Speaker 1: There's there's gonna be something related to that sphere that
Speaker 1: is a it's going to get a lot more visible
Speaker 1: than it is. My big tech prediction is that there
Speaker 1: is going to be a crime against humanity at some
Speaker 1: point this year, like on a massive scale, not like
Speaker 1: just a mass shooting, but like a state level crime
Speaker 1: against humanity. And we're going to find out that for
Speaker 1: the last like eight months, Facebook had been paying the
Speaker 1: perpetrators a significant amount of money as a result of
Speaker 1: like some ill thought out ad program that they had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we're going to we're going to leave to Facebook
Speaker 1: actively funding and ethnic cleansing. Um, because some somebody thought
Speaker 1: up some sort of affiliate program that was not well conceived. Um.
Speaker 1: That's my fun tech industry prediction. My fun tech industry
Speaker 1: prediction is that, uh, Jeff Bezos will increasingly become the
Speaker 1: most cringe eest man in the world. Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: very funny that the picture him on New Year's he's
Speaker 1: just wearing a Dan Flash his shirt. He's he's absolutely
Speaker 1: wearing a Dan Flash his shirt and that's incredibly fine, Robert, Robert,
Speaker 1: that shirt costs him three thousand dollars because the pattern
Speaker 1: is so comp very complicated, and how much the lines crisscross.
Speaker 1: I I just I just don't like you insisting that
Speaker 1: it's not as much money. But despite its complicatedness, that
Speaker 1: that photo was my version of holiday Carne said to
Speaker 1: everyone I know. Um, yeah, I think I think we're
Speaker 1: going to see a lot more unions this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that does seem to be a positive trend that we're
Speaker 1: seeing is a lot more unionization and some significant successes
Speaker 1: for and and a lot more like like general acceptance
Speaker 1: of the concept of a union. Other prodiction related to
Speaker 1: to tech industry stuff, I think one of the billionaire
Speaker 1: space ships things is going to have a disastrous launch.
Speaker 1: Positive prediction of spaceship is gonna build up with people
Speaker 1: inside it as it tries to take off. That's that's
Speaker 1: my positive prediction. That it can take some people with it. Um,
Speaker 1: sorry to the people, Sorry to the workers who are
Speaker 1: gonna be probably harmed at that, but it can take
Speaker 1: some people out, So it's gonna be funny. Um, that
Speaker 1: is that's possibility. Also, Uh, there's gonna be a there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a disastrous effect. Uh around Austin is right
Speaker 1: that that's where that's where a lot of the spacehip
Speaker 1: stuff is getting set up. No, no, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: that's just where the offices are. It's like Chica. It's
Speaker 1: like on the coast of Texts, not close enough to Austin.
Speaker 1: Some some piece of a spaceship is gonna fly through
Speaker 1: someone's house. No one's gonna care about it. Um, there
Speaker 1: gets brought, gonna kill a family or something. No one's
Speaker 1: gonna care. Nothing's gonna happen. It'll be fine. That Those
Speaker 1: are my more my tech industry predictions related to spaceship stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um yeah. I I also think on on a more.
Speaker 1: I don't know how the current civil war in Myanmar
Speaker 1: is going to shake out, but I think there's a
Speaker 1: chance that it becomes the first kay place where there
Speaker 1: is a successful or at least partially successful revolutionary movement
Speaker 1: that is to a significant extent armed via three D
Speaker 1: printed weaponry. Um, they've all we've already seen a lot
Speaker 1: of that deployed by the rebels in Myanmar. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: interested in watching that because it's kind of the first
Speaker 1: time we've seen that technology used on a meaningful scale
Speaker 1: by people that aren't like organized crime. Um, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's still too early to tell, like how
Speaker 1: much of an actual like whether or not it's just
Speaker 1: kind of a distraction from the more meaningful aspects of
Speaker 1: the struggle, or the more meaningful like kind of deployments
Speaker 1: of weaponry and other tools and the struggle, or whether
Speaker 1: or not it will actually play a significant role in
Speaker 1: the armed struggle. But it's it's very much worth watching
Speaker 1: if you're somebody who pays attention to insurgent movements and
Speaker 1: what is increasingly possible as a result of new technology.
Speaker 1: I have another really bad prediction. J K. Rowling is
Speaker 1: going to release a book on gender. Go orci fund
Speaker 1: to YouTube channel, yeah something, I think. I think there's
Speaker 1: a decent chance she has been writing a book about
Speaker 1: gender and she's going to release in two I think
Speaker 1: that as an actual, actual series prediction, just go away,
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of liberal moms are gonna buy
Speaker 1: it for each other and they're gonna read it and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be bad. And that is that is my
Speaker 1: that's my that's my horrible prediction. She could be so
Speaker 1: beloved if she had limited her comments after publishing Harry Potter,
Speaker 1: if she repeatedly telling people that are constantly shifting their pants,
Speaker 1: if she just didn't use Twitter after anything at all,
Speaker 1: and she could have been a different person. Just it's
Speaker 1: it's the Dave Chappelle thing. Just stay off. We all
Speaker 1: we all would have loved you forever if you just
Speaker 1: just gone off and counted your money and left us alone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go be rich somewhere. It's fine to be done. It's
Speaker 1: fine to be done being famous and influential. You you had,
Speaker 1: you did great, you did great. You never needed to
Speaker 1: come back. She I don't she did. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if she did great? She did? She did? She did again.
Speaker 1: This is all colored. But if she had never back
Speaker 1: into the public eye, all it would have been as
Speaker 1: like you remember that lady who got like twelve year
Speaker 1: olds to read seven d page books that one time, Like,
Speaker 1: people would not be as critical of the actual content
Speaker 1: of the Harry Potter books. If she just hadn't kept
Speaker 1: coming back and saying ship so that and and and
Speaker 1: and then like didn't stop and then did not stop,
Speaker 1: and then was told bad, really really bad, and then
Speaker 1: kept doing it and kept doing it and kept doing
Speaker 1: it and kept doing it. You know what people should beat. Look,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're listening to this and you're a
Speaker 1: millionaire who was like hugely popular for some cultural reason
Speaker 1: in the late nineties and early two thousand's, think about
Speaker 1: Bill Waterson. Bill Waterson ends the most popular comic strip
Speaker 1: in the history of comics and spends the rest of
Speaker 1: his life and fucking Iowa painting landscapes and never talks
Speaker 1: to anybody with a platform again, And I everybody loves
Speaker 1: Bill Waterson. Like not a single person has a criticism
Speaker 1: of Bill Waterson. Um, just do that. Just do what
Speaker 1: he did. Just go paint landscapes in Iowa and don't
Speaker 1: talk to journalists or get on Twitter. It's fine. Does
Speaker 1: Bill Waterson believe regressive things about gender? Nobody knows because
Speaker 1: he doesn't say anything. I think another prediction that is
Speaker 1: actually decently possible. I think we will get more and
Speaker 1: more cities and or states to decriminalize hard drugs in
Speaker 1: in certain possession amounts UM. I think there is a
Speaker 1: there's a number of bills going around California, UM and
Speaker 1: a lot of other states, and I believe that will
Speaker 1: be start to become more and more common, which will
Speaker 1: be great. It would be nice if they get legalized.
Speaker 1: But you know, get get get what you can for now.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, speaking of drugs, Uh, here's CDD oil sponsored
Speaker 1: by heroin, by by big drug. Here we go have fun.
Speaker 1: They say we're back. And I just want to let
Speaker 1: everybody know that if if everything gets legalized, we will
Speaker 1: be sponsored by meth amphetamine so fucking quickly it will
Speaker 1: make your head spin. I will never turn down a
Speaker 1: drug sponsor, um, except for like super foods. We don't
Speaker 1: do super foods, we don't do brain pills, but heroin.
Speaker 1: I would advertise the ship out of heroin. I'm already
Speaker 1: ready to advertise hero the hair lost. Drugs we don't do,
Speaker 1: but heroin. M Hey is life depressing? You know, it'll
Speaker 1: make easier heroin. I hated that I helped that bit. Uh, Chris,
Speaker 1: you were you were saying something before break My My
Speaker 1: one serious prediction is I don't think we've I think
Speaker 1: we're going to get one more big like Latin American uprising,
Speaker 1: and it will not in Argentina. I have been eating
Speaker 1: ship for three goddamn years predicting it's gonna be Argentina.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, they're getting an IMF bailout. Like it's
Speaker 1: never Argentina. It won't be Argentina, it will be somewhere else.
Speaker 1: But someone is, someone is going to spend like two
Speaker 1: months doing a bunch of stuff that's extremely cool outside
Speaker 1: of Argentina. I kind of think, um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see what happens in Brazil because um,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get a sense for the exact numbers,
Speaker 1: but there's potential there. There is potential there with what's
Speaker 1: happened in Bolivia and what's happened in Chile, There's there's
Speaker 1: momentum in its exciting broad area. It was like I
Speaker 1: mean like the os there's shoot, there's like enormous protest
Speaker 1: in Brazil like all the time. Yeah, yeah, there's like massive.
Speaker 1: It just hasn't sort of like like it hasn't turned
Speaker 1: into like everyone fighting the cops and like yeah, and
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know if it will because like I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, this is this is this is
Speaker 1: my vibes based interpretation of it. But it feels like
Speaker 1: the the Workers Party has enough of a handle on
Speaker 1: the protests that they're not going to sort of like
Speaker 1: explode because the PT just wants to win its election
Speaker 1: and get out of Bulson Arrow. But well, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I mean the possibility of any kind of like actual
Speaker 1: revolutionary insurrection anything relies heavily on like that path not
Speaker 1: working for people, like they're not that they're not being
Speaker 1: that kind of safety. Then well, I mean I say this,
Speaker 1: if they arrest Lula again, like yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: bos like I think will die in his own ship,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, that might happen even if his party stays
Speaker 1: in power. I mean that he was actively dying as
Speaker 1: we would record this episode, which is very funny. Um
Speaker 1: I got as a result of one of our ad
Speaker 1: campaigns several or a picture frames uh this year, and
Speaker 1: right now we're loading one up. That's just pictures of
Speaker 1: sick Bulson Arrow to keep in my living room. So
Speaker 1: anytime I walk past, I can look at JayR. Bolson
Speaker 1: Naro and hacking up a lung or having ships sucked
Speaker 1: out of his nose from its um, I will say, oh,
Speaker 1: by my one more like very fast prediction about this
Speaker 1: is that Kissinger is gonna live. He's not gonna die. Damn.
Speaker 1: Chris allowed myself to hope for one for about I
Speaker 1: allow myself to hope for about eight hours and I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna live, but immediately wrong. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It would have been pretty cool if Betty White's last
Speaker 1: action had been some sort of anti TA takeout Kissinger.
Speaker 1: She becomes the most loved American and human history, like
Speaker 1: goes out just like jumping out of an airplane, Like
Speaker 1: she parachutes into Kissinger's house with a flancing knife. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, in Colorado, Oregon, or Washington, we're going to
Speaker 1: get our first safe uh drug injections side opened. I
Speaker 1: know they've been. There's pretty good shot they've been. They've
Speaker 1: been very successful inside different parts of Canada, specifically maybe Whover, BC.
Speaker 1: And I believe one of those three states is going
Speaker 1: to get the first one. Um, I hope it's all
Speaker 1: of them. You want to support some of those people
Speaker 1: up in Canada go to Heroin Martin by a shoot
Speaker 1: dope the cops hoodie. Yeah, but say like safe safe
Speaker 1: drug injection and ingestion sites are have been have been
Speaker 1: very good at preventing deaths in Vancouver, BC. And there's
Speaker 1: just a good idea in general. And I will be
Speaker 1: excited at the prospect they're an incredibly good idea and
Speaker 1: they also if you're trying to again talk about this
Speaker 1: to conservatives in your life, they're cheaper than just letting
Speaker 1: people be addicted to drugs on the street because people
Speaker 1: don't steal stuff. Also, they're heroin's free. Also, they won't
Speaker 1: have ridiculous medical bills. They get paid by the state,
Speaker 1: and they're more likely to seek treatment even if you
Speaker 1: don't mandate that, especially if you don't mandate that, because
Speaker 1: as a rule, people don't like having problematic addictions to drugs,
Speaker 1: and if they can deal with their immediate needs and
Speaker 1: also know that there's help available, they will often choose
Speaker 1: to get help. So and I think I have I
Speaker 1: have one more actual prediction is that a new Matrix
Speaker 1: video game will be announced, and that is that is
Speaker 1: all of my predictions. Oh, we should probably talk about
Speaker 1: Matrix for briefly. That's what the people want. Garrison it
Speaker 1: and and for the record, this is going to be
Speaker 1: controversial because some people have no taste, but we both
Speaker 1: think it fucking ruled. It is possibly the best Matrix film.
Speaker 1: It was really fun, it's it's very good. If you
Speaker 1: think about it for any amount of time, it gets
Speaker 1: very good in the way it addresses, um, the system's
Speaker 1: power to incorporate revolt as a part of the system,
Speaker 1: which was already teased inside me monetized aesthetic, yeah, reloaded,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like the matrix using the weapon that wants
Speaker 1: to find you against you, and the matrix weaponizing all
Speaker 1: of your ideas against you. UM is very good. UM.
Speaker 1: I know Lana put a lot of thought into this,
Speaker 1: particularly around who's she is, how she's developed, and how
Speaker 1: her work has been turned against her and what she believes. UM,
Speaker 1: both by like the people and also like corporately in
Speaker 1: terms of like achieving the correct amount of meta that
Speaker 1: it's not useless drivel while still actually being aware of
Speaker 1: what it is. UM. I think was done well. I
Speaker 1: know there's there's some people and like the postmodern thing,
Speaker 1: who think it don't, who think it doesn't go meta enough,
Speaker 1: And I think that's nonsense, because if you go any
Speaker 1: if you if you point out that pointing out that
Speaker 1: pointing out revolt against the system is part of the system,
Speaker 1: then you've lost everybody, Like no one cares because you
Speaker 1: can add on those layers endlessly and it's just dribble. Um.
Speaker 1: So I think they got the correct amount of meta. Well,
Speaker 1: then a band not not abandoned that idea but moving
Speaker 1: it on mean, like you know, you know, it's more
Speaker 1: important than being meta is making friends and finding human
Speaker 1: connections because going through the world like this isolated like
Speaker 1: Thomas Anderson is when he's in the Matrix, as like
Speaker 1: as as games that are a big part of that
Speaker 1: problem is that he's very nice. It did, and the
Speaker 1: whole point is like, no, you need to find friends,
Speaker 1: find connections, get like like be have people around you
Speaker 1: to build a network of and they actually start like
Speaker 1: like loving other people is really one of the only
Speaker 1: ways out of this looping cycle and layering of Matrix
Speaker 1: is that we always live in um. It was. It's
Speaker 1: a wonderful film. I can talk about I could. I
Speaker 1: could talk about it for hours, but we could do
Speaker 1: a whole podcast about why we enjoyed Matrix four um
Speaker 1: but it's it's pretty fun and my only the only
Speaker 1: thing I'll add to that is a lot of people
Speaker 1: fools is what I call them, are angry at the
Speaker 1: fact that it ended with the Brass Against cover of
Speaker 1: it was so good. It was, and it the cover
Speaker 1: of that song opens an exactly so that the singer,
Speaker 1: the lead singer of Brass Against became briefly famous mid
Speaker 1: late last year, um when during while playing that exact
Speaker 1: song on stage, sheinated into a fan's mouth and the
Speaker 1: song that the cover that ends the Matrix starts at
Speaker 1: exactly the moment where she pete in that guy's mouth
Speaker 1: during the live show. And I am certain that Lana
Speaker 1: Wachowski was planning to use the original Rage against the
Speaker 1: Machine version of that song, and then that news dropped
Speaker 1: and was like, well, let's get these Brass Against people.
Speaker 1: I I want, I want the pist song on other
Speaker 1: thing I want to They is reflecting on the analyst
Speaker 1: as a character and how he relates to kind of
Speaker 1: the meat space argument and how digital systems and algorithms
Speaker 1: and social media operates. He if you listen to him
Speaker 1: talk um and within the whole context, within the whole
Speaker 1: context of the film, he um. They think there's actually
Speaker 1: some more insightful points than what you might originally suspect
Speaker 1: around like social media UM and digital nous versus realness
Speaker 1: us UM just always you know, always a factor in
Speaker 1: in Matrix films. But the way the way they handle
Speaker 1: it in this film I think is a lot more
Speaker 1: mature than all the topics they handle in their previous films.
Speaker 1: And I mean there's just so many like really good,
Speaker 1: like single lines that offer like really good like oh wow,
Speaker 1: like that's just like a very good point, and then
Speaker 1: they just move past them so like so effortlessly, like
Speaker 1: you could focus on any one of those really good lines,
Speaker 1: and they just offer up so many and at many points.
Speaker 1: And I like that they turned the Mayor of Engian
Speaker 1: into Ted Kaczynski. Um, it's just fun. Like at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's just actually really fun and
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel exactly like the other movies in the series,
Speaker 1: which is what I want. I don't like reboots. I
Speaker 1: wasn't a fan of the Star Wars reboot because it
Speaker 1: was like I've seen this again, yeah, yeah, I like
Speaker 1: I like that it. I like that a lot of
Speaker 1: the action in this movie, right up until kind of
Speaker 1: the end, feels perfunctory and like I like like kind
Speaker 1: of saying like I don't care about this part anymore,
Speaker 1: Like I've done the guy's fighting agents and bullet time.
Speaker 1: Um that you know, at the end there's some more
Speaker 1: some more loving action set pieces, but like from the beginning.
Speaker 1: It's very much it's much more like a really fun
Speaker 1: commentary on how Hollywood works and how the video game
Speaker 1: industry works. There's a fucking mass effect joke in there.
Speaker 1: There's a joke about like the nineteen nine or two
Speaker 1: thousand Matrix video game that happened before Garrison was born.
Speaker 1: It's so fun. It's it's just a lot of fun
Speaker 1: as a movie. It's rad m well, um any any
Speaker 1: other final final predictions before we wrap up this this
Speaker 1: extremely well thought through episode that we've report our hearts
Speaker 1: and minds into. We really did. Dr oz is going
Speaker 1: to go down in flames. Oh I hope so, oh man.
Speaker 1: I really have no idea what to expect from I
Speaker 1: have no idea. I'm not making I'm not making any
Speaker 1: prediction on that because I too have no idea. The
Speaker 1: only thing that I'll say is that one way or
Speaker 1: the other, it's going to be a bell weather. If
Speaker 1: it like goes great for him and he wins easily,
Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot more like Dr phil
Speaker 1: is absolutely rolling into Congress. If that works for oz
Speaker 1: Um and other other people who are kind of occupy
Speaker 1: similar cultural spaces will do the same thing and then
Speaker 1: we'll have congressional inquiries about whether or not this simple
Speaker 1: trick will burn belly fat. It's gonna if it's like like,
Speaker 1: if that's what happens, Like the think the thing Trump
Speaker 1: is going to be remembered for like is being like, well,
Speaker 1: the thing the thing Reagan is going to be remembered
Speaker 1: for is being just like like fifty years ahead of
Speaker 1: his time before we're literally all entirely ruled by just
Speaker 1: reality TV stars mm hm, whose wives are great at
Speaker 1: giving a head? Should I? Did anyone? Did everyone already
Speaker 1: forget that Nancy Reagan throat goat discourse? Discourse? Everyone was
Speaker 1: so exhausted. Yeah, if you didn't catch this, it's a
Speaker 1: very well known secret and has been for like fifty
Speaker 1: years that back before they got married and probably after.
Speaker 1: Nancy was famous for giving the best blow jobs in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: as as as Garrison tosses the cat every single episode.
Speaker 1: So I disdained this discourse. Now, yeah, two, it's a year,
Speaker 1: We're in it. Okay. My last prediction is I actually
Speaker 1: do think this year is gonna suck slightly less. Did
Speaker 1: Now this is probably the big one. I'm gonna eat
Speaker 1: it on, but like hopefully happen. Hopefully you're right about it.
Speaker 1: So I'm um, no, yeah, I think that there's a
Speaker 1: decent chance that we're that it's better. Um, it's at
Speaker 1: least in some ways. The climate stuff, as it nearly
Speaker 1: always will for the foreseeable future, will keep getting worse.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think there's actually a chance that COVID
Speaker 1: will get better, not because of any policy decision, but
Speaker 1: because Macron literally nine of human beings and in the
Speaker 1: world get it, and those that survive COVID stops passing
Speaker 1: on as much, which is kind of vaguely speaking, what
Speaker 1: happened with you know, the influenza. I will be probably
Speaker 1: foolish in making one more prediction, that is, like around
Speaker 1: the fall, we will not see spikes as big as
Speaker 1: we saw this last year. Um. I I do think
Speaker 1: there will probably still be some, but I do think
Speaker 1: the numbers are going to be generally trending down. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: after O Macron hits its peak, just because how many
Speaker 1: people will get infected, how many antibodies plus vaccines will
Speaker 1: be circulating, um, And how many people have already been
Speaker 1: who don't take the vaccine have will already have like
Speaker 1: died off. It's I do not saying that to be
Speaker 1: like flip into to be like but it's like, I
Speaker 1: just that's what's the world is that it's the world
Speaker 1: that we live in. I hate it, but I do
Speaker 1: hope and I do hope and some slightly predict that
Speaker 1: we'll have less less spiking numbers around this next fall
Speaker 1: and winter as we did of this current you know,
Speaker 1: fall and winter season. I wouldn't mind ending on a
Speaker 1: note of appreciation for the fucking booster because we got it.
Speaker 1: You and I both garrison, as did most of our friends,
Speaker 1: and had just a shipload of COVID flying around us everywhere.
Speaker 1: I love a lot of infections, and we were fine, fine.
Speaker 1: I have one of my friends got COVID and her mom,
Speaker 1: who they lived in the same house, did not has
Speaker 1: not gotten COVID because they're wearing masks and they got
Speaker 1: the booster. And for for all my friends that that
Speaker 1: did get COVID that had that were boosted, the vaccine
Speaker 1: didn't shop there. You're not in the hospital. You're double
Speaker 1: test positive on a rapid test and then test negative
Speaker 1: on a PCR, probably because by the time he got
Speaker 1: to the PCR, like the next day, his viral load
Speaker 1: was just so fucking low. Um, get the third vacs,
Speaker 1: the vaccine works. Who could have predicted? Who could have predicted?
Speaker 1: The things that are literally the entire basis of our
Speaker 1: modern concept of the value of human life continue to
Speaker 1: be very effective. All right? Well that that doesn't for us,
Speaker 1: Um unplugged, Go spend time outside, touch grass, touch your mirror,
Speaker 1: like trying to go through it, because trying to go
Speaker 1: through your um, what's real? What's not? See if see
Speaker 1: if maybe you were the digital Messiah and you have
Speaker 1: been trapped in a simulation where you work at a
Speaker 1: food lion, um and and you can break free of it, um,
Speaker 1: but not fly anymore because now your girlfriends he does
Speaker 1: he does fly with Trinity at the end, he does
Speaker 1: fly with Trinity, sure m, just as we all can
Speaker 1: only fly with with Cary, well with carry at Masson's Yeah, specifically,
Speaker 1: who has gotten so much hotter as they did? All right, Well,
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