WEBVTT - NFT Shows Vs. Quality, Creator Economy Vs. Art, and COVID Variants Vs. Us 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.120 Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:20.680 Radio Well ever together everything, So don't don't don't Hello 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:28.639 America and other nations on the globe Earth? What is that? 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.080 How are we we are in the year? It is 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.000 the worst year, but it's not a great year ever. No, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.000 it's not. It's not the greatest year ever. But maybe 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.879 it is for you personally, if you're listening. And if 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.720 I hope so, I hope schule like Peter Teal or 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.320 somebody you know. Well, yeah, why is his name spelled 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:53.800 like that? That's your issue with Peter deal. I was 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:58.480 reading every time I see his name, I read it wrong, 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.640 even though I know what his name is. So style 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:11.760 feel blood coursing through his veins. Um, hey, hi guys, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.720 we just caught up for a while before we started recording. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.120 But at this point in the episode, I want to 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.600 ask you, how are you doing and how is your Thanksgiving? 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.840 Because our listeners don't know Cody, you're super open about 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:28.480 all of your private life. Give them details with the 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.520 happenings of my personal life. Um, I like there being 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.760 no dividing line between me recording my thoughts and me 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.160 living my life. Hello, it was fine. I went to 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.200 meet some of my girlfriend's family. Um, and uh that 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:49.160 was nice and pleasant, and we ate and then eventually 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.800 we left cool, nice and that is That is the 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:58.120 end of my very detailed Robert. Robert got drunk and 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.440 um cooked an alligator. I did. I did get drunk 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.040 and cooked cooked gator. Well, I cooked a gator in 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.560 the proper way to cook that animal, and in the 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.480 method that I was using, which was a pit fire. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.440 Is to drink heavily and measure the passage of time 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.560 by how many drinks you've had. And by the time 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.280 you've blacked out and people have to fight you in 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.760 order to remove the gator from the fire, the gator 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.520 is probably properly cooked. And in this I think your 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.000 next book should be like a cookbook. I would have 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.239 one meal on it and it's thrown in a hole. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.359 But like most of the recipe, most of the recipe 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.520 is your adventure during the day as you're getting drunk. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.960 Do you know what I mean. It's not really a cookbook, 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:46.360 It's just a story cooking experience. UM, My Thanksgiving was nice, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:53.000 Thank you. I talked about how grateful I was for 0:02:53.080 --> 0:03:02.040 friends like you. That's nice and yeah, definitely true, definitely 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:09.240 a true thing. Um. Should we talk about some news perhaps? 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.960 I mean, I don't know if Katie, Katie, we should Well, 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.640 I guess we'll start with the story that you most 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.680 wanted to talk about this week, because the story I 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:26.000 want to talk about very selfish about. Nope, nope, nope. Wait, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.520 hold up, this isn't the story that I most wanted 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.400 to talk about this week. I think that we do 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.400 need to talk about it. I have another story that 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.400 I most wanted to talk about and that I actually 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.320 prepped to talk about. Um, this way I imagined would 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.119 be a conversation. But Sophie wanted us to talk about 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.680 this first, and she's probably correct. Okay, well whatever, she 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.920 is probably correct. Three men were convicted of murder last 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.840 Wednesday in the killing of Ahmad are very um, and 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.240 all three of them are facing a mandatory life sentence 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.640 in prison. Um, although we'll see, uh, you know, they're 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.720 going to appeal it. Already. Have talked about this, um, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.680 and it's good, right, it's good. This is a good thing. Yeah. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.600 I mean, it's like the only reason I wasn't. There's 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.320 not a whole lot to say about it. It's um, Yeah, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:20.000 it's the I think minimum you can expect when a 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:24.599 man is lynched. Uh, yeah, that's that's, that's what it is. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.440 And I'm glad that they didn't get off because that 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.680 would have been a much more dangerous precedent, I think 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.159 than anything that could have come out of the written 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.039 house case. In a lot of ways. Absolutely, but yeah, 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.400 I mean it's it's the thing happened that is not 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.160 the worst thing that could have happened. So good. There 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:49.200 are some bigger conversations within it, though, Um. Part of 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.360 it is the way that the trial went out and 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:56.440 the the tactics. So obviously this is a trial about race. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:00.600 There's you appropriately describe it as an ching because that's 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.520 what it was, but that's not what was on trial 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.080 necessarily within this and there was a lot of criticism 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.320 throughout it, um, but ultimately it paid off. You know, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.440 I was listening to interviews and reading things, you know, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:18.400 and and it was a majority white jury, and I 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:23.240 think there was a case of the prosecution didn't necessarily 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.640 want to antagonize the mostly white jury, and so you know, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.040 that wasn't necessarily the specific angle. I mean, it was, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:36.039 but it was just a bit coded, you know, UM, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.840 and it worked, But there's something in me that's like, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.320 I you know, and I know that the federal trial 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.080 will will focus more about the specific specificity of it 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.000 being a hate crime. So there is that UM treating 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.360 the delicate jury with their little kid gloves. Yeah, and like, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.800 I don't know, you guys see this the d A, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:04.000 the defense closing statements. I believe they described they described 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:09.320 him as having dirty feet. Um, you know. And again 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.000 it's what makes my I mean, there's so so much 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.240 about this, it's awful, but she literally said that that's 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.560 unpopular to say, but I'm proud to say it, or 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.440 something to that effect. It's not like there's stuff to 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.360 unpack here, but I do feel it's important to address 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.800 that thing that is happening. That it's happening, it's continues 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:33.200 to happen. What what worked, what didn't? How depressing that 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:38.359 fucking is like that even in this this this trial 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.680 of I hate crying, we're not talking about um race. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.800 Even in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial, we're not talking about the 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.760 fact that the why as to why he was there, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.920 who he felt needed to be protected, and who didn't. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.400 You know, it's just um buildings needed to be yes, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:06.800 what needed to be protected, but yeah, yeah, I mean 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.040 it's I don't know. I don't know what to say 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.880 on these cases. I I don't think there's any real 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.640 solution through the legal system to this kind of thing. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.840 Uh So, I don't know. That is the most I 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.400 can say is that like, yeah, this, this isn't the 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.760 worst thing that could have happened, so good. Yeah. Um. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:30.960 A lot of these I mean a lot of these 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.920 trials are sort of like the public like aspects of 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.360 the public, like making seeing if they have permission, yeah, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.640 do things. And I guess it's good that we were like, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.160 well not in this case. This is a little much, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.400 So okay, adjust your behavior slightly. I guess I would 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.440 like to be able to call it what it is 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.320 in the trial that everybody's watching. I would like that. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.320 I would like us to be living in a world 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:04.120 where you're not treating the white jury with more respect 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:09.280 than the person who was murdered. You know, there was 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.560 this whole thing. I I don't know the specifics of it, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.720 but there was this whole piece of evidence that they 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.560 didn't bring up. It was something to do with their 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:20.559 license plate holder um that would help present the case 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.560 that it was racially motivated. Um, but they didn't because 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.000 there's a good chance that some of the jurors had 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.480 that same license plate, you know. Yeah, what was the 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.640 conferate is a Confederate flag plate. Yeah, that makes sense. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.320 It's the kind of thing that like racist habit and 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.520 people who don't realize that it's racist, so they don't 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.559 want to bring this up in the trial. But yeah, 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.080 it's one of those things. We're dancing around it. But 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.240 why we should be getting We should be at a 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.880 point here in America where we can point it out 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.319 and understand what it means and what represents. But we're not. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.800 It means States rights and nothing else. So, UM, wait 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:11.640 for you all? Sorry, go ahead, No, I just give 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.080 the FORLORDA Robert if he would rather talk about his thing. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.920 I mean, what, what when? Why don't we go on 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:24.680 with your thank Katie? I was just being fun. I 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.160 don't know that we have much more to say. I'm 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.000 glad it went the way that it did. Then it's 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.320 time to talk about the thing that I think is 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.800 the most important issue facing our nation right now, which 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.000 is the n f T cartoon show. Um that I 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:46.160 made you both watch? Yes you did? How dare you first? 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.320 So for some context, there's n f T s. If 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.440 you're not aware, you should know the basis if you 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.760 listen to this show. But the way that it is evolved. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.680 Earlier in the year, it was like a bunch of 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.560 different kind of unique pieces of art, some of which 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.440 sold for ridiculous amounts of money. Um, and then that 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.600 bubble kind of collapsed after a while um. And the 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.680 way to prop up the bubble next turned out to 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:14.000 be launching these sets of usually ten thousand procedurally generated 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:19.160 animal drawings of like lions holding blunts and ship um, 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.760 dumb stuff, a lot of apes, and some of these 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.680 have been very successful. Some of them have sold for 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.080 millions of dollars. Most of those are are just money laundering, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.400 Like the big half billion dollar sale was a guy 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.080 buying his own n f T and then transferring the 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.720 money back into his wallet in order to like raise 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.160 the price to try to con someone else to actually 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.599 spending that much money on is n f T UM. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.960 So you've got all these monkeys, like the board Ape 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.520 Yacht Club, which just they made a big partnership with 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.080 it was Rolling Stone. They're like all over the place 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.320 they've been doing ads in Times Square, like there's a 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.120 lot of money in these right now. And the basics 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.040 of it is like you buy one of these n 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.280 f T s that's drawing of a monkey again like 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.920 smoking a U or some ship, and they're all the 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.480 same monkey. All the drawings are nearly identical apes and 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.200 yeah apes apes. And when you have that, you both 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.240 have this n f T that you could sell. You 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.320 also get access to like a chat room that they 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.240 all hang out in. That's a big part of it. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:21.120 They have like a discord Yeah, and Jimmy Fallon's got one, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.640 so Cody, you could you could be chatting with Jimmy 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.600 Fallon on the reg if you if you get aboard 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.960 ape come on, man, you you you text me every day? 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:38.280 I wonder what Jimmy Fallon's And then you go into 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.520 a chat room. Yeah, you get access to like a 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.400 chat room and they have there's like this just a 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:48.240 bad avatar kind of yeah. Because there's also there's this 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.960 a bunch of these different things, so like one thing 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.520 that exists or long. This is like this kind of 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.480 second lifestyle MMO where you can like own digital real estate. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:59.839 And so some people are buying n f T s 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:03.280 the also unlock like buildings or boats or whatever in 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.280 this game. Anyway, there's a bunch of dumb ship n 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.160 f T s are there's there's a ton of there's 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:08.480 a ton of dumb ship with n f T s. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.600 We don't need to go into it too much. No 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.160 fucking time, am I. Right? Yeah, so you've got you've 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.200 got all these stupid monkey clubs that people are joining. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.599 And one of the things that n f T s 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.840 on their own give you nothing but individual n f 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.800 T s, Like if you buy one of these board ape, 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.559 yacht club apes or some of the other big n 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.240 f T kits, you gain the rights to license your 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:36.480 character which you were again almost identical generated drawings of monkeys. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.680 You could make your own drawing of a monkey and 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:44.679 license that. I know you do have that, right, Katie. Um. Unbelievable. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.240 So some some guys launched what they're bragging is the 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.160 first n f T cartoon, and whenever you whenever I've 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.840 actually gone into the comments, a bunch of n f 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.800 ten neards have been like, actually there's another one that's 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.280 much earlier. Yeah, I don't care, it's probably dumb too, um, 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.040 but they're big selling point that like all of the 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.320 main characters on the show, we're all like licensed from 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.120 people who just own n f t s and the 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.040 background characters are licensing. And this is how everything's gonna 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.240 work in the future. This is how every like show 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.360 is going to be funded. Like you'll buy n f 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.320 t s and then you'll have the licensing rights to 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.040 that little character in this show except for we'll talk 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:20.640 about the show in a bit, but like that's the 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.319 idea that like, this is how it's going to revolutionize entertainment. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.120 Is people will You'll say, hey, I want to do 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.440 a show about a bunch of monkeys on on Mars, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.120 and uh, we'll be using avatars from this set of 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.600 characters and people will buy them and then that money 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.320 funds your show, right, Like that's the idea, and it's 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.560 good for the people funding it because they can license 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.640 the characters if they I'm sure. The way there's something 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.880 is like imagine if like you bought Homer Simpson for 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.600 like fifty dollars to fund the Simpsons, Like how much 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:53.160 money would you have now? Um by kind of the 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.240 sales pitch, right this is I know it's already been 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.400 pitched and it's happening, and there's nothing to be done about. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.959 What a terrible idea, What a terrible, stupid, stupid, anti 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.920 creative idea. Like I don't we don't need to spend 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.240 too much time on this, but that is really depressing 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:18.559 and just horrific approach to art. It's obviously like not 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:24.080 you know every TV shows like differently, that is horrendous. Um, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.040 I am so bummed out to know that that is 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.160 definitely the future of at least a good portion of 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.560 entertainment and art. Well, I don't know that it is 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.240 because so we just watched the first Well it's really good, 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.080 so I think the Ape Family. You can find it 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.160 on YouTube. It had like a hundred and fifty thousand 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.920 views when I watched it, most of which I think 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.240 have come since people started making fun of it online. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.320 It was like like forty or fifty thousand views when 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.920 I watched it and started tweeting about it. Um, so 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.240 you guys watched it? What what what did you think? Views? 0:14:55.400 --> 0:15:00.760 It was so bad? Robert, it was so bad. It's 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:05.280 really bad. Um. And I don't know if I was 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:10.640 just um busy being mad at it or if it 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.920 doesn't have a plot, but I don't. I don't know 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.600 what's going on. I don't know. Just when do you 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.400 want to take a stab at describing the plot of 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.520 this episode. They are some sort of a highest go 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:28.400 to head Cody. There are some apes and the hell 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.800 have really bad. They're the worst voice actors I've ever heard. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.760 The woman sounds like a robot woman, one of those 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.600 tex when he got their friends to do it. Yeah, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.680 and the accents are all over the map. They're all 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:49.360 over the place. Mixing is shit. Like. Even beyond the accents, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.120 you can tell every character was a voice recorded in 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.680 a room thousands of miles apart, right, which ideally you 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.400 shouldn't like even in a good podcast, it should quite 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.560 sound like that, you know. But they all feel like 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.280 they are on in their own stories. That's what it 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:11.440 felt like. Plot. Yeah, there was no story. Weird things 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.120 just for sake of being weird. They're not like rooted 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.560 in some character motivation or you know what I mean, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.760 like a well thought out Yeah, some of it, but 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.240 like you anyway, go ahead, I mean some of the 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.600 Like the randomness you're talking about is very much like 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:33.880 trying to mine uh, like the adults swim uh sort 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:38.120 of like tone yeah, but they're not. But but it's like, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.280 forgive the phrase they're aping stuff like they're like they're 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.520 taking a stuff that exists and doing like a shadow 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.280 of a shadow of a shadow of a shadow of it, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.280 so that it doesn't make sense, like like even the 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.240 like blank months earlier, like two hours earlier, whatever, isn't 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.080 that just like a SpongeBob thing. Yeah, I mean there's 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:02.600 a few. Yeah, it's it's it's funny because in terms 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.199 of like thinking about not funny, but the situation, the 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.680 situation in terms of like what their influences are, because 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.000 I think that's a fascinating thing to discuss. Is like 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.199 what they're trying to do here. I see bits of 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:18.960 like Xavier Renegade Angel. I see like bits of of 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.639 a couple of things, including like Aquitine hunger Force. But 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.159 more than anything, I think it's Rick and Morty uh 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:26.639 and yeah, and I think the thing that they're trying 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.920 I think like if I could, if I could go back, 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.639 if I could guess what the pitch was in whatever 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.000 fucking discord room for people who own monkey drawings this 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.720 was dreamed up in um, it would be something like, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.280 you know, the cool thing about Rick and Morty is 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.680 they've got all these kookie characters from all around the 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.240 universe all the time. Right, Well, there's all these wacky 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.080 and f T characters. We could make a show like that, 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.080 but everybody like we license people's in f T s 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.400 and that'll show people this is a good idea and 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.240 the problem with that. And if you if you look 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.880 at the I think the individual who's humor their most 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.560 again aping here is Justin Royland, right Like that's they're 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.680 really trying to do a lot of Justin Royland. And 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.120 if you look at the show that got us Rick 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.679 and Morty, like the show that was adapted into Rick 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.040 and Morty was like a series of short animated skets, 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.280 just sketches Justin did called Doc and Marty, which is 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.560 like a parody of Back to the Future if the 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.280 Doc was constantly trying to molest a child. Um, Like 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.920 that really is the joke. And about eight five eight 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:31.959 something like that years ago, whenever it came out, it 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.440 was funny for the first like fifteen minutes or so, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:39.159 maybe like generously um. And otherwise the main thing you said, oh, 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.520 Justin Royland is really good at voices, um. And it 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.919 was not actually funny and missing the mark on the 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.880 concept here. The thing that became the reason it's whether 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:50.800 you like it or not, it's a successful show, right, 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.920 It's the biggest animated show in the world. The thing 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.240 that made it a successful animated show, I'm not going 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.040 to take a value judgment about it, was that they 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.640 took the things that Justin Royland was good at, which 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.720 was being occasionally wacky and random in a way that 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.719 was somewhat creative and good at doing voices, and they 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.000 married it to a team of really good writers and 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.400 another guy, Dan Harmon, who is excellent at story structure. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.240 And so the thing about Rick and Morty's as random 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.240 and silly as some of the comedy is like, there's 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.639 always a really pretty tight structure to the stories because 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.600 it's made by people who care about telling stories. There's 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.320 not a story here. There's there's not really jokes because 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.760 they're too random to even be jokes. Can I interject 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.199 real quick and say that we need to take an 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.600 ad break and then come back pick this up, Cody 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:40.400 hold that thought. I got it. Behind the curtain, We're 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.120 really not going anywhere. I just got to say that 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.080 we are so that we can put the ads into 0:19:45.240 --> 0:20:01.639 right here, we're right here, everything back a what were 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:06.240 you going to say that the apes deserve the Emmy's um? 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:12.119 That will just in terms of Robert what you're talking about. 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:18.000 The even the thing is like randomness can be funny 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.159 if you expect a certain thing and then like, oh 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.439 I'm surprised, so I laugh. But even the the quote 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.520 randomness on a show like Rick and Morty, there is 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:29.560 a Rhymann reason to it. There are expectations that that 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.600 you are given and then those expectations are subverted, like 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:39.800 there is a structure to even just the seemingly unstructured parts. Um. 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:41.719 And obviously like they're going to improvise and do like 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.640 bits and stuff like a bunch of what the two 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.280 brothers like all that kind of stuff like that is funny, um, 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:53.919 but there's nothing here that indicates like thought beyond like, oh, 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:58.119 random thing, right, UM. I have one big note for it. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:20:59.840 And I don't know if this was on purpose or not, 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:04.120 but in the episode, the mother Ape refers to her 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.800 children as these two little monkeys, and when I was 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.000 watching it, my thought was, they're not monkeys, they're apes. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:15.480 And then later on somebody calls them all monkeys, and 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.560 the mother's like, we're apes, We're not monkeys. Do you 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.960 see a tail? And I am not sure they did 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:26.560 that on purpose. Yeah, I don't know either. I'm like 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:32.880 fifty on whether or not they just overlooked the first part. Yeah, 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:35.479 it's just like it's just because it's supposed to be 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:37.960 saying something about her as a character, they're missing them. 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:39.760 They're not doing it right. I don't know what they're 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.359 trying to say. Is this like an in joke? I 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.960 don't know. Yeah, So are spending a lot of time 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:50.560 talking about it's the most important story in the world. Well, 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.840 it is, like because it's not the It's not the 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:57.040 only thing that's that's gonna be this. It's not the 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:01.240 only like license like weird to Eric avatars turned into 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:05.000 a show by people who have no like actually like 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:08.840 creative output. Um, this will be a good segue into 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.879 a thing I want to talk about briefly, which is 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.320 Mr Beasts squid Game. First, I have one more thing 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.600 to say about this video, please. One good thing about 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:22.240 the video and also embarrassing, is that there are literally 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:27.320 two minutes of end credits. Oh yeah, and because they've 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.240 got to give all the people who'se n F T s. 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:31.960 They used credit minutes of end credits out of an 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.560 eight minute video. What do you Know is produced by 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:40.960 two Chains and its music by two Chains. I can't 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:47.600 believe that. Man um I like, I likes I like 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:53.080 this catchphrase fuck yeah very so many times. It's so 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.240 it's just such a it's I mean again, swear words 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:00.600 are the only joke they really have. Uh, it's it's 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:07.640 just the lamest thing in the world. The ship they're 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:13.840 going to Muskville on March embarrassing. Uh, Cody do your transition. 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.480 And the other thing that I speaking of content that 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:21.960 is not creative and the death of art um so 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:27.760 Mr Beast if you're familiar. Uh, he's like gaming YouTuber 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:31.560 kind of all those sorts of things that you would 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:33.240 think of. He does a lot of events like I 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:37.080 paid this sucking person ten tho dollars if they fuck 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:41.119 their mother and we're gonna see if they do. Um. 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.119 Not that that's not exact example, but that kind of thing, 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:46.280 like I'm gonna like give him money and see what 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:49.280 they fucking do. I think we should do that. But 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:52.159 for members of Congress and the thing that we have 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:56.640 them do, should always be having sex with a dead pick. Yeah. 0:23:57.240 --> 0:24:00.240 Just hey, that pig was alive in black, and I 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:02.200 think we should rule so that that is the only 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:05.440 legal form of campaign contribution and it has to be filmed. 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:07.320 So if you want to run and you want to 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:09.800 use money to run, more power to you. You're gonna 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:16.359 do if you're running a billion dollar president. Yeah, so 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.800 Iphie wanted us to mention the doctor that doctor Oz 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:22.600 is running for a future pig fucker, doctor Oz, but 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:26.840 now possibly current pig. It's the idea that like every 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:29.280 time someone announces like I will I am putting my 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:31.720 hat in the ring for president in the United States, 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:35.280 we can call them all future pig fuckers. I am 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:37.120 putting out I had in the ring, and I am 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:41.560 putting my dick in that pigs campaign finance form for you. 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:43.920 Can we make a hat that's his future big bucks, 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:50.399 a future pigfucker every president. Yeah, there's something there. Someone 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:53.760 hit us up with a design for that. Okay, for 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:56.119 all your future pig fuckers out there. Um. Yeah, so 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:58.280 Mr PC does this kind of thing and like whatever, 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:00.840 not my cup of tea, maybe your cup of tea, 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:04.840 that's cool. Um. But then a show called squid Game 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:09.040 came out, and that show is about people doing people 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:12.320 who are desperate for money doing things that maybe they 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:15.960 wouldn't do if they weren't desperate for money, like let 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:20.560 each other die or literally kill each other. Um. And 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:23.399 I don't know if you've watched the show, it's still 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:28.280 haven't but at this point I guess I, well, I'll 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:30.360 try to keep a spoiler free, but more or less, 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:33.879 it's a game of murder, uh, for money, for the 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:39.000 entertainment of the wealthy. And uh. So that show is 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:42.480 a success because it's good. Um, I think it's good. 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:44.919 Some people don't, and that's fine. Some people don't like 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:49.560 it because they think it's pro communism or pro capitalism 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:52.360 or some interpretation. I don't know it is. I mean, 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:55.880 it's objectively like the most successful thing Netflix has ever 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:58.960 had on right. I think listeners of the show are 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.440 familiar by now because we have talked about it, definitely 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:09.000 talked about the shallow pool uh tempooles. I have not 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:12.119 watched it because watching literally anything would get in the 0:26:12.119 --> 0:26:15.520 way of rewatching King of the Hill for the tenth time. 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:18.199 I understand that the thing I'm primarily doing, but it 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.440 sounds like it's good. It's good. I like, I like it. 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:28.920 I'm watching something else. Um, it's very good, I think, 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:32.080 And it's about that. Mr Beast was like, well, I'm 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:35.600 gonna do the squid games. I'm gonna build the squid 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:38.360 games from incredible and he did it, so if I'm 0:26:38.359 --> 0:26:42.760 not mistaken, And the show is about how dystopian and 0:26:42.800 --> 0:26:46.120 horrific it would be if people were forced to compete 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:49.840 with each other in and and like their loved ones 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:54.960 in horrible ways in order to make money because they 0:26:55.000 --> 0:26:58.840 desperately need money. And a guy made a show where 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:02.119 people competed with their ones in order to make money 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:05.800 and they didn't die, thankfully, But like otherwise it he 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:08.360 just did the thing. He just it's not like a parody. 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:10.760 It's not a commentary. He just did the same thing. 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:15.240 But murder um, Yeah, there's not there's no murder. Nobody dies. Um. 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:20.720 But it is good. Yeah, it's just the games from 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:25.400 the thing from the show without the murder um, which again, yes, 0:27:25.440 --> 0:27:28.000 it is good. Um, but there's no you know, I 0:27:28.000 --> 0:27:31.240 I skimmed it. I gave it a little glance. Um, 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:36.000 there's no like commentary on the thing. There's no drawing 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:41.000 connections to what they're doing and and the show they're 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:44.639 like aping. Um, it's not a parody, it's just is 0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:48.399 the thing. Um. And at the very end, instead of 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:52.159 playing squid game they do musical chairs, which very disappointed 0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:56.639 in them for doing that. Um, but uh, it's mostly 0:27:56.640 --> 0:27:59.000 I mostly just want to talk about this tweet um 0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:01.720 that has since deleted actually on account of how bad 0:28:01.760 --> 0:28:05.720 it was. Mr Best squid game video a hundred and 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:08.399 three million views in four days. It took seven weeks 0:28:08.440 --> 0:28:11.920 to make Netflix's Squid Game series a hundred eleven million 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:14.720 views in thirty days. It took ten years to make 0:28:15.160 --> 0:28:19.719 more views, less time, fewer gatekeepers. That's the promise of 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:25.320 the creator economy. Here with this, this is so depressing, 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:30.040 it's stupid. It's stupid. Well, and the thing is and 0:28:30.359 --> 0:28:33.439 the thing that maybe more people should be aware of 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:36.320 this person in particular, And like Mr Beast, I guess 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:41.680 I don't know. There's content creators and then there's art, 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:46.600 and they're not the same thing. Sometimes they're the same thing. Yeah, 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:54.040 his his his thing doesn't exist without the original, without 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:57.959 the concept, without nobody would you care about it? Otherwise 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:02.760 you you leached off of something that already existed. You 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:08.280 didn't create anything, right, or your success is like if 0:29:08.320 --> 0:29:10.640 you're looking if you're trying to develop, like if you're 0:29:10.640 --> 0:29:14.880 trying to like lad your out the achievements of like 0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:18.640 artists or the creator economy, like as as if their 0:29:18.720 --> 0:29:22.760 verses each other. Then your success goes on the ledger 0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:25.680 of the guy who made Squid Game, because there would 0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:28.440 be nothing for you to do exactly. Also probably owe 0:29:28.520 --> 0:29:31.400 him money or something. You may be breaking the law. 0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:34.960 I know people are talking about it. From what I've read, 0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:40.640 doesn't seem like a lawsuit, dude, but no, he he 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:44.400 recreated the set from the show, which was meticulously designed 0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:47.480 by artists. Uh, it does seem like he broke the 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:51.000 law a bit right, But like, but no, I think 0:29:51.040 --> 0:29:53.000 you can call a parody or whatever even though it's not. 0:29:53.200 --> 0:29:57.520 It's just doing the thing um transformative about it. It 0:29:57.600 --> 0:29:59.800 took ten years aside from the fact that like people 0:29:59.800 --> 0:30:02.520 do by the show and didn't want to make the show. 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:06.920 It takes a long time to create art from whole cloth, 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:08.760 and like what do the sets look like? Oh? What 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:11.080 if it's this? What if there's some meaning here? Like 0:30:11.120 --> 0:30:15.440 you're infusing meaning into the visuals of your show because 0:30:15.440 --> 0:30:18.200 you're making art, you're not making content in a couple 0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:21.080 of weeks so that you can just like it's it. 0:30:22.240 --> 0:30:26.240 The tweet is accurate, um, And it's depressing that it's accurate, 0:30:26.280 --> 0:30:33.280 because again, like Mr Beast, you're doing this video about 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:37.520 a show that is kind of about what you do. 0:30:38.240 --> 0:30:41.040 Like obviously you don't like put them in dangerous like 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:44.840 situations where they have to die, but you're paying people 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:47.680 lots of money to do things that they don't want 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:52.560 to do, um because they're desperate for the money. Um. 0:30:52.640 --> 0:30:55.440 So there's just a huge disconnect there that kind of 0:30:55.480 --> 0:31:01.800 bums me out. It's fine, it's successful, and we we 0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:06.760 love it. Actually doesn't sound like but yeah, I just 0:31:06.760 --> 0:31:09.400 saw that and I had to this is this is 0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:11.880 this is apparently the show where I talked about the 0:31:11.880 --> 0:31:15.880 squid game every couple of weeks um. And so we 0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:18.760 don't know like our purview is anymore. So why the 0:31:18.760 --> 0:31:24.840 hell not? Do you guys want to take another quick break? Oh? God, 0:31:24.880 --> 0:31:28.120 I love quick breaks. That's that's the thing that I 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:30.720 was really wanting. I was just about to text to Sophie, 0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:32.960 you know it would be good Right now, I'm gonna 0:31:33.320 --> 0:31:45.920 quick breaking quick, fucking break quick, his hell, babyget everything, 0:31:46.480 --> 0:31:55.800 don't don't don't and we are back a package. I 0:31:55.800 --> 0:31:58.760 thought more about the Red Ape family. You have more 0:31:58.800 --> 0:32:04.160 to say, No, I mean yes, always do something else 0:32:04.160 --> 0:32:08.400 to talk about, please least I love. I love talking 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:11.000 about other goods. Is it about the future of content 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:13.960 and now it's going to be really good? No? Hard 0:32:14.000 --> 0:32:18.160 pivot to the future of COVID. Oh, I'm very I'm 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:20.840 very excited for the future of COVID. I think I 0:32:20.880 --> 0:32:23.520 think it's gonna be big. It's going to invest in 0:32:23.560 --> 0:32:27.560 cot now. I think it's going to be huge, bigger 0:32:27.600 --> 0:32:29.959 than ever. I would say the smart money is not 0:32:30.080 --> 0:32:34.600 on shorting COVID. COVID bigger than the Beatles, bigger than 0:32:34.680 --> 0:32:46.440 Jesus all Macron Macron, Yeah, that's it. It's It's very funny. 0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:52.080 It's very funny that two cartoons from my my adolescence 0:32:52.120 --> 0:32:56.400 in early adulthood uh later wound up associated directly with 0:32:56.440 --> 0:33:00.200 horrific tragedies because of their names of names in them. 0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:11.440 It's very funny, Archer and isis oh God that so? Yes? 0:33:11.600 --> 0:33:18.240 Of course? Um? Right? Was it on Thanksgiving? Right around then? Um? 0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:24.320 The news comes from South Africa that a new variant 0:33:24.560 --> 0:33:29.760 has been discovered, um. When there's a lot to unpack here. 0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:35.560 But first off is just the reactions uh to it, 0:33:35.920 --> 0:33:41.720 um specifically travel bands. Travel bands are pretty pointless, especially 0:33:41.720 --> 0:33:45.840 since we know that it's already everywhere. It's everywhere. It's 0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:48.720 hasn't been officially discovered here in the United States, but 0:33:49.000 --> 0:33:54.400 it is here. Um, it's been spreading. It's all over Europe. UM. 0:33:54.560 --> 0:33:56.400 I mean, seems like the time for travel bands was 0:33:56.480 --> 0:34:00.640 like a year and like nine months ago. Shut down 0:34:00.640 --> 0:34:05.960 all air traffic in February, like specifically for a couple 0:34:05.960 --> 0:34:10.080 of months. Yeah, maybe, but like also specifically saying okay, 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:13.360 like there was a big a rapid and lots of 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:18.120 countries halting travel from South Africa, which is actually shitty. 0:34:18.239 --> 0:34:23.080 South African scientists discovered it and have now been penalized 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:32.960 for specifically discovering something um vital to everyone. Um. However, Yeah, 0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:38.399 let's talk about Africa real quick, or just in general, um, 0:34:38.440 --> 0:34:42.759 the intellectual property protection that has been in place this 0:34:42.800 --> 0:34:47.880 whole time over the vaccines and the lack of availability 0:34:48.000 --> 0:34:49.719 that we have for the rest of the world. This 0:34:50.120 --> 0:34:54.319 is exactly what we've been talking about. The entire time 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:56.720 that if you do not get everybody vaccinated, it will mutate. 0:34:57.200 --> 0:35:01.719 And Africa specifically has a low vaccination right and a 0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:08.080 high uh percentage of people with pre existing conditions, um, 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:15.360 which happens to be the breeding grounds for mutations to 0:35:15.440 --> 0:35:19.120 come about. So and by the way, that's not saying 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:21.200 anything about Africa. That's saying something about the rest of 0:35:21.200 --> 0:35:23.080 the world in the way that we've treated Africa. Sure, 0:35:23.560 --> 0:35:29.160 but um, it's it's it's really frustrating. I was very 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:32.359 angry when I saw I mean, yes, asident Biden spoke 0:35:32.440 --> 0:35:36.000 up saying like we need to make the vaccine lifted 0:35:36.160 --> 0:35:39.920 into yeah, and then Maderna was like no, thank you, 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:42.560 and like, fuck you say that from the beginning, man, 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:46.200 this is yes, yes, yes, we've been seeing this. Keep 0:35:46.280 --> 0:35:49.120 saying it. Um yeah he pops he pops in every 0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:50.399 like couple of months and be like yeah, I think 0:35:50.400 --> 0:35:54.239 we should do that, and then that's it. Yeah, And 0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:59.600 it's I it's so fucking bleak that South Africa has 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:05.520 invest did so much money and having like an unparalleled 0:36:06.120 --> 0:36:11.759 like genetic analysis system for virology. Um, like they're they're 0:36:11.800 --> 0:36:15.640 really good at testing and looking for mutations and what 0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:17.640 like that's why they were the first ones to find this. 0:36:18.080 --> 0:36:20.000 It didn't start there, they were just the first ones 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:22.600 to find it. And as a result, uh, they're just 0:36:22.600 --> 0:36:24.880 getting sucked over, like they're showed on re agents and 0:36:24.960 --> 0:36:28.200 stuff to continue testing because nobody is allowed to fly there. 0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:31.839 And it's look, I'll just say like maybe it started there, 0:36:31.840 --> 0:36:35.799 maybe it didn't, but it's not there's no evidence. But 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:38.399 there's no evidence, right, that's just what everybody's trying. I'm 0:36:38.440 --> 0:36:41.280 just saying like maybe maybe not. That's not the fucking point, 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:43.879 and we should have known this. The reason it's called 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:46.520 the Spanish flu wasn't because it started in Spain. In fact, 0:36:46.800 --> 0:36:48.880 there's good evidence that say that it may have started 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:52.640 in like Kansas. Um. It's because since Spain was not 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:55.080 dragged into World War two with their World War One 0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:58.200 with everybody else, they didn't have restrictions on the press 0:36:58.440 --> 0:37:00.000 in the same way that everyone else had, so they 0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:03.920 were able to report on the fucking plague first, and 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:06.920 as a result, it gets called the Spanish flu um 0:37:06.960 --> 0:37:09.239 And maybe maybe the people whose job it is to 0:37:09.360 --> 0:37:13.279 name these things should have decades ago put in a 0:37:13.280 --> 0:37:16.800 place to like very vigorously fight against identifying a strain 0:37:16.880 --> 0:37:19.000 with the country that it came out in, although some 0:37:19.080 --> 0:37:20.320 of that I don't know how much of that is 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:22.919 the media. I'm not gonna make to go too much 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:25.200 on it, but like, it's just it's very frustrating that 0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:28.160 this keeps happening mm hmm, that the people who just 0:37:28.560 --> 0:37:30.799 are on the most on the ball get punished, and 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:34.319 I I I don't want everybody to freak out immediately. 0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:37.080 You know, we have to wait and see. We have 0:37:37.239 --> 0:37:40.920 to see what conclusions are arrived at once they have 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:44.279 more information. We don't know that will lead to more 0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:50.640 deaths or hospitalizations, although it seems to be um but 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:54.640 it is concerning, So I don't know. Delta had like 0:37:54.680 --> 0:38:00.399 what five mutations tend this one has. It has date 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:04.120 like a lot of affecting this the spike proteins. It 0:38:04.160 --> 0:38:07.480 does not mean that our vaccines are now useless. We 0:38:07.520 --> 0:38:11.000 are we don't know. Scientists seem to think like most 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:15.319 likely it's still much better than nothing. So it is 0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:18.840 definitely a wait and see. But you know, I do 0:38:18.960 --> 0:38:24.839 notice that this people are governments are reacting quicker to this, 0:38:25.000 --> 0:38:28.600 which is either a sign of that it's worrying or 0:38:28.640 --> 0:38:32.160 that maybe people are learning, but I don't think learning. 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:34.040 I think we're just used to this at this point. 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:36.800 And I think they may that we were so close 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:39.600 to things getting quote unquote normal again that they may 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:42.120 be scared as ship of the possibility that like this 0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:46.120 is going to disrail that yet again. Like I I 0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:52.279 don't see how you could enforce lockdowns again, Like I mean, 0:38:52.719 --> 0:38:55.400 I don't. I truly don't know. Maybe other countries, but 0:38:55.480 --> 0:38:59.279 here in America, I don't know. We're we have done 0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:03.439 all that we do as a country. We're just again, 0:39:03.880 --> 0:39:07.400 We're we're done. There's no even if the next virus 0:39:07.440 --> 0:39:09.800 that comes around is literally like a you you breathe 0:39:09.800 --> 0:39:12.239 it in and you're dead immediately. Like, we will not 0:39:12.600 --> 0:39:16.399 take any precautions ever again for public safety we have 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:18.920 we have. We are burnt out on taking care of 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:24.720 each other. That's bleak. Good country. I don't know, maybe 0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:28.719 it's not that bad, but it certainly feels that way. Um. 0:39:28.760 --> 0:39:32.759 I mean, yeah, well we'll see. Uh. You gotta have 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:36.719 gotta have hope for humans a little bit, right, Yeah, 0:39:36.760 --> 0:39:39.960 I mean, we could do better. Again, we have all 0:39:39.960 --> 0:39:43.120 of the tools to have locked down effectively and made 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:46.640 it not be a nightmare or we we we were capable, 0:39:46.840 --> 0:39:49.560 We we could have that a number of things that 0:39:49.640 --> 0:39:53.120 we didn't do. But I don't. I don't know. Yeah, 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:56.279 I think it is. I don't. It doesn't look like 0:39:56.280 --> 0:39:59.200 there's any real thing for people to change in terms 0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:04.640 of their behavior right now, assuming you were actually being yeah, careful, bore, 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:10.439 like get your booster, tweeted something like that, don't use 0:40:10.520 --> 0:40:14.560 a macron as an excuse to not get your booster, 0:40:14.719 --> 0:40:16.600 or like to wait to see if there's a different one. 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:19.160 Get that booster. Shot at your booster better than Yeah, 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:24.160 I still need I'm working. I need to to this week. Um, 0:40:24.200 --> 0:40:27.680 we got some more time boys, anything else? Jack Dorsey 0:40:27.719 --> 0:40:30.319 again stepping down his CEO. Not sure what to say 0:40:30.360 --> 0:40:32.560 about that. Oh yeah, we can talk about that a 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:36.320 little bit. So the guy who is replacing him, Oh gosh, 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:40.000 I'm I've forgotten his name, But to be fair, I'm 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:42.120 just I'm I will always be angry that I know 0:40:42.239 --> 0:40:46.040 Jack Dorsey's name. So yeah, Um, I don't know that 0:40:46.080 --> 0:40:53.680 I'm pronouncing this right A ball? Yeah yeah. So um. 0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:56.000 Part is he came to the company in two does 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:59.640 on eleven um. He'd worked at Microsoft and Yahoo and 0:40:59.680 --> 0:41:01.600 probably I think one or two other places before that 0:41:01.640 --> 0:41:05.680 he's an engineer, and he got like big pretty early 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:09.280 on at pushing some I think mainly AI driven changes 0:41:09.400 --> 0:41:13.120 to try to improve relevance of the tweets that people 0:41:13.160 --> 0:41:16.040 saw in order to increase engagement, and that was met 0:41:16.080 --> 0:41:19.320 with like an unparalleled boost in traffic to the site. 0:41:19.360 --> 0:41:21.520 Like he made changes to try to make the things 0:41:21.560 --> 0:41:24.600 people were seeing more relevant. And I don't entirely know 0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:28.000 what they mean by relevant. Oftentimes relevant means in social 0:41:28.000 --> 0:41:30.759 media terms like makes people angry. So I'm not sure 0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:33.520 this is a good thing. But the changes he made 0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:36.480 significantly drove traffic to Twitter, and so he got like 0:41:36.520 --> 0:41:40.000 a special position. Um, Like, hey, they like made him 0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:42.640 an engineer with like a special title to acknowledge that 0:41:42.680 --> 0:41:46.560 he had some huge impact on traffic, Dorsey says. And 0:41:46.560 --> 0:41:49.359 I don't think Dorsey's lying about this. I think Dorsey 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:53.400 believes this that that Prague has been kind of behind, 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:56.440 in a major voice, behind every positive move Twitter has made. 0:41:56.480 --> 0:41:59.960 And again, when Dorsey says positive, it means for Twitter 0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:03.400 being a profitable company and and having lots of engagement 0:42:03.400 --> 0:42:05.719 and members. It does not mean like this this is 0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:08.839 the thing because this has been immediately politicized like everything is, 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:11.759 and so a lot of people on the right are 0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:15.760 flipping out because number one progue like tweeted a joke, 0:42:16.080 --> 0:42:20.000 like a line from a joke from a Saturday Night Lie. No, no, 0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:23.799 it was a Daily Ship video years like a decade ago, 0:42:24.480 --> 0:42:27.120 um that that was. And the joke was like, if 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:31.399 you're going to consider all uh Muslims to be potential extremists, 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:33.920 then like, I why not consider all white people to 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:36.680 be racist? Or something like that, Like it was not 0:42:36.760 --> 0:42:38.680 even that funked up a line, and he was saying, 0:42:38.680 --> 0:42:40.680 if you're gonna be racist in this way, what why 0:42:40.719 --> 0:42:43.759 not be racist in that way? Like it's perfectly reasonable 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:45.759 thing to say. But he was also just quoting a 0:42:45.840 --> 0:42:48.520 joke sketch. But people have so now there's this attitude 0:42:48.520 --> 0:42:50.520 that he's hyper woke. And the other thing is there 0:42:50.600 --> 0:42:53.839 was this quote from him in an interview where he says, like, 0:42:54.360 --> 0:42:57.120 we're not concerned with the First Amendment at Twitter, and 0:42:57.160 --> 0:42:58.759 in the context of it, what he's saying is a 0:42:58.800 --> 0:43:02.560 guy's asking him like, hey, when you're talking about moderating discussions, 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:06.080 stopping disinformation and still supporting free speech, you know how 0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:08.160 do you how do you balance your desire to support 0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:10.799 free speech with you know, your desire to love or 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:14.120 like keeping the content moderate. And all he said was like, 0:43:14.560 --> 0:43:18.440 we're not the First Amendment. Isn't our job. We're Twitter, right, Like, 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:21.000 we're not bound by the First Amendment. We don't. This 0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:22.839 is not an issue of freedom of speech. We're going 0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:26.280 to restrict stuff that's in our view bad for discourse, 0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:28.640 stuff like disinformation. Right. That's what he was saying in 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:32.560 that which is perfectly reasonable and what every single social 0:43:32.560 --> 0:43:34.440 media company says because none of them are bound by 0:43:34.480 --> 0:43:38.160 the First Amendment. It's not a First Amendment issue. Um. 0:43:38.200 --> 0:43:40.480 But people are taking on the right or taking that 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:43.319 as evidence that he's like hyperwoke. I don't actually think 0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:46.440 there's any evidence that he is. Um. He's tweeted his 0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:48.680 support of like the a c l U a few times, 0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:50.799 but the a c l US like gone to bat 0:43:50.840 --> 0:43:53.279 for the free speech of Nazis. It is very much 0:43:53.360 --> 0:43:57.360 like a free speech absolute dis guide of organization. Um. 0:43:57.400 --> 0:43:59.319 I'm not critiquing them and that I'm just saying, like 0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:01.200 that's a it's it's weird to call the a c 0:44:01.400 --> 0:44:03.680 l U hyper woke when they're really just like we 0:44:03.840 --> 0:44:07.640 defend several of the amendments, not all of them, you know. Yeah, 0:44:07.719 --> 0:44:11.320 I also can't. I just can't think any CEO is hyperwoke. 0:44:11.440 --> 0:44:15.640 I just don't. I don't see evidence the hyperwoke would 0:44:15.719 --> 0:44:22.000 be not being primarily concerned with, you know, your income 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:26.920 or your growth, like hyper woke would be genuinely caring 0:44:27.000 --> 0:44:30.680 about and I haven't. It's a useless term. What does 0:44:30.680 --> 0:44:34.240 it even mean anymore? Like what do you mean like hyperwoke? Like, yeah, 0:44:34.520 --> 0:44:37.439 police are ship Like what do you like? What is it? Like? 0:44:38.160 --> 0:44:40.319 I don't know, well, you know what it is what 0:44:40.360 --> 0:44:44.840 they're doing trying to say like, oh, this guy is 0:44:44.880 --> 0:44:47.120 going to be just like those people on Worst Year ever. 0:44:47.800 --> 0:44:51.279 I know what hyperwoke? That's depending on who says it. 0:44:51.840 --> 0:44:54.560 That's the thing. Um, it's the same thing with like 0:44:55.600 --> 0:44:57.719 I don't know, it's like s J. W Hipster like 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:04.000 whatever the word is. It's just useless now, um yeah, 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:06.759 And that's that's part of the plot because we they 0:45:07.480 --> 0:45:10.919 isn't Like the point the point of this is not 0:45:11.400 --> 0:45:13.880 that anything that this guy has done anything wrong or 0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:16.319 that there's in fact any evidence that he would be 0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:20.960 unfair to conservatives because there's not um. What it is 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:23.920 about is if you if you accuse him of that 0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:26.520 and attack him for that. Usually the way it works 0:45:26.600 --> 0:45:29.319 on these kinds of people is they then cracked down 0:45:29.360 --> 0:45:31.600 on your opponents in order to make it seem like 0:45:31.680 --> 0:45:35.160 they're being fair and there that maybe what just happened 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:37.560 to day because because there was a Twitter announced new 0:45:37.640 --> 0:45:40.440 rule today that you'll get banned for posting like what 0:45:40.480 --> 0:45:43.400 they just like pictures of people that they don't consent 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:46.200 to having up, which, like, depending on how it's interpreted, 0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:49.520 could destroy photojournalism on Twitter. Like it could mean it's 0:45:49.520 --> 0:45:52.640 illegal to take a photo or video of like a 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:56.160 protest um. It could mean it's illegal to like film 0:45:56.200 --> 0:45:58.799 a guy's shooting into a crowd or something like. We 0:45:58.840 --> 0:46:01.640 don't really know how they would enforce it. It could 0:46:01.920 --> 0:46:04.160 destroy guys like and you know, or it could just 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:06.800 make it illegal for people to point out when folks 0:46:06.800 --> 0:46:09.319 have neo Nazi ties, and we'll do nothing to harm 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:11.600 him because they'll decide that him posting people's mug shots 0:46:11.640 --> 0:46:13.880 is in the public interest. We really don't know, Like 0:46:13.920 --> 0:46:16.799 that's the thing. Everybody's like flipping out that this guy 0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:19.200 is clearly so I have we have I have no 0:46:19.239 --> 0:46:21.600 idea where this guys. But also that's part of what 0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:24.279 I mean by like it's preemptive. They start raising a 0:46:24.320 --> 0:46:27.880 stink now then yeah, it's like putting them on guard 0:46:27.960 --> 0:46:30.080 because you know, well, we're going to have to capitulate 0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:34.360 at some point or we can't be seen as being 0:46:34.920 --> 0:46:39.160 uh aligned with progressives. Are you know, not even progressive? 0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:44.600 But you know what I mean the hyper woke? Yeah, 0:46:44.640 --> 0:46:49.200 I mean it's they the most popular like articles every 0:46:49.200 --> 0:46:52.600 single day on Facebook are like the Daily Wire and stuff, um, 0:46:52.640 --> 0:46:56.400 And they let them slip by with their various publication 0:46:56.520 --> 0:46:59.160 rules because they know like it will be yea this, 0:46:59.280 --> 0:47:01.440 then like will complain and then we'll get we'll get 0:47:01.440 --> 0:47:03.279 accused of this, so they have to Yeah, like you're 0:47:03.280 --> 0:47:09.400 saiding like overcorrect um in the other direction, it's cool, 0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:16.440 it's good stuff band. Also like he's like any like 0:47:16.640 --> 0:47:20.200 CEO or like just like oh the CEO hyperwoke? Or 0:47:21.520 --> 0:47:26.120 is he trying to maximize profits and seeing like where 0:47:26.200 --> 0:47:29.560 the wind is blowing, yeah, which which also isn't good, 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:32.040 but like that's not the same. That's what I mean, 0:47:32.080 --> 0:47:34.680 Like that's the most that's like the best case scenario 0:47:34.800 --> 0:47:41.480 from a CEO best case, it's not. Yeah, I mean, yeah, 0:47:41.680 --> 0:47:43.880 it's just not a thing we know much about, and 0:47:43.960 --> 0:47:45.680 it's not a thing I think one way or the other, 0:47:45.719 --> 0:47:47.719 because yeah, this guy might wind up being horrible and 0:47:47.760 --> 0:47:51.719 a wide variety of reasons. As Jack Dorsey was, Um, 0:47:51.800 --> 0:47:54.520 I just think it's foolish to assume, based on the 0:47:54.560 --> 0:47:57.920 information we have, that this guy has any overarching goals 0:47:58.120 --> 0:48:02.759 other than increasing the engagement and relevance of Twitter. And 0:48:03.200 --> 0:48:06.759 by his definition of those terms, you know, yeah, he 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:09.239 wants people to stay on the website. Yeah, exactly. That 0:48:09.280 --> 0:48:12.560 means like cracking down on X or Y. He'll do that. 0:48:12.600 --> 0:48:15.560 If it means letting people go hog wild, he'll do that. 0:48:15.840 --> 0:48:18.240 If it means implementing like a rule that people hate 0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:20.919 and then getting rid of it later so that people 0:48:20.960 --> 0:48:24.840 complain on the platform, Like, it's just whatever keeps people 0:48:25.239 --> 0:48:30.640 on ever, keeps people on the website and engaged. Um, 0:48:30.680 --> 0:48:33.080 there is some good news to talk about at the 0:48:33.160 --> 0:48:43.360 end of this. Is it h Maxwell's trial, no Villan's trial. 0:48:43.640 --> 0:48:47.759 But um, there's some some air Wars put out some 0:48:47.960 --> 0:48:51.520 conflict data showing kind of where we are on air 0:48:51.560 --> 0:48:56.320 strikes since like the over the last year that Biden 0:48:56.360 --> 0:48:59.239 has been in office and kind of, um there's here, 0:48:59.560 --> 0:49:01.120 I'll put a linked to the tweet in there so 0:49:01.239 --> 0:49:04.719 you can see it. But um, it's it's good. Uh. 0:49:05.480 --> 0:49:09.160 The like the amount of air strikes being conducted by 0:49:09.160 --> 0:49:11.560 the United States, the event like drone strikes being carried 0:49:11.600 --> 0:49:13.520 out by the United States at the lowest they've been 0:49:14.280 --> 0:49:18.920 like in a very long time. Um since kind of 0:49:19.000 --> 0:49:22.520 unrestricted drone warfare really kicked off. Um Like, if you 0:49:22.520 --> 0:49:24.480 look at where and you know, they dropped, they dropped 0:49:24.480 --> 0:49:30.160 significantly um over the course of yeah, from starting because 0:49:30.160 --> 0:49:33.000 they they escalated massively the first two years that Trump was, 0:49:33.440 --> 0:49:35.799 the first year or so Trump was in office, and 0:49:35.840 --> 0:49:39.680 then started declining after that, and they've dropped down even 0:49:39.760 --> 0:49:43.960 further um since Biden took office. Also, aren't there because 0:49:43.960 --> 0:49:50.400 I thought in U like there were new regulations and 0:49:50.480 --> 0:49:54.280 new rules on how they how drone strikes are reported. Well, 0:49:54.320 --> 0:49:57.320 it was the opposite. It was they they they stopped 0:49:57.360 --> 0:50:00.160 the requirement to report on that. That's what me like, 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:01.759 I feel like, I feel like that like a lot 0:50:01.800 --> 0:50:05.680 of wars coming from like stuff obviously that the U 0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:07.520 S admits to, but they don't they don't limit like 0:50:07.560 --> 0:50:09.920 air Wars does a pretty good job of like looking 0:50:10.080 --> 0:50:12.680 trying to determine this as best as possible. Okay, so 0:50:12.719 --> 0:50:16.000 it's like not just like these were reported and also 0:50:16.160 --> 0:50:20.160 these and the well actually this chart includes alleged strikes 0:50:20.160 --> 0:50:23.600 and declared strikes, alleged and declared. So air Wars like 0:50:23.640 --> 0:50:26.560 they do a lot of research to attempt to be 0:50:26.680 --> 0:50:29.480 as accurate as possible. Nothing's going to be perfect, but 0:50:29.520 --> 0:50:34.600 this probably is is largely accurate to what's actually happened, 0:50:34.640 --> 0:50:37.160 which is that thing. And some of that's just because 0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:41.279 when when things massively escalated under Trump, um, it was 0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:43.560 we were fighting Isis and Mosel, you know, like that 0:50:43.680 --> 0:50:45.480 was a huge chunk of those and that's part of 0:50:45.480 --> 0:50:49.439 why it started to drop in. Um. There's also been 0:50:49.480 --> 0:50:52.680 you know, we were not in Afghanistan anymore. We've really 0:50:52.719 --> 0:50:56.080 pulled down our presence in Syria. UM. So there's there's 0:50:56.080 --> 0:50:58.239 a number of reasons for this, but it is just 0:50:58.320 --> 0:51:02.439 like we're less people with drones than we were years ago. 0:51:02.600 --> 0:51:05.799 And that's good. That's good. That's something that's good. Good, 0:51:06.280 --> 0:51:08.080 good way to bring it home for us this week, 0:51:08.160 --> 0:51:11.360 Robert Ye, less people are being killed by US drone 0:51:11.400 --> 0:51:15.560 strikes um and that's not the worst news. Take that 0:51:15.640 --> 0:51:17.960 to the bank. Well, don't take that to the bank. 0:51:18.000 --> 0:51:20.120 Don't take that that you have an account here? What 0:51:20.120 --> 0:51:21.879 do you do? What are you telling me this? Where 0:51:21.880 --> 0:51:25.439 did you get this predator drone? Is this some sort 0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:29.879 of n f T How is this? That's the most 0:51:29.960 --> 0:51:33.279 common question. I ask only only go to the bank 0:51:33.280 --> 0:51:35.799 if you have money, Like that's not like I don't 0:51:35.840 --> 0:51:39.240 take this this drone. Don't take this this this conversation. 0:51:39.440 --> 0:51:41.800 Even unless you're going to rob a bank with a drone, 0:51:41.840 --> 0:51:46.400 which I that has to happen. They don't do that. Also, 0:51:46.480 --> 0:51:48.759 don't do that. I'm not telling you to do that. 0:51:48.840 --> 0:51:51.640 But if you did that, it would probably be pretty cool. 0:51:53.000 --> 0:51:57.040 I probably get some would probably be sweet. Look what 0:51:57.200 --> 0:51:59.680 things can be cool? And I'm not endorsing them. I'm 0:51:59.719 --> 0:52:02.759 just saying if somebody robbed a bank with drones, that 0:52:02.800 --> 0:52:06.520 would probably be pretty rad. So you're saying n f 0:52:06.560 --> 0:52:08.879 T s are cool, you just don't endorse them. If 0:52:08.880 --> 0:52:12.279 they funded their drone bank robbery scheme by selling n 0:52:12.320 --> 0:52:14.360 f T s, I guess those n f T s. 0:52:14.480 --> 0:52:16.799 I would think we're cooler than other n f T s. 0:52:17.120 --> 0:52:19.879 Because we got a real world drone bank robbery out 0:52:19.880 --> 0:52:21.520 of and then there will be a show with all 0:52:21.560 --> 0:52:26.279 these little different drone flyte to know. Yeah, there's a 0:52:26.320 --> 0:52:31.840 lot of really exciting cont if the problem. If the 0:52:31.920 --> 0:52:34.520 promise of n f t s was just more creative, 0:52:34.520 --> 0:52:37.560 crowdfunded bank robberies, I think I would probably not be 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:40.000 critiquing them so hard and we wouldn't have all watched 0:52:40.080 --> 0:52:43.719 that eight minute cartoon. In twenty years from now, n 0:52:43.760 --> 0:52:46.480 f t s are going to fund the revolution somehow. 0:52:46.520 --> 0:52:51.000 It's called content creation and we create it. Yeah, the 0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:55.959 human desire calling it for today no more. This is fun, 0:52:56.520 --> 0:53:01.239 so fun um at Worst Year pod online in you 0:53:01.320 --> 0:53:04.799 know the things you've already followed us, You already know 0:53:04.920 --> 0:53:08.680 it online rate and review. I've been told that's a 0:53:08.680 --> 0:53:16.760 good thing to say everything everything so dull. It's again. 0:53:18.920 --> 0:53:23.200 I tried Dan. Worst Year Ever is a production of 0:53:23.239 --> 0:53:25.959 I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, 0:53:26.080 --> 0:53:29.040 visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 0:53:29.080 --> 0:53:30.440 you listen to your favorite shows.