Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio Well ever together everything, So don't don't don't Hello
Speaker 1: America and other nations on the globe Earth? What is that?
Speaker 1: How are we we are in the year? It is
Speaker 1: the worst year, but it's not a great year ever. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not the greatest year ever. But maybe
Speaker 1: it is for you personally, if you're listening. And if
Speaker 1: I hope so, I hope schule like Peter Teal or
Speaker 1: somebody you know. Well, yeah, why is his name spelled
Speaker 1: like that? That's your issue with Peter deal. I was
Speaker 1: reading every time I see his name, I read it wrong,
Speaker 1: even though I know what his name is. So style
Speaker 1: feel blood coursing through his veins. Um, hey, hi guys,
Speaker 1: we just caught up for a while before we started recording.
Speaker 1: But at this point in the episode, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you, how are you doing and how is your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Because our listeners don't know Cody, you're super open about
Speaker 1: all of your private life. Give them details with the
Speaker 1: happenings of my personal life. Um, I like there being
Speaker 1: no dividing line between me recording my thoughts and me
Speaker 1: living my life. Hello, it was fine. I went to
Speaker 1: meet some of my girlfriend's family. Um, and uh that
Speaker 1: was nice and pleasant, and we ate and then eventually
Speaker 1: we left cool, nice and that is That is the
Speaker 1: end of my very detailed Robert. Robert got drunk and
Speaker 1: um cooked an alligator. I did. I did get drunk
Speaker 1: and cooked cooked gator. Well, I cooked a gator in
Speaker 1: the proper way to cook that animal, and in the
Speaker 1: method that I was using, which was a pit fire.
Speaker 1: Is to drink heavily and measure the passage of time
Speaker 1: by how many drinks you've had. And by the time
Speaker 1: you've blacked out and people have to fight you in
Speaker 1: order to remove the gator from the fire, the gator
Speaker 1: is probably properly cooked. And in this I think your
Speaker 1: next book should be like a cookbook. I would have
Speaker 1: one meal on it and it's thrown in a hole.
Speaker 1: But like most of the recipe, most of the recipe
Speaker 1: is your adventure during the day as you're getting drunk.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean. It's not really a cookbook,
Speaker 1: It's just a story cooking experience. UM, My Thanksgiving was nice,
Speaker 1: Thank you. I talked about how grateful I was for
Speaker 1: friends like you. That's nice and yeah, definitely true, definitely
Speaker 1: a true thing. Um. Should we talk about some news perhaps?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if Katie, Katie, we should Well,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll start with the story that you most
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about this week, because the story I
Speaker 1: want to talk about very selfish about. Nope, nope, nope. Wait,
Speaker 1: hold up, this isn't the story that I most wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about this week. I think that we do
Speaker 1: need to talk about it. I have another story that
Speaker 1: I most wanted to talk about and that I actually
Speaker 1: prepped to talk about. Um, this way I imagined would
Speaker 1: be a conversation. But Sophie wanted us to talk about
Speaker 1: this first, and she's probably correct. Okay, well whatever, she
Speaker 1: is probably correct. Three men were convicted of murder last
Speaker 1: Wednesday in the killing of Ahmad are very um, and
Speaker 1: all three of them are facing a mandatory life sentence
Speaker 1: in prison. Um, although we'll see, uh, you know, they're
Speaker 1: going to appeal it. Already. Have talked about this, um,
Speaker 1: and it's good, right, it's good. This is a good thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like the only reason I wasn't. There's
Speaker 1: not a whole lot to say about it. It's um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the I think minimum you can expect when a
Speaker 1: man is lynched. Uh, yeah, that's that's, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad that they didn't get off because that
Speaker 1: would have been a much more dangerous precedent, I think
Speaker 1: than anything that could have come out of the written
Speaker 1: house case. In a lot of ways. Absolutely, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's the thing happened that is not
Speaker 1: the worst thing that could have happened. So good. There
Speaker 1: are some bigger conversations within it, though, Um. Part of
Speaker 1: it is the way that the trial went out and
Speaker 1: the the tactics. So obviously this is a trial about race.
Speaker 1: There's you appropriately describe it as an ching because that's
Speaker 1: what it was, but that's not what was on trial
Speaker 1: necessarily within this and there was a lot of criticism
Speaker 1: throughout it, um, but ultimately it paid off. You know,
Speaker 1: I was listening to interviews and reading things, you know,
Speaker 1: and and it was a majority white jury, and I
Speaker 1: think there was a case of the prosecution didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: want to antagonize the mostly white jury, and so you know,
Speaker 1: that wasn't necessarily the specific angle. I mean, it was,
Speaker 1: but it was just a bit coded, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: and it worked, But there's something in me that's like,
Speaker 1: I you know, and I know that the federal trial
Speaker 1: will will focus more about the specific specificity of it
Speaker 1: being a hate crime. So there is that UM treating
Speaker 1: the delicate jury with their little kid gloves. Yeah, and like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you guys see this the d A,
Speaker 1: the defense closing statements. I believe they described they described
Speaker 1: him as having dirty feet. Um, you know. And again
Speaker 1: it's what makes my I mean, there's so so much
Speaker 1: about this, it's awful, but she literally said that that's
Speaker 1: unpopular to say, but I'm proud to say it, or
Speaker 1: something to that effect. It's not like there's stuff to
Speaker 1: unpack here, but I do feel it's important to address
Speaker 1: that thing that is happening. That it's happening, it's continues
Speaker 1: to happen. What what worked, what didn't? How depressing that
Speaker 1: fucking is like that even in this this this trial
Speaker 1: of I hate crying, we're not talking about um race.
Speaker 1: Even in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial, we're not talking about the
Speaker 1: fact that the why as to why he was there,
Speaker 1: who he felt needed to be protected, and who didn't.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just um buildings needed to be yes,
Speaker 1: what needed to be protected, but yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's I don't know. I don't know what to say
Speaker 1: on these cases. I I don't think there's any real
Speaker 1: solution through the legal system to this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I don't know. That is the most I
Speaker 1: can say is that like, yeah, this, this isn't the
Speaker 1: worst thing that could have happened, so good. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: A lot of these I mean a lot of these
Speaker 1: trials are sort of like the public like aspects of
Speaker 1: the public, like making seeing if they have permission, yeah,
Speaker 1: do things. And I guess it's good that we were like,
Speaker 1: well not in this case. This is a little much,
Speaker 1: So okay, adjust your behavior slightly. I guess I would
Speaker 1: like to be able to call it what it is
Speaker 1: in the trial that everybody's watching. I would like that.
Speaker 1: I would like us to be living in a world
Speaker 1: where you're not treating the white jury with more respect
Speaker 1: than the person who was murdered. You know, there was
Speaker 1: this whole thing. I I don't know the specifics of it,
Speaker 1: but there was this whole piece of evidence that they
Speaker 1: didn't bring up. It was something to do with their
Speaker 1: license plate holder um that would help present the case
Speaker 1: that it was racially motivated. Um, but they didn't because
Speaker 1: there's a good chance that some of the jurors had
Speaker 1: that same license plate, you know. Yeah, what was the
Speaker 1: conferate is a Confederate flag plate. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing that like racist habit and
Speaker 1: people who don't realize that it's racist, so they don't
Speaker 1: want to bring this up in the trial. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things. We're dancing around it. But
Speaker 1: why we should be getting We should be at a
Speaker 1: point here in America where we can point it out
Speaker 1: and understand what it means and what represents. But we're not.
Speaker 1: It means States rights and nothing else. So, UM, wait
Speaker 1: for you all? Sorry, go ahead, No, I just give
Speaker 1: the FORLORDA Robert if he would rather talk about his thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, what, what when? Why don't we go on
Speaker 1: with your thank Katie? I was just being fun. I
Speaker 1: don't know that we have much more to say. I'm
Speaker 1: glad it went the way that it did. Then it's
Speaker 1: time to talk about the thing that I think is
Speaker 1: the most important issue facing our nation right now, which
Speaker 1: is the n f T cartoon show. Um that I
Speaker 1: made you both watch? Yes you did? How dare you first?
Speaker 1: So for some context, there's n f T s. If
Speaker 1: you're not aware, you should know the basis if you
Speaker 1: listen to this show. But the way that it is evolved.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the year, it was like a bunch of
Speaker 1: different kind of unique pieces of art, some of which
Speaker 1: sold for ridiculous amounts of money. Um, and then that
Speaker 1: bubble kind of collapsed after a while um. And the
Speaker 1: way to prop up the bubble next turned out to
Speaker 1: be launching these sets of usually ten thousand procedurally generated
Speaker 1: animal drawings of like lions holding blunts and ship um,
Speaker 1: dumb stuff, a lot of apes, and some of these
Speaker 1: have been very successful. Some of them have sold for
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Most of those are are just money laundering,
Speaker 1: Like the big half billion dollar sale was a guy
Speaker 1: buying his own n f T and then transferring the
Speaker 1: money back into his wallet in order to like raise
Speaker 1: the price to try to con someone else to actually
Speaker 1: spending that much money on is n f T UM.
Speaker 1: So you've got all these monkeys, like the board Ape
Speaker 1: Yacht Club, which just they made a big partnership with
Speaker 1: it was Rolling Stone. They're like all over the place
Speaker 1: they've been doing ads in Times Square, like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of money in these right now. And the basics
Speaker 1: of it is like you buy one of these n
Speaker 1: f T s that's drawing of a monkey again like
Speaker 1: smoking a U or some ship, and they're all the
Speaker 1: same monkey. All the drawings are nearly identical apes and
Speaker 1: yeah apes apes. And when you have that, you both
Speaker 1: have this n f T that you could sell. You
Speaker 1: also get access to like a chat room that they
Speaker 1: all hang out in. That's a big part of it.
Speaker 1: They have like a discord Yeah, and Jimmy Fallon's got one,
Speaker 1: so Cody, you could you could be chatting with Jimmy
Speaker 1: Fallon on the reg if you if you get aboard
Speaker 1: ape come on, man, you you you text me every day?
Speaker 1: I wonder what Jimmy Fallon's And then you go into
Speaker 1: a chat room. Yeah, you get access to like a
Speaker 1: chat room and they have there's like this just a
Speaker 1: bad avatar kind of yeah. Because there's also there's this
Speaker 1: a bunch of these different things, so like one thing
Speaker 1: that exists or long. This is like this kind of
Speaker 1: second lifestyle MMO where you can like own digital real estate.
Speaker 1: And so some people are buying n f T s
Speaker 1: the also unlock like buildings or boats or whatever in
Speaker 1: this game. Anyway, there's a bunch of dumb ship n
Speaker 1: f T s are there's there's a ton of there's
Speaker 1: a ton of dumb ship with n f T s.
Speaker 1: We don't need to go into it too much. No
Speaker 1: fucking time, am I. Right? Yeah, so you've got you've
Speaker 1: got all these stupid monkey clubs that people are joining.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that n f T s
Speaker 1: on their own give you nothing but individual n f
Speaker 1: T s, Like if you buy one of these board ape,
Speaker 1: yacht club apes or some of the other big n
Speaker 1: f T kits, you gain the rights to license your
Speaker 1: character which you were again almost identical generated drawings of monkeys.
Speaker 1: You could make your own drawing of a monkey and
Speaker 1: license that. I know you do have that, right, Katie. Um. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So some some guys launched what they're bragging is the
Speaker 1: first n f T cartoon, and whenever you whenever I've
Speaker 1: actually gone into the comments, a bunch of n f
Speaker 1: ten neards have been like, actually there's another one that's
Speaker 1: much earlier. Yeah, I don't care, it's probably dumb too, um,
Speaker 1: but they're big selling point that like all of the
Speaker 1: main characters on the show, we're all like licensed from
Speaker 1: people who just own n f t s and the
Speaker 1: background characters are licensing. And this is how everything's gonna
Speaker 1: work in the future. This is how every like show
Speaker 1: is going to be funded. Like you'll buy n f
Speaker 1: t s and then you'll have the licensing rights to
Speaker 1: that little character in this show except for we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the show in a bit, but like that's the
Speaker 1: idea that like, this is how it's going to revolutionize entertainment.
Speaker 1: Is people will You'll say, hey, I want to do
Speaker 1: a show about a bunch of monkeys on on Mars,
Speaker 1: and uh, we'll be using avatars from this set of
Speaker 1: characters and people will buy them and then that money
Speaker 1: funds your show, right, Like that's the idea, and it's
Speaker 1: good for the people funding it because they can license
Speaker 1: the characters if they I'm sure. The way there's something
Speaker 1: is like imagine if like you bought Homer Simpson for
Speaker 1: like fifty dollars to fund the Simpsons, Like how much
Speaker 1: money would you have now? Um by kind of the
Speaker 1: sales pitch, right this is I know it's already been
Speaker 1: pitched and it's happening, and there's nothing to be done about.
Speaker 1: What a terrible idea, What a terrible, stupid, stupid, anti
Speaker 1: creative idea. Like I don't we don't need to spend
Speaker 1: too much time on this, but that is really depressing
Speaker 1: and just horrific approach to art. It's obviously like not
Speaker 1: you know every TV shows like differently, that is horrendous. Um,
Speaker 1: I am so bummed out to know that that is
Speaker 1: definitely the future of at least a good portion of
Speaker 1: entertainment and art. Well, I don't know that it is
Speaker 1: because so we just watched the first Well it's really good,
Speaker 1: so I think the Ape Family. You can find it
Speaker 1: on YouTube. It had like a hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: views when I watched it, most of which I think
Speaker 1: have come since people started making fun of it online.
Speaker 1: It was like like forty or fifty thousand views when
Speaker 1: I watched it and started tweeting about it. Um, so
Speaker 1: you guys watched it? What what what did you think? Views?
Speaker 1: It was so bad? Robert, it was so bad. It's
Speaker 1: really bad. Um. And I don't know if I was
Speaker 1: just um busy being mad at it or if it
Speaker 1: doesn't have a plot, but I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. I don't know. Just when do you
Speaker 1: want to take a stab at describing the plot of
Speaker 1: this episode. They are some sort of a highest go
Speaker 1: to head Cody. There are some apes and the hell
Speaker 1: have really bad. They're the worst voice actors I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: The woman sounds like a robot woman, one of those
Speaker 1: tex when he got their friends to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the accents are all over the map. They're all
Speaker 1: over the place. Mixing is shit. Like. Even beyond the accents,
Speaker 1: you can tell every character was a voice recorded in
Speaker 1: a room thousands of miles apart, right, which ideally you
Speaker 1: shouldn't like even in a good podcast, it should quite
Speaker 1: sound like that, you know. But they all feel like
Speaker 1: they are on in their own stories. That's what it
Speaker 1: felt like. Plot. Yeah, there was no story. Weird things
Speaker 1: just for sake of being weird. They're not like rooted
Speaker 1: in some character motivation or you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like a well thought out Yeah, some of it, but
Speaker 1: like you anyway, go ahead, I mean some of the
Speaker 1: Like the randomness you're talking about is very much like
Speaker 1: trying to mine uh, like the adults swim uh sort
Speaker 1: of like tone yeah, but they're not. But but it's like,
Speaker 1: forgive the phrase they're aping stuff like they're like they're
Speaker 1: taking a stuff that exists and doing like a shadow
Speaker 1: of a shadow of a shadow of a shadow of it,
Speaker 1: so that it doesn't make sense, like like even the
Speaker 1: like blank months earlier, like two hours earlier, whatever, isn't
Speaker 1: that just like a SpongeBob thing. Yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a few. Yeah, it's it's it's funny because in terms
Speaker 1: of like thinking about not funny, but the situation, the
Speaker 1: situation in terms of like what their influences are, because
Speaker 1: I think that's a fascinating thing to discuss. Is like
Speaker 1: what they're trying to do here. I see bits of
Speaker 1: like Xavier Renegade Angel. I see like bits of of
Speaker 1: a couple of things, including like Aquitine hunger Force. But
Speaker 1: more than anything, I think it's Rick and Morty uh
Speaker 1: and yeah, and I think the thing that they're trying
Speaker 1: I think like if I could, if I could go back,
Speaker 1: if I could guess what the pitch was in whatever
Speaker 1: fucking discord room for people who own monkey drawings this
Speaker 1: was dreamed up in um, it would be something like,
Speaker 1: you know, the cool thing about Rick and Morty is
Speaker 1: they've got all these kookie characters from all around the
Speaker 1: universe all the time. Right, Well, there's all these wacky
Speaker 1: and f T characters. We could make a show like that,
Speaker 1: but everybody like we license people's in f T s
Speaker 1: and that'll show people this is a good idea and
Speaker 1: the problem with that. And if you if you look
Speaker 1: at the I think the individual who's humor their most
Speaker 1: again aping here is Justin Royland, right Like that's they're
Speaker 1: really trying to do a lot of Justin Royland. And
Speaker 1: if you look at the show that got us Rick
Speaker 1: and Morty, like the show that was adapted into Rick
Speaker 1: and Morty was like a series of short animated skets,
Speaker 1: just sketches Justin did called Doc and Marty, which is
Speaker 1: like a parody of Back to the Future if the
Speaker 1: Doc was constantly trying to molest a child. Um, Like
Speaker 1: that really is the joke. And about eight five eight
Speaker 1: something like that years ago, whenever it came out, it
Speaker 1: was funny for the first like fifteen minutes or so,
Speaker 1: maybe like generously um. And otherwise the main thing you said, oh,
Speaker 1: Justin Royland is really good at voices, um. And it
Speaker 1: was not actually funny and missing the mark on the
Speaker 1: concept here. The thing that became the reason it's whether
Speaker 1: you like it or not, it's a successful show, right,
Speaker 1: It's the biggest animated show in the world. The thing
Speaker 1: that made it a successful animated show, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to take a value judgment about it, was that they
Speaker 1: took the things that Justin Royland was good at, which
Speaker 1: was being occasionally wacky and random in a way that
Speaker 1: was somewhat creative and good at doing voices, and they
Speaker 1: married it to a team of really good writers and
Speaker 1: another guy, Dan Harmon, who is excellent at story structure.
Speaker 1: And so the thing about Rick and Morty's as random
Speaker 1: and silly as some of the comedy is like, there's
Speaker 1: always a really pretty tight structure to the stories because
Speaker 1: it's made by people who care about telling stories. There's
Speaker 1: not a story here. There's there's not really jokes because
Speaker 1: they're too random to even be jokes. Can I interject
Speaker 1: real quick and say that we need to take an
Speaker 1: ad break and then come back pick this up, Cody
Speaker 1: hold that thought. I got it. Behind the curtain, We're
Speaker 1: really not going anywhere. I just got to say that
Speaker 1: we are so that we can put the ads into
Speaker 1: right here, we're right here, everything back a what were
Speaker 1: you going to say that the apes deserve the Emmy's um?
Speaker 1: That will just in terms of Robert what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: The even the thing is like randomness can be funny
Speaker 1: if you expect a certain thing and then like, oh
Speaker 1: I'm surprised, so I laugh. But even the the quote
Speaker 1: randomness on a show like Rick and Morty, there is
Speaker 1: a Rhymann reason to it. There are expectations that that
Speaker 1: you are given and then those expectations are subverted, like
Speaker 1: there is a structure to even just the seemingly unstructured parts. Um.
Speaker 1: And obviously like they're going to improvise and do like
Speaker 1: bits and stuff like a bunch of what the two
Speaker 1: brothers like all that kind of stuff like that is funny, um,
Speaker 1: but there's nothing here that indicates like thought beyond like, oh,
Speaker 1: random thing, right, UM. I have one big note for it.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if this was on purpose or not,
Speaker 1: but in the episode, the mother Ape refers to her
Speaker 1: children as these two little monkeys, and when I was
Speaker 1: watching it, my thought was, they're not monkeys, they're apes.
Speaker 1: And then later on somebody calls them all monkeys, and
Speaker 1: the mother's like, we're apes, We're not monkeys. Do you
Speaker 1: see a tail? And I am not sure they did
Speaker 1: that on purpose. Yeah, I don't know either. I'm like
Speaker 1: fifty on whether or not they just overlooked the first part. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like it's just because it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: saying something about her as a character, they're missing them.
Speaker 1: They're not doing it right. I don't know what they're
Speaker 1: trying to say. Is this like an in joke? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, So are spending a lot of time
Speaker 1: talking about it's the most important story in the world. Well,
Speaker 1: it is, like because it's not the It's not the
Speaker 1: only thing that's that's gonna be this. It's not the
Speaker 1: only like license like weird to Eric avatars turned into
Speaker 1: a show by people who have no like actually like
Speaker 1: creative output. Um, this will be a good segue into
Speaker 1: a thing I want to talk about briefly, which is
Speaker 1: Mr Beasts squid Game. First, I have one more thing
Speaker 1: to say about this video, please. One good thing about
Speaker 1: the video and also embarrassing, is that there are literally
Speaker 1: two minutes of end credits. Oh yeah, and because they've
Speaker 1: got to give all the people who'se n F T s.
Speaker 1: They used credit minutes of end credits out of an
Speaker 1: eight minute video. What do you Know is produced by
Speaker 1: two Chains and its music by two Chains. I can't
Speaker 1: believe that. Man um I like, I likes I like
Speaker 1: this catchphrase fuck yeah very so many times. It's so
Speaker 1: it's just such a it's I mean again, swear words
Speaker 1: are the only joke they really have. Uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: just the lamest thing in the world. The ship they're
Speaker 1: going to Muskville on March embarrassing. Uh, Cody do your transition.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that I speaking of content that
Speaker 1: is not creative and the death of art um so
Speaker 1: Mr Beast if you're familiar. Uh, he's like gaming YouTuber
Speaker 1: kind of all those sorts of things that you would
Speaker 1: think of. He does a lot of events like I
Speaker 1: paid this sucking person ten tho dollars if they fuck
Speaker 1: their mother and we're gonna see if they do. Um.
Speaker 1: Not that that's not exact example, but that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna like give him money and see what
Speaker 1: they fucking do. I think we should do that. But
Speaker 1: for members of Congress and the thing that we have
Speaker 1: them do, should always be having sex with a dead pick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just hey, that pig was alive in black, and I
Speaker 1: think we should rule so that that is the only
Speaker 1: legal form of campaign contribution and it has to be filmed.
Speaker 1: So if you want to run and you want to
Speaker 1: use money to run, more power to you. You're gonna
Speaker 1: do if you're running a billion dollar president. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Iphie wanted us to mention the doctor that doctor Oz
Speaker 1: is running for a future pig fucker, doctor Oz, but
Speaker 1: now possibly current pig. It's the idea that like every
Speaker 1: time someone announces like I will I am putting my
Speaker 1: hat in the ring for president in the United States,
Speaker 1: we can call them all future pig fuckers. I am
Speaker 1: putting out I had in the ring, and I am
Speaker 1: putting my dick in that pigs campaign finance form for you.
Speaker 1: Can we make a hat that's his future big bucks,
Speaker 1: a future pigfucker every president. Yeah, there's something there. Someone
Speaker 1: hit us up with a design for that. Okay, for
Speaker 1: all your future pig fuckers out there. Um. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Mr PC does this kind of thing and like whatever,
Speaker 1: not my cup of tea, maybe your cup of tea,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Um. But then a show called squid Game
Speaker 1: came out, and that show is about people doing people
Speaker 1: who are desperate for money doing things that maybe they
Speaker 1: wouldn't do if they weren't desperate for money, like let
Speaker 1: each other die or literally kill each other. Um. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've watched the show, it's still
Speaker 1: haven't but at this point I guess I, well, I'll
Speaker 1: try to keep a spoiler free, but more or less,
Speaker 1: it's a game of murder, uh, for money, for the
Speaker 1: entertainment of the wealthy. And uh. So that show is
Speaker 1: a success because it's good. Um, I think it's good.
Speaker 1: Some people don't, and that's fine. Some people don't like
Speaker 1: it because they think it's pro communism or pro capitalism
Speaker 1: or some interpretation. I don't know it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's objectively like the most successful thing Netflix has ever
Speaker 1: had on right. I think listeners of the show are
Speaker 1: familiar by now because we have talked about it, definitely
Speaker 1: talked about the shallow pool uh tempooles. I have not
Speaker 1: watched it because watching literally anything would get in the
Speaker 1: way of rewatching King of the Hill for the tenth time.
Speaker 1: I understand that the thing I'm primarily doing, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like it's good. It's good. I like, I like it.
Speaker 1: I'm watching something else. Um, it's very good, I think,
Speaker 1: And it's about that. Mr Beast was like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do the squid games. I'm gonna build the squid
Speaker 1: games from incredible and he did it, so if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, And the show is about how dystopian and
Speaker 1: horrific it would be if people were forced to compete
Speaker 1: with each other in and and like their loved ones
Speaker 1: in horrible ways in order to make money because they
Speaker 1: desperately need money. And a guy made a show where
Speaker 1: people competed with their ones in order to make money
Speaker 1: and they didn't die, thankfully, But like otherwise it he
Speaker 1: just did the thing. He just it's not like a parody.
Speaker 1: It's not a commentary. He just did the same thing.
Speaker 1: But murder um, Yeah, there's not there's no murder. Nobody dies. Um.
Speaker 1: But it is good. Yeah, it's just the games from
Speaker 1: the thing from the show without the murder um, which again, yes,
Speaker 1: it is good. Um, but there's no you know, I
Speaker 1: I skimmed it. I gave it a little glance. Um,
Speaker 1: there's no like commentary on the thing. There's no drawing
Speaker 1: connections to what they're doing and and the show they're
Speaker 1: like aping. Um, it's not a parody, it's just is
Speaker 1: the thing. Um. And at the very end, instead of
Speaker 1: playing squid game they do musical chairs, which very disappointed
Speaker 1: in them for doing that. Um, but uh, it's mostly
Speaker 1: I mostly just want to talk about this tweet um
Speaker 1: that has since deleted actually on account of how bad
Speaker 1: it was. Mr Best squid game video a hundred and
Speaker 1: three million views in four days. It took seven weeks
Speaker 1: to make Netflix's Squid Game series a hundred eleven million
Speaker 1: views in thirty days. It took ten years to make
Speaker 1: more views, less time, fewer gatekeepers. That's the promise of
Speaker 1: the creator economy. Here with this, this is so depressing,
Speaker 1: it's stupid. It's stupid. Well, and the thing is and
Speaker 1: the thing that maybe more people should be aware of
Speaker 1: this person in particular, And like Mr Beast, I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's content creators and then there's art,
Speaker 1: and they're not the same thing. Sometimes they're the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his his his thing doesn't exist without the original, without
Speaker 1: the concept, without nobody would you care about it? Otherwise
Speaker 1: you you leached off of something that already existed. You
Speaker 1: didn't create anything, right, or your success is like if
Speaker 1: you're looking if you're trying to develop, like if you're
Speaker 1: trying to like lad your out the achievements of like
Speaker 1: artists or the creator economy, like as as if their
Speaker 1: verses each other. Then your success goes on the ledger
Speaker 1: of the guy who made Squid Game, because there would
Speaker 1: be nothing for you to do exactly. Also probably owe
Speaker 1: him money or something. You may be breaking the law.
Speaker 1: I know people are talking about it. From what I've read,
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a lawsuit, dude, but no, he he
Speaker 1: recreated the set from the show, which was meticulously designed
Speaker 1: by artists. Uh, it does seem like he broke the
Speaker 1: law a bit right, But like, but no, I think
Speaker 1: you can call a parody or whatever even though it's not.
Speaker 1: It's just doing the thing um transformative about it. It
Speaker 1: took ten years aside from the fact that like people
Speaker 1: do by the show and didn't want to make the show.
Speaker 1: It takes a long time to create art from whole cloth,
Speaker 1: and like what do the sets look like? Oh? What
Speaker 1: if it's this? What if there's some meaning here? Like
Speaker 1: you're infusing meaning into the visuals of your show because
Speaker 1: you're making art, you're not making content in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks so that you can just like it's it.
Speaker 1: The tweet is accurate, um, And it's depressing that it's accurate,
Speaker 1: because again, like Mr Beast, you're doing this video about
Speaker 1: a show that is kind of about what you do.
Speaker 1: Like obviously you don't like put them in dangerous like
Speaker 1: situations where they have to die, but you're paying people
Speaker 1: lots of money to do things that they don't want
Speaker 1: to do, um because they're desperate for the money. Um.
Speaker 1: So there's just a huge disconnect there that kind of
Speaker 1: bums me out. It's fine, it's successful, and we we
Speaker 1: love it. Actually doesn't sound like but yeah, I just
Speaker 1: saw that and I had to this is this is
Speaker 1: this is apparently the show where I talked about the
Speaker 1: squid game every couple of weeks um. And so we
Speaker 1: don't know like our purview is anymore. So why the
Speaker 1: hell not? Do you guys want to take another quick break? Oh? God,
Speaker 1: I love quick breaks. That's that's the thing that I
Speaker 1: was really wanting. I was just about to text to Sophie,
Speaker 1: you know it would be good Right now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: quick breaking quick, fucking break quick, his hell, babyget everything,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't and we are back a package. I
Speaker 1: thought more about the Red Ape family. You have more
Speaker 1: to say, No, I mean yes, always do something else
Speaker 1: to talk about, please least I love. I love talking
Speaker 1: about other goods. Is it about the future of content
Speaker 1: and now it's going to be really good? No? Hard
Speaker 1: pivot to the future of COVID. Oh, I'm very I'm
Speaker 1: very excited for the future of COVID. I think I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be big. It's going to invest in
Speaker 1: cot now. I think it's going to be huge, bigger
Speaker 1: than ever. I would say the smart money is not
Speaker 1: on shorting COVID. COVID bigger than the Beatles, bigger than
Speaker 1: Jesus all Macron Macron, Yeah, that's it. It's It's very funny.
Speaker 1: It's very funny that two cartoons from my my adolescence
Speaker 1: in early adulthood uh later wound up associated directly with
Speaker 1: horrific tragedies because of their names of names in them.
Speaker 1: It's very funny, Archer and isis oh God that so? Yes?
Speaker 1: Of course? Um? Right? Was it on Thanksgiving? Right around then? Um?
Speaker 1: The news comes from South Africa that a new variant
Speaker 1: has been discovered, um. When there's a lot to unpack here.
Speaker 1: But first off is just the reactions uh to it,
Speaker 1: um specifically travel bands. Travel bands are pretty pointless, especially
Speaker 1: since we know that it's already everywhere. It's everywhere. It's
Speaker 1: hasn't been officially discovered here in the United States, but
Speaker 1: it is here. Um, it's been spreading. It's all over Europe. UM.
Speaker 1: I mean, seems like the time for travel bands was
Speaker 1: like a year and like nine months ago. Shut down
Speaker 1: all air traffic in February, like specifically for a couple
Speaker 1: of months. Yeah, maybe, but like also specifically saying okay,
Speaker 1: like there was a big a rapid and lots of
Speaker 1: countries halting travel from South Africa, which is actually shitty.
Speaker 1: South African scientists discovered it and have now been penalized
Speaker 1: for specifically discovering something um vital to everyone. Um. However, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Africa real quick, or just in general, um,
Speaker 1: the intellectual property protection that has been in place this
Speaker 1: whole time over the vaccines and the lack of availability
Speaker 1: that we have for the rest of the world. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what we've been talking about. The entire time
Speaker 1: that if you do not get everybody vaccinated, it will mutate.
Speaker 1: And Africa specifically has a low vaccination right and a
Speaker 1: high uh percentage of people with pre existing conditions, um,
Speaker 1: which happens to be the breeding grounds for mutations to
Speaker 1: come about. So and by the way, that's not saying
Speaker 1: anything about Africa. That's saying something about the rest of
Speaker 1: the world in the way that we've treated Africa. Sure,
Speaker 1: but um, it's it's it's really frustrating. I was very
Speaker 1: angry when I saw I mean, yes, asident Biden spoke
Speaker 1: up saying like we need to make the vaccine lifted
Speaker 1: into yeah, and then Maderna was like no, thank you,
Speaker 1: and like, fuck you say that from the beginning, man,
Speaker 1: this is yes, yes, yes, we've been seeing this. Keep
Speaker 1: saying it. Um yeah he pops he pops in every
Speaker 1: like couple of months and be like yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we should do that, and then that's it. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's I it's so fucking bleak that South Africa has
Speaker 1: invest did so much money and having like an unparalleled
Speaker 1: like genetic analysis system for virology. Um, like they're they're
Speaker 1: really good at testing and looking for mutations and what
Speaker 1: like that's why they were the first ones to find this.
Speaker 1: It didn't start there, they were just the first ones
Speaker 1: to find it. And as a result, uh, they're just
Speaker 1: getting sucked over, like they're showed on re agents and
Speaker 1: stuff to continue testing because nobody is allowed to fly there.
Speaker 1: And it's look, I'll just say like maybe it started there,
Speaker 1: maybe it didn't, but it's not there's no evidence. But
Speaker 1: there's no evidence, right, that's just what everybody's trying. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying like maybe maybe not. That's not the fucking point,
Speaker 1: and we should have known this. The reason it's called
Speaker 1: the Spanish flu wasn't because it started in Spain. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's good evidence that say that it may have started
Speaker 1: in like Kansas. Um. It's because since Spain was not
Speaker 1: dragged into World War two with their World War One
Speaker 1: with everybody else, they didn't have restrictions on the press
Speaker 1: in the same way that everyone else had, so they
Speaker 1: were able to report on the fucking plague first, and
Speaker 1: as a result, it gets called the Spanish flu um
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe the people whose job it is to
Speaker 1: name these things should have decades ago put in a
Speaker 1: place to like very vigorously fight against identifying a strain
Speaker 1: with the country that it came out in, although some
Speaker 1: of that I don't know how much of that is
Speaker 1: the media. I'm not gonna make to go too much
Speaker 1: on it, but like, it's just it's very frustrating that
Speaker 1: this keeps happening mm hmm, that the people who just
Speaker 1: are on the most on the ball get punished, and
Speaker 1: I I I don't want everybody to freak out immediately.
Speaker 1: You know, we have to wait and see. We have
Speaker 1: to see what conclusions are arrived at once they have
Speaker 1: more information. We don't know that will lead to more
Speaker 1: deaths or hospitalizations, although it seems to be um but
Speaker 1: it is concerning, So I don't know. Delta had like
Speaker 1: what five mutations tend this one has. It has date
Speaker 1: like a lot of affecting this the spike proteins. It
Speaker 1: does not mean that our vaccines are now useless. We
Speaker 1: are we don't know. Scientists seem to think like most
Speaker 1: likely it's still much better than nothing. So it is
Speaker 1: definitely a wait and see. But you know, I do
Speaker 1: notice that this people are governments are reacting quicker to this,
Speaker 1: which is either a sign of that it's worrying or
Speaker 1: that maybe people are learning, but I don't think learning.
Speaker 1: I think we're just used to this at this point.
Speaker 1: And I think they may that we were so close
Speaker 1: to things getting quote unquote normal again that they may
Speaker 1: be scared as ship of the possibility that like this
Speaker 1: is going to disrail that yet again. Like I I
Speaker 1: don't see how you could enforce lockdowns again, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't. I truly don't know. Maybe other countries, but
Speaker 1: here in America, I don't know. We're we have done
Speaker 1: all that we do as a country. We're just again,
Speaker 1: We're we're done. There's no even if the next virus
Speaker 1: that comes around is literally like a you you breathe
Speaker 1: it in and you're dead immediately. Like, we will not
Speaker 1: take any precautions ever again for public safety we have
Speaker 1: we have. We are burnt out on taking care of
Speaker 1: each other. That's bleak. Good country. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's not that bad, but it certainly feels that way. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, well we'll see. Uh. You gotta have
Speaker 1: gotta have hope for humans a little bit, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we could do better. Again, we have all
Speaker 1: of the tools to have locked down effectively and made
Speaker 1: it not be a nightmare or we we we were capable,
Speaker 1: We we could have that a number of things that
Speaker 1: we didn't do. But I don't. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it is. I don't. It doesn't look like
Speaker 1: there's any real thing for people to change in terms
Speaker 1: of their behavior right now, assuming you were actually being yeah, careful, bore,
Speaker 1: like get your booster, tweeted something like that, don't use
Speaker 1: a macron as an excuse to not get your booster,
Speaker 1: or like to wait to see if there's a different one.
Speaker 1: Get that booster. Shot at your booster better than Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still need I'm working. I need to to this week. Um,
Speaker 1: we got some more time boys, anything else? Jack Dorsey
Speaker 1: again stepping down his CEO. Not sure what to say
Speaker 1: about that. Oh yeah, we can talk about that a
Speaker 1: little bit. So the guy who is replacing him, Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm I've forgotten his name, But to be fair, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm I will always be angry that I know
Speaker 1: Jack Dorsey's name. So yeah, Um, I don't know that
Speaker 1: I'm pronouncing this right A ball? Yeah yeah. So um.
Speaker 1: Part is he came to the company in two does
Speaker 1: on eleven um. He'd worked at Microsoft and Yahoo and
Speaker 1: probably I think one or two other places before that
Speaker 1: he's an engineer, and he got like big pretty early
Speaker 1: on at pushing some I think mainly AI driven changes
Speaker 1: to try to improve relevance of the tweets that people
Speaker 1: saw in order to increase engagement, and that was met
Speaker 1: with like an unparalleled boost in traffic to the site.
Speaker 1: Like he made changes to try to make the things
Speaker 1: people were seeing more relevant. And I don't entirely know
Speaker 1: what they mean by relevant. Oftentimes relevant means in social
Speaker 1: media terms like makes people angry. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: this is a good thing. But the changes he made
Speaker 1: significantly drove traffic to Twitter, and so he got like
Speaker 1: a special position. Um, Like, hey, they like made him
Speaker 1: an engineer with like a special title to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: he had some huge impact on traffic, Dorsey says. And
Speaker 1: I don't think Dorsey's lying about this. I think Dorsey
Speaker 1: believes this that that Prague has been kind of behind,
Speaker 1: in a major voice, behind every positive move Twitter has made.
Speaker 1: And again, when Dorsey says positive, it means for Twitter
Speaker 1: being a profitable company and and having lots of engagement
Speaker 1: and members. It does not mean like this this is
Speaker 1: the thing because this has been immediately politicized like everything is,
Speaker 1: and so a lot of people on the right are
Speaker 1: flipping out because number one progue like tweeted a joke,
Speaker 1: like a line from a joke from a Saturday Night Lie. No, no,
Speaker 1: it was a Daily Ship video years like a decade ago,
Speaker 1: um that that was. And the joke was like, if
Speaker 1: you're going to consider all uh Muslims to be potential extremists,
Speaker 1: then like, I why not consider all white people to
Speaker 1: be racist? Or something like that, Like it was not
Speaker 1: even that funked up a line, and he was saying,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be racist in this way, what why
Speaker 1: not be racist in that way? Like it's perfectly reasonable
Speaker 1: thing to say. But he was also just quoting a
Speaker 1: joke sketch. But people have so now there's this attitude
Speaker 1: that he's hyper woke. And the other thing is there
Speaker 1: was this quote from him in an interview where he says, like,
Speaker 1: we're not concerned with the First Amendment at Twitter, and
Speaker 1: in the context of it, what he's saying is a
Speaker 1: guy's asking him like, hey, when you're talking about moderating discussions,
Speaker 1: stopping disinformation and still supporting free speech, you know how
Speaker 1: do you how do you balance your desire to support
Speaker 1: free speech with you know, your desire to love or
Speaker 1: like keeping the content moderate. And all he said was like,
Speaker 1: we're not the First Amendment. Isn't our job. We're Twitter, right, Like,
Speaker 1: we're not bound by the First Amendment. We don't. This
Speaker 1: is not an issue of freedom of speech. We're going
Speaker 1: to restrict stuff that's in our view bad for discourse,
Speaker 1: stuff like disinformation. Right. That's what he was saying in
Speaker 1: that which is perfectly reasonable and what every single social
Speaker 1: media company says because none of them are bound by
Speaker 1: the First Amendment. It's not a First Amendment issue. Um.
Speaker 1: But people are taking on the right or taking that
Speaker 1: as evidence that he's like hyperwoke. I don't actually think
Speaker 1: there's any evidence that he is. Um. He's tweeted his
Speaker 1: support of like the a c l U a few times,
Speaker 1: but the a c l US like gone to bat
Speaker 1: for the free speech of Nazis. It is very much
Speaker 1: like a free speech absolute dis guide of organization. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm not critiquing them and that I'm just saying, like
Speaker 1: that's a it's it's weird to call the a c
Speaker 1: l U hyper woke when they're really just like we
Speaker 1: defend several of the amendments, not all of them, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I also can't. I just can't think any CEO is hyperwoke.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't see evidence the hyperwoke would
Speaker 1: be not being primarily concerned with, you know, your income
Speaker 1: or your growth, like hyper woke would be genuinely caring
Speaker 1: about and I haven't. It's a useless term. What does
Speaker 1: it even mean anymore? Like what do you mean like hyperwoke? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: police are ship Like what do you like? What is it? Like?
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, you know what it is what
Speaker 1: they're doing trying to say like, oh, this guy is
Speaker 1: going to be just like those people on Worst Year ever.
Speaker 1: I know what hyperwoke? That's depending on who says it.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Um, it's the same thing with like
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like s J. W Hipster like
Speaker 1: whatever the word is. It's just useless now, um yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's that's part of the plot because we they
Speaker 1: isn't Like the point the point of this is not
Speaker 1: that anything that this guy has done anything wrong or
Speaker 1: that there's in fact any evidence that he would be
Speaker 1: unfair to conservatives because there's not um. What it is
Speaker 1: about is if you if you accuse him of that
Speaker 1: and attack him for that. Usually the way it works
Speaker 1: on these kinds of people is they then cracked down
Speaker 1: on your opponents in order to make it seem like
Speaker 1: they're being fair and there that maybe what just happened
Speaker 1: to day because because there was a Twitter announced new
Speaker 1: rule today that you'll get banned for posting like what
Speaker 1: they just like pictures of people that they don't consent
Speaker 1: to having up, which, like, depending on how it's interpreted,
Speaker 1: could destroy photojournalism on Twitter. Like it could mean it's
Speaker 1: illegal to take a photo or video of like a
Speaker 1: protest um. It could mean it's illegal to like film
Speaker 1: a guy's shooting into a crowd or something like. We
Speaker 1: don't really know how they would enforce it. It could
Speaker 1: destroy guys like and you know, or it could just
Speaker 1: make it illegal for people to point out when folks
Speaker 1: have neo Nazi ties, and we'll do nothing to harm
Speaker 1: him because they'll decide that him posting people's mug shots
Speaker 1: is in the public interest. We really don't know, Like
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Everybody's like flipping out that this guy
Speaker 1: is clearly so I have we have I have no
Speaker 1: idea where this guys. But also that's part of what
Speaker 1: I mean by like it's preemptive. They start raising a
Speaker 1: stink now then yeah, it's like putting them on guard
Speaker 1: because you know, well, we're going to have to capitulate
Speaker 1: at some point or we can't be seen as being
Speaker 1: uh aligned with progressives. Are you know, not even progressive?
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean the hyper woke? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's they the most popular like articles every
Speaker 1: single day on Facebook are like the Daily Wire and stuff, um,
Speaker 1: And they let them slip by with their various publication
Speaker 1: rules because they know like it will be yea this,
Speaker 1: then like will complain and then we'll get we'll get
Speaker 1: accused of this, so they have to Yeah, like you're
Speaker 1: saiding like overcorrect um in the other direction, it's cool,
Speaker 1: it's good stuff band. Also like he's like any like
Speaker 1: CEO or like just like oh the CEO hyperwoke? Or
Speaker 1: is he trying to maximize profits and seeing like where
Speaker 1: the wind is blowing, yeah, which which also isn't good,
Speaker 1: but like that's not the same. That's what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like that's the most that's like the best case scenario
Speaker 1: from a CEO best case, it's not. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just not a thing we know much about, and
Speaker 1: it's not a thing I think one way or the other,
Speaker 1: because yeah, this guy might wind up being horrible and
Speaker 1: a wide variety of reasons. As Jack Dorsey was, Um,
Speaker 1: I just think it's foolish to assume, based on the
Speaker 1: information we have, that this guy has any overarching goals
Speaker 1: other than increasing the engagement and relevance of Twitter. And
Speaker 1: by his definition of those terms, you know, yeah, he
Speaker 1: wants people to stay on the website. Yeah, exactly. That
Speaker 1: means like cracking down on X or Y. He'll do that.
Speaker 1: If it means letting people go hog wild, he'll do that.
Speaker 1: If it means implementing like a rule that people hate
Speaker 1: and then getting rid of it later so that people
Speaker 1: complain on the platform, Like, it's just whatever keeps people
Speaker 1: on ever, keeps people on the website and engaged. Um,
Speaker 1: there is some good news to talk about at the
Speaker 1: end of this. Is it h Maxwell's trial, no Villan's trial.
Speaker 1: But um, there's some some air Wars put out some
Speaker 1: conflict data showing kind of where we are on air
Speaker 1: strikes since like the over the last year that Biden
Speaker 1: has been in office and kind of, um there's here,
Speaker 1: I'll put a linked to the tweet in there so
Speaker 1: you can see it. But um, it's it's good. Uh.
Speaker 1: The like the amount of air strikes being conducted by
Speaker 1: the United States, the event like drone strikes being carried
Speaker 1: out by the United States at the lowest they've been
Speaker 1: like in a very long time. Um since kind of
Speaker 1: unrestricted drone warfare really kicked off. Um Like, if you
Speaker 1: look at where and you know, they dropped, they dropped
Speaker 1: significantly um over the course of yeah, from starting because
Speaker 1: they they escalated massively the first two years that Trump was,
Speaker 1: the first year or so Trump was in office, and
Speaker 1: then started declining after that, and they've dropped down even
Speaker 1: further um since Biden took office. Also, aren't there because
Speaker 1: I thought in U like there were new regulations and
Speaker 1: new rules on how they how drone strikes are reported. Well,
Speaker 1: it was the opposite. It was they they they stopped
Speaker 1: the requirement to report on that. That's what me like,
Speaker 1: I feel like, I feel like that like a lot
Speaker 1: of wars coming from like stuff obviously that the U
Speaker 1: S admits to, but they don't they don't limit like
Speaker 1: air Wars does a pretty good job of like looking
Speaker 1: trying to determine this as best as possible. Okay, so
Speaker 1: it's like not just like these were reported and also
Speaker 1: these and the well actually this chart includes alleged strikes
Speaker 1: and declared strikes, alleged and declared. So air Wars like
Speaker 1: they do a lot of research to attempt to be
Speaker 1: as accurate as possible. Nothing's going to be perfect, but
Speaker 1: this probably is is largely accurate to what's actually happened,
Speaker 1: which is that thing. And some of that's just because
Speaker 1: when when things massively escalated under Trump, um, it was
Speaker 1: we were fighting Isis and Mosel, you know, like that
Speaker 1: was a huge chunk of those and that's part of
Speaker 1: why it started to drop in. Um. There's also been
Speaker 1: you know, we were not in Afghanistan anymore. We've really
Speaker 1: pulled down our presence in Syria. UM. So there's there's
Speaker 1: a number of reasons for this, but it is just
Speaker 1: like we're less people with drones than we were years ago.
Speaker 1: And that's good. That's good. That's something that's good. Good,
Speaker 1: good way to bring it home for us this week,
Speaker 1: Robert Ye, less people are being killed by US drone
Speaker 1: strikes um and that's not the worst news. Take that
Speaker 1: to the bank. Well, don't take that to the bank.
Speaker 1: Don't take that that you have an account here? What
Speaker 1: do you do? What are you telling me this? Where
Speaker 1: did you get this predator drone? Is this some sort
Speaker 1: of n f T How is this? That's the most
Speaker 1: common question. I ask only only go to the bank
Speaker 1: if you have money, Like that's not like I don't
Speaker 1: take this this drone. Don't take this this this conversation.
Speaker 1: Even unless you're going to rob a bank with a drone,
Speaker 1: which I that has to happen. They don't do that. Also,
Speaker 1: don't do that. I'm not telling you to do that.
Speaker 1: But if you did that, it would probably be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I probably get some would probably be sweet. Look what
Speaker 1: things can be cool? And I'm not endorsing them. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying if somebody robbed a bank with drones, that
Speaker 1: would probably be pretty rad. So you're saying n f
Speaker 1: T s are cool, you just don't endorse them. If
Speaker 1: they funded their drone bank robbery scheme by selling n
Speaker 1: f T s, I guess those n f T s.
Speaker 1: I would think we're cooler than other n f T s.
Speaker 1: Because we got a real world drone bank robbery out
Speaker 1: of and then there will be a show with all
Speaker 1: these little different drone flyte to know. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of really exciting cont if the problem. If the
Speaker 1: promise of n f t s was just more creative,
Speaker 1: crowdfunded bank robberies, I think I would probably not be
Speaker 1: critiquing them so hard and we wouldn't have all watched
Speaker 1: that eight minute cartoon. In twenty years from now, n
Speaker 1: f t s are going to fund the revolution somehow.
Speaker 1: It's called content creation and we create it. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: human desire calling it for today no more. This is fun,
Speaker 1: so fun um at Worst Year pod online in you
Speaker 1: know the things you've already followed us, You already know
Speaker 1: it online rate and review. I've been told that's a
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