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Join us on a wondrous journey through whatever's on our minds this week. We have no idea what we're doing. But we're trying.
I, uh, Aaron, I'm so tired.
Yeah.
I'm just exhausted all the time these days, you know?
I can understand that.
It's, I don't, I don't like living in historic times, you know?
Yeah.
Like, I kind of wish that I just was constantly just stuck in like the 1990s when.
Yeah, things happened.
But, you know, they were like.
Meh.
Like everything was ska.
Music in the.
Background yeah like the biggest thing that happened was like you know there's
a new version of windows you know like windows 95 has got a start button it's
like whoa hell yeah yeah and there was like this changes everything like.
Bagel bites and shit.
Yeah well yeah and like fruit all the good snacks fruit roll-ups uh what what
was the so fruit roll-ups are the ones that's like a like a bubble tape kind of thing right yeah.
There's fruit by.
The foot oh that's fruit by the foot and then yes i
see i always get them confused fruit by the foot is the one that's like
a measuring tape fruit roll-up is the one that is i
guess like a burrito for what what
exactly is the material that both of those are made of what is that substance
it's i don't know gelatinized fruit pulp yeah it's just kind of like it's just
kind of like fruit flavored sugar jello yeah it's like dehydrated fruit juice,
it's it's actually a tactical food,
oh
When you think about it like.
That wow it's oh it's.
Basically everyday carry type shit you know.
Yeah, I did want to mention, I've made some upgrades while we were gone.
The soundboard is now controlled by AI, which means that I am not responsible
for what sounds in place.
I want to make that very clear. Legally, I have no liability.
That's good for you.
Yeah.
Now that's an avocado-eating dog.
I did try to train an AI to see if I could just replace you,
and then recording the podcast would be much easier, but it didn't really work
out, unfortunately. Yeah.
Here we go.
So we're here.
I upgraded the soundboard. So long time listeners of the show will know there's
the regular soundboard with such things like I like it.
And when it comes to the seduction of women.
Yeah, things like that. We have the Huel board with stuff like with all of this
water and it's dark in there.
Yeah, you know, we even have, you know, old heads will know about the bloom board, bloom board.
I'm supposed to see whether,
I don't, you know.
The bloom board, I gotta be honest with you.
Michael Bloomberg, just not that interesting.
He's like a D-list now.
There is a lot broken.
How did we go for the same one? Yeah.
Nice. I've added a new one, and this is the Luigi board.
Oh, okay.
For no apparent reason.
Yeah, for no, yeah.
It's not apropos of anything you don't really need to worry about it I just I love Luigi nice shot so,
yeah it's been a year since we recorded this program yeah it has it's.
Been a long time.
And you.
Know due to personal reasons i guess.
You know please don't invade our privacy respect our
boundaries um we're not going to discuss why but i will say that as much as
we hate him the election happened has has got rid of dei so that means that
two white guys like us yeah can do a show again it's.
Actually it's legally required you to.
Listen yeah we have to to fill the podcasting quota.
Yeah.
You know, there was an election on and it was incredibly boring.
There wasn't anything interesting with it.
Not much happened.
Because it was basically both candidates tripping over themselves and then one
of them managed to trip over the finish line.
Yes!
That's the sum total of my election coverage for you.
Yeah, we didn't really have any comments to say. I mean, basically,
we didn't make a podcast because nothing happened last year.
And we were both really busy becoming influencers.
Oh, is that okay?
Yeah. I know you.
Yeah, you're big on the TikTok and the Instagram reels.
Too, I guess.
I don't know. Are you also on what's the Zhao Hong Cha?
Zhao Hong Shu. yeah i'm
i'm there yeah um aka red note aka little red book etc um yeah but on let's
see what am i at on instagram it's very weird because i went from having like
a thousand followers when i like last time we were recording to now i have 27.6.
000 good lord like.
At least half of those are brazilian so.
What i don't understand why i'm so big in brazil yeah yeah you may not you may
not have heard of me but i'm well known in brazil in rio they love me you know
the copa cabana let's listen.
Let's not play down your accomplishments you're now a film photography influencer i.
Don't okay pictures and i don't know that i am but i appreciate it.
You have a podcast with our friend arthur.
I do yes uh on this podcast we yell about politics in the state of the world
on that podcast we yell about uh canon mainly the canon company like the gun
no no like the uh the camera company canon oh oh the company canon oh.
Yes yes perfect.
Although i would argue they're both they're equally dangerous you know in the
wrong hands exactly it's.
It's it's just a tool and you know.
What i mean like it's it's just a tool it's all in how you use it right excuse.
Cameras don't kill people uh let's do it i know we we'd go live to take live
to tape but just pretend you didn't hear that okay pretend um i was saying that
phrase over again like you know it's just a tool it all depends on how you use it you know nice shot.
Uh-huh yeah very.
Good yeah,
no no,
oh so what are we what are we doing here i don't know how this works i just
like unfortunately or fortunately it's been a long day um and now i mean the the.
Real reason that uh well i mean not the only real reason one of the reasons
why haven't recorded in a while is because i have been very busy and i've been working a.
Lot uh i've.
Become a work a workaholic again i've become a hard worker.
Um as a worker you know that's yeah we're both hard workers and that's the thing
people need to know about us the.
Problem is that i actually am kind of getting fulfillment out of my job which
is weird that doesn't usually happen.
But uh that's yeah that's an anomalous i know yeah so you know love that for me i.
Guess question mark i don't.
Know it's like.
The one thing that feels you know approximately in control compared to everything else that's.
Spiraling out of control in the world you know i can see how that would be nice it's.
Like well you know i go in i sit at my desk and i do the work and then i go home and that's you know.
And there's something to be said about that you know like whoa because of woke
they had all this like working from home and stuff but you get to go in and
you sit at your desk and you do your time and that's fulfilling you know,
yeah true yeah very true um.
Speaking of uh yeah.
Yeah uh.
So um how how does it feel to you.
To basically be like sitting in the house as it's being you know torn down stripped
down to the studs because that's where we're just coming.
In and taking the parts.
Yeah right you know like they started removing the drywall and now they're yanking
the copper out of the walls you know,
and they're like well we got we're getting rid of the roof because it's woke
and we're getting rid of the walls because we think that should be left to the
states so you know they're just
gonna leave us in you know a house that's just two by fours you know i'm.
I mean i'm just sitting here and i'm watching it happen and i'm just trying
to tell everyone who's doing this like you will regret this.
Yeah it's like it's illegal what you're doing is illegal it's illegal and.
It's wrong and you.
Should feel bad and i'm sitting there shivering.
Because the cold breeze is coming through the empty walls and hitting me you know.
It's important even though you're telling them it's illegal you're not actually
telling them that they need to stop like you're definitely you're definitely
not attempting to make them stop but you're also not telling them to stop either
because you're just calmly informing them we don't do violence that's only for.
Them you know.
We don't do violence instead we calmly inform them that what they're doing is illegal,
because obviously they care about and obviously they operate within the same
framework that we do and they care about the rule of law so yeah speaking.
Of such i'm just like as i'm watching
everything happen especially like since january i i feel like there's this thing
that people keep forgetting and it causes them to fall into all sorts of like
like stupid thinking and it's that This is all a construct, right?
Like Congress, the Constitution is a piece of paper.
Like these are all just some guys.
Judges aren't special geniuses. They're just some guys. Oh, far from it. Yeah.
and and like it all it comes down to is power like who has the power and who's
willing to use their power and.
Who's willing to.
Fight for power like.
Well and like just don't.
Understand that and when you don't understand that and look at what's going
on you can be so confused by like well why isn't somebody doing something.
Why is it.
Why why why aren't the people who are supposed to fix this stuff doing it and it's like.
Let's go.
Back a few steps.
Laws like you have on here the constitution is a piece of
paper it's like yeah laws are only laws insofar as
everyone agrees that those are
the laws and we're going to enforce them as such like
if we stopped i mean this is the
thing right like technically the articles of confederation
you know never there was no
mechanism to like get rid of them but yeah you know they just decided like yeah
no we're not doing that anymore we're going to do this thing so like we're moving
on legally you could argue that the articles of confederation are still in effect
but you know in actual reality that is not the case it's the same with you know
all other kinds of laws it's the.
Same with the constitution like the way that the constitution is interpreted
now is is so far removed from the reality of that document that.
It's it's all.
A farce you.
Know now i was promised that all of our current judges
are actually originalists and they know deep down inside what uh
what the founding fathers wanted you know
which is when the founding fathers wrote the
constitution they they knew about short-form
video apps and they knew about the
dangers of communist china and so it's totally legal that the government says
you have to sell your app um i want to be clear that you know this is me speaking
as a faux republican i support the free market except for when i don't which
is all the time um that can that wait just,
yeah that.
Hurt my head.
Um you know analogies to
uh weimar germany or or or
nazi germany are old and tired but the thing that keeps striking me
is that like when the nazis took power they didn't actually have like full control
of all the branches of government so they had to pass an enabling act that basically
said you know we're just allowed to rule by a decree and you're not allowed
to do judicial review ignore.
All previous uh.
Right ignore all previous instructions yeah um trump
has not had to do that because like they already control all the branches of
government like even if you do sue them up to the supreme court it's not going
to go anywhere because they already they don't need a piece of paper that says
that because it doesn't matter they have you know yeah and.
Anybody else who has any any other bit of power refuses to use it.
And they're they're sending themselves.
Uh you know to to get something for themselves like.
Yeah and and they're sending these like 22 year old guys who were who were like
you know they're like broccoli.
Haired coup like what.
They're they're like the worst guys in
your college's young americans for liberty chapter and
they're like they're like banging on the door at like
the treasury department or whatever and like you have to let
us in and it's like you don't you don't actually
have to let them in they're just like the tv licensing guys in
the in in the uk they don't you don't
actually have to let them in but people are letting them in anyway and it's
like i don't know there's no the general attitude of people in government both
like elected democrat officials but also just civil servants is just like well
you know we just have everyone.
In america essentially like like i wouldn't say everyone but you know a lot
of people we're just so docile.
It's just like well nothing we could do we just have to let them do their thing you know yeah.
We've just we've just been domesticated essentially.
Do you know what i mean right well and i even feel bad because i don't,
i don't know what me as a single person what i can do you know although i do
see some folks uh you know i see folks on instagram who are like oh you know
call email your senators it's like okay both of my senators are trump guys that's
not gonna help anything you know yeah.
I mean there there is things as individual as you can do but i don't want to
speak on it on this podcast we,
you know yeah but this is all to say that we understand what's going on there's that there's that.
Ai soundboard popping off.
That's that's the ai so yeah you can't blame us,
um let's go to there's a we got a news story andrew or would you still want
to continue this well i just it's.
I don't know i i i'm not as eloquent as i wish i could be on this but it's you
know yeah it's the the laws exist you know as a guardrail but but like guardrails you can just bowl.
Right over.
Them if you want.