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Hello and welcome back to Now We Consume. I'm your host Gibbs. Along with me is my co-host.

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Oh yeah. So today we have an episode that this is really something that I want to talk about and I know it's something that you're also into.

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We are talking about the allure of the apocalypse and dystopia.

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So there's been a long kind of running thing in humanity where there's been so many novels, so many TV shows, movies, everything written about a dystopic type future.

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And why that is so really prevalent? Why is that so common? What's evolved with it?

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I'm really kind of diving into what really makes it up. And why is there that allure? Why do we like discussing it so much?

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There's something about it that makes people's pants tight and we want to know why.

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That is a way of putting it. I don't like it, but it is a way.

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Anyways, so dystopia future is usually described as the loss of, you know, civil rights, individual freedoms, environmental degradation.

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It kind of becomes usually a government totalitarianism technocracy, usually characterized by some sort of either apocalypse or economic catastrophe, political catastrophe, social catastrophe, something to where the world as we know it now doesn't exist.

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And a lot of things are almost kind of like reset in a weird way or kind of the status quo is completely changed.

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Think of examples like 1984 Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Hunger Games, I was amazed by many episodes of Star Trek.

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There's even you can even say like Irobot and a few other ones where it either is fighting towards a dystopic type future or that's kind of in play.

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Now, one of the big key things is usually there are several factors that are, I guess, overwhelmingly against the individual that are either unable to be changed by the average person or it's just insurmountable.

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There's no way to change it. And you're effectively left helpless.

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And that's one of the really key driving factors, the average person being left helpless without really anything to do. The external factors on them have made it so that unless they make a drastic change, usually while there's a hero in these stories, they have to make the drastic change in order to be able to change the situation for the better.

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And really, if you've seen any of the movies or any of the TV shows that I mentioned, you're probably familiar with the average kind of setup.

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The I guess the thing that we want to talk about is why? Why are people, especially in the last probably last 20, 30 years because dystopic wasn't really dystopian type novels and movies weren't really popular back in the the height of sci fi back and while the writers and everything back anywhere from the 1920s up until the 40s and 50s.

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Right. They were there, but they weren't quite like as mainstream or not even necessarily mainstream, but they weren't as popular or as prevalent as they are today.

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Yeah, a lot of was very positive looking at science like science is the answer and politics can be the answer and the world will get better.

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Whereas starting roughly like the 60s to the 70s, all of a sudden now there were small changes where people are having a negative view on it. I think George Orwell is probably one of the first mainstream people.

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Oh, yeah. That really disgusted between Animal Farm, I think, dystopia. Yeah.

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And one of the reasons why it's required reading, I think for everybody's same thing with Fahrenheit 451 with Ray Bradbury is all of the a lot of these things have become true.

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Which is a scary part. Yeah, they're becoming far less of a novel and far more of hate to say it becomes like a checklist, which is kind of scary.

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I don't like it, but it's becoming a checklist. Right.

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So, with with this happening. It's becoming kind of alarming when you watch some of these older movies or even read some of these older books.

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And then you see the similarities like, oh no, a lot of these things are happening.

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And we're getting close to the point where people are taking drastic actions, you know, people are making great changes in their lives.

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And things are kind of happening to people without any sort of repercussion, any way of changing it yourself.

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It's kind of the world is being done to you are happening to you.

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You know, you could look at, you know, the current economics situation with a lot of people struggling.

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A lot of people struggle to pay bills and can't buy houses, really stagnant labor rates.

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You're talking about also a lot of people can no longer grow their own food, have their own crops.

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The list goes on and on. But the allure of it. Why?

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It's a lot of it has to do with where a lot of us are living through it.

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At least that's my take is that a lot of us can look outside the window and kind of see it happen.

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You know, we're kind of seeing people not really talking to each other as much.

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We used to there's not a sense of community that we used to have in a lot of places.

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It's hard to grow crops where you live on your own land.

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Now it's harder as well to have careers and jobs that can support like what it was in the fifties and sixties where, you know,

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a single parent can work, the other one can take care of the kids, like the old kind of American ideal.

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I think that being shattered for a lot of people has really forced people down this dystopian path

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that have a naturally very negative view of the future.

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Because I think that's where the dystopian kind of thing is really mirrored, where a lot of people now,

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especially younger people, have a very negative view of the world.

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But also a lot of very, very younger, a lot of younger people watched a lot of dystopian movies recently.

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Like think about how big the Maze Runner series were, how big the Hunger Games were, how big even Star Trek was in the nineties.

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I know I'm only picking up those three things, but holy crap, a lot of people have seen all of those.

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And for a lot of people, they were very influential.

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And on that, I mean, when you're talking about looking out the window and seeing that all this stuff that's changed,

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what you can do, what you used to be able to do, a lot of people are in places where they themselves cannot do what you're talking about.

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But just beyond their little section, they can see where it's doable.

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You know, hope is just out of arm's reach.

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And they get into that mindset of, oh, if I can just get out of this situation,

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I can get myself into a place where I can make my life better.

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It's almost that grass is always clear mentality, but there's no way to get across the fence.

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Now, and for a lot of people, they are seeing that pasture that's greener slowly getting further and further away from them.

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Like for a lot of people, there is nowhere else to go.

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Unfortunately, there's a lot of places in the country where a lot of jobs have left. A lot of people are kind of left kind of stuck and stagnant with where they're at.

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It's kind of becoming a serious situation.

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And especially and I did want to bring this up because I think this is important with what Luigi did with the shooting of that CEO for that was the CEO of a medical company, medical insurance company.

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The reason why I want to bring this in is because that's the first that that's kind of the tipping point of what we've seen with a lot of frustration with the situation at hand when it comes to the lack of other transparent medical system,

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but also a function medical system where people are starting to react.

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And it's not just his action, but it's the sympathy for what was done.

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It's that is the biggest cultural impact. It's not what he did. He did. I have to disagree with it, obviously, on a moral standpoint, but the same thing.

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Yes. Pure and simple. But a lot of people are pissed off because these insurance companies have been committing essentially murder to other people for decades for profit.

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It's the problem of like, either way, it's bad. But there's a lot of sympathy for what he's doing. And that's the dystopian aspect that we're starting to see becoming way more prevalent now.

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The reaction that it generated from people, you know, the free Luigi, all this other stuff that's going blatant support for him and his actions.

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It's kind of scary. And the stuff that these other companies have been doing to safeguard against their employees and even the people running the company.

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It's a sign that it's working. They're taking their pictures down. They're about us information. They're trying to shield all that stuff.

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To what extent, you know, people talk. Oh, yeah. And it becomes a question of you're seeing, which I find very interesting.

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You're seeing the government was able to investigate and find this guy quicker than anything that happened against any go beneficial in the last 20 years.

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For some reason, they weren't able to deal with him faster than we deal with Epstein or any any other high profile person that was linked to the government.

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This guy gets shot and all of a sudden every single tip line comes in. They find this guy within a couple of days.

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Somebody that supposedly had made preparations and everything.

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It to me just seems like we know where things are skewed.

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So that if you are somebody that's quote unquote part of the oligarchy, I guess that's rich and powerful.

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You know, the government services are far more available to you.

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However, someone like Epstein that has a lot of the government in your pocket, you can get away with doing this stuff for decades and it be an open secret and it doesn't matter.

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And then you still don't kill yourself.

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So that is the dystopian future that really has gotten me in the last couple of years is seeing between what happened with Epstein where come on, we all know something.

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We all know something was happening, but yet that was all swept under the rug.

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Yet this guy does something that, again, I disagree with.

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But at the same point, when you look statistically, that company was denying roughly 30 to 34 percent of all medical claims, which is insane.

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When you look at it, wasn't what wasn't it them that was that had just announced the refusing to cover anesthesia that was Blue Cross Blue Shield.

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The day after he got shot, they they reversed that decision.

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Did they not? Now, I do not agree with the method.

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However, I will say, damn it, that affected some change in a positive manner.

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The do not justify the means on that.

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No, they do not. But there is a but.

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It's one of the things, unfortunately, with this world, nothing is ever absolute.

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And and and those people that were saying that the anesthesia is not needed, I would invite them to please go under and do a long drawn out surgery.

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Let's take the anesthesia away halfway through that surgery and see if you need it.

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I will pay for your root canal if you do it without anesthesia.

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Correct. Yes. If you can survive that and tell me at the end of it that, oh, yeah, it was worth it.

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Yeah. Mm hmm. No, no frigging right.

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And anybody tells you that's lying.

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And that's the thing is they're looking at it as a for profit thing, which is totally wrong.

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They deserve to make money. But that's what companies do.

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Without companies making money, we have no jobs. Yes.

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We are a capitalist society, for better or worse, that exists.

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People in some positions have to make money so other people in other positions can be there to earn money.

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Absolutely. Now, where those lines get drawn, as far as like CEO salaries being twenty five hundred times that of other employees, that's a discussion for another episode.

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Mm hmm. There there needs to be some trimming, I think.

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But you know, other other episode, I think.

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Oh, yeah. But what this comes to one of the core principles when it comes to why people looking at the world being a very dystopic in nature is

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it's the I guess the runaway of capitalism to where as you know, I am a capitalism supporter, obviously.

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But it's also the problem of certain groups and certain people are allowed to blatantly break the law and blatantly make money off of other people.

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Whereas other groups are not. It's the favored capitalism.

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And really, it's basically it's a selective oligarchy is what it has become.

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And that's the issue. If we were truly a free market capital, which they say we are, we're not.

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We're over. We're heavily regulated capitalism in which certain people basically the government picks the winners and the losers.

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As we found out with Enron and a few other situations where and too big to fail with certain banks and certain automotive manufacturers, which we for the bill for.

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That was lovely.

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I went on my rebate check on that one.

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But that I understand why there's and again, I disagree with it, but I understand some of the anti-capitalist rhetoric

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that fuels a lot of this dystopic idea because they look at this and say capitalism is the problem.

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Unfortunately, it really more has to do with the fact that the government doesn't allow other companies to compete in the same space because they make it so prohibitively expensive and so many regulations and so many taxes on unnecessary layers of paperwork.

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To be legal rather than letting people compete in certain spaces.

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But I understand the anger and aggravation though, because the amount of people that like I know of that have straight up been denied life saving care for complete BS reasons.

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And from what I have heard again, I'm waiting this this something I will.

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This is my opinion right here.

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This is not fact.

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This is one of the rare rare times I will say this from what I have heard.

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Some of these companies were using AI to sift through the medical claims to basically be able to approve or deny them.

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And then we're having people go back later.

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That's why you saw a lot of cases where people were denied and then a few months later they were approved.

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But unfortunately, that person already passed away or had medical complications or whatever.

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The reason I bring this up is I have a family friend of mine.

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They got cancer.

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They applied for it.

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They got denied the cancer treatment.

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They died and they got a letter in the mail two months later being like, oh, yeah, you're approved.

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It's like, well, that really helps now.

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That's great.

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Emotherapy does not do well on a corpse.

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You could try, but it's just not going to work.

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So anyway, in terms of the medical system with all of this, I understand the anti-capitalist rhetoric is really kind of symptoms of how people are feeling with a broken system.

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And again, I don't agree with how people are going about handling it, but this is inevitable.

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This is what's going to happen with these kind of systems.

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And this is people can only be stretched and pulled so far before they start trying to act and react.

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Oh, yeah, because especially not to make it like a medical episode, but this will be a couple minutes on the switch.

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But with the amount of crippling debt that Americans have, particularly Americans, it's not just a Western society.

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I think it's Americans that are shouldering a lot of that with the amount of people being forced out of their homes, losing their jobs and their careers over medical debt that other countries don't really have to deal with.

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I'm not going to get the politics of yes, no, why, why not?

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But because of that fact, a lot of people are feeling helpless and they're they're they're feeling completely left out to dry and there's no system to help them.

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There's no safety net for these people.

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And unfortunately, they're just getting gobbled up by the system and getting spit out and to hell with them.

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They don't care.

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Which absolutely sucks.

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But that leads into one of the kind of kind of the the cornerstones of the dystopian societies, which is with a societal reset.

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This is what a lot of people are kind of I'm not saying glorifying, but in a way they're hoping for or looking at as kind of the tipping point of maybe to restart a life, to start a new, even with the negative changes or aspects that come with it.

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In a lot of cases, you're looking at independent societies or even I would say almost like not communism on like a large scale, but kind of the small scale communism, where it's the communes of like small groups of people working together, that kind of thing.

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It almost brings a harkening back to kind of the simpler times kind of mentality of, oh, you know, I wish we lived a simple life of just get up and farm, do all that stuff.

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They kind of forget how much grueling work that is and how terrifying it is to actually work on a farm and how dangerous and how far is actually one of the most dangerous professions you can have.

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But that's for people that really live in cities that have really done farm work.

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Someone that I have the most forging they've done involves going to from store to store.

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Their version of forges going to grapes from Whole Foods or Walmart like, you know, I can't get the sandwich grapes.

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But it's like what I'm looking for mushrooms.

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I love mushrooms. I used to forge for them on my bathroom mat when I was younger.

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I have so many questions.

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Oh, I hope somebody gets that reference.

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What?

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What's the future Robert? Oh, okay.

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I thought you were serious. I gotta be honest.

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God no.

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It's this it's this problem of people wanting to kind of get back to a simpler time and kind of have their own control.

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And what if that's that that that kind of regaining of the control of the variables of their lives that are outside that are currently outside of people.

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You know, it's it's it's that refocusing on self reliance because I think a lot of people have become so used to oh we need all of these outside factors in order to survive and thrive and get by.

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We want to take the reins. We want to secure our own future. We want to provide for our own families.

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We want to be able to, you know, have our own little chunk of paradise and just go forth and prosper.

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You know, essentially the the settler days, more or less.

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And like you said, yeah, those days were horrifying.

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You know, your kids are going to get eaten by wildlife. It's going to be kidnapped by people who will make a trade for supplies.

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It would be a much heavier in barter.

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And that's a whole nother currency episode.

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That's that's great reading.

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The Federal Reserve, too. That's that's that is an episode that we are going to do because I get very pissed off about that one.

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Let me write that one down. Yes, absolutely.

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But one of the things we could think of is I hate that.

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I don't know if these people realize it, but this dystopian idea was most recently kind of done with some of the occupied zones

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It was a decent shop that was in Seattle. Sorry, not Seattle, Portland.

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And those shops got closed down and they got destroyed.

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Things happen. It's the problem of people have this idealistic view of a dystopia where they assume that some of the laws still work.

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People still pay attention. People still care about one another.

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I don't think they understand how quickly people devolve into absolute savages, especially this is America.

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We have a lot of why I was laughing. We have a lot of firearms and a lot of us know how to use them.

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So it quickly devolves into kind of this warlord situation, which I hate to say it like I'm not I don't want it to be that way.

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The brief synopsis was all electronics were essentially not usable. No power, no electronics, nothing.

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a high level war, the the ever popular zombie apocalypse,

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bring on the zombies. Good God, please bring on the zombies. I want that so bad.

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That is not our official opinion. We as a podcast do not endorse that. That is just your personal opinion.

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That is my personal. Now, not not I am legend zombies.

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Oh, no, they're all screwed. Not not World War Z zombies.

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Talking like Walking Dead. Just Walking Dead type zombies. Oh, yeah.

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Just give me the walkers. I don't want those quick bastards that could get me before I get my pants changed.

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No, thank you, sir. I that I have a whole tirade about Walking Dead for another episode.

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Again, that's another episode why I want to do why zombie movies are complete BS.

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But you will have areas of the country that will be completely unpassable simply for the fact that anybody that goes there will be vultured upon.

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Oh, yeah. You will be a walking target simply because you exist in a state where you have something that is wanted and or needed by somebody else who's already there.

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Why do I very distantly hear West Virginia? God, if something like this happened, you walk through there.

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No, you're not making out alive. Absolutely not. That's that's part of my survival plan.

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I'm just going to have banjos be my warning system.

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Anybody with half a mind turns right around.

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I know you're 100 percent right or I'm just going to yell out, you sure got a pretty mouth.

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I'd see a mouth like that in a few months.

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We are for me, big boy.

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Oh, God, just just imagine like the Michael Myers mask is just a big guy who pulls a prank behind you out the West Virginia woods just the middle of the night.

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Do you hear that? Do you crap yourself or do you just have a heart attack?

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Do you even bother taking a crap at that point?

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Someone comes in my house or near where they're not supposed to be with be in vicinity.

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They will first hear the racking of the shotgun and then I get to tell them, sorry, you have chosen poorly.

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I want to get one. Oh, yeah. I want to get one with Ralph saying there is many doors, Ed Boy.

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Oh, but anyways, I think people kind of look at the dystopian stuff way too idealistically.

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They look at it as a way to get out from under everything the society has put on them.

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But a lot of it is kind of I say this air, quoting Lee, justifiable just from the perspective of, yeah, life kind of sucks.

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Life piles shit on to you.

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crippling debt, they could do so much more with their lives.

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It's it's one of the things where, unfortunately, a lot of people, I think of the false idea that they would be in control, that they would somehow be the ones in charge.

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The reality of it is 99% of the people that even think they're for dystopia, they're not going to be a position in charge.

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They will be lucky to even survive something like that.

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It's that high.

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I think you're hitting the nail on the head.

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They were talking about a financial or social reset to try it again or to try something new or to be able to make it better for yourself.

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That's where a lot of that comes from.

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That's where a lot of that allure comes from.

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The idea of you can make something of yourself.

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And if you had the means, you could go and just start a business and you could make your own way in life.

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You could just go west.

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If you're in America, you could go west and just claim land.

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You'd be like everything I see in this valley.

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It's now mine.

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Why do I need permission to do my own thing?

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Are you shitting me?

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You have to hire this, hire this person.

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I mean, God forbid, we just don't make things simple.

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I mean, it's America.

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If people had control over their lives and they could say, I want to start a business and try it and do it and make something for themselves, it would be great.

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But unfortunately, some people don't have that chance.

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They want to get away from not just society and the other life paths that they've taken.

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They want to get away from their actual lives altogether.

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There are people who would walk away from their families.

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Yeah, there are people who would walk away from whatever previous life they had and start a completely new life if they could.

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And again, in that kind of a setup, there may not be records.

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So who is to say you are John Jacob, Jake, O'Hammer, Schmidt?

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Exactly. Well, I hope I'm not that person.

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Like if it was more of a pop apocalyptic scenario, then yeah, everybody gets a clean slate.

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Which for a lot of people, that's enticing.

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But then there's the vice versa of what happens if you're in a scenario more like maybe like 1984 or 45 or Fahrenheit, 451, where the government knows everything.

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There is no clean slate. There is no reset. You can't change your situation.

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You will forever be blank. You are known for this. That is your one role.

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That is your identity. That is your everything. They know everything about your marriage.

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I remember in 1984, there was a part where they had to get a permission to have a child, to conceive a child, to do things like that.

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That is terrifying. However, I will say given today's structure of population, maybe there are some things that aren't the worst ideas out there.

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I thought you were going to say personal.

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Hey, you know what you're about. I know what I'm about. I'm not going down that road.

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But maybe not to get too political, but it's clearly not America that has the population problem.

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That is clearly other countries, and we have no jurisdiction to say about that, unfortunately.

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That's on them, but we shouldn't also be having to pay for their problems either.

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But I'm also kind of leaning into the aspect. And again, we're not going to get into that whole topic much. I just want to kind of dip my toe.

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Maybe the families that cannot support a bunch of children should not be having a bunch of children.

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You're not wrong.

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Now, who's to dictate what makes somebody happy?

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Sure, I get that. But there's got to be a line, people. That's all I'm saying.

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Well, yeah, it's either you can't afford to take care of them and make sure they have a good life, or at least are well cared for enough, or you can't.

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And that's kind of your choice on the career you take or the actions you take in life and other things.

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And that's why one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was pick a career that supports the lifestyle you want.

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If you want to have a bunch of kids, that's cool. I have no qualms either way.

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But you got to make good money, especially nowadays. Having kids nowadays is a privilege, not a right.

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And I hate to say that you're going to say expensive, but yes, because I can speak from that.

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Yes, they are. They're very good.

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Let me tell you, but it's only going to become more expensive every year.

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Oh, yeah. And I think that's something people forget where while it was before a necessity because you needed people to take care of you when you're older.

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Now it's becoming less so and more about it's swinging to a privilege where it's a privilege to have multiple children because.

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And let me say this. I got three boys. I love those kids to death. I'm proud of each and every one of them.

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There's not a thing in this world I wouldn't do for them. But damn it, it is expensive raising them.

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And there have been times in the past where I went without so that they could have and I'd do it again if I had to.

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But you do what you got to do. And that that's part of being a good parent.

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You know, that that's part of doing the best you can. And nobody can foresee the future of what's going to happen.

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But I guess that's something for people to think about where we don't know where the economy is going to be 30 years from now, 40 years from now.

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Exactly. And that's why we have to be telling like our kids and grandkids like, hey, if you want to have these privileges,

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we might have had them as what we consider a right or like a basic right, which is great that we have that.

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But that's not always going to be the case. That's where many of these type of dystopian ideas really start becoming strong.

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Where a lot of the things that we take for granted today might not be there in the future.

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Your right to say whatever you want, the right to have children, the right to own property, the right to start a business.

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There was a time and place in this country where you could start a business and no one could stop you. You could run it out of your home.

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You could do whatever you wanted. Now it's do you have the permits? Do you have the licensing? Do you have the permission?

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Do you have the planning board? You have this, that and the other thing. I mean, I can't even run a guitar shop out of my house.

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Like I have a wood shop and I've asked about it and they're like, well, you have to get the planning permitting, other thing.

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And also, if you're going to have any customers in there, there has to be a public bathroom, public this and public that and separate public parking separate from your drive.

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It's like, come on, I just want to repair guitars on the side. Like I don't want you know what I mean?

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But it becomes that level where the permissions, the rights we have today eventually become allowable permissions and eventually become only for the oligarchy and then eventually nobody has them.

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And that's the way it always goes with every single government. Unfortunately, you look almost every any government historically.

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How many governments give rights back to the people? Very, very few. How do you know it? Google it. Try to find it.

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There's very, very few. Usually always goes in one direction. Unfortunately, until a revolution happens or something happens, there's some physical conflict and it sucks.

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But that's historically what happens. So anybody that that really studies history or really studies what's going on.

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I get why a lot of people are really think we're heading that direction.

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And thankfully, we're not heading a direction of like the hunger games or anything crazy.

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We're like people are going to start playing games, being selected at random to play games for the honor of your district.

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We're not doing that. Although if we did it by state, I feel like that'd be weird because Florida would every year with my Florida man.

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Like, I don't know. I feel like every other state would lose in a Hunger Games to Florida, man.

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Either that or like we're like some some guy high on meth from like Alabama or something.

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The Florida man of bath salts versus Alabama on meth. I don't know. Yes. Yeah, let's do it. That's kind of that's kind of what it would become.

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But the only time I've seen in recent history where rights have been restored back to the people,

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I'm trying to remember the country in South America, they had an election and their new president is like absolutely kicking down walls and restoring a lot of like common sense to the people and getting rid of a lot of the bureaucracy and red tape.

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So I like it. Bolivia or or yes, I might be.

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I think so. Is it Bolivia? Yeah.

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What I was going to say is, but you know what the sad part is? We both have a decent knowledge of history.

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And neither one of us could think of out of the 200 plus countries that have come that they're either here or the several have come and gone over the last hundred years.

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We can't think of any. Where governments have restored rights to citizens.

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No, they've really only ever taken away. Now, obviously, yes, we're talking America, you know, Civil Rights Act, right to vote stuff like that. That's obvious.

388
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:40,000
But I'm talking about past that point. Where like general equality happens, anything past that, it's always restrictive.

389
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:48,000
It's never laws allowing this to happen. It's always, oh, it's more restrictive, more restrictive, more restrictive.

390
00:36:48,000 --> 00:37:00,000
It's it's something to really keep a lookout for, because in terms of dystopians, it really becomes government control is probably the number one overarching theme with a lot of these.

391
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:11,000
You could talk about something like, you know, if you've ever watched any of the movies or any ready, the Maze Runner books, I like those ones a lot because it combines the idea of humanity has a crisis.

392
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:19,000
The government and a private company is going to take over handling this. We're going to basically genetically alter children to be able to handle this and use them as a survival of humanity.

393
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:30,000
It's like, OK, I guess your end goal is the survival of humanity. Great. But the way you're going about doing it is torturing and genetically modifying children and sacrificing people to do it.

394
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Horrifying, right? Absolutely horrifying. Also, let me let me interject real quick. It's Argentina.

395
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Argentina. Sorry, we were close. But yeah, he's the one that's literally dismantling his country's bullshit. Good for him and and doing all the stuff that literally.

396
00:37:52,000 --> 00:38:06,000
Kind of needs to be done here. Well, yeah, hopefully it gets done here, but. It's that layers of bureaucracy that is finally getting rid of and just some downright crazy laws they had there. Oh, yeah. But.

397
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:16,000
Yeah, it's it's the government overreach. It's the government justification or really any sort of companies justification for doing this for the quote unquote better good and the greater good.

398
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:28,000
And that's the problem when you talk about the erosion of individual rights, individual liberties, individual freedoms, it's always for the collective good that these dystopian type ideas, novels, things kind of happen.

399
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Well, let's remember when it comes to the greater good, the needs of the many outweigh the need of the few.

400
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:42,000
I know. We'll see that's that's part of Star Trek. That's why, like as much as much as much of Star Trek fan as I am.

401
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:48,000
There's also a lot of that kind of socialist undertone with it, because yes.

402
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,000
Okay, so my Star Trek narrative show throw that out there. All my friends. Yeah.

403
00:38:53,000 --> 00:39:02,000
I I'll be honest, I got a touch of the tism when it comes to Star Trek. I really get into it. Just a touch. Hey, be nice.

404
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:07,000
It might be a firm grasp. Okay, firmly grasp it. But.

405
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:17,000
But that's one of the things with Star Trek, where because of the utopian idea, they were able to establish a government where the ideas, there is no money, there's no currency.

406
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:25,000
You do the job that you like to do or want to do. And that's great about cold press, let them. Oh, that's the Ferengi. That's the dare to.

407
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:31,000
I would love to do an episode on the subtle racism and bullshit of Star Trek. God.

408
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:40,000
But that is another topic we will get into another time because Star Trek, while it is awesome, it also definitely exposes some of the craziest crap that we deal with as humans.

409
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:47,000
And it's it's satire that is very well thought out. Well, there are some stupid episodes not going to be wrong.

410
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Oh, yeah. But anyways, in this kind of fictional world where you are able to do whatever you want.

411
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:59,000
They assume that humans will all work together collaboratively to make big changes happen.

412
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:10,000
I think that's the optimistic view. We've already discussed the pessimistic view of everybody becoming becoming savages, basically in local warlords, which I hate to say that a pessimistic view of it, but I do.

413
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
If something were to happen.

414
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,000
Whereas the optimistic view in Star Trek is everybody goes and does what they want to do.

415
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:24,000
They have no currency. There's no expectations, no big deal. Other than just be able to provide something of use to the people.

416
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Be useful. Sit around, hold hands, sing Kumbaya and everybody gets along and we're happy.

417
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Yeah. Until the Kardashians decide to invade.

418
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Up until you get into a war that realize, well, we don't have anybody that's competent at war at all.

419
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:46,000
And they have to make a secret part of the government to be able to handle at war because the people that actually live there, that are citizens, are terrified of the idea of war.

420
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000
How could you build warships? How could you? Yeah.

421
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Star Trek is basically, hey, what if the human race were full of a bunch of wussies that that is most of Star Trek until they get that they have to go and modify humans to fight.

422
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,000
We can take away all their nice traits and make them super mean and evil.

423
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000
And then those turn on humans and then you have the whole eugenics war.

424
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Oh, yeah. Which actually that that's one of the more like anything we're doing now.

425
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000
All right. You're not wrong.

426
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:25,000
You're not wrong there. But I think that does go into one of the other type of dystopian novels, which usually does either some sort of civil war, some sort of eugenics war is kind of one of the more unique ones.

427
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,000
But typically it's other civil wars, world wars, that kind of thing.

428
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:40,000
And along that vein is where I think we have some of the more other interesting conversations where, for example, in America, if there was a quote unquote civil war, a lot of people, Lord of the Fact, do you count?

429
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:46,000
Do what? A second one. We already had. I know we had one, but I'm talking about a little while ago, a little while ago.

430
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:52,000
You're not that old. That's OK. Hey, listen, listen, I've had a day.

431
00:41:52,000 --> 00:42:00,000
All right. Let me let me have my day. But if if we had a second civil war, how would it go?

432
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000
What would happen? How would it really affect people?

433
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:11,000
And a lot of people assume that somehow I don't know how these people assume this, that, oh, yeah, they would be able to write off their debt.

434
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000
They wouldn't have to worry about all this stuff. They would somehow have like local businesses.

435
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:20,000
But things would somehow just sort of continue to happen the way they the way they are.

436
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:24,000
Whereas if the U.S. entered a second civil war, the world economy would collapse.

437
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Like, I don't think basically, yes, I don't think they understand that.

438
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:32,000
But money would mean nothing. It would be more useful as toilet paper or to keep a fire going.

439
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Oh, yes. No, it will have no value.

440
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:41,000
So everything that you do with your revert to the to the precious metal exchange.

441
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:47,000
Yeah. Would you hate to say all those people that are hoarding gold will suddenly be rolling, you know, golden bullets and you own the place.

442
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,000
Yeah. And food. Yeah, that's food.

443
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,000
Yeah, because you can't eat. You can't eat gold or or bullets. You try.

444
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:58,000
Well, you can you can eat a bullet once. I mean, you're not wrong. I don't like it.

445
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:04,000
I don't recommend that we in this podcast do not support that, by the way, for legal reasons.

446
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:09,000
No, we do not. But you're not wrong, though.

447
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,000
It was what was when only. What's the old phrase?

448
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:19,000
When when only the rich figure out that you can't eat food, when it was when they will value the farmer or something like that.

449
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,000
And then you eat the rich. Well, Luigi.

450
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,000
No, it's a.

451
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Mario. That's what the mushrooms were this whole time.

452
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:37,000
All right. Gross. That all makes sense.

453
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,000
But anyways, so why is this becoming so lower?

454
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,000
I want to get back to the core of the point here.

455
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,000
The reason it's becoming so lorries, because as of everything that we've discussed.

456
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,000
Everybody's seeing what's happening around them.

457
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Everybody's seen we've been closer to war than we've had really since World War Two.

458
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000
There have been a lot of weird things happening that have been left unexplained.

459
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Things like pipelines exploding, nobody taking the nobody taking the blame for them, nobody owning up to it.

460
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:14,000
Unidentified drones flying around weird military movements, weird things happening where places catching on fire or being destroyed or blowing up.

461
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,000
A lot of weird facilities blowing up. They were blue.

462
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Yeah, I'm lightly touching on that topic, so I don't want to get too close to that one.

463
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:33,000
But the point touch the point I'm getting at is for the first time in human history, we're able to document all this weird stuff and share it and share it almost instantly.

464
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,000
Mind you, with the fact that information is now 24 7 3 65 at a moment's notice.

465
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:43,000
Yeah. You know, 100 years ago, none of this would have.

466
00:44:43,000 --> 00:45:01,000
Battered. No, even up until 10 years ago, this amount of information, it kind of gives information overload to most people nowadays, but this amount of information being easily accessible has fundamentally changed how humanity that the direction that we have, but also how we consume and really effectively analyze information.

467
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,000
And so I should have used that word.

468
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,000
What do I do? I'm such an amateur. I should.

469
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:17,000
I'm so disappointed in myself, my days ruin, but it changes. You should be. Thank you.

470
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:27,000
It changes. I'm disappointed in you and you should be too. Thank you. I wake up disappointed myself. It's fine. I too have a mirror at the end of my bed.

471
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,000
Yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed that one.

472
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:36,000
I just awake with a disappointment. It's fine. It's a fact of reality. It's okay.

473
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:41,000
But it has changed how we perceive information in the world around us.

474
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,000
And that's I think why we've really be able to document and kind of understand where we're heading.

475
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:57,000
Because before this, governments didn't really like credit. They covered up stuff don't can be wrong, but not in the blatant ways that we have seen in the last 20 30 years.

476
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:07,000
Well, well, I mean, there's a there's a long list. Again, a hint to another podcast we will be doing about why the government lies to you and how often they do it because they lie to you and want MK ultra.

477
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,000
Oh, yeah. I mean, the Tuskegee experiment alone just kill.

478
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:20,000
But for so many things that we've seen the last 20 30 years with the government blatantly lying to people that was never really an option before people would never have known that people thought of Pearl Harbor.

479
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:25,000
We had no idea the Japanese were going to attack us. We knew several days ahead of time.

480
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:31,000
Like same thing with what happened just to find Vietnam. Again, we didn't think they were going to attack that ship.

481
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,000
We already knew that was going to happen.

482
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:40,000
And don't get me started on the false flag operations to that's the thing that that's some of the US government like is really good at.

483
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:50,000
So the question then becomes how have people like before this, they always trusted the government kind of the news and agencies of people to report factually.

484
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:55,000
The question is, how can you trust the government or anything else that's around you in this links?

485
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,000
Let me let me I'm sorry. Let me just kind of step on your peepee for a second there.

486
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:14,000
Please don't when you have that. Have you seen the have you seen the videos of all the different news agencies repeating all of the same words verbatim.

487
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:23,000
That is 1000 percent dystopia in today's society.

488
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:30,000
I will try to find some links to a few of those little productions that have been put together a good little from news networks, a good little plug.

489
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,000
If you want the links, shall I shout out the discord at this point and show up and do it.

490
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,000
OK, the discord on the YouTube channel, because we're going to have all those links posted up over there.

491
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,000
That's the easiest one to do for right now.

492
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:51,000
But yeah, what we're going to be doing just you guys know in the future is any of the links or any stuff that we're pulling from in the episodes will be posting in the discord.

493
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,000
It's a free open discord. Any one of the members of followers can join it.

494
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,000
So please meet us over there. You could possibly talk with us.

495
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,000
Oh, yeah. We'll traumatize you there.

496
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:07,000
No charge, no charge. OK. So yeah, now that I've regained my sense of what the hell I was doing.

497
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:13,000
Don't laugh at me. I'm not that old. Your mind says otherwise, sir.

498
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:19,000
You. The audience will never know how long we took.

499
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,000
The audience will never know.

500
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:35,000
Yes. So we will try to find clips of the news broadcasters from all the different agencies across the country, repeating the exact same words verbatim.

501
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,000
And we'll put it up in the discord, the discord and stuff.

502
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:43,000
We're going to start getting that stuff out on the YouTube channel.

503
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:50,000
That's our easiest way to post up all this stuff right now because the social media stuff is giving us issues.

504
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:59,000
I remember during covid, especially during the lockdowns, the first couple of years, because most of the advertising revenue was from the pharmaceutical companies.

505
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:03,000
There were a lot of times are all of the news corporations are parrot the same thing.

506
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,000
But word for word, line for line, they say the same thing about any sort of medical stuff.

507
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:12,000
I'm going to be very loose on that. But they just repair it the same thing.

508
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,000
And I hate to say it, but yeah.

509
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:27,000
And then from there, it transitioned from not just medical situations, but political and any kind of, oh, we must do against this person because they are bad for said situation.

510
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,000
And it was just lockstep verbatim.

511
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:37,000
There was no place for any dissent or critical thinking or even just asking questions.

512
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,000
And oh, God, don't you dare ask questions.

513
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:46,000
How dare you have a critical thought you think the news is for finding out the truth.

514
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:52,000
Oh, naive. How dare you? How dare you?

515
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,000
Which is so true. Right.

516
00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:07,000
But yes. So with with with all these different factors between the government lying to us, the media lying to us, our economy, I hate to say it, but in a general downward spiral, we'll see what happens in the next few years.

517
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:24,000
But generally the downward spiral, the American dream kind of going away, our personal rights being curtailed, government, you know, government taking away a lot of that kind of stuff or invading personal rights, personal freedoms, private corporations, invading your personal rights and freedoms.

518
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:41,000
And, you know, not even our own government, but who's to say anything happens if another government decides to kind of shloop their lubed or unlooped once and aggressions into our country?

519
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:45,000
Why you have to bring lube into the situation.

520
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,000
That they might just stealthily or not so stealthily try.

521
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:54,000
I don't think a government ever uses lube, man. I've seen my taxes.

522
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,000
I've seen my pay stubs. I know it's not listen.

523
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:03,000
It's it's like trying to get into a gypsy. Okay. I would not have any experience with that, sir.

524
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:07,000
You have to speak of experience on that one.

525
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,000
Maybe in another episode.

526
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:39,000
The episode. But no, if if another government decides to try to take advantage of any kind of a downward situation that we're in, it could literally just be the domino or a bigger domino that plays into a situation cascading and getting out of or further out of control, which leads us into some sort of, you know, a crisis that's a four becomes a seven.

527
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:45,000
And then people are stuck trying to figure out, oh, is it us? Is it them?

528
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:54,000
Is this, you know, our government? Is this the North Koreans, the Russians, the Chinese? Is this?

529
00:51:54,000 --> 00:52:02,000
And and and not even that with the amount of I swear I will stop touching AI one of these days.

530
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:12,000
Now, with the amount of AI stuff that's out there, you could have one government trying to launch an invasion and make it completely look like another.

531
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,000
Oh, yeah. Well, America is king of the false flag operation.

532
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,000
Yes, we are the kings of that.

533
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,000
So we wrote the book on it.

534
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:25,000
No way that but it goes to show you to even if a disaster does happen, the government has no obligation to help you.

535
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,000
Look what happened after they're not going to at that point, you will win your own.

536
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:33,000
Well, look at what happened in a real survival situation.

537
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:41,000
How many people can just pick up, you know, a bag or two worth of shit.

538
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:46,000
Leave their immediate area and be OK. Very, very few.

539
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:55,000
I would venture a guess that maybe 20 percent of the population of the US would be able to make that work.

540
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,000
I'm saying a carload of stuff for them and their family.

541
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:04,000
Yeah. Could leave their their home, get somewhere safe and be OK.

542
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,000
I think you're being optimistic.

543
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:12,000
I probably am. I hate to say it, but probably I'm just a positive guy like that.

544
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:22,000
Right. Well, what I would say that we have proof is look at what happened to the survivors of the hurricane down the Carolinas.

545
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:26,000
Well, the hurricane devastated entire towns and the government did nothing to help them.

546
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,000
Yeah. I mean, we're we're what, three, four months out from that.

547
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,000
And those towns are still basically craters.

548
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,000
Not only that, but people were refused medical care.

549
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,000
They were refused food. There are people that were donating food that got confiscated.

550
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,000
People weren't allowed to go and help.

551
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:47,000
They were turning away our own citizens that had trucks and equipment, equipment that was desperately.

552
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,000
They were saying no, because they weren't government run.

553
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,000
Yeah, they weren't government provided.

554
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000
The government said, no, because we're FEMA and all these other.

555
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Meanwhile, we're giving billions of dollars to these other countries so they can do stuff.

556
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,000
Absolutely, because they're more important, right?

557
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:06,000
We give we give a few hundred billion to places like Ukraine or Israel, any of these other countries.

558
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:10,000
And they're clearly more important than our own citizens. Right.

559
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:14,000
Absolutely. Yeah. Don't get me started on that.

560
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:19,000
Oh, that's that's part of the you know, the other episode of the government lies to you.

561
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,000
Yes. Discussing a lot of that.

562
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,000
It may not be the next one, but it will be soon. No, it's on the list.

563
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,000
That's the problem. It's an ever growing list of topics we have.

564
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,000
But this is where I'm getting as almost every major disaster.

565
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,000
Like, look at the people in Hawaii and all those houses got burned down.

566
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,000
And then what the government did.

567
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,000
Maui has fallen off the radar. And how long ago was that?

568
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:43,000
You know, was that was that back in June?

569
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,000
I want to say it's back in June, but I could be wrong.

570
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,000
May, June, something like that.

571
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:53,000
But anyways, all those people, the government just wrote them a seven hundred fifty dollar check and said, here,

572
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,000
here we go. Sorry, it happened.

573
00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:01,000
The the wildfires in Maui were in August of twenty, twenty three.

574
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,000
Oh, God, it was over a year ago.

575
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:07,000
Geez, my perception of time is off. Yeah.

576
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:14,000
Anyways. So all those people that lost their homes, lost everything.

577
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:18,000
People weren't even allowed to take photos. We'll give you a seven hundred dollar check.

578
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,000
Yeah. Now, you know, no, fuck off.

579
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:26,000
The National Guard wasn't deployed until after people were being denied to go down roads and save their houses or save people.

580
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:34,000
It's a mess. And unfortunately, there's a lot of stuff that like we can't say on the podcast because there's been government regulations about some of this stuff.

581
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:40,000
But like because I've seen people get arrested for talking about Maui too much in depth, which is insane.

582
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:51,000
Yeah. But hey, let's just remember the nine scariest words you could ever hear are I'm from the government and I'm here to help every single one of those words is a lie.

583
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:55,000
Well, they might actually be from the government. I don't know. I don't trust that.

584
00:55:55,000 --> 00:56:00,000
I mean, they get I don't know. I I just plainly don't trust it.

585
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:06,000
I'm sorry. Someone could say because then what's to stop me from going up to people and say that free candy.

586
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:11,000
All right. I from the government and I have candy.

587
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,000
It's just no, that's not going to work. Take me to your van.

588
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:18,000
I sold that years ago.

589
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:24,000
That really kind of wraps us up into with all these different factors.

590
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,000
You can see why for so long.

591
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:35,000
The the allure of dystopia has really been hitting a lot of people really maybe not even the allure, but kind of observing the fact that we're heading in that direction.

592
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:47,000
And we have to say it's maybe more the observance and realization that it may be like you said earlier, it's becoming more of a checklist than a storybook.

593
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:59,000
And it's happening in front of us at a rate that's even scarier than I think movies and books could make it seem possible.

594
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:10,000
We've referenced that movie Idiocracy a couple of times and that movie is quickly becoming not just a documentary, but yet again, another checklist.

595
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,000
Oh, yeah. Because we're getting there.

596
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,000
I'm from Costco. I love you.

597
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,000
Welcome to Costco. I love you.

598
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,000
It's just every time I enter Costco, I just picture that.

599
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:27,000
Because I when the day that happens, I know we've lost on the day that we're done.

600
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:32,000
That's it. Well, I mean, I'm convinced that we're on that timeline.

601
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:36,000
And you know why?

602
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,000
Rocks exist.

603
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,000
The rocks exist.

604
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Crocs. Oh, crocs. The shoes.

605
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,000
What do you mean? Idiot people shoes.

606
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Maybe they're idiot people shoes. They're rubber shoes. They're waterproof.

607
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,000
Yeah, but the idiot people wear them.

608
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,000
Maybe? Look, Idiocracy.

609
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,000
I don't know about that. That's that's that movie is why they exist.

610
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,000
You know that, right? No.

611
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,000
What do you mean? Oh, dear God.

612
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:08,000
OK, sidetrack. So when they were making the movie Idiocracy, they were trying to find shoes for everybody in the movie to wear.

613
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,000
They needed them to look futuristic, but ridiculous.

614
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,000
And they found crocs. And so they approached the people making crocs.

615
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,000
They were like, hey, we need like 250,000 orders of these shoes.

616
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:20,000
And they were like, OK, cool. We'll fulfill the order.

617
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:27,000
But then when the movie was being filmed, somebody was like, what happens if these are like become a thing?

618
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:32,000
And some of the guys were like, are you kidding? Look at these things. They look absolutely ridiculous.

619
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:38,000
Yet now we have crocs everywhere. We have attachments for crocs like croc nuts.

620
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:43,000
I thought they were popular because people liked them and their convenience.

621
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,000
They're idiot shoes.

622
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:50,000
I don't like every word you just said to me.

623
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:56,000
Like, I don't own them. I wear boots. But like, bro. Yeah.

624
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:01,000
They're you know, they literally only exist because of Idiocracy.

625
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:05,000
Oh, I know what Christmas present you get next year.

626
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,000
Oh, I know what Christmas present you're getting next year.

627
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:13,000
Oh, yeah. Be prepared. You get a fully decked out pair of crocs, a four wheel drive.

628
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:18,000
I have the torch, my friend. Oh, I will not own a pair. I'm sorry.

629
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:24,000
You would torch torch a present that I give you.

630
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:30,000
Fine. No, it's OK. I'll just I'll just I'll just pull on them. How about that?

631
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:37,000
I mean, you have a power washer for a reason. I mean, I do. Jesus.

632
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:41,000
I never knew you thought that that's strongly about crocs. That's such an interesting.

633
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,000
I hate them with every fiber of my being.

634
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:49,000
Well, I know which emoji to add to the discourse can be a croc emoji.

635
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:53,000
That's that's going to happen. I've got a croc reaction every time.

636
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,000
Oh, I'm looking forward to it.

637
00:59:55,000 --> 01:00:00,000
And I am going to double check your story about crocs with Idiocracy.

638
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,000
Do it. I will find the link for you. How about that?

639
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,000
All right. I'm more terrified now that you can find a link for that.

640
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:13,000
Yes, I have terrified you once again. That seems like your goal every day.

641
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,000
I live for it.

642
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:24,000
But yeah, so with all these points, with all these things come into fruition with the way our world is going,

643
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:31,000
it seems like the dystopian future is I don't want to say inevitable, but parts of it are.

644
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:35,000
It would not surprise me if there are many countries in this world that go that direction.

645
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:39,000
Oh, no, you said inevitable. I was thinking that Thanos snap.

646
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:46,000
Oh, I am inevitable. Oh, I thought you snapped because you were like, we're like, trying to say or like do something.

647
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,000
No, no. Oh, OK. That makes more sense.

648
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,000
Like dystopia. I am inevitable. Yeah, I do.

649
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:57,000
I genuinely feel like is the direction we've been going. Yeah.

650
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:06,000
It's it's one of those things where, yeah, we could use a little bit of a reset,

651
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:20,000
but it's one of those things where there is no amount that is a good amount that won't be too much of a reset simply because there is just too much at play.

652
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:25,000
Yeah, because where somebody could win, others could lose. So it's always that back.

653
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:29,000
It's not a could. It's a will. Yeah.

654
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:33,000
There's there's no way of doing it. Where you make everybody happy.

655
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:43,000
Right. And as or to where someone doesn't end up with too much power or control or anything and it just gets out of hand.

656
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:48,000
Yeah, that was kind of the point of our government to be able to regulate.

657
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:58,000
Granted, not overregulate more like a laissez faire style capitalism, but the idea is, you know, to regulate where needed to break up monopolies where needed and to let the market do what it's got to do.

658
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:04,000
And unfortunately, because we have been meddling too much in that all these other problems of building up.

659
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:09,000
So I think you are right. Where is.

660
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,000
Inevitable in some capacity.

661
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:14,000
The question is, what capacity and how much.

662
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:18,000
Will the dystopia of Earth cause people to move to Mars and Moon?

663
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:25,000
Who knows? Oh, is it all linked together? Nice touch back. I try.

664
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:30,000
Does this A.I. prevent us from entering a dystopian empire or, you know, is it the opposite?

665
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:34,000
Will A.I. be the savior or the slaver?

666
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:42,000
Yeah, I yeah, I I don't like the idea of getting whipped by an A.I. robot, but I mean, you know, let's do each their own.

667
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:47,000
Oh, thank me, A.I. daddy.

668
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,000
Look on your face.

669
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,000
I apologize to the audience for all the job cuts and everything.

670
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:58,000
The amount of times that he's left me just brain off with mouth open.

671
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,000
It's like I don't want to do with this guy.

672
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:05,000
I don't want to do with how many times I have to edit something.

673
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:11,000
Good Lord. But yeah, I feel like I guess finally at the last point, we can kind of summarize our opinions on it.

674
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,000
And how we feel about it.

675
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:16,000
Slay me, A.I. daddy.

676
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,000
All right. You're not allowed to voice your opinion on this.

677
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:25,000
Your opinion privileges have been revoked.

678
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:36,000
But I think you all kind of fully understand where I'm at, where basically every metric we can figure out is moving towards a dystopian future.

679
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,000
We're already kind of in it.

680
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:42,000
We're working our way through it. The question will be moving forward.

681
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,000
How much will people put up with it?

682
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:47,000
And unfortunately, I hate to say it. How many Luigi's are there out there?

683
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:55,000
Because like what worries me is if we get to the point where this gets a lot worse and there's a lot more of them, it could swing both ways.

684
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:01,000
I could scare enough politicians and enough corporations to where they don't want to do it or it'll be martial law.

685
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,000
And then we and this turned into the mushroom kingdom.

686
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:06,000
I have so many questions.

687
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,000
What does that have to do? You mentioned Luigi.

688
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:13,000
So mushroom kingdom.

689
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:17,000
I hit my mic. God, I don't know.

690
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:21,000
I'll deal with you later.

691
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:25,000
So, yeah, I guess we're heading there.

692
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:28,000
We're already there. Welcome to the dystopia.

693
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:31,000
That's my opinion. Tinfoil hats on.

694
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,000
Oh, no, we didn't even go tinfoil hat on this one.

695
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,000
I have a lot more opinion stuff to say.

696
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,000
That's the bad part. Oh, yeah.

697
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:42,000
I have a lot more opinion stuff to say, but we're not going to put it out.

698
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,000
We'll say that for the desert tracks.

699
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:48,000
But all right. Did you have any final thoughts on on that?

700
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:52,000
Uh, no, I guess.

701
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:58,000
Keep your browser history clear and just watch behind your shoulder.

702
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,000
That's very positive uplifting.

703
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:04,000
I like that. Yeah, I try.

704
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:05,000
Well, here's to us.

705
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,000
Birds are birds are and are not drones.

706
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:12,000
I guess at this point we can say with this being where we are in the month,

707
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:18,000
I hope everybody has a good, safe and happy holiday.

708
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,000
Enjoy the time with your family.

709
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,000
Hug your loved ones. Keep them close.

710
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:38,000
And we will see you guys in the next one.