Yannis Pappas Hour - The Data Hurts | YP Hour

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

Yannis Pappas delivers a sharp, hilarious rant on how data has a way of dismantling our perceptions and deeply held beliefs, while most people would still rather cling to a good story. He riffs on how we’re conditioned from childhood, first through the stories our parents tell us, and then through the narratives we continue to absorb as adults. With his signature mix of humor and insight, he offers condolences to laid-off tech workers before diving into what the data actually reveals about capitalism versus communism. He caps it off with a compelling breakdown of Poland’s rapid transformation into an economic powerhouse in just one generation, using it as a real-world case study that challenges popular narratives. Support our sponsors: Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at https://square.com/go/yannis! #squarepod To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/YANNIS. https://lucy.co/yannis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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we need your money. We need it. Now enjoy the app. What's up, everybody? Hi. Welcome to another episode of the Janus Papas hour. Hope you had a nice St. Patrick's Day. Hope it went well for you. I hope you celebrated the need for Ireland to be a unified Ireland and all the oppression they've had from the British.

That's all I heard from progressive politicians about St. Patrick's Days. They made videos tying it to Palestine when I just thought it was about women pissing and vomiting outside. That's what I thought it was. I thought it was about a green river in Chicago. I thought it was about celebrating public drunkenness. But, Um, mom, Dami and a few others I saw videos

just talking about the parallels, just, but it was sort of tongue and cheek. It was sort of, it was a dog whistle, if you will. A dog whistle. A dog whistle,

a dog whistle, if you will. So I don't know. I, you know, I don't know what's going on. An Irish, I don't know

what's going on with their history. I know they don't like the British, but I never really looked that far into it. I got to a potato a famine. I got to Connor McGregor and then I bolted. So I don't know. And I didn't even watch the video.

I just knew that he made a video talking to the Irish and he talked about freedom and things like that when I didn't know St. Patrick was tied to all that. But apparently he is. Neither here nor there. I don't care enough about it to look farther into it. I just wanted to bring it up to say it's hard to find a new story without tying it to Israel and Palestine nowadays. Even if you do, even if this was a sports show, we would say, well, what we got to do is figure out a way to stop oppressing, you know, the Washington Wizards, what they get, they get all this money, what's going on and the Washington Wizards are holding their G-team captive.

I don't know. It would just, we'd find a way to figure out to make a parallel or an analogy. to the Middle East, because we're living through Middle East capture. Middle East is so fucking hot right now. Like I've said, the influencers now are all talking politic. Not even just politics. They're talking geopolitics. It's not like, hey, what's going on in New York City?

Or hey, what's going on? This is Blaine. I would imagine the name is Blaine or Skyler coming at you from Montana 7. And we wanted to talk about it. coyote problem. I bet you in Montana they're going, we're cutting right to the details of what's going on, the straight of her mooth.

Because everyone knows about it, and it's hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. And I don't know what to tell you. All I know is people are getting laid off left and right. That's all I know. I know that Andrew Yang was the only guy that talked data. He was the only guy that talked numbers. Everybody else talks slogans.

But Andrew Yang is a guy that always talked numbers. That's what he did. He was a numbers guy. He was a guy who said, hey, here's the numbers. Here's what's going to happen. And now it's here.

So all I know is he was a smart Eastern Hemisphere gentleman who was looking towards the future, you know? Just like China militarily is looking towards the future. They're not looking to fund Kurds. They're not looking for ground troops. They're not looking for more bombers. They're looking how to make sonic weapons that could infiltrate through waves and little drones, the signs of bees. They're looking out of ways to hack your grid.

It's computers, baby. Our robots versus their robots. And their robots look like they know Taekwondo. But hopefully we know MMA. Because MMA is the real deal. Okay? and karate is the performative one. All the martial arts are performative.

MMA is really, basically I look at communism as karate and capitalism as MMA. Karate looks nice, sounds nice, but it doesn't really get you the results in the octagon. Speaking of which, shout out to Poland. I know you bring up Poland, you're going to pull up that image of that person. President of Poland talking about we have zero attacks in this country because we got to say what

you want. Call us as racist that you want. But we're going to talk about data today because data is something that cuts through narratives, supports narratives, provides inconvenient truths, rejects narratives, but it's the closest we can get to objective truth is data. So we'll start with one. set of data, and then we'll just move through data. This will be a fun one for all the nerds.

And the future belongs to you. I said it first, and one of these tech geeks probably listens to the podcast, Saman, because I was the first one to that joke. And he said it earnestly. But I said, he goes, the future belongs to the neurodivergent. And I said, yeah, pretty soon people are going to be worried that vaccines are making their children neurotypical. They're going to go, wait, we got a neurotypical normalcy problem.

I need my kin to be autistic because he's the only one who seems to bury his head to computers and not care about the juicy nectar of pusifacases. He seems to be more interested in the code and the computer than he is the ladies. And up until this point, I think parents are going, that's a problem. But let me tell you some. If your kid's rain, man, congratulations. Because the future does belong to him. And of course, my joke was, I believe.

It may be true. Humans are evolving in real time. The joke was, you know, and, you know, autism is a power. It's not a hindrance. It's not a malfunction. It's not a deficiency. It's not a condition, perhaps. Maybe it's humans evolving to live in the new era.

of technology and artificial intelligence. Perhaps. Perhaps that's what's true. That would be funny, right? If all the vaccine people who say that autism causes vaccine start getting mad that their kid, the vaccine is causing their kids to be normal. Because nobody ever says that.

I mean, billions and billions of people get vaccines. Probably 90, what, 7, 8, 9, 99.3% are end up being normal. so is the vaccine causing normalcy? I mean, if you looked at the data, you'd say yes, right? But we don't like data. If you look at the data about the COVID vaccine, you will say, oh, it brought down, whatever, the countries that did, whatever.

But I like to just, I would prefer to believe that it is a demonic injection, the same thing that Claus Tucker Carlson during his night. terrors. It's a demonic invention that is a bioweapon created by the Antichrist Ball, an old Sumerian God, to target everyone but Asians and Jews. That's what I want to believe because it's a little bit of a better story. And we're here to tell stories. That's what the human dish condition is about. It's a good story. If something interesting happens, It can only be enjoyed once. But if you're a good storyteller,

it can be enjoyed over and over and over again. We tell stories. We're a storytelling species. And whatever the story, that's the best, that's the one that wins, right? Like that Islam is primarily a peaceful religion. That's the story that wins with a lot of people. And that it's a violent religion,

wins with other people. These are stories. But then there's data. And most people, don't like to look into the data because it can be narrative crushing. It can destroy your worldview, your identity. It can, it can up, it can cause an upheaval in your perception. And that's one thing we just don't like.

We like our stories, God damn it. We like our stories. Am I going to tell, am I going to tell my daughter unicorns aren't really? yet? No. Why? She likes that story. You know what my daughter told me the day? She said, I'm so strong I could lift up New York City. And what am I going to do? Am I going to go, do I have to worry about you? Am I going to go, no, dreams aren't real. You can't lift up New York City. You can barely lift up your little sister. You're just a little kid and you're thinking like a crazy person. And if that continues, you'll be diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Should I say that? When she says, daddy, daddy, big questions, should I say, daddy doesn't know and I'm just as scared as you, I'm just older? No. We keep the story going. We keep the story going. We all love stories and we don't like data. Data is for egg, head, finger, sniffers. But the data, if collected scrupulously, objectively, tells the real story.

And so today we're going to talk about some real stories. We're not going to do the fairy tales. We're going to talk real stories. And this one's going to be a real bummer for some people. It's going to be a real bummer all the way around. But it's interesting, right? We'll start with Andrew Yang's latest tweet. I like Andrew Yang.

I'm not completely convinced he's not a Chinese spy. Why? Because I like that story. Because he's Chinese and I'm racist. No, I'm joking. It just I like. that story. Why not? He's a Chinese spy. What's my evidence? I don't have any. He's obviously not. Or maybe he is. I don't know. But he's probably not. Why would I think he is besides the fact that he's

Chinese? It's such a lowbrow thing, but it's fun. And I want to have some fun. So he says, guys, the AI layoffs are very real and are about to rip through organizations throughout the economy. Be prepared and sad. Kids got a heart. That's why I suspect he's not a Chinese spy. For those affected, because it's going to impact millions of people. And he quote tweeted,

meta stock surges following reports they're laying off 20% of the company due to AI. Also, their VR, they're just canceling it. It bombed. So it shows you, that progress is not a straight line either and that all ideas just because you can do it. It's got to be good. And we talked about that many times.

Like, it just, it didn't seem like it was going to work. Virtual reality just didn't seem, you know, there was all this stuff when it came out. People were going, oh, there's going to be comedy clubs and virtual stuff. It just, it didn't work. Just like the meta glasses are not going to work. They look stupid. and nobody wants you fucking recording them without them knowing about it. It's just too much.

And then this whole thing they're going to put the computer in your head. Yeah, we'll be able to do it at some point. It'll be possible. But will people want it? Isn't this enough? You want to put this in my head? It just, people may just go, that's too much. They may just go, that's too much.

Right? Something that probably the United States ambassador says to Netanyahu, a regular basis. That's too much. Can we scale it a little down? And he goes, well, what are you going to do? We suspect that that apartment building

had somebody in Hezbole in there. So it's happening, right? Everyone's getting laid off. And what I would like to say is learn the code. Oh, wait. Oh wait, no. See, this is why you don't, you really want to be careful

when you're a prick because the Hindus, every religion got something right, right? Like the Muslims got right that women shouldn't talk. Hindus got right karma. Christians got right forgiveness. Jews got right,

education and family and separating your meats from your cheeses. I mean, could they have been more wrong? about something. You ever have a sandwich with no cheese? You know, the Zoroastrians, I don't know. Everyone's got something right, right?

The Buddhists, life is misery. You're like, you live for a couple decades. You're like kind of nailed it. Everyone gets something right, you know? So what was my original point? I'm talking about layoffs. Layoffs. So they're happening.

Learned to code. and learn the code. And so when you're being, oh, karma. Yeah, I was saying the Hindus got that right. Because karma is, I swear to God, it's one of those, the mystical things that I've seen the most evidence for. In my own life and things that I've done and other people, you just wait.

And then it never doesn't happen. And it's really fascinating to me. You know, I got decades and decades and decades of personal data on it. And it just always, there's something about the universe mathematically that whatever gets pulled this way gets pulled that. It just, I've never seen karma not happen. And so you had all these San Francisco kids walking around, machete's in camper shoes, you know, saying, we'll learn a code. you've you white artifact you you white rust belt artifact it's not our fault that the world moved on and all you knew how to do was put a box on an assembling line or assemble something or a box or

make paper it's not our fault the world changed we're at the forefront of what the new thing is and then an egghead above them was like I don't like paying you guys. You know what I don't like? I don't like paying you guys. You know what I also don't like, I don't like your errors. I also don't like your lunch breaks. I also don't like not having your money. Is that another way of saying I don't like paying you guys? And much like capitalism will always do, pays no attention to human morality. And they go, hey, I see a way that we can pad the bottom line. That's the system. Well, have you met with community leaders?

Have you talked to the government? Do we have any contingency plan in place for what these people can do? Because they have no body mass. They don't know how to lift things. They use gender pronouns. They drink coffee. They have no skills besides what was erstwhile a very necessary skill. And that is coding.

Zero's and ones talking to computers. used to be considered very smart stuff. Now it's about this dumbest thing you could know. Just like that. Just like that. And I do feel bad. I do feel bad. I do feel, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I feel bad. But also, your spokespeople were kind of being what they call arrogant, snarky dicks. It's sort of what working class Republicans hate about you is your snarl. and you know it all and you know, oh my God, I read Chaucer, so I know better. Oh, God. My God. Oh, my God.

They didn't like your oh, my God's. And now it seems like if you're a plumber, you're smart. It seems like if you know how to work with your hands, you're smart. It seems like if you do some sort of service-based job that requires computing, you may be stupid. If you used to create those computing systems for those service-based jobs, you're the most fucked. You are so fucked.

I mean, you are gang-bang fucked. You're that British chick that took 2,000 dicks. I mean, it's just a gang-bang fucking. You are so fucked. The fucking lasts for 20 minutes. And you're getting Bukakkied and there's come all over you. I can't remember her name. You know that blonde chick from England who just gets fucked?

Or that Palestinian girl who fucking gets fucked? No, she's a Palestinian, but she's a porn star. Though I don't remember their names. Something blue, Betty Blue, or Vanessa Blue gets fucked. That's you. That's you now. You're a chick getting gang banged by big old digital cocks. You're so fucked.

So fucked. We're talking 50,000 jobs already. This just started. Meta, Amazon, Oracle. I mean, it's just you're walking in one day and someone is just throwing you up against the wall and bending you over and they're fucking you. So karma has arrived.

And now you're going to walk in another man's moccasins as the old Native American saying goes, and you will develop some empathy for the Rust Belt left behind Nazi whites, white supremacist whites. You're going to feel a little. Do you know that now we're going to get like a disgruntled, like pronoun party, you know?

There's going to be another tea party, but this will be a macha organically infused tea party. But there's going to be another tea party coming out of the Bay Area and Austin and parts of New York City and Virginia, wherever Amazon is. And it sucks. And I feel bad for everybody. I just want you to know, just be careful. You know, when you're a dick, just be careful.

Just remember you're a human too, and it could come around to you. And it has. It's just beginning. That's the problem. It's just beginning. And if you're, look, if you're working with pipes and your jeans don't stay up when you squat down. And, you know, you make a good 60 to 100 grand a year, that's better than being on a employed.

Need plumbers right now. Mechanics. Pretty soon that may be a thing that past. I doubt it because you have to like diagnose a problem. You got to come in and I don't know how you're going to need a human to plum at some point. Is that what they, do they plumbers plum? Does anyone, have you ever, do you even know that? Is plumbing a verb?

Plummer? Does a plumber do plumbing? Yeah, plumbing is a verb. Yeah. So can you say, I can't call you, I can't, I got to call you back, honey. I'm, I'm in the middle. Well, you'd say I'm in the middle of plumbing, but you go, I plumb. I plumb.

Fixed toilets. I plumb. I don't fix toilets. I plumb. Originals from the English as an occupation name for worker in lead, particularly a maker of lead, of lead pipes, roofs, and containers. Plum. So I don't know.

So that's very interesting. And I also want to say to this newly formed organic, infused, machetee party, I'd like to say, what can you do? Learn to stream fake drama on the internet? Is that going to be a new slogan? That's going to be the slogan coming out of potts. town in Pennsylvania. Someone's going to tweet, hey, hey, Silicon Valley, learn how to stream fake drama on the internet. Huge market for that right now. Huge market for that. People are loving

their rabbit holes right now. What's going on between who and who? Let me spend some time in the rabble because we got a lot of time on our hands because not a lot of work to go around anymore. my job is safe because here's the good thing AI can't be stupid. AI can't be stupid. AI doesn't know how to be inefficient and sleep late. If you're smart, you're fucked. If you're dumb like me, pretty safe. My whole career is on errors.

Funny is being wrong. Fucking good. It is good to be dumb right now. We don't need smart people. Isn't that wild? Isn't that wild? And you can see it's evinced by what you see on the digital landscape. It's dumb people making millions of dollars.

I mean, when Jake Paul speaks, you can see it's kind of like, you know, not a towering intellectual. The internet is full of dumb people. making stupid money, having other dumb people watch them and go, I want to do that. Because that's why a lot of people do watch the content. They want to learn and do it for themselves. Like, oh, I'm watching this podcast because I too am going to start a podcast. Or I'm watching this drama content or this troll content because I too am going to get into the gossip game and join the e-channel for men. see if I get some monetize monetization with my,

with my, with my engagement farming. No more farmers. Now engagement farmers. We used to till the land for corn and spinach, you know, livestock. Now we farm for clicks by going, holy check on you believe what this guy. I spent up to.

Make sure you put his name in the title. Algorithm, pick it up. Pick it up. Pick it up. So data often cuts through our emotions. And Poland, I think I briefly brought up, has just recently been in the news because some autistic Edhead, Egghead has

computed Is that the right word? Their data How they doing? Someone, some Meghead was going, okay,

so how's Poland doing? It was a generation ago that they were part of the, what is it, the steel curtain? What was it called? Iron curtain? The iron curtain,

you know, Soviet Union, ran them. They were basically just like East Germany. How are they doing? how are they doing since the communist days since they were communist how are they doing in one generation how are their sons and daughters doing turns out the old stereotypes of polox being stupid you can't do

anymore things changed right just like you can't do the indian accent because haricandabola did a documentary and hank azaria was doing such a horrible thing to society you can't do that anymore Well, guess what? You can't say, how do you get a one-arm Polack out of a tree anymore? The answer used to be waive. You can't do it anymore. I don't even know how that stereotype and those street jokes happened. But the stereotype was that Polish people were stupid.

Probably happened from one very popular, stupid Polish guy. And it was the only Polish person. I don't know many Polish people, you know? I like Brogis, but I'm never sure. whether parogis are Czech or Lithuania. You ever noticed that? Those people just in their little areas, there's not a lot of originality with the food.

It's just like applesauce and potato dumplings, which they call parogis, which is just a fucking dumpling with potatoes in it. And applesauce and sour cream or whatever and some sort of schnitzel, it's German, like it's just that whole area. You're having a parogi, you're going, this is a Polish meal.

You're going, I had the same exact meal at a Czech restaurant. and then I was at a Georgian restaurant and I had the same meal. Guys, I want to tell you about Square. We've all interacted with Square when you've gone to buy a smoothie, you got your hair cut. What is Square? Square is the platform behind the scenes of so many businesses you already love, whether someone's selling your smoothie cut in your hair,

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and because they love the control of it. They love the authoritarian control of it. They don't love billionaires doing what they're. want. They're running essentially a mafia state. And it's not unique. And it works. If you want a clean neighborhood, you talk to John Gotti and you say, John Gotti, we want to get more police in this neighborhood because police ensure safety. You know, John Gotti says? Same thing Mom Dami said. He said, police officers do not equal safety. When I heard Mom Dami say that, I said, I think I heard John Gotti say that.

But you had a safe neighborhood and not because of the police. It was sort of like a progressive stream. Not a lot of beat cops and nobody did anything. Not out of the goodness of their heart, but because they knew that John Gotti would, you made a fucking mess in my situation and you would be gone, right? So it was fear. So it works. Mafia tactics work very well.

And that's why the mafia worked. worked in a lot of ways for keeping neighborhoods safe and keeping stores from getting broken into. A lot of people go, oh, they were extorting stores. Yes, they were. Yes, they were exerting stores. But here's how it goes. It's this realistic system that understands human nature, unfortunately.

Right? And this is what I like, things I like to talk about. for example my dad said in his day his dad had to pay off um albert albert anastasia's brother when he had the diner down at the docks but it wasn't looked at as an extortion pay it was looked at as protection pay which is exactly what the muslim empire called the jiza the geiza they called it protection it's a protection tax meaning you know you can't do all these things if a muslim rapes you you got to deal with it and walk it all right off. You can't bring any charges, but you're under our protection. Nobody else can come in and kill you.

If we're going to rape, it's going to be us. There's only one set of people who can rape and kill you. And that's us. And that is a lot better than many potential rapists. That is. Right? It's like when people criticize America, you're going like, what are you criticizing it against? What's the example out there that's battle? Oh, you're just, you're criticizing it in this vacuum, you're criticizing it against an ideal, not a vacuum, you're criticizing it against an imaginary place, right? It's the same thing, because if you got the geezer,

you go, this isn't that bad. If I just avoid Muslims for as long as possible, I lower my probability of getting raped because the Muslims will not allow anyone else to rape me because we're under their protection. Yeah, we got to pay extra money, and that hurts our pocket a little bit. But that's better than being raped by just anyone

who can come in here and rape us or murder us. This is harsh, but here's the thing. Every single piece of saliva that came out of my mouth and every sound that came out of my mouth is what you call 100% true. That's the thing. I know it didn't come out the way you like. I know you're resisting what I'm saying,

but that's what it took. It's a mafia text. It's the same thing. And it works. And that's why they had so many successful, successive empires. They never got rid of the Giza, no matter the infighting they were doing. They never got rid of the Giza because there's a great way to keep order in their empire and also convert people by appealing to their pocket.

You know. Because after about the third time, you've been robbed and murdered by a Muslim, you're going like, you know what? I want to be a made man too. So you know what? Mahlai. So that nobody can do that to me or else they have to go. to court. But that's the way it worked. If you were not Muslim, you could not bring any charges

against a Muslim, which as we know is justice. So I understand why capitalism makes people upset. It makes me upset too. People hate capitalism for the same reason they hate the patriots, right? Arrogant and they win. It's really, what it is, right? Don't we hate the Patriots? Don't you hate the Yankees? They win. The results. And they're annoying and arrogant about it. I don't know if the arrogance made them win or the winning makes them arrogant. It's sort of like where it comes first, chicken or the egg, maybe simultaneously. I don't know. But I, too, would love to see a story like this, that Poland is now the 20th best economy in the world,

in one generation, a turnaround like that, and is now a better economy than Switzerland. What? Poland? And I'm not saying it's because of it. This is not a joke. I'm just pointing out that sometimes maybe diversity isn't strength. Somebody threw a shoe at my head.

Sometimes it is. But here's the thing about that slow. diversity is diversity. It doesn't necessarily mean it's a strength or not. It's just diversity. Just the same thing when you go as trans women or women. You go, no, trans women or trans women. It's a trans woman.

You go, it's a trans woman. You go, it's a trans woman. Can we just stop? Now we're going into a fantasy place. Now we're going into a fantasy place. We say diversity is a strength. You go, that's a slogan. It appears to my emotions.

But we look at the data. It's not always a strength. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not. So when you say diversity, the only thing you can say about diversity is diversity is diversity in the objective reality. Trans women are trans women, depending on what you like. You're going to view it as a woman or you're not.

And that basically is more about how comfortable you are with your sexuality. Because if you're attracted to one and you're not into gay stuff, you're going to call it a man and close down your mind. If you're interested in a woman and you're attracted to them, but you're a little more secure in yourself, you'll go, all right, it's a lady. I'm fooled. It's more about us, right? It's more about us, how we feel about this new thing.

Right? And what they're doing is what every human does. Nobody knows, I think it was Cicero who said, nobody knows how to pick up the plow and put down the sword. It's like, do you really, really, really need for everyone to say trans women are women? You really is that, is that really, really? Or is it just another fight because the fight started and once that momentum starts, you can't stop the fight because fighting feels so not like boredom.

People hate boredom. When you take away someone's raise on Detra, you know, it's like after you win an Oscar or an Emmy, you're high for like one day and then you're like, okay, when's the next fight? So when you win gay marriage and you get Republicans going, yeah, I'm just a small government guy now. The Christianity stuff kind of takes the backseat and they go, you know, whatever someone does in their own bedroom is okay with me. As long as they, you know, don't try to influence my kids. You can't just go, we won. And then go start farming or going and watching TV shows.

It's boring. You got to go, no. Now I'm going to read your kids. kid against your will. You got to go, you're going to call me a full lady. You're going to call me nothing but a lady. Wait, isn't there a difference? No, there's no difference. There's no difference. The differences are a construct. And you end up just going a little too far. You end up Netanyahuing it. you end up hurting yourself by just pushing beyond what reality says is real. And then we all get up and caught up in this lie and we're arguing about fantasy lands

and we're hating each other over something we all know is true. Every single person knows it true. Even the trans people who are saying it. Even the people who are trying to make rationalizations for why trans women should play with women. Whatever your thing is inside you know, objectively. And this isn't a discriminatory thing. The only thing that's made it discriminatory is these imaginary worlds. We all know diversity's just diversity.

Could be good, could be bad. And we all know trans women are trans women. Okay? That's it. Could be good, could be bad. Depending on if you knew or not, depending on, you know, how comfortable you are with it. It's you.

Depending on how early she transitions. Okay? Did she pass the paper bag test? Did she pass the paper bag test? Did she pass Howard Stern's paper bag test? Does she look like a lady that you want to dance with? These aren't fun. I know, and I know.

I don't mean harm to anyone. I'm just, I think it's important in some way that there's some place where you can come and just hear some sort of, what's going on here? You know, people don't like talking about what's really going on because we love stories. And I get why it's tied to identity. It gives us something to do. We want to stay away from boredom. I understand after you get a win, you don't want to, it's very hard. to pick up the plow and just go live a boring life.

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There is a little bit of a difference. I hate to notice it when I was in the maternity ward. they seem to be overrepresented in other sectors. You're like, oh, there's some trans women. That's a different, that's a lady, just like that's a short lady. That's a trans lady. They're both ladies. But then when you go to the maternity ward and someone's given birth, you go, where's a trans?

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So Poland now has $1 trillion. It's a $1 trillion in annual output economy in one generation. That is amazing. And like I said, I understand it pisses me off too. Just once. I mean, just once, I would love to see. a turnaround like that attributed to the long-term economic impact of Hassan Pikes live stream.

Just once, I'd like to see a real-world example where a country goes, what did we do right? I'll tell you what we did right. We listened to Hassan Pikers Twitch stream. And we employed good old hardcore socialism, unfettered, baby. And lo and behold, it worked. it runs right in line with human nature. You don't have to do any mental gymnastics at all. I love watching that kid do mental.

He's fun for me. Probably a great guy. I don't know that. But I just love watching mental gymnastics. It's fun. You could say, you could call me whatever you want for being a fan of gymnastics. I like it.

I love when people go, hey, what about you at this, like, what about your Ferrari or your $3 million? And I love how he goes, well, you know, I got to operate within the system that I'm in now. And, you know, at the party that I was at, there was some other radicals there. And I was there for them.

I love the mental gymnastics of it. I love like, you're a millionaire. You come from a rich family. Like, well, I love him going like, yeah, but that doesn't mean. That doesn't mean. I love it. I love the fact that you go, yeah, you're worth like millions of dollars. But you're talking about this equality thing.

Like, but you're not equal. You have to work with the system. you're in until, you know, even Marx said, you know, we have to have capitalism first and let it get, let it die first. And then what comes is the withering way of the state eventually in this harmonious thing where everyone, each according to his need according. By the way, King John Oon, let's just say each according to their ability, according to their need, whatever the fucking thing is. Seems like his need is to eat like a capitalist fucking hog, no? Everyone is skinny like a rail there except for him. By the way, isn't it ironic when you think about it,

that communism may be better than capitalism, because capitalism is really good, okay? Capitalism is like Jordan at creating inequality. It really is. It creates prosperity, but eventually it does, you know, if it goes unfettered, it does create some fucking sweet inequality. And we're seeing that now.

But is communism the LeBron of inequality? Much more talented, much more skilled at it, right? If you look at the numbers in the longevity could probably create inequality for a longer period of time. Because the inequality of capitalism is such a shock that people rebel. And, you know, you get FDR in there. You get social programs. You get a fix.

Bailouts. Loans. A little... Some fixes. Where communist inequality just lasts until there's blood. Right? Because the workers can't get mad. They just have to deal with it.

So is it not the LeBron of inequality? Because think about it. Much few people are at the top and much more at the bottom. I don't know. Five tool player can pass, can shoot, can dribble. Pretty good from the free throw line. Defense questionable. A little bit of a performative hack, you know?

A little bit of a performative hack, communism, just like LeBron. Oh, victim. Oh! I mean, this is genius comedy. I just had a moment of being aware of it. Whatever, it just is. I mean, communism is a little bit of a flopper, right? Oh, it's because of the sanctions.

The sanctions, rough. It's because of the ref. It's rigged against me. You see them. You see their instant replay. Nobody's touching them. And communism is just flopping. Oh, big bad United States.

The sanctions. One country, our superior system, our self-sustaining superior system, completely imploded. someone decided they wouldn't trade with us. Oh, it's us. So let me get this straight. Your system is superior, but all it takes is a rival refusing to trade with you

and the whole thing fucking crumbles? Okay. Okay. And of course, when Cuba is knocked over, people are going to go see what Donald Trump did as if the people didn't have anything to do with it. The people, I think, are rioting right now. They took over some building

and millions are without electricity. And it's all because of the United States. United States is fault. The whole thing. I'm willing to meet you halfway and say 20, 30% is there. Just like I'm willing to admit that DeShah was absolutely a corrupt motherfucker who was backed by Britain in the United States and probably deserved to get overthrown. But that doesn't mean I think what happened was better.

See, this nuance. You can't. It's almost like saying what did schizophrenic people do before the CIA? Like, who did they blame? Who was watching them? It's like, what would these communist countries? do if there was no America and it failed? Who would they blame?

They'd still fail, just like the person with schizophrenia still has schizophrenia. It would just be a little more boring. There would be no big evil superpower making them fail. So I get it. I understand. But that's the data. The data is Poland. Yes, I know what you're saying.

They got massive funding from, what is it, the EU. Yes, the EU gave him money. But that's like when your kid goes, hey, start a business. And he gives you a little, you know, my dad worked hard. He had his own business, right? He was an ambulance chaser or whatever, ended up doing medical malpractice. His dad gave him a $10, $20,000 down payment for his shitty little house.

So yeah, the EU gave him a little kickstart. Don't act like socialist doesn't give money for their companies, for, you know, their athletes, all this stuff costs money. And that's what we're going to get into right now, right? But it was a rapid free market transformation that happened in one generation. And you're going, oh, that's an outlier. You're going, no, it's not. Look at China.

And you go, China's a communist country. Again, you fucking idiot. It's not. It's markets that made China what it is. Just recently have to really clamp down on it. and they're trying to do the whole thing. Okay, we got it to hear. That's what Mark said.

Now we're going to take over. Everything's going to be fine. Go watch. TikTok. Let's see if it works. It can only work if you murder people. It's the only way it works. If you force people, that's the only way it works.

Right? It's the same anatomy as fascism. Oh, I'm foregoing this individual's rights for a bigger cause. That's fashion. It's the same thing as communism. We're foregoing your individuality for the group, for a bigger cause. As one warm organism, we're going to die together. We're going to live together.

It never ends up being that way, does it? I mean, have you met anyone? I mean, what are we doing? How did the world become a freshman year at a fucking community college? How did this fucking happen? What's next? Are we going to have an Ein Rand revival where it's just, No social programs.

Let's see how that works, too. I mean, what are we doing? It's been, everything has become so performative, and since performant, performance has become so ubiquitous, people now think that it's reality. And that's why everyone in this administration is a podcast guest. That's what's happened, right? That's what's happened.

It's performative. It's, you know, There's not a lot of thinkers out there. Don't we miss the deep state just a little bit? Now, don't we miss the deep state a little bit? Maybe think out before you invade. Just think it out. Maybe a plan.

Not saying it was a right idea, wrong idea. Let's leave that out of the equation. Maybe it just a plan. And I know people going, he's got a plan. Trust me, he's got a plan. I don't know. One of the top guys just resigned. No other countries come.

And he's asking the countries. They're saying no. And then he's going, well, we're not going to talk to you anymore, Spain. Well, I'm not going to talk. And they're just all, it's like the scene in Dead Poets Society, right? They're all standing up on their desk. My captain, my captain.

And Donald Trump is that old teacher going, sit down. Sit down. You know, you can agree that Iran may not, should not get a bomb. And Iran is the horror and the mother of all terrorism and is the worst regime. You can say all that. But then you can also say, maybe we should have, maybe a little something more. You know, maybe not just relying on just the shock and all of the superiority of our weapons. Maybe that's not enough to do it.

Maybe look at history a little bit. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this will all work out. But again, much like socialism and communism, that's the reason why history is there. You say, odds are bad. For the same reason, I think you're going to be eating your own fucking foot for voting for Mondami. Not because I hate the guy, although I know he's a psychopath.

But because historically, it doesn't. go good. It doesn't go good. In fact, it goes bad. So those people who are yelling about these other podcasters who endorse Trump, you making your videos or tweeting about it, I want your foot. I want to see it. I want to because karma. Karma. Why would you do that? First of all, why would they do that? Why did anyone do that? Why is anyone doing that if you're a comedian? Because are you a comedian? There's so many people now who don't have comedic talent who are comedic. I don't know what's going on. But you're endorsing a candidate on either side.

Why would you do that? That's like cops and robbers hanging out. We're supposed to make fun of who is in there. Dumb! These people now, they act like it's a badge of honor to do a year of community college just because they can convince other less educated people that they're smart. because you know what the real smart people are doing? They're not hanging out or speaking to stupid people for good reason.

They want to hang around other smart people. If you went to Oxford and have an engineering degree or whatever, you think you're going to fucking hang out with other people who don't? That's always been the case. But now everyone's walking around like a badge of honor. I got no education. I read a book. Doesn't make you smart.

I'm stupid. I barely got out of college. Low GPA. That's not going to change just because someone in the internet said, Yanni's got good insights. I'm still stupid. And I'm not saying that as like a save, fail, like, oh, I said something wrong. No, it's quite clear.

I'm stupid. Okay? I know this. Maybe because I have a brother who's a lot smarter than me, so I'm reminded of it all the time. I'm quite stupid. I say words wrong all the time. I'm quite stupid.

I've never been good at it. I'm good at it when I'm around really stupid people. Because I've also been around really smart people, and it's like, you know right away, you go, I'm fucking stupid. I hang out with Chris DeStefano. He's fucking stupid. Even some of my smarter friends that people think are smarter.

They're fucking insane stupid people, who if they didn't have any charisma or comedic ability would be sleeping on the street. Every single one of them. But that's where we are now, you know? It's just a, it's a free for all. And we're arguing things that you do when you go in as a freshman. You get, you go through your Ayn Rand phase.

She says a lot of good stuff. She wrote some cool books, you know, but then you go, that's fiction. She's an intellectual, right? She's not a governor. She's not, she doesn't deal with the real world. And then you try. We've come very close to unfettered capitalism, and it crashes. And you go, okay, what came and bailed it out?

Socialism, so you need socialism. And then those people go too far and go, well, we should be all socialism. And you go, well, we tried that as well. And that crashed. And they go well because of the sanctions. And you go, okay, LeBron, we saw the replay. We saw the fucking replay. So for a while, there was this understanding like, you know, outside of the extremists

in extreme of countries like North Korea, you know, there was this understanding. Like, oh, China works now because it's a mixed economy. Oh, Sweden works because it's a mixed economy. Oh, the United States crashed but then rebounded because it's a mixed economy and incorporated socialists, and that was sort of like became the new floor. You remember when that was just like the floor? Like even Reagan would say stuff. Like we're not getting rid of Medicare.

Like it was just the floor. And if you said anything like you get paid. popular saying now on the internet people went like medicate them kick them out like something's wrong like and they go who is he and he goes oh he's some kid from a high school he went a year in community college ago nobody's listening to that but now it's like that's become the thing again we've gone like 30 years 20 30 years back right and we're starting from a new floor and that floor is um anything but sensible Let's try anything but thought out and sensible and adult.

Can't be adult. It can't. Let's fucking go for it. Let's fucking go for it. This kid's got a handsome face. He's telling me we need to have a fucking, we need to have a revolution of the proletariat. You're like, what is the proletariat? What is that now?

The economy's so, what is that now? Who's the proletariat? Is the proletariat the only fans model with no education who's making 10 times more money than me with an education? Who's the proletariat? There's so many income levels. Who's the proletariat? Who's the bourgeoisie? Is the bourgeoisie who?

Is it Elon Musk? Well, no, he's the billionaire class now. Okay, so what if he's got 300 million? Is he the billionaire class? Is he evil? Where? How about the guy's got 10 million? There's so many people with so many different levels of, is it, are you just going to?

bourgeoisie proletariat. Come on, we've evolved past that. Now these guys are having arguments like, you know, who is a better white basketball player when blacks couldn't play. We've let the blacks play. And the blacks are a mixed economy. Why are we going back? Nobody wants to see an all-white team.

So stats can be very inconvenient. They can be very inconvenient and make you see some of this stuff that you don't see. The forest for the trees, if you will. right? Because you're hearing all these opinions and being pontificated to by absolute fucking retarts. Sorry to say, including myself. Shouldn't listen to any of this. But it's very interesting, right?

It's very interesting when the Republicans yell about corruption and then next thing you know, Christy Knoem is like in a hearing going, what? I was about to steal $220 million. What are you talking about? I'm against corruption. And you're going like, okay, this is one, this is like the sex with kids thing.

This is nonpartisan. Isn't it? Isn't it? I want to do an annoying, like, isn't it? Like very female, like, progressive, annoying. Like, isn't it? Isn't it?

Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it? It was a genocide in the United States, what they did to the Native Americans. Isn't it? Isn't it? Well, you want to go, yeah.

but you know what helped a lot was the 90% of them being killed by the virus by smallpox and that wasn't given to them it just spread that was really what did it

but that's a fact it's not a good story you can't get an A in some bullshit class for writing a paper about it it's just one sentence harsh truth yeah whites were dirty

and they brought their immune dirt their immune dirtiness there was so dirty They got immune to certain shit. You can call them dirty if you want. That's true. Fucking filthy whites. Dirty fucking scummy whites came over.

And then Virology did the rest. Killed them all off. 90% just were exposed to smallpox and died while the Americans were just, you know, because the smallpox vaccine was created by the Chinese

only to target Native Americans and not Europeans. And I read that in RFK's book. Again, you can say, I think Robert is a former addict and a little bit of dipshit. But also, I think we should do some healthy stuff too. He's saying some good stuff as well. It's a three-dimensional person, right? Sometimes you need a dipshit to finally go in there

just like Trump, I think, is a little bit of a dipshit. But sometimes you need somebody to go in there and be like, we're going to do some things. We're not just going to keep talking about the border. And by the way, the tone changed. But policy's not that much if you go into the data. And you look at what Obama did. And you looked at what Clinton did.

And you look at what, not Biden can't say that. Because, boy, you did not need to be on the guest list for that party. But, you know, the talk was the same. You know, different style. More like, oh, we're going to be empathetic. But Trump's like, got him out. And then he did it. But the overwhelming majority of the body politic across the aisle wanted it.

They just don't like seeing some videos of, I get that too. People getting ripped out of schools and shit. I get it. But when you don't do that, just like when Biden didn't open the border per se, but he said he was going to be, you know, it's more, the word gets out and people go, it's a fucking cakewalk. just like when you steal something from a store, you go, there's only one woman there.

There's no security cameras. Is everyone just going to not steal? No, more people will steal. Because again, have you met anyone? Have you met a human? Have you met a human being? Sometimes I speak to these people and I go, have you met a person?

It's what we are. We're scum. All of us. And we need to be checked by higher ideals that are codified. into laws and we watch each other. You watch the scuminess of me. I'll watch the skuminess of you.

And that's the best we can do. Homeostasis, balance. That's it. Three branches of government, a republic, but also democracy. It can't be all fucking democracy because that's bad. Because the mob is bad. It can be bad. And it can't be all republic because that becomes an oligarchy.

It's the best we can fucking do. Stop comparing this shit to an imaginary fucking utopia, which is a Greek word. that means no place. So more stats and we'll lend on them. We all want to be, we all want to take care of the homeless. We all do, especially big cities that have big homeless problems. First of all, if you're homeless in New York,

can they give them a pill to tell them like not the best place? Like it's like if I want to become a star, you come to New York or you go to L.A. There's got to be a campaign out there that if you want to, to be homeless or you are homeless because of unfortunate circumstances. Not saying this is a solution, but has a better move. You want to check out Phoenix. You want to check out Southern California, Florida. You want to check out some parts of Texas, some places where you don't die in winter.

You know, that's a joke. It's a dark one. But we all want to be nice to people. And I do too. And I care about people. And I want everyone to have all the care and, you know, whatever. But there's also the other aspect of what we call numbers, reality, what it takes, what it costs, what it costs. And the two biggest states, two most important states are New York and California.

So we'll just focus. We'll just kind of focus on those. but it's tough to know that in New York City, in the city of New York. By the way, congratulations to King John Noon for winning his election. He must, the guy, I don't know what podcast he went on, but he must have did Rogan or something because he won with 99, point some, what was it?

He won with 99.93% of the vote. So congratulations. He must have run an incredible campaign. He really, you know, he didn't do what the Democrats did. He didn't go to traditional media too much. He went, obviously, to the podcast circuit, did flagrant two, did Rogan, did Theo,

did a little Dylan. He might have even gone on the history hyenas. But the kid really, you know, and I can tell already people are mad in North Korea they're going like, you fucking made this happen, Andrew Schultz. You made this happen. But you know, what's interesting to me is the 0.07% that didn't vote.

And people go, what is that? What is 0.07%? And I'll tell you what it is. 0.07% that didn't vote for him is what is left of the guy. Is what is left of the one guy who voted against him. What's left of him is 0.0.7%.

7%. So that's how that got computed. Is that how that got computed, right? So that was the one vote against. That's now 0.07% left of his body. So New York City will take as an example. New York City spends, on average, per homeless person in programs and benefits, whatever. The taxpayers spend $81,705 per homeless person. And that's just the floor.

That's kind of where it starts. That doesn't include supportive housing, which the budget's $500 million per year, mental health response teams, NYPD encampment costs, which should be social workers. So that's, that's crazy. And it's gone.

up and up and up and up, spending increased 262% from 2019. That's $102 million to $368 billion. And then when you see a jump like that, you're going like, is there going to continue to be a jump? Like, that's a lot. So when you see that, you're going like, okay, what's going on with this money? Just like when you're finding out all about all these ghost hospice places, right? Which is, these are proven facts, right?

I'm not talking about what Nick Shirley's doing. I'm saying what has already been proven in California and other places. There's fraud. And it is a lot. It's a lot. Medicaid, Medicare fraud, fraudulent billing. You know, autism is big. What are we spending on autism now?

It's big. You got to look it up. I mean, it's big. So I know what you believe. You believe everyone should be taken care of. You got to. got a big heart. I know you believe, because I do too, that everyone deserves the dignity and the benefits they need and we should look out for one another. I do. But that is talk.

That's like me saying, hey, man, I'm a really good guy. I'm a really good guy. And then you get a vibe off me and you go, maybe he is. But now you got to live with me. And I'm farting. And I'm pissing on the seat. And I ate half of your sandwich. Right? I'm still a good guy. My heart is still in the right place. But what really matters is my actions. How am I proven to you that I'm a good guy? And is it sustainable?

Do I always wash the pee off? No, so I'm going to leave it. So that's not sustainable either, right? We're spending on autism now. By the way, to get benefits for autism, you just got to go in and say, my son is autistic. Hi, I'm from another country.

My son is autistic. And he go, look at him. Look at him. Look at him. He thinks women shouldn't vote and shouldn't sit next to someone in prayer. I mean, he's autistic. And you go, wait, isn't that your thing? You go, no.

This is America now that makes him autistic. My religion makes him autistic. So I wonder, maybe you got to, what do you got to do? talk to a bleeding heart social worker who's scared to say no. I did that job too. You're not going to say no when someone says they're in need. Am I going to be the asshole? Am I going to be the asshole that audits to someone crying to me?

Or do you just say yes? There is a bias to say yes because it's a bleeding heart job. So nobody wants to be the asshole. Because if you're wrong, people go, how the fuck could you do that to that mother in need? her son is counting toothpicks on the floor and you thought it was you wanted her to prove it nobody wants to be that guy so everyone just say yes

and then word gets out that everyone just says yes that they went down there and there was this soft feminine looking man or this woman with a fucking you know earring in her nose with purple fucking fangs and hair who just said yes who just says yes you're approved

It's estimated the economic, ASD autistic spectrum disorder. And again, that speaks to my point. It's a spectrum. So you could be autistic if, you know, right? Autistic if you like certain comedy. You go and you go, I'm a big fan of, you know, this person. And normal people are going like, I don't get it. And you're going like, it's for me.

It's neurodivergent. Right? So you can. It's a spectrum. So why, and it keeps getting wider and wider. So it's, the cost is estimated to be between 236 million. Just kidding. $236 billion.

Billion. We're talking the GDP of certain countries, small ones, albeit small ones. $236 billion and $268 billion annually. And that's from 2015 to $2,000. with projected estimates exceeding. Drum roll, please double. $461 billion, half a trillion bucks last year. These costs include Medicare, non-medical services, and lost productivity.

Not sure what that is. I'm sure it will be explained by somebody empathetic. with peer child health care spending averaging over $20,000 annually. The lifetime cost of supporting a person with autism is between $1.4 million and $2.4 million. If you were to earn that, you'd be rich and you'd have to work very hard. Not saying it's bad. I'm saying we should do these things, but it's very expensive. And on top of that, can we afford fraud and like,

I mean, the federal level, of course, Trump, I think J.D. Vance, Trump, whatever the Legion of Doom is, three of them, four of them, whatever. They're going to be doing some sort of federal fraud inquiry, right? They formed some task force. And, you know, what we know is people are going to do it. People are going to do it. They're going to do it. Fraud's been found everywhere. It's one of the oldest stories in the book.

It didn't start now. it's been going on forever. We also know Republicans, Democrat, it has nothing to do with politics. It's just people are going to do it. People like to steal. And so we got to figure out a way not only to stop the stealing,

but then we also have to figure out like a, not in an insurance way, because they're scumbags, but like a really, like honest kind of, like what are we doing here? Are we just going to give, give, give, or are we going to do job training program? Like, what are we going to do?

Are we going to put the mental, mentally ill to work in a way that they can because that's probably good for their mental health too. Like what are we doing? And the fucking adults and the children, right, or whatever you want to call them, the mean and the nice, mommy and daddy, Republicans and Democrats,

however you want to do them, have to come together and figure it out. That's how government works. And it's good that you have both because it's a nice balance when you have both. But you got to come and you got to govern. And you can't govern by yelling, it's the Jews.

You can't govern by watching the little fucking Incell closeted squeak. What's his name? You can't govern. You can be entertained that he so brazenly says the N word. And you go, but after the 20th time of the shock, you go, the only thing shocking now he can do,

and I had this joke, and I was right. The only thing shocking he can do now, because he's gone so far, it's like when you're a comic, you can't start to show, dirty. You have to build to it, right? You got to learn how to work clean a little bit. You don't have to be Nate Bargettze because then you're a liar. But you got to build to it. You got to have some structure to it. You can't come out the gate and start yelling the N-word and start saying

Hitler had aura because then you got nowhere to go for the shock value. And I made a joke once. The only place he has to go is to say that he's becoming a Democrat. And lo and behold, that's what he's doing now. That's the only. And then after this, he's going to have to murder a baby or something because it gets old, right? The shock value wears off. You build scar tissue to it. It's repetitive.

Because there's no, and I think that's the lady shocking thing. He says, you know what? I'm just going to be a Democrat. Earnestly. People go, whoa, can you believe what Nick's sad? You're like, yeah, it's even worse than when he said Hillary was a good guy.

Because there's no liberals watching that show, bro. They're only watching it to make their video about like right-wing watch. you know so this is the world you want me to tie it up with a bow and say what's the common denominator the common denominator is um i can only speak for america in america the economy changed um benefited some people and some people got left out those people that benefited got arrogant those people who left out got bitter um and they both became extreme one in their the other in their fuck youness and their one thought that they were adapting as good as

the can and the other one could have been adapting more yes that happened generally but what's happened is we've gotten so because of this change that is due to digital technology the democratization of information and performance the uh dismantling of games keepers, fan to fan. What's happened is because of that, people have started performing for what the new value in the economy is, and that's visibility, attention.

And because of that, people watching started to believe sophistry, essentially. and we have regressed and become childlike in our acceptance of data and facts and grown-up acknowledgement of reality. We just, it used to be a time not too long ago. And this will all probably shake out. And America's not going anywhere, bro.

We're not going anywhere. Okay. George Washington made sure that when he said, nah, I'm good. I'm stepping out of here. And then the Civil War, if that didn't end the American Republic, nothing will, right? We're good. We'll adapt. That's what's good.

That's what's kind of good about the free market and about democracy. Even Rome lasted fucking, you know, what was it? A thousand, what was it, 500 over here, a thousand over here, whatever it was. We've only been around for 200. We'll be all right. We got nukes. We'll be fine. The only thing that will end it is one of these fucking retardes setting one off.

But even that won't end it. We'll just become cockroach. Our souls will go to cockroaches. I don't know. But those grown-up truths that we all, that was the floor. We used to start at, the floor. You know, if you were communist, people were like, all right. All right.

That, we tried. That happened already. What are you trying to bring back? What are you? All right, Ethel Rosenberg, you know? It was like that. They were in plays and movies. We were doing like historical movies about them and joking about the Russians.

And like, look at it fell. Look at Eastern Germany. It's over. It's stupid. It didn't work. It's like trying to shove something in your ass to cure something. It doesn't work. Right?

It's like going, hey, look, apple cider vinegar is not going to take away your cancer. You just know it. And if you say it, you're a kook and people laugh at you and go, they invite you over because you're like, he's a communist. It's fun. Like, let's listen to what he's saying. But nobody was taking it seriously, right? And the white supremacists, people, it's the Jews.

I'm right. That was my friend. Like, can't bring him. around, but I got to say once in a while, I mean, he's so crazy. It's fucking, it's entertaining once in a while. But everyone knew, like, these people are crazy. And now it's like desperate times. Everyone, nobody knows what to believe.

And the internet has made people crazy because everyone's performing. They've lost such reality because performance has become reality. And we've forgotten these just easy, easy truths that we came to over thousands of years. Okay, theocracy's bad. Feudal system, that's bad. Dictators, that's bad. Not having any social program, that's bad. Collectivism, yikes, you know?

Unfettered capitalism, we had, that didn't work, crash, stock market. You know, we got to a point, you know, and then the 70s, 80s rolled around, a little too much right, a little too much left. But we were dancing. We were doing a two-step at least. And everyone knew. Everyone knew like, hey, we disagree on stuff, but ultimately the way we vote, we kind of know, right? If you're funding the system, you lean a little right, right?

If you're not funding the system, you lean in a little left. If you have a lot of money, you try to keep more of it. If you don't have a lot, you try to get a little more. and everything grows from there. But now it's like, hmm, who's the sciop? Who's this for? What's this? Where's Ball?

I think there's a Sumerian god here. What's going on? Devil worship? What the deal? It's off the fucking reservation. It's off the reservation. You know, can't criticize Israel without being called anti-Semitic. You can't criticize Iran and some things about Israel but prefer Israel.

You can't do those certain types of things because people are in different plays with different casts and you can't say, well, you know, this, I prefer this over this. You can't do that. You can't speak like a sane adult anymore and have the algorithm give you the thumbs up. Hope you enjoyed the episode. Want to give a shout out to for the free. Dot art. If you listen to the show and you don't check that website regularly to see if it's still up,

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