2022 Predictions!

The gang makes our predictions for 2022 and goes on a tangent about Matrix Resurrections!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is gonna be ship, this is gonna suck, this
is gonna be trash because no one knows what's gonna happen.
I have not actually come up with a prediction yet.
I don't know I have this one. I have, I
hoped one that I came up with before the show.
Have we have we opened it? Yeah, we've already started.
Um we were supposed to. This isn't happen here. Everybody

(00:27):
podcast things falling apart? How to maybe make them fall apart? Less? Um,
Sophie pitched the great idea of why don't we do
an episode that is our predictions? It's really not my
idea when people ask, so this this was Sophie's idea.
That she's been Sophie's idea alone. It's sprang fully formed

(00:48):
from the sight of her head, like Athena from Zeus's skull. Um,
and we all agreed it was a good idea for
an episode, and that I did not come up with
the prediction. Did you get you know? So that's a
minute of time thinking about not second not even absolutely
love the Athena Zeus reference. That's how I tell people
I got Anderson. Yeah, Well, my prediction for the year
is that I'm going to keep making references to Athena

(01:10):
whenever I do something that pisses Sophie off, so that
I will it will absolutely work. Yeah, that's my prediction
for prediction. Okay, okay, okay, wait, before we go into
the to the to the big, bigger thing, I want
everybody to give one word prediction for how you would

(01:32):
describe this coming here. One word prediction. Borning, n F
t H. I was just gonna say fucked, but I
don't think because it's going to be hot too, I

(01:53):
don't think it's going to be that fucked. Actually, I
think I was gonna say mediocre. Yeah, I'm I'm was
seeing a lot of blandness, a lot of blandness. My here,
here's a prediction I'll make. I think that one of
the things that we were seeing last year, especially in

(02:13):
the streets, with like the far right being so much
more uh active, um than the left in a lot
of places and in a lot of ways, is UM
really tired. A lot of people on the left out,
a lot of organizers, a lot of street level people.
UM not just like oh I'm tired, but like I
was injured, Um, I'm fighting charges my funds were depleted.

(02:37):
I had to I couldn't keep going out because I
have a family and I had to deal with that
sort of ship. Um And I think, I don't think
that energy is back yet, but it always ebbs and flows,
and it does on both sides, because at the end
of the day, whether you're a fascist or a progressive,
people have x amount of energy, you know. Um And
I think we are, I leave, we are kind of

(03:00):
at the beginning process of folks on the left starting
to recover some of that energy. Um And I think
that that is a process we're going to see building
throughout the year. UM. I agree with that. Yeah, yeah,
and it will be a multi year process. And I'm
I'm kind of hoping folks are ready to throw down again.

(03:21):
But but we'll see, like where that goes. We might
have like a few days of people throwing down in
the streets for some reason, like something bad may happen,
like like late summer. I I can I can definitely
see like a few days in July or August where
it's like, oh, is the thing starting again? And it
goes on for a bit and then it kind of

(03:41):
peters out. I kind of I definitely see that being
a decent possibility, um, because yeah, I think there will
be more energy for that this year and more mental
like like like ability to to do to do that
this year than yeah. But overall, I don't see anything
super eventful, and I hopefully just doesn't like anything and

(04:03):
then we get no. I mean, my my big eventful
prediction is that. And I will explain what this is
based on in a bit. I think we are going
to see a significant sized urban metropolitan area be rendered
uninhabitable either permanently or for a significant period of time
in the United States due to climate change. And part

(04:23):
of what this is based on is the December wildfires
that just destroyed a significant chunk of Boulder, Colorado. Right,
not talking about like New York City gets swallowed by
the waves, but like a place where there's a couple
hundred thousand people living, they're not able to be for
either ever or an extended period of time because a
climate based disaster hits. Um. Maybe it'll be a heat

(04:44):
dome type thing, Maybe it'll be like a wet bulb event.
Maybe it'll be um fires. Obviously always possible, Hurricane Tornado.
You know, we we saw enough just in the last
couple of months in terms of those like record hurricanes
that killed like a hundred people in um in the south,
or the fires sweeping Boulder right now and again fucking December. Um.

(05:05):
But but I do think there's a pretty good chance
we see something like that this year. I think my
big one is that, I mean, okay, so the the
obvious free B is that we're going to cross a
million COVID deaths or like the the the official count,
we were like we we've had war count. That's that's
the free b. The not free B is that like

(05:27):
it's not even a prediction. If that's that's that's that's
what I think. It's going to be warm in the summertime, yeah,
like you know, and the warm in the summertime is
probably like a bigger gamble at this point then yeah,
very very warm. But yeah. But but but I think
the real thing is that like there there is never
going to be never locked down the U S never

(05:47):
like you of the United States could die and there
would be no lockdown, like and this is you know,
and I think this this is the result of I
don't know, I wonder what you do. This my thesis
for what was going on, was that, Like I actually
think the like the like liberate Wisconsin stuff, I think

(06:09):
that actually worked. Like those number umber they were all
those giant like like a mount of people show up
with guns to captain. Absolutely it worked. Yeah, yeah, it worked,
and it was like but but they did. They did.
Usually works. It's a very effective way to get things
done well. And I think there's an important lesson here though,
which is that, like, so the state will never like

(06:30):
very very rarely will the state ever like directly like
they they won't immediately back down, right. What they'll do
is like they'll make an enormous show about how they
didn't grant any concessions, and then they will grant concessions.
Like I know. This is the thing with the riots, right,
It's like people are talking about why do we not
there's not gonna any more stimulus checks? Right. The reason
there's not gonna be more stimulus checks because nobody's rioting.

(06:50):
And you know, like what kind of stimulus checks you
get if a couple of targets get redacted? Yeah, like
you know if if if you burn down another police station,
we will up more stimulus checks. It's just that you
have to you know, there has to be in a
police station burned down, right, but like this is and
this is the this is the you know, the the
right was extremely effective at this right and in a
way that people just don't really talk about, which is

(07:11):
that it is now politically impossible in the US, Like no,
no one, no one will ever do anover lockdown because
people will show up with guns and they don't want
to do that, and they've decided that just just just kill,
just kill. Look, you know, we we've already killed the
entire population of Seattle, like they're dead. Like we'll just
keep killing more people, more people, and just never. I
think people often are going I think people on the

(07:32):
left attack the Biden's COVID response for a lot of
the wrong things. Like the thing that I I would
go after him for is like, yeah, we didn't he
didn't just say here's a bunch of money, don't go
to work, We're not going back to school, Like stay
at home. Here's a pile of cash, which might have worked,
it was worth a shot, But past that, a lot

(07:53):
of this was beyond By the time he came into office,
the the armed militant cultural movement against the idea of
COVID precautions was so advanced that like what do you
what what what more could have been realistically done other
than trying to give people enough money again to actually
stay home, which again is the thing I think it's
most fair to attack him on. Like okay, I mean

(08:15):
like ships beyond Biden and a lot. Yeah, but like
like I don't like, okay, it was like, well, what
could have been done? I don't know, like if you're
looking from the perspective of the state, they could actually
have deployed the intelligence services against them instead of doing
like one dumb and trapment plot, right, Like well, sure,
but that's that's also that starts before Biden and by
again by the time, I mean it's like you know

(08:37):
but like like yeah, I called her bluff, right, have
want people show up to the capital, and then it's like, okay,
here's the FBI like like that that that's a thing
that like if if you're a liberal status you could
do and they just don't want to because like, partially
I don't want the conflict of partially because it would
actually it would look like it would look really bad
for them heading into the midterms. It would look so
they're bad and and also I think this is less
The FBI is kind of much more centrist in terms

(08:59):
of their politics as an agency, but like there were
a lot of federal state Yeah, well, I mean the
most federal and state. Like I don't know that they
can rely on them like they do that they can.
Even even the FBI, it's like, yeah, they're using the
proud ways informants like on Higgins synechists like yeah, so yeah,
like they're not they're not, They're not. Like I have

(09:21):
an appreciation. What I will say is I have an
appreciation for the fact that by the time Biden was
in office, it may have been an unsolvable problem, which
doesn't let him off the hook for things that were
objectively bad decisions like not doing ship for stimulus, um,
like pushing to open the schools, like you know, a
number of other things that he's done. But also like
if he had done all of the right things, we

(09:43):
still might be at exactly this death toll because there
are cultural issues here that were very advanced by the
time he took office. UM. And I do think like
it's whatever, I'm not I'm not saying this to let
Biden off the hook or support the Democratic Party. I'm
saying this because people need to have an accurate conception
of the problem. Um, and the problem is so much
deeper than what a technocrat could have handled by making

(10:04):
smart policy at break break Yeah, we're back. Actual prediction

(10:27):
Republicans will win the Senate. Yeah, which seems pretty I
think there's a decent chance Democrats can keep the House. Um,
but I'm pretty sure it's going to go back to
the Republicans. I mean, they are damn near in control
of the Senate as it is. Yeah, but they did. Yeah,
but I I do believe that's gonna happen. Um. And

(10:49):
let's see other which, yeah, it does, does not seem
that's not that far fetched of a thing. And I
don't know. There'll be some other kind of tech faccory
the space between Elon Musk, Peter Thiel Silicon Valley, there's
gonna be I think there's gonna be some worsening development

(11:10):
of like tech like technocratic stuff, possibly in like possibly
with like the mask of trying to like fix climate
change or something. But I think they'll be a decent
growth of tech power and possibly they're like um cooperation
with the state or the state like fund giving more
explicit like funding and permission to tech power to like

(11:32):
do terror forming or like some geo engineering like that.
There's there's gonna be something related to that sphere that
is a it's going to get a lot more visible
than it is. My big tech prediction is that there
is going to be a crime against humanity at some
point this year, like on a massive scale, not like
just a mass shooting, but like a state level crime
against humanity. And we're going to find out that for

(11:53):
the last like eight months, Facebook had been paying the
perpetrators a significant amount of money as a result of
like some ill thought out ad program that they had. Yeah,
like we're going to we're going to leave to Facebook
actively funding and ethnic cleansing. Um, because some somebody thought
up some sort of affiliate program that was not well conceived. Um.

(12:15):
That's my fun tech industry prediction. My fun tech industry
prediction is that, uh, Jeff Bezos will increasingly become the
most cringe eest man in the world. Yeah, it is
very funny that the picture him on New Year's he's
just wearing a Dan Flash his shirt. He's he's absolutely
wearing a Dan Flash his shirt and that's incredibly fine, Robert, Robert,

(12:38):
that shirt costs him three thousand dollars because the pattern
is so comp very complicated, and how much the lines crisscross.
I I just I just don't like you insisting that
it's not as much money. But despite its complicatedness, that
that photo was my version of holiday Carne said to
everyone I know. Um, yeah, I think I think we're

(13:04):
going to see a lot more unions this year. Yeah,
that does seem to be a positive trend that we're
seeing is a lot more unionization and some significant successes
for and and a lot more like like general acceptance
of the concept of a union. Other prodiction related to
to tech industry stuff, I think one of the billionaire

(13:25):
space ships things is going to have a disastrous launch.
Positive prediction of spaceship is gonna build up with people
inside it as it tries to take off. That's that's
my positive prediction. That it can take some people with it. Um,
sorry to the people, Sorry to the workers who are
gonna be probably harmed at that, but it can take
some people out, So it's gonna be funny. Um, that

(13:48):
is that's possibility. Also, Uh, there's gonna be a there's
gonna be a disastrous effect. Uh around Austin is right
that that's where that's where a lot of the spacehip
stuff is getting set up. No, no, no, no, it's
that's just where the offices are. It's like Chica. It's
like on the coast of Texts, not close enough to Austin.

(14:08):
Some some piece of a spaceship is gonna fly through
someone's house. No one's gonna care about it. Um, there
gets brought, gonna kill a family or something. No one's
gonna care. Nothing's gonna happen. It'll be fine. That Those
are my more my tech industry predictions related to spaceship stuff. Yeah,
um yeah. I I also think on on a more.

(14:28):
I don't know how the current civil war in Myanmar
is going to shake out, but I think there's a
chance that it becomes the first kay place where there
is a successful or at least partially successful revolutionary movement
that is to a significant extent armed via three D

(14:50):
printed weaponry. Um, they've all we've already seen a lot
of that deployed by the rebels in Myanmar. Um. I'm
interested in watching that because it's kind of the first
time we've seen that technology used on a meaningful scale
by people that aren't like organized crime. Um, and yeah,

(15:10):
I think it's still too early to tell, like how
much of an actual like whether or not it's just
kind of a distraction from the more meaningful aspects of
the struggle, or the more meaningful like kind of deployments
of weaponry and other tools and the struggle, or whether
or not it will actually play a significant role in
the armed struggle. But it's it's very much worth watching
if you're somebody who pays attention to insurgent movements and

(15:33):
what is increasingly possible as a result of new technology.
I have another really bad prediction. J K. Rowling is
going to release a book on gender. Go orci fund
to YouTube channel, yeah something, I think. I think there's

(15:55):
a decent chance she has been writing a book about
gender and she's going to release in two I think
that as an actual, actual series prediction, just go away,
and a whole bunch of liberal moms are gonna buy
it for each other and they're gonna read it and
it's gonna be bad. And that is that is my
that's my that's my horrible prediction. She could be so

(16:18):
beloved if she had limited her comments after publishing Harry Potter,
if she repeatedly telling people that are constantly shifting their pants,
if she just didn't use Twitter after anything at all,
and she could have been a different person. Just it's
it's the Dave Chappelle thing. Just stay off. We all
we all would have loved you forever if you just
just gone off and counted your money and left us alone. Yeah,

(16:39):
go be rich somewhere. It's fine to be done. It's
fine to be done being famous and influential. You you had,
you did great, you did great. You never needed to
come back. She I don't she did. I'm not sure
if she did great? She did? She did? She did again.
This is all colored. But if she had never back

(17:00):
into the public eye, all it would have been as
like you remember that lady who got like twelve year
olds to read seven d page books that one time, Like,
people would not be as critical of the actual content
of the Harry Potter books. If she just hadn't kept
coming back and saying ship so that and and and
and then like didn't stop and then did not stop,

(17:23):
and then was told bad, really really bad, and then
kept doing it and kept doing it and kept doing
it and kept doing it. You know what people should beat. Look,
if you're if you're listening to this and you're a
millionaire who was like hugely popular for some cultural reason
in the late nineties and early two thousand's, think about
Bill Waterson. Bill Waterson ends the most popular comic strip

(17:47):
in the history of comics and spends the rest of
his life and fucking Iowa painting landscapes and never talks
to anybody with a platform again, And I everybody loves
Bill Waterson. Like not a single person has a criticism
of Bill Waterson. Um, just do that. Just do what
he did. Just go paint landscapes in Iowa and don't

(18:08):
talk to journalists or get on Twitter. It's fine. Does
Bill Waterson believe regressive things about gender? Nobody knows because
he doesn't say anything. I think another prediction that is
actually decently possible. I think we will get more and
more cities and or states to decriminalize hard drugs in
in certain possession amounts UM. I think there is a

(18:32):
there's a number of bills going around California, UM and
a lot of other states, and I believe that will
be start to become more and more common, which will
be great. It would be nice if they get legalized.
But you know, get get get what you can for now.
Um yeah, speaking of drugs, Uh, here's CDD oil sponsored

(18:55):
by heroin, by by big drug. Here we go have fun.
They say we're back. And I just want to let
everybody know that if if everything gets legalized, we will

(19:16):
be sponsored by meth amphetamine so fucking quickly it will
make your head spin. I will never turn down a
drug sponsor, um, except for like super foods. We don't
do super foods, we don't do brain pills, but heroin.
I would advertise the ship out of heroin. I'm already
ready to advertise hero the hair lost. Drugs we don't do,
but heroin. M Hey is life depressing? You know, it'll

(19:41):
make easier heroin. I hated that I helped that bit. Uh, Chris,
you were you were saying something before break My My
one serious prediction is I don't think we've I think
we're going to get one more big like Latin American uprising,
and it will not in Argentina. I have been eating
ship for three goddamn years predicting it's gonna be Argentina.

(20:04):
It's like, oh, they're getting an IMF bailout. Like it's
never Argentina. It won't be Argentina, it will be somewhere else.
But someone is, someone is going to spend like two
months doing a bunch of stuff that's extremely cool outside
of Argentina. I kind of think, um, I don't know,
I'll be interested to see what happens in Brazil because um,
it's hard to get a sense for the exact numbers,

(20:25):
but there's potential there. There is potential there with what's
happened in Bolivia and what's happened in Chile, There's there's
momentum in its exciting broad area. It was like I
mean like the os there's shoot, there's like enormous protest
in Brazil like all the time. Yeah, yeah, there's like massive.
It just hasn't sort of like like it hasn't turned

(20:46):
into like everyone fighting the cops and like yeah, and
maybe I don't know if it will because like I
don't know. I mean, this is this is this is
my vibes based interpretation of it. But it feels like
the the Workers Party has enough of a handle on
the protests that they're not going to sort of like
explode because the PT just wants to win its election

(21:09):
and get out of Bulson Arrow. But well, yeah, and
I mean the possibility of any kind of like actual
revolutionary insurrection anything relies heavily on like that path not
working for people, like they're not that they're not being
that kind of safety. Then well, I mean I say this,
if they arrest Lula again, like yeah, I don't think
bos like I think will die in his own ship,

(21:32):
Like yeah, that might happen even if his party stays
in power. I mean that he was actively dying as
we would record this episode, which is very funny. Um
I got as a result of one of our ad
campaigns several or a picture frames uh this year, and
right now we're loading one up. That's just pictures of
sick Bulson Arrow to keep in my living room. So

(21:53):
anytime I walk past, I can look at JayR. Bolson
Naro and hacking up a lung or having ships sucked
out of his nose from its um, I will say, oh,
by my one more like very fast prediction about this
is that Kissinger is gonna live. He's not gonna die. Damn.
Chris allowed myself to hope for one for about I

(22:15):
allow myself to hope for about eight hours and I
think it's gonna live, but immediately wrong. I don't know.
It would have been pretty cool if Betty White's last
action had been some sort of anti TA takeout Kissinger.
She becomes the most loved American and human history, like
goes out just like jumping out of an airplane, Like

(22:36):
she parachutes into Kissinger's house with a flancing knife. I'm
gonna say, in Colorado, Oregon, or Washington, we're going to
get our first safe uh drug injections side opened. I
know they've been. There's pretty good shot they've been. They've

(22:56):
been very successful inside different parts of Canada, specifically maybe Whover, BC.
And I believe one of those three states is going
to get the first one. Um, I hope it's all
of them. You want to support some of those people
up in Canada go to Heroin Martin by a shoot
dope the cops hoodie. Yeah, but say like safe safe
drug injection and ingestion sites are have been have been

(23:20):
very good at preventing deaths in Vancouver, BC. And there's
just a good idea in general. And I will be
excited at the prospect they're an incredibly good idea and
they also if you're trying to again talk about this
to conservatives in your life, they're cheaper than just letting
people be addicted to drugs on the street because people
don't steal stuff. Also, they're heroin's free. Also, they won't

(23:41):
have ridiculous medical bills. They get paid by the state,
and they're more likely to seek treatment even if you
don't mandate that, especially if you don't mandate that, because
as a rule, people don't like having problematic addictions to drugs,
and if they can deal with their immediate needs and
also know that there's help available, they will often choose
to get help. So and I think I have I

(24:05):
have one more actual prediction is that a new Matrix
video game will be announced, and that is that is
all of my predictions. Oh, we should probably talk about
Matrix for briefly. That's what the people want. Garrison it
and and for the record, this is going to be
controversial because some people have no taste, but we both
think it fucking ruled. It is possibly the best Matrix film.

(24:29):
It was really fun, it's it's very good. If you
think about it for any amount of time, it gets
very good in the way it addresses, um, the system's
power to incorporate revolt as a part of the system,
which was already teased inside me monetized aesthetic, yeah, reloaded,
but yeah, like the matrix using the weapon that wants
to find you against you, and the matrix weaponizing all

(24:51):
of your ideas against you. UM is very good. UM.
I know Lana put a lot of thought into this,
particularly around who's she is, how she's developed, and how
her work has been turned against her and what she believes. UM,
both by like the people and also like corporately in
terms of like achieving the correct amount of meta that

(25:12):
it's not useless drivel while still actually being aware of
what it is. UM. I think was done well. I
know there's there's some people and like the postmodern thing,
who think it don't, who think it doesn't go meta enough,
And I think that's nonsense, because if you go any
if you if you point out that pointing out that
pointing out revolt against the system is part of the system,

(25:34):
then you've lost everybody, Like no one cares because you
can add on those layers endlessly and it's just dribble. Um.
So I think they got the correct amount of meta. Well,
then a band not not abandoned that idea but moving
it on mean, like you know, you know, it's more
important than being meta is making friends and finding human
connections because going through the world like this isolated like
Thomas Anderson is when he's in the Matrix, as like

(25:56):
as as games that are a big part of that
problem is that he's very nice. It did, and the
whole point is like, no, you need to find friends,
find connections, get like like be have people around you
to build a network of and they actually start like
like loving other people is really one of the only
ways out of this looping cycle and layering of Matrix

(26:18):
is that we always live in um. It was. It's
a wonderful film. I can talk about I could. I
could talk about it for hours, but we could do
a whole podcast about why we enjoyed Matrix four um
but it's it's pretty fun and my only the only
thing I'll add to that is a lot of people
fools is what I call them, are angry at the

(26:39):
fact that it ended with the Brass Against cover of
it was so good. It was, and it the cover
of that song opens an exactly so that the singer,
the lead singer of Brass Against became briefly famous mid
late last year, um when during while playing that exact

(27:01):
song on stage, sheinated into a fan's mouth and the
song that the cover that ends the Matrix starts at
exactly the moment where she pete in that guy's mouth
during the live show. And I am certain that Lana
Wachowski was planning to use the original Rage against the
Machine version of that song, and then that news dropped
and was like, well, let's get these Brass Against people.

(27:22):
I I want, I want the pist song on other
thing I want to They is reflecting on the analyst
as a character and how he relates to kind of
the meat space argument and how digital systems and algorithms
and social media operates. He if you listen to him

(27:43):
talk um and within the whole context, within the whole
context of the film, he um. They think there's actually
some more insightful points than what you might originally suspect
around like social media UM and digital nous versus realness
us UM just always you know, always a factor in
in Matrix films. But the way the way they handle

(28:06):
it in this film I think is a lot more
mature than all the topics they handle in their previous films.
And I mean there's just so many like really good,
like single lines that offer like really good like oh wow,
like that's just like a very good point, and then
they just move past them so like so effortlessly, like
you could focus on any one of those really good lines,
and they just offer up so many and at many points.

(28:29):
And I like that they turned the Mayor of Engian
into Ted Kaczynski. Um, it's just fun. Like at the
end of the day, it's just actually really fun and
it doesn't feel exactly like the other movies in the series,
which is what I want. I don't like reboots. I
wasn't a fan of the Star Wars reboot because it
was like I've seen this again, yeah, yeah, I like

(28:50):
I like that it. I like that a lot of
the action in this movie, right up until kind of
the end, feels perfunctory and like I like like kind
of saying like I don't care about this part anymore,
Like I've done the guy's fighting agents and bullet time.
Um that you know, at the end there's some more
some more loving action set pieces, but like from the beginning.

(29:11):
It's very much it's much more like a really fun
commentary on how Hollywood works and how the video game
industry works. There's a fucking mass effect joke in there.
There's a joke about like the nineteen nine or two
thousand Matrix video game that happened before Garrison was born.
It's so fun. It's it's just a lot of fun
as a movie. It's rad m well, um any any

(29:36):
other final final predictions before we wrap up this this
extremely well thought through episode that we've report our hearts
and minds into. We really did. Dr oz is going
to go down in flames. Oh I hope so, oh man.
I really have no idea what to expect from I
have no idea. I'm not making I'm not making any

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prediction on that because I too have no idea. The
only thing that I'll say is that one way or
the other, it's going to be a bell weather. If
it like goes great for him and he wins easily,
we're going to see a lot more like Dr phil
is absolutely rolling into Congress. If that works for oz
Um and other other people who are kind of occupy

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similar cultural spaces will do the same thing and then
we'll have congressional inquiries about whether or not this simple
trick will burn belly fat. It's gonna if it's like like,
if that's what happens, Like the think the thing Trump
is going to be remembered for like is being like, well,
the thing the thing Reagan is going to be remembered
for is being just like like fifty years ahead of

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his time before we're literally all entirely ruled by just
reality TV stars mm hm, whose wives are great at
giving a head? Should I? Did anyone? Did everyone already
forget that Nancy Reagan throat goat discourse? Discourse? Everyone was

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so exhausted. Yeah, if you didn't catch this, it's a
very well known secret and has been for like fifty
years that back before they got married and probably after.
Nancy was famous for giving the best blow jobs in Hollywood,
as as as Garrison tosses the cat every single episode.

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So I disdained this discourse. Now, yeah, two, it's a year,
We're in it. Okay. My last prediction is I actually
do think this year is gonna suck slightly less. Did
Now this is probably the big one. I'm gonna eat
it on, but like hopefully happen. Hopefully you're right about it.

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So I'm um, no, yeah, I think that there's a
decent chance that we're that it's better. Um, it's at
least in some ways. The climate stuff, as it nearly
always will for the foreseeable future, will keep getting worse.
But yeah, I think there's actually a chance that COVID
will get better, not because of any policy decision, but
because Macron literally nine of human beings and in the

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world get it, and those that survive COVID stops passing
on as much, which is kind of vaguely speaking, what
happened with you know, the influenza. I will be probably
foolish in making one more prediction, that is, like around
the fall, we will not see spikes as big as
we saw this last year. Um. I I do think

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there will probably still be some, but I do think
the numbers are going to be generally trending down. Um. Yeah,
after O Macron hits its peak, just because how many
people will get infected, how many antibodies plus vaccines will
be circulating, um, And how many people have already been
who don't take the vaccine have will already have like
died off. It's I do not saying that to be

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like flip into to be like but it's like, I
just that's what's the world is that it's the world
that we live in. I hate it, but I do
hope and I do hope and some slightly predict that
we'll have less less spiking numbers around this next fall
and winter as we did of this current you know,

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fall and winter season. I wouldn't mind ending on a
note of appreciation for the fucking booster because we got it.
You and I both garrison, as did most of our friends,
and had just a shipload of COVID flying around us everywhere.
I love a lot of infections, and we were fine, fine.
I have one of my friends got COVID and her mom,

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who they lived in the same house, did not has
not gotten COVID because they're wearing masks and they got
the booster. And for for all my friends that that
did get COVID that had that were boosted, the vaccine
didn't shop there. You're not in the hospital. You're double
test positive on a rapid test and then test negative

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on a PCR, probably because by the time he got
to the PCR, like the next day, his viral load
was just so fucking low. Um, get the third vacs,
the vaccine works. Who could have predicted? Who could have predicted?
The things that are literally the entire basis of our
modern concept of the value of human life continue to

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be very effective. All right? Well that that doesn't for us,
Um unplugged, Go spend time outside, touch grass, touch your mirror,
like trying to go through it, because trying to go
through your um, what's real? What's not? See if see
if maybe you were the digital Messiah and you have

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been trapped in a simulation where you work at a
food lion, um and and you can break free of it, um,
but not fly anymore because now your girlfriends he does
he does fly with Trinity at the end, he does
fly with Trinity, sure m, just as we all can
only fly with with Cary, well with carry at Masson's Yeah, specifically,

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