175 - 2026 According to AI, French Protests & Grizzly Attack

Summary

Ninjas Are Butterflies – Episode 175

"2026 According to AI, French Protests & Grizzly Attack"

Release Date: January 2, 2026
Hosts: Josh Hooper, Andy DeNoon, Lily, Andrew

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Episode Overview

The first episode of 2026 kicks off with the Ninjas Are Butterflies crew bringing their signature offbeat humor and banter as they recap highlights of 2025—including bizarre and dark news, pop culture events, and personal milestones. The show dives into AI-generated predictions for 2026, ongoing French farmer protests, the dark history of France's Huguenots, and one unforgettable story of a grizzly bear showdown. The hosts also reveal their favorite movies and TV of the past year and speculate on the year to come with a blend of comic relief and sharp cultural commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Setting the Tone for 2026

[01:47] - [03:40]

• The crew exchanges New Year’s greetings and reviews holiday mishaps, like delayed gift-giving and getting strong by accident.
• Lily: "Happy New Year. This podcast is powered by Sunday Cool!"
• Casual banter about Andrew shooting an animal off his property and displaying it as office decor.

2. Victorian & Jane Austen-style Sayings

[04:33] - [07:10]

• Andy shares old-timey ways to express fatigue, drunkenness, or the desire to leave a party—perfect for dealing with awkward family gatherings or overstaying guests.
• Memorable quote (Andy, 05:20): "How fortunate we are to witness the full breadth of your thoughts."
• Josh: "They're so rude, but so polite." (05:12)

3. Fitness & Weight Loss Updates

[07:27] - [10:09]

• The hosts compare weight loss progress using Genesis Health Solutions.
• Andy: "The white man is making us healthy again. Thinner. Stronger. Braver." (07:42)
• Lily brags she lost six pounds from just hanging around her fitter friends.

4. The “Recap Song” – 2025 in Review

[13:12] - [16:20]

• A musical rundown of 2025’s wildest moments: Tesla trucks burning, Katy Perry in space, TikTok bans, popes and politicians, and “the heist at the Louvre.”
• Andy (singing, 14:28): "This year, this year is done, flew on by, but I don’t think we will forget 2025…"
• Intense, absurd, and cathartic—a clever parody of year-end nostalgia.

5. Will This Year Be "The Year...?"

[17:08] - [20:08]

• A classic running gag: will 2026 "be the year" something momentous happens (like ending racism)?
• Josh (19:03, mock serious): "We're gonna start off on the wrong foot this year. I think Lily just set the tone for the whole year."
• A tongue-in-cheek satirical bit on social change, groupthink, and the nature of hope.

6. Jake Paul’s Big Fight & Influencer Boxing

[24:17] - [29:01]

• Recap of Jake Paul’s fight: injuries, purses, influencer culture, and how much money it’d take for the hosts to get into the ring.
• Andy: "I think I would get my jaw broken for $93 million." (25:52)
• Observations on physical endurance and boxing surprises.

7. Top Movies and Shows of 2025

[29:06] - [37:31]

• Each host lists their favorites, with much overlap and debate.
• Standouts: Frankenstein, Train Dreams, Mission Impossible, Steve, Knives Out, Mickey 17, Naked Gun, and several TV shows.
• Lily laments everything being “so dark” lately.
• Josh: "You think dream dreams is depressing? At least that was…beautiful." (37:14)

8. 2026 Movies to Anticipate

[37:45] - [40:31]

• Lightning round of anticipated films: Project Hail Mary, a Michael Jackson biopic, Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, Super Mario Galaxy, Avengers: Doomsday, Dune Messiah, Hunger Games, Peaky Blinders movie, and more.
• Josh: "Coyote vs Acme. Will Forte. Apparently he’s really excited about." (39:43)

9. 2026 Predictions – Gearing up for the Weird

Hosts’ Personal Predictions

[41:16] - [47:02]

• Josh: GTA6 gets delayed, an AI-run reality show, a major assassination, and North Korea absorbs North Carolina for comic effect.
• Andrew: “Partial truth surrounding politics will allow conspiracy theorists to thrive. The wildest theories paired with compelling yet misleading imagery and stories will reign true.” (42:12)
  – Anticipates a rise in conspiracy culture, brain rot, nostalgia drinks, and a subcultural Christian revival.
• Lily: Passwords will be replaced by “vibe” authentication, the moon gets a brand deal, smart fridges unionize, bird glitches (satire on “birds aren’t real”), and AI that invents trends.
• Andy: Reads chilling, poetic AI-generated predictions:
  – Non-human intelligence disclosure linked to ancient history
  – AI causes a measurable “psychological contagion”
  – Earth does something “the ancients knew, but we forgot”
  – Global satellite/signal blackout with ambiguous causes
  – Visible shift in young people toward structured, traditional religion
  – Spooky final note: “Humanity...is re-entering an old age with better tech and worse memory. Same story, new hardware.” (51:56)

Notable Quote
Andy (reading AI, 52:25): "We think we’re progressing into something unprecedented—in reality, we are repeating ancient patterns. Power, knowledge collapse, faith, myth. But we’ve forgotten the lessons while upgrading the tools.”

10. Time Magazine Person of the Year Predictions

[54:24] - [56:26]

• Who’s next? Guesses range from influencer Erica Kirk to Peter Thiel to (jokingly) Mr. Beast as the “Antichrist type Person of the Year.”
• Josh: “I think it’s gonna be Pope Leo. He’s doing big stuff.”

11. Rapid-Fire Question: Insider Info vs. The One Big Truth

[61:31] - [62:54]

• Lily’s question:
  "Would you rather have access to a secret government document that answers one question a year, or a mysterious insider who’s right 60% of the time?"
• Banter over the value of certainty versus high-volume info.

12. Viral Clips, War Tactics, & Modern Horrors

[64:08] - [68:57]

• Andrew brings wild and gross viral clips for reactions: cake disasters, dumpster dives, and bloody reindeer antlers.
• Andy highlights the dark side of modern drone warfare: Ukrainian towns covered in miles of fiber optic cables as drones bypass jammers.
• Andy: “Is that not the eeriest thing too? Those are drones… it’s catastrophic.” (68:32)

13. French Protests: Farmers, Food, and BlackRock

[80:29] - [87:09]

• France protests trade deals erasing food safety standards, mass culling over “lumpy skin disease” in cows, and Big Ag (like BlackRock) pushing small farmers out.
• Protest images: manure dumped on streets, potatoes blocking roads, a country standing up for its culinary and farming traditions.
• Andy: "The French, they're literally trying to bankrupt all these farmers so they can go in, swoop in, and...be the providers of food for Europe." (85:27)
• Hosts note many "organic" foods are still industrial/fake.

14. Disease, Food Chains, and Modern Malaise

[87:10] - [93:10]

• Discussion morphs into “are we being poisoned?” (diet, environment, viruses, processed food, resilience of bacteria).
• Andrew: “It’s weird that out of nowhere, all of these… sources for food, there's inflammatory, scary language about, like, hey, maybe you shouldn't live off the land.” (88:42)
• Hosts stress the importance of community, joy, and “real food.”

15. Strange Animal Facts

[92:43] - [94:10]

• Squirrels are eating meat. (“I saw a video of squirrels eating the head off a lizard…” – Josh)
• Nature is weirder (and more unsettling) than we think.

16. Dark History: The Huguenots in France

[94:16] - [98:47]

• Andy explores how Protestant Huguenots were persecuted, killed, and driven from France, only to boost economies elsewhere.
• Gruesome details: executions, cannibalism, and the “knowledge bottleneck” when advanced cultures are wiped out.
• Andy: "They killed up to 1 million of these Huguenots in France." (95:16)
• Lily: “Evil stuff.” (98:42)

17. French Cultural Trauma and Postwar Shame

[101:27] - [102:36]

• Discussion of French women shamed for (willingly or unwillingly) associating with German soldiers post-WWII.
• “Walks of shame,” public humiliation, and generational scars.

18. Ending on Lighter Notes: Fan Art & Sourdough

[104:35] - [105:56]

• The crew opens a fan’s crocheted dolls made in their likeness—heartfelt and well-received.
• Further debate about sourdough bread, with playful rivalry over French cuisine.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “Let us not make promises at a moment of weakness.” —Andy, on Victorian-era phrases (06:31)
• “We think we’re progressing into something unprecedented. In reality, we are repeating ancient patterns. Same story, new hardware.” —Andy (reading AI), 51:56
• “I would get my jaw broken for $93 million.” —Andy, on influencer boxing (25:52)
• “Password apocalypse—nobody can remember their passwords. Instead, they’re going to authenticate based on vibes.” —Lily (44:16)
• “Is that not the eeriest thing too? Those are drones… it’s catastrophic.” —Andy, on Ukraine drone cables (68:32)
• “They killed up to 1 million of these Huguenots in France… but everywhere they went in Europe ended up thriving.” —Andy (95:16, 96:20)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [04:33] – Victorian sayings & banter
• [13:12] – 2025 year-in-review song
• [24:17] – Jake Paul fight discussion
• [29:06] – Top movies & shows of 2025
• [37:45] – Upcoming 2026 movies
• [41:16] – Predictions for 2026 (personal & AI)
• [54:24] – Time Magazine Person of the Year guesses
• [64:08] – Viral video reactions
• [80:29] – French farmer protests, food safety, BlackRock
• [94:16] – Persecution of the Huguenots
• [104:35] – Fan crochet gifts

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Memorable Listener Experience

For listeners (and those just catching up):

• This episode mixes high-energy humor with genuinely thoughtful takes on where society and culture may be headed as we step into 2026.
• The blend of memes, real news, and historical deep-dives—from AI mental health crises to mass protests, food supply chain conspiracies, classic French history, and absurd predictions—keeps the show unpredictable and engaging.
• Fan interactions and off-the-wall anecdotes (from influencer boxing to grizzly bear legends) give the show its signature personal and outrageous flavor.

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If you want a taste of cultural chaos, sharp satire, and sheer comedic chemistry, this New Year’s episode kicks off 2026 with a bang—and some questions the next 365 days may actually answer.

Transcript

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[Andy]

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[Lily]

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[Andrew]

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[Josh]

Wow.

[Andy]

Took you long ago. How do I look?

[Josh]

Beautiful. You think it's still hot after being brewed at 6 o'? Clock?

[Andy]

Some tells me it is. It is. Use. Use that other mic.

[Lily]

Oh my gosh. Did you give the boys their Christmas gifts yet? Joshua.

[Josh]

Did you?

[Lily]

No. Did you give them?

[Andy]

I gave Andrews Andy's. So on the way.

[Lily]

What do you think?

[Andrew]

I freaking love it. I. I shot a pig the other day walking back and I wish I had had that on because I would have had the whole thing.

[Lily]

Are you gonna eat it? Are you just gonna.

[Andrew]

No. They're chasing deer off the property. I need to get rid of them.

[Josh]

So.

[Andrew]

So ran at me, had a pistol and took care of B.

[Lily]

Nice.

[Andrew]

We got a new decoration in the office. Oh, very proud of that. That was laugh.

[Josh]

Who?

[Andy]

Andrew killed something.

[Josh]

I thought you're talking about rave.

[Lily]

Oh, I thought it was rave too. So that was very confusing.

[Josh]

That.

[Andrew]

That's definitely what the entire audience is looking at too. Not. What was that.

[Lily]

It was all. I. It was a weird throw because I had to keep it all together.

[Josh]

You need to keep it all together.

[Andy]

It's like you purposely tried to miss.

[Josh]

Chocolate.

[Andrew]

Chocolate rain. Some stay dry till others taste the paint.

[Josh]

Chocolate rain.

[Andrew]

A baby born. What? The back end of that melody is the Lord of the Rings thing. Watching the extended versions right now. Solid. Get into our favorite movies in a little bit.

[Andy]

Oh, yeah. What? You guys are in it for a treat today.

[Josh]

Buckle up.

[Andy]

Hold on, everyone. We're going to talk about so much fun stuff.

[Josh]

It's our first podcast of the year.

[Andrew]

Wow. Oh, shoot. It is.

[Lily]

I think hats are the key. It blocks this sunbeam from getting in my retinas.

[Josh]

Red bang.

[Andy]

The hat is the key. Speaking of funny sayings.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

You hear some of these old Victorian sayings? Please. These are fantastic.

[Josh]

What years are Victorian area?

[Andy]

Late 1800s. Mid to late 1800s. Okay. Victorian inspired phrases to use. This Christmas, when the wine is far stronger than expected. This is what you say.

[Andrew]

Okay.

[Andy]

This beverage has designs upon me.

[Lily]

Wow.

[Andy]

Or I find myself uncommonly merry.

[Josh]

That's a good one.

[Andy]

When someone won't stop talking.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

You'd say you continue bravely.

[Josh]

They're so rude, but so polite.

[Andrew]

This one.

[Andy]

How fortunate we are to witness the full breadth of your thoughts.

[Josh]

Golly, that's good.

[Andy]

All right, and this one is when you desperately wish to leave. I must retire before this hour grows unbecoming. And then I fear I have quite exhausted my social constitution.

[Josh]

You're going to use that a lot.

[Andy]

Oh, yeah.

[Andrew]

Do you see that? The Queen of England actually had a thing that she did to allow her team to know it's time to go. Like they had a plan to get out of conversation. She would take her handbag from her hand to her arm, and it meant, get me. Nice.

[Josh]

Interesting.

[Andy]

I need something like that a lot.

[Josh]

Better than Josh's code word, which is Code word. Josh came up to me that topgolf was having a little bit of an anxiety attack. Needed to get out of there, so he came to him. He's like, code word. I'm like, what? He's a codeware. Like, what is a code word?

[Andy]

I'm freaking out. All right, this one is when family tension is brewing. Let us not awaken the spirits of discord. Or let us not sacrifice the season upon this altar. All right, last one. When someone says, we must, we must do this again. You would say, let us not make promises in a moment of weakness.

[Josh]

Those are good.

[Andy]

And then. Last one.

[Andrew]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy]

The same thing says, let us not tempt fate with promise.

[Josh]

That's hilarious.

[Andy]

So good. Let us not make promises at a moment of weakness.

[Josh]

You tap their shoulder that's my favorite one.

[Andy]

That's so good.

[Josh]

What's the one? The potatoes one from Brian Preis. The guy that. He says something about potatoes.

[Lily]

Never have I had such a delightful exemplary vegetable. Yeah, that's what it is.

[Andrew]

To which of my fair cousins do I owe something?

[Lily]

Dang, Andrew.

[Josh]

Dang.

[Andrew]

Andrew wrote an essay on that freaking.

[Josh]

Do a curtsy, dude. After that performance, Mr. Collins, we are.

[Lily]

Perfectly acceptable to have a cook capable.

[Andrew]

Of employing our own cook.

[Josh]

Out of here. Lil, what are you doing?

[Andrew]

Just showed me gonna interject. Snap sounds.

[Andy]

He got it going.

[Josh]

He's Pride and Prejudice.

[Andy]

Hey, we got a month update.

[Josh]

Month update.

[Andy]

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[Josh]

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[Andy]

The white man is making us healthy again.

[Josh]

Thinner, stronger, braver.

[Andy]

Yeah. These guys are awesome. Genesis Health Solutions, this is our month three.

[Josh]

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[Andy]

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[Josh]

How many pounds is that?

[Andy]

Ten.

[Josh]

Ten?

[Andy]

Ten. I'm working out. His workout programs are extremely difficult. I've almost thrown up a couple times.

[Josh]

Gets it going.

[Andy]

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[Lily]

That's cool.

[Josh]

So I'm down 11. I quit my gym membership and I'm going to be buying some stuff to do some at home workouts.

[Lily]

That's cool.

[Josh]

Going back to like prison style, baby.

[Lily]

Nice, dude, Nice. I do at home stuff too. I've lost six pounds since you started using Genesis Health.

[Josh]

Oh, that sympathy weight loss sympathy. Yeah.

[Andy]

Nice.

[Lily]

I think it's been rubbing off.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

So we just want to say thanks to all you guys at Gen3 Health or Genesis Health Solutions. Yeah, you guys are awesome.

[Josh]

I have Todd, my trainer, as him in my phone.

[Andrew]

Todd, my trainer, Todd. Hey, Todd.

[Josh]

Hey, Todd. How you doing, pal?

[Andy]

He was reprimanding me though, last time we talked.

[Lily]

Oh, yeah, last time we talked.

[Andy]

I said last time.

[Lily]

Last time we talked.

[Andy]

Do we really want to start off on this note?

[Lily]

Why was he reprimanding you?

[Andy]

Because I'm like, dude, I can't work out every day. Yeah, like, he's kicking my butt. He's like, all right, well, I mean, the days that you can't work out, I would really encourage you, Josh, to get 10,000 steps in.

[Josh]

I'm like, gosh.

[Andy]

All right, all right.

[Josh]

How many miles is 10,000 steps? How long do you have to walk for 10,000 steps?

[Lily]

Four and a half miles, four and a half miles.

[Andrew]

That's not bad.

[Lily]

You just need to start taking shorter steps. That's the key. I get, like, 12,000 every day just by living.

[Andy]

She got a little stride. Let us ride.

[Josh]

I think the mornings, I just got to start seizing the mornings more. Just got to get up and just walk two miles with my dogs.

[Lily]

That's awesome.

[Andy]

Our girls wake up before the sun rises, so.

[Josh]

Yeah, it's tough.

[Andy]

Yeah, it is.

[Andrew]

Just like duct tape, like a candy bar to your back and get running. And you can stop when you sweat it off. Yeah.

[Andy]

Speaking of sweating it off. Hey, Lil, do you want a song?

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andy]

To bring in this new year.

[Josh]

First song of the new year of 2026. It's gotta be a good one.

[Andy]

This was our.

[Josh]

This is all depended on this song, whether this year's gonna be good or not.

[Andy]

We could have taken a stance, man, like, hey, it's a new year. No more songs. But guess what? We're not gonna do that. We're never gonna not do that.

[Josh]

That was an option.

[Lily]

We're doubling down.

[Josh]

That was an option.

[Lily]

Two songs.

[Andy]

Nope, never was an option.

[Lily]

Two songs.

[Andy]

Now we're gonna do the rest of this. Hour and 45 minutes will be all songs. Buckle up, everyone.

[Josh]

That would be insane.

[Andy]

One day we'll have to try that.

[Josh]

We'll have to do a Patreon episode or something, because I don't know how many people would actually want to see that. But a short episode of where we just create a song in real time.

[Lily]

I think that's great.

[Josh]

So we just record and we try to create one, and then we perform it.

[Andrew]

Do it right now.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Okay. We'll just come up with something on top of the head.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Scratch. Scratch this. I'm deleting this note for forewarning.

[Andy]

Is that a thing to say?

[Josh]

Sure.

[Andy]

This song might get flagged, and if it does, go to Spotify or Patreon to watch it or listen to it.

[Josh]

Here we go.

[Andrew]

Here we go. Actually, nope, I forgot to open docs. I got you guys.

[Andy]

Oh.

[Andrew]

I got you guys into it.

[Josh]

Oh. Oh, man.

[Andrew]

Golly. Whoa.

[Andy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Josh]

Hold your horses. Okay, throw it back.

[Lily]

Throw it back.

[Josh]

Run it back. Here he goes. Oh, my goodness.

[Lily]

You guys, this is a different microphone.

[Andy]

Hold on.

[Josh]

That's hilarious. Billy just destroyed her microphone. You're also gaining, like, a ton of muscle, apparently.

[Lily]

Dude, I'm so strong right now. This is a bad sign for the new year.

[Josh]

No, don't say that. Don't say that. We can't do that. Zoom in on Josh's butt real quick. Did you make your list, Lil?

[Lily]

Yeah, dude.

[Josh]

Later in the episode, everybody, we are going to be going over our top 10 movies of the year.

[Lily]

This exercise helped me realize I have not seen anything this year.

[Josh]

You gotta start working on it.

[Lily]

There's like, I have a whole new list of things I want to see from 2021.

[Josh]

I know that. Yeah, because you're going through, like, all the movies that were released. You're like, oh, that one. I want to see that one.

[Lily]

How did I miss that? But we've been fasting TV during the week, and that's. We get all of our movie time in after the girls go to sleep.

[Josh]

So I literally, I. I wouldn't watch movies unless I would. Would create. If I didn't create a list of like, I want to watch this one, this one, this one, this one. It's all my watch list on letterbox. And then I mark them off and rate them.

[Lily]

Whenever I'm done, I got to do that.

[Josh]

It helps. Josh, you feel like having a song?

[Andy]

Yeah. You want a song?

[Lily]

Yeah. Are you out of breath?

[Andy]

No, I'm never out of breath.

[Josh]

First take over.

[Andy]

This year this year is done it flew on by But I don't think we will forget 2025 I'll see you later Tesla trucks in the Palisades up in flames Katy Perry in space One gorilla versus a hundred men in the Gulf of America TikTok band Kendrick's halftime show all these tariffs and we got a new pope caught cheating while watching Coldplay and nothing beats a jet to holiday 3i atnes has gone away 3eye atlas has gone has gone away.

[Andrew]

This.

[Andy]

Year, this year is done Flew on by But I don't think we will.

[Josh]

Forget.

[Andy]

2025 I see see you later Hulk Hogan and Dick Cheney Charlie Kirk and Ozzy Cracker barrel with a new logo Then Jimmy Kimmel was let go the ease wing's gone and elon salute the pennies done in the heist at the Louvre the government it was shut.

[Josh]

Down and the planes were crashing and.

[Andy]

6, 7 took the crown 6, 7, 6, 7 this year, this year is done it flew on by But I don't think we will forget 2025 I see you la later 2025 I see you later. I see you later.

[Lily]

That was really good, you guys.

[Josh]

I screwed it up. I screwed it up. Changed guys with wet.

[Andy]

It was almost perfect.

[Josh]

It was almost perfect till Andy spoke.

[Lily]

Guys, that was a really good recap of the year. You reminded me of so much.

[Josh]

I know a lot.

[Andy]

It's fun for everyone watching the montage on the screen.

[Lily]

Did more good happen or bad happen?

[Andy]

Oh, definitely bad.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Dang.

[Josh]

There were some fun distractions, though. September was the most wild, I feel like.

[Andy]

Do you remember when September was a phone? What happened in September, Charlie?

[Andrew]

Kirk.

[Josh]

There was a lot of Kimmel stuff. I mean, there was just a lot of, like, things that happened in September. Yeah. Yep.

[Lily]

Dang.

[Andy]

Yeah. Speaking of September, everyone, please, for the first time, I feel like I've been asking you guys this all year.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Be quiet.

[Andrew]

You're the only one talking.

[Josh]

Be quiet.

[Andrew]

Quiet.

[Andy]

Because we're not joking around anymore.

[Andrew]

Sorry.

[Andy]

We are not joking around anymore. This is serious. This is a serious thing we're doing. This is a serious, serious game we're playing at.

[Lily]

We believe you. Go ahead, submit.

[Andrew]

Gosh.

[Josh]

I'm kidding.

[Andrew]

Thank you.

[Lily]

Are you kidding?

[Andy]

Thank you.

[Lily]

You're welcome, Josh.

[Josh]

No, no, not this year.

[Lily]

Not today.

[Andy]

Submit.

[Josh]

Josh, what are you.

[Andy]

Hey.

[Andrew]

Hey.

[Josh]

It's okay for me to say that.

[Lily]

Neither of you. It's not okay for either of you to say that.

[Andrew]

Say it again.

[Josh]

Hey, Joe.

[Andy]

I'm leaving all jokes aside, today's question. For the first time this year.

[Andrew]

Will.

[Andy]

This year be the year? Lily, will this year be the year?

[Lily]

For what?

[Andy]

Will this year be the year? This year? Will this year be the year?

[Lily]

I don't know.

[Josh]

Will this year finally be the year?

[Lily]

No. No. What do you think?

[Josh]

Doesn't matter what you think now.

[Andrew]

I was kind of hopeful for it. Yeah.

[Josh]

Because I thought it was gonna be. Yes.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Really?

[Josh]

We're gonna start off on the wrong foot this year. I think Lily just set the tone for the whole year.

[Lily]

I think it's gonna be a great year.

[Andrew]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy]

So this year won't be the year.

[Josh]

Huh.

[Andy]

To end racism.

[Lily]

I hope that you just want it.

[Andy]

To continue, don't you?

[Josh]

At least for another year.

[Andy]

At least for another year.

[Lily]

No, I don't want that.

[Andy]

Let's do another trip around the sun for all those racists.

[Lily]

I don't want that to happen.

[Josh]

She could have ended it right then and there. She said, you know what? Let's postpone that by 365 days. No, let's see what else could happen.

[Andy]

Yeah, let's see what else. Let's see what other terrible things can happen.

[Josh]

She's like, you know what? Maybe I want to use slurs for a little more. Longer.

[Lily]

I don't want to. I never done. I've never said one before.

[Andy]

Okay, play. Roll back.

[Lily]

Oh, My God.

[Andy]

It's not funny. Racism is not funny and is not a joke.

[Lily]

I know that.

[Andrew]

Do you?

[Andy]

Yeah, I guess you do know that, and that's why you wanted to continue.

[Lily]

Oh, my gosh.

[Andy]

I'm sorry, everyone. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Andrew. I know how uncomfortable you must be right now.

[Andrew]

I can't even, like, look up right now.

[Andy]

I know. Are you kidding me?

[Lily]

Andrew, I would never.

[Andrew]

I'm the first generation born of an immigrant in this country. I'm proud to be American. Do you want my family to go back to where we came from?

[Andy]

Away from you?

[Andrew]

My uncle's a cop. Like, he serves his country. My dad's a veteran.

[Josh]

Don't get her. Stop Started on cops and veterans.

[Lily]

Your family is amazing. Thank them for their service.

[Andrew]

Have you met them?

[Andy]

Are you joking me right now?

[Josh]

Those have started such a sarcastic.

[Lily]

It wasn't sarcastic.

[Andrew]

I don't know if I can film, dude.

[Andy]

Well, no, let's keep going.

[Lily]

No, let's not.

[Andrew]

Lily wants to cancel the podcast to start the new year.

[Andy]

Well, I guess you guys heard it here first. What hope was there?

[Lily]

Gosh, what's the point?

[Andrew]

What's the point?

[Andy]

Lily just wants racism to thrive. Welcome to the show. Did I say ninja? I meant butterfly.

[Andrew]

The butterfly is, no doubt one of God's most beautiful. Has to empty your mind.

[Josh]

You were martial arts. Hey, Andrew, fun fact. I shave my head every single day.

[Andrew]

That is commitment.

[Josh]

It is. And I'm very, very picky with my razors because I do it every single day. And if something feels off, I throw it away.

[Andrew]

So when something works, you notice.

[Josh]

Exactly. And that's why when we got in the mail, the new Harry's plus razor. Golly dang it. I've been using that thing every single day. I absolutely love it. It's become a part of my daily routine. It's smooth, it's consistent, which is what you want when you're shaving your head literally every single day.

[Andrew]

Yeah. And I heard Harry's just launched this razor, and it's their biggest release ever.

[Josh]

They spent 10 years developing it. It's a step up in craftsmanship, folks. It's not flashy. It just gets the job done.

[Andrew]

When you're using it every morning, what stands out to you?

[Josh]

Well, I used to use all the old Harry razors, but this one has a new pivoting thing. So whenever I'm, you know, closing my eyes, doing my mantra in the shower, and I use that. That for the back of the head with all those grooves, you know, because it kind of looks like an old rusty book back there. But I put it back there, it pivots, it's beautiful. The spacing on the blades is perfect because it's not clogging all the time. You have to constantly rinse it. It's amazing.

[Andrew]

It's more like a raisin than a rusty book. But how's that handle?

[Josh]

Thank you for that compliment. It is solid. The handle is solid. It's not too bulky, but golly, it feels good in your hand. It gets the, the job done just the way you want it to, especially when you're doing it all of the time. Makes the whole process easier.

[Andrew]

And these are German engineered blades, so they're honed at three angles and the.

[Josh]

Attention to detail really shows no tugging, no irritation marks. Comes out just the way you want it to. A comfortable shave I don't even have to think about.

[Andrew]

And even with all of that, it.

[Josh]

Still costs less than Gillette Fusion, which I didn't expect.

[Andrew]

And it's risk free. Yeah.

[Josh]

If you don't love it, Harry's gonna make it right. There's no pressure on, on keeping something that you don't love. So for a limited time, our listeners can get the Harry's plus trial set for only $10 at harry's.comninjas.

[Andrew]

This set includes the all new Harry's plus razor. Yep. It includes one refined five blade cartridge.

[Josh]

Yep.

[Andrew]

A two ounce foaming shave gel.

[Josh]

Yep.

[Andrew]

And a travel cover to protect your blades on the go.

[Josh]

Triple Y. Just head to harry's.comninjas to claim this offer. Do it now.

[Andrew]

And after you purchase, they're going to ask where you heard about them. Please tell them we sent you. Really helps a lot.

[Lily]

Thank you.

[Josh]

Thank you. Harry's.

[Andrew]

Yes.

[Josh]

And also all the Harry's out there. Harolds. Hark the Herald angel sing.

[Andrew]

Yeah. Yeah. Gosh.

[Lily]

No more. No more.

[Andy]

We did it. Hip hip hooray.

[Andrew]

Snap me out of ADD with the.

[Andy]

Call out and all the things snapped out. Did you guys see a Jake Paul fight?

[Lily]

Yeah, dude.

[Josh]

A Nasty.

[Andrew]

I saw the knockout.

[Josh]

Nasty.

[Andrew]

Ish.

[Josh]

See his teeth?

[Andrew]

I heard that he broke his jaw two places. Did it really break? Oh yeah. So him making. So him making the face on the ground wasn't faking nothing. No.

[Andy]

That's like my jaw just got snapped in half.

[Andrew]

That's his reality hitting him.

[Josh]

The love of it. And also probably adrenaline and knowing like he got rocked but it was at least fun for him.

[Andy]

That was crazy.

[Andrew]

That face makes sense to me. If he had paid off the fight and then got hit like that and.

[Andy]

Is like, no, that was a real fight, dude.

[Andrew]

Well, that's. Well, I mean, in the ring, if. If you paid. If you paid to win and the guy said sure. And then didn't care about not taking away a cent. Was like, I just want to get in there and hit him.

[Andy]

They agree to split the purse.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Whoever won it was going to be split. So he made like 93 million. Both of them made 93 million from the purse. Just the purse alone, dude.

[Josh]

What kind of guy wants first, though?

[Andrew]

Influencers. Influencers out there. Pick any of us that you would like to see fight, and I will happily fight anyone.

[Andy]

Yeah, I think I would get my jaw broken for $93 million.

[Josh]

Look at that photo.

[Lily]

Tired.

[Josh]

Look at his teeth on the. His left side. Pictures right side. But. Ooh. You could see how they literally got knocked over and cracked, bro. That. Oh my.

[Andy]

How long.

[Andrew]

How long would you. Let's. Let's say like, because they did the whole weight class thing, which is out the window. But like, let's say to be in your weight class, how long would you need. You get a payday. But like, how long would you say. I need this long to get ready for a fight?

[Andy]

I mean, a year. Andy, like to actually. For it to like, look good, decent.

[Josh]

30 minutes. Just give me a 30 minutes head.

[Lily]

Josh. If you had a fight at the end of the year that you had to prepare for for 365 days, you'd have a panic attack. Every day, though, anticipating could over make me stronger.

[Andrew]

You could overcome it.

[Andy]

It would work. Help with my lung capacity.

[Lily]

True.

[Josh]

It's breathing into a bag.

[Andrew]

It was.

[Andy]

It was enjoyable to watch. And honestly, I was watching it and. Yo, dog. Jake Paul, you want. He did. He did decent.

[Lily]

He did.

[Andrew]

He was not long. Oh, he's a.

[Josh]

He's a decent fighter. That's the thing.

[Andy]

It's like a literal G. Yeah.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

I was like a foot taller than.

[Andy]

Him, 6 foot 6, weighing in at like 245 pounds ripped. Jake came in at 61 2, 14. And I mean, so scary.

[Lily]

The terrifying to be honest too. He had him nervous like Jake. The guy was nervous to fight him. And then like he gets around three and he gets really comfortable. He's like, I take this guy out.

[Andrew]

That's. That's tip. I should have watched the fight. That's typical though, because they feel him out. They're trying to work out timing and he's like, oh, you really. I really can just start swing.

[Andy]

Jake Paul kept on falling, though. That was like. I started going like, oh, no, get up. Yeah, like, just falling. Just out of being winded completely.

[Josh]

I don't. That's amazing to me that, like, even though guys obviously train so much, still get winded.

[Andy]

I know.

[Josh]

Like, Conor McGregor being, like, exhausted during a boxing match with Floyd. It's like, how are you tired?

[Andy]

I know.

[Josh]

That grows my mind. That, like, the human, like, lung capacity or whatever, that, like, the stamina, just, like, adrenaline.

[Andy]

And then, like, when your adrenaline starts crashing, then you're like, oh, no.

[Josh]

Because it's definitely control, right? Like, you have to be able to. You have to be purposeful. Like, with boxing, they. It's breath control, a whole lot of. So that way you don't get winded.

[Andrew]

And just, like, optimal size, too. 215 sounds heavy for 6:1. You know what I mean? Like, you look at some of, like, the UFC guys, those guys are, like, lean and like, when they start to.

[Andy]

Put on, they try to put on weight.

[Andrew]

See, because. Yeah, that's probably a big problem because he's not used to just how much oxygen that much muscle consumes. Just. Just carrying it in the ring.

[Josh]

I mean, I'm 230 and I'm six three.

[Andy]

True.

[Josh]

I feel like I carry.

[Andy]

Well, yeah, definitely.

[Lily]

Does Jake Paul only do boxing, or does he also do the.

[Andy]

Just boxing.

[Andrew]

Get. Oh, my.

[Josh]

The hugging one.

[Andy]

You know, the kissing one.

[Andrew]

You.

[Andy]

When they get on the ground, they just kiss a bunch.

[Josh]

When they just want to hold each.

[Andy]

Other tight, they do just boxing.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Speaking of just boxing, let's get into our 2026, 2025 stuff.

[Josh]

You want to.

[Andrew]

Right away?

[Josh]

All right, let's do it. All right, so we have our top 10 movies of the year. We have. Andrew has a special rule because he doesn't watch a lot of movies, so we brought in some shows, right?

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And then we have our five predictions, which I don't think I have five. I think I have four. Five predictions for 2026. And then our prediction for the Time Magazine person of the year prediction. Who? Last year's Donald Trump. This year. I mean, two years ago, it was Donald Trump. 2025, it was the innovators of AI. And then now what do we think? So. All right, what do you want to go first?

[Andy]

I'll go first. I've only seen 11 movies this year.

[Josh]

Oh, no.

[Andy]

So these are my top. I'll just do 11.

[Josh]

Yeah, do it. I got three honorable mentions.

[Andy]

All right. Number one, Frankenstein. That was my number one.

[Lily]

Yes, me too.

[Andy]

Maybe I Should have gone backwards.

[Josh]

Yeah, go backwards.

[Andy]

All right, well, now you know. Number one, Frankenstein. Number 11, Superman.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Andy]

Number 10, Thunderbolts.

[Josh]

Okay. I haven't seen Thunderbolts.

[Lily]

What even is that?

[Andy]

It's a Marvel thing.

[Josh]

I did the New Avengers. I think you probably like it. It has Florence Pugh in it.

[Lily]

I do like her.

[Josh]

David Harbour, the guy that plays Stranger Things.

[Lily]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy]

Number nine, how to Train Dragon. Yeah, it's pretty fun.

[Josh]

That was fun.

[Andy]

Number eight, Steve.

[Josh]

Oh, man, I haven't seen that one. Yeah. Cool.

[Andy]

What am I at, seven? Train. Train Dreams.

[Josh]

You watched it?

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

What's your rating?

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Oh, man, it's crazy sad, right? But the cinematography and everything, it was nuts.

[Lily]

You said, by the way, when you're like, you guys should watch this movie, you're like, oh. But, like, it ends up beat. First of all, actually, the entire movie. Depressing.

[Andrew]

You.

[Josh]

Told you. I told you it doesn't end good. And then you kept pressing, like, hoping that, like, maybe Andy's wrong. Maybe Andy did. There's a little bit of light when he's in the plane stuff. There's a little bit, yeah. It ends on a higher note than the rest of the movie.

[Lily]

When I think about it, I'm absolutely gutted.

[Josh]

I know, but it's addicting. It's so good. You can't look away. It wasn't William H. Macy.

[Lily]

Amazing.

[Josh]

So good.

[Lily]

Oh, he's always amazing.

[Josh]

Oh, he's incredible. I just love seeing, like, actors that we kind of grew up with be older actors in movies, and they're just killing it, dude.

[Andy]

All right, then. So it's Train Dreams and then Warfare.

[Andrew]

Yes.

[Josh]

You've seen it yet? No, no, no.

[Lily]

He watched it without me.

[Andy]

Next one, Naked gun.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Then Mickey 17.

[Lily]

Yes.

[Andy]

Then Knives Out.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

My top three, Wake Up, Dead Man.

[Andy]

Number three was Knives Out. Number two, Mission Impossible, and number one, Frankenstein.

[Lily]

Nice. You missed one in there. I can't wait to tell you which one you missed.

[Josh]

Oh, you want to go next?

[Lily]

Yeah, I'll go next. It's hard, Josh, because you and I see the same movies when you go see me. Some generally, because sometimes you go without me, but. So our list is pretty similar.

[Josh]

Yeah, we saw one. Yeah, you missed one. I'll tell you about it later. We went to the movies and saw it. Okay. We all know what's up.

[Andy]

Go.

[Lily]

I send Lilo and stitch for number 10, but I didn't even really like it. I just don't know.

[Josh]

How many did you see?

[Andrew]

Overall?

[Lily]

I think maybe 10. I put train dreams at nine.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Because again, the cinematography was good. It moved me. But story, Not a great story.

[Josh]

It's a good story. It's a sad story, but it's a good story.

[Lily]

It's the most upsetting thing I've seen in my life. Number eight, I put it. Steve. I really did like that movie. Also dark.

[Andy]

Also dark.

[Lily]

And that's something I want to talk about. Why is everything so dark? Just feeding in, that we're consuming.

[Andy]

It's just. It's. It's an art piece. Right. So like a. Someone that creates a movie. It's like a piece of their. It's like an art.

[Josh]

It's evoking emotion maybe from their past or something they read.

[Lily]

Does nobody have, like, a positive emotion or something? That's nice.

[Josh]

Maybe you should watch more than 10 movies. There was a lot of positive.

[Andy]

Maybe you should watch Superman with me, Lil, and see how happy happy that was. Gosh. Keep going.

[Lily]

I put Elio at number seven.

[Josh]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Andy]

What is that?

[Lily]

That Alien movie where he loses his eye? That's all Ada can bring up. Remember how Elio was missing an eye?

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Lily]

6 Naked Gun. That was. Movie was so fun.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

5, Mission Impossible 4. Here you go. Ready? Friendship.

[Andy]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was. Yeah. That's a top ten, I think. Top seven.

[Lily]

Three. Mickey 17. Two knives out. Amazing. Loved it. They're little. They're usually more fun. This one felt a little darker to me, but I loved the salvation message. What the heck.

[Josh]

Yeah, it was strong.

[Lily]

One Frankenstein. Amazing. Frankenstein was so good.

[Andy]

Was finally.

[Josh]

I finally finished.

[Andy]

It was Nosferaktu do new. Was that 2025 or 2024?

[Andrew]

I'll look it up.

[Josh]

That was last year. December. Yeah.

[Andy]

Oh, okay.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Yeah. That one was really good, too.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

And then next year, I think you.

[Josh]

Guys didn't watch it till 2025.

[Lily]

We have so much to anticipate next year. I am.

[Josh]

I got a list already. I got a list to go through them after this. All right, Andrew, you want to go?

[Andrew]

Yeah, let's do it. So I barely watch movies, and I'm realizing that I have seen a couple more than I thought while getting your list, so I've adapted mine. So bottom of the list, Lilo and Stitch.

[Lily]

Cool.

[Andrew]

Next up from the bottom, Superman. Then Thunderbolts. And this is where I go into shows. But. Andor the second season was actually pretty freaking good. Then I go Stranger Things, which isn't done yet. Could jump to the top, but I've got it sitting.

[Josh]

Or the bottom.

[Andrew]

It could go that's true. It could go to the absolute bottom. The opening weird face swapped sequence. Just really couldn't stand that American Primeval is high up there.

[Lily]

Dang.

[Andrew]

And then Chief. Well, these are shows because I didn't watch movies.

[Lily]

Oh, okay.

[Andrew]

So yeah, yeah.

[Josh]

We should have done our top five movies maybe. I mean shows, yeah.

[Andrew]

But American Primeval and Chief of War, those are so. Yeah, those are good years. Yeah.

[Josh]

Good year. All right. My. My list for honorable mentions. Black Bag. You haven't seen that one?

[Andrew]

Nope.

[Josh]

It's Michael Fassbender. It's like a spy thriller. 13 Long Walk.

[Andy]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Josh]

Warfare 12, Mission Impossible. 11:10 is a movie called Dangerous Animals. It's literally a shark attack movie. Like it's so fun. I'm not gonna say you would love it.

[Lily]

No, thank you.

[Josh]

Number nine. Begonia.

[Lily]

Dang. I want to see that so bad.

[Josh]

So good. Number eight. Weapons. Number seven, how to train your dragon. I was just fell in love with that movie. That's so cool to see something like done that well. 6. Friendship. 5. Frankenstein. 4. One battle after another. 3. Wake up dead man. Knives out. 2. Train dreams. 1. Sinners.

[Andy]

Wow. Sinners. Number one. Huh?

[Josh]

Oh, I'm telling you guys got to watch it.

[Lily]

Did you watch a TikTok where the.

[Andy]

Pastor'S like he said, who in here has seen Sinners? And the guy goes, shame on you.

[Andrew]

That's hilarious. That's good.

[Josh]

You guys would love it. Honestly, it's such a good one.

[Lily]

Is it scary?

[Josh]

I mean, it's vampires, but there's romance. There's. It's a period piece.

[Lily]

Vampires. You don't have to tell me twice.

[Josh]

I mean, I'm telling you will love it. It's not bad at all.

[Lily]

Okay.

[Josh]

It's my favorite movie here.

[Lily]

I have to wrap presents tonight, so maybe I'm trying to decide what I want to watch while I do it.

[Andy]

Don't watch that because then I can't be in there.

[Lily]

You don't have any problem watching.

[Josh]

No, you.

[Andy]

No, you all the time.

[Josh]

The thing is, this is not scary. This is. It's not scary. You're going to love it.

[Andy]

I know. I want to watch it.

[Josh]

Okay, got it.

[Andy]

But she's saying that she's gonna watch it without me.

[Josh]

Got it. No, that's a good date night movie. You guys gotta watch that together.

[Lily]

All right, fine.

[Andy]

I watched one movie.

[Andrew]

Warfare.

[Josh]

Find Begonia.

[Andrew]

One movie.

[Lily]

Do you wanna. He probably wants to watch Begonia. Is that. Is that very scary?

[Josh]

No, it's fun.

[Lily]

I want. I want to see the Jennifer Lawrence movie. I've got a whole list going in my head.

[Josh]

Skip the Jennifer Lawrence movie.

[Lily]

Why?

[Josh]

I tried to watch it. It'll. It's just. It's a postpartum.

[Lily]

I know.

[Josh]

Depressing movie. It's very wacky. The storytelling is crazy. The acting is incredible. She's incredible in it, but it's just part of psychosis. Like, it. Basically, it's just a lot of. A lot of stuff happens, and it's just. I don't think you're going to leave feeling good at all. You think dream dreams is depressing? At least that was, like, a beautiful one. That, like, told a good story. No, no, no, you're fine. You're fine. I'll tell you about it later. So funny. All right, since we're on the topic of movies, let's talk about movies that are coming out. 20, 26.

[Andrew]

Yeah, tell me.

[Josh]

Super Mario Galaxy, which, I mean, if you like those movies, whatever. It looks like a cool trailer project. Hail Mary with Ryan Gosling when he's in Space Alien. That one looks awesome. They've been promoting that forever.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Michael, the biopic for Michael Jackson. Disclosure Day. New Steven Spielberg movie.

[Andy]

Looks awesome.

[Andrew]

That one.

[Josh]

Like, we said, like, what kind of aliens are they?

[Andy]

They're like. Like shapeshifters.

[Josh]

Shapeshifters? Yeah.

[Lily]

Ooh, spooky.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Andy]

And they go, go, oh, gosh, that's.

[Lily]

Going to scare me a lot.

[Josh]

But it's Emily Blunt. She's going to kill Scary Movie six for those. You want that Supergirl. Moana Odyssey.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

We just watched a trailer, dude.

[Josh]

Yeah. Looks nuts. Spider Man. Brand new. Day bigger. Tom Cruise movie. It looks. I mean. Whoa.

[Andrew]

These are terrible. Should I. Should I actually let the conversation clarify it? Yeah.

[Josh]

But it's the same guy that made Birdman and the Revenant. So this guy, like, this guy picks his, like, movies out very. Like, specifically. And Tom Cruise being at a comedy again, it's gonna be incredible.

[Lily]

What's Birdman?

[Josh]

It's a Tom Cruise movie. If you've been bleeped, just go Google. New Tom Cruise movie. You know, I didn't say anything bad. The Birdman. That's. That's with Michael Keaton and Emma Stone, and it was all. It.

[Andy]

It was like, the one shot.

[Josh]

Yeah, it's one shot throughout the whole movie.

[Lily]

Okay.

[Josh]

Yeah. Okay. Street Fighter. Who?

[Andy]

Our good friend.

[Josh]

Best friend Andrew Scholz is in.

[Andy]

Yes. Our best friend is in it.

[Josh]

Hunger Games, the new one. That one looks great. Avengers. Doomsday.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Dune Messiah.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

When?

[Josh]

The December. It's Gonna be December a year from now.

[Lily]

Dude, we could watch it in our new movie theater in our house.

[Josh]

We have to.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Coyote versus Acme, which is that Will Forte Looney Tunes Acme movie that he's been working on for years. Apparently he's really excited about.

[Lily]

Cool.

[Josh]

Toy Story 5, Adventures of Cliff Booth, the, you know, the Brad Pitt character for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

[Andy]

Yeah, they're doing like a prequel with him in it.

[Josh]

David Fincher, who's doing the movie. So, like, like Fight Club, Gone Girl, all that.

[Andrew]

Director.

[Josh]

He's doing that movie. It's gonna be insane. And then last but not least, Peaky Blinders, baby. Yes.

[Andrew]

Yes.

[Lily]

When is that?

[Josh]

I'm not sure. I don't think they have a date for that yet. But Barry. Keegan. Keegan. Whatever his name is, he's going to be in it, too. He's going to be one of the leads.

[Lily]

Dang, he's spooky.

[Josh]

Yeah, he's good.

[Andrew]

Very good.

[Josh]

Very good. All right, so on to our predictions. Do we have anything that we came through on the predictions last year?

[Lily]

I will say real quick to our audience. Can you make me a list of movies from 25 that I should see?

[Josh]

Oh, yeah, drop them in the comments. That'd be great.

[Andrew]

I went. I went back through my notes and I had like 2024 predictions. 425. So I guess that's the right list. I did the electric cars were going to disappear. I said a Republican president would yeet those out of the system. So I feel pretty good about that one.

[Josh]

Yeah, he yeeted the guy that made them. Yep. I don't think we really had anything. We had the Elon Musk Neuralink will be caught running ads in your dreams. We're one step closer to that.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And also had the AI Kid Toy, like a Furby, and that kind of came true as well. All right, anything else?

[Andy]

No. No.

[Josh]

All right, Josh, predictions for 2026.

[Andy]

Well, I'll go last.

[Josh]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'll go first. Grand Theft Auto 6 gets delayed till 2027.

[Lily]

Now, you see, the CEO just died.

[Andy]

That was Call of Duty.

[Josh]

Yeah, that was called. Dude, that was nuts. That crash was crazy.

[Lily]

I put it in my head that it was Griff Theft Auto.

[Josh]

Yeah, he probably was. I mean, that's how I drive in Grand Theft Auto.

[Lily]

Dang.

[Josh]

An AI controlled reality show. Like, it makes the decisions for them, which I think would be awesome because I've seen YouTubers doing that. That'd be great. This is kind of a sad One, but another high profile assassination. I think we're. I think it's coming. I think something's gonna happen. And then my final prediction, North Korea absorbs North Carolina. My final one. I think that one's the most probable.

[Andy]

Yeah, I think so. That's a good one. All right, Andrew, let me hear yours.

[Andrew]

All right. Mine's all doomy and sad. Paige said it was wordy and I should shorten it and make it happy, but I didn't. So here we go. I said, partial truth surrounding politics will allow conspiracy theorists to thrive. The wildest theories paired with compelling yet misleading imagery and stories will reign true. When I was in art school, there was a quote that our professor loved to, like, make the mantra good art is art that moves you. And so I think any story that has, whether it's real or not, like a compelling narrative, something that just makes you, like, want to fight whoever it's about. Like, when you think about some of the QAnon stuff and, like, there's some sick stuff that gets you fired up, I think with the age of AI, that's going to be, like, the weirdest reality. It'll be like, cults of conspiracy is kind of going to be, I think, the overarching theme for 2026. Yeah, more. I said, I think brain rot is going to be the soil that elites grow their schemes in, rather than splitting us also into camps. I think people will just be mindless, kind of. You think about how, like, China goes, like, numb to the phone and those. That's the populace. So apathy is the new mind virus. This one's fun. I think surge comes back as an energy drink.

[Andy]

Nice.

[Andrew]

I would like to see that happen.

[Josh]

I remember Voltage. Remember Voltage.

[Andrew]

Volt.

[Andy]

Oh, yeah.

[Lily]

Volt.

[Andrew]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was fun. And then I think. I don't know how many I did, but I think I combined two into one. But I think Christianity is going to see a rise. I think a lot of people are, like, searching for community. And then when they plug into community, there's going to be this weird new, like, subculture of Christianity that rises. That's like, we love Jesus. We need community. But the community we're seeing in your communities is very tied to politics. And I think, like, remembering that Jesus came not to overthrow a king, but to serve, I think that'll be like, the mantra of, like, a new generation of Christians that I hope.

[Andy]

I love.

[Lily]

All right, I guess. Ready?

[Josh]

What is your predictions?

[Lily]

Number one is about the password apocalypse. Did you guys hear that? Like, nobody can remember Their passwords. It's like a thing.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Nobody can remember their passwords. Instead, they're going to authenticate based on vibes. Yeah. You, you're vibing like Josh Hooper. So you have access.

[Josh]

Oh, I wish you would, like, pick it up. Like, if I'm like, in a sad mood, it just wouldn't let me watch certain movies. If, like, you wouldn't let me open TikTok or something. It's like, this not going to be.

[Andy]

Healthy for you or like, financial decisions. It won't let you into your bank.

[Josh]

Account if it, like, it can read your heart rate.

[Andy]

Really need that boat.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Lily]

You know what the bank will do, though, is you'll try to get in and you'll be like, I'm pretty sure I'm the right person to open this account. They'll be like, that's definitely you. That's something. Okay. I think the moon is going to get a brand deal.

[Andrew]

Ooh.

[Lily]

I also think that they're going to, like, try to conquer portions of the moon.

[Andy]

Yes.

[Josh]

I think we should be able to like. Yeah, like Sunday Cool. Could like, where ninjas. Butterflies can pay for a plot on the moon.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Josh]

For our logo to be put on there. And it funds NASA.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Lily]

And if you get it and everybody's gonna buy telescopes. And then if you zoom in really close, you can see our logo.

[Josh]

Boom.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

But it's all hologram.

[Lily]

Yeah. Smart fridges are gonna form a union and they're not going to let you into your fridge unless you close out all your notifications.

[Josh]

Dang, that's good.

[Andy]

Or you have to, like, watch an ad before you can open it.

[Lily]

That and they'll also, like, chastise you for your choices. Like, you put spinach on the list and now it's wilted.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Lily]

So no more spinach is going.

[Andy]

More ice cream, huh?

[Andrew]

I know what you're. I know what you're here for. Do 10 jumping jacks and I'll open the door.

[Josh]

That would be good. A fitness one. You have to do a certain amount to grab something.

[Lily]

Yeah. Number four, birds are going to update their software again and they're all going to glitch out and get weird. Officials will blame magnetic disturbances, but it's really just a software update.

[Josh]

Oh.

[Lily]

Pigeons will remain suspiciously calm.

[Josh]

Those are so good.

[Lily]

Number five, the algorithm will become self aware of trends only. So basically what's going to happen is, like, they're going to invent trends.

[Andy]

Oh, I think they're already doing that.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Lily]

So, like, we're gonna, like, Think that this is trending, but really it's the algorithm pushing it. And it's gonna probably be run by like Blackrock or something. They're like, yeah, you guys are really into like concrete everywhere and metal beams and what do they call the things that go under the house that are like those and people get impaled on them a lot in like final decision. Yeah. Rebar everywhere. Rebar art.

[Josh]

Nice.

[Lily]

That's it.

[Andy]

Nice.

[Josh]

Very good.

[Andy]

All right. I did something a little different. I had AI make the predictions and just forewarning it's predicting off of everything I've ever talked to it about. But it's still very interesting. I said if you were to do predictions of 2026, what would it be? And this is it. Okay, first one. By 2026, the public. Wait, where are we? Where are we? We are going to. They said public is told something non human has interacted with humanity. But the real shock is that it's tied to ancient history, not outer space.

[Lily]

Like what, a virus?

[Andy]

No, like an ancient technology. And they said that it would be like they would frame it as visitors, but it's framed as interdimensional pre human or an intelligence that co developed with.

[Andrew]

Humanity talking like pyramid builders.

[Andy]

And they said how they're even shifting the language from alien to non human intelligence. I don't know if you've caught that in these disclosure stuff. Nhis.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Second one. AI causes a psychological event, not just a scandal. So they're saying that there's a measurable mental health or social contagion event linked directly to AI interaction.

[Josh]

What does that mean?

[Lily]

Dude, that's happening already.

[Andy]

So AI is already outperforming humans emotionally in emotional mirroring. Loneliness plus authority. Bias equals vulnerability. No cultural immune system yet. So they're just saying government responded by labeling. Oh, so the government will respond by labeling it a public safety issue and not a tech issue. So it's going to go beyond just like a tech issue. It's going to be like a, a.

[Lily]

Medical issue because they're already so integrated.

[Andy]

This psychological event that's going to happen.

[Lily]

Dude, it's already happening. And then people are going to start like worshiping this thing. And so there's going to be cults, like religious cults about are we going.

[Josh]

To have our first AI marriage?

[Andy]

Oh yeah, I'm sure.

[Lily]

Wow.

[Andy]

This one number three is the earth does something we didn't expect, but the ancient cultures did. A major geophysical or solar event occurs that modern science struggles to explain in real time. Possibilities. Intense solar storm Geomatic, geomagnetic instability, abnormal auroras, power grid disruptions, which I feel like that's already been happening.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andy]

But, but it said that like the ancients knew about it, which I'm just like, okay, number four. Something in space goes quiet and no one fully explains why. So the prediction is there's a sudden communications blackout or satellite failure that affects multiple countries. Why? This is likely. Orbital congestion, solar activity, space militarization.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

How creepy would that be if the ISS just like went black? Just like nothing.

[Andrew]

Very scary.

[Josh]

I mean, that would be terrifying.

[Andrew]

Dude, I don't think anyone would believe it was real. They'd be like, why? Why'd they go offline? Like they're doing something.

[Josh]

It takes so much to go offline. Right. All the places that are connected to it.

[Andy]

Its last prediction was also yours, which is a hard swing back to faith, especially among young men. 22, 6. There's a visible, measurable return to structured religion. And it talks about like going into like, even like Catholicism or Eastern Orthodox. And it says, why is this likely? AI challenges what it means to be human. Moral relativist relativism. Oh, jeez. Ops relativism.

[Andrew]

Yep.

[Andy]

Collapses under stress. People want roots, not vibes.

[Lily]

Nice. So, yeah, truth not lies.

[Andy]

I just thought that was interesting. That's what it came up with.

[Andrew]

I bet you're interesting. I bet that's the predecessor to like. Because I think, I think everybody's going to be seeking community, so I think we're going to see that shift into a lot of like, places. And I'm not speaking generally to all, or I'm not speaking about every specific church, but I think there are a lot of communities that even we've been burnt by. Where you like, end up in that place and you sit there for a few months and you're like, what is this? And I think like the younger generation just operates more quickly. They're less inclined to stay there for a couple years and more likely to be like, you know, instead of small group where they just sit there, they're gonna go get coffee with a homie, be like, should we do something different?

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andy]

This was a spooky thing that AI said at the end of it. It's saying that we're at the end of a cycle.

[Andrew]

Okay.

[Lily]

This generation, like the 80 year cycle?

[Andy]

No, like an even deeper cycle.

[Lily]

Oh.

[Andy]

And it's saying human humanity is entering a new age. It's re entering. Or human. Sorry. Humanity is not entering a new age. It's re entering an old one with better tech. And worse, memory. We think we're progressing into something unprecedented. In reality, we are repeating ancient patterns. Power, knowledge collapse, faith, myth. But we've forgotten the lessons while upgrading the tools. Same story, new hardware. That's what it said.

[Lily]

That feels, that feels oddly uncannily correct.

[Andy]

And then it says so when those civilizations collapsed, the knowledge bottlenecked. Sorry, the knowledge bottleneck reset everything. We didn't inherit their warnings, only their ruins.

[Andrew]

That was like poetic.

[Andy]

That's what AI told me.

[Josh]

Hey, that's what they saw me. Don't judge me. That's. Yeah, that's crazy because when we already have like, you know, we have like the history repeats itself that, you know, people who forget, you know, are doomed to repeat it. But the fact that we're having mental and memory problems. Yeah, so much already. So it's like, it's like doubling up on it. And so you think the powers of B are going to take advantage of that short term memory?

[Lily]

No, 100%.

[Andy]

It says one of the biggest monitored assumptions is we're the most quote, we're the most advanced humans who have ever lived. That is true technologically, but not necessarily civilizationally. Ancient cultures had advanced astronomy, precise engineering that can still not be replicated. Global mythology overlaps complex priesthoods, elite and hidden knowledge classes. So there's just saying like yeah, you guys aren't anything new. Yeah, you just have different tech.

[Josh]

It just looks different.

[Lily]

Same script, different, different props. Yeah, yeah, that feels right.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Lily]

You know that. I think I sent it to you guys but it was that, that gentleman that went without his phone for seven weeks or something like that and it accessed. He was able to access different parts of his memory after a certain point of time where like even like in interaction with somebody he could smell the smells of the area around him and like he could remember the sounds and stuff like that. And like we can't remember what we ate for dinner last night. You know what I'm saying? It's so weird. And when are we gonna say enough is enough?

[Andy]

Never. Until we die, apparently. All right, 2026 time person of the year.

[Andrew]

I bet we agree.

[Lily]

I think we all probably have the same one.

[Josh]

Yeah, I don't think so.

[Andrew]

So wait, it's for the next year or is it in summation of the year that just finished?

[Josh]

I don't have a fun one. I. I mean, yeah, no, it's 2026 time Person of the year. Because this year has already been 2025 has already been named.

[Andy]

I'll go first.

[Andrew]

Who was it?

[Josh]

The innovators of AI Mine's kind of.

[Andrew]

So that's weird. You name. So it's a prediction of who you think it will be, not who was the year before. So the accolades of the previous year never get acknowledged by time.

[Josh]

We're just predicting 2026. At the end of the year, time's going to look back at the year and they're going to say, who is the person of the year that we want to spotlight?

[Andy]

I put Erica Kirk.

[Josh]

It could be good or bad. Okay, you put Erica Kirk.

[Andy]

Good.

[Josh]

It's not a bad guess. I mean, we had Taylor Swift three.

[Andrew]

Years ago, so I had Charlie thinking that that event would be a major player in the.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

I don't know if they've ever done anyone, like, post homies, like, after death. Like, I don't.

[Andy]

He would have been 20, 25.

[Andrew]

Yeah, yeah. That's why I was like, confused by it.

[Josh]

Peter Thiel.

[Lily]

I thought we were all gonna.

[Andy]

That was my second guess.

[Andrew]

I had Altman and Teal, but I was like. The two of them would have been wrapped up in. They won't do it just because they already got named basically the year before.

[Josh]

Well, people have done. People have had repeated years. Franklin Roosevelt, like, got like four times. I think that's rigged.

[Andrew]

Yeah. I'll just say Rogan.

[Josh]

Yeah, I. I guessed because it's a common theme throughout Times magazine's history. And we haven't had one in almost 20 years. No, I mean, like 15 years. Pope Leo.

[Andrew]

Okay.

[Josh]

Last time we had a pope, it was in 2013. And the year before. Before that it was 1994. They did Pope. So I think it's just.

[Lily]

I think you're right.

[Josh]

He's different. He's doing a lot of trending things. He's doing big stuff. I think it's going to be poplio that or Bill Gates again, who knows? Yeah, it was Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono at one point.

[Lily]

Bro, you. What do you see all the released. Jeff? Yeah, Stuff.

[Josh]

Wild. They keep releasing stuff over time and it. The pictures are crazy.

[Lily]

They're crazy. And Mr. Gates. Naughty, naughty.

[Andy]

Oh, I can't believe it.

[Andrew]

That.

[Andy]

That TikTok of the guy who's like.

[Andrew]

Oh, my gosh, I'm going to butcher it.

[Andy]

But he's like, is that the Jeffrey the financier that. I don't know. I must get a picture with him. It's like, I've never.

[Lily]

We get a lot of pictures and then he goes.

[Andy]

He's like, is that the man who's caught up in a bunch of scandal. When can I get my picture with him?

[Josh]

I must have a picture.

[Andy]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh]

I must remember this moment forever.

[Andy]

It's probably gonna be Mr. Beast as the Antichrist type Person of the year, baby. Speaking of Antichrist, did you guys know that we are not joke.

[Andrew]

Anyway.

[Lily]

Dang. 50 minutes in.

[Josh]

Hey, y', all, it's Ray Damsy, your merchant apparel advisor. Listen, it's the end of the year gift season, and some of y' all acting like buying a present is rocket science. Well, newsflash. Sunday Cool is your one stop shop. You want customizable mugs? Boom, we got them. You want shirts? That's literally what we do. Hats, beanies, custom sticker packs. Yes, ma'.

[Andy]

Am.

[Josh]

Yes, sir. Yes. Whatever. And if you're too indecisive to make custom stuff, enter a swag store. We got gear there that'll make you feel cooler than a flamingo on spring break. Hear me out. You complain all the time about you not being able to find a gift for your loved ones or for your team is a lot like my pit bull playing the piano. I don't want to hear, go to Sunday Cool. Get the goods, make the people happy. It's that simple. Treat it like Christmas magic. Minus that one weird uncle that smells like beef jerky and regret. Sunday Cool. End of the year gifts done and done. Our. Is that good?

[Andrew]

Great.

[Josh]

Portholes. Portholes.

[Andrew]

This thing is ticking me off.

[Andy]

All right.

[Josh]

And with that, the 2025 season is over.

[Andy]

It's a wrap.

[Lily]

That's pretty sad. Six is not a great number.

[Josh]

I'm not. I truly am all sold out on the 2027 being our final year on Earth.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Lily]

So I'm cool with it.

[Josh]

Let's just have a lot. One last hurrah. What do we got to look forward to this year? We're going to Bless God conference. We're traveling. That's the only thing we have on the books to travel. Right.

[Lily]

That'll be really. Oceanside, California, dude, there's no more conferences. What's up with that?

[Josh]

I know. That stinks.

[Lily]

Stinks.

[Josh]

For those of you guys who usually see us at Orange Conference or conclave, we're not going to be going this year. It's a bummer.

[Lily]

Very sad. I used to love nywc. Was my favorite.

[Josh]

Oh, it was so good.

[Andrew]

What is that?

[Lily]

Youth convention.

[Josh]

It was. They traveled all over the place, but it was the National Youth Workers Convention.

[Andy]

Yeah. It was like the huge, biggest, coolest one.

[Lily]

It was so much fun.

[Andy]

No one's doing conferences anymore.

[Lily]

We should start when we were just dating, we went to the St. Louis one and we rode on a scooter together. One of those limes, and we went to the city museum.

[Andy]

Yep. And I said, in human poop.

[Andrew]

Oh, that's. Sorry.

[Lily]

He squished it in his toes.

[Andrew]

Nice.

[Josh]

That's when I sent you a sweater covered in dirt.

[Andy]

Yes. Yes.

[Lily]

I used to. As part of marketing, I used to help coordinate all of the conferences and, like, plan them and stuff. And then you would do something like, I'm gonna go up in the St. Louis architecture. And it's like, well, the booth opens in two minutes. Then you would go and do that.

[Andrew]

So you knew what you were getting into when you married him.

[Lily]

I did.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

The arch. I will never go up.

[Andy]

Not anymore. With my anxiety, I can't.

[Josh]

I gotta freak out.

[Andrew]

Dude, have faith in yourself.

[Josh]

No, listen, I. I have no problem. I feel like. But that stuff. Oh, man, it's moving.

[Andy]

Oh, I made a lot of progress with my anxiety.

[Josh]

Yes, you have.

[Andy]

But I went to Disney for the first time with the girls since my major panic attack, which was almost two years ago.

[Lily]

He did a really good job, you guys.

[Josh]

That's awesome.

[Andy]

But I got on the It's a Small World ride. I'm like, I'm gonna freak out.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

I mean, it's a nightmare.

[Josh]

Yeah. That's just a normal occurrence for everyone else, though.

[Andy]

Gosh. I'm like, get me off this.

[Andrew]

You remember that reel I made with, like, the horror sounds? And I was just panning into, like.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

When you lose the song, it's like. This is actually unsettling.

[Andy]

It has to be like. That is, like, made by, like, the CIA or something. It has to be, like, for sure, like, brainwashing.

[Lily]

The first greeting you see when you go through to the ending of Greetings is Shalom.

[Andy]

What are you saying about that?

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Nothing.

[Josh]

No, nothing at all.

[Andy]

No.

[Lily]

Anyway. But, Josh, I mean, I told you. You got 11 out of 10. You did so good. So proud of you, dad.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Speaking of not getting 11 out of 10, did you know that it's question.

[Josh]

Quarter question, corner question with Lily when the questions are fresh on her mind.

[Lily]

Okay, would you rather have access to a secret government document that answers one question every year?

[Josh]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Lily]

Or a mysterious insider who texts you constantly? You have unlimited access to them, but is only right about 60% of the time?

[Josh]

Dang, 60 is pretty high.

[Lily]

It's high.

[Josh]

That's higher than Alex Jones.

[Andy]

You.

[Andrew]

So just for clarity, because I hate when people blow up My phone. They. When you say text all the time, they respond.

[Lily]

All the time, they respond. You have unlimited access to them. You can ask them any question, unlimited.

[Josh]

Volume of messages anytime, any day.

[Andrew]

And it's probable that they're telling the truth, but not certain.

[Lily]

60 of the time, it's accurate information.

[Andrew]

I think I can ask enough questions around the question to arrive at a problem. Truth.

[Andy]

Yeah, I think I'm going with that one.

[Lily]

Really?

[Josh]

I mean, I think I'm at like, a 20%. The rest of the time, I'm just very confident what I'm saying and just take it. A stab in the dark.

[Andy]

60%.

[Josh]

That is hard because he's not lying to you. He's just incorrect in what he believes. Yeah, got it. I would do probably the question once a year.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

I mean, like, guys, that's really the good one, because you get an actual answer. Question answered.

[Andy]

It will be answered for sure.

[Lily]

It is.

[Andy]

Yeah, because it won't be like, per year. Like, what about aliens? And they're like, we don't know.

[Josh]

Yeah, we know.

[Andy]

Okay, then that one.

[Josh]

Yeah, because. But you'd have to really think about your question, because then I would be a dummy and be like, aliens real? And they'd be like, yes. And I'm like, wait, follow up question. They're like, see, in a year, like.

[Lily]

If aliens are real, do they want to be in contact with us? Or something like that? That would be a good question. But you're saying you're thinking. You're over here thinking, I could use this other guy for podcast content. Yeah, but if you ask one question, you can make a whole year's worth of podcasts out of one correct question.

[Josh]

Are we even 60% accurate?

[Andrew]

No.

[Josh]

It might be in it.

[Andy]

I would say, like, 15.

[Lily]

15 was the number I had in my head, too.

[Andy]

Yeah, that's a good question.

[Josh]

That's funny.

[Andy]

It's been a good questions, Andrew. Whose would that be? Oh. Ooh.

[Josh]

Hit us with that P. Yo, Andrew's got a real. Yes.

[Andy]

20, 26.

[Josh]

Finally here, y'.

[Andrew]

All.

[Andy]

Andrew's got a reel, and he's gonna.

[Josh]

Show us right now.

[Andy]

Right now.

[Josh]

Boom.

[Andrew]

All right, let's. I got a couple for us.

[Josh]

Ooh, a special New Year's treat.

[Andrew]

Starting out with the cake with the language. These are always good when you can't understand the language on the screen. You know, it's going to be a banger. I don't remember, but just go ahead and do it, and I'll cut it if I need to.

[Lily]

There's gonna Be like a dowel in there or something.

[Andy]

Can't do that.

[Josh]

Oh, no. Ah. Ow. No. Oh, geez. Why do people do this still? Where'd it hit is gum?

[Andrew]

I don't know.

[Andy]

It looks like it's.

[Andrew]

I think it's like the roof of his mouth.

[Andy]

No, dude, it's sticking right here.

[Andrew]

Oh, is that what it is between the eyes?

[Andy]

Oh, yeah. That's awful.

[Lily]

What was it, like a dowel or like a toothpick?

[Andrew]

Yeah, something holding the cake together.

[Andy]

That happens all the time.

[Andrew]

Also, cake makers, stop putting stuff like that in your cakes. Like, use something small, like maybe a little plastic disc to hold them together. You know what I mean?

[Lily]

Or like, not sharp.

[Josh]

Yeah, and I bet someone probably tried to tell them before. Hey, by the way, there's probably like. There's like, big toothpicks inside there. So be just careful whenever you eat them, and then they don't listen.

[Andrew]

All right, next one. Next one's great. Two one takes dumpster diving to a whole new level.

[Lily]

Oh, no.

[Josh]

Am I going to throw up? Oh, my gosh.

[Lily]

Oh.

[Josh]

Oh, man.

[Andy]

That's awful. That's awful.

[Andrew]

I smell every fast food trash can that I've ever, like, had to throw stuff in when I saw that clip.

[Lily]

What the freak.

[Josh]

I literally.

[Andrew]

It could have been, you know, like, that's some soup. That's something that for sure could have been staged, you know what I mean? Like, fill a trash bag with stuff. But, you know, just to make you feel better, I'm saying that.

[Lily]

But that looks like garbage. Garbage.

[Andy]

That's awful.

[Andrew]

That was the trash can next to the ice cream machine at McDonald's for sure.

[Josh]

Oh, my gosh.

[Andy]

You guys want to see something terrifying? Oh, yeah.

[Josh]

I'm becoming so strong in my brain with these videos.

[Andy]

These are reindeer shedding velvet off their antlers.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah. It's bloody, isn't it?

[Andy]

It's terrifying. Look at this. Yep, it's truly terrifying.

[Lily]

That's a horror show. Why do they do that?

[Josh]

This needs to be used in a horror movie, so. Oh, my gosh. Is that. That's not painful, right? It's probably like a scratch and an itch. I mean, I don't know. He's telling Mickey Mouse right there. Oh, I don't know.

[Lily]

Oh, boy.

[Andrew]

It's so.

[Josh]

That's gnarly bloody. Yeah, bro.

[Lily]

That's one of the comments. Is like. That's so metal. Oh, my God.

[Andrew]

Yeah, that's rough.

[Andy]

All right. This is something else terrifying. This is the warfare of the modern day, man. Okay, there's this town in Ukraine. Have you seen this?

[Josh]

The wires?

[Andy]

Yes.

[Andrew]

Real quick, volume.

[Josh]

Yeah. So I think I hit. Forgot to hit mute. I'm sorry, I just.

[Andrew]

I'm hearing it now. Just.

[Josh]

Yeah, the remote hit mute.

[Andy]

Okay. So I don't know if you've seen this. Yeah, you probably definitely have. What is being used in modern day warfare is drones. Yeah, like literally like DGI drones. Not saying it's their drones. I don't want to be.

[Andrew]

That's not a real person. Anyway, so we're fine.

[Andy]

But they're like throwing bombs on it, you know, like all that stuff.

[Lily]

Terrible.

[Andy]

But what they do, because then they're like, okay, well, how we stop these drones, it's like they have these jammers, right? Literally shoots out like a pulse signal and it jams these drones. But they figured out how to get around it where they attach little fiber optic cables to these drones. So it's basically hardwired in. And so they fly these drones up.

[Josh]

To like 50 miles of fiber. Fiber optic cable.

[Andrew]

50 miles.

[Andy]

Yes, because it's drone.

[Lily]

And so look, it's slicing people's heads off in it.

[Josh]

No, look at this.

[Andy]

Look at that. This is a town in Ukraine. Because after they're done, they just. They drop the cable. And so this town in Ukraine is literally covered with fiber optic cables from drones.

[Josh]

It looks like Spider man just had a heyday.

[Andy]

Yeah, that.

[Josh]

Is that not, like catastrophic?

[Lily]

It's terrible.

[Andy]

Is that not the eeriest thing too? Those are drones, like, out to like.

[Josh]

Oh, that was a drone. It goes right through the door. So scary.

[Andy]

That is gracious.

[Lily]

Devastating.

[Josh]

Yeah. I mean, it's just super, super nuts. I mean, that. I mean, one they're probably gonna have in a couple years. They're probably gonna have the fat. That town's gonna have the fastest Internet in the world. Recycle this. But it's just nuts, man.

[Andrew]

That's a problem. Yeah. Would it be.

[Andy]

Would it be rude to ask them to stop?

[Josh]

No, I'll ask. I mean, because we have the on air sign gonna be done and what.

[Lily]

Yeah, the only solution they have to these guns that shoot an electric pulse is a really long string.

[Andy]

Yeah. Fiber optic. It's literally a hardwire to where these drones will not get jammed by the thing. You know what I'm saying?

[Lily]

No, I don't know how that stuff works.

[Andy]

So there's an electric computer flying, and you shoot an electric signal at it and it fries the computer inside. But if it's hardwired in, like the literal long wire from like, from the driver, the mothership, the pilot. Yeah.

[Lily]

I see.

[Josh]

So loud in these pants.

[Andy]

I think the pants are cool.

[Andrew]

I like them.

[Lily]

I think they're cool.

[Andrew]

Dude. A. A five kilometer fiber tether drone spool is 500 bucks. That's for three miles.

[Lily]

They just made that town rich.

[Andrew]

You think about like how expensive that actually is?

[Josh]

So, honestly, Ukraine should be thanking Russia.

[Andy]

I think so.

[Lily]

All they need is a big hairbrush and they can collect all of them.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Just looks like Spider man blew up.

[Andy]

I know. The uk, yes.

[Lily]

What's happening there?

[Andy]

The Westminster government is moving forward with the banning of trail hunting.

[Lily]

What's that?

[Andy]

The classic trail hunting where they had the dog and they're all on horses.

[Josh]

They're banning it.

[Andy]

Yeah. Where they go after a fox.

[Josh]

Okay, what. Why are they banning that? Seems like a pretty simple.

[Andy]

It's part of their culture, man. And they're just like, we don't want.

[Andrew]

You to do that.

[Josh]

You cannot continue bravely.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

How, like, how would King Charles say yes to that? That's his whole childhood.

[Andy]

That's what I'm saying. That's. That's what's the epidemic that's happening in Europe is their culture is just being erased, literally.

[Josh]

For what, like what purpose?

[Lily]

Well, I mean, they're flooded with immigration.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

It's just like. Yeah. Their whole deal is like all these protests and stuff is that all these immigrants are coming in, literally changing the cultures. Laws are getting changed in favor for them, but against the people that have lived there for so long. And so this, they're saying this is one of those things where it's like this very old hunting. Yeah. It's like being taken away.

[Andrew]

My follow up question would be how many of you are doing it?

[Andy]

Yeah, I know, like what, like maybe 200. Out of the whole country.

[Andrew]

Yeah. And of that many, how many of you are actually training the dog that does the hunting? Or are you just like hanging out with the bros?

[Lily]

How are they allowing that to happen? Is it because there. Is there a population issue with what, whatever, foxes?

[Andy]

I don't, I don't know.

[Andrew]

I don't know anything about over there. I know hunting in Europe in general is like miserably difficult to get into. My brother, I was talking to him, he's in Germany, he's actually like working on his citizenship to get over there. But he was saying like, to even like, it's like so reserved for just the wealthiest people, like the amount of like permits and licensing.

[Andy]

Because you can't have a gun over there.

[Andrew]

Yeah. But even like Just hunting in general, I think. Like, primitive weapons, like with a bow. I think it's still impossible because I was talking. He. He's a freaking awesome cook, and we were talking recipes back and forth. He's like, you can't even, like, find. Like, if he wanted to cook venison, it'd just be impossible to get. Or, like, incredibly expensive, which I think is a shame.

[Lily]

I do, too.

[Andy]

This is a dark turn. Okay, so the sad news of Rob Reiner.

[Josh]

Terrible.

[Lily]

Terrible.

[Andy]

With his wife. There's a son that did it.

[Lily]

We don't know.

[Andy]

No, we do.

[Andrew]

I think it's pretty.

[Andy]

Or. Yeah. We don't technically know.

[Lily]

Due process of law, everybody.

[Andy]

Yeah. But I did see this clip. Someone pulled up. It was like, a couple of weeks, maybe a month or so before he came out, and he said he was making. Currently making a documentary about the relationship between Trump and Putin. Oh, and Nick was. Rob.

[Josh]

Oh, Rob Reiner was.

[Andy]

Yeah, Rob Reiner. He said, I'm making a documentary about the friendship between Trump and Vladimir Putin.

[Josh]

Yeah. Because he was anti Trump. Right? It was. Yeah. Okay.

[Andy]

Yeah. And I just found. Found that very. That's pretty interesting.

[Josh]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Andy]

Yeah. This is a crazy.

[Josh]

Rob Reiner's huge.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

He's done so many big movies. He's been a part.

[Andy]

I didn't realize. He did Princess Bride.

[Andrew]

I know.

[Josh]

Bride, Hair, When Harry Met Sally, Spinal Tap. I mean.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

It just came out with the movie this year, the Spinal Tap sequel thing.

[Andrew]

New Girl.

[Josh]

Just Today's dad. Yeah.

[Lily]

Yeah. That's what. That's how Josh presented it to me, by the way.

[Josh]

Just kidding.

[Lily]

Jesse's dad.

[Josh]

Oh, man.

[Lily]

That's what he said.

[Andy]

It's so sad.

[Josh]

It's so sad because you see the. All the stuff that happened, like, the. The night prior to it.

[Andy]

Yeah. The fight at Conan o' Brien's Christmas party. Yeah.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And apparently there was, like, a thing that Bill Hader triggered. Nick. There was a conversation Bill Hader was having with some friends, and then Nick came over and was starting, like, to ask, like, some weird questions. And then Bill's like, hey, if you don't mind, I'm in the middle of a private conversation. And then he just kind of lost it and started making a scene, apparently, asking people like, who are you?

[Andy]

Not Bill Hader.

[Josh]

Not Bill Hader. No, at. And going around, who. Who are you? What. What's your name? Are your parents famous? Are you famous? And just started a huge thing, and then they try to call the police, and then, you know, was Talking at the party. At the party.

[Andy]

Oh, no.

[Josh]

Yeah. So it was just. It's so sad, man. Stuff like that like this just comes out of nowhere.

[Andy]

What did you hear about. So the shooting at Brown University?

[Andrew]

I don't know anything about it.

[Andy]

No, I don't know a whole lot about it. But what I do know is that they didn't catch the shooter.

[Josh]

Oh no.

[Andy]

But then. So where's. Where's Brown University?

[Lily]

Oh gosh. Like Maryland.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Let me look it up.

[Andy]

But there's, I think a week later there's a professor from mit, I believe. Mit? Yeah, in Boston and he was murdered. And it was the same guy.

[Lily]

Dang.

[Josh]

Goodness gracious.

[Andy]

He had like this vendetta.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andrew]

With.

[Andy]

And so that they. I think he's deceased now, the shooter or whatever. But I thought that was crazy.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Like he. He found where the guy lived, went into his home and.

[Lily]

Dude, what was his motive? Like what's his message?

[Andy]

Well, apparently he went to.

[Andrew]

I don't.

[Andy]

No one knows exactly, but it had to do. This guy went to mit, I believe the shooter or in my. Whatever college this other professor was at and they're studying nuclear energy and so it's like he was targeting these people within nuclear energy.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Andy]

Weird. Isn't that weird?

[Lily]

Why?

[Andy]

I don't know. I didn't do a lot of research into it, but I thought that connection was super strange.

[Lily]

Yeah, I had a hard time on social media the past couple of weeks.

[Andrew]

Dude, I got something. Happy. If you need me to turn this.

[Andy]

Podcast up, I'll go straight back into bad stuff.

[Andrew]

Perfect. This is the story of Bella Twin, a 63 year old Cree woman who killed the Boone and Crockett record grizzly.

[Andy]

There's a lot of words you said.

[Andrew]

With a.22 caliber rifle.

[Lily]

What's Cree?

[Josh]

Heck of a shot.

[Lily]

Is it?

[Andrew]

She's a Native American. Simpler version. This is the story of a Native American woman who killed a really big bear with a really little gun.

[Lily]

Nice. I like that story.

[Andrew]

Okay, so she is. She's a trapper. And trappers are the greatest woods people. I heard someone explain like the difference between a hunter and a trapper is a hunter has to be within like 100 yards of the animal they're after. A trapper needs to know the exact three inches where they're going to step. So when you think about like how elevated they are. Anyways, they lived in Canada. We'll just say Canada. Alberta, Slave Lake. So they live there. They were doing this oil exploration and so they had like clear cut an area and you know, animals are displaced. It was like an. A good opportunity to get out there and do some rabbit hunting. So she literally. There's a photo of this gun. It's a.22 caliber. Literally, this is the gun. This isn't hers. I'll put a photo up in the. When I edit the podcast. But hers is wrapped in tape because it's literally just this old like single shot bolt action gun. And she's hunting rabbits down the way. Literally as they're going, they realize a grizzly has stepped out and her and her husband like tuck into the woods and they're like, this is bad. Continues to come. Realize the bears caught their scent and is now like it's gone from what it was doing to now it's investigating them. And it's like, you get. There's that moment where it's like, what am I gonna do? Am I like, I'm under gun? But I think my option is like, take action or, you know, it's gonna go south. Aims at the weakest spot. Remember this is a person who traps, tans, like knows the anatomy of the bear and puts a shot right on the weakest spot on the skull, drops it in its tracks, and then as she walks up, she unloads six more into the exact spot with a.22.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Andrew]

Kills a thousand pound.

[Andy]

Thousand pound.

[Andrew]

It set the Boone and Crockett record for the 50s. So I have photos of the skull. Yeah, right here.

[Josh]

A thousand pounds.

[Andrew]

Here, I'll show you. I'll show you the photo of the. That's the. That's the hide. That's her.

[Josh]

Oh my smokes. Gosh, bro.

[Lily]

Wow.

[Andrew]

And then this is. Talk about a crack shot. Not 30 yards. That's the skull.

[Andy]

Wow. That's insane.

[Andrew]

Is that not insane? 63 years old.

[Lily]

Amazing.

[Josh]

That's amazing.

[Andy]

That's pretty cool.

[Josh]

That's terrifying though.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

A thousand pound bear walking through the woods.

[Andrew]

That's her.

[Andy]

Wow, dude.

[Lily]

Imagine having that skill. That's amazing.

[Andy]

With a.22. That's insane.

[Andrew]

Yeah, apparently it wasn't even. It wasn't the. It's not the long rifle. There's like another.22. I'm not familiar with them, but apparently it was like just small game. But she like literally was like, either I take the shot or I do nothing. And people tried to like discredit it. They like tried to say her husband did it and all this stuff. But as the stories come out, I think they left the skull out there. And then someone who had the record was like, not A chance didn't happen with that gun. And they went out and recovered and pulled out the skull, and they were like. Well, that actually has the holes in it. Exactly how y' all told the story. Wow.

[Lily]

So amazing.

[Josh]

I bet you lied, though.

[Andy]

Yeah, it seems like some shoes.

[Josh]

I trust women like that. Yeah.

[Andy]

What, Native Americans?

[Josh]

No.

[Andy]

Well, no. I mean, you guys heard here first.

[Josh]

Start spinning it on me now. That'd be fun. Every year we just go to a different person.

[Lily]

I'm begging you.

[Andrew]

So, Andy, Josh, and then we.

[Andy]

Seriously, guys, on this podcast, we do not talk poorly about other people of different kinds of.

[Josh]

You know, of different kind.

[Andy]

Stop, stop, stop. Hey, no, I'm being serious. Different cultures.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Ethnicity.

[Andrew]

We.

[Andy]

We love everyone, of course, except the French. Let me tell you about them. Just getting. The French are all right. I think I'm part French, actually. I know I am, which is very sad.

[Josh]

Which part?

[Andy]

You don't want to know.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Andy]

All right.

[Andrew]

That inflection. Don't want to know.

[Andy]

Do you guys see the protests that are happening, Happening in France?

[Josh]

No, I did not.

[Andrew]

Crazy.

[Andy]

It's basically like, were they mad about now? Rightfully mad.

[Josh]

Dude, I doubt it.

[Andy]

No, they are. So where's the video?

[Lily]

It's my crone up to his Macroni stuff.

[Andy]

McCrone's actually not doing too bad in this, though.

[Lily]

He's. What is it about? It's not about the Notre Dame.

[Andy]

No, this is about. Of course I wouldn't have service right now. It's about. There is something happening in the EU right now called the.

[Andrew]

Sorry.

[Andy]

It's called the MERCOSUR trade deal.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Andy]

And what that is, it's basically. It's supposed to. Let me just read it. The McCrosur deal is a long planned EU free trade agreement with the South America McCrosr block, mainly Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia. It has been under negotiation for many years and would create one of the world's largest trading zones covering 780 million people. The core idea, reduce and eventually eliminate tariffs on many goods traded between the EU and the mercury countries, all those South American countries. So that sounds.

[Josh]

Sounds good.

[Andy]

Except it's not.

[Josh]

Why?

[Lily]

Why?

[Andy]

Because it would primarily be about agriculture.

[Lily]

Oh, exploiting these people.

[Andy]

No, what they're going to do is it takes away all regulations that Europe has strongly held to with pesticides, with all these things that go into foods, like American food. Yeah, but the Europe has, like, been like, no, we do not put. We've made so many laws regarding this food stuff.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andy]

And what they're doing is, like, well, now let's do it. And so what it's doing is, like, all the farmers of Europe will, like, basically lose their jobs, lose their livelihood, and it's introducing all this stuff that they've banned from their countries. But so far, only two countries have voted yes on it in Europe, and the rest, including Macron, has said no.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

And. But, like, all these protests are happening, and, like, all these farmers are literally, like, dumping manure, like, in the town center.

[Andrew]

I was wondering if that was tied to. Yeah.

[Josh]

What you will about the French. They know how to protest.

[Andy]

Do they really do. They've been practicing it for quite some time.

[Josh]

When it comes to protests.

[Andrew]

Yeah, we, we. Well, I mean, that doesn't mean it sucks. I mean, I think tea in the harbor is pretty epic.

[Andy]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh]

But I mean, that's been years, right? I mean, like, that's like we had one, like, the no kings thing. Whatever. Whatever. How you feel about that? That was ran by a Walmart.

[Andy]

They're just like, like, what are we doing? Literally dumping manure.

[Josh]

That's hilarious.

[Andy]

Someone, like, they, like, brought a whole tractor of potatoes and just dumped in the middle of the road. And, like, people couldn't drive over a pile of potatoes. It's like, this is so fun.

[Lily]

I just explained that, Andy, because it is true. It's like, if you're going to protest, know what you're protesting and know who you're standing with.

[Josh]

Yeah. And also who organizes it.

[Lily]

Exactly.

[Josh]

Is it the people or is it literal billionaires? You know, like, it's just. And I think it is, because we are so divided.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Josh]

I think obviously you have smaller countries like France, you have a lot of people with the same kind of mindset and a lot of people who want to have the best for their country. We're so big and so spread out, so divided. It's. You can't get people all behind one idea because, I mean, if that happened, we wouldn't do anything. And it's already happening, so we don't do jack about it.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Andy]

And this is where France government goes, because along with that. So there's multiple layers to why these farmers are protesting. And one of them is there is this cow disease going around France and other European countries right now, but it's a. It's like a less than 5% fatality for these cows, and it doesn't spread to humans.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Andy]

It's literally called lumpy skin disease.

[Lily]

Oh, goodness.

[Josh]

Better name Lumpy.

[Andy]

Lumpy skin disease.

[Lily]

The cows get lumpy or we get lumpy.

[Andy]

The Cows do. It cannot be transmitted to humans.

[Lily]

Cool.

[Josh]

Maybe have lumpy skin.

[Andy]

But what France is doing is France and other European countries, if one cow has this disease, they'll come in and kill all your cows.

[Lily]

Oh, okay.

[Andy]

To prevent the spreading of this lumpy.

[Josh]

Cow disease to the cows, not to humans. So what's the threat? Getting 5%. Yeah, 5% fatality rate. I mean they. Horses walk around and they could break their ankle and guess what I mean that you have to put them down. You kill all the horses because of that too?

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Does it affect their meat? I guess.

[Andy]

No, it doesn't.

[Lily]

What the heck?

[Andy]

It's literally, it's literally like a topical just they grow like warts basically.

[Josh]

So it's. They're just taking advantage of the situation.

[Andy]

Yes. And it's like it's. But part of it, it's like. So I'll preface this. My brother in law, Keegan told me all this stuff and I'm totally butchering it, but he's saying that blackrock is heavily involved in this agricultural agriculture.

[Andrew]

Geez.

[Andy]

Op.

[Josh]

You got it.

[Andy]

Agriculture. Yeah, I said that, right?

[Josh]

Yeah, yeah. What happened?

[Andy]

Agricultural deal. All right. And the cow stuff. So like BlackRock, they're buying these companies. So they basically want to be the providers of food for Europe.

[Lily]

Dude, for real. Like I know that own all the.

[Andy]

Farmland because it already happened here.

[Lily]

They're already done with us because it's happened.

[Andy]

Yeah. The French, they're literally trying to bankrupt all these farmers so they can go in, swoop in and steal all their land. Not steal it, buy it. But it's stealing. Yeah.

[Josh]

I mean if you, if you, if you do that all behind the scenes, you're not buying it. You're not going down shaking their hand, writing a deal. You're forcing their hand.

[Andy]

Yeah. Remember we talked about this was a couple of months ago, Denmark, they introduced that new medication to cows to where it prevents them from farting. Oh, do you remember that?

[Josh]

Yeah, I think so.

[Andy]

I think it was a stop the greenhouse gases from.

[Lily]

Yeah. And it's something change. And the, and the farts from cows contribute like nil.

[Andy]

Yeah. But guess what? It's killing all the cows.

[Lily]

Yeah, I bet. And you know something? If you have a huge problem with what's happening to our planet, why don't you stop putting all these cables all over stinking.

[Andy]

Well that's Russia. Russia, they're immune from this stuff.

[Lily]

Yeah, true. I.

[Josh]

Okay. Russia did one thing wrong. All right. Give them a break. Yeah.

[Lily]

With like shopping. My sister in law, Madison opened This up to my mind because I'm always like, I don't have to worry about it because I buy all my produce and my meat organic. I always buy it organic. And I'm like, that's fine. She's like, did you know that if you're buying organic blueberries from Publix right now, they come from Brazil in this season, and they use pesticides on their organic fruits.

[Josh]

Organic. Cage free. That don't mean Jack.

[Lily]

It's. It doesn't mean. And I'm like, now she's opened me up to this thinking. And I'm like, nothing safe.

[Josh]

No. Unless you're growing it yourself.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And sourcing it, like your meat from a meat market or a farmer or something. Butcher. We're all being poisoned. Slowly, though, kids. Good luck.

[Lily]

Yeah, it's really freaky.

[Josh]

It's terrifying to think about because it's like, yeah. I mean, luckily there's just, you know, there's a better half of this life after this one. But, golly, that's the only plus side, dude.

[Andrew]

I think. I really think that they're going to start using language that's, like, inflammatory to get. To get a rise out of people. So I killed that pig the other day, and I was thinking about eating it, and then they can have trichinosis. And so I was like, with Paige being pregnant and everything else, I was like, I'm not going to dabble in that. And I was talking about it to some of the guys out in production, and one of the dudes, he's like, you know that pork in, like, the 90s still had that? That's why they said cook to 170. He was like, literally, they weren't testing for it in grocery store meat. I haven't. I haven't, like, looked that up to see if that's true yet. But he was saying, like, it was always a thing that was a concern with pork. That's just why you cook it. But now they're like, you're getting all of these, like, CDC articles talking about, like, the dangers of having it in your meat or with deer. There's chronic wasting disease. And the thing I talked about in Maine where they're like, we don't know what's going on with what's in the deer. Me. It's like, weird that out of nowhere, all of these, like, you know, sources for food, there's inflammatory, scary language about, like, hey, maybe you shouldn't live off the land.

[Andy]

Do you think, let's go down this conspiracy trail for a minute. Do you think it's an accident by meaning they started introducing stuff into the wildlife and it just, like, went rampant. Kind of like Lyme disease. Right. Or is it just very well planned out for maybe population control or pharmacy industry? Because then if everyone's sick, then they have to get help, right, from the pharmacy and medication?

[Lily]

I don't know.

[Andy]

What do you think it is?

[Andrew]

So you're. You're asking if the people who have the most money and have assist have. Have a history of systemically using their influence to create more money. You're asking if they would continue to do what they've always done?

[Andy]

Yeah. That's crazy. That wouldn't happen.

[Josh]

No. Think of another reason.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Lily]

I will say, on the. On the other side of that coin, you know, I've been thinking a lot about, like, how sick we are as a nation. Like, everybody's, like, super sick. And part of it, of course, is what we consume. And I realize a lot of people think vaccines and stuff like that, but part of it also is that we live in a food chain. And, you know, do you remember that haunting image of, like, people being at the top of the food chain, but just above it were viruses and bacteria and the healthier we become? And I mean, like, 100 years ago, 50 of the population would die by age 35 or something like that, or maybe 150 years ago in the 1800s. And it's like, these bacteria are getting smart, dude.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

More resilient.

[Lily]

More resilient, more resistant.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Andy]

I mean, this flu season, this norovirus, I saw this thing where, like, the UK, they said 55% of the population right now has the flu or norovirus.

[Josh]

That's nuts.

[Andy]

55% of the population.

[Josh]

It's a horrible virus to have.

[Lily]

It's insane. And, like, Dave Chappelle's joke is, like, back like, a hundred years ago, if you got diarrhea, you were writing your last will and testament, and it's like, now, if you have diarrhea, your buddy's like, eat a banana. Let's go to the club.

[Andy]

Man.

[Andrew]

I would. I would really like to see a study about, like, the environment, though. And I mean, like, just like, where people are. Like, you talk to most people in America, and it's a long commute. It's a long day at a desk, you know, gray walls, square buildings, and there just isn't a ton of, like, emotionally uplifting environments that people are operating in.

[Lily]

Yeah, dude.

[Andrew]

And, like, so I've lost quite a bit of weight just hunting, and I was Like I told Tangent, I was like, I think it's all this lean meat I'm eating instead of the other stuff. She's like, or the fact that you're hauling corn. And I was like, well, kind of all of the above. If you think about, like, incorporating just places and activities like that into your lifestyle, if, like, that became the norm, we'd become healthy. But we're so, like, wired to be just in these, like, cubicle then screen environments. And I think, like, diet aside, exercise aside, I think that that does something. Like Bible has verses about, like, you know, like, what is good medicine for your bones? And, like, talking about joy and like, the spirit. And so it's like, maybe we just need to get in some positive spaces and places and like, maybe part of a bigger problem and a better solution. But.

[Lily]

And even about food.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Lily]

Like, I've always thought too, like, if it is homemade using real ingredients, you could eat a piece of cake and it'd be infinitely different than a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese. Like, the fact that you make it with real flour.

[Josh]

Alton Brown, that chef? Yeah, yeah, he's my favorite. He, like, that's what I've lived by for a long time of just, like, being encouraged when I make homemade food. It's like, he's like, you can eat whatever you want as long as you just make it.

[Lily]

Make it.

[Josh]

Yeah, it's like, you want to eat Mac and cheese and fried chicken. Guess what? Do it, but just make it yourself at home. And so, yeah. You guys know squirrels eat meat?

[Andrew]

Dude, that is a thing.

[Josh]

I learned that this week. That blows my mind.

[Andrew]

Have you seen the photos?

[Josh]

I've seen videos of squirrels eating the heads off of lizards. Has this always been this way?

[Andrew]

I don't know, because they're eating.

[Josh]

They're eating lizards, frogs, mice.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Human food. Like meat. I saw one holding a chicken wings.

[Andrew]

Yeah. I saw a photo supplement.

[Josh]

If they, like, they can't find what they need, they'll eat meat.

[Andrew]

There's the theory though, that, like, the amount of, like, think about Florida, how many, like, subdivisions are completely gone. And the way that our policies work is, like, if you tear down all the oak trees, you can plant a dinky little magnolia in front of the subdivision and it counts as a replacement tree. Squirrel can't live in that. And so you have hundreds of squirrels that are now looking for food. We got lizards everywhere. And so they're. They're surviving.

[Josh]

That's the most terrifying thing. I saw a video of literally a squirrel eating a head off of A lizard. I'm like, I did not know they ate meat.

[Andy]

I guess they are just like a rodent.

[Josh]

Like a mouse. Right.

[Andy]

Or a rat. Yeah.

[Josh]

So tree red. For real. I just have one. We have one of those video camera bird feeders, and that squirrel just hops up in front of it and just stares into the camera and just chews on all the bird food.

[Lily]

Oh, my God.

[Josh]

That's it. It's menacing.

[Andrew]

You gonna take care of it?

[Josh]

No, I like squirrels.

[Andrew]

All right.

[Josh]

I have a little topper on my fence, and so I literally sprinkle the bird seed sometimes on top of the fence.

[Andy]

Nice.

[Josh]

Just so they could just run across.

[Andy]

That's fine.

[Josh]

Little friends.

[Andy]

No, it's not fun.

[Josh]

What?

[Andy]

The persecution of the Huguenots.

[Josh]

The Hugo what?

[Andy]

The Huguenots.

[Josh]

Huguenots. What is a Huguenot?

[Andy]

I learned this this week, this past week, which is. It's insane because it is a huge moment in history and especially church history.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Andy]

The Huguenots were basically the mid to late 1500s Protestant movement in France.

[Josh]

Once again.

[Andy]

Once again. But they were. So France at the time was basically ran by the Catholic Church. Like, it was so intertwined within the government. And these Huguenots were. They're growing and growing and growing this Protestant movement. And they were such a threat to the Catholic Church and the government because the Huguenots are like, well, we don't need a pope anymore. We don't need priests. We have scripture and our churches.

[Josh]

Sure.

[Andy]

And so basically it started becoming like, oh, we're not dependent on the government. And the Huguenots were actually master skills men. So they're super skilled in silk weaving, watchmaking, printing, and book distribution.

[Josh]

Cool.

[Andy]

So they're like the beginning of that in France. Weapons manufacturing, shipping, and international trade. So they started bringing international trade into France with other countries and early finance and insurance. So they started, like, some of the first banks, some of the first insurance agencies.

[Josh]

They're running everything. They're doing everything.

[Andy]

And so the Catholic Church is like, you guys are heretics. We're going to kill you. And they killed up to 1 million of these Huguenots in France. In France. And so what they did is they dispersed. They had to flee France.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

And. But what's so funny and ironic is everywhere they went to in Europe, those towns ended up thriving economically because of all the skills that they brought into these towns.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

So good came out of it.

[Andy]

A lot of good came out of it.

[Josh]

Golly. But that's horrible.

[Andy]

Yeah. But I'm like, how have I never heard about. And I got onto it because Lily sent me this video, which I could not find the connection to. Save my life.

[Lily]

Yeah.

[Andy]

But it was about the Brigitte Macron. And this one girl, she just like went down. She's like, I got receipts. And she's like, yeah, they're all talking about this event, but not about the Huguenots. I'm like, who's the Huguenots? And so I looked into it and I. It was a brief research thing that I did where I got that information, but I like to look into it more because it seems like there's something more deep and like there's a French.

[Lily]

Deep state or something.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Because the. The president of France in the 1980s, whoever that was, formally came out and apologized for France's pass of the persecution of the huguenots in the 1980s.

[Josh]

Felt a little guilty.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Had it been bad? That's crazy.

[Lily]

She started the video by saying, Candace and I arrived at the same conclusion about Brigitte, but I started in 900.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Lily]

And she started present day or whatever.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Lily]

But she. I at least never discovered how she connected what happened with the Huguenots, with regime. Like, why do you think that Huguenots.

[Josh]

Just sounds like Hungarian astronauts.

[Andy]

Yes, it is.

[Josh]

That's where my first thought.

[Andrew]

I know why they were hated. They were Calvinists. Yeah.

[Josh]

So they should have saw it coming.

[Andrew]

They're just okay with it happening.

[Josh]

Oh, got it.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Andy]

But, yeah, I thought, I want to do like a lot more research into the Huguenots. Pretty fascinating.

[Andrew]

Yeah. They were the French Protestants known for being followers of John Calvin.

[Josh]

I mean, were these people just being put to death, being shot? What is.

[Lily]

They're killing?

[Andy]

Yeah. I mean, like horrific stuff, like genocide started off as, like imprisonment, but then it was like burning at the stake. And then it was like, they probably.

[Josh]

Just became stronger, more bold in their faith and.

[Andy]

But then like massacre. But turned into like, cannibalistic stuff.

[Josh]

What?

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

How I jump from there.

[Andy]

It just like. Like this defilement to where they were like, literally babies and boil them and consume them. My dark, evil. Evil stuff.

[Lily]

Evil stuff.

[Josh]

That's horrible.

[Andy]

Yeah. And that's why I'm like, I would never heard about this.

[Josh]

No. Yeah. That's wild.

[Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Like, that seems like a million people in the 1600s.

[Andy]

15. Yeah, 15. 16.

[Josh]

So how big of a span was that? Like when that started and like when they kind of.

[Andy]

I mean, like 100 years. Over 100 years.

[Josh]

Dude. There's got to be a documentary or something on this.

[Andy]

I Know, like, even when I go on YouTube, it's like, there's barely anything.

[Josh]

I wonder if people in France, if you're watching, please let us know if you've ever heard about this. Because, I mean, I can't imagine they teach about. I don't know. It'd be interesting whether they don't even. They don't even talk about it.

[Andy]

I know. That's kind of like sweeping under the rug.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That just goes to show there's probably so many different places that have such dark history and dark past that we have no idea about.

[Andy]

Yeah. Not America, though.

[Josh]

Well, that's what I'm saying. Beyond that. That's what I'm saying. Like, it'd be cool because we don't have anything I want to learn about other people.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

We living with Germany. I can't remember. There was something. I can't. I can't place it.

[Andy]

I can't think of it.

[Lily]

What about China? Are you thinking about China?

[Josh]

It's China. Yeah, it's China.

[Andy]

It's China. Yeah. I also saw this. Really?

[Andrew]

I just.

[Andy]

Apparently, I've just been on France this whole podcast.

[Josh]

Yeah, apparently. Dude, I don't. I. I don't freaking like it, dude. What did you do with my friend?

[Lily]

Ouch. Where are our hats, by the way?

[Andy]

Oh, the berets.

[Lily]

Our berets.

[Andy]

They're in my truck.

[Lily]

Dang it. He did bring berets. I didn't toot. That was the seat. I'm just telling you, right?

[Josh]

Oh, my God. That's what people do.

[Lily]

I did not toot. I probably would smell you.

[Josh]

I would literally smell it.

[Lily]

I literally would tell you. I didn't stop.

[Josh]

I could tell you ate French food stinks.

[Lily]

I did, though. We had a French Christmas party. Gross.

[Josh]

Is that what you said? That's nice, dude.

[Lily]

His sister made sour. No croissant.

[Josh]

That sounds amazing.

[Lily]

They were beautiful. But they. She did burn them.

[Andrew]

When did no knock to her baking? But when did bread have to be, like, when did it become a thing where all bread had to be sour? Like, what happened to just regular?

[Andy]

Well, sourdough. It's just like a natural fermentation. I don't know.

[Andrew]

It's great. I'm not hating on it, but I remember, like, I don't hear of people, like, baking other breads.

[Lily]

Jamie does. Jamie Tanner bakes all kinds of breads.

[Josh]

I think sourdoughs. You just. There's takes. It takes more time, and it's more of an art. Art. I don't know if it's labor, skill. But so, yeah, it takes, like, commitment. So whenever there's sourdough in front of it, you know that, like, okay, this is. I got someone who actually cared really hard about. Instead of. You can't just put, like, sourdough just in a bread machine and just go with it.

[Andrew]

Gotcha.

[Josh]

You got to really nurture.

[Andrew]

And I know the sourdough community is like a cult, so before you come after me, it's good. Just curious.

[Andy]

Yeah. I saw this terrible video about France after World War II. It was so sad what they did after World War II in France. Is any woman that I know you're talking about talk to a German soldier helped in any way? They rounded them up publicly and shaved their head and had them do, like, a walk of shame.

[Josh]

What? So any French woman that would help or talk to a German soldier.

[Lily]

Furthermore, if there were any children sired by choice or not by choice, these women were shamed.

[Josh]

Goodness gracious.

[Lily]

It was terrible.

[Andy]

Terrible.

[Josh]

That's why.

[Andy]

That's all I have.

[Josh]

Is that where the walk of shame comes from?

[Andy]

Possibly.

[Josh]

Geez, man.

[Andy]

It's terrible. But you're watching, like, this is so sad, like, because they literally just lived through just the worst time in history.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Their country was taken over. They were just beaten up by these German soldiers, Nazi soldiers. And then after they left, it's like, oh, we're gonna shave your head and make you do a walk of shame.

[Josh]

Awful.

[Andy]

Terrible.

[Josh]

I mean, we get. We are so lucky that we don't have to put up with that kind of stuff. I mean, what a time. Like, I mean, time and place. Because I know that stuff still happens, but it's like, I can't imagine I'm not strong enough for that.

[Lily]

No.

[Josh]

I already have a shaved head, and I feel shamed about it. I can't. Don't add, like, public mockery to it. That would destroy me.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That's crazy, man.

[Andy]

Someone end on something happy.

[Lily]

Oh, goodness.

[Josh]

I. Do you see those one? Congratulations to our first Jewish president.

[Andy]

Oh, my God. I was going to say that for Patreon, but yeah.

[Josh]

Well, on Patreon, I want to go over that. And then we can talk about the plaques that Trump put up in the White House. Presidential.

[Andy]

So funny.

[Josh]

I got some tidbits from them. They're so insanely ridiculous.

[Andy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh]

There's something permanent, too.

[Andy]

I got something about the White House as well.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Andy]

On Patreon. So if you guys go to patreon.com forward/ninjas or butterflies, or become a YouTube member where we do an Episode after the episode that comes out every Friday.

[Josh]

Hey, you want some more? You want some more of this?

[Andy]

Some more.

[Andrew]

Go.

[Josh]

Well, do not you know what to do?

[Andy]

Yes. And make sure to go send a cool swag. Get you some ninja merch.

[Josh]

The Clanker T was sold out. And it's back up for grabs now, baby.

[Andy]

We got some new stuff coming out this year. Some real bangers.

[Josh]

Yes, yes. And we're gonna be uploading a lot more on Patreon. And we're gonna be doing a travel vlog soon in March, so showing us all the way to go to Oceanside, California. Yeah, it's gonna be a blast. So thank you all so much for watching comment the movies that Lily needs to watch.

[Lily]

Yes.

[Josh]

And Happy New Year.

[Andy]

Yes. And give us five stars. And subscribe wherever you're watching or listening. And Happy New Year. And we love you.

[Josh]

We love you.

[Andy]

It's been a great year. It's about to be an even better year.

[Josh]

Heck yeah. Here's the 2026, y'.

[Lily]

All.

[Andrew]

Bye.

[Andy]

Bye.

[Josh]

Oh, hold on. While we're doing thumbnails, we have a gift I want to show you guys. This is from Zoe. This is from Zoe. D U I K E R duiker. She's 15 years old, lives in Alberta, Canada. She loves watching the show and she loves to make crafts and crochet. So she made a crochet version of all of us.

[Andy]

No way, Josh.

[Josh]

There you go. Is that not fantastic?

[Lily]

Oh, my God.

[Josh]

Lily coming at you.

[Andrew]

Oh, God. Forever.

[Andy]

This is awesome.

[Josh]

Oops, sorry.

[Andy]

I look like Willie Nelson.

[Josh]

You do look like Willie Nelson.

[Lily]

I am so cute.

[Andy]

This is great.

[Josh]

Look at that guy.

[Lily]

What am I holding?

[Josh]

Isn't that awesome?

[Andy]

Real human hair too.

[Josh]

Zoe, you absolutely killed it.

[Andrew]

That's awesome.

[Andy]

That is so cool.

[Lily]

These are so cute.

[Andrew]

Zoe.

[Josh]

Zoe.

[Andy]

Thank you, Zoe.

[Josh]

You're the best. Zoe. Thank you so much.

[Lily]

She kind of matches me today.

[Josh]

Also purple for a gift for little Noah. She made you a corgi.

[Andrew]

No way.

[Andy]

Nice.

[Lily]

Oh, come on. That's so cute.

[Andrew]

That's awesome.

[Josh]

How awesome.

[Andrew]

Thank you. That's awesome. That really is.

[Josh]

Zoe, you're the best.

[Andy]

Thank you. Zoe, you dolphin.

[Josh]

What you're about to see wow may.

[Andrew]

Disturb you Ominous if any you of of you know what these multi decade UAP dolphins are Aliens have a heart.

[Andy]

Attack when he see bottle nose fish.

[Josh]

Pigs was a massive police response. Oh, the dolphin thing.

[Andrew]

Oh my God. Dolphin style attack. Hi, it's will cooley from the new york rangers. Bring in the new year with me in miami. The NHL winter classic is coming to the sunshine state. Watch as we take on the florida panthers in the 2026 discover NHL winter classic in miami. Catch all the action on january 2nd at 8pm eastern on tnt and hbo max. That's january 2nd at at 8pm on tnt and hbo max. For tickets and more info, visit NHL.com winterclassic.