Answering Your TOUGHEST Political Questions - Tom Bilyeu Show Live Q&A

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Episode: Answering Your TOUGHEST Political Questions - Tom Bilyeu Show Live Q&A
Date: November 9, 2025
Host: Tom Bilyeu

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Episode Overview

In this live Q&A episode, Tom Bilyeu (joined by co-host Drew) fearlessly tackles the most pressing and controversial political questions posed by his community. The discussion dives deep into the complexities of modern capitalism, class mobility, government regulation, globalism, education, political polarization, and more. With a focus on rigorous logic and practical solutions, Tom breaks down why the American middle class is shrinking, how globalism affects wages, the realities of welfare and corporate responsibility, and the pros and cons of policies like tariffs, redistricting, and unionization. The episode is dynamic and unscripted, marked by lively exchanges, memorable analogies, and real-time audience interaction.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Ethical Capitalism, Class Mobility, and Economic Woes

[01:00 – 03:39]

• The Problem: Tom critiques how America’s class mobility has declined since the 1980s, despite the Reagan era’s deregulatory, growth-driven policies.
• Blaming Modern Monetary Theory: Tom traces the roots of today’s wealth inequality to excessive money printing, deficit spending, and “buying into modern monetary theory.”
• Wealth Inequality Backlash: He passionately warns that unsustainable inequality breeds unrest:

  “You can't have wealth inequality at the levels that we have it. You can't do it… People will not look around and see my life is getting more expensive by the day...and I can't figure out how to get out of this fucking trap. So it feels permanent. … I am going to shoot you, stab you, guillotine you, whatever. And dude, it's already happening. Like, what the fuck? People need to wake up to this is what's going on.”
  — Tom, [02:23]

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2. Work, Wages, and Welfare—The SNAP Debate

[03:39 – 07:42]

• The SNAP Dilemma: Drew discusses people working full-time (e.g. at Walmart) while still qualifying for SNAP (food stamps), which he frames as a sign of systemic failure.
• Corporate Responsibility vs. Government Role: Tom argues that the government’s job is to “create the soil,” not micromanage outcomes, emphasizing unintended consequences of well-intentioned policies:

  “There is no law as ironclad as the law of unintended consequences.”
  — Tom, [04:51]

• Stock Market as a 'Gambling Machine': Tom extols the stock market’s ability to aggregate capital, suggesting that the ideal is widespread public participation (e.g., everyone’s grandma has a 401k invested in U.S. companies).

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3. Globalism, Immigration, and Wage Suppression

[07:42 – 13:00]

• Globalization’s Impact: Tom argues globalism “fucked the middle class and the poor hard,” and points out that union membership minimally affects private sector wages.
• Offshoring and Immigration: He claims that both offshoring and immigration increase labor supply, driving down wages—even for jobs you can’t easily outsource, like cashiers, due to open borders.

  “They don't pay more because they don't have to.”
  — Tom, [10:56]

• Minimum Wage and AI: He labels raising minimum wage “moronic” under impending AI automation, advocating for regulatory restraint to encourage innovation.

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4. Solutions—Tariffs, ‘Bringing Jobs Home’, and Growth Incentives

[13:00 – 18:57]

• Manufacturing’s Role: Tom says returning manufacturing to the U.S. is key. He highlights tariffs as a crude but viable tool, citing Elon Musk building chips domestically as a positive example.
• Taxation Philosophy: He clarifies, “You can’t tax wealth for reasons I’ll happily go into...but you can tax income,” referencing Elon Musk’s massive tax contributions.

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5. Unintended Consequences and the Middle Class Metric

[18:57 – 21:52]

• Policy Evaluation: Tom insists his core metric for policy success is “how much money is the middle class making? How big is the middle class?”
• Class Mobility: He argues class mobility is vital, and bailout culture (“too big to fail”) undermines the system.

  “The person that can just call the president up and be like, bro, but not me, right? So you can't have that.”
  — Tom, [20:00]

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6. State Policy, Tax Flight, and Geographic Sorting

[21:52 – 23:50]

• Tax Flight: The discussion shifts to tax policies—how high-tax states like New York and California are losing wealthy residents to Florida.
• Cold Civil War: Tom notes America’s “cold civil war,” with population self-sorting by geography and politics.

  “America is in a cold civil war. It is geographically sorting itself like a deck of cards into suits.”
  — Tom, [22:29]

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7. Europe, Values Collisions, and Demography

[24:17 – 25:29]

• Europe’s Crisis: Tom warns that Europe’s inability to assert clear values in a context of rising Islamic influence and low native birthrates will erode its cultural foundation.

  “If they are perfectly happy to say the only thing we care about is tolerance, then they will lose to Islam...The value system that has the most children...will win.”
  — Tom, [24:24]

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8. Unions, Merit, and Market Realities

[25:34 – 27:39]

• Union Efficacy: Tom draws a distinction between unions for pro athletes (successful because of “rainmakers” at the negotiating table) and the average worker, where added value is less scalable.

  “Whereas the average line worker…it's hard to add that much value.”
  — Tom, [26:24]

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9. Education—Overqualification and Ideological Drift

[27:39 – 30:05]

• Over-credentialing: The chat raises the issue of excessive certification requirements. Tom concedes some merit but highlights the “catastrophe” that is American education.
• Leftward Drift: Drew and Tom discuss the overwhelming left-leaning bias in higher education faculties.

  “Something like in higher education, I want to say like 75 or 85 to 1. Left leaning versus right leaning. Wow, that's crazy.”
  — Tom, [29:23]

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10. Political Biology, Urban-Rural Polarization

[30:05 – 32:31]

• Why People Vote Their Way: Tom posits that political affiliation is both biological and social (values-driven)—but urbanization is the biggest factor.

  “It ends up being...cities, city, cities…urban areas almost exclusively go blue and rural areas almost exclusively go red.”
  — Tom, [31:35]

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11. Tariffs and Cyclical Economic Policy

[32:31 – 33:50]

• The Nature of Tariffs: Tom explains that tariffs, as a tax, oscillate in popularity according to the protectionist or globalist mood of a given era. They can be either healthy or destructive based on timing and context.

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12. Race, Category Errors, and Values

[34:11 – 39:49]

• Trump, Race, and the Central Park Five: The hosts debate whether Trump’s actions were racially motivated or simply “misidentification”—landing on the greater prevalence of “category errors” over true racism, and stressing the importance of shared values.

  “I could find you a gaggle of people that you'd be like…oh, this guy’s just like me…It's about fucking values...it isn’t causative [that skin color = values].”
  — Tom, [36:10]

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13. Political Cronyism and Gerrymandering

[43:33 – 45:25]

• Redistricting Woes: Both agree gerrymandering (by either party) is a fundamentally broken method of rigging election outcomes. Tom advocates for a nationwide, one-size-fits-all redistricting policy.

  “Pick one policy to rule them all and never ever, ever, ever, ever redraw the lines.”
  — Tom, [44:45]

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14. Fables, Pop Culture, and Imparting Values

[41:05 – End]

• Moral Lessons in Fiction: Tom and Drew reflect on the value of children’s fables and modern shows (like One Piece) as vessels for teaching values like bravery, perseverance, and loyalty.

  “It is moral tales. Every episode is a moral tale. It is wild.”
  — Tom, [41:19]

• Kaizen Game Development: Briefly, Tom shares progress on his game "Kaizen," intended as a ‘procedurally generated world with MMO skill trees and guns’ and as a way to impart values to young players.

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Standout Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Systemic Traps & Class Frustration:

  “I can’t even beat you at your own game. So I am going to shoot you, stab you, guillotine you, whatever. And dude, it’s already happening…People need to wake up to this is what’s going on.”
  — Tom, [03:13]

• On Globalization and Labor:

  “They don’t pay more because they don’t have to…You want the average worker to go, ha ha ha, motherfucker. You can’t find people to hire because you can’t go to India, because you can’t send this to China.”
  — Tom, [10:56/09:50]

• On Unions and Athletes:

  “When LeBron is at the table, it’s a much different conversation than if it was just a bench warmer… If you can get [rainmakers] on your side, you will make so much money.”
  — Drew & Tom, [26:21]

• On Values vs. Race:

  “It’s about fucking values...I could find you people that are exactly the same shade as you…this guy is a dick.”
  — Tom, [36:10]

• On Moral Fables:

  “As somebody who wants to create children’s entertainment specifically to pass on values—100%, 100% agreement.”
  — Tom, [41:19]

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Notable Timestamps

• 01:00 – Rise of ethical capitalism; the failure of modern policies
• 03:39 – SNAP benefits for full-time workers; government vs. corporate responsibility
• 07:42 – Globalism’s impact on workers, unions, and the labor market
• 13:00 – Policy hypotheticals: abolishing minimum wage, deportation, and supply/demand
• 18:49 – Evaluating policy by the size and strength of the middle class
• 21:52 – Tax flight, geographic sorting; personal choices on moving
• 24:17 – Andrew Tate’s “Empire of Lies” take and Europe’s future
• 25:34 – Union power—sports vs. regular workers
• 27:39 – Education: over-certification and ideological imbalance
• 30:05 – Biology of liberal/conservative voting; city vs. rural divide
• 32:31 – Tariff logic and economic cycles
• 34:11 – Race, Trump, and discussing the Central Park Five
• 41:05 – Fables, One Piece, and the case for values in children’s media
• 43:33 – Gerrymandering and redistricting debate
• 47:28+ – Kaizen game updates, self-development community impact

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Closing

The episode serves as a sweeping, dynamic look at the interlocking economic, political, and cultural forces shaping America and the world. Tom Bilyeu’s approach—direct, foundational, sometimes provocative—pushes listeners to rethink common assumptions while rooting discussion in practical, real-world consequences. This is a must-listen for anyone seeking clarity on the most complex issues of our time.

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Transcript

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[B]

There is a rise of like ethical capitalism reimagining the capitalist system to include more the income inequalities to. Great. Now we can't just go on business as usual. We tried in the 80s during the Reagan era to kind of cut the regulation and grow our way out of this through business friendly environments.

[A]

And it worked. And it was magically delicious. It was.

[B]

I feel like that's a subjective because it's not working as good as it is now.

[A]

But I think, bro, go look at the stats. So if what people want is in America where there are no classes, you're never going to get that because that's not the game. The game is to have classes, but you want high class mobility. So America used to rank much higher in the 80s in class mobility than we do now. What I'm saying is the things that broke are. You can point directly to them.

[B]

You.

[A]

You don't have to be vague. What broke was we started printing money, we started deficit spending and we bought into modern monetary theory which says you can print money and it won't be problematic. There was a guy today, he was on a show called Bankless, which by the way, Bankless is a great show. But this guy, at least the clip they posted was so fucking stupid. I was like, I cannot believe. So he's basically saying, just reprice gold, bro. Like separate them, come back. And gold's like 20,000, 40,000. Bro, do you understand why Marie Antoinette lost her head? He doesn't get it. Like people are so trapped inside of. But that would work economically, Tom. Sort of like if you don't mind the mobs coming to your house? I guess so. Oh, man. It's like, dude, you can't have wealth inequality at the levels that we have it. You can't do it. You can't do it. And now you can say that that's a flaw of the architecture of the human mind. Great. But we have the human mind that we have and people will not look around and see that, oh, my life is getting more expensive by the day. And then there's this tiny percentage of people for whom their life is just getting better and better and better. And by the way, because I don't understand the economy, I can't figure out how to get out of this fucking trap. So it feels permanent. I am permanently here. And they can tell you, you're the billionaire class, the political class. You are doing this to me. I know you're doing it to me. I don't know what you're doing, but I know you're doing it to me. You are actively putting your boot on my neck and I won't stand for it. And I'm just going to lash out. And because I don't understand it, I can't even beat you at your own game. So I am going to shoot you, stab you, guillotine you, whatever. And dude, it's already happening. Like, what the fuck? People need to wake up to this is what's going on.

[B]

I'm going to channel some of the energy of the chat and I'm going to kind of reflect it because something that woke in my eyes to it was this SNAP conversation that's been happening over the weekend. People lost their SNAP benefits as of November 1st. Some independent governors in different states have been using emergency funds, reallocating things, to try to keep SNAP benefits going. But there's been this debate that's been saying SNAP benefits are bad, we need to get people off it, People need to get a job.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Then I did some digging and I realized that there are people on snap who work 40 hours a week.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

If I work, for example, at Walmart 40 hours a week and I still qualify for SNAP benefits, some people are saying that is the problem right there because the government is now subsidizing the profits of the private entity because you're not paying your workers enough that they're still qualified for Medicare while working full time. Now, if they were the 15 year old that works here on nights and weekends. Yes, of course you shouldn't. Yeah, you're open mobility. This is not the forever job. But as a 35 year old who does 40, 50 hours a week and still qualifies for SNAP. I feel like that's a problem. Can we at least say that in that specific scenario the, the corporation could be held a little bit more responsible for advocating that gap and not having the government pick up the bill?

[A]

No.

[B]

Okay, how did that break in? That.

[A]

Here's how you want to look at it. You're very close and I get what you're saying. You want to think of it in a slightly different way. The government's job is to create the soil and from in that, what will grow will grow based on what the soil is. And the problem is people vote for things not understanding perverse incentives and unintended consequences. And so there is no law as ironclad as the law of unintended consequences. So this is why you will see Republicans bang on about small government. And what they're saying is humans tend towards corruption, power tends to coalesce, and then basically solidify, and then that power becomes corrupting. And so you end up with like a political class of people that we will often refer to as the deep state that they're making sure that the world is good for them, but not necessarily good for anybody else. And by the way, they don't even really know like, how the economy works. And so, like this sounds about right. And so they vote for shit like that. As long as it keeps them in power, that becomes their proxy for are things working? Am I still in power? Am I still doing okay? Are my kids still in private school? If they are, it's probably all fine. Okay, so now the corporations are going to go, well, I have a fiduciary responsibility to my shareholders, which by the way, could be anybody. So in a world where the 401k of your grandma is tied up in stocks, especially if they're American, you should want that. You should want that. And that's great for American business. And I can get into how you aggregate capital and why that's so important and all of that. I can get into growth and why it is an absolute modern miracle that the stock market exists. It's a gambling machine, but it's unbelievable. It's a gambling machine where you really can beat the house. You have to be super patient, but you really can beat the house. And so it's like, whoa, you've got this incredible thing. You should want grandma to be tied up in that. You should want that to thrive and especially to be focused on American companies. And this is awesome. Okay, so we want a world in which the those companies are thriving. We want them to have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. We just want to make sure that the average American is a shareholder. Okay, that's where that breaks. But if that were true, oh my God, this would be amazing. So then it becomes, okay, well, if the only ironclad law is the ironclad law of unintended consequences, what do we do about the fact that right now we are in a position where somebody could be working 40 hours a week and not be able to make ends meet? Okay, cool. Ding, ding, ding. We have a problem. You've got workers in the working class, lower class, even in the middle class that they're struggling to make ends meet.

[B]

To the point they qualify for government welfare.

[A]

Yes, but that, I hope you see the trap of that statement, because that has to do with what you need to do to qualify. So if that were a very high bar, well, then a lot less of them will qualify. But that doesn't make the problem go away. So qualifying for SNAP is a way too complex, gerrymanderable, Gerry riggable, whatever the right phrase is thing. So instead, let's look at. There should be a sort of rough ballpark amount of your life that if you're buying the sort of middle of the road items at a grocery store, that you only need to make a certain amount of money to be able to do that. We do this with housing all the time. A house should cost roughly whatever, it's.

[B]

Like 75% of your income.

[A]

Yeah, I think they say the average house should be like three times the cost that somebody makes in an annual salary. And now it's like 5.3 or something. So it's just obviously grotesque. It's way too far off. So there are going to be knowable things like that. I don't know off the top of my head, what percentage, if somebody has an average basket of goods to eat for a family of four, what that should be in relationship to your job. But there is a number that number is knowable. There will be historical averages. There will be times where we're like, yeah, that makes sense. And then we may look at times like now and go, this is totally out of whack. This is crazy. What I'm saying is you then go, ah, the soil has a problem. Meaning the regulatory framework that we have created in this country is creating a problem. The great news is to oversimplify, this is very easy to pinpoint. It's called globalism. So globalism fucked the middle class and the Poor, hard. When you look at, did you know that being a part of a union has basically no impact on the private sector? Basically none whatsoever. It doesn't indicate in any way, shape or form whether you're going to make more money. It matters a little bit in government jobs, but even there it's like 5 to 12% or something. It's a very small number. I was like, I was shocked. That was not what I was expecting. But if you return to America, the literal millions of jobs that you've shipped overseas now all of a sudden your employers are competing in a finite pool of workers. That's where you want people to be. You want the average worker to go, ha ha ha, motherfucker. You can't find people to hire because you can't go to India, because you can't send this to China. So you're going to do this here, not Vietnam.

[B]

I mean, yes, if I was a software engineer for Microsoft, but I feel like as a cashier at Walmart, you can't globalism that job.

[A]

Yes you can. Dude, you had an open border. How many people flooded across that border? Those are the exact kind of jobs where you have globalized in the way that you're just bringing people in. So if you said, sorry, there's only a certain number of people that we're going to bring into the country every year and it certainly isn't going to.

[B]

Be millions, we just need to cut off the supply.

[A]

Obviously a supply and demand problem increase.

[B]

So the reason that Walmart isn't paying people is because there's so many people who came here who migrated here that it's lowering the price that they then charge.

[A]

That is 100% correct.

[B]

The regulation that we can immediately remove.

[A]

Say it like this, they don't pay more because they don't have to. Now you can try to regulate what they have to pay from the top down, which is moronic. And the reason it's moronic is when you say, hey, that person that's actually only worth $5 an hour, I'm going to make you pay them $20 an hour. They go, I got to find a way around this. So that's just the reality. And a business will find a way to survive in whatever means cutting people, automating. And you don't want to be like forcing people to pay a certain amount on the dawn of AI. That is about the dumbest policy move ever. And then of course people that go, well these are all top down problems, let's just mandate you can't use AI oh, great. So then we will handicap ourselves while the rest of the world goes, oh, cool, America just shot itself in the foot. We're certainly gonna use AI those kids. And this happens all the time. The strong become weak because they start making really dumb decisions. And so this is one of those where things need to build from the bottom up. You want to create a light touch government that says, we're going to make sure that people don't get evil, because they will. If you leave corporations to their own devices, they will become just as tyrannical as a governmental body. And so you need some light checks to make sure that there are things that they can't do to block competition and all that. And ultimately what you're trying to foster is you don't want people to be able to build a moat too easily. You want people to be able to get in and be that new, young, fresh kid that's like, oh, yeah, I got a better idea. You want the guy that's been on the S&P 500 for 20 years to lose because they don't innovate and they're not able to create that moat. They're not able to build Foxconn in China and do all the crazy things that, like Apple has done. Like that's how you have to address.

[B]

Okay, let's. Let's extrapolate that argument. It's a supply and demand problem. We should abolish the minimum wage. Everybody should come in as a quote unquote, free market labor society. All the illegal should be deported. And then at that point, whatever I can pay you, I will pay you if you don't like it.

[A]

This is your pitch because it's obviously not mine.

[B]

No, because going back to it, it being a supply and demand problem, and regulation. So minimum wage is a regulation regulating the wage. You said we should remove those.

[A]

Yeah, but you also said we should deport all immigrants, which I've never said.

[B]

Well, nor will I ever say, well, the supply. We need to lower the supply in order to increase the price.

[A]

If you said stop bringing people in, I'd be here for it.

[B]

Oh, well, the borders closed now, so the people aren't coming anymore.

[A]

So you, you have solved that on a go forward basis.

[B]

Yeah, but if we can't, that's not helping the person who's making minimum, who's making whatever they're making at Walmart, because it's not the minimum.

[A]

So now you've got two options. You can deport everybody, which I would not support. Deporting some deporting a lot, sure, but not as a default, like get rid of immigrants. That's not my stance. The next thing is you need to bring manufacturing jobs back to the us that would be another great way to do this. Far more interesting.

[B]

That's not an Amazon or Walmart problem, and it's not helping.

[A]

Of course that's an Amazon and a Walmart problem.

[B]

They don't manufacture anything. Their third party really sells their warehousing.

[A]

You don't think Amazon manufacturers. Are you high? Amazon Basics, where do you think that just magically appears?

[B]

Drop shipped from? China.

[A]

Right. So they're. They're making things in other countries or facilitating. They have no incentive to. To build here. I'm saying give them the incentive to build here. Punish them.

[B]

What kind of incentive?

[A]

I mean, the boneheaded way to do it. And because I have not researched this enough to know what my entire bevy of options are, tariffs are certainly one way. So now it's like, well, your Amazon Basics just got a lot more expensive unless you make them here. So take what Elon is doing. Elon just announced that they're building a chip here in America with Samsung and tsmc. But they're building the chip in America. It is a Tesla designed with Samsung chip built in america, bro. Like, 10 years ago, that was a pipe dream. And now we're doing the things that we need to do to bring that back. Great. More of that, please. But like, this is where I go nuts with Mamdani. Now, I don't know all the details of the supposed tax break that was given to Elon Musk by Cuomo, but my default assumption is that Cuomo was trying to use that as leverage to get him to come build in New York. Or is it possible that he was trying to get him to come live in New York? Probably not. But like, both of those things would be phenomenal for the economy of New York. For tax in New York, like you can imagine, everybody wants Elon to live in their state because for all of people's bombastic rhetoric, no human in history has paid more in taxes than Elon. Okay, let that sink in. So this is one of those where I'm like, yeah, people have all these distorted views about what's actually happening, but the reality is you can't tax wealth for reasons I'll happily go into, if that's what the community is stuck on. But you can tax income. And if he wants to do anything with his money, at some point it turns into income, and that's when you tax him. And when he sold all of his shares and or a huge number of shares, he paid a huge amount of tax. We're hitting pause for a moment, but there's plenty more ahead, so don't go anywhere. Hang tight because if you run a business, this could be the most important 60 seconds of your week. Here's the reality. By the time you hear about a supply chain issue, a tariff change or a cash flow crunch, it's already cost you, revenue's gone, time's wasted and momentum is shattered. You cannot afford to run your company in the dark. That's why over 41,000 businesses trust NetSuite by Oracle, the AI powered business management suite built to give you real time visibility across everything that matters. Accounting, inventory, HR, financials, all in one platform, one dashboard, one truth. NetSuite does not just help you track problems, it helps you see them coming. With AI driven forecasting, automation and global visibility and you get the power to pivot fast. Right now, get your free business guide demystifying [e-mail] theory the guide is free. Just go to netsuite.com theory again netsuite.com theory let me hit you with a serious holiday upgrade. The holidays are about family, tradition and showing up with something incredible on the table. But if you're still grabbing mystery meat from the grocery store just because it's convenient, you are doing it wrong. Because I care about what I put in my body and I care even more about what I serve to the people I love. ButcherBox delivers 100% grass fed beef, free range organic chicken, humanely raised pork and wild caught seafood straight to my door on my schedule. And right now they're doing something absolutely wild for new members. You get to choose between a free whole turkey or ham in your first box or ground beef for life plus $20 off your first order. Go to butcherbox.com impact and use code impact to claim your choice of holiday protein ham or turkey in your first box or ground beef for life plus $20 off. Again, that's Butcher Box.com/appact use code impact. Thanks for sticking around. Let's get right back into the action.

[B]

If we regulate offshoring manufacturing, trying to undo globalization, are there some unintended consequences?

[A]

Of course, always ironclad law. But I can tell you right now you've got to if somebody were to send me the WellTom, what is the metric by which you judge the efficacy of your policies? It would be how much money is the middle class making? How big is the middle class? Like? Is that a nice big Bell curve where the vast majority of Americans sit squarely in the middle class. That's my metric. So now I'm like, okay, what do we need to do to make sure that the vast majority of Americans are just bang on right in the middle class?

[B]

How to. And then increase upward class mobility.

[A]

Class mobility is an up and down phenomenon. Copy. So you can't like for instance, dude, I remember when the Silicon Valley bank thing happened. It was a mad scramble because for a second it looked like we might have some exposure to Silicon Valley Bank. And so I was in there like moving things around, like, oh my God. And it's like, that's the game.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You can't like bailing everybody out and saying, oh, these are too big to fail. This is how all of this stuff builds up in the system. And how it's like, well, the person that can just call the president up and be like, bro, but not me. Right? So you can't have that.

[B]

I'm getting a lot of capital risk capital flight thing. New York Post did an article where they said upwards of a million people would leave New York if mom Donnie gets elected. Jokingly, I had a buddy retweet it. All my family's out there. I have a bunch of friends, friends in New York. He retweeted was like, okay, make sure you leave your key under the doormat. Because a million less people in the housing market, that would decrease rents. That would make mom Danny's policy, quote, unquote, active on day one. Yeah, I don't think people are actually leaving. I think that was a scary tactic. I think if you wanted to live in Dubai as a billionaire, you would go live in Dubai.

[A]

Just go to Florida. But listen, Florida, New York, you'll change.

[B]

Your id, but you're not leaving New York.

[A]

New York has already lost in the last decade hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue precisely because wealthy people are leaving. New York is not a speculative problem. This is rows in a spreadsheet. So it is happening. It will continue to happen. It will probably accelerate under Mamdani, but you're not going to lose a million people. That would be shocking. But you're going to lose people because everybody has their breaking point. I haven't left California yet, but literally, I think the spreadsheet says, I hope Drew likes Florida if he passes this no property tax thing. Because it's like, bro, if there's no income tax and no property tax in Florida, bro, at some point you can't justify living in California. Like, it gets too crazy. It's too much money every year, literally. At some point, I'm better off just writing off my house and never again paying property tax on it. So it's like kids. So policies have consequences.

[B]

Lisa's in the chat. Are you moving to Miami, baby? Yeah, we're looking at condos, right?

[A]

Hold on, my love. My love. First of all, I'm so sad I didn't see you, and I'm so glad I'm seeing you now because, of course, I miss you now more than ever. I. I am literally looking down every street being like, okay, what would it like to live here if he passes that? My dear wife, it really may be unconscionable to stay in.

[B]

It's definitely. Are you thinking, like, mansion on the. On the lake, on the ocean type thing? Or are you going to be like, some, like, penthouse live? Like, what is your vibe you think you're going for? I don't see you as a historic fan. Car garage.

[A]

I would probably live here for a year before I pulled the trigger on anything. I need to see. One, do I like it enough? Two, where do we want to be? That kind of thing. We'll see. We'll see. I don't want to move to be very clear, but, ooh, buddy. Like it. America's in a cold civil war. It is geographically sorting itself like a deck of cards into suits. And, yeah, like, it's going to keep happening, dude. People think that because there's historical momentum that these things won't change. They change a lot slower. This is part of the deep dive that I wrote that's coming out on Monday is, like, getting the timing right is so hard. So Mamdani is a mile marker. He's not an end state. So it's. Things are. Things are moving in that direction because people have been done so dirty, and they have misidentified the solution to the problem. And so that's where I'm like, oh, man, I don't know that we're going to be able to back out of this one. I don't know that you're going to be able to convince people that. That it isn't going to work. This is the snake oil salesman that when you have. You're in extreme pain, and they're like, hey, take this thing, and it's going to make that pain go away. And then you realize that they're selling you arsenic, and you're like, wait, this is making everything worse. But it's you. You had to try it. You couldn't not try it. You're just in too much pain.

[B]

Yeah. All right, we got a couple super chats. Anybody has questions, drop them in the chat. We'll try to get to them after it. The chat is jumping today. Yo. We love you. Thank you for joining. We're excited. We got Ruben Tiago, official. They said. Hi. Tom and Drew, could you react to the Andrew Tate tweet, the empire of lies, seven minutes, October 4th. It's about the collapse of Europe. Would love your reaction and thoughts on it. I would pull it up, but I know you have some words about Europe, just in general.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know what he said.

[B]

So we'll pull it up. If you can stay till the bottom of the hour, we got you.

[A]

The quick take on Europe is they don't understand values collision. They have imported their own demise. They will fall if they don't figure out what they're willing to stand for. And if they are perfectly happy to say the only thing that we care about is tolerance, then they will lose to Islam because Islam is all about. They are very good at saying, this is what we stand for. We're willing to fight politically, we're willing to. I mean, historically, they've certainly been willing to fight militarily as well. So, yeah, they will be a formidable foe if this is the direction that they choose to head down. But they already. Because they're being. Sounds so terrible to say it this way, but they're being outbred so dramatically that the value system that has the most children and indoctrinates their kids the most clearly and strongly will win.

[B]

All right, next super chat, we have Sequoia hall in the chat.

[A]

What is up?

[B]

They said unions worked for pro athletes.

[A]

Unions were. Oh, oh, unions were effective for pro athletes. Great. So the stats speak for themselves. They did not. They do very little. So in terms of being correlated to people's increase in wages, they are not.

[B]

I also would say for pro athletes, they have the benefit of the highest caliber employees. Athletes are also advocating for everybody. I think unions will be a lot more effective. If Elon and Jeff Bezos were advocating for unions in those discussions, Elon and.

[A]

Jeff Bezos were in unions, which is basically the business equivalent of what you get with sports is the best of the best of the best of the best.

[B]

When LeBron is at the table, it's a much different conversation than if it was just a bench warmer.

[A]

Yeah. So. God, that's actually a really good. That's really horrible. Oh, Drew, I think you may have found, like, why that statement is Brutal in terms of like pointing to something and saying, hey, the reason it doesn't work is because it does work in sports. And then you go, the reason it works in sports is because you have rainmakers, people that they, if you can get them on your side, you will make so much money. And so every team's like, I gotta get them. And if I've got to deal with agents, whatever, doesn't matter. If I've got a deal with unions, whatever, doesn't matter. Like I need to get the best of the best of the best of the best because these guys will make me so much money it's ungodly. Whereas the average line worker is. That's going to be harder for that person to be like a 10x line worker. Like you could be a 10x coder. It's just hard. The nature of the job is such that it's hard to like add that much value. And then the nature of the job attracts a certain type of person and those people are not spending their time optimizing for being a 10x person. Like there's no gentle way to say that. So yeah, that's pretty damning.

[B]

Yeah, that's very interesting. And then last one from Marcus Aurelius. US has too many certifications for job. CPAs in the 80s, AAs in the 80s, BA's in the 20s, MBA and CPA by training. Know nothing about taxes. Default is a cert. Makes us safe. Love the decisions always. And added value to my day. I think they meant discussions. But do we have a education problem? Because this is the first.

[A]

That's a very different statement than what he said. We have a horrifying education problem, but in terms of over certifying people, I think it makes sense in certain places. Like I do want to know that my cpa, like I need some sort of credibility check. So either you've got to have like Amazon reviews for CPAs or something, but I need some way to know that this person really knows what they're doing. Otherwise so many people are going to go with bad things. Now on the education front, it's a catastrophe. And parents should be just absolutely livid with the way that their kids are being educated. It is a, it's, it's a catastrophe of biblical proportions.

[B]

Yeah, but I mean I'm even looking at higher education where we have people who have master's degrees. Master's. It was the conversation we had with Redyard. Definitely go check out our conversation. What if all his. It hit home that we have a over educated population And I never thought of that in the concentration of society, like there is these over educated elites, quote unquote, who a lot of times are the fodder that usher in communism, socialism, because they think, because of their certification they know everything, they should be higher up than what they are. And that's kind of a lot of times the base, the base that then grows on these far left kind of policies that propagate.

[A]

So yeah, it's wild. When you look at what's happened to education, it is wild. It's something like in higher education, I want to say like 75 or 85 to 1. Left leaning versus right leaning. Wow, that's crazy. And then of the people that are there, it's like they're more committed. So the Democrats that are in education are more likely to donate than the Republicans are. And, and the way that you could read that is that the Democrats that are there not only outnumber something like 75 to 1. It really is that wild. That may not be the exact number, but is that kind of crazy? And on top of that they're like farther left than their right leaning people are right leaning. So it's pretty crazy.

[B]

Yeah. Sandy Porter. I love Truth Devin because He has like 14 burner accounts. I don't know whose cards you're stealing Truth Devin, but we are not liable or responsible. Why do you think people vote Democrat or Republican? Do you think it's biology or something else? Why do you think people of Texas vote Republican and New York people vote Democrat?

[A]

It. Oh well. So this is a. There's two questions hiding in there. So yes, it's biology, but it's also values. So if you're raised to be left leaning, you're far more likely to be left leaning no matter what your sort of natural proclivities are. But I do think that right and left are evolution's response to. How do you keep an AI from completely going off the rails? The more I think about the AI safety alignment problem, the more I am convinced that you need a swarm of AI that given that we are in a simulation and we are therefore all AI, we already know that one. You still get hyper destructive AI, but you get a balance, an equilibrium that is born out of having people AIs that have competing interests. And through that you avoid the. Because game theory just is a thing. You end up avoiding parasites on either side because the other side keeps them in check. So there's that. Then there was another. You said something in the very end that I was like, oh, that's actually a totally separate question. Read the exact question again.

[B]

Why do you think people vote tech in Texas Vote Republican in New York, people vote Democrat.

[A]

Okay, so what it ends up being, if you really look at a heat map, is it's cities, city, cities. So I'm going to guess that Texas tends to be more in aggregate rural, which is why you look at something like Austin and Austin is very purple. Austin's probably headed full on blue I would imagine over time. And so there is something about the urban environment bringing people into really close proximity. Probably something to do with you're just so confronted with your neighbor is doing better than you that that it triggers all of that resentment that tends to fuel a lot of left leaning policies. It's gonna be something like that. I imagine this has been studied pretty closely, so we could probably get a far deeper take than that. But at the level that I've done the analysis on that, it definitely is urban areas almost exclusively go blue and rural areas almost exclusively go red.

[B]

Wild Marisha Dark if tariffs are so bad for the host country as you claim, why do other countries levy them against us? Why do we care? If they're just shooting themselves in the foot, wouldn't we want our rivals to raise theirs to infinity?

[A]

Did they say terrorists?

[B]

Tariffs, tariffs.

[A]

That makes a lot more sense. Okay, tariffs, tariffs are a tax. So once you understand them as a tax and it's like, well, what do you think taxes should be used for? So when you tax the importation of a good, you reduce the cheapness of that good to the end consumer. And so you're able to balance things out. And so this is why we move in these cycles of we become protectionist and we become globalist and we become protectionist and we become globalist. These are just the cycles. So all of these things tend to solidify over time. And so what worked and in the beginning was very healthy. Like debt. By the way, debt is one of the most powerful things in the world. It is also one of the most destructive things in the world. So fire is such an apt analogy. You can use fire to cook your food or burn the entire village down. So it really comes down to where are we in the cycle? Taking a short break, but there's more Impact theory after. Stay tuned. Thanks for staying tuned. Now let's get back to it.

[B]

RJ Johnson, thank you for your twin super chat.

[A]

Rj. What's up brother?

[B]

Born, raised and still living in la. I've been concerned for our future. Don't let New York's New York City superior attitude, so ecstatic over Mom Danny's win. Don't like New York City superior attitude, so ecstatic over Madani's win. Won't be long before they sink below our pathetic condition. Go socialism and NYC muscle emoji 100.

[A]

Just remember, they are never going to admit when things start going wrong that it was because of bad policy. They just won't.

[B]

And then Sequoia Hall 1695 said Central Park 5. And I think that goes back to the. Trump doesn't peg me as racist. I don't know if you remember this, Sequoia Hall. They wrote Central Park Five. Oh, yeah. When Trump was super hard on the Central Park Five thinking that they were the teens. He was. You don't remember this story?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I know it. But why do we automatically assume that?

[B]

Because Trump took out that ad and said they need to get the book thrown at him.

[A]

Yes. And so we're assuming. Did he say they need to get the book thrown at them because they're black or because he believed that they were the rapists? Rapists, right.

[B]

Yeah. But, yeah, they, but they ended up getting off. They weren't responsible for it. It was.

[A]

Sure. So he misidentified innocent people and wanted the book thrown at them. What I'm saying is that was dumb if he didn't know the facts of the case. But why do we assume that was because they're black?

[B]

Because how hard he went over a racially charged trial. It'll be similar to the dude on the train who killed the Ukrainian woman. And if somebody put a full page out on that and said, says, hey, this guy needs to go to the bottom of the pit. We don't. It's people like him that are making the country bad.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And at the same time, 1200 people get stabbed every day and they don't get full page ads. So it's one of those things where you glorify a racially charged case and.

[A]

Kind of, I mean, listen, racism's real, it's growing, which is horrifying. All of that's true. I don't know that we have any reason to believe that Trump did that ad because he is racist, given the number of prominent black people that have come out and said that he's not racist. So I don't know, like, going down the lane of Trump is racist. Whatever. Like, I'm not gonna die on the Hill, Maybe secretly. I don't know. I haven't seen anything in public, but I don't know him personally at all. So certainly not going to defend his racist or not racist record. I will say that America is growing increasingly racist. And that is dumb. And I hope that we all back out of that immediately. And remember, I'm telling you, I could think of whatever race you guys don't like though that race. I could find you a gaggle of people that you'd be like, oh, man, this guy's just like me. Like people that are, they're just down with the things you're down with and you love spending time with them. And you're just like, oh, yeah. Like you will suddenly be like, oh, that's right, it's about fucking values. And I could find you people that are exactly the same shade as you. You need to find a Casper the Ghost for me. But I can find you somebody that just matches your skin tone and you're going to be like, this guy is a dick. And I don't want to spend an ounce of time with this person because it doesn't have anything to do with skin color. It has to do with values. We grow up in the areas from a historical perspective where everybody looks like us, because that's just how geography worked. And so of course, from a long standing perspective, many countries, there will be a wild correlation between how they look and what their value system is, but it isn't causative. It isn't causative at all.

[B]

So, yeah, also, Tom, you do know that people, you can be racist and have black friends. Sure, copy. Okay.

[A]

But also, you do know that the odds of you being racist while having black friends goes down dramatically. You can be very much, okay, define racism.

[B]

Discrimination against a certain class due to their skin color.

[A]

Okay. And so if you're not discriminating against your friend and you're like, yeah, this guy is black and I'm not treating him any differently. This guy's Chinese and I'm not treating him any differently, then you're queuing off of something other than race. When you discriminate against those other people, odds are you're now just in group out group. And so if we are expecting humanity to not have an in group out group bias, we will die tired. That's never going away. So it's an algorithm that's in our minds. Literally in every room you walk into, you are trying to figure out friend, fo, friend, pho, full stop, period, or fuckable. Are they fuckable? Is this a friend? Is this something I can eat? So you're having a biological experience. Okay. These are just the way that the mind Works. I don't understand why people are so surprised by this. So, yeah, so the one that drives me crazy is that if you fully respect, love a person of another race, and then people go, that doesn't matter at all. That is full retard. So it doesn't mean that you don't have a weird glitch in your brain where you then go, everybody has to be vetted through the filter of, I have to know you personally or I'm leaving you in my sort of not thought through racist bucket. That is entirely possible. But what I'm saying is when you look at that moment, see the salvation in that, that, oh, okay, this guy isn't like, no matter what, I fucking hate Asian people, black people, Indian people, whatever. That person's like, oh, if they get to know them, then they let all that shit go. So now we just have to get them to realize they're making a category error. That's a lot more hopeful than somebody who has a value system that's like, I hate insert race.

[B]

Okay, we'll call it a category error. And I think that would help the conversation.

[A]

It certainly is a category error.

[B]

All right. And Andrea279 with a $50 super chat, thank you for coming back to back. I appreciate you, Andrea. Thank you for your support. When politicians leverage, hurt, why do we still want them to give us quote unquote free stuff? They're the coachmen from Pinocchio looking to turn you into an ass. You can tell who didn't grow up on cartoon fables. Lol. Make fables great again. The little redhead.

[A]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Who said this?

[B]

Andrea. 2798.

[A]

Andrea. Oh, my God. You are my new favorite person. I am thinking about this endlessly as I watch One Piece. Dude, it is. It's just fables. It is moral tales. Every episode is a moral tale. It is wild. It's so, like, on the surface, like, the show is about bravery, it's about friendship, it's about going after a goal, no matter what. I mean, and just over and over and over, it is incredible. I. Yeah. So anyway, as somebody who wants to create children's entertainment specifically to pass on values 100%, 100% agreement. It's really insightful.

[B]

Yeah, I was trying to think about it. Like, I remember the tortoise and the hare, three little piggies. I feel like those are the only two. Like, I don't even. I didn't even see.

[A]

We gotta get you some more. We gotta get you some more, man. Watch One Piece. Watch One piece it is if you believe in like loyalty, friendship, going after goals, never giving up, pushing through pain. I mean, it's really incredible. And just honestly, I've, I get asked like once you say that you're into one piece, people will then ask who's your favorite character? And. And the honest answer is you really do have to take them as a gestalt. Any one of them is like wildly problematic. But honestly, like the one I kind of lean towards is Usopp.

[B]

Which one's Usopp?

[A]

You have to watch the show because if I describe him, he's going to sound terrible. But he's a liar and he's terrified all the time. And he decides that his goal is to become brave.

[B]

Yeah, the one with the nose.

[A]

And so he keeps forcing himself to get in these positions where he's absolutely scared out of his mind, but he does it anyway. But he admittedly has wild character flaws, which is part of what makes OODA so brilliant. Anyway, I could talk about it forever, but I have a feeling I will lose the audience.

[B]

Cfwilliams1 thank you for the back to back super chat and for those, just FYI, we have it in the description. We say it periodically, but super chats over 1999 will be read so we're not skipping. You will still put them up. We just won't read them out loud. She said. Sorry if you already covered this. Just joining now. What are your thoughts on the CA.

[A]

Redistricting really fast because John Doe is calling me out. I am projecting onto Usopp, but not the liar part, the terrified part. So that is the same journey I have gone. I've said many times my journey was one of learning to be strong and so getting into business, I was just terrified all the time. And so I had to learn my path forward. So I'm not gonna Lady Death protest too much about whether I lie or not. You guys will be able to watch me on camera. You've already got God knows how many thousands of hours so you can figure out whether I'm telling truth. But from the secret thing that I wish weren't true about myself is that I have spent much of my life absolutely terrified, anxious. I mean, I try to talk about this stuff all the time, but yeah, that is why I find him motivational.

[B]

Nice.

[A]

Very similar journey.

[B]

All right, Prop 50 redistricting, it just passed in California. That allows California to gerrymander a couple seats to offset what's happening in Texas and the Republicans effort to gerrymander. How do you feel about Prop 50 passing.

[A]

Oof. I think what's good for the goose is good for the gander. So if Republicans are gonna try to redistrict, then of course democr Democrats are going to try to redistrict. So my thing is set one policy to rule the whole nation. It's the only intelligent way forward, in my opinion. So what is the thing that we're going to say? Ah, this is the blanket. It applies everywhere. No one gets to re draw lines, nothing. It's just like a grid that falls down on America and regardless of state, regardless of color, like that's how this all gets settled. And if it comes out to be 80% blue, then it's 80% blue. If it comes out to be 80% red, it's 80% red. It is what it is. But pick one policy to rule them all and never ever, ever, ever, ever redraw the lines. If people start moving, it just is what it is. Like, yeah, I think it's insane that we draw weird lines to try to get the number that we want. It's crazy.

[B]

Yeah. I think there it's just like crony capitalism and the middlemen who aren't entrepreneurs, who aren't good at it, who try to weasel their way up, they're the ones that ruin capitalism's reputation. I think this crony politics is the same way. Some of these district lines are literally a L shaped with a little nudge. And that's that one district. It skips over three different towns, it cuts through four zip codes, but the another zip code. Like it does not make sense. Personally, I feel like an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. So I think California doing it as a fight back just made. You just took away Californians rights, just like Texas just took away some Texans rights. And I think instead of high fiving our team, we just made life worse for both of those people.

[A]

That is correct.

[B]

So I just think it's dirty, but it's all dirty.

[A]

It's ridiculous. It's very sad. It's where we are.

[B]

And we have LeBlanc, aka Nunyo. When are we getting the next playtest and update the map editor, Tom December.

[A]

Well, no map editor updates yet. We're not focused on that at all right now. But we are. You're gonna do a play test in December, so that will open back up. I could not be more excited about the progress that we've made on terrain generation. Uh, it is, it's still awkward as hell. Please do not get me wrong, like it's gonna Be ugly. But the world is really starting to get interesting. Really starting to get interesting. So again, this is one of those where this is exactly the kind of thing I love talking about. But we'll lose the audience. But yes, December.

[B]

And for those that somebody asked earlier in the chat, what's an update on Kaizen? So I don't know if you want to give us a quick elevator pitch.

[A]

Elevator pitch is. It is basically Minecraft with MMO skill trees and guns. So, yeah, that sums it up very, very rapidly. But it is a procedurally generated world that is absolutely massive. That's based on rules. If you alter the rules, the world responds. Not you're not altering the rules, but you move things around to match the rules and then the world will respond to the new configuration that you've put it in. And like Minecraft, you can dig into it and drill down and find caves and all kinds of stuff.

[B]

And I know there's a like pre. Pre alpha available. I just dropped that link. Did some of the newer stuff get added into that or that still?

[A]

No, no. That's like what LeBlanc is asking for is like, hey, we want to come in and play. What every weekend, Tom, as I'm play testing this stuff so that they'll get to do in December, it'll still be super awkward and all that, but from what we've done under the hood to expand the capabilities of the world is insane. So, yeah, the team is growing too.

[B]

We just brought somebody on too that's like. Yeah, so the development is starting to speed up and stuff too.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And we are. We're trying to do an official countdown. I won't hold myself to this, but I will float it as this is what we're aiming for. So we're aiming for early access in call it November of 27. So roughly our countdown is 11 months to where we have to. Sorry, 23 months where we have to lock it and get it ready to release.

[B]

Do video games take longer than, like, feature films? Yes. I was surprised by how long feature films were, like three, four years. But I feel like this video game.

[A]

Oh, games. By the time we get to early access, we'll have been developing for five years.

[B]

Wow, that's.

[A]

Wow, that's wild. Now if I had to do it over again, I could get this far in three years. But I did not know what I was doing. So for the first year, we just literally wasted our time and money. But I learned very expensive education. But I learned the second year was us going, okay, now that I've made all the really dumb rookie mistakes. Now let's start putting a system together. But we were still deeply inefficient. And now for the last. It's been about 18 months. We've been deadly efficient.

[B]

Copy. Okay, we got a couple more. We want to hit these quick. Sequoia Hall. Thank you for the 20 super chat. My dad had us read Aesop's Fable as his moral teachings bring fables back. That is like a Fables back. We might have to do like a Fable segment. We're gonna drop it for five minutes or something.

[A]

Quite literally, this is when I'm not on camera. There's only one thing I do that isn't that and that's the ITU stuff. Which by the way, if you're thinking about starting a business, AI coming for your job, join itu. It's a huge passion of mine. But if I'm not on camera or doing itu, like all of my focus is on the game. I spend an inordinate amount of time on the weekends focused on the game. And it, it is a huge passion of mine. And I think it's. It is ultimately, if I can get it to work, it will be the place that I try to impart values to kids. So that's one of those where if I'm on my deathbed and I'm like, okay, did I really do anything with my life? I'll be very proud of what I've accomplished. There's no doubt about that. I'll be super proud of my marriage. But like, if I never get that piece, if I never speak to anybody other than adults, I will be very sad.

[B]

Then we got another one from Truth. Devin said, I think the more you watch One Piece, your favorite will be Zorro. He's my favorite just because he has sword in his mouth.

[A]

Zorro is awesome. And he is admittedly the temptation because he's the cool kid, but he's the guy that's already good. So like when you pick up with Zorro, he's already the most feared, like pirate hunter in the world. He's incredible. And so it's like I love him, don't get me wrong. But he's the guy. He's the invincible winner. I've never felt like the invincible winner. So I relate more towards people that have to struggle.

[B]

And then one more from Nunye K Lavon that shops to hear being done doing a lot of self development and personal stuff in the background. So lots of new ideas as to improve stuff. Looking for. Looking to make decent content.

[A]

I hope he means around Kaizen, but.

[B]

That'S good to hear. Been doing a lot of self development and personal stuff in the background. So lots of new ideas. Ideas to improve stuff to make decent content. I had to spell check that a little bit.

[A]

I think we got there. Let's go.

[B]

I think we got through it. Okay. I want to go into outer space. We still don't know what's going on with the. With the Martian. I mean the asteroid that's flying around the sun right now. But there was breaking news that is there.

[A]

There's an update. I assume this just went away.

[B]

I'm going about the gravity. Oh, yeah. Three Eye Atlas is still still circling around.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. That's gonna end up being nothing. I'm so sad. It's just.

[B]

You think it's gonna be nothing?

[A]

Just a rock.

[B]

All right, well, we. We got like a week and a half left. Let's. Let's be optimistic.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I need some aliens to come in. I need us to get together, man. I need to get together. I need a mission. I need an Independence Day sequel in real life.

[A]

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