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EP:67 Why We Ignore Our Elders & Keep Repeating History’s Biggest Mistakes · The Sense and Senseless Podcast

• Jason: They had the common sense, dude. I I swear, man, I will take common sense any day over damn books mark. Bryan: Well, speaking of common sense, maybe that's why they come out with common core math and shit. You know, it was like, look, we got to fuck your parents up. They can't understand how to do math. Because my kids were doing that shit. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. The way my son was teaching, yeah, was showing me how they were getting taught how I was like, no, let me show you. No, no, Bryan: No, this is the answer. Jason: Dad, you can't do it that. I'm like, okay, just take it. You fucking fail, you fail. I don't know what the else to tell you. This is how I know to do it. Bryan: Yeah, this is the answer. Why'd you get that? I just did this. Well, no, you gotta you gotta draw a box. And then from the Jason: Yeah. Bryan: box, you gotta you gotta fold the page in half. he was like, what the fuck are you doing? The answer is to you don't need all that shit. Jason: Some origami bullshit like you gotta make an You gotta make a swan, Dad. You gotta make a swan to make a four. Bryan: It's like this is fucking stupid. It's Jason: Yeah. Bryan: simple math. It's not that fucking complicated. Jason: By the end of the night you ground your kid 'cause he fucking pisses you off over over a math project. Yeah. Bryan: yeah, my kids hated doing homework with me. My daughter tells me to this day she hated fucking doing homework with me. Look at the inches too! Jason: That's funny, dude. Bryan: fucking common core math, making everybody stupid. Even the teachers thought it was stupid. All Jason: That's right. Bryan: right, ready? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: What the? Hey everybody, welcome back to the Sense and Senseless podcast. I am Brian. Jason: Jason. Bryan: He is Jason. All right, so Jason had put a little time into making a little clip for us because we're getting poor. So if any of y'all is interested, go ahead and check this shit out. Now that's how we're going to make a dollar. Too bad. don't look like that. Jason: That's yeah, too bad I ain't got that much cash either. That's that's all monopoly money right there, people. Bryan: shit. Well, this is your first time joining us. Welcome to the family. We're just two guys. Jason: Sorry for the picture. Bryan: Sorry for the picture. We're just two guys discussing shit in a way that everyone can understand what we're to do tonight. Tonight we're going to, we're diving into something that hits home. The older that you get. Why we ignore the advice of our elders and how that keeps history repeating itself. We'll talk about the advice we blew off when we were young and why our parents and grandparents were usually right. How credit card debt is designed to keep us all enslaved. Then we'll go through five strange patterns that keep looping through history. How the battlefield is changing. The massive hidden growth of bureaucrats. The explosion of federal regulations that cost us trillions. Why groceries feel so fucking expensive. And a quick look at what a dog eat dog business really looks like through the McDonald's Stick with us as we connect the dots. Please like, share, follow and subscribe. We appreciate every single one of you. J's on. Got anything? Jason: Roll Bryan: All right. There comes a time in your life when you start to realize that the older people in your life, the ones, you know, that are always in your business and aggravating fuck out of you, you realize Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: they were only trying to help you. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: You know, at 52 years old, I realized, you know, there's a lot of people that told me some true shit that I just like, I was too smart to understand it, you know? Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And when you're young, you know everything. You think that the older people are telling you shit that won't pertain to you because they lived in a different era. You know, you think fuck shit's different now. Things don't work that way anymore. You know, those people are just old and square. They don't understand the new way. You think they're just prying into your life because they're nosy. You have no idea at the time that these people care about you and they're just trying to help you make better decisions. However, as humans, we think we know everything. Therefore, we don't take advice from the elderly. And you know what's really fucked up? Most of the time, the older person that is giving you advice, they also didn't take advice from their elders when they were younger, just like me, you know? Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And this is a terrible cycle we're all in. We aren't taught the correct history as it is, and then we're not taking advice from the elders. When you reach my age and start to realize that a lot of what the older people told you when you were younger, that was true. you don't understand that they may have seen that the person that you wanted to spend your life with was not the right person for you because they understand that life is tough and choosing the right partner is critical. It's not like buying a car. However, we treat marriages like buying a car. If marriage is tough today, we just start over. You know, there's many examples of advice that you may have gotten and that you chose to ignore. Why? Because you know better. That wasn't going to happen in you. So you just repeat the cycle, just maybe with a slightly different outcome. We don't give our elders enough respect today. And I believe that is what society wants. They don't want you to listen to the advice of the elders because they have lived experience. What they are telling you is truth beyond any study or twist. They're just telling you their experiences and outcomes in the truest forms. And if you allow that, then it is hard to get people to fall into the same issues. Now, when I talk about that, do you have anything you want to say before I go any further on this, Jason? Jason: man, I this is crazy. You're you're talking about this because I remember my grandpa and my grandpa passed away in ninety-nine and we were like best buddies. And he was he was a true grandpa. Like I'm a grandfather, and my my granddaughter, my oldest grandkid's gonna be nine years old, and I'm only fifty one. So yeah, I had to think about that for a minute to carry the five and the ten. But anyways, I'm a younger grand grandparent than what my grandpa was to me. And I remember real quick quick story. I was dating a girl in high school and we were supposed to go out one night and my grandpa had been around her. She'd been over the house at my grandparents' house and all that stuff. And she used to love playing checkers 'cause my grandpa always played checkers and my grandpa would get behind me and tell her what move to make and she'd beat me and I never knew he was doing that. Right. So she loved that. But I called her one night to check and see if we were still going out and she's like, Hey, if you don't mind, I'm going out with my friend Cassie or whatever. I forget what the girl's name was. And she did have a friend that name and I knew that friend. And they she was wanting to go shopping or something with her and I I was like, Yeah, that's fine or whatever. I'll just hang out with my grandparents. You sure you're okay? Yeah, I'm great. So I go out in the garage to hang out with my grandpa and he goes, Where where's are you and Amy going out? And I was like No, she's she's gonna go out with her friend Cassie. He goes, You sure it's not a guy friend, it's a girl? And I was like, Grandpa. I was like, come on. And he goes, Bryan: It's yours not Casey. Jason: he just looks at me and smiles. He said, You sure? I was like, I trust her. And I was like, that's kind of weird. He's doing that. I know this girl. I know the girl she was gonna go hang out with or whatever. Well, lo and behold, she calls me like a couple hours later and is crying. And I'm like, What's wrong? She's like, I I gotta fess something up. I'm like, What what you gotta fess up? I I didn't go out with Casey, I went out with this other dude. And I'm like, my grandpa knew. Bryan: Mm-hmm. Jason: You know what I'm saying? Bryan: Because he has lived experience. Jason: He does. He knows how that happens. Bryan: Yep. And you can't. Jason: And I had to go tell him the next day because that he was already asleep when she called me because it was late that night. And so the next day I was like, Hey, I gotta talk to you. And he goes, But Casey ended up being a dude, right? And I'm like, You read my shit? Like, are you like a psychic or something? He said, Son, I've been there. And I just learned over time, I was blessed to have a grandfather like that, right? That spent a lot of time with me and and taught me stuff and all that. And you wanted to think he grew up in the he was in World War Two. So he was born in the twenties, grew up in the thirties and you know, whatever, and you're thinking women are different. No, they're not. People aren't different. They're they're not. They're not really we're not really that different as human beings. And it's crazy. If you would listen to older people and hang out with older elderly, like go spend time with elderly people, you learn a lot of stuff. Bryan: You wouldn't believe them. Jason: No, you'd still argue with them, but you would finally sit back and be like, Man, they they were telling the truth. These Yeah. Bryan: When you get older, you realize that because there's so much that you want to give to like your family and they don't they don't Jason: Right. Bryan: believe you. And it's like, OK, you know, I mean, I'm trying to help you. But I didn't take this advice. Myself, I'm not one that's going to put myself in your life. You know, if you ask me for advice, I'll give you advice. If I see you doing something stupid and you're going to get yourself hurt or something, you know, I tell you. But if it's just. Jason: Well, and I don't mean to pry, I've known you for a long time, but I don't think we've ever taught. Did you have a tight relationship with your grandparents and you didn't? Bryan: I mean, love my grandparents. My grandparents loved me, we, what type of families where we went places like my grandparents took me somewhere. I think I slipped out, I think Jason: You didn't go spend the night with them a lot and all that? Bryan: once by force and then once. Yeah, I was bad. My, my grandparents on my mama's side didn't care for me much, but I didn't care for many any of us. My siblings, my grandparents on my daddy's side. I mean, they just loved everybody. I mean, it was Jason: Right. Bryan: just amazing. They just loved everyone. And you knew that. But when that saw was a little different, when they would all get together, you wouldn't allow, you know, to be in the kitchen, especially if they were speaking French. You know, they didn't want you to learn French. So Jason: Right. Bryan: if they were speaking French, they didn't want you in the kitchen and shit. But you knew that you felt like you would just love the whole time you were there. You know what I'm getting at when we would all get Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: together on Sunday was just a big love and feeling. And I love my parents with my mama's side. But good God, it was just like torture to go over there. But as I got older, I started, I understood my grandpa a lot more. And then he was the way I thought about it. He was just wanting us to be more, you know, you know, I'm getting that, but we wasn't Jason: Yeah. Bryan: used to that. And, so I think he, he really, I know he loved us and he was trying to help us. He was also in world war two. I just don't think that the way he was and the way I was worked out together. Does that make sense? Jason: Yeah. So who was who was your elder? Who was your Bryan: as far as what, like get advice from. Jason: Like like like like who would give you a lot of advice and you just weren't having it? Bryan: Well, a lot of times it was you might talk to someone in like a barber shop or Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: you might just just talk to an older person. Now, don't get me wrong. I've sat and listen with my grandma and grandpa and my mama saw listen Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: to them on Sundays, just debate government and all this other stuff and just talk and listen to their opinions. And there was a lot of things that was talked about. It's like, yeah, whatever. And like with my family and all, they would Just like you said, they can pinpoint, look, that girl ain't good for you. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Or that friend's not good for you. I they knew. And I was like, yeah, look, you don't, it's like, you don't know, you know, she's so much different. Or, you know, if you got a buddy that you hanging out with, cause you think he's cool and they're like, look, you don't know. No, he's different. You don't know him. No, trust me. I know him. I know a bunch of him. So you know what I'm getting at? Jason: yeah. That dude's gonna drag your ass down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: And you don't take that advice. And some of that advice. could have helped you a lot. You know, some of that advice might have kept you out of trouble. And Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: your whole life might have turned in a different way, just because you made a stupid decision. You know, and that's split second, you didn't take somebody else's advice. Jason: Well, I just like I said, I just I feel blessed that the Lord blessed me with my grandfather 'cause I mean he and when he died, dude, I I cr man. You talk about dehydrated. I mean, I Bryan: really? Jason: cried like a baby. Gosh dang did I I d I don't remember crying that much in my life. I mean, it hurt like bad. I mean, it's my best friend. And Bryan: That's awesome. You know, people that Jason: yeah. Bryan: have relationships like that with their grandparents, that's really awesome. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: And if you do still have that available to be with your grandparents, take time to call them, see them, even if you feel like they don't like you or whatnot, just reach out to them. I'm sure. Jason: They're not better than you. They've just seen a lot of stuff. A lot of time. Like me, I just try to teach my son based off of like I'm like, son, I've already done this. I've already been here. Bryan: You can't teach that. All right. Jason: I know you can't. I mean my son is like me and he's got his mom in him too. It's a weird combination. It's sorry. Bryan: It's kind of disgusting to have his mom in them, but okay. Jason: Yeah. Brian had to go there, but anyways No, he was in his mom or w no, that don't sound right either. But Bryan: All right, let's anyway. So I want you all to think about, no, that's a little worse. Jason: he's the type that he's gotta get burnt. He's gotta pull that T V on him. He's gotta get hurt to learn. Does that make sense? Bryan: Yeah, I think most people are like that, though. To really learn, I mean, you might understand something, but you didn't learn it. You you might. OK, yeah, so and so said this, but all right. So think about credit card debt. Now you can preach to young people the strain that credit card debt will put on them, their family, their marriage. And they believe they have it under control. Yet we have more people in credit card debt than ever before. And why? because it's fucking profitable. Current US credit card debt is approximately $1.26 trillion. This is Jason: Trillion. Bryan: up from $239 billion in 1990. Credit card debt today has increased five times the amount that it was in 1990. About 175 million Americans hold credit cards and roughly 60 % of them are carrying revolving balances. Industry-wide, the US banks collected $174 billion in credit card interest alone in 2024. And merchants, they paid roughly 187 to 198 billion in swipe fees. Now, I found out that these swipe fees, that they charge this two or 3 % for every time they swipe your card and Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: they charge the merchant. The credit card companies use these fees to help fund rewards programs like cash back, the points, the miles, fraud protection and other issues. All right. So we get these perks from a credit card and yeah, Jason: But we're paying it ourselves. Bryan: cause it's charged to a merchant in swipe fees and these swipe fees are charged back to us through the cost of the product. Jason: Yep. Yep. 'Cause it sits Bryan: of the Jason: there and says you're gonna get charged a three or four percent deal if you use a card. Bryan: Nothing's free. Jason: But they sell Bryan: and the bank. Jason: it to it that we You see what I'm getting at, dude? We are so effed up in our heads, man. We're so stupid. Bryan: Yeah, well. Jason: We think we're so damn smart and we get worked so much, man. We get pimped out by everybody. Bryan: What's fucked up is everyone wanted Jason: We ain't we're a bunch of whores. Bryan: everybody wanted to be convenient and go to the car. And all that really is doing is just costing us more money for convenience. Jason: Yeah, but hold up. If you try to go buy something though, go try to buy a house, go try to unless you've got all the money. Like it like you guys are in the the the the the market for a vehicle right now. So if unless you got cash to go pay for that straight up, you're gonna have to get a loan. Okay. If you don't do this stuff, Brian, you don't get a credit rating. Bryan: Yep. no, I agree with you. Jason: Just like if you pay your shit off too fast, you're it hurts your credit score. Isn't that kind of funny? Cause you Bryan: Well, Jason: screwed them out of interest. Bryan: is that credit score something to hijack you or keep you as a slave basically to the money because you are trying to keep your credit score up, right? And they're using that credit score against you to borrow money. I don't Jason: It's a revolving debt trap, is all it is. Bryan: that keeps you enslaved. Jason: Dude, this credit card, I start reading this stuff, I'm like, gosh dang, dude, you like, I've been in it. Bryan: yeah, I've been in it. I mean, I was tens of thousands of dollars in it. Whenever I got my divorce, I had pay all off. You know, not at one time, but I buckled down and you know, went through it and paid that shit off. But yeah, it'll kick your fucking ass. So yeah, I get it. And people will not listen to you because they think that they have it under control. You know, it's easy Jason: Mm-mm. Bryan: to get away from you. Very easy to get away from you. And the banks don't care about your quality of life. They want you in debt. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: They want you to keep spending money you don't Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Hell, your employer loves the fact that you in debt because that keeps you a slave to going to work. Yeah. Jason: Yeah, 'cause then you gotta warp more. Yeah. Bryan: So that benefits everyone getting you in debt. And all of this could be avoided if we just took advice from people that live through this shit, but we know better. Jason: Mm-hmm. You know what my grandpa's advice was on credit cards? Bryan: What's that? Jason: Get one, keep it at a low amount, take a take a pitcher, a gallon pitcher, right? You Bryan: Mm-hmm. Jason: remember the old school pitchers they'd have for tea or whatever. Fill it halfway full of water and freeze it. Throw the card on top of it, and then fill it the rest of the way with water and however you gotta do to keep that card to stick there. freeze that top so you f froze the card in the middle. If you want to use that card, then thaw the card out. Bryan: That's what Christie's grandma told me. Jason: That'll give you time to think about it. That would give you time to think about it. And by the time it thaws out, you probably talk yourself out of using it. Bryan: It stops you from getting those impulsive bias. Jason: Yes. That's what he always told me to do. But Bryan: that Christie's grandma told me that she, that's how she kept her credit card. You had to have a credit card. I remember when my grandma was coming to watch me graduate, my grandma mom to come watch me graduate bootcamp in San Diego. My grandma didn't have a credit card. So it was hard for her to book anything. And that was back in 93. You can't Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: do nothing like booking or anything without a credit card. Now you have to have one. Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: And Unfortunately, we as humans, we have a flaw where we only seem to learn through pain, you know, and we don't take advice. And maybe this is by design. Maybe we're taught through the school system that we can't learn from our elders. Maybe we, we, that's why we start thinking our elders are old and they lack the new knowledge. But if you don't learn the proven knowledge, then history will keep repeating itself. Every generation has to reinvent the wheel per se. Not that one generation is better than the other, but because as humans, we learn more through pain than we ever will learn through teachings. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And this is hard to learn through someone else's struggle. You can understand it, but you didn't really learn it. Now, I have this video from Snappy Bits 2 on strange patterns and history that repeats itself. There are five separate examples and we're going go through each one of them. All right. Do you have any other thing about the elders before we go on? Cause this is all about how history repeats itself. And that's why I want to talk about Jason: No. Well, Bryan: the elders. Jason: you you were like the school system probably taught us not to listen because the school actually in a l roundabout way told us that our elders were dumb, that they didn't Bryan: Yep, that. Jason: even finish school, that they didn't even go to school, and school's so much more advanced now. So I think that that got it in our head that we were better than them. Yeah. And Bryan: We were smarter than that. I'm sure that is what it is. Jason: do we weren't, man, because they had all the they had all the life lessons. They had the common sense, dude. I I swear, man, I will take common sense any day over damn books mark. Bryan: Well, speaking of common sense, maybe that's why they come out with common core math and shit. You know, it was like, look, we got to fuck your parents up. They can't understand how to do math. Because my kids were doing that shit. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. The way my son was teaching, yeah, was showing me how they were getting taught how I was like, no, let me show you. No, no, Bryan: No, this is the answer. Jason: Dad, you can't do it that. I'm like, okay, just take it. You fucking fail, you fail. I don't know what the else to tell you. This is how I know to do it. Bryan: Yeah, this is the answer. Why'd you get that? I just did this. Well, no, you gotta you gotta draw a box. And then from the Jason: Yeah. Bryan: box, you gotta you gotta fold the page in half. he was like, what the fuck are you doing? The answer is to you don't need all that shit. Jason: Some origami bullshit like you gotta make an You gotta make a swan, Dad. You gotta make a swan to make a four. Bryan: It's like this is fucking stupid. It's Jason: Yeah. Bryan: simple math. It's not that fucking complicated. Jason: By the end of the night you ground your kid 'cause he fucking pisses you off over over a math project. Yeah. Bryan: yeah, my kids hated doing homework with me. My daughter tells me to this day she hated fucking doing homework with me. Look at the inches too! Jason: That's funny, dude. Bryan: fucking common core math, making everybody stupid. Even the teachers thought it was stupid. You know, well, you have to teach it. See, that's what happens. All right. But all Jason: No, you don't put your foot down. But yeah, let's no, that's all I had on there. Bryan: right, let's roll. Here we go. Pain is the ultimate motherfucking teacher. Jason: It is. Bryan: It is, no doubt. Jason: I tell my parent I tell my mom all the time when I see her, we don't see as much, but I tell her that every time I mess up I feel my ass getting ba beat. Bryan: So you think we at that stage right now to where history is going to repeat itself? mean. Jason: It always does. Bryan: It always does, I mean, I think we're soft, we talk about it all the time about how soft we are. Jason: it's bad. Bryan: When you think about your grandfather and the stories that your grandfather had, because you spent a lot of time with Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: your grandfather and the hardest times that he just told you about as a man, you know, he didn't tell you about his hardest days. You just don't do that. That's some of that shit. You just keep to yourself. Right. But but I mean, Jason: No, yeah, he didn't let it all out. Bryan: he would tell you about hard times, I'm sure. Jason: Mm-hmm. Yep. Bryan: How does your hard time in your life, your hardest time in your life, even compared to what he shared with you? Jason: Nowhere near what they went through. Bryan: And that's what you feel that he don't even know what you went through. But that's what I'm saying. I like the stories I heard from my grandparents. There's nothing I went through in my life that I can compare. And that's just what I learned from hearing from them. That's not exactly Jason: No. Bryan: the hardest thing they ever had. And what I'm. Jason: Dude, I was making I was making this dish for my grandma and her friend. It was after my grandpa passed away. Her friend flew down from Washington State and stayed with my grandma for a little bit and visited. And I w I made them this dish that I learned on the Food Network. And if I think about it, I'll make it for well, I don't know if Jennifer would eat it anyways. But anyways and so it had to do with hamburgers and onions in it. For the stuffing part. And I was cleaning the the the pan out. I sauteed my hand or my onions and then threw my hamburger in there and cooked it. And then I was getting it all out of the pan, and there was like four specks of little chopped up onions left in the pan. And I put it in the sink with no water, just set the pan in the sink because I was doing my other thing. And my grandma went over there and flipped her fucking lid. Cause I left Bryan: Could just waste an onion. Jason: four specks of onions in that pan. And I'm like, grandma, it's not that big of a deal. Son, if you grew up in the Great Depression like I did, that that was the difference between starving to death or or eating good. Get it out of there and get it in there. Or when I would peel a a a a potato with a potato peeler instead of a paring knife, I was wasting too much potato. Bryan: still think about that when I peel potatoes that I'm wasting too much. Jason: I can't use the pairing knife, dude. I'm gonna cut my hands all open. I've just never been really good with a knife of doing that kind of stuff. Bryan: I use a paring knife, but I still don't trim it just right, you know, so I do waste a lot. Jason: My grandpa would sit there and and he would be like, I'll do it. Like he wasn't even gonna listen to grandma. He was scared of grandma. Grandma cut your throat. Bryan: Most, most, most grandpas were scared of grandma. Jason: Yeah, grandma cut his throat. Like that Bryan: and most Jason: that dude was in World War Two and Gr he was scared of my grandma. Bryan: Well, it's not that I think every man is not scared of his wife, but he meant Jason: He respects her. Bryan: he loves his wife so much that he does respect and he'll let her get away with certain things. And now he's not going to let you get away with the same shit, but he'll let her do it for the peace of himself. Jason: you didn't F with grandma. Grandma tear your ass up and then grandpa had her back too. I mean, they just tag team your ass. Bryan: So we can agree then that we know that we're not as hard as our grandparents. Jason: no. I meant, dude, I'm like four specs of damn onion, grandma. That onion cost a dollar ten cents. And I left maybe I couldn't even calculate what I left in that pan. And you're throwing a fit about it. But she said that was the difference between starving or eating back when she was little in the Great Depression. I didn't I never knew what it was like to starve to death. Bryan: No. Well, yeah. And it's just what nutrients you get from that. The stock. Jason: Or not starve to death, but to starve, to to be to go to bed hungry other than I didn't want to eat Yes. Bryan: to not know when you're gonna get your next meal. Jason: Yes. Yes. I had meals in front of me. I chose not to eat sometimes, but Bryan: a guy I worked with, he would buy his grandpa a Hershey bar. And at the time, remember Hershey's had, I don't know if they still do. had all the little squares. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And he said his grandpa would every Hershey boy bring him. He'd take it and he'd break a little square off and he'd eat that. That was what he'd eat for the day. And he'd stick his Hershey ball on top of the refrigerator. And he had one of them Jason: Thank you Bryan: little squares each day. And he said, why grandpa, I can buy you all the Hershey boys you want. He's like, he couldn't get out of it because. Jason: He rationed it. Bryan: Yep. He rationed it because. So they've been through a lot, you know? So let's keep moving forward. So the next one, we're going through this, the second portion of the strange patterns and repeating history. OK, do we resemble that in any way? So I looked at the technology on the battlefield and the changes that we're seeing now. And of course we have AI, right? So AI is really helping the battlefield. We see that I think in Iran, well, we heard it, the precision targets that they had. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So I figure, fuck, I'm gonna ask Grant, who has the best technology today, just overall battlefield technology. number one, Gartner Gronk was Ukraine stands out for the fastest real-time battlefield adaptation. And it says, this is basically because of their drone technology and anti-drone technology. Coming in number two, our Holy Land, Israel. AI assisted targeting and robotics. They got networking and direct energy systems, adapts high tech systems to asymmetric and urban threats while maintaining conventional capabilities. number three, we got the great US of A, which we're the historical leader in high end technologies, precision weapons, stealth, GPS and AI research and development. So the US, you know, is number three and then we got China and Russia that round out the top five. Okay, I mean, that doesn't mean that they are better than us. You know, they just have more. They just adapted more because they fight a lot more than us. You know, the more you fight, better you get. All right, let's move on to number three. Jason: Mm. Bryan: All right. We're going to take a little time on this one about the Jason: All right. Bryan: about the bureaucrats. I want to break this down only because I don't think enough people know about it, because even when I was looking, I'm like, good Lord, they got a lot of motherfuckers and bureaucrats. And how do they hurt us? How many bureaucrats do we have now compared to 80 years ago? The amount of people we have working in the three letter agencies and government. Employees overall has grown over the last 80 years, but reached its peak in the early 90s during the Clinton administration. Clinton had made some cuts actually to the bureaucrats in 1990. Now since then, there has been a steady decline in the IRS and the USDA. However, at FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF still grew with the biggest growth in FBI. Overall, since 1970, the amount of federal employees in the US hovered around two million people. which would lead you to believe that the government, you know, is doing a good job of maintaining the cap on government workers. So we're staying at two million. But here's the fucking kick in the balls. Bless you, it's all good. Jason: Sorry, gosh damn. Bryan: While today the federal government hasn't increased their federal workforce, contractors that work for the federal government are double the federal workforce. This doesn't include the military, this is just government workers. It is estimated that today we have roughly 4 million contract workers that work alongside our federal workers, bringing the estimated total of bureaucrats to around 6 million people working for the fucking government. To put this in perspective, We have roughly 1.3 million people in our active armed services. Combined with the reserves, we have roughly 2.1 million people available to serve. With the total federal workers in the contracted counterparts, they outnumber our military three to one. Jason: That's crazy. How do Bryan: Walmart. Jason: how do you do that? Bryan: Well, I'm going to explain all that to you. Just give me a second. Jason: all right. Bryan: I'm to explain to you why they do that. So Walmart is the world's largest private sector employee. They roughly employed 2.1 million people worldwide. We have three times that working in our federal government. The cost to the taxpayers around one trillion or a little more than one trillion per year. These contractors work alongside all the three letter agencies like the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the DHS, mostly the intelligence agencies. These contractors work on a different set of rules than the federal employee. The contractor is not under the supervision of the government agency. The contractor works based off the contract written by the company they work for. Therefore, the contractor can do things that the government worker is not allowed to do. The oversight for these contracts, contractors are through the contracting officer and not the Congress or our government. FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act, generally doesn't apply to contractor records the same way they do government records. So if I wanted to do shady shit, I'd use a contract. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So yes, bureaucracy has grown a fuckton, it's just hidden in government contracts. You understand that? Jason: Yeah, that makes sense. Bryan: Okay. So how about the shit that these people regulate onto us? So let's first understand the code of federal regulations in the simplest form, which is they call the CFR, Code of Federal Regulations. The CFR is a big organized library of all the detailed federal rules that agencies have written to carry out the laws Congress has passed. Jason: Right. Bryan: So Congress passes broad laws. Those laws often give federal bureaucratic agencies like the EPA, the FDA, the IRS, OSHA, the power to write detailed rules explaining exactly how the law is gonna work in practice. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So Congress, they can pass it, but they get what they consider experts Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: to fine tune it basically. So when an agency finishes a new rule, After public notice and comment, first appears in the daily federal register. Later, all the final currently active rules are organized by topic and put into the CFR. So think of it this way, the US code is the actual laws that's passed by Congress. The CFR is, the detailed instruction manuals written by agencies that turn those laws into day-to-day rules that businesses and people must follow. The CFR is divided into 50 different titles, like subgroups, like the food and drugs for the FDA, labor, OSHA, protection of the environment, the EPA, internal revenue, you know, There's 50 of them in that way. The 1938, the Code of Federal Regulations was 18,193 pages of his first edition. right. So roughly 18,000 pages in 1938. By 1960, the CFR only grew to 22,877 pages. So Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: in 22 years, the CFR grew 4,684 pages. By the mid 70s, the CFR exceeded 70,000 pages. 47,000 pages in roughly 15 years. So in that short amount of time, in 15 years, it grew roughly 10 times it did in the first 22 years. In the early 2020s, the CFR reached 190,000 plus pages. 120,000 pages in 45 to 50 years, roughly 2.5 times growth from the mid 1970s. So as you can see, we're fucking highly regulated in this country and not by the people we elect, but by the bureaucrat experts that they put in positions to write the rules to govern us. All right, it's a lot of fucking rules. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: But what does this shit cost us? These figures we're about to go over on today's dollars, all right? So it's not like we, I've given you something from 1938 and it's gonna be extrapolated. This is all today's dollars. So in 1938, the administrative costs were very little and the total economic costs was unknown but very low relative to modern levels, likely a well under $50 to $100 billion in 1938. 1960, the administrative costs was up to around five to $6 billion of total economic costs, but it's still modest. Mid 1970s, the administrative cost was 16 to 20 billion. The total economic cost though was roughly 350 to $500 billion. In 2023, the administrative cost was 90 to $100 billion. The total economic cost, 2.1 to 3.1 trillion. That's a lot of fucking money we spent on bureaucrats to fucking regulate us, Jason: Uh-huh. Bryan: And they can't even keep up with the fraud going on. Jason: There's no fraud going on in this country. Somalia dycares are Bryan: fraud, waste and abuse. Jason: legit, dude. Bryan: Did you know that though? I that that is a lot of fucking rules. 190,000 plus pages of rules that are on us. Jason: And you know, you you talk about this stuff, not to sidetrack too much, but I see the FDA here. So the last two weeks I spent in Nebraska with my son, and he's in the Air Force up there in Omaha. And he was over in Japan on a little mini deployment for about four or five months with his I'm not gonna talk about the aircraft he works on or whatever, but we were talking about he was talking about food over in Japan. You know it's crazy. The food over there is so much cleaner than it is over here. Like a ton of countries will not allow them to use Bryan: I've read that before. Jason: stuff in their food that we allow in our food. Bryan: I've read that they won't allow like meat that we have here that processed in their country. yeah, definitely. Yeah, Jason: Yes. Yeah. Or the preservatives that we allow. Bryan: they said, you know, a lot of places don't use the preservatives Jason: Yeah. Bryan: that we use here. Jason: And and my son said like when he would eat, he was eating he lost 40 pounds over there. He wasn't starving. He was eating good. Not forty pounds. I'm sorry. I think he lost like fifteen, twenty pounds. Bryan: Let's do it. Jason: he's Air Force. He's not Marine. He's I'm sorry. I love you, boy, if you listen to this. But he's close to 200 pounds in the Air Force. Yeah. Sorry. Bryan: Hehehehehe Jason: I I don't understand, but I'm fine if they allow it, then he's doing his Yeah, he needs to PT a little bit, but no, Bryan: He's saying you need a little more PT Jason: he's a good kid. He d he's real good at his job. He might not outrun you, but he'll he can fix shit. So Bryan: you Jason: anyway, no, I I am. I I'm extremely proud of him. I mean, he's really intelligent on what he does and all that. And they're just not The Air Force and we've always known they were like that when we were young, right? Air Force was more about knowledge, being smart and fixing stuff than they were physical training and all that. Marines just wanted a lot of strong, strong, dumb fuckers, and that's what we gave them. But anyways, it's just crazy. Because and we got to talking about it right before we left. If you cut that out in our area, all the stuff that they throw in our food and all that stuff, who who who suffers, Brian? Bryan: I don't know, honestly. Jason: The medical. Bryan: yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah. You think they playing hand in hand? Jason: dude. Bryan: That's quite possible. Jason: They w they walking hand in hand. They in a relationship. Bryan: Well, going back through the history, this is number three. Do we Jason: Right. Go ahead. Bryan: check the box of the bureaucrats outnumbering our military? Jason: That's crazy. Bryan: It's crazy, Jason: Yeah. Bryan: All right. So let's go to the next one. So that's three check boxes, right? And I'm again, whoever's watching this, the listener is I'm not trying to scare anyone. I'm just pull the video and I, yeah, Jason: You're just presenting the facts. Bryan: I'm just, yeah, just trying to show you something. So let's go to the next one. Now we go talk about groceries. I'm going to show you some shit on groceries. Groceries. So Jason: Roosaries Roosaries Roaries Bryan: how much has the groceries grown in the last 80 years and since 2020? Jason: I got one for this once you get done. Go ahead. Bryan: So, all right, sorry. So what I keep it simple, a basket of groceries that cost a hundred dollars in 1947, what costs roughly $1,246 today in today's dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Jason: Dale. Daniel. Bryan: And here's the kicker, real change that inflation adjusted, which is relative to broader cost of living. and grocery prices are about 17 % lower today than it was in 1947. I know it don't sound right. In other words, food at home has risen less than the average of all the consumer prices over the full 80 year span. So basically, when you look at the numbers, grocery prices stayed flat Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: when adjusted for inflation. Okay. So why does it feel more expensive? And the reason is because your purchasing power is just not going anywhere. So you make it more dollars, but your purchasing power is still the same or lower. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: This is because you are worth your wage. Most of you, including me, We don't have any assets. Therefore our savings or our money in general is steadily losing value as inflation rises. The issue I have with the data is that the data shows that the food price to your house rises an average of 3.3 % to 3.4 % per year. And the CPI rises on average 3.5 % per year. So therefore this means that your wages need to rise on average roughly 3.5 % per year for the data that I'm looking at to hold true for real world. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And we're gonna hold off on that math for a minute and look at our grocery prices of business. But do you understand that? What they're saying is, is the grocery prices are here and your actual real wages are right alongside of it. So they're assuming that everybody's getting a raise. So their wages are going up at least 3.5 % every year. That's what the data is showing. I don't agree with that. So, but we're going to hold off on that for a second. U.S. Jason: We're getting raises but shit's increasing a lot more than our wages are increasing, I feel like. Bryan: Well, according to, yeah, I do too, but according to the data, it's right around the same. All right. But what I'm Jason: Bullshit. Bullshit. Bryan: getting at is I don't think me and you have, we work for good companies. I'm not going to lie. We Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: work for good companies and we'll get good raises, you know, at least cost of living. You know what I'm getting at? A lot of places don't, Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: you know, there's places that you might get a $1 raise an hour every three or four years. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: You know, it might get 33 cents here. You're not keeping up with inflation. And I don't think that's seen in this data. That's just my opinion. Jason: My wife got a six cent raise two years ago. Bryan: See, did it keep up with the inflation? I think that's missing from the data. Now I'm gonna use the data, cause that's all I got. I can't prove that the data is wrong, but I'm gonna show you something using it though. Jason: Right. Bryan: So the US grocery prices rose 34 to 35 % since 2019. And then the common household supplies rose 25 to 30 % since 2019. And again, to be fair, it's also stated the overall wage for the U.S. grew 32.6 % since 2019. So what does that mean? A basket of groceries that cost $100 in 2019 would cost roughly $133 today. I'm current dollars after adjusting for general inflation, the same grocery grocery basket cost the equivalent of about 102 to 103. in constant 2019 dollars. So in other words, in real money, the overall increase in your groceries was two to 3 % according to the numbers. Jason: Mm-mm. Bryan: Overall, CPI rose roughly 30 % over the same period. If your pay followed the median growth rate of 31 to 36 % since 2019, someone that was making $50,000 a year in 2019 now makes 62 to $65,000 a year. Hourly employees pay would look something like this. In 2019, if you made $15 an hour, today you'd be making $20 an hour. 2019, if you was making $20 an hour, today you'd be making $27 an hour. And if he was making $30 an hour in 2019, today you'd be making $41 an hour. I believe this is the disconnect, you know, because I don't think the average person is seeing this level of rise in their pay. You? Jason: I can't now listen, my company gave really good raises a couple Bryan: No. Jason: years ago. No, they did a big increase, an adjustment, like a Bryan: They did an adjustment though. Yeah. Jason: big one. But then it's like they knew something was coming. Cause as soon as we got it, groceries, gas, everything was just out of out of bounds. Brian, they got people that had shit on their phone. Before groceries took off, where it showed them what like they ordered, right? They had a grocery list on their phone and it showed them what the cost was, like back whatever year it was but right before COVID. It may have been twenty nineteen. And say it was a hundred and ten dollars. They went and ordered the same shit today, and it was like two hundred and fifty, two hundred and sixty dollars. It was what it was astronomical. It was not like no, it wasn't 35%. It was crazy. Bryan: So wasn't 35%. It was 200%. Jason: I ought to have the wife come in here. She just did a delivery we had yesterday. A Walmart delivery. You know, we did all that traveling back from Nebraska. I didn't want to go to Walmart too. So we just let them bring it to our house. And it was $200 just for me and her. For a few things for the house, Brian. That was it. $200. We used to do that with me, her and the kids. Bryan: Well, But they saying that your purchasing power don't change, No, I'm Jason: It bullshit. Bryan: sorry. I'm sorry. Not your purchasing power. The wages came up with groceries is what the number shows. Now, I don't think I have it. Jason: No. It did it it did. I didn't really get a raise. We were starting to go below water, my mouth, you know, I'm sitting here treading water at Bryan: Mm-hmm. Jason: work, and all of a sudden it's coming up to my damn mouth and it covered my mouth. My nose is still breathing. I'm still and then all of a sudden they brought my neck back out of water. It's the all they did was brought me back to level again. Bryan: Exactly. And that's what I'm trying to. Jason: I feel like I got a hell of a fu dude, if I was making this money that I'm making now ten years ago, I'd be a rich mother. I ain't kidding. I'd be rich as hell. But I'm not anymore. It doesn't care. It doesn't carry like it used to. Bryan: Well, that's what your analogy just made my point. Because what I'm trying to tell you is that the grocery prices went up. Your pay went up. Right. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So it's still level. So they brought you to where you could breathe again. And I Jason: Yes. Bryan: don't I don't have the chart for this one, but I'm doing one on the economy. And this week also that we'll have. And in that one, I'll show how your purchasing power, no matter how much you make, stayed the same for the last 34 years. Jason: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Bryan: It never grew. So they keep you right, your head right above water. Jason: Yes. Bryan: keep you happy. Not happy. keep you. Jason: They put that carrot no, they put that carrot out in front of my head. Bryan: I damn sure put that carrot in front of you. when you look at where we are with our earnings, you start to see we all on a hamster wheel and think we're getting somewhere, but we just tread in water. It's game of life is rig game, man. When they tell you it is a dog eat dog world. You better believe him. Now remember, I'm sure you've seen this movie, The Founder with McDonald's. Have you seen that? Jason: Mm-mm. Bryan: It's a great movie, guys, if you haven't seen it. So it's about the founding of McDonald's and how Ray Kroc, he was a milkshake machine salesman. All right. And he worked his way into the business that the two brothers built. And these two brothers, I mean, the work that they put in, the meticulous work they put in to make McDonald's efficient. as a fast Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: food restaurant. It's unbelievable. And his guy Ray Kroc comes in and he joins them and he's a very aggressive guy. And he ends up buying the two brothers out for, and the brothers were left with it was a million dollars each and they kept the original McDonald's. All right. That's what they got. Now they had to rename their restaurant to the big because Kroc, he owned the rights to the McDonald's name. Now, crock has this famous line in the movie where he tells us the tells the McDonald brothers that business is war. It's a dog, eat dog, rat, eat rat. If my competitor was drowning, I'd walk over and put a hose right in his mouth. Can you say the same? So he was ruthless, you know, but he made McDonald's a huge success. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: The McDonald's brothers found out how ruthless he was as crock was pissed that the McDonald's brothers kept their original restaurant. So this son of a bitch opened a McDonald's near the original store, which resulted in Jason: Put them out. Bryan: McDonald's brothers having to lose their dreams. Now the Jason: He's a dude. Bryan: McDonald's brothers state that they have no regrets, you know, about selling everything, but I bet they have some deep wounds, you know, and being the nice guy in this world doesn't get you much. And they were nice guys. You know, they just wanted to live their dream. Jason: Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Bryan: hell just last week I found out being nice doesn't get you to go to heaven, know? But fortunately we have a lot of nice people in the world that are happy with their basic ass life. Now the problem is there are a lot of Ray Crocs out there just waiting to take advantage of you being kind. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And if you're interested in how companies are subsidized by us while making record profits, I think I'm gonna have that next week. I pulled the thread on COVID and all the people on welfare and the companies that's paying wages below fucking poverty. And man, it's just unbelievable the amount of money that our like SNAP benefits and medical and all are paying to employees of these companies. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: is fucked up. So what think about it, O'Rey Crock. Jason: It's those kind of people, man, that end up making it. But like I said, w I don't know how that dude is as a person. Don't really care. Like I said, in this world and my beliefs, I'm just passing through, bud. So I'm gonna stick to my Lord and Bryan: Yeah. Jason: Do my thing and if hey, my riches are after this life, not during it. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: If you haven't seen that movie, though, it's pretty fucking good. You feel bad for the McDonald's brothers. You do. Jason: I will 'cause I no, 'cause you look and see where they're at today, where McDonald's is, ain't no telling what that damn family's worth or whatever. Bryan: But it wouldn't have been honestly without Ray Kroc because Ray Kroc pushed it, you know. Jason: he did, but he screwed the hell out of them guys. Bryan: he screwed them dudes. He screwed them bad. Jason: I mean he bent him over and gave him the the full Monty, right? Bryan: So do you think, do we check this next box? mean, it was kind of, when you look at the prices, you're keeping your head just above water, right? Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Are we having a bread problem, you know, or you think we, maybe we don't check this box in history or do we check this box? Jason: No, we check it. Bryan: Okay. I agree with you. I think the numbers, I mean, that's what I found in the numbers. I'm not going to argue, I can't prove it otherwise, right? And Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: so that's what I found, but I believe we all work. A lot harder for a lot less and our food prices went up a lot. You know? Okay, so here's the last one. So you wonder why we don't see nice buildings anymore? Did we just forget how to build them? Jason: Yeah, or frickin' all this rogue construction shit, dude. Bryan: we can't fix, we can't fix a row. Jason: dude, I'm not even gonna talk about that. Like our our trip to Nebraska was horrible. I'm telling you, all of what was it? Seventy or seventy five. I can't remember which one it is from St. Louis to Kansas City. People will know if they it listened to this and they know the route or whatever. it it was horrible. It was horrible. Why are you doing that much construction on that on a three hour three and a half hour span, right? You you can't do that, man. You're killing it. Leave it alone. Never Bryan: So. Jason: had a problem on that road, Brian. Never did. And it looks like they're trying to widen it and all that. Never had traffic issues. I I don't I don't know. Bryan: Do you think we lost building techniques? Jason: Yeah, I think we did. Bryan: Even though we got more technical. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: is you think that's why we see more metal building now. Jason: Yeah. I mean barn dominiums are the things now. Brick homes Bryan: Yeah, I... what? Jason: aren't aren't the thing. It's a barn dominion. It's a it's a damn pole Bryan: Is it because of- Jason: barn shell on concrete pad with a damn a house built inside of it. Bryan: not now that's our dreams. Okay. So anybody listen to it, it probably their dream. But do think they're doing it because it's cheaper? Or because it's just better material than they can get? I think it's better Jason: I don't know. I don't I Bryan: material and cheaper but Do we have problem with people building houses now? Or if you put enough barn dominiums up, do they lose how to build a house? I don't know. Jason: I I don't know. They're nice looking, don't get me wrong, but I don't know structure wise during a bad storm or something how they hold up. Bryan: So in 80 years, Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: since all this changed and we looked at the first four and we checked boxes, do we check the fifth box of losing history? Okay. Jason: Yes. Yes. Bryan: So this next video is gonna put all this together and it's about four minutes longer. Again, this is not for anyone, you know, to sit here and say that this is doom or gloom. but. I just putting this out there so you can see history repeating itself. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Did you know that? Jason: Mm mm. Bryan: I didn't know that either. I didn't know that we were damaging other countries. I thought we just helped other countries. Jason: Well, a lot of people rely on us for stuff though. Bryan: Yeah, yeah, I guess and if we don't have enough money to give to him, maybe it hurts them. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like I that's the whole big thing I don't like, Brian. I guess I live in a little small box. And and I guess that's what hurts me or whatever, where it bothers me with what's happening and all that stuff is is I don't I I still today don't understand why we can't take care of ourselves. Bryan: as a people or as a country. Jason: No, we talked about that. You were talking about the petrol dollar and all this stuff. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: Why can't we just take care of ourselves? We have the means to do it. We it would take us a while to get our infrastructure built back up, company or factories and all that stuff, right? Because so many moved overseas because of EPA laws and all that. But that's what I'm getting at. Bryan: I can tell you exactly why. It's because it's not it doesn't it doesn't make people money. Jason: No, it doesn't. Bryan: It did. Well, I'm not gonna say it doesn't make people money. It you can't launder money that good. You can move money overseas and move it back into the pockets of these people. A lot easier. Jason: Well Bryan: You can clean the money by moving it overseas. Let's put it that way. Jason: Well or or can we say that whoever's pulling the strings again? We we're simple minded and we think that our government's the government, but then we've we've or we've also been digging enough to see there's somebody bigger than our government pulling strings. They're they're not in this country. More than likely. They're somewhere I guarantee they're somewhere else. Well, they're all over the place, but they're aliens. They're Bryan: They're lizard people. Jason: they're higher life forms than us. They're Bryan: You Jason: I was listening to Bad Friends. Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna call them out 'cause I like The Bad Friends podcast. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: But anyways, they were talking about aliens. Bobby Lee was talking about it. But anyways, Yeah, it's when when when you just live in your when you stay in your own little box, you don't realize this. Bryan: all this shit. Yeah. Jason: Yeah, you you just don't understand why why are we affecting other countries as much as we are. But we do because we're I don't know. I'm all about shut the borders down, let's just take care of ourselves. And before anybody gets mad about me making that comment, I'm talking about if you're already here, then that's fine. Let's go ahead and adopt that. Well, other than if you're here to do harm to this place, then we're coming after you and you're you're gone. We're gonna load your ass up on a boat or a plane or something and shove you out somewhere. And it's probably not where you're gonna want to be. But if you want to be here and prosper and make a good life and contribute to our nation, I'm all about having you here. Because when we went, once again, I got out of my own little pole dunk area that I live in and went up to Omaha, Nebraska. Dude, there's some good ass food up there, dude. my gosh. You know what I'm saying? And I told my wife, I said, without these other nationalities, we don't have The food. We don't have the history. We don't have the what what help me out with some words here, Brian. You don't have Bryan: I don't know if you fucking tell the story. Jason: I know, but I'm saying we do we lose all that. If we if we if it's just a bunch of white ethnicity, Bryan: We don't have the ethnicity of our food. Jason: we don't have all the culture. We don't have the music. We don't have the food. We don't have this in this country. And I like that. Bryan: I agree with you, but how many more do we need? Jason: Well, we don't need a ton. Bryan: Okay. Jason: But I'm I'm willing to give damnesty. Now the shit going on in Dearborn, Michigan and all that shit with Muslims and all that, dude, that shit's gotta cut out. I'm sorry. Bryan: No, you have to assimilate to this country. And Jason: Yes. Bryan: I would even take a step further that you need to speak English. That's just our native tongue, you know, Jason: Yes. Yes. Bryan: but right, let's see how else we compare to the world. Jason: Go ahead. Mm. Bryan: Think about that shit. That explain everything? Jason: Yep, that's why I say, man, the writing's on the wall. Pull the pull the plug. Stop supporting everybody and pull our shit back to RS. Bryan: Yeah, and don't get me wrong, I think that what we discussed tonight is actually happening. Having said that, I don't think this is a fall of the United States. It's not like we're gonna like just crumble. I mean, we'll still be the United States of America. Maybe we need this kick in the balls to where we start, you know, starting to want to be better. No, not just want to be consumers and just taking money from everyone. You know, maybe we can be better a little bit. I don't know. Anything, Jason, anything else? All right. Well, thanks everyone for joining us tonight. It was a pleasure spending time with you until next time. This is the Sense and Sensuous Podcast. I'm Brian. Jason: I'm Jason. Bryan: He's Jason. Peace. Jason: Peace.