Hello everybody and welcome back to this next lander podcast, the next lander audio

Empire Empire, that's not a good word anymore, it hasn't been for some time, but you know,

you can come up with a version of that that is not the profoundly evil version of it, I suppose.

Well Alex, what do you, the next lander audio co-op?

No, I mean I guess, I wouldn't look, hey, we're equal partners, I guess you could call us a co-op,

but co-op, it's a fine co-op. That'll feel like co-opting that term in a way that maybe is not

intended for. Sure, Brad, do you have any better words to swap in here?

Artisanal farm to table. Hey, go. How about the next lander audio concern?

We are a going concern. It's always a concern. I look, I'm concerned right now.

You may not evil challenge. I'm sorry, you may not evil empire challenge.

Empire records. Okay, all right.

Did they were they ever evil though? I'm sure somebody like a little like a retail level of evil,

but that's about it. Empire state building? Evil. Yeah, candy, depending on what like color scheme

they've got going on. You don't really dark things are happening underneath that building. Yeah,

I am speaking of evil. I feel like as I'm getting older, my getting more evil. I'm getting more,

that's where I was going. I'm just getting more evil. My resting face has become more evil,

and I find myself people asking me if I'm okay when I'm just listening.

Some of it now. Are you okay? No, generally not, but like I took my passport's expired,

and my wife and I were taking new passport photos, and she was like, wow, you just look so mad.

I was like, oh, I'm just trying to have a neutral face. They asked me not to smile in my TSA

pre-check photo, and I assumed that maybe they don't want you to smile in like government IDs or

something. I don't know, but I was like, I wanted to match your eventual mug shot. Yeah, exactly,

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