Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere.

Starting, 2025.

That was early, early and aggressive.

Really aggressive.

Sitting right over there. Balancing out my primal aggression. It's Ashley Burns, hi to Ashley, everybody. I don't know what's going to balance that out. So I'm going to cue off your face a little bit there because when we play that drop, you had a very quizzical look on your face. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to have a drop contest. And I'm not

going to explain the rules of the drop contest. I'm just going to say there's a drop contest

so that I don't have to explain this anymore. If you want to find out, go talk to people in the comments. They'll tell you what to do. That way, I don't have to sit there and go, here's this reason, and at my sole discretion and everything like that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You know, I feel like, Bernie, you just spent as long explaining that you're not going to explain it

as you would have just explained. like that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, I feel like, Bernie, you just spent as long explaining that you're not going

to explain it as you would have just explaining it.

First of all, how dare you?

Secondly, let me give you the bird's eye view here, the high-level vision for this,

Ashley.

The reason why I did that was Enders game style here. I explain it now, but in the future, I never have to

explain it again. So I did take as long to explain it now that I wasn't going to explain it.

But in the future, I'll just say drop contest, and that'll be it.

What, this is you like winning the future fights? This is you like, this is you like, this is

you like beating the shit out of the kid at the beginning of the story so that they never get up again. Look who knows for sci-fi by a slightly problematic author. Yeah, that's exactly right. Ender got in a fight with some bullies and he beat the hell out of the kid. And they asked him, why did that and he said i wasn't trying to win this fight i was trying to win all the future fights yes so he could beat the kid so badly nobody would ever mess with him which then uh running theme throughout the book wonderful book by the way love it couldn't recommend it enough yes the author is highly problematic but it's a great uh great know, go watch the movie, I guess, if you don't want to read the book. Did you like any of the other ones? Did you read any of the follow-ups to Ender's Game? I did. I read, was a speaker for the dead. Someone who speaks for someone who's passed away and talks about their life very honestly and openly. I was like that as a concept. Nobody does that. We go the exact opposite route. You mean they don't say anything bad about anyone who's dead? Or the moment somebody dies, like there can be someone, like I saw this with Richard Nixon. Everyone, his whole life was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he died and everyone's like oh what a terrible loss yeah you know and like celebrate

his life that's kind of changed now that a lot of that communication has been handed over to social

media and the mass public they're not they don't really adopt that they're yeah you're like six

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