Hello everyone. Welcome to the beginning of the show. We're going to start today with some plugs because we've got a lot going on. We are going on tour

imminently starting tomorrow or few of us are leaving the city, but this Saturday, February 1st, we will be in Iowa City at the Engler Civic Theatre on February 9th,

Dairy New Hampshire at the Tupolo Music Hall. On February 18th, we're going to be in Las Vegas, Nevada, Vegas, baby. So she calls of blues, Las Vegas on the strip in the House of Blues. That's going to be a great one.

Sushi, come. Of course. February 23rd, San Diego, California Observatory North Park. My mom will be at that show. Come and say hi to my mom.

Yes. Los Angeles, California, February 25th, two shows. I believe late late night is sold out. Late night show sold out. Unless you're a celebrity. If you're a celebrity, absolutely.

Yeah, no, it could be in our Airbnb if you want. Our early show, still tickets available. I don't want to promise anything, but I do want to promise that show will be a cavalcade of stars.

Sacramento, California, the Ace of Spades, the Ace of Spades, also known as the Vagos Clubhouse. That's on February 28th and February 29th, finishing up in San Francisco, California, the Palace of Fine Arts. All these dates are on chapo traphouse.com slash tour.

I sure hope I meet cake when we're in Sacramento. They're probably just hanging out there. I'm hanging out. They have local staples. Yeah, residency every Monday night at the coffee shop. Yeah.

But I have another plug. We have a YouTube page, YouTube.com slash chapo trap house. There's a ton of stuff there. Clips full episodes. We're slowly working and getting every free, free full episode up on YouTube. A ton of best of clips. We try to keep it up to date with the best clips from the most recent episodes.

I have a really great gray wolf. New father out in Iowa that I've been working with who has been helping us run the back end of that page. We're doing really well. We're creeping up on 40,000 subscribers. But here is the thing I want you to do is go to that page.

YouTube.com slash chapo trap house and smash that subscribe button. I don't care if you watch any videos. I don't care if you never go back to YouTube again. But if we get a hundred thousand subscribers on our YouTube page, YouTube will send me a trophy personally. And I want that trophy. I want that little silver play button. I want to put it above my bed and look at it every night before I go to sleep. Please help get me that trophy.

Get Chris is trophy folks. He has asked for nothing from you people. I've never gotten a trophy and I want a trophy. And also if we get to a hundred thousand, you choose the drivers. I promise to become a YouTube guy. I will record from the front seat of my car. I will talk a lot about. He's a waste a hip ratio of comic book women. I'll get care about video games a lot. So we face Abby. Oh, it's coming. Yeah. Unboxing videos coming. Yeah. If we get a hundred thousand subscribers, I've been

pledged to make all of them leave by posting cringe. And they will come to Chris's house and take away his trophy. No, you can never. You can have it when you pry it. Mullen lobby motherfucker. Anyway, give me that trophy. A hundred thousand subscribers. YouTube.com slash tag get Chris the truth. Hashtag get Chris the trophy. YouTube.com slash chapo trap house. Now the real show. Bye.

Okay. Well, as Chris alluded to in that preamble, this is this is our last show before we deploy to the tactically, we've deployed

tactically to the theater of battle. Yes. We are going to Iowa tomorrow. We are one week away from the first votes being cast. Oh, huh. Oh, my God. Time flies. It hasn't felt like every day. Last of the turn of the year.

The next time you hear this, Donald Trump may have lost the election to Bernie Sanders in Iowa. The first day to vote.

Honestly, that's not far off. It's not possible. That's possible. But okay, so in in in light of that, like we're we're about to go to war. And I know many of you are listeners are already been deployed.

You are a strap. You were deployed strategically to know Hampshire to Iowa. You've been knocking on doors. You've been making calls. You've been texting. You've been putting in the work.

You've been making it rain on the campaign for our boy. So it's all it's all about to get real. So going going into battle. I'd like to begin today's episode with a sort of a meditation.

A meditation that I'd like us and all of you to like, ruminate on and hold with you in the week to come. The way of the samurai is found in death.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing sepaku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail, one should consider himself as dead.

This is the substance of the way of the samurai.

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