I'm so annoyed that we're so annoyed that we started 2026 by I was relaxing and then a bunch of guys rolled into my secret cave where I play Crusader Kings 3 all under heaven.

And then they blackbagged me and they drag me back to the TF studio where I'm now being forced at gunpoint to record a podcast.

All of us have been black bagged, flex cuffed, and then dragged in front of our podcasting

microphones back to work after the holiday.

And I have to condemn this as an unprecedented violation of international law that will

surely make the world less safe.

Well, that's how they're bringing people back to the office.

They're just like, you know, if we have to do it, we're kidnapping you and putting you in your cubicle. I'm a tier one anti-work-from-home operator. You think that they're joking. No, I'm even on this fucking episode. We're all in the goddamn detention. We're all wearing our, like, yeah, we're all wearing our Nike. Kind of a surreal video podcast that we're doing when none of us can see anything because we all have blindfolds on, but we've got those stupid, the great big microphones that every podcast ever has.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, the worst part for Riley was they put him in the gray Nike sweatsuit and he was like, I would never wear this voluntarily.

They like zip up the Nike jacket on you and you're like thrashing against the restraints

I'll tell you how do you think uh the worst part of course is that um I was hoping that we

would get taken by the Lib SEAL special forces but we got taken by the Chud Delta special forces

So this is the thing you and I were talking about this beforehand.

Like, Maduro, which is, we're going to spend the whole episode talking about,

Maduro got taken by Delta Force, partially because, like, Trump likes them more.

And, like, it's interesting, right?

Because the Navy Seals obviously also Chuds, but under the Obama administration,

they were able to sort of market themselves upwards very effectively as like, you know, here is your elite surgical philosopher king strike package, sir, right? Which is extremely funny if you've ever encountered Navy SEALs, which I have because like they're basically like, the best way I could describe it is what if the Khmer Rouge were surfers?

But they were able to like clean themselves up kind of like, in order to sell themselves

as like the guys to do that stuff.

And now, of course, it's a different era.

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