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You know like when the ship's going down and you know that there's nothing saving you?

The best thing you can do is just all have a laugh about it at least, you know, go out giggling. In the city like, we just gave truck and stay in time. Good afternoon Michael malice here. Let that be welcome for the next hour. We have with us a guest. I've been trying to get back for weeks. Count Dankula. Political prisoner, live streamer, shit poster, and troll.

I wanted to have you, I'm glad to have you on

and the first show of the year,

because I think something you and I have in common

is we understand that we're living in a sewer and everything around us is

nightmarish but we also know how important and

fun it is to have a good time and not to let it define our lives and our

worldview and be like well it's a rap so I'm just gonna go you know

drink some bleach or something like that.

Yeah exactly like you know you know the fiddle might be playing you know where we're on bums but at least it's a banging song like you know like it's good it's all good You know it's important to laugh. You know, it's like one of the things, you know, like when the ship's going down and you know that there's nothing saving you. The best thing you can do is just all have a laugh about it at least you know go out giggling.

There's this you know Russians I was born in the Soviet Union have this you know very dark sense of

humor and there's this Russian joke about like how oh my God, you go to this restaurant,

like the food was so shitty.

Yeah, and such small portions.

So like, if you don't have that kind of like appreciation of all right, like we're living into some kind of Kafka's nightmare like you're gonna go mad.

What I want to talk to you about is as bad as things are here in the United States, which they certainly are.

Wait, before we get to that, actually, I've been having an internal argument and I really want to hear your input.

I don't know if it's the fact that we're getting old, but I think people are getting dumber.

Like the responses I'm getting us social media I think are genuinely stupider and I don't think it's that I'm getting more sensitive

and thin skin and I don't have an explanation. Have you had a similar

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