Hello, everybody and welcome back to the Chulamati podcast, episode 315.

As always, I'm one of your host, Mike Martin today, joined by the League of Gentlemen.

That's good.

From L.A.

That's good.

Alex.

Not a high bar to pass.

And Jesse, but I'm just going to let you take it from here, Alex.

Well, all right. I mean, I'm just, I like when he just steps aside. Well, I just give up. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, here we go. Look, here we are, friends. With another week comes another episode of the Schluminati podcast. And though in many ways, it's just another week like any other here on the show.

I have two very special things to share with you.

Firstly, today officially marks the end of LA month here at Chulamati HQ,

in which 2025's short diversion into the realms of magic briefly synchronized all our topics around the canyons of our, my, your beloved city, Los Angeles. And we've learned about everything from murders to

military secrets and how the music, film, and news media cloud that surrounds it in what

some might even say was the first modern global culture cloud

ever, only served to amplify the dark magic, the greed, the selfishness, and mystery at the

core of what makes Los Angeles, California, America, and even Western culture itself,

tick ever closer to midnight, where most likely horrible missiles will one day rise at the height of the terrible water war and wipe us all out

for good.

Or maybe we'll vote somebody else into office.

But slowly but surely we'll turn into the United Federation of Planets, right? That's how it's going to turn out. Hopefully. I would love that to be the case. But having lived in Texas for four years, I don't think that's happening anytime soon. I don't think that's where the Federation is based by the way. NASA is out here. Yeah, that's true. That's true. That's NASA. That's not federations in San Francisco. As we all know.

Evidence of ancient life on Mars in a riverbed.

Oh, yeah.

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