Gahey, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Here's a dangerous idea for you.

2024 may not be as shitty as everyone thinks it's going to be. Or at least it might be shitty in the

ways they fear it's going to be shitty, but you should feel good nonetheless. I say this because many a listener has hit me up over the course of this holiday season,

this southern summer here in Australia, saying, Zep's old buddy, old pal, they says to me,

they says to me like that, they says, why didn't you give me like a wrap of twenty twenty three and a

prediction of what's going to happen in twenty four everyone else does it why don't you so at the risk

of being a johnny come lately in this final week of january can you believe we're almost

a one-twelfth of the way through twenty-24 that means it's it's practically february and then before you know it twenty-four will be over and then we'll be a quarter of the way through 2024. That means it's practically February. And then before you know it,

2024 will be over. And then we'll be a quarter of the way into the 21st century. And where are my

flying cars? Nonetheless, I have some thoughts about 2024, some predictions and some positivity

to inject into your little noggin there.

A lot of people have been talking like this piece.

Take a look at this.

This is the world should fear 2024.

And if you're listening to this on the podcast,

you can watch it with my beautiful visage beaming at you,

including images of the articles that I'm referencing on the old YouTube, if you just

Google YouTube, and then Josh Sepps, S-Z-E-PS, or S-Z-E-P-S. This is Aris-Rusinos, writing,

The World Should Fear 2024. Escalation lurks on every battlefield. And let me quote a little of Arras here.

Like an ailing mammoth weakened by a succession of individual spear thrusts, the hegemom,

he's talking about the United States here, staggers bleeding across the global scene.

Though stronger than any individual competitor,

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