I'm going to grab my, I'm going to grab my classic Greek dictionary.

Oh, we're going to use that today?

Oh, you're using it as a mic stand.

Okay.

I thought I was, I was like, oh, I'm not ready for this podcast.

You're just like, oh, no.

Tohu wabohu.

That's my classical Hebrew dictionary.

Welcome to The Crunch.

The only podcast that doesn't live in the clown world.

It's your boy, Ethan.

And I'm Patrick.

We do live in it, but I don't want to inhabit it. we we are in it but not of it you know what I mean in the clown world but not of the clown world it's it's kind of it's kind of just a topsy-turvy mess when I was young I used to I used I remember standing in front of my house looking up in the sky beautiful blue Florida sky with an American flag and I'm waving in my front yard.

I'm like, wow, how crazy it is.

There's so many countries in the world and there's so many times in the world that I could have been born.

But how lucky am I to live in the best country in the world?

And here I am about 15 years later and I'm just like, ha ha ha ha ha ha. What an idiot. Uh, anyway, America's fine. America is good.

Yeah. Yeah. America's, I mean, we're doing fine. We're not doing bad. We're not doing

bad. I mean, all things considered, in terms of, in terms of empires, in terms of global empires, I think we're doing fine. We're not doing bad. We're not doing bad. I mean, all things considered, in terms of empires, in terms of global empires, I think we're by far the best at hiding the fact that we're a global empire. We're by far the best at hiding the fact we're a global empire. We're also by far the best at hiding the fact that we're on a global empire on the tail end of its empiricism.

Yeah.

I was reading, I'm very close to being done with why liberalism failed by Patrick Danine.

I've been reading it for quite a while.

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