Hey everyone, in this episode of CBRS #Podcast we just sat down, no big plan, and started chatting about whatever came to mind.
We kicked off wishing everyone a happy #Lithuanian Independence Day. Talked about how huge it still feels for us, the Baltic Human Chain, the legendary basketball win against USA, The Other Dream Team movie, and how that iconic Lithuanian flag skeleton t-shirt randomly popped up on Phoebe from Friends and even on Matty Matheson years later. Pretty cool full-circle moment.
From there we went deep into how real togetherness and community feeling seems to be disappearing these days and everything turned into "us vs them", strong opinions that don't allow any #discussion anymore, and how younger generations sometimes don't feel the same weight of independence that we still carry.
We also touched on demographics, low birth rates, why pension ages keep going up (Netherlands already at 68…), and whether governments are just cleverly extending working years or if it's really because there aren't enough young people paying taxes anymore.
Of course we couldn't skip current world events: massive unrest in #Iran (internet blackouts, Starlink helping), old photos of how Western/modern Iran looked before 1979, the crazy #Venezuela story about an alleged non-lethal weapon + helicopter snatch of #Maduro that sounded straight out of Call of Duty (yes, the 2020 game literally has a final mission in Venezuela), and how thin the line between games and reality sometimes feels.
We had a good laugh about the recent Dutch snow chaos (country completely unprepared as always), our failed attempt at smooth-talking three ladies on the street, building snowmen, and stupid scooter vs bike decisions in icy weather.
Later we talked about doomsday prep letters from the Dutch government, how Eastern Europeans have been casually preparing for "winter apocalypse" our whole lives (basement full of hunted meat, pickles, soups under the bed), and why having some basic backup stuff when you have kids just feels responsible, not crazy.
Quick crypto moment: #Zcash core team leaving → big price dump, #privacy coins pumping hard lately.
We finished with plans for the future: more #fun episodes, reaction videos, maybe play pool + anonymous jokes, trying to make silly short content, playing with AI game creation tools (dreaming about a stupid CBRS soup-shop idle game), being careful with all the current phishing waves, and just enjoying making stuff together even if we still haven't found "the perfect niche".
That's pretty much us guys :) random, honest, sometimes serious, mostly having fun.
Thanks for listening/reading, see you in the next one!
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