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Recorded on: January 13th, 2026

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0:00 Kai Cenat is taking a break

5:46 What the frick is going on with Netflix / Paramount

12:00 Discord IPOing

17:03 Trump setting interest limits for Credit Cards

23:05 Tariffs and Deficits

28:30 ACA Subsidies and Congress

41:45 Minnesota

54:41 We are in it now

1:03:20 Outro

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Sam

First

Zachary

For discord could they not try to create a Business solution similar to slack and teams? I’m assuming they need to change a few things for more configuration and record keeping, but they already have a very similar product that people use outside of work.

Nifty

Glizzy glizzy glizzy

XCaliber

There is a problem with the video from 53:30 to 53:35

Luka Schuller

the yard is going to give atrioc body dysmorphia

Thomas holloway

Please try to get Simon Clark(youtuber) on to talk about some of the postive news about cliamate change, would be interesting.

Cat

End Times by Peter Turchin is a really good, depressing book about the cycles of politics/society. It gives a little light at the end of the tunnel

James

You know it's getting bleak when the high point is claude running pip install... Not looking forward to the next several years.

Ztrawby

The Minnesota "incident" (in quotes because I think it carries way more weight than just being incidental) is probably the first time in maybe my lifetime where I've felt such a gutteral and raw reactions to a situation like this. Typically when it comes to issues like this it's easy for me to read through articles, watch videos, and listen to reports and detatch myself emotionally. But when I read the headlines, and saw all the various justifications for taking the life of a mother, a wife, and very importantly an American who ice claimed they're trying to protect, it's like a switch flipped in my head. I swear the people defending the ice agent must be watching a different clip where everyone else's cameras conveniently turned away during because at no point during any of the other angles was she the violent criminal people claim she is. And at no point during the "disobedience" did I see justification to take the time to reach for a weapon and shoot instead of at most stepping out of the way. The majority of my life I've jumped through all ends of the polticial spectrum in my life, and throughout them the most consistent feeling was that I need to distance myself further from the right. Not because I believe that the left is spectacularly going to fix everything wrong with America, but because if anyone is going to do it, it won't be the side that treats women, children, people who simply look different, people who just love different, and people who just identify different, as if they're weeds that need to be pulled out so society can thrive as one homogeneous gel that serves corporate interest at every turn.

raymond

With sandy hook, its also interesting to know Canada basically changed its gun laws overnight in response to an American school shooting. Let that sink in for yall for a second lol. And btw, when that happened? No one was against it it was passed by a Conservative party with near unanimous support in both house of common and the Senate.

justyannicc

I don't understand it. Genuinely, Discord is better than Slack and Teams by so much. If they offered a business product that looked a little more professional and was separate from the gaming stuff and managed by workplaces, they would be making absolute bank.

Lobo

Every day we grow closer to the reality where Atrioc moves to Sweden with Aiden and they start the swedish lemonade stand branch. Thats the light that keeps me going lol

Niyi

I always appreciate the moments where Aiden just voices the way he feels about a lot of stuff because I’m never able to articulate it it as well as he does. If you’re seeing this Aiden, thank you. It’s not doomer lol.

Joyeuse

It almost feels like Baron Trump played GTA V and told his older brothers and fuckass dad about the missions where you assassinate people and bet on the stock market…they talk about blackstone or credit card rates or advancing US policy and their agendas, and some brand new account is making money on polymarket or stocks somewhere. im with coffeezilla, crime is legal now. we are fucked

Joyeuse

A president of the United States being associated with or implicated with child predators, child SA, and child trafficking, is beyond serious and unacceptable conduct. I know yall know that, but it is never not worth pursuing justice in that department. It fuckin blows but thats how it is.

Peyson Davis

Allowing tragedy to demotivate and depress is the point of acts of political terror. By capitulating to feelings of hopelessness, we ensure the outcome before the outset. Minnesota, Sandy Hook, all of it cannot continue. If the conclusion you find is those in power will never do anything to change it, then let that be the motivating anger you need to do something to improve it rather than bemoan the state of things. "Anger is a gift" - Zack de la Rocha

Conner Paul

I have 3 takeaways from this that I wanted to share: 1. I definitely feel what they feel where I hate Trump but sometimes he announces something that if done right could be objectively good and then he just doesn't do anything and it pisses me off even more that he would even say thar he'd do something good 2. I feel the way Aidan feels because the past 10 years has had so much bad shit that i'm just numb to it and its hard to care when so many objectively bad things are happening all the time and Republicans refuse to govern and pass laws to fix these things. 3. A mother was murdered and our top government officials lied and called her a terrorist because they refuse to acknowledge that an ICE officer did something wrong. If you're Republican reading this let that sink in, an innocent mother was murdered by ICE and the Vice President is lying about what happened, that is incredibly fucked up.

Peter Sadek

A week to change the credit card industry is way too long man. They can just call it the “Allowance Card” and call it a day.

Ensyllis

Isn't this easy to say until you have a real plan for change?

Phoenix

I usually watch like a Big A video almost twice, because I only really pay like half attention to shit (yes, im brainrotted), but i refused to watch the Minnesota video twice just coz of how bleak and depressing it is, and the fact that people are capable of looking at what happened and instead of feeling bad or staying silent, they turn around look you in the eye and tell you what they did is the objectively right thing, like how sick must a person be to not only believe that killing an innocent person is valid and then spread the same message to other people, it makes me feel so sad.

Phydozectacy

I remember I was listening to a russian guy on YouTube talking about propaganda. He was talking about his experience with propaganda and how its motives are less about lying and everyone knowing its a lie, and more the repetitivity. He had explained that propaganda really has a hold of you when you don't care anymore. When the news has raddled you down to exhaustion. I don't know the ratio of people who check out versus people who get angrier with respect to the confidence map Atrioc had mentioned. But I have noticed 80 or 90% of everyone under 30 that I have talked to/know personally is exhausted of the news and checked out completely. I understand there are a lot of things at play but when I had called a friend who has saved 30k(richest genz I know) to let him know he might want to put that towards metals or an x-US fund rather than sit in bank account because of the Gerome Powell news or the Greenland news, he was like: Yah it all prob will go lower in value and did not want to talk anymore about the subject. Few think they will live long enough to retire. I don't understand this rhetoric, would it not be advantageous to bet everything the world won't end because otherwise it doesn't matter? I feel like more people my age than ever want to ether bet enough to where Americas issues don't apply to them, or barely coast and smoke weed till they die in a nuclear blast. Maybe I have an outlying number of doomer friends. Also, bit of a conspiracy, but when news like Rene good comes out I noticed my internet speeds go to shit. WTF do I know I'm a dumb 24yo glizzy Atrioc viewer. Not a comenter but this video resonated enough to vent a little bit.

Vritato

Doug saying that he doesn’t engage with politics because nothing changes for him is such a straight white man take. Like yeah man you already had all the rights to begin with there’s not a whole lot more we can give you

istri aadmi

when did this patreon become an aiden's therapy spot

Angelis

Doug had his crash out earlier on about people getting on his case about stuff but this is always been my problem with him. All three of them are white guys but he's the only one who doesn't realize the privilege that brings.

Sam Snyder

Big Ask but I was wondering if y’all could dedicate 5 minutes to small happy news stories every episode. I love when yall did the episode of positivity but think there’s a benefit to reminding the audience, and yourselves, that there are good things happening in the world every week

Kenny

Why* is gold considered a part of the trade deficit? At this point gold seems more like a currency than a product isnt it?

Little Hue

Just on Aiden being bummed out about the shooting, most people feel this way…. Honestly if we stop fighting, standing up for what’s right and wrong… the fuckers win man and that’s what they want. But shit it’s hard to go on.

Mino Ensl

I thought they were transitioning to a JP Morgan ad for a sec there around 18 min in

dcaff7

Doug, from one straight white man to another, “I don’t pay attention to politics because nothing ever changes for me” is the definition of white and male privilege. And I don’t mean that derogatorily, having privilege doesn’t make you a shitty person. You’re also not morally obligated to tune in to all the horrible news that you could tune out because it doesn’t affect you. That is impossible, humans aren’t built for that. But that is a privilege, and if you don’t at least acknowledge it, people are rightly going to read it as insensitive.

garret barber

I was like dang man, imagine being an immigrant or LGBT under this administration. They definitely do not have the luxury of their life never changing from politics

Marc

I feel like I am dealing with this in a much worse way. I feel like the reaction to Renee Nicole Good's murder turned me into a psychopath. I just can't, CAN'T think of someone who watched the video and believes this murder was justified as the same species as me. We all lose ourselves in mob mentality a bit sometimes. But to get the point where someone is witnessing cold blooded murder and becomes detached means complete absence of any individual thought. That is not an intelligence to me, that is is not a human to me.

esp-E

I don't think it is the quantity so much that they just get moved on from so quickly and nothing ever changes. So much that when a new event happens you already know that nothing will change. I don't think we as a society have the attention span to see big things through anymore and the politicians and companies know that they can just wait it out.

Eric

I thought that this was one of your guys best videos to date. Just from a structural perspective, I think that the way you guys have the episode formatted has improved dramatically. The way you each approach and cover topics is different from person to person, and what each of you bring to the table is great. I also think that the discussion of Minnesota and Good's murder was done with the weight it deserved.

Zupl

Saying "you shouldn't complain, because others have it worse" makes as much sense as saying "you shouldn't be appreciative, because others have it better."

Owen

There’s a quote we say about the Holocaust, I’m sure it’s said other places too but that’s where I know it from. “Six million is a statistic, one is a story.” I think the interpretation in this case is almost the opposite of what it usually is. It’s normally meant as ‘when you hear the numbers, it’s not as real feeling, but when you hear a story, it personifies it.’ I think we’re seeing right now that if you have enough stories, it starts becoming statistical, and in many ways that’s just as scary. I think every politician should read ‘The Terrible Things’ by Eve Bunting. It’s a children’s book used to start introducing the Holocaust. Literally for little kids. But I think everyone should go take a quick 5 minute read, there’s a pdf online. I don’t understand how children can grasp a concept so simple, yet half our politicians and near half of Americans don’t seem to understand it.

Fluplaxio

It ain’t climate change, it is climate CHANGED, it is fourth TURNED. 💀

robosquad

yall should really post like the back half of this to youtube or at minimum Aidan's monologue on shootings

AngryOwl

I'm tired boss.

Zachary Lucchetti

The people care much more than our “leaders” it’s our responsibility and authority through the constitution to retake our government and reform it into one that works for us. It’s long past the time of voting for change. They’re all on the payroll.

This

Agreed. We have no leader and no plan … the demonstrations are great but they aren’t enough, clearly, we need a better suite of leaders …

HeyItsSouffle

Regarding the Minnesota shooting: To me what gives me that "feeling" that Aiden is talking about isnt the fact that it happens so often, but the fact that if even in the most blatant example of misuse of power/force, people still can't seem to band together enough to change anything at all. If a woman getting shot in broad daylight by a masked man isn't enough to for people to agree "this is objectively too far" then I have officially given up on people agreeing on anything. So what's even the point of trying to argue or protest or expect anything different if you know it's going to happen again regardless of what you do. I feel so helpless/powerless in a time where I also feel like it's the most important time for something to change. But I know it won't, so why even bother.

Matyas Krizsan

I think the end of this episode was very thoughtful. I’m just worried you guys are underestimating how bad things can still get. Eventual war and god forbid world war is 100x worse than it is now. As atrioc said: this is the stuff you read about in history books before major conflicts

Tshack

Dark ep from Aiden

Tyler Serpico

Aiden, you are certainly not alone in that feeling. I think that often my first thought when hearing the type of news like the Minnesota event is “fuck” but not because I’m empathizing for the victims, but instead because I don’t want to go through the process of research and arguing that I know I’m inevitable going to do

James Granger

Im sorry they called you fat atrioc

Eira

He has acknowledged it in the past. It’s difficult because acknowledging it every episode or every time he talks about it might seem excessive or robotic but if he only does it a few times people might miss it. I think it's okay to give people the benefit of the doubt and not assume bad intentions or ignorance because of something they didn't say.

Arota The Bug

Aiden you stole the words straight from my heart and mouth. Thank you man it helps to know im not the only one.

Themata

Donation aggregator link first for visibility: https://www.standwithminnesota.com Minneapolis resident here. I’ve also struggled with feelings of helplessness. I went to my first protest the weekend after Renee’s death. It didn’t feel like I made any difference. It’s real bleak here, and I’m not even someone at risk. They’re grabbing citizens, legal immigrants and undocumented immigrants alike, so long as they aren’t white. But also white people if they have the smallest whiff of obstruction, even if it’s absolutely protected action. It doesn’t feel like there’s any direct way we can make this stop. All we can do is put up resistance and grind it out. What did make me feel better was connecting with groups helping out people impacted by the ICE invasion and finding ways to help out in my community. Knowing that I’m doing something, even if it’s a tiny difference gives me some level of hope. One thing that sticks with me is discussions I’ve heard about, “What would you have done during the rise of Nazi power?” And the answer I’ve appreciated the most was, “Whatever you’re doing now is what you would have done then, cause that is the current situation.” You can help in Minneapolis without needing to be here. Families are struggling with food and rent since earners have been abducted, or they’re in hiding to avoid getting grabbed and can’t bring in any money. There are also many legal resources trying to make sure everyone is accounted for and ensure rights are upheld. If you can, please consider donating to anything in the link. If you can’t donate, please share it to help gain visibility. Also, please reach out to your elected officials and raise hell. It fees like republicans need to hear dissent from their constituents to possibly cause a break from lockstep and democrats need a fire lit under them cause they’ve been completely impotent in any response, including my own senators, what the fuck.

T Money

*mistakenly read it as insensitive. Hear people out in good faith brother. And don't defend those that don't.

dcaff7

Agree to disagree. I know there’s no malicious intent, but intent isn’t required for something to be insensitive.

Guy Fernando

Atrocious vibes in the tail end of this podcast

WillyThaJawn

tough tits bud, the world sucks and we're listening to a group of empathetic people discuss current events

Zack

If the AI bubble bursts, we will have such an excess of data centers. I wonder how that will fuel companies like discord.

Ryan

I watched this podcast yesterday and was going to make a comment about ICE but I thought it was dumb. But this morning I was catching up on the news and saw what happened to Alex Pretti and I need to just say how I feel and what I think. I want to give some context of who I am, I’m 21, in college for an engineering degree, and I’m a mixed person (half white/half Mexican). My parents raised in me in this country with the notion that everyone is equal and has an equal chance, this country is great because of diversity, we’re the best and brightest, and all these other notions. But as I’ve grown up and I am now heading towards the world of becoming an official adult its seems this is not the country I live in. I live in a country that’s ran by an idiot with ego. I live in a country where tragic deaths brought on by gun violence is a common occurrence. I live in a country where people aren’t educated enough to make informed votes. I live in a country that support all the old people instead of passing the torch and making it easier for the younger generations. I’m in a country where if you get injured and don’t have insurance you have to decide between your savings or medical care. I’m in a country with virtually no social services for the people. I feel like our country is just ass backwards. With ICE just being a new layer of injustice this country has pushed out on the American people. So I believe that ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. Am I being too extreme? (Genuine question) Because in my view: They are not trained well, they escalate every situation, they don’t have to identify themselves, they wear face covering at all times, they wrongfully arrest legal Americans, people clearly don’t want them in their cities and they are killing people. I’m just afraid for what will be the tipping point will be. There are two tipping points; one for how much Americans will put up with ICE and a second at what atrocity will ICE have to commit for everyone to be like “this is F’ed up” Because eventually people are going to decide to take stronger action against ICE whether violent or not and ICE is going to do worse and worse things till there’s finally some real consequences. Thanks for reading I’m sorry if this is like insensitive or just poorly written I just wanted my thoughts out there.

Rachel Cunningham

i wil say i'm seeing even hardline Republicans break with the obvious footage of what would be a war crime committed against an American citizen. one example is the incumbent governor of Oklahoma

Jack Heinzel

Yeah man, it’s so insane what is happening to this country. I agree, they are 100% a domestic terrorist organization. I mean if nothing else they are designed to make immigrants and minorities feel terror. And they are funded by the government. It’s crazy we just live in this now. Stay safe out there and stay strong brother ✊

Bradleigh Kottke

If you have energy to use your voice, I suggest finding your House of Representatives and Senators in the following sites: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm You're not alone in these feelings, but if you have energy to use and are feeling out of control, reaching out to these people are good opportunities. I reach out via email, I know some of my more enthusiastic friends call daily (I am an introvert so I will email multiple times).

Wyatt Wilson

Damn did they stop doing new episodes?

William

Streamers are speed running burn out

Jordan Bailey

@17:10 Big A hurt himself in confusion