In which Rich and Matt shoot the shit about how 9 years of conflict in Donbas reached a breaking point and there are no good guys to be found, how war has once again proved a timely distraction from AIDS and Pfizer's 8 pages of v**cine "whoopsies", how Tolkien is a bit too layered to be black and white Amazon fodder, and how no matter what the problem, the elites solution appears to be centrally controlled digital currency linked to a social credit system.......Also we geek out on fantasy literature and discuss how the coming Matrix could just be a giant scam to harvest our V.R. pod poops and use the methane to generate cryptocurrency...or something