What’s the connection between the Mark Walters sports-teams-insurance-money scandal, the underwhelming GTA6 crypto leak rug-pull, and the Fenix Flexin’ AI hit fallout? It might not seem obvious, but to us it all seems to be a big, neon flashing sign of the times. Move aside 16th century France, we’re rolling out a new kind of modern, smash and grab oligarchy—but with an added dash of nihilist, fake-it-till-you-make-it anti-legalism.

Come for Sam and Saxon freewheelin’ through the current mask-off oligarchical all-American vibe, as they try to pull together a unified field theory of why the money talk is so much louder now—everywhere from sports to gaming to music—and what it might mean for culture to more accurately reflect our unequal times. Stay for some stray thoughts on the death of humanity at the hands of a super-intelligent AI God that still doesn’t know what shoegaze is. Let them eat slop.

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