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Brian Barrett: I think it's a combination of that. I think it's the outrage. And then I might be contradicting myself here too, but I think there's a do it for the LOLs kind of attitude about it where nothing means anything. So we're going to rile up the libs by using their stuff. And at the same time, we're going to have this winky ironic detachment from war where none of this actually means anything. And if you get upset, it's because you're triggered, which just feels debasing. Obviously, there are problems with glorifying how great war is. This seems to be more just like—

Leah Feiger: This isn't glorifying it. It's gamifying it.

Brian Barrett: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yep, 100 percent.

Zoë Schiffer: Trust Brian Barrett to find a copyright angle on the war in Iran.

Brian Barrett: I ...