Speaker 1: Calls media. So the episode You're about to hear was
Speaker 1: recorded well before the explosions, the humanitarian crisis that the
Speaker 1: Israeli Hamas situation right now. And if you know how
Speaker 1: my show works, like I pride myself in not doing
Speaker 1: breaking news type shows because just the nature of like
Speaker 1: confirmation works. I want to make sure I'm moving slow.
Speaker 1: Leftover church stuff that I still hold to, which is
Speaker 1: proverbs being quick to hear and slow to speak. I
Speaker 1: actually again make it a value to not be the
Speaker 1: first one out the gate over a topic because there's
Speaker 1: like so many other things I want to be able
Speaker 1: to consider and be slow with how I think about
Speaker 1: those things. That being said, I attempted to gather and
Speaker 1: record a show about this situation, which essentially is you
Speaker 1: wasn't outside part two to be ready for this week,
Speaker 1: and I forgot to tell Matt that we needed to
Speaker 1: switch switch this order up, so he had already you know, mixed, mastered,
Speaker 1: and scored the episode you about to hear now, so
Speaker 1: to not add extra stress to Matt to be like no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: do this one. You know, we're just gonna run with this.
Speaker 1: And I just want you to know, like trust me,
Speaker 1: I'm finna talk about it. You can refer to you
Speaker 1: Wasn't Outside Part one if you want to. This week
Speaker 1: where I do like a pretty long history, this the
Speaker 1: background of you know, what's going on between Israel and Palestein.
Speaker 1: I try to make a clear line between the difference
Speaker 1: between Palestinians and Hamas, between expansion and ethnic cleansing. But anyway,
Speaker 1: enjoy this piece, which I am really proud of, and
Speaker 1: know that next week will be dropping you Wasn't Outside
Speaker 1: Part two?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: That Scott's So I'm of the age where I just
Speaker 1: I was really blessed to have a childhood that really
Speaker 1: existed in the golden era or the final coming to
Speaker 1: fruition of a lot of cultural touch points that you know,
Speaker 1: we enjoy now. I just I just happened to be
Speaker 1: born in that beautiful window of like we had, you know,
Speaker 1: all the Nintendo and PlayStation gaming consoles, but we also
Speaker 1: got to go to arcade. It was just a dope time.
Speaker 1: You know, we played inside on the internet, but we
Speaker 1: also played outside. You drank from the water hose, you know,
Speaker 1: I still got to like I was allowed to have
Speaker 1: a bb gun, but also probably shouldn't know, because they
Speaker 1: look like guns. You know, I got to I got
Speaker 1: to get a got to do a lot of that.
Speaker 1: We got to see the Dogtown stuff, you know where
Speaker 1: it was like I'm not Tony Hawk's age, but we
Speaker 1: got to go see those guys create what became the
Speaker 1: X Games and kind of like just this era of
Speaker 1: just an amazing time to be a child and a
Speaker 1: teenager for that matter. You know, if you like a
Speaker 1: golden era of hip hop, like I just got to
Speaker 1: be alive for some of the dopest stuff. But I'm
Speaker 1: also I'm also not the type that like romanticizes nostalgia,
Speaker 1: like it wasn't necessarily better than you know, you kids
Speaker 1: don't know, man, we had a better Like I don't
Speaker 1: get in all that my era music better than your
Speaker 1: era music. Like I you know, listen, I'm not that
Speaker 1: type like I ever want to be. I always talk
Speaker 1: about this the old head, the dude in you know,
Speaker 1: the barbershop de scritatest rapper, a live y'all even know
Speaker 1: coulm ode Is, But like the guy that's like now,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, like especially during this like fifties anniversary,
Speaker 1: Like I still love seeing the rappers that I enjoy
Speaker 1: still got it. But again, I'm not so close minded
Speaker 1: as to think that, like you know, every era is different,
Speaker 1: and as long as y'all rock with, as long as
Speaker 1: y'all vibe y'all as y'all being true, y'all should enjoy
Speaker 1: what y'all got, So I'm not like that. But there
Speaker 1: are some things that I really wish y'all would have
Speaker 1: experienced y'all as in people sometimes people are older than
Speaker 1: me and people younger than me. There were just things
Speaker 1: that are I would say, honestly, like the emotions, the
Speaker 1: experience is irreplaceable. Don't get me wrong. The idea of
Speaker 1: having a cartoons and TV shows on demand is a
Speaker 1: lot doper than having to make sure you're home at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock, you know, or up at seven am on Saturdays,
Speaker 1: or you'll miss it. And if you miss it, you
Speaker 1: miss it. You just have to wait for the reruns.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, there is something dope about
Speaker 1: that ephemeral like we're collectively like Twitter, like when we
Speaker 1: used to do, like watch something like an award show
Speaker 1: or something in all of your Twitter feed was all
Speaker 1: watching the same thing. Like that feeling to where we're
Speaker 1: all like collectively experiencing the same thing at the same time.
Speaker 1: I said, that was a dope feeling as a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, watching your unfortunately like Cosby Show or yeah,
Speaker 1: like having to get up to catch your Saturday morning
Speaker 1: cartoons and like you know, have your little bowl cereal
Speaker 1: or your pajamas. Like it was exciting, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because it was ephemeral. But like the thing
Speaker 1: about like the TV show, like we would have that
Speaker 1: little Twitter dialogue, but it wasn't a real time like
Speaker 1: we would have it the next day at school. Yo.
Speaker 1: Did you see? Yo? Did you see? That? Stuff? Was fun?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like the emotion tied to
Speaker 1: it and the collective experience like that was dope. But again,
Speaker 1: it was cool that the Internet let us be able
Speaker 1: to do it all at the same time. Anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: rambling on to bring you to an experience I think
Speaker 1: we've all had, and it's the universal feeling of getting
Speaker 1: your ass kicked multiple times in some video game. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use this to share with you the case
Speaker 1: of the Justice Department and Google Hood politics. Y'all. All right,
Speaker 1: So y'all know the situation in a gaming console whether
Speaker 1: you're playing online against a bunch of different dudes across
Speaker 1: the other you know, others all over the world, or
Speaker 1: you playing with a group of the homies, whether it's
Speaker 1: like a two K game or a Call of Duty
Speaker 1: situation or Fortnite, whatever it is, where there's just one
Speaker 1: dude that's exceptionally good at it. It's like, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: they already got all of their like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't haven't gamed in a while, but power ups,
Speaker 1: you know, apply that to whatever game you plan. They've
Speaker 1: already unlocked all they've already like, they've already mapped out
Speaker 1: the missions, they've already got weapons stashed somewhere. Or if
Speaker 1: like if you're playing two K, it's like, man, their
Speaker 1: teams aren't even juiced up. They just like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like it's just or they just played for so long
Speaker 1: and so well that they just know, they just know
Speaker 1: all the spots, they just know what to do, and
Speaker 1: they're just mopping everybody. I personally was a fan of
Speaker 1: I wasn't really good at like the sports games, which
Speaker 1: I know, at least among black men. That's kind of like, bruh,
Speaker 1: you like you're supposed to be good at least one
Speaker 1: of these two k's Mario Kart. You don't want it
Speaker 1: with me, you know, I used to be going to
Speaker 1: smash Bros. But like, I don't know, I'm just getting Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't smash bro like I used to. But mostly
Speaker 1: my lane was the fighting games, the Mortal Kombat, you know,
Speaker 1: even the new Mortal Kombats the back of the day,
Speaker 1: the teching street Fighter. Street Fighter was for me, that
Speaker 1: was the marijuana. That was the gateway drug. You know,
Speaker 1: we did school, go to the seven eleven to play
Speaker 1: Street Fighter. Right at the Street Fighter thing. The rule
Speaker 1: for the arcade was this, and this was my young
Speaker 1: childhood experience. You had a guy like it's just like
Speaker 1: pick up basketball, like winner stays on. So they're you know,
Speaker 1: the fighting games just like one on one. You feel me,
Speaker 1: And so if you wanted to challenge the dude, you
Speaker 1: put your quarter on because the games were a quarter
Speaker 1: to play. You put your quarter on the on the
Speaker 1: bottom of the screen to say like basically, I got next,
Speaker 1: and then you play against this kid. And for me,
Speaker 1: because of the part of town I was in, this
Speaker 1: was probably some sort of Asian kid, probably a Filipino kid.
Speaker 1: And you would go and you try to play play him,
Speaker 1: he pick his character or whatever, right, and he'd be
Speaker 1: kicking Yeah, he would just you just mopped the floor whatever.
Speaker 1: He just kicking all of our asses. He's just running
Speaker 1: through everybody, and he never gets off the game because
Speaker 1: he just he just keep winning. And it's like at
Speaker 1: some point, you like, whoever, which one of us got
Speaker 1: a better chance to beating him? Here, you could take
Speaker 1: a quarter. It's like, somebody, get this nigga off the game,
Speaker 1: you feel me, and you could be mad at him
Speaker 1: or like the name of this show, get your weight up,
Speaker 1: I mean, don't be mad at me, nigga, get your
Speaker 1: weight up. I mean I'm sorry, I'm good at it.
Speaker 1: What you want me to do, nigga, don't be better?
Speaker 1: Be better? All this nigga's not fair man. He got
Speaker 1: all of this, this and this. I mean, you already
Speaker 1: got alldered, you done, already unlocked all the codes, and
Speaker 1: it's just like, well, I mean, shit, you could do
Speaker 1: it too. What you mad at me for? Get your
Speaker 1: weight up now. On the other hand, is a thing
Speaker 1: that we all know as cheap codes. Now they are
Speaker 1: quot local your name cheat codes because They're not necessarily
Speaker 1: cheats in the sense that we all know them. All
Speaker 1: you have to do we used to get when I
Speaker 1: was little. Yeah, I'm like really really throwing throwing it back.
Speaker 1: This magazine called Nintendo Power. If you you subscribe to
Speaker 1: the Nintendo Power magazine, you would get full maps. Like
Speaker 1: you'd have to like you'd have to like pause the game,
Speaker 1: go to your Nintendo Power magazine. Now I'm noah, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm really little during this time, you know, but you
Speaker 1: they would, you know, the kids would like, you know,
Speaker 1: flip through their magazine and find the map you feel me,
Speaker 1: and it would show you, like the whole map of
Speaker 1: whatever level you on, and it would tell you which
Speaker 1: thing where to, you know, especially like when Mario, when
Speaker 1: Mario started getting like, you know, hitting hitting like Mario
Speaker 1: like on Nintendo sixty four. Now it's three D, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. So, like, you know, you
Speaker 1: couldn't just as quickly Google like you used to, or
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't no message boards and thathing like
Speaker 1: you had to like look at a paper you feel me,
Speaker 1: and hope that this article that you got got the
Speaker 1: game that you playing, and you'd have to figure out
Speaker 1: the maps and it would tell you which one of
Speaker 1: these mushrooms. You know, it would tell you where all
Speaker 1: the little secret pass away. So I was great. So
Speaker 1: if this nigga beat you, he like, I mean the
Speaker 1: magazine available to you too. There used to be Now,
Speaker 1: I we wasn't wealthy enough for this man. No way
Speaker 1: in the world I could have done this. But there
Speaker 1: was a call in line. If you was stuck on
Speaker 1: a level on a Nintendo game, you could call Nintendo
Speaker 1: and ask them, like, yo, I'm super stuck, and it'd
Speaker 1: be some dude on the other side of the phone.
Speaker 1: Some for us grown ass man will walk you through.
Speaker 1: We were children, would walk you through the level and
Speaker 1: it would be like, are you cheating. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 1: nig I'm not cheating. Everybody can do this, like any
Speaker 1: The phone number available for everybody. Now, the phone number costs, y'all, Like, look,
Speaker 1: we're talking landline years. You feel me. So when you
Speaker 1: was not necessarily you know, as financially secure as something,
Speaker 1: the little kids, you couldn't just be calling these numbers
Speaker 1: out here. You know what I'm saying. This would show
Speaker 1: up on your phone bill. It's a problem. But they
Speaker 1: thing was like, yeah, I mean anybody could do this.
Speaker 1: Going back to the Street Fighter thing, Listen, you could
Speaker 1: play as much as I could play. If you got quarters,
Speaker 1: you could play. But if you was cheating, where you
Speaker 1: done already punched in some codes that unlocked it out.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you on two K all your players
Speaker 1: are maxed out because you got some sort of secret
Speaker 1: thing that don't nobody have. Oh no, wonder can't nobody
Speaker 1: beat you if you playing some sort of Call of
Speaker 1: duty or something like I said, like, I don't really
Speaker 1: know how those games work no more, but you know
Speaker 1: you done completed all the missions already and there's no
Speaker 1: way for us to level up because you got it all.
Speaker 1: I mean, now you're cheating. Going back to the Street
Speaker 1: Fighter one, that was a phrase called cheesing, and cheesing
Speaker 1: was essentially when you use the same move over and over.
Speaker 1: I can't get out the corner like you know, you Ryu,
Speaker 1: you doing the adukens or you or you I Honda
Speaker 1: and you're doing the little hand thing you know, up
Speaker 1: and down, up and down, up and down, or you blanking,
Speaker 1: and you just keep electrifying and spinning yourself and I
Speaker 1: can't do nothing. That's called cheat. You're doing the same
Speaker 1: move over and over. That's not fair. And when you cheasing,
Speaker 1: you could get put off the machine because it's like, nah,
Speaker 1: it's not fair. You cheazing. You like, nigga, but I won,
Speaker 1: And it's like, Nigga, it don't matter. That's you can't
Speaker 1: win like that. You can't win cheesing that that's cheesing,
Speaker 1: that's what they called it. Whereas that kid's defense is like,
Speaker 1: but I won, you, I like, I don't understand what
Speaker 1: the problem is. Well, you're not giving everybody else a
Speaker 1: fair shot. That's not the game. The game isn't to
Speaker 1: give you a fair shot, nigga. The game is to win.
Speaker 1: And what I am doing is not cheating. These are moves.
Speaker 1: They are moves that are allowed in the game. Fuck
Speaker 1: at you talking about now again. If you've got some
Speaker 1: sort of code that you put into your players so
Speaker 1: when you punch it takes out the power at a
Speaker 1: level that the rest of us could never keep compete with,
Speaker 1: then yeah, maybe that's cheating. If you don't like you
Speaker 1: handed that, you handed the controller over to your homeboy,
Speaker 1: and the controller you done changed all the buttons up?
Speaker 1: You feel me? Okay? You cheating? You already know that
Speaker 1: your remote Bluetooth other remote Bluetooth disconnects every once in
Speaker 1: a while, so your moves will be slower. Okay, you cheating,
Speaker 1: Like that's clearly cheating. But if you're not doing something
Speaker 1: like that, or if it's something that you can't necessarily prove,
Speaker 1: like I didn't purposefully give you a bad remote, and
Speaker 1: look if you like, look, I'll switch remotes. If I
Speaker 1: switch remotes and still whoop your ass. I don't understand
Speaker 1: why you so mad at me. Well, it's because your players,
Speaker 1: your character, whatever it is, is already maxed out. You
Speaker 1: already know the map, You already got all the stuff
Speaker 1: you done already, you know, stashed away everything, Like what
Speaker 1: can I do? And I'm gonna respond to you like nigga,
Speaker 1: run your play, get your weight up. And if you
Speaker 1: mad in me, like sometimes your defense could be like, fam,
Speaker 1: I'm not even that good, Like I may be beating
Speaker 1: all of y'all niggas, but like you know, once you
Speaker 1: start signing up to E sports, I'm like, nigga, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to compete a it's these world where now you win.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You can win a million dollars,
Speaker 1: like I'm playing against these you know twitch streamers that like,
Speaker 1: I don't got no weight at all, Like you mad
Speaker 1: at me for beating y'all, Like nigga, do you see them?
Speaker 1: That's who I'm really competing with. I can't even keep up.
Speaker 1: Mad at me, nigga, get your weight up. You could
Speaker 1: play the same game I play. You mad at your homeboy?
Speaker 1: Get all the girls? You know? You mad at you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You mad at this nigga because
Speaker 1: he getting all the girls. He like nigga shaved, Nigga,
Speaker 1: take a shower, get some better clothes, nigga. Don't be
Speaker 1: mad at me. Get your weight up. You mad at
Speaker 1: me for it? You know what I'm saying. Your shoes
Speaker 1: are they all toe? All ran over? Nigga, they scuffed up? Like,
Speaker 1: get your weight up, don't be mad at me. Therein
Speaker 1: lies the case with Google. Now let's get to it.
Speaker 1: After this, Brizzik aways away away away, All right, we're back.
Speaker 1: I guess this is ultimately like a kind of how
Speaker 1: much a dollar cost kind of question episode kind of
Speaker 1: more about economics than anything, because there's two big questions
Speaker 1: being answered or asked right here. And it's like what
Speaker 1: do we mean by what is a monopoly in the
Speaker 1: age of the Internet, you know, and chat GBT for
Speaker 1: that matter. And how is the Internet going to move forward?
Speaker 1: Remember I told you earlier, like we got some cases
Speaker 1: in the in front of the Supreme Court that's like
Speaker 1: probably going to break the Internet. This is another one
Speaker 1: of those cases. The Internet has gone through a couple evolutions,
Speaker 1: and I think if you're not if you're not really
Speaker 1: terminally online or into like history, probably not think about
Speaker 1: it like as such. Because the first version of the
Speaker 1: Internet was like cute and funny and like wing things.
Speaker 1: We remember I told you on that episode, like we
Speaker 1: used to not even sell things on it. Nobody thought
Speaker 1: you could could make money on the Internet. It's just
Speaker 1: stupid little websites about flowers, you know, and like message
Speaker 1: boards like that was like pre internet. Internet and the
Speaker 1: Internet two point zero is the version that we all
Speaker 1: live in right now. That's the actual money being exchanged.
Speaker 1: There's a social media, there's like the Internet, and then
Speaker 1: the baby of the Internet as we know it, the
Speaker 1: first fully evolved pokemon of the Internet is these large
Speaker 1: search engines such as Google. But who had to take
Speaker 1: the l who was the t one for that was Microsoft,
Speaker 1: because Microsoft was this version of the Internet of the
Speaker 1: computer age that nobody had seen before. It was like,
Speaker 1: y'all too powerful. This looked weird to us. We don't
Speaker 1: understand that, y'all, y'all got too much weight. This some'm
Speaker 1: not right. If you Microsoft, you like, oh, that's cause
Speaker 1: you don't understand. I'm just one of many. I just
Speaker 1: happened to be the loudest. Just what I'm doing is working,
Speaker 1: but like I can't nobody, you can't regulate that, I
Speaker 1: can't control it. It's important in this Google case to
Speaker 1: kind of look back at that Microsoft case where basically
Speaker 1: Microsoft just settled and paid the fines. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like it just and that was the last
Speaker 1: time like the US government tried to take a tech
Speaker 1: company to like trial. And I think partially because you know,
Speaker 1: as we know, the governments ran by dinosaurs, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I just and it's not so much
Speaker 1: the age thing, which I think I'm gonna do an
Speaker 1: episode on, like I'm gonna call like the og dilemma
Speaker 1: because you know, Mick Jagger the same age as as
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and it seemed like he got all his faculties.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's not an age thing. It's just the
Speaker 1: like a relevancy. Can you like stay tapped in? If
Speaker 1: your health is fine, you can stay tapped in. I
Speaker 1: don't care how old you are, because with age come
Speaker 1: to wisdom. So just because you old, don't make you irrelevant,
Speaker 1: because you could be young and irrelevant for fake Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's hard to try something and to adjudicate something when
Speaker 1: you don't understand what the something is. That's kind of
Speaker 1: the problem with the internet. And I think now where
Speaker 1: we're at, the concept of a chat GPT, the concept
Speaker 1: of AI. Right, So here's the situation. The first thing
Speaker 1: you got to ask yourself is what is a monopoly
Speaker 1: and what does that mean? In a free market capitalistic society,
Speaker 1: we believe the live we tell ourselves. You heard me right.
Speaker 1: The live we tell ourselves as a country is that
Speaker 1: we are a We are free market capitalists, which says this,
Speaker 1: everybody gets a shot. The best product at the best
Speaker 1: price wins. We all use the game of monopoly. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to all start with the same two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: on the same board, with the same opportunity. And if
Speaker 1: you just get your weight up, you start buying up property,
Speaker 1: You spend your money wisely, you invest smart, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and you put you know, if it's
Speaker 1: the drug game, you feel me, you get you get
Speaker 1: the product on the load. Make sure that product good.
Speaker 1: You got goons that protect your work. You know, you've
Speaker 1: convinced the city that you to do that, you to dawned.
Speaker 1: You know what i mean. Top Boy the new season,
Speaker 1: the Top Boy out right, and this is the perfect
Speaker 1: example of that. I'm not gonna do no spoilers, but
Speaker 1: just follow me. Just think of the characters. If you
Speaker 1: watching Top Boy, then you understand what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: You just you get your weight up, get your situation right.
Speaker 1: Make sure you loved among the among the community. You know,
Speaker 1: or you you you you feared among the community. You
Speaker 1: become the only plug you know. And if you're the
Speaker 1: only plug that you got the best weight, you got
Speaker 1: the best work, then these people gotta work with you.
Speaker 1: Ain't got no yo. I've eliminated my competition. I eliminate
Speaker 1: my competition by any means necessary. It's a free market.
Speaker 1: They they could have clapped at us. They didn't, so
Speaker 1: we clapped at them first. But the idea is that
Speaker 1: the competition, right, that's the buy let the buyer beware.
Speaker 1: That's the free market. That's why lot of times these
Speaker 1: conservative folks it's like, just don't let the government be
Speaker 1: involved in all, like, because the consumer will decide if
Speaker 1: you got the best product at the right price. They
Speaker 1: don't need to tell me what to do. Like if
Speaker 1: I could get you know, this vacuum, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought. I just looked at the vacuum, and that's why.
Speaker 1: If you got a better vacuum, that's dope, but it
Speaker 1: costs too much. I mean, then cool, sell to your
Speaker 1: rich clientele, but I don't want it. But if you're
Speaker 1: trying to do no, I want to lock in. You
Speaker 1: know when you Target or you Nordstrom, you feel me,
Speaker 1: or Target or you Walmart, whatever it is, it's like
Speaker 1: you lock in your customer and you just you give
Speaker 1: them the best You give them the best product at
Speaker 1: the best price. What's the problem. That's what free market
Speaker 1: capitalism is supposed to do, and what it's supposed to
Speaker 1: do is to say that that competition will give us
Speaker 1: the best thing. But we all know what actually happens,
Speaker 1: Like take the Popeye's chicken sandwich. They say, oh, you
Speaker 1: know hey, competition creates diversity and innovation. But rather than competition,
Speaker 1: you get copycats. Everybody just made a chicken sandwich, yo,
Speaker 1: it just try to compete with it, you know, It's
Speaker 1: just it's not competition. It's the same sandwich, you feel me,
Speaker 1: which was funny to me. But also what happens is
Speaker 1: this is this in what our government when they talk
Speaker 1: about anti trust laws or monopolies are talking about this.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to quote from a thing called investopia, right,
Speaker 1: which is easily googled, you know, like I'm not this
Speaker 1: isn't deep card journalism, Like you can just google what
Speaker 1: is a monopoly? And invest hopia is a good place
Speaker 1: to start, as like, and I use this specifically because
Speaker 1: it is so user friendly. This is very simple, simplified,
Speaker 1: so it's complicated, But essentially is this a monopoly is
Speaker 1: a market structure where a single seller or produce assumes
Speaker 1: the dominant position in an industry or a sector. Monopolies
Speaker 1: are discouraged in a free market economies as they stifle
Speaker 1: competition and limit substitutes for consumers. So what does that
Speaker 1: mean well, the best example is the case we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about is Google, right, but I'll get to that.
Speaker 1: Let me let me, let me lean into that. Let's
Speaker 1: let's say thd off Google for a second, and let's
Speaker 1: just say let's use Netflix. You guys know, Netflix was
Speaker 1: rental DVDs, right, and then eventually it became a streaming service. Well,
Speaker 1: when they were streaming service, it's like, well, that's where everybody,
Speaker 1: that's where all the eyeballs are. You got all these subscriptions.
Speaker 1: So if you're a movie you know, or television production house,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get your shows there. You're trying to
Speaker 1: get your your stuff on Netflix because they are if anything,
Speaker 1: they're the store. They are where everybody's at. You could
Speaker 1: the same example for a grocery store, like if this
Speaker 1: is the grocery store, that's where everybody is. That is
Speaker 1: the as they say, the marketplace. Everybody there. And it's
Speaker 1: so crazy. It's so easy to explain this because so
Speaker 1: much of our life is like this.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: They are the platform. Netflix is the platform, that's where
Speaker 1: the movies are stored. I'm just using that as the
Speaker 1: streaming service. But then Netflix started producing their own content
Speaker 1: and if they produce their own content. Then now they're
Speaker 1: the store and the product. So if they're the store
Speaker 1: and the product, what incentives do they have to carry
Speaker 1: your products when they can make their own? Like, why
Speaker 1: would I? And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put my products in the front of the store. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make sure as soon as you open Netflix, the
Speaker 1: ones that I'm suggesting are the ones that we made. Oh,
Speaker 1: you can still go find your show from ABC. You
Speaker 1: can still go find your your movie that you was
Speaker 1: waiting to get to streaming. Then you could find it somewhere,
Speaker 1: but it's still here. But what I want you to
Speaker 1: get is the stuff we make. Well, now you've cornered
Speaker 1: that there's no like you got to imagine this as
Speaker 1: a world that there's no other streamers. Right, So if
Speaker 1: you're the only store, you've just you've made it impossible
Speaker 1: for anyone to produce any other content. All right, let
Speaker 1: me jump you up even higher. What if Netflix came
Speaker 1: already loaded onto all of our phones and televisions and
Speaker 1: they tried their best to set up a exclusive deal
Speaker 1: where they're the default streamer. Now, O, there's other streaming services,
Speaker 1: but like your TV automatically turns on Netflix. You feel me?
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? What incentive does if you if
Speaker 1: everybody is at your spot, you gonna sell them your product.
Speaker 1: I'll carry your stuff because you gotta pay me right
Speaker 1: to carry your stuff. But why would I? Why would
Speaker 1: I do that? Why would I? Why would I? What
Speaker 1: difference does it make? So what happens with the consumer
Speaker 1: is we now have no choice, Like there's no other
Speaker 1: place to get product from. You're the main product in
Speaker 1: this world. I guess. I guess I'm watching your show
Speaker 1: because I mean I have to. I have to dig
Speaker 1: to find these other ones. And then eventually everybody else
Speaker 1: is like, well, I mean it's not even it's not
Speaker 1: even worth it putting my product in here if you're
Speaker 1: only gonna push your own stuff. So either I say, hey,
Speaker 1: that's no fair, or I go get my weight up
Speaker 1: and I create my own service. You see that spurs competition. Like,
Speaker 1: here's an interesting fact. I don't know if y'all knew this,
Speaker 1: but Spotify was gonna start its own record label because
Speaker 1: Apple had it for a little bit. Spotify was gonna
Speaker 1: start its own record matter of fact, I was in
Speaker 1: line to be one of the artists. And you know
Speaker 1: what happened with Spotify's label It don't exist. Why because
Speaker 1: every other label promised to remove all they artists from
Speaker 1: Spotify because they was like why and the hell would we?
Speaker 1: We didn't come here to build No. No, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna have your own artists again, you have no incentive.
Speaker 1: What's the point of us being here? Like, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna just be here. Take it all of our promotions,
Speaker 1: all of our work to push your artists, because that's
Speaker 1: ultimately what we'll be doing. Spotify was like twoche cause
Speaker 1: and they took it down. So then now like as
Speaker 1: I feel like Apple TV, they product is their shows,
Speaker 1: the streaming service, there's there's I love their shows. I
Speaker 1: feel like they haven't missed. That's just me personally, But
Speaker 1: that's because now there's competition. And why that happens is
Speaker 1: because of antitrust laws, so that Netflix can't be like, no, Nigga,
Speaker 1: we the only streamers, just like when you again the
Speaker 1: Street Street stuff, like nah Nigga, we the only suppliers.
Speaker 1: You got to get it from us. Because if we're
Speaker 1: the only supplier you got to get it from us,
Speaker 1: I could charge you whatever the fuck I want to
Speaker 1: charge you. Netflix can charge you whatever the fuck they
Speaker 1: want to charge you, because there's nowhere else for you
Speaker 1: to go. Ain't nobody else got a service, anybody else
Speaker 1: stream where you're gonna go. That's a monopoly. My prices
Speaker 1: are set because you don't have an option. My product
Speaker 1: quality is not good because I'm competing against as good
Speaker 1: because or not good because you ain't got no choice.
Speaker 1: You got to get what I give you. That's a monopoly.
Speaker 1: The way that our country is supposed to be set
Speaker 1: up is to be like, no, you can't do that,
Speaker 1: because that's not fair to the consumer, nor is it
Speaker 1: fair to what we want, which is more business stimulated
Speaker 1: in our economy. You're not allowed to be the only
Speaker 1: the own that's that is to use the game analogy,
Speaker 1: the cheat code, you're cheating. You can't be the store
Speaker 1: and the product. You can't be the only option. If
Speaker 1: your product is just better than mine, rather than you
Speaker 1: eliminating me, that's different. But if it's like every time,
Speaker 1: like again, let's use a brick and mortar thing. If
Speaker 1: every time I want to set up a store, a
Speaker 1: shop for me to sell my little wares, but you
Speaker 1: own the building, you know, what I'm saying, And now
Speaker 1: you choosing whether I can rent from you or not? Right,
Speaker 1: and if you charge me to rent, the rent you're
Speaker 1: charging me is outlandish. Well then how I can't Like,
Speaker 1: there's no way for I can't compete? Like you sell
Speaker 1: the same product I sell. You got a shop like mine,
Speaker 1: but you own the building it's in. Then you got
Speaker 1: a competitor shop across the street. It's like, it don't
Speaker 1: matter how good my product is. I may be able
Speaker 1: to carve out a little, but I was like, I can't.
Speaker 1: There there's no way to play. So then the government
Speaker 1: set comes in and says that's not good for all
Speaker 1: of us, Like, you can't, you can't do that. That's
Speaker 1: that's a you're breaking antitrust laws, to which the other
Speaker 1: company would reply, how about y'all just get your weight up.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break, get you away, get you.
Speaker 1: Away, Get you away, get you away. So here's the
Speaker 1: case against Google. The Google situation is this, depending on
Speaker 1: whatever smartphone you have, your Google search engine is your
Speaker 1: only option. It's just it defaults to it. Why because Google,
Speaker 1: rather than just making their product, they went to this.
Speaker 1: They were smart. They went to smartphone makers and they
Speaker 1: set up deals and content tracks with them. They said, look,
Speaker 1: let us be your default browser. I mean, like why not?
Speaker 1: Why would you not do that? Like yo, like I
Speaker 1: got this product, I'm like, yo, how about I be
Speaker 1: your default now? As y'all know, like the term is
Speaker 1: you biquito is Google is a verb. Now how did
Speaker 1: they do that? There were other there's other search engines
Speaker 1: bing y'all remember asked Jeeves whatever it is, it's like
Speaker 1: according to Google, and this is a defense that like
Speaker 1: you can't shake your fist to It's like but it's
Speaker 1: but it's good. We like it, Dez And somebody like
Speaker 1: me is like, I mean I don't give a shit,
Speaker 1: Like if I'm looking for something, that's just that's what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Your iPhone comes with Safari, so when you type in
Speaker 1: you know where the URLs are. When you're searching for something,
Speaker 1: your Safari app is going to pull up Google searches
Speaker 1: because it's just that's the deal they made. I mean,
Speaker 1: your being could have done that. You could have done that.
Speaker 1: Get your weight up. What you mad at me for?
Speaker 1: I'll mad at me for doing good business? Right, that's
Speaker 1: their argument. It's like, well, I mean, well, damn, Like,
Speaker 1: why would I not take this shot? They're like, well,
Speaker 1: you haven't given anybody else a chance. You're monopolized. They're like,
Speaker 1: y'all could opt it, you could put in what everything.
Speaker 1: You was like, No, you're the default setting for most
Speaker 1: of our products, for your laptops, for your everything. Your
Speaker 1: default setting is a Google search engine. Now on top
Speaker 1: of that, where it gets even more crazy, Google scrapes
Speaker 1: a fiendish amount of your personal data and they take
Speaker 1: that and they sell it to the advertisers, which a
Speaker 1: lot of us don't like. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, what are you going to not Google things? Then?
Speaker 1: And then they sell it to advertisers, and that's how
Speaker 1: you got to do it now. Now, Now, the the
Speaker 1: state departments argument about that is you've created a monopoly.
Speaker 1: Monopoly now for average we don't have to like, we
Speaker 1: can't talk about your price points because there's no other
Speaker 1: There's nobody else I could go to. There's nobody could
Speaker 1: compare it to. And even if your product ain't good,
Speaker 1: even if like I'm not yielding the results I want
Speaker 1: to look. I sell coffee, and sometimes I gotta pay
Speaker 1: for like search engine optimizations. I gotta pay for ways
Speaker 1: to like, make sure y'all find terraform, coldbrew dot com, terraform,
Speaker 1: colbrew dot com, promo codprop to make sure y'all find that.
Speaker 1: I gotta pay you know, some Google analytics advertising services,
Speaker 1: but I can only go to them because I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna pay for being nobody uses bing
Speaker 1: And they're saying, because of that, because there's no competition,
Speaker 1: Google's price could be whatever they want it to be,
Speaker 1: and even if it's good or not doesn't matter. You
Speaker 1: won'ta pay what you're gonna pay because there's no other competition.
Speaker 1: And they're saying, that's a monopoly. You've you've you've created
Speaker 1: a monopoly. Now that's not fair for advertisers. So those
Speaker 1: are those two. This is how the advertising thing becomes
Speaker 1: a part of the case. That's the kid that I mean,
Speaker 1: you mad at them for subscribing to blogs and YouTubers
Speaker 1: that explain maps of games like you could subscribe. What
Speaker 1: you mad at me for for doing research and setting
Speaker 1: up a situation? What you mad at me for like
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, what you mad at me
Speaker 1: for for asking my mom to like give me, you know,
Speaker 1: don't give me lunch money, give me quarters, and just
Speaker 1: I play all. I mean, what you mad at me for?
Speaker 1: Get your weight up, ask your mama to give you quarters.
Speaker 1: And then finally it sets them up for a future monopoly,
Speaker 1: which is super interesting because the future monopoly is over
Speaker 1: AI and chat GPT. Now, whatever you may or may
Speaker 1: not know about AI and chat GPT, let me tell
Speaker 1: you this. It's like, it's not really cree. Y'all have
Speaker 1: to understand, it's not necessarily creating new knowledge at all.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, there's this interesting read for The New
Speaker 1: York Times about chatchipt and Wikipedia and how Wikipedia plays
Speaker 1: with Google. How Google basically scrapes Wikipedia, and then chat
Speaker 1: GPT is scraping Google. So you're like three degrees two
Speaker 1: degrees separated from an actual human inputting verifiable knowledge. And
Speaker 1: it's not like Wikipedia is perfect. But these large language models,
Speaker 1: which is how AI chats are trained, they rely on.
Speaker 1: I mean, Google's the largest in the world, single largest
Speaker 1: in the world, like by miles, amount of data of
Speaker 1: human information and language. It's in Google because we all
Speaker 1: use it, which is why they can charge whatever they
Speaker 1: want for advertisers. But if chat GPT is just scraping
Speaker 1: their information and then putting it together. There's things out
Speaker 1: you know, some of y'all. Y'all you've heard about chat
Speaker 1: GVT hallucinating, which basically what that means is like again,
Speaker 1: because it's just pulling shit from the Internet. Maybe before
Speaker 1: the Wikipedia editors can catch a troll from putting like
Speaker 1: false shit inside the thing, it's now piecing together these
Speaker 1: facts that aren't facts at all. And if you're paying
Speaker 1: attention to your chat GVT, you're like, wait, what, so
Speaker 1: it's you far from being able to write your turn
Speaker 1: paper off of chat GPT without having to double check
Speaker 1: and verify its information because number one, chat GPT is
Speaker 1: designed to make it feel like you're talking to a
Speaker 1: human and humans are often wrong. Yo, I'm saying it's
Speaker 1: supposed to feel natural. They don't always have a fact
Speaker 1: straight and it also oversimplifies. But all that to say,
Speaker 1: what's feeding the future of what you and I know
Speaker 1: as knowledge, the future of the Internet as we know it,
Speaker 1: It's Google because AI ain't going nowhere. It's only gonna
Speaker 1: get more sophisticated. We only gonna do it more. But
Speaker 1: if it's trained on bullshit, it's then that's all we
Speaker 1: gonna get garbage in garbage out my homeboys, my homeboys,
Speaker 1: sweat girl. That's father in love, y'all know. But he
Speaker 1: would say, hey, look man, you can't check. You can't
Speaker 1: make chicken soup out of chicken shit. You feel me?
Speaker 1: So all that to say, right now, Google got a
Speaker 1: control on the future of the Internet. That's another monopoly
Speaker 1: sore because that's what basically, that's what AI has trained
Speaker 1: on is the ship that say I'm on Google, to
Speaker 1: which Google would say, don't get better, get better, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry for succeeding. If now their real defense is this,
Speaker 1: but people like it. I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. People like the product. But also their
Speaker 1: defense is which I think is super interesting because it's generational.
Speaker 1: You niggas are dinosaurs. If you think Google us as
Speaker 1: a company, as a search engine are competing against other
Speaker 1: search engines, then you're old because as we all know,
Speaker 1: what you search things on it's TikTok. What you search
Speaker 1: for things on is am Amazon dot com. Again, I'm
Speaker 1: not competing against being nigga. I'm competing against TikTok. Nigga
Speaker 1: ain't dwarfing us. I'm trying to keep up with TikTok.
Speaker 1: You know, people ain't typing into Google. They're typing in
Speaker 1: the YouTube, which is good for Google because they own it.
Speaker 1: But even our combined forces compared to TikTok. Come on, fam,
Speaker 1: that's who were trying to keep up with you mat it?
Speaker 1: You I ain't bit more worried about No Mozilla, y'all
Speaker 1: looking at this all wrong, you dinosaurs. I ain't got
Speaker 1: a monopoly on shit. I'm just outperforming these younglings. Is
Speaker 1: they argue it again? Going back to the kid that's
Speaker 1: whooping your ass in two K He's like, oooh, I'm
Speaker 1: an esports gamer like y'all are just trash Like, no, nigga,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep up with these fools. The code
Speaker 1: dot got ain't even good enough. So how this thing
Speaker 1: comes about may or may not break the Internet as
Speaker 1: we know it. This is a third thing. What a
Speaker 1: time to be alive? You about to y'all teasing about
Speaker 1: web We all thought Web three was crypto and NFTs. Nigga,
Speaker 1: that was the rough draft where we at Now what's
Speaker 1: about to become? Right now? I don't even know these
Speaker 1: these new niggas. Are we going from backpack gangs to
Speaker 1: rap drug dealers to mumble rap nigga to whatever the
Speaker 1: hell out Now, it's these these new niggas. You feel me,
Speaker 1: It's almost like it's almost like Crypto era was like
Speaker 1: that was the Cali Swag Unit. That's that was the
Speaker 1: jerking scene where it was like it was hot. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, it had this moment. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that as a disc I'm just saying this wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: the future, my nigga ya y'all. I'm saying, like, the
Speaker 1: future is something way more evolved than this that nobody
Speaker 1: saw coming. I thought it was the future too. So
Speaker 1: the question we asking is who owns the future? And
Speaker 1: what the hell is a monopoly in a world that
Speaker 1: essentially is powered by AI nigga? Hell if I know.
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