1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something you probably already know. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 2: If you got a job and you work with black 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 2: people like this, and it's specifically a like urban born 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 2: black person even they country. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Let me not let me play games with you. 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 2: There is a coworker which might be you, but there's 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 2: a coworker that is seconds away from being cussed out. 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 2: It's somebody at your job that break all kinds of 9 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 2: rules like colde rules that get up under that black 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: person's skin. 11 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: Is so bad. 12 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 2: But because we have practiced the art of double consciousness, 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: which I've brought up before, it to web d voice 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 2: thing to where we have to be fluent in the 15 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: king's tongue, know how to function. Basically, you got to 16 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: know how to talk among white people what you guys 17 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 2: would call professional speech. But it's a little deeper than that. 18 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: For us. It's not just professional to survive. 19 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 2: But but right up under the surface, somebody is almost 20 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 2: about to get packed out. I'm telling you that right now. 21 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: But we just know how to keep it professional. But 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 2: there's a hood inside of us that no matter what 23 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 2: you put on us or in our situations, that's part 24 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 2: of keeping it. G Two, we understand the situation. It 25 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 2: might be Drake popping in their headphones while they sitting 26 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 2: at the cubicle. It's Nipsy and Little Dirk right now 27 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 2: playing in that person's headphones at that call center, just 28 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 2: keeping it super professional. And I tell you, there's been 29 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 2: plenty of times that that black person has found the 30 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 2: other Latino person or the other Filipino person, or the 31 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: other black person in y'all's office meetings, and y'allun locked 32 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: eyes at each. 33 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: Other, rolled y'all eyes because. 34 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 2: You already know, like y'all haven't already got answers and 35 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: thoughts about what's going on right now, And y'all just like, mmm, 36 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: I may I should put my foot so far up, 37 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: but you but you're professional. 38 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: You feel me. 39 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 2: Hey, look, you and the other hood folks that already 40 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 2: discussed licks that you might be able to hit on 41 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 2: this place, but you know how to keep a gin 42 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: and keep a professional. 43 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: Y'all. Just giggle, y'all. You know what I'm saying. It 44 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: is what it is. 45 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, I can pretty much say 46 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: with a lot of certainty that whatever experience you're experiencing 47 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 2: of black folks, people of color color you know in 48 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 2: the hood, or people from the hood in your professional environment. 49 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, we're toning it down. I'm 50 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 2: telling you right now, there's you, baby. You ain't seen 51 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: nothing yet because what's inside of us is very different 52 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 2: than what you see. This is why I say coming 53 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 2: from these areas actually gives you an advantage. 54 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: It's a superpower. 55 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: That's the whole concept of this shows the politics is like, 56 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 2: we actually have an advantage because we've had to know 57 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 2: how to survive in your world and in our world. 58 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: As much as you think we don't you as a 59 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 2: royal you maybe not. You listening, y'all get it. So 60 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 2: you could take us out the hood, you put us 61 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 2: in these nice houses, do whatever you want, but you 62 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 2: know it. But you can't take the hood outside of us, 63 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 2: and you get like we are what we are now. 64 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 2: This is a saying from the eighties, like a little 65 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: like a little bit before our time. 66 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: And of course it's remarkably reductive. 67 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: I know, it's not that simplistic, and it's actually a 68 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: little bit insulting to us to think that, like we 69 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: are not capable of metamorphosis and change. However, this is 70 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: not the way for which I mean this. What I'm saying, 71 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 2: is man, you was who you was for you got here. 72 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: It's some jay Z lyrics, right. We know who we are, 73 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: we know the things that made us what we are. 74 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: We know what we value, and it's this code, you know, 75 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 2: this g code that a lot of us live by. 76 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: This even if you not a gangster, there's part of like, 77 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: even if you don't gang bang, there's a part of 78 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 2: that code that just exists inside of all of us 79 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: because it's honor, it's integrity, it's loyalty, it's family, it's support, 80 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: it's community. You know, there's these codes that we have 81 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: that just you know, we kind of just need it 82 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 2: for survival, you know what I'm saying. And it follows 83 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 2: you everywhere you go, even when you move to those 84 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 2: nice houses in South Orange County, it's California thing. Move 85 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 2: out to the Inland Empire, you know that was the suburbs. 86 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: But I don't know if you ever been through Fontana, 87 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 2: I don't know if you ever been through San Bernardino 88 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 2: rialto Calton, Like, you know, no, we made it what 89 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 2: it is. You can't you could put us in these 90 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 2: nice houses. You ever go to the Crenshaw District them 91 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 2: it's nice houses. That's the hood because even though we 92 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: take care of our lawns, make sure the property values 93 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: stay nice. 94 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: You listen, we are who we are. Part of me. 95 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 2: Is why I think a lot of us really just 96 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: understand Mexicans because no matter where they go, it's gonna 97 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 2: be it's gonna be a taco stand outside, it's gonna 98 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: be a burrito truck somewhere around there, because they make 99 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 2: it their own. You could take them out of Mexico, 100 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 2: I'm saying, but you can't take Mexico. 101 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: Out of them. Right and again, I understand this is reductive. 102 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: But the environment, although plays a role, does not or 103 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 2: should not erase our values. So you can take the 104 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 2: homie out the hood, you can't take the hood out 105 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 2: the hommy. You have no idea what I'm about to 106 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: talk about, do you? Oh, unless you read the description 107 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 2: of the show, which I don't think anyone does. I 108 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 2: am trying to answer the question. It's Threads finally going 109 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: to be the Twitter Killer Hood politics, y'all. All right, y'all, 110 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in. 111 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: Again. 112 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: We appreciate y'all pulling up. I'll owe you a couple 113 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 2: cooler Zone plus shows that I need to complete, but 114 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 2: just life be lifing, you know what I'm saying. But 115 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 2: today I wanted to jump in here because I'm like, 116 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: do something a little lighter because I'm I'm working on 117 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 2: this one on the Supreme Court and Clarence Doland to 118 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 2: them and how they just be moving so silent, and 119 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 2: all the different things that just got passed as far 120 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 2: as affirmative action, the Native American adoption thing, the Navajole 121 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 2: water trands, stuff like, there's just so much that it's 122 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 2: just so heavy that I figure I talk about something 123 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 2: that's a little bit light, that's more about not so 124 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 2: much politics, although it actually is pretty tied to politics, 125 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 2: but the zeitgeist. You know what I'm saying, Not the Zeitgeist, 126 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 2: but just the ze guys. Shout out to them, as 127 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 2: Sophie calls them, the podfathers, you know what I'm saying, 128 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 2: dudes that put us on rogs our big hummies. But yeah, 129 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 2: I want to talk about the social media hills and valleys. 130 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 2: Now this one seems different now if you're you know, 131 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 2: a sillennial or a geriatric millennial like I am, apparently 132 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: where where like in between, Like I'm like, I'm not 133 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 2: so much X although I'm so close to gen X, 134 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 2: I get it. 135 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: But I lived a life. 136 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 2: Mostly around and in the zone of millennials, but I 137 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 2: had an analog childhood, you know what I'm saying, where 138 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 2: basically like Gen X, dudes just feel so old to me, 139 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 2: you know what I'm. 140 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: Saying, although they were just the upper grades, you know. 141 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 2: And it's also important to understand that, like you know, 142 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 2: these generation things, they're not scientific, there's nothing there. 143 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: It's all marketing. They're not like real things. 144 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 2: That being said, I come from a time where we 145 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 2: saw the evolution of social media and going from a 146 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 2: version of instant Messenger all the way to these platforms 147 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 2: that we see now. 148 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: We see them come, we see them go. 149 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: And it's crazy why just us as a herd all 150 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 2: moved to these next new things, right and because the 151 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 2: Internet wasn't what it was then as it is now. 152 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 2: That was a weird sentence. But follow me here. We 153 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: ain't had an access to the CEOs like we did, 154 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: like Tom. I still don't know what Tom actually looked like. 155 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 2: Tom is from my space. Some of y'all may not 156 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 2: remember what my space is. But follow me here. Tom 157 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 2: had the same avy the whole time. Tom on the 158 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 2: island somewhere that Avvy may not have actually been Tom. Like, 159 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 2: we don't have no idea what Tom looked like. Kept 160 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 2: it low. Tom ain't do the Mark Zuckerbird thing, you know, 161 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 2: didn't do the Dorsey thing. Definitely not an Elon like Tom. 162 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 2: That man cashed out and left. But uh, I remember 163 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 2: when I was really young, like really young, I didn't 164 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 2: even have one of these. 165 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: We had things called black Planet. 166 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 3: Right. 167 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: There was Friends the first, and then there was a 168 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 2: Black Planet, which is essentially like a black MySpace. 169 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: Right. 170 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 2: I think the closest to that would help you to 171 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: understand MySpace is it's more akin to a Facebook, and 172 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 2: Facebook actually murdered MySpace, right, But I'm gonna. 173 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: Get to that. 174 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: You created a profile, you could learn HTML and like 175 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 2: pimp out your MySpace. You can make a little money 176 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 2: on the low designing people's pages. We were literally flipping 177 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: htmls right now. You got to think about this, We 178 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 2: were flipping MySpace pages. These the same people, y'all, are 179 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 2: y'all hearing me? These the same people that got their 180 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 2: camera too close to their face when they do selfies. 181 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: These are the same. 182 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 2: People that can't figure out how to go live on 183 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 2: TikTok like these it's they the same people, that's what's bonkers. Anyway, 184 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 2: Each of these platforms have a grand opening. It's like 185 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 2: it's it's a traditional storyline, a grand opening, and sometimes 186 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 2: it just phases out from there right where it's like 187 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 2: the story's going nowhere and it shuts down. 188 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: Then it has But other ones that. 189 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 2: Succeed have this like super High Rising and then this peak. 190 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 2: And when they're on the peak, competitors try to come 191 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 2: out and try to create platforms that are similar to 192 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 2: try to get everybody off. And some of them work, 193 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 2: some of them don't. But when you get an actual 194 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 2: good competitor, what happens is what we all exist in 195 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 2: now is that you are on multiple You have multiple 196 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: social media pages, and traditionally the hope is to either 197 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 2: be okay with that, but have you if you're the 198 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 2: platform owner, spend more time on my page rather than 199 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 2: their page. So the page has to take on, has 200 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 2: to have certain features, right, has to be able to 201 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 2: do certain things, and it takes on its own sort 202 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 2: of personality. You feel me, which is what's interesting about 203 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 2: this threads thing, which I'm gonna get to later. But 204 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 2: like Twitter had a feel like when Twitter was was 205 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 2: at its best, it definitely had a feel. 206 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: But so the Facebook. 207 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: Facebook had a feel, it had a it took on 208 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 2: a tone, right, and then you go to that page 209 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 2: or that platform for that tone. Instagram was the same. 210 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 2: It takes on a thing. That's why this threads thing 211 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 2: is so interesting to me, which I'll get to later, 212 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 2: because it's like, well, I went to I go to insta. 213 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 2: I follow people on Instagram because I like the way 214 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:29,839 Speaker 2: they Instagram. 215 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 216 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 2: I follow the people on Twitter because I like the 217 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 2: way they tweet. So the idea of seeing tweets of 218 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,719 Speaker 2: my Instagram people I follow Instagram still kind of weird 219 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 2: to me, but we'll get to that. 220 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: A little later. 221 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 2: The platforms take on a vibe and a purpose and 222 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 2: a use, right, and then the the programmers, you know, 223 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 2: try to monetize. They try to do things to keep 224 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: these people happy to not get bored, you know, And 225 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 2: but in a lot of ways, the programmers have no 226 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 2: control over the tone or the feel that their platform 227 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 2: takes on. If Proud Boy for twenty sixty nine decides 228 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 2: this is where he's building his empire, is where he's 229 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 2: building his empire. 230 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: That is decided by the users, which is us. 231 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 2: So when you ask us, like which platform is better, 232 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 2: you know which one you like more. It's a matter 233 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 2: of preference because they essentially not. I mean again, you 234 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 2: go to certain things for what they offer. Are you 235 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 2: asking me, is this sushi restaurant better than this soul 236 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 2: food restaurant? Well, it depends on what I want for dinner, 237 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 2: I said, like, I go to them for different things. 238 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 2: Now my experience at that place? What does one have 239 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 2: better service than the other? Is there better seating? Is 240 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 2: their outdoor seating? How nice are the waiters? All those 241 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 2: things can play a factor. But at the end of 242 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 2: the day, the question is and will always be, who 243 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 2: are all gonna be there? 244 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: Because that's listen, that's the decide factor for anything. Who 245 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:29,839 Speaker 1: are all gonna be there? What's a platform success? Who there? Now? 246 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: How you get them there and keep them there? That's 247 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 2: up to the platform. But the question is really just 248 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 2: who are all gonna be there? Let's just be real. Now, 249 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 2: if you're the platform, you gotta decide. This is all 250 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 2: introduction by the way. Now, if you're the platform and 251 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 2: you decide, well, I know who I won't there? Like 252 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:46,839 Speaker 2: if you was a black planet, we already said what 253 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 2: you want to be there? Now you uh, there's this 254 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 2: new one called Spill that I'm not gonna give y'all 255 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 2: a code to, but I mean it's kind of designed 256 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: with black people in mind. It's just it is. Now, 257 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 2: if you're gonna do the like whole invite only, you know, 258 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 2: you got to get a code and stuff like this. 259 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 2: You're trying to be the boogie coffee shop that's kind 260 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 2: of like the country club. 261 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: Then that's Google gonna be there. Right. 262 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 2: If you linked in, you know what you're trying to do. 263 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 2: You're trying to your goal as professionals, Like we're not 264 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 2: really supposed to be, you know, kind of chilling here. 265 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 2: If it's Pinterest, you know, it's like you are saying 266 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 2: out front who you want there. But if you something 267 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 2: like a Facebook on MySpace and a Twitter, you're like, nah, 268 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 2: it is supposed to be a marketplace, is supposed to 269 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 2: be for everybody. This is a town center. But whatever 270 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 2: you decide, it has a life cycle. Right, So for 271 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 2: this episode, I want to talk about here's where it 272 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 2: gets political. Why this Twitter elon and threads meta Zuckerberg thing? 273 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: Why this might be different and how it's the same 274 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 2: and how My answer to is Thread's going to save us. 275 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 2: It's Threads gonna be the new thing that finally dethrons Twitter. 276 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 2: My answer is, you know, you could take the homie 277 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 2: out the hood, but you can't take the hood out there. 278 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: I will unpack this. That's God, take me, take. 279 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 3: Thanks the hood, te me the hood. 280 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 2: So I'm gonna start at my Space just because uh, 281 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 2: maybe it's my age, but also I think social media 282 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 2: as we know it, I think it's it's origin story. 283 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 2: Of course goes way back beyond that, but at least 284 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 2: for the versions that we understand in its form that 285 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 2: we see now. 286 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: We could say MySpace. 287 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 2: You know, there was Friendster before that, like I said, 288 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 2: and then there was black Planet for us. But you 289 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 2: create a profile. You had your MySpace top eight. Those 290 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 2: are your like your most favorite friends, you know, you 291 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 2: put them right up front, and then when you started, 292 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 2: when you dated somebody, they became your number one top eight. 293 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 2: Then you learned how to like break it to the 294 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 2: HTML and you could have like a top twenty. 295 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: Right, you had a musical player. 296 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 2: It had little like this is like I'm telling you, 297 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 2: like uploading MP Three's like, this is I mean, the 298 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 2: Internet as we know it was forged in this time, right, 299 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 2: and then you had your wall of comments where people 300 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 2: would come in and take your comments and place comments 301 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 2: on it. It was like creating a Facebook profile where 302 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 2: people could, like I said, could I say Facebook profile 303 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 2: because I want. I'm sure that's your closest connection there. Now. 304 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure most of y'all can't remember the last 305 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 2: time you opened your Facebook because it got taken over 306 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: by who got taken over by, which is what I'm 307 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 2: gonna get to. 308 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: But that's what it was. 309 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 2: You created a profile, you had your profile picture, you 310 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 2: had your friends if you will, but we were able 311 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 2: to do your top friends then you. But what was 312 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: dope was you had a music player that was like 313 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 2: you could play your favorite songs right now. 314 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: If you were an artist. 315 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 2: This again, like I said, this is like the new 316 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 2: like the birth of all this stuff. You'd have a 317 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 2: MySpace music page, and your music page was different than 318 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 2: your personal page, just like you have just like Facebook 319 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 2: pages versus your profiles right where you had. 320 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: Businesses and stuff like that. 321 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 2: And if you are a MySpace music there's a lot 322 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 2: of artists that launched off of this. I would venture 323 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 2: to say that emo as a genre was born out 324 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 2: of MySpace. 325 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 326 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 2: A lot of these bands, like they toured off their myspaces, 327 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: they sold their merch off of MySpace. You gotta remember, 328 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 2: this was the time that PayPal became a thing. Like 329 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 2: all this stuff was being born at this time. You 330 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 2: could create a career where you didn't need your own 331 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 2: personal website. This you didn't need a marketing team if 332 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 2: you will. This was where you could market literally via online. 333 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 2: Your whole thing could be MySpace, which meant that MySpace 334 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 2: realized what everybody else realized, everybody getting rich except us. 335 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: They don't make money like that. 336 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 2: I can't stress this enough for a company like like, 337 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 2: let's fast forward. Elon paid forty four billion dollars for 338 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 2: a company that I ain't make no money. Then how 339 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,640 Speaker 2: did you get to the price, because again, money's made up, 340 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 2: But that's the goal. You build this thing. Never make 341 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 2: a diamond, then cash out. Listen, social media weird, but 342 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 2: either way you got to run it. They everybody run 343 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 2: it to the same problem. You gotta figure out how 344 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 2: to make money as the platform because everybody else cashing 345 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 2: out out of it, and it just seems like to me, 346 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 2: the minute of the platform try to make money, whether 347 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 2: it's advertising or extra tools and services for businesses, that's 348 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 2: the death nail. Just I don't know what to tell you, guys. 349 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 2: Bro I remember I just saw a video of a 350 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 2: record store out here. They used to do in stores 351 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 2: and samples and stuff like that, and on that video 352 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 2: commercial it had their MySpace address. It's like Facebook dogor 353 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 2: like what we all do where we all put our 354 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 2: app mintions on our cards. Obviously there's prequels, but this 355 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 2: is where it's the Orger store here. 356 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: Now, what happened, It got ginormous. It took over everything. 357 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 2: They was having the same conversations about your screen time 358 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 2: usage and that the Internet's riding. They was having it 359 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 2: then too, but MySpace was a way that people were 360 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 2: launching careers, and just like now, MySpace had to figure 361 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 2: out how to monetize, and they monetized via ads. 362 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: But at this. 363 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 2: Time, you know, data mining the way that we understand 364 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 2: it wasn't a thing like we didn't really know you 365 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 2: really know how to do it like that. Now. I'm 366 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 2: not going to get into the weeds of the technical 367 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 2: aspects as to what started causing the downfall. But what 368 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 2: I am going to say is from a zeigeist perspective, 369 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 2: from a user perspective, overcrowding and spam, that's it just 370 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 2: got played out. It was just too many people, too 371 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 2: many dirt bags, a lot of grooming going on, a 372 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 2: lot of cat fishing was all happening. And then there 373 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 2: was this new place that had these things called status updates. 374 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 2: It was a cleaner, sort of more user friendly space 375 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 2: where everybody wasn't at but you could go in. You 376 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 2: can make connections, you can have direct message, you could 377 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 2: do these poke things. That was like, oh man, it's 378 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 2: so crowded over there, man, Like, damn, that's played out. 379 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 2: It's like it's too it's too man. I don't know, 380 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 2: it's too trendy. I want to be somewhere else. Hey, 381 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 2: there's this new thing. It's called Facebook. I think it 382 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,719 Speaker 2: used to just be you know, at Harvard or something. 383 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 2: And then everybody moved to Facebook. But before everybody moved, 384 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 2: most people had both a MySpace and a Facebook, and 385 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 2: then eventually, slowly but surely stop using our MySpace. MySpace 386 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 2: went through a lot of iterations. Somebody else bought it 387 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 2: and the new version of it. That's crazy. There's a 388 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 2: new version of MySpace that the interface is incredible. Dog 389 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 2: you know bought it? Was justin Timberlake's pretty crazy, crazy story. Anyway, 390 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 2: the crowds migrated. Where did my Space go wrong? Some 391 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 2: would say it just got too cool, Some would say 392 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 2: it got too big, would say it got too spammy. 393 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 2: Some would say the moderation made the experience not as fun, 394 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 2: and some would others just and others would just say, 395 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 2: shiny new things, competition, something else. We've been doing this 396 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 2: for too long. Let's find something else. And everybody moved. 397 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 2: And when everybody moved to Facebook, there were other things 398 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 2: happening at that time. There was all kinds of others started, 399 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 2: these booms of other sort of platforms that were building. 400 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 2: But to follow our story, the next would be Instagram 401 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 2: and Twitter. And remember Facebook didn't invent Instagram. Facebook bought Instagram. 402 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 2: Instagram at first was just a photo platform. I remember 403 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 2: I downloaded it and not knowing there was a social 404 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 2: part of it. I did it because I was just 405 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 2: looking for cool like photo filters. It was just about 406 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 2: like these cool little like you know, vintage filters. And 407 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 2: then guess what everybody liked the simplicity of it because 408 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 2: Facebook kind of did too much. And it was kind 409 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 2: of cool because you could take your Instagram photos so 410 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,959 Speaker 2: you could put it on your Facebook, you know, you 411 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 2: could like poor It was kind of cool. Like and 412 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 2: then Facebook's not stupid. Facebook is meta now, but you know, 413 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 2: Facebook's not stupid. They were like, we should just buy that. 414 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 2: That way we could have it both because Facebook knows 415 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 2: what it did to my space, crust it and then 416 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 2: move on to Twitter, you know, and I'm moving through 417 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 2: space pretty fast. But remember again, most people had both, right, 418 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 2: But then, remember these platforms they take on personalities. Y'all 419 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 2: know what happened to Facebook. It got broke when our 420 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 2: aunts and uncles, well y'all's aunts and uncles got on it, 421 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 2: you know what I mean by y'all. Right, But then 422 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 2: it just took on this sort of old, kind of 423 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:21,439 Speaker 2: right wing kind of conspiracy theory space. And once our 424 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 2: grandma's was on it, it was just untenable. And he 425 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 2: tried to do so many different things and it just 426 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 2: you were doing too much. The interface became just like 427 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 2: it's just what is all this? Remember all them games 428 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 2: you know you do, They're like hey, are you with 429 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 2: more California? And what state do you naturally be and 430 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 2: answer this question? And then you had the sheep things, 431 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 2: and then you had all these invitations to these games 432 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 2: and shit, and you was just. 433 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 1: Like, I don't want to do that. 434 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 2: And then there are connected people like, hey, this fool 435 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 2: goes to your high school. Don't you want to be 436 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 2: friends with them? And it's like, nigga, no, it's just 437 00:24:55,920 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 2: started doing too much. The experience became like, fam, I 438 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,479 Speaker 2: know you're trying to do this to keep us on 439 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 2: this page, but this experience. 440 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: Is getting lame. 441 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 2: Goddamn everybody here now I'm trying to avoid these people 442 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 2: from high school. 443 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: Was horrible. I don't need friends with them. You're thinking, 444 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: we want this. You keep creating these tools it better. 445 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 2: And my lord, have you ever tried to use Facebook 446 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 2: business or Meta business. That is the most unusable site 447 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 2: I've ever And what sucks is if you want to 448 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 2: sell some on your Instagram, you gotta use it. I'm like, 449 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 2: this is the most unusable. None of these buttons makes sense. 450 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,919 Speaker 2: It just became like it's cumbersome. It's like I have 451 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 2: my I have my public figure page, my profile page. 452 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: You gotta end up managing these pages. 453 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 2: You got the terraform page, you got the whole politics page, 454 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 2: I had the Red Couch podcast pace. You have to 455 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 2: have all these separate pages and to try to make 456 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 2: them all talk together, you had to have this whole 457 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 2: other app to do that. And I'm just like, this 458 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 2: is I hate this. And then on top of it, 459 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 2: every comment is some right wing troll. It took on 460 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 2: a personality, and you're telling them to monitor that. But like, 461 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 2: it's not the Facebook people doing that, it's the users 462 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 2: doing it. Took on a tone. Foods ran to Twitter, 463 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 2: and then you run the Twitter. And then after a while, 464 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 2: for the last like kind of zone we've been in, 465 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 2: it's like you have a Twitter and an Instagram, and 466 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 2: of course you have things like Snapchat, right, which again 467 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 2: took on an age We all felt like that was 468 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 2: just an age group thing, right. And then you had 469 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 2: the advent of TikTok, which was its own thing, right. 470 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 2: And I'm not even mentioning Vine and stuff like that. 471 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 2: These things that got enveloped into these other apps in 472 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 2: hopes to keep everybody on their page. But each of 473 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 2: these things took on their own personalities and who created 474 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 2: those personalities us the users, and of course you're doing 475 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 2: all these different things here and there as far as 476 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 2: like as modern racist, as securate your experience. We all 477 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 2: ran it tow we know what Twitter became. Twitter became 478 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 2: the place where you doom scroll right. 479 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: It's a place where you organized for resistance. 480 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 2: It was a place where you could trusted, place to 481 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 2: get your news right, but it was also a place 482 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 2: to find your silo and just to get enraged. It 483 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 2: went from what color is this dress? 484 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 1: Where we could laugh. 485 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 2: You have things like black Twitter, where like the gossip, 486 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 2: the t the zeigeist was all decided on Twitter. 487 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: Right. 488 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 2: Little did we know Reddit was creating all of the memes, 489 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 2: but you had to be terminally online to know the 490 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 2: Reddit stuff. So again Reddit took on its own thing, 491 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 2: and then Twitter became overran by blue check crypto bros 492 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 2: who just love elon. It took on a tone and 493 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 2: that was its killer. And now we're watching again, a 494 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 2: new place come in now. They tried with Masadon, They 495 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 2: tried with blue Sky, but Macedon was too much like Reddit. 496 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 2: You got to be like super online to be that. 497 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 2: Blue Sky was too booze. You only get an invite, 498 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 2: And what Threads did that was so different was like, 499 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 2: you're not starting from scratching with this one. You could 500 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 2: just poured all your followers into here, but it's still so. 501 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,359 Speaker 2: Here's a good example. You know, if you get to 502 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 2: a club, to the hot, trendy club, but you get 503 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 2: there at like ten thirty eleven, ain't nobody there. 504 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: You just standing around. 505 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 2: You know this is the place to be, but by 506 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 2: the time everybody get here, you kind of tired of it. 507 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 2: It's kind of not you can't really You're like, this 508 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 2: place is. I don't know how dope this place is 509 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 2: because ain't nobody here. I don't care how good the 510 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 2: bar is. If nobody here, nobody's staying. But if you 511 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,959 Speaker 2: get to a club and it's cracking already, you're like, yo, 512 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 2: like what's good? 513 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That's what Threads did. 514 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 2: Threads figured out how to make sure the club already 515 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 2: cracking when everybody get here, because all the homies came together. 516 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, y'all all everybody went to 517 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 2: the function at the same time, rather than doing it 518 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 2: like a trendy club where you got to get her 519 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 2: at a certain time. It was more like a festival 520 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 2: stage where this stage is getting lame while this stage 521 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 2: is getting cracking. See, Zuck got got some good sense 522 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 2: in that sense. That's the miracle. Is Zuck got us 523 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 2: cheering for him. That's the weirdest part because if I 524 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 2: had to choose between Elon and Zuck, I cannot believe 525 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: this man pulled off the miracle to make me cheer. 526 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: Choose him, right. 527 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 2: So it's not so much like the club, it's more 528 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 2: like the festival stage. 529 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: This stage is getting weird. 530 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 2: I was at the main stage, but it's getting weird, 531 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 2: and people slowly but surely leaving that stage trying to 532 00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 2: figure out which stage they're going to. If this the 533 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 2: is already up and running, it's already got a crowd there. 534 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 2: Oh that's dope. All my favorite bands is already over there. 535 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 2: Let's just all go over there. It's brilliant. Is it 536 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 2: going to kill that stage? No, nobody's tearing down the stage. 537 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 2: It'll still be over it. It just ain't gonna be nobody 538 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 2: in front of it except for a few weirdos like 539 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 2: you can still go to MySpace dot com. 540 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: It's still there, all right, Parlor is still there. 541 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 2: It just ain't but fifteen people there, you know, so, 542 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 2: I mean it's still open, it's just only weirdos and 543 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 2: they're happy. But this new stage, oh man, you done 544 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 2: crack the code in some ways, because when you get here, 545 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 2: everybody already here. You ain't got to try to rebuild 546 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 2: your network again. You ain't got to try to rEFInd 547 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 2: the homies. You ain't gotta wait till everybody get here 548 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 2: before it becomes dope. 549 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: But is it, y'all? Save you? Here's why I say. 550 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 2: You could take the homie out the hood, but you 551 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 2: can't take the hood out the homeboy. 552 00:30:52,240 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: What ruined every other platform? Nigga? Us we're the problem now. 553 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 2: Of course there's all kinds of different things that cost, 554 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 2: but set aside the curation of the tools and services. 555 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 2: Of course that plays a role. But the personality Facebook 556 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 2: took on was its users. I don't want to be 557 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 2: around them. Y'all made this shit trash. That's why I 558 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 2: want to be here no more. Why is Twitter untenable? 559 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: Nigga? The blue checks the bots. What you've allowed? You done? 560 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: Let in the riff raft. 561 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 2: It's the same platform despite all the problems. 562 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: I'm finna get to right after I tell you this. 563 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: But this is why. 564 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 2: This is what I'm trying to say, is threads gonna 565 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 2: save us, nigga. Threads ain't gonna change us. You know 566 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,719 Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. You're gonna become a threads influencer. You 567 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 2: have to learn how to monetize threads. I'm already seeing 568 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 2: on my threads the same thing that happened in my Instagram. 569 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 2: It's all these accounts I don't actually follow that are 570 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 2: in my home. Pay damn shits, get on my nerve. 571 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 2: Master it on too hard to you. The problem is 572 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 2: we bring the problems everywhere we go. You ever said 573 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 2: your ex girl was crazy? You ever said your ex 574 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 2: man was crazy? You ever thought to yourself, am I 575 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 2: keep dating all these crazy folks? 576 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: What do you. 577 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 2: Think might be the continuing factor in this situation? 578 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: Nigga? You you why they chrazy? 579 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 2: You know what's the problem with social networks is the 580 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 2: social nigga us we don't know how to act. Stop 581 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 2: thinking this platform gonna save you, Nigga. 582 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: It's not. 583 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 2: We bring it all the problems into this new platform. 584 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. It's the same threads if it 585 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 2: survives nigga Twitter was gonna die anyway. Now, how it's 586 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 2: different is this next segment that Elon and Nigga cocked 587 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 2: the gun and shot that mug. And that's why it's different, 588 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 2: and that's why it's political. But basically, we're gonna bring 589 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 2: the same problems. We're the same folks from my Space. 590 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 2: We're the same users. All the ship you don't like 591 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 2: in Instagram from the people, it's the same people right now. 592 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: It's dope. Every platform like this. 593 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 2: In the beginning, it feels so cool because the riff 594 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 2: raft ain't got here, The lowest parts of you ain't out, 595 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 2: ain't out of you yet. But them boxes coming, Nigga, 596 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 2: them influences coming. 597 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: Because the ship is the same. You could just look. Look, look, 598 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: all we did was move. 599 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 2: From one block to another because were the same folks. 600 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 2: You could take nigga out the hood, can't take the 601 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 2: hood out the nigga. Now that's how it's the same. Now, 602 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,719 Speaker 2: why is this particular one different? 603 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: That's neake. 604 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 2: Now here's why it's different. This situation is not just 605 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 2: like the rest of them. Why the whole example I 606 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 2: just talked about for the last three minutes or last 607 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 2: thirty minutes I'm about to. But on the other hand, 608 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 2: well actually myself right now, although I feel like my 609 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 2: point still stands where it's like this threads is not 610 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,840 Speaker 2: gonna save you. We gotta fix us. It's not the 611 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 2: platform's fault, it's us. That point still stands. But this 612 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 2: is different. Let me tell you why it's different. I'm 613 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 2: gonna give you three reasons. First reason is, before Facebook, 614 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:48,279 Speaker 2: social media didn't matter politically. You didn't mobilize earth moving movements, 615 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 2: genocides and also revolutions. The world wasn't connected like that, 616 00:34:55,080 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 2: so it didn't matter. Misinformation wasn't trafficked through play platforms. 617 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 2: We weren't talking about fence do us you know on 618 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 2: the floor of the Congress. It just didn't matter because 619 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 2: it wasn't moving nations. Now because remember the last time 620 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 2: we talked about the Supreme Court, when we're trying to 621 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,280 Speaker 2: figure out what is free speech, that was never really 622 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 2: in question in the way that like this is where 623 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 2: we are now you got YouTube being sued because it 624 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 2: may hold liability for that's these are for a terrorist attack, 625 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:37,959 Speaker 2: like the these are new days. So it's different. Number one, 626 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,400 Speaker 2: because it matters now. So that's one way it's different. 627 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 2: The second way is different is we never gave a 628 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 2: shit who owned the pages. Tom was a character mark 629 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 2: we don't like. It's the same as politics. Once your 630 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 2: political positions become personality driven, body gets turned into a pretzel. 631 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 2: That's what happened to the Republican Party. You went from 632 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 2: Reagan stands you know what I'm saying to trumpo sexuals, 633 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 2: and it's it broke y'all so and a lot of 634 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,080 Speaker 2: times now that it broke y'all, it broke us too, 635 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,040 Speaker 2: because even when Trump says something, even if it kind 636 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 2: of makes sense, I'm like, but it came out of 637 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 2: his mouth. I can't I'm gonna take It's gonna take 638 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 2: a second, you feel me. It's personality driven. So these platforms, 639 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,879 Speaker 2: even if they're the dopest possible platform, what is truth 640 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:43,360 Speaker 2: social It's Twitter? But for Trump sexuals it's so stupid. 641 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 2: I don't know what the interface is like because I'm 642 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 2: not gonna sign up for it. I don't want to 643 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 2: be there. Now, that's where the combination of the two 644 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 2: things happened. Like that, that is y'all have made that 645 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 2: into like who I do not want to be in 646 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 2: that space. And then Parla is just an empty trailer 647 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 2: park right now, like five people still running around there. 648 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,280 Speaker 2: Look like an abandoned mall in the Midwest somewhere. 649 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:06,880 Speaker 1: You feel me. 650 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 2: But the platform is not so much about its usability 651 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,319 Speaker 2: and sometimes not even about its users. Its users are 652 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 2: there because of its owner. And Twitter was able to 653 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 2: avoid that until this Elon Mustang. And Elon has a 654 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 2: way of doing that to whatever company he owns. He 655 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:35,440 Speaker 2: didn't make Twitter, he didn't make Tesla, like he didn't 656 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 2: make these companies. 657 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 1: He bought them. 658 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,440 Speaker 2: But he's such a cult of personality that it takes 659 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 2: on that. And that's what happens when you were a billionaire. 660 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,640 Speaker 2: Like we talk with this all the time. Billionaires never 661 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 2: get told no. So because you never get told no, 662 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 2: you think you know what you're talking about. So the 663 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:59,080 Speaker 2: torpedo of Twitter, it ain't really threads. Thread just saw 664 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 2: blood in the water. We all know what happened to 665 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 2: Twitter and the last straw. Now some of y'all are 666 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:06,880 Speaker 2: like you tripping. I love Twitter. 667 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:07,359 Speaker 1: I don't know. 668 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,240 Speaker 2: I've lost about ten thousand followers cause niggas are leaving. 669 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,400 Speaker 2: Why are they're leaving? It's the experience, and it's the personality. 670 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 2: That's different. We never cared who the guy was. Is 671 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 2: the is it still a function? Is it still a party? 672 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 2: Is the club still cracking? 673 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 1: I don't care. We'll own the club. The club cracking now, 674 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 1: even if the club cracking. 675 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 2: But this owner, he keep letting in these weirdos, that 676 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,600 Speaker 2: shit weird Cuz I don't want beard no more. 677 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: What will happened? He jumped in, figured he knew better. 678 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,120 Speaker 2: He fired like forty percent of his uh of his staff, 679 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 2: and they was like, well, it's some bullshit. You don't 680 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 2: know how to do this, but if we gotta go, 681 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 2: we gotta go. Then a nigga tried to make us 682 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 2: pay for shit we had already. And that's because again, 683 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 2: social media don't make money. So I was a blue 684 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,080 Speaker 2: check and I proudly lost it. When he was like, 685 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 2: you gotta subscribe eight dollars a month to get a 686 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,799 Speaker 2: blue check, I was like, you can have that little check. 687 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,680 Speaker 2: You think I'm gonna pay for something I've had for 688 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 2: free for ten years, it's not that serious, big homy. 689 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: It ruined what the checks were for. The checks were for. 690 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 1: I see his logic. 691 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,719 Speaker 2: It's like, well, I got to figure out how to 692 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,719 Speaker 2: make money somehow, and the logic was, you got this 693 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,360 Speaker 2: cool kids table, man, fuck the cool kids table. I 694 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,279 Speaker 2: get it because he probably was never on the cool 695 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:31,320 Speaker 2: kids table until he got rich anyway, but it was 696 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 2: away for us to know if I see this account, 697 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,279 Speaker 2: oh yeah, they are who they say they are. 698 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,560 Speaker 1: Now, I just know you paid eight dollars. 699 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 2: You're paying for Twitter, like I can't believe you're paying 700 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 2: for Twitter, right, So there's that. You can do it 701 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,239 Speaker 2: on Meta now, but at least on Instagram. I still 702 00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,480 Speaker 2: got my blue check. But you could click on it 703 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 2: and it'll say verified since twenty fourteen, which means you know, 704 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 2: I ain't pay for this shit now. Mark want to 705 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,399 Speaker 2: take my check, you can have it, nigga, I don't care. 706 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,359 Speaker 2: It's just a check. I'm not paying you for this. 707 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 2: I'm already paying for the ads to be able to 708 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:06,840 Speaker 2: run ads. 709 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I get that. So he 710 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 1: tried to do that and that shit didn't work. 711 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,600 Speaker 2: He was like, I'm gonna dangle to edit button in 712 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 2: front of you, but I'm making pay for it because 713 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,640 Speaker 2: we all been saying we need an edit button. 714 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,759 Speaker 1: He's like, nah, y'all paid for it. It's like it 715 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: ain't that serious, man. 716 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 2: And because he was so weird, and he brought back 717 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,279 Speaker 2: people that were making He brought back weirdos, brought back 718 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 2: Margie Taylor Green and I'm not saying because he had 719 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 2: this belief that, like you know, right wing voices were 720 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,839 Speaker 2: being shut down that ain't true. Weirdos were being shut down. 721 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 2: I like, Yiggy, you're a weirdo. And then they kicked 722 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,360 Speaker 2: out the president Nigga because he's a weirdo like you. 723 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,719 Speaker 2: I just don't understand how you can't see that that 724 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,759 Speaker 2: man a weirdo. So yeah, they put him out, we 725 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,399 Speaker 2: had to. Then they brought him back in, but by 726 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 2: this time the weirdo had already had his own platform. 727 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:53,359 Speaker 1: He ain't coming back. 728 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,320 Speaker 2: Then we just got over rammed by the NFT crypto 729 00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 2: bros in these bots. Man, I can't tell and these 730 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:05,280 Speaker 2: reply guys that love that's a new one. Just it's 731 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,719 Speaker 2: what is happening right now. It's so weird. It's like 732 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,600 Speaker 2: somebody just opened the back door of the function and 733 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:17,359 Speaker 2: just let in these weirdos like nah, I'm good, fam 734 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,680 Speaker 2: And most of us stuck around, who had at least 735 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,000 Speaker 2: even the people that were raging I'm believing if he 736 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 2: buys it. 737 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: You didn't leave. You just didn't check it often. 738 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 2: You just walked to the next stage, hoping that some 739 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 2: next stage would be super dope. 740 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:31,520 Speaker 1: And people tried. 741 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,759 Speaker 2: Blue Sky tried, but like I said, they too, Bougie 742 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,200 Speaker 2: masdon you gotta be terminally online and be able to 743 00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:41,759 Speaker 2: be a part of that. But if Twitter would have 744 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,560 Speaker 2: stayed usable, we probably would have been able to stand 745 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 2: eline but elon all over the place. And until you 746 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,880 Speaker 2: can find us a better alternative, I guess we was 747 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:54,960 Speaker 2: just gonna be stuck here. 748 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,880 Speaker 1: And then the last draw. 749 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 2: When we woke up to you have exceeded your limit 750 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,000 Speaker 2: of tweets and we was like, man, what and what 751 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,960 Speaker 2: he said it was for? It was because you know, 752 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:13,320 Speaker 2: there's these AI like machine learning machines that were teaching 753 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,960 Speaker 2: itself how to be better chat bots by farming all 754 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,399 Speaker 2: of our tweets so it could sound more human. He 755 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,239 Speaker 2: was like, I'm trying to stop that. But if you 756 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,279 Speaker 2: got Twitter blue, you could get more tweets than that. 757 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,520 Speaker 2: We was like, nigga, don't piss on my back and 758 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,439 Speaker 2: tell me it's raining. You ain't pay your server bill 759 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,440 Speaker 2: and we all know you didn't because you're not making 760 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,560 Speaker 2: no money and you don't know what the hell you're doing. 761 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,000 Speaker 2: And it seemed like that was the last straw. People 762 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,240 Speaker 2: were like, all right, man, I'll deal with the trolls. 763 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,920 Speaker 2: I'll deal with the bots, because it's trolls and bots everywhere. 764 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,440 Speaker 2: But you have just you've turned this into a trap house. 765 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,239 Speaker 2: I can live in a hood, but you done made 766 00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,280 Speaker 2: it the trap house. Now we can't be here. Now 767 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:59,640 Speaker 2: Threads comes in, shiny new thing. Is it going to 768 00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:00,480 Speaker 2: kill Twitter? 769 00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:02,840 Speaker 1: Well? Twitter was already. 770 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:08,399 Speaker 2: Dying, but his his, his tribe of Elon lovers will 771 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:09,160 Speaker 2: they'll be there. 772 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:10,560 Speaker 1: It'll be all right. 773 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,839 Speaker 2: I haven't deleted my Twitter because again, I'm still at 774 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,040 Speaker 2: the festival. I'm mixing my managers, I'm still at the Factible. 775 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,480 Speaker 2: I'm just not at that stage. I may peek over 776 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,320 Speaker 2: at that stage again and be like, oh yeah no, 777 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,080 Speaker 2: I'm still weird those I'll be over here now. Am 778 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 2: I gonna stay at the thread stage? Who knows that 779 00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,239 Speaker 2: stage might shut down? And also I know he's he 780 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:32,719 Speaker 2: threatened to sue Meta for basically biting like you you 781 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 2: bid us, you took all of our you siphoned our 782 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,440 Speaker 2: employees and you built a clone and it was like, hey, 783 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:43,400 Speaker 2: numb nuts. They didn't siphon them. You fired them. You 784 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,840 Speaker 2: remember when you came in and you fired everybody. 785 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,120 Speaker 1: You didn't. You didn't think this, They would just never. 786 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:57,800 Speaker 3: Mind, thank you. 787 00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:59,160 Speaker 1: So threads might be cool. 788 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,120 Speaker 2: The weird those are gonna realize that's where everybody at 789 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,960 Speaker 2: and come over here. That's all I'm saying. These places 790 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,040 Speaker 2: is not your savor. You could take the homie out 791 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 2: the hood. You can't take the hood out the home. However, 792 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,960 Speaker 2: if these platforms continue to move nations the way they do, 793 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,239 Speaker 2: I'm not sure if we'll have them at all. 794 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,400 Speaker 1: Hood politics, y'all. 795 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:38,800 Speaker 3: Take your techno the hood, take the hood. 796 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,960 Speaker 2: You know, I don't know why I ain't thought of 797 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,320 Speaker 2: this before, but you know you could use promo code 798 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:54,480 Speaker 2: hood for fifteen percent off on terraform codbrew dot com. 799 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,239 Speaker 2: Like I forgot I own that company and this is 800 00:44:58,320 --> 00:44:58,799 Speaker 2: my pod. 801 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,200 Speaker 1: Y'all go ahead and punch it. Promo cod hood. 802 00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,080 Speaker 2: If you in the cold Brew, get you some cold brew, 803 00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,279 Speaker 2: gonna get you some coffee. Yeah, Like, I can't believe, 804 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,439 Speaker 2: I ain't think it is still right. 805 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:23,719 Speaker 1: Now, yo, y'all. 806 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,320 Speaker 2: This thing right here was recorded by Me Propaganda and 807 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:32,520 Speaker 2: East Lows, Boil Heights, Los Angeles, California. This thing was mixed, edited, mastered, 808 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,319 Speaker 2: and scored by the one and the only Matt Awsowski. 809 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,000 Speaker 1: Y'all check out this fool's music. I mean it's incredible. 810 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:44,600 Speaker 2: Executive produced by Sophie Lichterman for Cool Zone Media. Man, 811 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,200 Speaker 2: and thank you for everybody who continue to tap in 812 00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,480 Speaker 2: with us. Make sure you leaving reviews and five star 813 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,600 Speaker 2: ratings and sharing it with the homies so we could 814 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,440 Speaker 2: get this thing pushed up in the algorithm and listen. 815 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,600 Speaker 2: I just want to remind you these people is not 816 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,239 Speaker 2: smarter than you. If you understand city living, you understand politics, 817 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:02,279 Speaker 2: We'll see you next week.