1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Media, Hey, do y'all still say curved or curbed? Like 2 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: if somebody curbed you, I don't even know if it's 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's curve or curved. But 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: essentially what we mean is maybe i'm my old head. 5 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: What we mean is when you approach a young lady 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: and she shuts you down, like, oh man, you got curved. 7 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: You know, they just I'm pretty sure it's curved. Probably 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: like curb your enthusiasm. It's probably it. I don't know 9 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: if there's anything more painful, because most of the time 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: for you to get curved, it's usually because you are enthusiastic. 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 1: A lot of times is when you're super confident in 12 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 1: the movie You're finna make now. I can't speak for 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: every young man who finally hits his awakening of the 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: sex that he's attracted to. And I know mine when 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, I like girls, when 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: you have to start building up the bravery to actually 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: admit it or maybe ask this girl to dance or 18 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: sit by her, or maybe even possibly get a little 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: kiss on the cheek, you know, just you know, it 20 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: was little boys, you're not really ready for like full 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: intercourse because we're still children. I remember like rehearsing, and 22 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: I have a sister that's six years older than me, 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: So I could ask her like how do I say this? 24 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: You know, what outfits should I wear? Like you know? 25 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: And she was like down to make her little brother, 26 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: like you know, she wanted a little brother to be flying. 27 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: So I could ask her and come up with lines 28 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: and like how do I approach? What do I say? 29 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: Where do I stand? Like how do I I'm nervous, 30 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: I'm scared off for her to offer this little girl 31 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: to giggle and run to her friends and go, eh, 32 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: he not even fine, just destroy. It took me three 33 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: weeks to get the courage to say something to her, 34 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: just with this girl, to be like like that's the child. 35 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: Which I don't know if it's everybody's story, but you 36 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: have to understand like me, who I went to schools 37 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: in neighborhoods that were so diverse, where there was just 38 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: as many Filipino and Latino and you know, Chinese, there 39 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: was such as there was so many other communities that 40 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: were at the spaces I was in. Like again, I 41 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: read the demographics. Most of y'all are from Cali that 42 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: listen to this from the San Gabril Valley. Who I 43 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: was born in South Central I say it all the time, 44 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: but I grew up in San Gavel Valley and then 45 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: I went to high school in the Inland Empire, and 46 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: like so you experienced so many cultures. You're exposed to 47 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: so many types of girls where black dude is just 48 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: not they tight. This is way too long of an 49 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: intro Anyway, The point I'm trying to make is it 50 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: really hurts to get curved, especially when you're really confident. 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: And guess what Google got curved politics, y'all? All right, 52 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: before I go into it, but look at like nerds. 53 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: Bull look is like this. Bull look is like this. 54 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: It look is like this, But look at like this. 55 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: All right, Well, the darkest of holidays has hit. It 56 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: is the one year anniversary of the attack from Hamas 57 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: on Israel, which, in retaliation to such attack, unleashed the 58 00:03:54,280 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: Kraken towards all of Gaza and extending Palestinian areas. Way 59 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: too many people died. There was a memorial held in 60 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: Israel where they played that last song before at that, 61 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: you know, because the attack happened like one of the 62 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: parts happened during a music festival and the last song 63 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: that was being played before the attack happened and hostages 64 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: were taken and people were killed, they played that song 65 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: to mark, you know, the one year anniversary of a horrible, 66 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: horrible situation. And from the Israeli perspective, the city is 67 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: torn because you can't argue that that wasn't you know, 68 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: one of the orb if not the greatest terrorist attack 69 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: that they've experienced. And I think, like, I'm not adding 70 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: snark to this because it's like, yeah, I mean like 71 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be real about it. I think, 72 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: how do I say this? Since they've been in their 73 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: mind the little Engine that could the whole time, and 74 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: everybody was against them, they felt like their only way 75 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: to be safe is to be the aggressor, and they've 76 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: continued to be the aggressor because the feel like everybody's 77 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:32,239 Speaker 1: being aggressed to them. So there's a kinship to the 78 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: idea that America has of itself too, you know, where 79 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: we say if you go into war, you're going overseas, 80 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: like the attack is over there. Everybody's trying to come 81 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: to get us, But don't nobody want to mess with 82 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: us because they know won't play around it only happened once, 83 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: and that was a pearl harbor. We blew up Pole 84 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: Islands after that. So they carried in their psyche that 85 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: type of sort of same vibe. But that is not 86 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: to diminish the atrocities that they feel in their heart 87 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: and the things that had happened, So you mark it right. 88 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: On the other hand, it also marks the beginning of 89 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: the absolute decimation of Gaza, with eleven thousand people dead 90 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: and just a commpletely intenable living situation that has now spread. 91 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: Everybody's fear has spread to Lebanon and Yemen, and now 92 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: big dog Iran has jumped in. It was what everybody 93 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: that works in peacemaking was hoping wouldn't happen, that like 94 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: we would get to a ceasefire, to state solution, which 95 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: clearly is the only option. I just don't understand how 96 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: anybody could think any other way that like this is 97 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: really the only option. But with that being said, all 98 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: the blood, all carnage, all the like, let's make this happen. 99 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: Gaza could not have a sort of moment to even 100 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: breathe to mark the anniversary of this because it's leveled. 101 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: I mean, there's like where you know they still running 102 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: for cover. They and is well not even letting it. 103 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: They barely letting aid in, Like we got to fight 104 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: to let aid in. And then with all the carnage 105 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: and it be coming into a regional war, there's a 106 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: ceasefire deal on the table, and then Yahoo won't accept it, 107 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: and you still ain't got the hostages. All that blood 108 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: and you still ain't got the hostages. So Israel as 109 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: a nation is torn because they're like, fam, uh, can 110 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: we keep our eyes on the prize here? I just 111 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: we just want our loved ones back. What is you? 112 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: And ask you to show the whole like I ain't 113 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: ask you to blow the whole city up. Well it's 114 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: just one of our hostages, But what is you? And 115 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: then there's the other half that's like, no, we can't 116 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: letting people live. And then there's the really really small 117 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: deck sect of hyper conservative religious folk within the Israeli 118 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: world that are like, well it's how we bring the Messiah. 119 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: We gotta control this region or the Messiah ain't coming, 120 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: so like no, they gotta go. So it's all that 121 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: going on all in one place. The JV team had 122 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: their debate switching gears here the my dad can beat 123 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 1: up your dad debate because who really cared what the 124 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 1: vice president they because the vice president will really do nothing. 125 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: Now that being said, it was more substantive than any 126 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: of us would have thought. And it's one of those 127 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: things where it's like, be careful what you asked for. 128 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: Y'all asked for civility and substance. What you didn't ask 129 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: for was truth. My niggad the Trump ticket is getting 130 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: his money's worth. He is jd. Vance understood the assignment. 131 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: The assignment was to sanitize everything that Trump stands for, 132 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: and even to the point of like almost like the 133 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: opposite where it's like, now, we ain't say that. And 134 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: then when the mic slipped up and said, well you 135 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: weren't supposed to lie fact check us a you revealed 136 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: your cards, big dog. But JD. Vance absolutely one hundred 137 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: percent understood the assignment, and you cannot take that from him. 138 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: He was slick, he was likable, and he did didn't 139 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: go on the full attack. They did the whole I 140 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: agree with what we're supposed to be doing heat and 141 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: he took all the smart Now, don't get me wrong, 142 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: I personally like dudes like that will pulse me. That 143 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: are too polished in every like that. I'm like, you're 144 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: clearly hiding something. Anyway, everything was going great until this 145 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: man could not answer the January sixth question, Now, did 146 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: Trump lose the election? Elect question? Now, the thing is, 147 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: that's in some senses it's a gotcha question because we 148 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: all know that man can't answer that question. Like what 149 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: y'all expect this man to say? Yeah, now, Trump tripping 150 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: on that one, but we're gonna win this one though. 151 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: He can't say. He can't do that. Y'all know he 152 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: can't do that. That man can't get up there and 153 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: tell the truth, like, boo, you better learn how to 154 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: lie like me. You can't be telling the truth of 155 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: these people. You got a lie. That be the end 156 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: of his job. Get Trump lose a twenty twenty election, 157 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: like Nigga dues like, you can't say that. You gotta 158 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 1: be like, look, dude, we're looking forward. But didn't y'all, 159 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: and then proceeded to talk backwards. Boy, I tell you, man, 160 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: I love it here. All right, let's get back to 161 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 1: it like this. All right. So last year we did 162 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: an episode that was called Get Your Weight Up, and 163 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: I taught y'all about antitrust and monopolies, and the situation 164 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: Google was facing and it was over search engines and ads, 165 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 1: showing how this is just a brand new world where 166 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: what Google is facing, especially when it comes to like 167 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: search engines. You had suit being brought to them by 168 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: like you know bing and like ass jeeves. That was like, 169 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: you're creating a monopoly. I could even giggle with the 170 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: idea of like being because it's like, bro, no one 171 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: uses bing. Google's a verb like it's a company, but 172 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: it's also a verb you google something. They're like, you're 173 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: a monopoly. They're like, listen, I'm not like Bing is 174 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: not my competition. Microsoft, ain't my competition. Full Chat, GBT 175 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: is TikTok Amazon, I am not competing with you other 176 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: browsers and search engines. Y'all lave y'all need to get 177 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: y'all weight up. And the argument was in this antitrust case, 178 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: which I will back up and explain the term monopoly 179 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: or antitrust and then give you a context. So their 180 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: argument was, you say, we're cornering the market, We're making 181 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: it impossible. But y'all could just get y'all weight up. 182 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: I don't know why you mad at us for making 183 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: a superior product. Now, the last time you googled something, 184 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you got frustrated because Google's trying to 185 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: do the AI thing again to keep up with that 186 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: at GBT, and so the searches have been I've had 187 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: to like retype in what I'm looking for multiple times 188 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: because I'm like, this used to be super easy. So, 189 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: in my anecdotal opinion, it's gotten worse as they've tried 190 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: to bring it AI. But the point is the case 191 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: was do you have a monopoly on search and ads? 192 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: And when we talked about it at first it was 193 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: being brought to the Department of Justice. Well they have decided, yes, 194 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: you have a monopoly. It's not fair, and you need 195 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: to break it up. Break it up, break it up, 196 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: break it up, break it up, break it up, break 197 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: it up, break it up. Yeah, y'all ratchet, y'all know 198 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: that's all y'all got to break up your company. Now. 199 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:47,839 Speaker 1: The reason why this was so big obviously because Google's big, 200 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: but it's because it harkens back to one that happened 201 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight Microsoft. So here's what we're gonna do. 202 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna explain to you what a monopoly is, and 203 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: if you've ever sold drugs, you already know, which means 204 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: that we have to talk about capitalism and the version 205 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: of capitalism that America says they love and believe in. 206 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: How you protect that imaginary version of capitalism, Why an 207 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: antitrust is what it is, and why the government steps in, 208 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: what happened with Microsoft and how that informed this Google decision, 209 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: and then what Google's gonna have to do? All right, 210 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: but I swear to you, just like the very foundational truth, 211 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: the axiom of truth that this show is, you already 212 00:14:39,960 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: know this stuff, all right. Next, Okay, So capitalism, oftentimes 213 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: we have because we live in the world we live in, 214 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: we have conflated the idea of capitalism with just economics 215 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: that if you sell something, it's capitalism. You have to remember, 216 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: capitalism as a concept was invented. Now. The idea of 217 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: trading some sort of commerce for goods and services is 218 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: as old as puka shells, is as old as when 219 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: we moved from just bartering to Yeah, there is currency 220 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: and the currency and I'm giving you this currency, and 221 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: you're going to return back to me a good in service. 222 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: The institution that we talk about that includes a supply 223 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: chain where the product is being created in multiple different 224 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: factories that's being cobbled together into one piece. The system 225 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: that says each of these people that work in these 226 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: factories is indust your revolution type situation that puts like 227 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: if you're going to take a pencil, the eraser tip 228 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: is made somewhere else, but that place is really only 229 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: getting raw materials from another place, and those raw materials 230 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: are being sent there, and then the people carrying that 231 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: stuff in, the people that transfer it in the truck 232 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: is a whole other company who brings this raw materials 233 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: to this place, and then that place has to buy 234 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: the equipment from a whole other company who makes the 235 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: equipment for you to process this thing to make the 236 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: eraser tip. But still, if you're the pencil company, you 237 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: have a contract with them with a wood company, who's 238 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: got a contract with a timber company who's got a 239 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: contract with a lad company or a graphite company. You 240 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: just the people that put it all together, and then 241 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: it's a whole other marketing team that just was hired 242 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 1: by the brand name of the pencil to put it 243 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 1: all in one place. And then you got to hire 244 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 1: a shopify right, a three pl and all of these 245 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: people have employees, and the price of that pencil is 246 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: cobbled together in the way that makes sure, or supposed 247 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:23,120 Speaker 1: to make sure that everybody, every company that was involved 248 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: in this, all gotta pay their employees, bring that all together, 249 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: get it on the shelf, and then they charge you 250 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: a dollar ninety nine per pencil. Now, if you're making 251 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: one million pencils, it may not have cost you the 252 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,479 Speaker 1: company they selling it for a dollar ninety nine. It 253 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: cost the company, I don't know, hopefully if they're doing 254 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: it right, two cents. So the cost of the pencil. 255 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: You hear, all them companies all had to make their money. 256 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: But if you make enough of them, you can lower 257 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: the cost that it takes to make the pencil so 258 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: that when it gets to the consumer, you only paying 259 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: two dollars, and that two dollars, you know, multiplied by 260 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand consumers. It's supposed to be able to 261 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:10,239 Speaker 1: make sure that everybody's happy and everybody wins. Now, the 262 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: capitalism that we exist in is to say, okay, best 263 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: product at the best price wins. So if somebody got 264 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: a better pencil and they only charging a dollar fifty 265 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: the idea is, damn, you made it cheaper and better, 266 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: so everybody's gonna buy that. So then what do you do? 267 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: You have to figure out how to make your pencil 268 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: better and cheaper. Hopefully you could charge a dollar twenty 269 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,199 Speaker 1: five right all the way down to where get this 270 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: the term of elasticity, to where the product is cheap 271 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 1: enough to make to where everybody makes money. There's a number. 272 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: Now you have to enter the concept of branding. Okay, 273 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: I work. I'm a brand ambassador for a company called 274 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 1: mer Right, y'all know the people that make my mugs 275 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: and the poor Gami's all the coffee stuff is this 276 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: company called mer Now. Meer got a lot of clients too, 277 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: and Mirr was telling us, telling me about one of 278 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: the clients for which I will not name names. And 279 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: because I ain't trying to worry, I ain't trying to 280 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: mess up my money. This company is able to sell 281 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,880 Speaker 1: things at an absurd price point. But we looking at it. 282 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: But my man and mir was looking at it and 283 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, you're sourcing. There's no way in the 284 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: world you're sourcing at a different place than everybody else's, 285 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: or you're sourcing at the same place. And he was 286 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: like and the owner or the buyer was like, yeah, yeah, 287 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: source is the same place as as our competition. They 288 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: charged three ninety nine, we charge eight ninety nine. It's 289 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: called branding. So just the power of the branding, the 290 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,439 Speaker 1: fact that your name is on it. Let me give 291 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: y'all a little game about Kirkland and Costco brand. Now 292 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 1: Costco ain't paying me for this, but I wish they 293 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 1: was the Kirkland brand, liquor, the tequila, the whiskey, all 294 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: that that they got in there. It's they bought a 295 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: recipe from I believe it's ego rare like Makers Mark. 296 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: I believe they're whiskey is makers Mark. They just bought 297 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 1: a recipe from them and just white labeled it. It's 298 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: actually very it's very good whiskey. It's just named Kirklind brilliant. 299 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: So if you smart, rather than buying the label name, 300 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: you getting the same product. It's just cheaper. So now 301 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: you take when you talk about a national economy, you 302 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: take all the pieces that we're talking about, if we're 303 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: talking about again capitalism, you take every person that is 304 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,479 Speaker 1: on all them jobs, how much money they make, how 305 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: much money is coming into the company. How much money 306 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,199 Speaker 1: that company is spending, how much money the people that 307 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: work at that company are spending right the products for 308 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 1: which they buy, how much then products cost to make, 309 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: and how much profit those products produce. How much of 310 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: that money is going out to other countries. How much 311 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: of that money is coming back into the consumers pockets. 312 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: Because once the company makes money, the people that work 313 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 1: at that company all get paid, and then they buy 314 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: other products, which brings the money back. So you take 315 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: the totality of all that, the combination of all those 316 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: factors all trying to get you to spend your dollar 317 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: with them, them competing with each Other's called free market capitalism. 318 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:17,239 Speaker 1: All of that is capitalism. And what's capitalism's goal is, 319 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: if you haven't figured this out yet, the greatest amount 320 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: of profit for the least amount of cost. Now, how 321 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: do you pull that off? If that is the goal 322 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 1: of capitalism, will you cut costs? Where do you cut costs? 323 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: Most of the time, your highest cost is your employees. 324 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: It's payroll. That's your highest cost. So you pay your 325 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: workers at least as possible. Why did America becomes up 326 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: a superstar, so a superpower so early? Well, they didn't 327 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: pay they workers at all. It was called slavery. You 328 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: was only paying for the raw materials. You only had 329 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: to pay for the land. You had to pay for 330 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 1: the workers. Of course, you're gonna get rich by no 331 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,440 Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. Is the goal of capitalism itself 332 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: human flourishing. Now that might be the person that functions 333 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: within the system. You might want to approach this in 334 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: a way that centers humanity, in the sense that like, 335 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: you're paying your workers well, you're ethically sourcing, so that 336 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: means you're setting a price point that allows for you 337 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: to pay workers well, to treat the environment well. You 338 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: have things like certified b corps. At some point, I'm 339 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,679 Speaker 1: bringing Ma Hoomie brian On here to talk about what 340 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 1: it means to be an ethical capitalistic company, which some 341 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: would argue is impossible. I might agree with you, but again, 342 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: like I say all the time, you know, she might 343 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: as well swim. Be as truthful as possible. Like I said, 344 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: we're all on a big corporation. This is iHeart media. Like, 345 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: it's not be delusional, you know what I'm saying. Corporation guys, 346 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: So we're not delusional. But there's a way to be 347 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: as ethical as you possibly can. But that's not the 348 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 1: goal of capitalism. That might be the goal of the person. 349 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: There might be a advancement of a society to where, yeah, 350 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: well multiple people now have jobs now, which means like 351 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 1: the way of life is just better across the board 352 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: for everybody, because now everybody's employed. But one would argue that, 353 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: like we weren't starving before we had jobs, Like before 354 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 1: there was a factory, before you bought your food at 355 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: a grocery store, you just grew your own every For 356 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: most of human history, people just had like small gardens 357 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: like where you just and you just traded back and 358 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: forth where it's like, okay, we grow squashed. Well, I'm 359 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: gonna walk cross the street, go visit another family over 360 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 1: there in that other village. I know they grow spinach. 361 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: Well you know what I'm saying. I'm bring them some squash. 362 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: They bring me some spinaches. It's fine, Like we all 363 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: we were all right before we had to like work 364 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: for like cotton pieces of dead men to turn in 365 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,120 Speaker 1: for our waters, to work in our houses. Because somebody 366 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 1: bought the lake and owns the clouds. I don't know 367 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: if you notice you can own the clouds. You can 368 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: own the land rights and all of the sky and 369 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: atmosphere above it. Because capitalism is crazy right now. Anyway, 370 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: I haven't even talked about antitrust yet. This is absurd. 371 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: So all that to say, in our system, at least 372 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: in America, we tried to set up this situation to 373 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: say that if we keep this institution pure enough, it 374 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: will police itself. And how you do that because people 375 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: really make their decisions by they purchases. People buy what 376 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: they want. And if you charge too much but your 377 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: brand is trash and we don't believe you, people won't 378 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: stop buying it. That's a price elasticity. What's the highest 379 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: you could charge before people are going to be like, 380 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 1: all right, you don't lost your mind. This brand ain't 381 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: worth it, which is how you gain the system. You 382 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's like, you make your brand 383 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: worth it, but you charge as high as you can, 384 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: not as cheap as you can. You take somebody like 385 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: arizona Ic they charge as little as they can. That's 386 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: their brand. Though for them it worked. But anyway, we 387 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: we as in the Royal weed, not me. But the 388 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: concept is you need to have competition in the market. 389 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: You can't just be the only person selling a thing. 390 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: You can't. You can defeature competitors by having a better 391 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: product at a better price point, but you can't just 392 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: box them out because when you box them out, when 393 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: you're the only option, there is no reason for you 394 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: to not price gouge, and the quality of your product 395 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,679 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be great because you the only people. 396 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: That's what I mean by drug dealer. You trying to 397 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 1: be the only connect. If you the only connect, you've 398 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: charged the people whatever you won't they hooked on the product. 399 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: You could step on your product if you want too, 400 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 1: because what they gonna do where you go go? I'm 401 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: your only option. I just feel like that with gas 402 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: prices because I'm like, what am I gonna do? There's 403 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: no difference to me between mobile and arco. I still 404 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: have to go to the thing or I don't go 405 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: anywhere like I I now. As a side note, I 406 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: went to Rhymefest this past weekend at the Coliseum and 407 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: I took the train and I was like, no native, 408 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: nobody I know takes trains because it just don't go 409 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: enough places. But this time it was like I didn't 410 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: have to switch once and I was like, bro, why 411 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: don't every time I take the train, every time I 412 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: take the metro in La, I'll be like, why don't 413 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: I do this? So, yeah, maybe there is an alternative anyway. So, 414 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: being mad over gas prices, I'm like, what do what? 415 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,479 Speaker 1: You gonna not go fill up your tank? What you're 416 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna not go to work? Like I felt 417 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 1: so hopeless. I was like, this is a monopoly, you monopolize. 418 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: So the idea was in the anti trust law. I 419 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: don't know why they call it that, they just do. 420 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: Antitrust law is saying we do not believe in the 421 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:55,199 Speaker 1: American economics system that it is legal or even in 422 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,439 Speaker 1: the spirit of who we are as a nation, that 423 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: any one company should have a have a monopoly over 424 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 1: a business. There needs to be competition, meaning there needs 425 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: to be other companies that are pushing you, because what 426 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: that does for the consumer is it means we're getting 427 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: the best products because y'all are fighting against each other 428 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: for our dollars. They're not concerned with just one company success. 429 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,479 Speaker 1: We're talking overall success of the entire country. Because they 430 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 1: looking at it again as the economy as capitalism. Capital 431 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: c not just are you doing all right? We mean 432 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: the whole country. So the whole country gotta win, which 433 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: means that I don't really care if your one company 434 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: is doing I we need a whole thing to work. 435 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: In theory, because you could go get the off brand stuff. 436 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: You grew up like us. Oh man, there was cheerios, 437 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: and then there was multo meal. There was tasty os. 438 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: You feel me, I was like them is nasty. I 439 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 1: used to get so mad when my mom brought that 440 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,479 Speaker 1: off brand cereal. I wanted the name brand cereal was cheaper, 441 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: but it but that ain't like that ain't work. Now 442 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: what that meant was that made cheerios because my mom 443 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 1: sometimes was like, I ain't buying the cheerios. It costs 444 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 1: too much. So that means the cheerios because there's such 445 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: thing as multi meal and tasteios, fruit rings, not fruit loops, 446 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: because those things existed. That meant that, like yo, cheerios, 447 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 1: gotta work harder to make sure that they products they 448 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: bomb and at the price point is something that we 449 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: willing to pay. That's why there's one hundred different car 450 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: companies while they fighting for our attention. Why everybody racing 451 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: to get an electric car like thing with Tesla's they 452 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: was just there first. Well, actually Saturn was there first. 453 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: You should see a documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car? Anyway, 454 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: but they not the only ones. They couldn't. They couldn't 455 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: get to electric car and shut the door. There's companies 456 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: like Rivian who they trucks are amazing, you know, But 457 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,959 Speaker 1: there's there's other companies. There are other people making electric cars. 458 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: It's so it's like, yo, get your weight up, like, 459 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: do something great now. It could become a monopoly if 460 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: they do this, they take all the road mapping that 461 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: they've done with their self driving, get it perfect, and 462 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: then make sure every a new electric car has to 463 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: buy their software for the road mapping of self driving. 464 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: Like if every new electric car had Tesla's software in 465 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: there from for their self driving cars, which right now 466 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: would be a disaster. But if they continue to develop 467 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: what they got and then they box out everybody else, 468 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: it wouldn't matter if it's a disaster or not, because 469 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: every car comes equipped with their software. That would be 470 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: a monopoly, to which they could argue, I mean, you're 471 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: welcome to uninstall it and put your own one in there. 472 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: Do you know how to uninstall software on your car? 473 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: Are you going to google it? Think about the dial 474 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: up modem, sounds, your aim user name. We all got sidekicks, 475 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: but I don't even know if we got sidekick It 476 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: was in pagers there. You know what I'm saying, you 477 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: about to have a sidekick, and boyd, the early Internet 478 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: feels like Caveman energy. So Microsoft, led by Bill Gates, 479 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: was young, scrappy startup. You know, you got to remember, 480 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: like at this point McIntosh. Those was just the computers 481 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: in the school lab. Like when you went to the 482 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: computer lab at school, there was these funny look at 483 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: things that we just had to learn when we did 484 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: our typing classes. You know, you just did it on that. 485 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: So Microsoft at the time was developing Windows, right, so 486 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: Windows Night, you know, Windows ninety five and that's that, 487 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 1: which was the operating system, which you guys know already. 488 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: And then Microsoft Office so spread you know, PowerPoint, Microsoft 489 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: Word and everything that comes just microsoftic like just mic 490 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: it's Windows, like it's Microsoft. What they started doing because 491 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: Bill Gates ain't dumb, is he was taken over while 492 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: while while Apple and them was working towards school and 493 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: fun and stuff like that, Microsoft was taken over the 494 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: corporate world and every company, every you know work computer 495 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: was a Windows and Microsoft Office. And then eventually once 496 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 1: we hit Windows ninety five, you know that whole like 497 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: you know the the Apple like you know sessions where 498 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: they launched new products, like Windows invented that, Like that 499 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: was Microsoft, Like it was just goofy. Even the user video, 500 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: the training video for how to use Microsoft Office and 501 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: Windows ninety five had, believe it or not, actors from 502 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: Friends from the show Friends was on it. Jay Leno 503 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: did the monologue like it was the biggest thing in 504 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: the world because it was just change. You gotta remember, 505 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: this is where tech was. And what else that they 506 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: did that was amazing was if you bought a laptop, 507 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: you gotta remember there was a million different types of laptops. 508 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: You remember HP, you remember Acer, You could get any 509 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: type of just like before the iPod there was zooms, 510 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,479 Speaker 1: Like there was a million different other products. And then 511 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: somebody takes over and just wins. The thing. What Microsoft 512 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 1: did was they cut a deal with PC and laptop 513 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: companies and was like, yo, so let us be your 514 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: default operating system. So if anybody wants to use another 515 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: operating system an OS, like a Macintosh, you got to 516 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: take all that stuff off and put a new one in. Now, 517 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: Macintos was smart enough to say, no, our operating system 518 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: works on our products only, but set that to a 519 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: side right now. Microsoft was like, cool, y'all can have 520 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 1: your own little weird egg shape computers. We will take 521 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: over every other computer on Earth. And that's kind of 522 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: what they did. They just cut a deal. And it 523 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: was just like yeah, dude, like, yo, if you're selling 524 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: a laptop, you're selling a desktop. It's got Microsoft operating 525 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: system already installed. So we already got a deal. So 526 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: we didn't even got to sell it to the consumers. 527 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: It's already sold to the manufacturer. Kind of brilliant. I mean, 528 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 1: why wouldn't you do that. Now, while this is happening, 529 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: something else was being invented, a little thing called the 530 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: World Wide Web, The Internet was being made around this time. 531 00:33:34,800 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: Sorry about that. Next. Okay, so now that the Internet's 532 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,319 Speaker 1: being made, you know you gotta buy your modems. What 533 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: nobody thought about, because you have to remember nobody knew 534 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: what the Internet was, is you have to have a 535 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 1: way to get on there. Browser. No, you need a browser. 536 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: It's so stupid, like it's so stupid. I have to 537 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 1: point that out right. And then because there was no 538 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,800 Speaker 1: separate apps for your emails or for there was no apps. 539 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: The apps were Microsoft. You need a browser to get 540 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: on the Internet. The browser, there was a lot of 541 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:44,320 Speaker 1: different types. There's Navigator, there was Netscape, and at the time, 542 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: that's all the Netscape made. They were the only browsers. 543 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: I mean, it was fine, Like what else did we 544 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: know you got on the Internet with on a Netscape browser? 545 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: But your little AOL disc, which we're gonna talk about 546 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: in a second bunch. Your little Aol disc you popped 547 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: it in, you clicked the disc and then it would 548 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,359 Speaker 1: throw the netscate like you just that was the only 549 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: how you opened the Internet was the browser. Of course, 550 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: now we you know we got Chrome, Firefox, Safari, like 551 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: we got those things. But you remember, like we didn't 552 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,919 Speaker 1: none of those things. They we didn't know what those 553 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 1: things meant. Like one of those things existed. Netscape was 554 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,720 Speaker 1: how you got to the internet. Bill Gates ain't stupid. 555 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: He was like, Yo, this the future. We need a 556 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: hold up, we need a browser. His browser was called 557 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 1: Internet Explorer. That's how you got on the Internet. His 558 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 1: browser was Trash right, because they was too busy making 559 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: too many different things. They was making laptopser was making Office, 560 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: they was making Windows. It was making all these different 561 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,280 Speaker 1: things that they didn't really make browsers. But he's not stupid. 562 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,760 Speaker 1: He knew that this was the future. So the browser 563 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: got better and better and better. And then he realized, like, 564 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: wait a minute, I have a million vendors I work with. 565 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 1: Every laptop already has my product in it. Stupid, Why 566 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: don't I bundle Internet Explorer with it? A matter of fact, 567 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 1: I'll throw it in an exploor free. It just comes 568 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: with It comes with Microsoft, it comes with Windows. Windows 569 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,800 Speaker 1: is already on every laptop. I'll just it's so stupid, like, duh, 570 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,320 Speaker 1: I don't even have to sell it. I'm already nobody. 571 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: Can you name another word processing? What's the mac with numbers? 572 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 1: Adobe pages? I'm saying, even now, we don't use it. 573 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 1: Maybe you write in Google Docs, which we're gonna get 574 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,359 Speaker 1: to later, but nobody writes it like it's it's you 575 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 1: use word almost two decades right, like you? What else 576 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 1: is there? So they were like, duh, let's just add 577 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: our product. Let's just add Explorer to every laptop. Obviously, 578 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,719 Speaker 1: netscapes like, well, wait a damn minute, bro, are you serious? 579 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 1: So you're just gonna sell the product for free? Well, 580 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,880 Speaker 1: like I mean there's nothing, Well I mean what cash? 581 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: You're already on every laptop like this is They were like, 582 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 1: you're breaking antitrust laws. So they wrote a letter to 583 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 1: Department of Justice like yo, fam, I can't like, can't 584 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: nobody compete with this? This ain't right? Two hundred pays letter. 585 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: Justice Department was like, huh, you might be onto something 586 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: because like you're like this is what seems to us, 587 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,120 Speaker 1: like this is anti competition, Like you just boxed everybody out, 588 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,839 Speaker 1: like you just gave everybody the product for freeze, gave 589 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,719 Speaker 1: everybody to wait free. Somebody come in your hood and 590 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,520 Speaker 1: just passing out weed for free. It's like, well, how 591 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,359 Speaker 1: can I run a business? Like I don't understand? Like 592 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 1: if if every car come through your neighborhood has already 593 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 1: got a vapor in it, Like well, I mean what 594 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,960 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do? Why you think the gas company 595 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,759 Speaker 1: so mad or why you think these oil companies so 596 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: mad about electric cars? Cause it's like, oh, nigga, don't 597 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: need you no more? Like wait a minute, this is 598 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 1: leading us to obsolescence. But they're but but what's specifically 599 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 1: about an anti trust is or this monopoly is like 600 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,839 Speaker 1: this is the same product, and you guys are like 601 00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,120 Speaker 1: this is David and Goliath out this mug like you 602 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 1: already like there's no I can't compat with this. This 603 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 1: is like there is no competition. I don't want to 604 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,440 Speaker 1: get into the like operating system business like we make 605 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,040 Speaker 1: an Internet browser and you're just giving yours away for 606 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: free and even if people don't want it, ah, which 607 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 1: is where we get what has to do with Google 608 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 1: even if people don't want it. It just comes with 609 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,279 Speaker 1: the lap. So of course, like just the psychology of 610 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: it is like, well, this is the one that come 611 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: with it. So like why would I go out of 612 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,759 Speaker 1: my way unless I'm a tech geek, why would I 613 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,880 Speaker 1: go out of my way? That's just it come with it. 614 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,040 Speaker 1: We don't know enough about the Internet to have a 615 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 1: preference about it. We don't know about incognito like that 616 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 1: stuff don't exist no more or yet, So what difference 617 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,040 Speaker 1: does it make? All right, let's Internet Explorer. And it 618 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,080 Speaker 1: made sense to us because it was like or to 619 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 1: the it made sense to the consumer because it's like, well, 620 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 1: it's made from the same company that when I open 621 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,839 Speaker 1: the laptop, that's how it runs. They was like, yo, 622 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 1: this is unjust like this ain't they can do whatever 623 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 1: they want. And I remember remember the browser was trashed 624 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,240 Speaker 1: like it wasn't it wasn't that good of a browser, 625 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 1: like it just like what do you? I don't know 626 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,520 Speaker 1: what I can I mean, And they had no incentive 627 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 1: on making it better per se, because they don't already 628 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 1: sold the product completely. They didn't already made day money 629 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 1: off off windows and off office. So there's no like 630 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: you've cornered the market. There's no there's there's you, no 631 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,280 Speaker 1: one can compete with you. So they brought that case 632 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,480 Speaker 1: to the Department of Justice. Netscape did so Netscape bring 633 00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,880 Speaker 1: brings brings a case to the Department of Justice. They 634 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,680 Speaker 1: was like just like I just explained, like yo, this 635 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: is a monopoly dog, Like there's nothing we could do 636 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,200 Speaker 1: about it. Like I mean, what are we gonna do? 637 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,279 Speaker 1: It's already on your laptop. I bet you open your door, 638 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,759 Speaker 1: you get a new computer today, bet you it's already there. 639 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,719 Speaker 1: Like how do I compete with that? Like that's not 640 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,360 Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? They bring in Microsoft 641 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 1: to be like okay, well and this is like legendary, 642 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,319 Speaker 1: Like so Bill Gates and them and Microsoft come in 643 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,319 Speaker 1: and Microsoft was just like okay, that's funny. Wait what 644 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,359 Speaker 1: Wait are y'all serious? Old up this There's no way 645 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,160 Speaker 1: in the world you're serious right now? What did you 646 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:03,040 Speaker 1: What you're saying is absolutely ridiculous. Let me get this straight. Wait, 647 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,439 Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold hold on, let me get 648 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:10,360 Speaker 1: this straight. We made a product, we made smart business moves, 649 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,600 Speaker 1: We used our connections, we developed a new product, we 650 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:19,200 Speaker 1: took our own product, bundled it with our other own product, 651 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,800 Speaker 1: and use the connections that we took years to develop. 652 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,200 Speaker 1: And you saying that's a problem. What you mean, like, 653 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,640 Speaker 1: what is the problem? You can't possibly be or you're 654 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 1: so we're smart, you're punishing me for beists. What are 655 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 1: you talking to You're saying this is anti capitalists. I 656 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 1: don't understand. So should our products up? Should we not 657 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,640 Speaker 1: try what you want us to? Not make money? What 658 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,799 Speaker 1: are you talking about? This is absurd? Fuck you mean 659 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 1: we made a product that we hustled. I don't understand. 660 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 1: Tell them fools to get their weight up. Ain't nothing 661 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,680 Speaker 1: stopping you from finding a computer. You could you could 662 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,279 Speaker 1: approach them with the same contract we approached them with. 663 00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,960 Speaker 1: Get your weight up. I don't understand we approached these 664 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,480 Speaker 1: these people, We approached these manufacturers. They could have said no. 665 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,680 Speaker 1: They said, yes, what do you want me to do? 666 00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,000 Speaker 1: You want me to tell the consumers don't buy our product? 667 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:15,880 Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Absolutely ridiculous, was Microsoft's argument. 668 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,759 Speaker 1: The problem was they just walked in, super smug and 669 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,000 Speaker 1: super arrogant, and they were just like I'm saying, like 670 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 1: we smarter than everyone It was our faul, we're smarter 671 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 1: than everybody else. Apartment just ain't like that. They ain't 672 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 1: like your little attitude. They asked him very very direct 673 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: questions like, yo, do you remember this email? They pulling 674 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:33,960 Speaker 1: up emails where them Foods was talking this is the 675 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,239 Speaker 1: first time that was like a part of like because 676 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,359 Speaker 1: remember emails just now were born, pulling up emails where 677 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,399 Speaker 1: they were like knife the Baby like talking about like really, 678 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,640 Speaker 1: we're trying to kill Netscape, like that's our goal, Like 679 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,760 Speaker 1: we're actually trying to get like just cutthroat like Silicon 680 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,680 Speaker 1: Valley like og Like no, we're actually trying to kill 681 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 1: kill it. They was like, yo, you remember this email. 682 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,000 Speaker 1: He was like no, like you don't remember the one 683 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,480 Speaker 1: you just replied. He's like no, I remember it. It 684 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,160 Speaker 1: was just a jerk about it. Like they were like, hey, 685 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,680 Speaker 1: did you have any concern about any other companies? He 686 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,880 Speaker 1: was like what, I don't understand the question. It was 687 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,800 Speaker 1: like what what don't you understand? He's like, what do 688 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,239 Speaker 1: you mean by concern? I don't know what you mean 689 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,440 Speaker 1: by that? And they were like do you know what 690 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: concern means? Like, I know what it means. I don't 691 00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,200 Speaker 1: know what you mean by that. It was like, sir, deep, okay, 692 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,839 Speaker 1: just this like smug, I'm smarter than you, I'm ten 693 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:28,080 Speaker 1: steps ahead of you. Just it just turned everybody out, 694 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:33,240 Speaker 1: but they're Ultimately their point was, Okay, dude, you can't 695 00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,080 Speaker 1: punish us because their product sucks. Like that can't be 696 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,320 Speaker 1: that can't possibly be our fault. We're good at business. 697 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 1: This is what happened. Department of Justice was like, no, 698 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,880 Speaker 1: that's a monopoly. Y'all got to break this company up 699 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,280 Speaker 1: because the straw that broke the camera back was carrying 700 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:56,080 Speaker 1: office and windows with explorer. That's the part that did it. 701 00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,440 Speaker 1: Because it's like you've made now nobody has any other options. 702 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,439 Speaker 1: That's the same example I was given with Tesla, because 703 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,680 Speaker 1: the point is, on general principle, consumers are supposed to 704 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:12,480 Speaker 1: have options, And the argument is having options keeps everybody 705 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:17,799 Speaker 1: in check, right, because if you have options, that's going 706 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,799 Speaker 1: to force you to make the better product. And if 707 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,040 Speaker 1: you baking the better product, that make all of America 708 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,840 Speaker 1: look good, consumers are happy, money's flowing, right, That's the argument. 709 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,120 Speaker 1: And again using the Tesla as an example, like I 710 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,200 Speaker 1: just said, right now, then I just say that I'm sorry, 711 00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:35,560 Speaker 1: I'm just talking if every electric car in the future, 712 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,520 Speaker 1: if you want to do self driving mode, you have 713 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,560 Speaker 1: to use this because it's the default setting. And this 714 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:46,160 Speaker 1: gives Tesla no incentive to like they could charge every 715 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,120 Speaker 1: car company whatever they want, because who else you're gonna 716 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,040 Speaker 1: go to, which means that that is going to raise 717 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,920 Speaker 1: the prices for all of our cars, which means it's 718 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,360 Speaker 1: going to rate the price for chips and all this 719 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,520 Speaker 1: good stuff. You're just like, there's no like, this doesn't 720 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:01,160 Speaker 1: help nobody. This just makes you by yourself rich and 721 00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,720 Speaker 1: all of us got to suffer by it. So that's 722 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:09,080 Speaker 1: the theory. Nobody's happy with that except for y'all, and 723 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: we just decided as a nation back in the seventeen 724 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:16,400 Speaker 1: hundreds that we wasn't gonna be like that in theory. Now, 725 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,440 Speaker 1: what they told them that they had to do was 726 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,880 Speaker 1: break the company up. You have to put Windows in 727 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,360 Speaker 1: one place as one company in office as another company. 728 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,760 Speaker 1: Is that how you understand Microsoft? Of course not, because 729 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,839 Speaker 1: that didn't happen. Essentially, what they did was just they 730 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,960 Speaker 1: paid the fines, they did what they had to do, 731 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,480 Speaker 1: and then they just promised to not be jerks. This 732 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:50,560 Speaker 1: really really ain't. Nothing happened. So ultimately nothing changed. Netscape 733 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,360 Speaker 1: ended up selling to AOL. Microsoft just had this ruling 734 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,560 Speaker 1: stand that they were operating as a monopoly. But since 735 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:03,240 Speaker 1: God is good and just when last time you opened 736 00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:08,520 Speaker 1: an Internet Explorer browser. Now, this is what the Department 737 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,400 Speaker 1: of Justice was considering when they looked at this Google case. 738 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,360 Speaker 1: Now let's talk about specifically the ruling. Now, remember Google, 739 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,280 Speaker 1: the company is called alphabet for whatever reason. The ruling 740 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:56,399 Speaker 1: was that they illegally monopolized the search engine market. Now 741 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,799 Speaker 1: and here here's how they did it. Now, well, they 742 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,880 Speaker 1: did it the same way Microsoft did it. In the 743 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:08,319 Speaker 1: sense that you just if you're a software company, duh 744 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,759 Speaker 1: make deals with hardware companies. So what Google did was 745 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,680 Speaker 1: like I don't care if you using Chrome. You could 746 00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,040 Speaker 1: if even if you use Safari, whatever phone you got, 747 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,600 Speaker 1: when you open it, make a deal with us where 748 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,279 Speaker 1: you automatically your search engine goes to Google. When the 749 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,520 Speaker 1: last time you said I'm gonna bing something, I'm gonna 750 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:31,239 Speaker 1: ask Jeeves something, No, you google it. So they made 751 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:36,120 Speaker 1: deals with phonemakers and other hardware folks to be like, look, 752 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,960 Speaker 1: just let us be your default browser. Now you all 753 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,279 Speaker 1: know you could go into your phone, you could go 754 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,200 Speaker 1: into your settings and say like I want this other 755 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,640 Speaker 1: thing to be the default. But who's gonna do that? 756 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,680 Speaker 1: Some people do, like some of y'all folks who just 757 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:53,279 Speaker 1: are like anti iPhone because you believe in freedom, you 758 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:58,200 Speaker 1: want to Android is just another company. Like I don't 759 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:02,239 Speaker 1: understand how y'all don't understand, But your belief is you 760 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,200 Speaker 1: want to be able to customize it in the way 761 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,439 Speaker 1: that you want to customize it, because app will tell 762 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:07,759 Speaker 1: you what to do. And one of the things that 763 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,839 Speaker 1: Apple tell you to do is like it's automatically gonna 764 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,759 Speaker 1: go to a Google. Now with that being automatically your 765 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:19,800 Speaker 1: search engine in them gathering a trillion kajillion mega coad 766 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:26,080 Speaker 1: billion probably flowbally fillion megabits of information on us. They 767 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,560 Speaker 1: can sell AD spaces. So if you are a person 768 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,759 Speaker 1: like me who make they live in online, I mean 769 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,360 Speaker 1: you have to you have to use the Google market, 770 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,920 Speaker 1: you have to use their ad spaces, you have to 771 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,399 Speaker 1: do search engine optimization, you have to be able to 772 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:48,200 Speaker 1: show up in their AD revenue space because that's where 773 00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,880 Speaker 1: everybody at Why the hell would you buy an ad 774 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,040 Speaker 1: at bing? What is that gonna do for you? And 775 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,279 Speaker 1: if and since they're the only people in town, they're 776 00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,160 Speaker 1: the only people that really makes sense to spend your 777 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,480 Speaker 1: money on, they could charge you whatever they want. Let 778 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,560 Speaker 1: me tell you why terraform cobrew wasn't on Amazon because 779 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,680 Speaker 1: I would lose two dollars per can, like I would 780 00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,239 Speaker 1: you like I would be paying them like there's no 781 00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,760 Speaker 1: But at the same time, terraform cobrew out of money. 782 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,480 Speaker 1: If you went to the website, it ain't no coffee 783 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,400 Speaker 1: there because I'm out of money. You uner see what 784 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like they make it where I mean, what 785 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:27,040 Speaker 1: are your other options? That's that phrase? Like what's my 786 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:31,440 Speaker 1: other option? That is a monopoly. Now, what Google argued 787 00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,880 Speaker 1: was the same thing and Microsoft argued, which was like, fam, 788 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry for being good at my business, but people 789 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:43,239 Speaker 1: can do whatever they want. We just happened to try 790 00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,200 Speaker 1: to give people an offer they came to use. Now, 791 00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:50,239 Speaker 1: what was interesting this time was the Supreme Court brought 792 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:57,040 Speaker 1: up not just x's and o's. It wasn't just business 793 00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:02,080 Speaker 1: and like nerdery around the law. They brought up psychology. 794 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,960 Speaker 1: And it's this concept called the psychology of the default. No, no, no, 795 00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,040 Speaker 1: let me say it right, the power of default. Now, 796 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,799 Speaker 1: you and I I don't even have to explain that. 797 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,560 Speaker 1: You understand when something is just your default setting. You 798 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:20,080 Speaker 1: just after a while, because something just becomes so normal 799 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:23,959 Speaker 1: you don't even think about that there are other alternatives, 800 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:25,520 Speaker 1: like you'd have to go out of your way to 801 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,720 Speaker 1: do that. That's the default. And what they were arguing 802 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:33,320 Speaker 1: is that is proof of a monopoly. In our brains. 803 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,640 Speaker 1: Google's a verb despite the quality of Google, because you 804 00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,200 Speaker 1: probably experienced the same thing I'm experiencing when you try 805 00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:44,560 Speaker 1: to google something. It's like because of AAI thing, I'm like, y'all, 806 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:49,840 Speaker 1: your product's getting worse. Now, that's probably because we're old 807 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,200 Speaker 1: and we're not searching on TikTok, which is where the 808 00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:58,319 Speaker 1: rest of the people search, which was Google's defense. Google's like, 809 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:03,840 Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Netscape or ask Jeeves, I'm worried 810 00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:08,640 Speaker 1: about TikTok, Like that's a search engine, and they're like, fam, no, 811 00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,520 Speaker 1: it's not. What are you talking about. The psychology or 812 00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:17,640 Speaker 1: the power of the default is when your brand is 813 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,480 Speaker 1: so strong that you just don't think of you don't 814 00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,520 Speaker 1: even think. Of course there's alternatives, you don't even think 815 00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:27,600 Speaker 1: of it, which is like a new strategy to argue 816 00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,640 Speaker 1: that somebody has a monopoly. So what's the solution. The 817 00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,359 Speaker 1: solution is to break up the company. That's that's that's 818 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,920 Speaker 1: usually what it means. Now, Like I told you before, 819 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,200 Speaker 1: what happened with Microsoft was basically like they were supposed 820 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:48,319 Speaker 1: to split up Microsoft Office from from Windows. So that's 821 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,040 Speaker 1: that was the plan for Google. It's like you, I remember, 822 00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:56,759 Speaker 1: this is an alphabet's a two trillion dollar company. So 823 00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,440 Speaker 1: one of the suggestion was like divest divesting the Android 824 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:07,080 Speaker 1: operating system was like the most frequently discussed option by 825 00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:13,520 Speaker 1: the Justice Department's attorney, and then some were suggesting the 826 00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:18,040 Speaker 1: force of the ad words like you have to sell that, 827 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,040 Speaker 1: and Google gotta let go of that program, right, the 828 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:24,040 Speaker 1: search ad program, right, a divestment from that from its 829 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,799 Speaker 1: Chrome web browser. But at the end of the day, 830 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,960 Speaker 1: they haven't landed on an actual verdict as to how 831 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:34,920 Speaker 1: to solve this. They've just said, no, you violated antitrust laws. 832 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,439 Speaker 1: You want have to break up this company, just curved. 833 00:51:38,120 --> 00:52:17,360 Speaker 2: Them now, things like this is where your super conservative 834 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:23,200 Speaker 2: capitalists argues is a problem because it seems as though 835 00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:24,239 Speaker 2: this is. 836 00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,120 Speaker 1: Not free market capitalism. They're like, let the consumer decide. 837 00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,840 Speaker 1: We just did good business and the government shouldn't interfere. 838 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,600 Speaker 1: These are the same people that don't want the EPA 839 00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,480 Speaker 1: to exist, you know. So if there's mad cow disease 840 00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,359 Speaker 1: and your beef, they like, people will stop buying it, 841 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:44,120 Speaker 1: so just leave us alone, that's their argument. Like, well, 842 00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:47,799 Speaker 1: I mean, tell everybody else get their weight up. They 843 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:54,960 Speaker 1: don't want no interference, which I guess I would understand 844 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,719 Speaker 1: too if I owned a company and was making a 845 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:02,000 Speaker 1: kajillion dollars. But I'm a consumer that really just want 846 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,640 Speaker 1: to be able to have good products, afford the products 847 00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:09,960 Speaker 1: we have, and not hear somebody like Jeff Bezos in 848 00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:14,319 Speaker 1: his rocket that looked like a penis who didn't even 849 00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,359 Speaker 1: actually make it in the space and then to say, hey, 850 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:21,320 Speaker 1: you guys did this by buying stuff like don't nobody 851 00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:25,160 Speaker 1: want to see that? Like, Okay, listen, here's the underbelly. 852 00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:31,239 Speaker 1: We know, all right. The thing is, we ain't got 853 00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:36,840 Speaker 1: no choice. Amazon might be next in this. This is 854 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,359 Speaker 1: the deal we've made without having an option to make 855 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:45,560 Speaker 1: this deal. We know we're making y'all rich, but we 856 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:51,400 Speaker 1: also need to live. And sometimes if you that person 857 00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,960 Speaker 1: man the consumer like us, it kind of feel good 858 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,239 Speaker 1: that there's some big homies that might be able to 859 00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:00,799 Speaker 1: come in and say, hey, get to treat the little 860 00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:06,840 Speaker 1: hummies like that, because and that's some good stuff, good politics, y'all. 861 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:21,800 Speaker 1: All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod. 862 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,160 Speaker 1: You better listen to these credits. I need you to 863 00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:28,000 Speaker 1: finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay, 864 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:32,600 Speaker 1: so don't stop it yet, but listen. 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