Speaker 1: Media, Hey, do y'all still say curved or curbed? Like
Speaker 1: if somebody curbed you, I don't even know if it's
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's curve or curved. But
Speaker 1: essentially what we mean is maybe i'm my old head.
Speaker 1: What we mean is when you approach a young lady
Speaker 1: and she shuts you down, like, oh man, you got curved.
Speaker 1: You know, they just I'm pretty sure it's curved. Probably
Speaker 1: like curb your enthusiasm. It's probably it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if there's anything more painful, because most of the time
Speaker 1: for you to get curved, it's usually because you are enthusiastic.
Speaker 1: A lot of times is when you're super confident in
Speaker 1: the movie You're finna make now. I can't speak for
Speaker 1: every young man who finally hits his awakening of the
Speaker 1: sex that he's attracted to. And I know mine when
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, I like girls, when
Speaker 1: you have to start building up the bravery to actually
Speaker 1: admit it or maybe ask this girl to dance or
Speaker 1: sit by her, or maybe even possibly get a little
Speaker 1: kiss on the cheek, you know, just you know, it
Speaker 1: was little boys, you're not really ready for like full
Speaker 1: intercourse because we're still children. I remember like rehearsing, and
Speaker 1: I have a sister that's six years older than me,
Speaker 1: So I could ask her like how do I say this?
Speaker 1: You know, what outfits should I wear? Like you know?
Speaker 1: And she was like down to make her little brother,
Speaker 1: like you know, she wanted a little brother to be flying.
Speaker 1: So I could ask her and come up with lines
Speaker 1: and like how do I approach? What do I say?
Speaker 1: Where do I stand? Like how do I I'm nervous,
Speaker 1: I'm scared off for her to offer this little girl
Speaker 1: to giggle and run to her friends and go, eh,
Speaker 1: he not even fine, just destroy. It took me three
Speaker 1: weeks to get the courage to say something to her,
Speaker 1: just with this girl, to be like like that's the child.
Speaker 1: Which I don't know if it's everybody's story, but you
Speaker 1: have to understand like me, who I went to schools
Speaker 1: in neighborhoods that were so diverse, where there was just
Speaker 1: as many Filipino and Latino and you know, Chinese, there
Speaker 1: was such as there was so many other communities that
Speaker 1: were at the spaces I was in. Like again, I
Speaker 1: read the demographics. Most of y'all are from Cali that
Speaker 1: listen to this from the San Gabril Valley. Who I
Speaker 1: was born in South Central I say it all the time,
Speaker 1: but I grew up in San Gavel Valley and then
Speaker 1: I went to high school in the Inland Empire, and
Speaker 1: like so you experienced so many cultures. You're exposed to
Speaker 1: so many types of girls where black dude is just
Speaker 1: not they tight. This is way too long of an
Speaker 1: intro Anyway, The point I'm trying to make is it
Speaker 1: really hurts to get curved, especially when you're really confident.
Speaker 1: And guess what Google got curved politics, y'all? All right,
Speaker 1: before I go into it, but look at like nerds.
Speaker 1: Bull look is like this. Bull look is like this.
Speaker 1: It look is like this, But look at like this.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, the darkest of holidays has hit. It
Speaker 1: is the one year anniversary of the attack from Hamas
Speaker 1: on Israel, which, in retaliation to such attack, unleashed the
Speaker 1: Kraken towards all of Gaza and extending Palestinian areas. Way
Speaker 1: too many people died. There was a memorial held in
Speaker 1: Israel where they played that last song before at that,
Speaker 1: you know, because the attack happened like one of the
Speaker 1: parts happened during a music festival and the last song
Speaker 1: that was being played before the attack happened and hostages
Speaker 1: were taken and people were killed, they played that song
Speaker 1: to mark, you know, the one year anniversary of a horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible situation. And from the Israeli perspective, the city is
Speaker 1: torn because you can't argue that that wasn't you know,
Speaker 1: one of the orb if not the greatest terrorist attack
Speaker 1: that they've experienced. And I think, like, I'm not adding
Speaker 1: snark to this because it's like, yeah, I mean like
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be real about it. I think,
Speaker 1: how do I say this? Since they've been in their
Speaker 1: mind the little Engine that could the whole time, and
Speaker 1: everybody was against them, they felt like their only way
Speaker 1: to be safe is to be the aggressor, and they've
Speaker 1: continued to be the aggressor because the feel like everybody's
Speaker 1: being aggressed to them. So there's a kinship to the
Speaker 1: idea that America has of itself too, you know, where
Speaker 1: we say if you go into war, you're going overseas,
Speaker 1: like the attack is over there. Everybody's trying to come
Speaker 1: to get us, But don't nobody want to mess with
Speaker 1: us because they know won't play around it only happened once,
Speaker 1: and that was a pearl harbor. We blew up Pole
Speaker 1: Islands after that. So they carried in their psyche that
Speaker 1: type of sort of same vibe. But that is not
Speaker 1: to diminish the atrocities that they feel in their heart
Speaker 1: and the things that had happened, So you mark it right.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, it also marks the beginning of
Speaker 1: the absolute decimation of Gaza, with eleven thousand people dead
Speaker 1: and just a commpletely intenable living situation that has now spread.
Speaker 1: Everybody's fear has spread to Lebanon and Yemen, and now
Speaker 1: big dog Iran has jumped in. It was what everybody
Speaker 1: that works in peacemaking was hoping wouldn't happen, that like
Speaker 1: we would get to a ceasefire, to state solution, which
Speaker 1: clearly is the only option. I just don't understand how
Speaker 1: anybody could think any other way that like this is
Speaker 1: really the only option. But with that being said, all
Speaker 1: the blood, all carnage, all the like, let's make this happen.
Speaker 1: Gaza could not have a sort of moment to even
Speaker 1: breathe to mark the anniversary of this because it's leveled.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's like where you know they still running
Speaker 1: for cover. They and is well not even letting it.
Speaker 1: They barely letting aid in, Like we got to fight
Speaker 1: to let aid in. And then with all the carnage
Speaker 1: and it be coming into a regional war, there's a
Speaker 1: ceasefire deal on the table, and then Yahoo won't accept it,
Speaker 1: and you still ain't got the hostages. All that blood
Speaker 1: and you still ain't got the hostages. So Israel as
Speaker 1: a nation is torn because they're like, fam, uh, can
Speaker 1: we keep our eyes on the prize here? I just
Speaker 1: we just want our loved ones back. What is you?
Speaker 1: And ask you to show the whole like I ain't
Speaker 1: ask you to blow the whole city up. Well it's
Speaker 1: just one of our hostages, But what is you? And
Speaker 1: then there's the other half that's like, no, we can't
Speaker 1: letting people live. And then there's the really really small
Speaker 1: deck sect of hyper conservative religious folk within the Israeli
Speaker 1: world that are like, well it's how we bring the Messiah.
Speaker 1: We gotta control this region or the Messiah ain't coming,
Speaker 1: so like no, they gotta go. So it's all that
Speaker 1: going on all in one place. The JV team had
Speaker 1: their debate switching gears here the my dad can beat
Speaker 1: up your dad debate because who really cared what the
Speaker 1: vice president they because the vice president will really do nothing.
Speaker 1: Now that being said, it was more substantive than any
Speaker 1: of us would have thought. And it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where it's like, be careful what you asked for.
Speaker 1: Y'all asked for civility and substance. What you didn't ask
Speaker 1: for was truth. My niggad the Trump ticket is getting
Speaker 1: his money's worth. He is jd. Vance understood the assignment.
Speaker 1: The assignment was to sanitize everything that Trump stands for,
Speaker 1: and even to the point of like almost like the
Speaker 1: opposite where it's like, now, we ain't say that. And
Speaker 1: then when the mic slipped up and said, well you
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to lie fact check us a you revealed
Speaker 1: your cards, big dog. But JD. Vance absolutely one hundred
Speaker 1: percent understood the assignment, and you cannot take that from him.
Speaker 1: He was slick, he was likable, and he did didn't
Speaker 1: go on the full attack. They did the whole I
Speaker 1: agree with what we're supposed to be doing heat and
Speaker 1: he took all the smart Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I personally like dudes like that will pulse me. That
Speaker 1: are too polished in every like that. I'm like, you're
Speaker 1: clearly hiding something. Anyway, everything was going great until this
Speaker 1: man could not answer the January sixth question, Now, did
Speaker 1: Trump lose the election? Elect question? Now, the thing is,
Speaker 1: that's in some senses it's a gotcha question because we
Speaker 1: all know that man can't answer that question. Like what
Speaker 1: y'all expect this man to say? Yeah, now, Trump tripping
Speaker 1: on that one, but we're gonna win this one though.
Speaker 1: He can't say. He can't do that. Y'all know he
Speaker 1: can't do that. That man can't get up there and
Speaker 1: tell the truth, like, boo, you better learn how to
Speaker 1: lie like me. You can't be telling the truth of
Speaker 1: these people. You got a lie. That be the end
Speaker 1: of his job. Get Trump lose a twenty twenty election,
Speaker 1: like Nigga dues like, you can't say that. You gotta
Speaker 1: be like, look, dude, we're looking forward. But didn't y'all,
Speaker 1: and then proceeded to talk backwards. Boy, I tell you, man,
Speaker 1: I love it here. All right, let's get back to
Speaker 1: it like this. All right. So last year we did
Speaker 1: an episode that was called Get Your Weight Up, and
Speaker 1: I taught y'all about antitrust and monopolies, and the situation
Speaker 1: Google was facing and it was over search engines and ads,
Speaker 1: showing how this is just a brand new world where
Speaker 1: what Google is facing, especially when it comes to like
Speaker 1: search engines. You had suit being brought to them by
Speaker 1: like you know bing and like ass jeeves. That was like,
Speaker 1: you're creating a monopoly. I could even giggle with the
Speaker 1: idea of like being because it's like, bro, no one
Speaker 1: uses bing. Google's a verb like it's a company, but
Speaker 1: it's also a verb you google something. They're like, you're
Speaker 1: a monopoly. They're like, listen, I'm not like Bing is
Speaker 1: not my competition. Microsoft, ain't my competition. Full Chat, GBT
Speaker 1: is TikTok Amazon, I am not competing with you other
Speaker 1: browsers and search engines. Y'all lave y'all need to get
Speaker 1: y'all weight up. And the argument was in this antitrust case,
Speaker 1: which I will back up and explain the term monopoly
Speaker 1: or antitrust and then give you a context. So their
Speaker 1: argument was, you say, we're cornering the market, We're making
Speaker 1: it impossible. But y'all could just get y'all weight up.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you mad at us for making
Speaker 1: a superior product. Now, the last time you googled something,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you got frustrated because Google's trying to
Speaker 1: do the AI thing again to keep up with that
Speaker 1: at GBT, and so the searches have been I've had
Speaker 1: to like retype in what I'm looking for multiple times
Speaker 1: because I'm like, this used to be super easy. So,
Speaker 1: in my anecdotal opinion, it's gotten worse as they've tried
Speaker 1: to bring it AI. But the point is the case
Speaker 1: was do you have a monopoly on search and ads?
Speaker 1: And when we talked about it at first it was
Speaker 1: being brought to the Department of Justice. Well they have decided, yes,
Speaker 1: you have a monopoly. It's not fair, and you need
Speaker 1: to break it up. Break it up, break it up,
Speaker 1: break it up, break it up, break it up, break
Speaker 1: it up, break it up. Yeah, y'all ratchet, y'all know
Speaker 1: that's all y'all got to break up your company. Now.
Speaker 1: The reason why this was so big obviously because Google's big,
Speaker 1: but it's because it harkens back to one that happened
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight Microsoft. So here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna explain to you what a monopoly is, and
Speaker 1: if you've ever sold drugs, you already know, which means
Speaker 1: that we have to talk about capitalism and the version
Speaker 1: of capitalism that America says they love and believe in.
Speaker 1: How you protect that imaginary version of capitalism, Why an
Speaker 1: antitrust is what it is, and why the government steps in,
Speaker 1: what happened with Microsoft and how that informed this Google decision,
Speaker 1: and then what Google's gonna have to do? All right,
Speaker 1: but I swear to you, just like the very foundational truth,
Speaker 1: the axiom of truth that this show is, you already
Speaker 1: know this stuff, all right. Next, Okay, So capitalism, oftentimes
Speaker 1: we have because we live in the world we live in,
Speaker 1: we have conflated the idea of capitalism with just economics
Speaker 1: that if you sell something, it's capitalism. You have to remember,
Speaker 1: capitalism as a concept was invented. Now. The idea of
Speaker 1: trading some sort of commerce for goods and services is
Speaker 1: as old as puka shells, is as old as when
Speaker 1: we moved from just bartering to Yeah, there is currency
Speaker 1: and the currency and I'm giving you this currency, and
Speaker 1: you're going to return back to me a good in service.
Speaker 1: The institution that we talk about that includes a supply
Speaker 1: chain where the product is being created in multiple different
Speaker 1: factories that's being cobbled together into one piece. The system
Speaker 1: that says each of these people that work in these
Speaker 1: factories is indust your revolution type situation that puts like
Speaker 1: if you're going to take a pencil, the eraser tip
Speaker 1: is made somewhere else, but that place is really only
Speaker 1: getting raw materials from another place, and those raw materials
Speaker 1: are being sent there, and then the people carrying that
Speaker 1: stuff in, the people that transfer it in the truck
Speaker 1: is a whole other company who brings this raw materials
Speaker 1: to this place, and then that place has to buy
Speaker 1: the equipment from a whole other company who makes the
Speaker 1: equipment for you to process this thing to make the
Speaker 1: eraser tip. But still, if you're the pencil company, you
Speaker 1: have a contract with them with a wood company, who's
Speaker 1: got a contract with a timber company who's got a
Speaker 1: contract with a lad company or a graphite company. You
Speaker 1: just the people that put it all together, and then
Speaker 1: it's a whole other marketing team that just was hired
Speaker 1: by the brand name of the pencil to put it
Speaker 1: all in one place. And then you got to hire
Speaker 1: a shopify right, a three pl and all of these
Speaker 1: people have employees, and the price of that pencil is
Speaker 1: cobbled together in the way that makes sure, or supposed
Speaker 1: to make sure that everybody, every company that was involved
Speaker 1: in this, all gotta pay their employees, bring that all together,
Speaker 1: get it on the shelf, and then they charge you
Speaker 1: a dollar ninety nine per pencil. Now, if you're making
Speaker 1: one million pencils, it may not have cost you the
Speaker 1: company they selling it for a dollar ninety nine. It
Speaker 1: cost the company, I don't know, hopefully if they're doing
Speaker 1: it right, two cents. So the cost of the pencil.
Speaker 1: You hear, all them companies all had to make their money.
Speaker 1: But if you make enough of them, you can lower
Speaker 1: the cost that it takes to make the pencil so
Speaker 1: that when it gets to the consumer, you only paying
Speaker 1: two dollars, and that two dollars, you know, multiplied by
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand consumers. It's supposed to be able to
Speaker 1: make sure that everybody's happy and everybody wins. Now, the
Speaker 1: capitalism that we exist in is to say, okay, best
Speaker 1: product at the best price wins. So if somebody got
Speaker 1: a better pencil and they only charging a dollar fifty
Speaker 1: the idea is, damn, you made it cheaper and better,
Speaker 1: so everybody's gonna buy that. So then what do you do?
Speaker 1: You have to figure out how to make your pencil
Speaker 1: better and cheaper. Hopefully you could charge a dollar twenty
Speaker 1: five right all the way down to where get this
Speaker 1: the term of elasticity, to where the product is cheap
Speaker 1: enough to make to where everybody makes money. There's a number.
Speaker 1: Now you have to enter the concept of branding. Okay,
Speaker 1: I work. I'm a brand ambassador for a company called
Speaker 1: mer Right, y'all know the people that make my mugs
Speaker 1: and the poor Gami's all the coffee stuff is this
Speaker 1: company called mer Now. Meer got a lot of clients too,
Speaker 1: and Mirr was telling us, telling me about one of
Speaker 1: the clients for which I will not name names. And
Speaker 1: because I ain't trying to worry, I ain't trying to
Speaker 1: mess up my money. This company is able to sell
Speaker 1: things at an absurd price point. But we looking at it.
Speaker 1: But my man and mir was looking at it and
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, you're sourcing. There's no way in the
Speaker 1: world you're sourcing at a different place than everybody else's,
Speaker 1: or you're sourcing at the same place. And he was
Speaker 1: like and the owner or the buyer was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: source is the same place as as our competition. They
Speaker 1: charged three ninety nine, we charge eight ninety nine. It's
Speaker 1: called branding. So just the power of the branding, the
Speaker 1: fact that your name is on it. Let me give
Speaker 1: y'all a little game about Kirkland and Costco brand. Now
Speaker 1: Costco ain't paying me for this, but I wish they
Speaker 1: was the Kirkland brand, liquor, the tequila, the whiskey, all
Speaker 1: that that they got in there. It's they bought a
Speaker 1: recipe from I believe it's ego rare like Makers Mark.
Speaker 1: I believe they're whiskey is makers Mark. They just bought
Speaker 1: a recipe from them and just white labeled it. It's
Speaker 1: actually very it's very good whiskey. It's just named Kirklind brilliant.
Speaker 1: So if you smart, rather than buying the label name,
Speaker 1: you getting the same product. It's just cheaper. So now
Speaker 1: you take when you talk about a national economy, you
Speaker 1: take all the pieces that we're talking about, if we're
Speaker 1: talking about again capitalism, you take every person that is
Speaker 1: on all them jobs, how much money they make, how
Speaker 1: much money is coming into the company. How much money
Speaker 1: that company is spending, how much money the people that
Speaker 1: work at that company are spending right the products for
Speaker 1: which they buy, how much then products cost to make,
Speaker 1: and how much profit those products produce. How much of
Speaker 1: that money is going out to other countries. How much
Speaker 1: of that money is coming back into the consumers pockets.
Speaker 1: Because once the company makes money, the people that work
Speaker 1: at that company all get paid, and then they buy
Speaker 1: other products, which brings the money back. So you take
Speaker 1: the totality of all that, the combination of all those
Speaker 1: factors all trying to get you to spend your dollar
Speaker 1: with them, them competing with each Other's called free market capitalism.
Speaker 1: All of that is capitalism. And what's capitalism's goal is,
Speaker 1: if you haven't figured this out yet, the greatest amount
Speaker 1: of profit for the least amount of cost. Now, how
Speaker 1: do you pull that off? If that is the goal
Speaker 1: of capitalism, will you cut costs? Where do you cut costs?
Speaker 1: Most of the time, your highest cost is your employees.
Speaker 1: It's payroll. That's your highest cost. So you pay your
Speaker 1: workers at least as possible. Why did America becomes up
Speaker 1: a superstar, so a superpower so early? Well, they didn't
Speaker 1: pay they workers at all. It was called slavery. You
Speaker 1: was only paying for the raw materials. You only had
Speaker 1: to pay for the land. You had to pay for
Speaker 1: the workers. Of course, you're gonna get rich by no
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. Is the goal of capitalism itself
Speaker 1: human flourishing. Now that might be the person that functions
Speaker 1: within the system. You might want to approach this in
Speaker 1: a way that centers humanity, in the sense that like,
Speaker 1: you're paying your workers well, you're ethically sourcing, so that
Speaker 1: means you're setting a price point that allows for you
Speaker 1: to pay workers well, to treat the environment well. You
Speaker 1: have things like certified b corps. At some point, I'm
Speaker 1: bringing Ma Hoomie brian On here to talk about what
Speaker 1: it means to be an ethical capitalistic company, which some
Speaker 1: would argue is impossible. I might agree with you, but again,
Speaker 1: like I say all the time, you know, she might
Speaker 1: as well swim. Be as truthful as possible. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we're all on a big corporation. This is iHeart media. Like,
Speaker 1: it's not be delusional, you know what I'm saying. Corporation guys,
Speaker 1: So we're not delusional. But there's a way to be
Speaker 1: as ethical as you possibly can. But that's not the
Speaker 1: goal of capitalism. That might be the goal of the person.
Speaker 1: There might be a advancement of a society to where, yeah,
Speaker 1: well multiple people now have jobs now, which means like
Speaker 1: the way of life is just better across the board
Speaker 1: for everybody, because now everybody's employed. But one would argue that,
Speaker 1: like we weren't starving before we had jobs, Like before
Speaker 1: there was a factory, before you bought your food at
Speaker 1: a grocery store, you just grew your own every For
Speaker 1: most of human history, people just had like small gardens
Speaker 1: like where you just and you just traded back and
Speaker 1: forth where it's like, okay, we grow squashed. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna walk cross the street, go visit another family over
Speaker 1: there in that other village. I know they grow spinach.
Speaker 1: Well you know what I'm saying. I'm bring them some squash.
Speaker 1: They bring me some spinaches. It's fine, Like we all
Speaker 1: we were all right before we had to like work
Speaker 1: for like cotton pieces of dead men to turn in
Speaker 1: for our waters, to work in our houses. Because somebody
Speaker 1: bought the lake and owns the clouds. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you notice you can own the clouds. You can
Speaker 1: own the land rights and all of the sky and
Speaker 1: atmosphere above it. Because capitalism is crazy right now. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I haven't even talked about antitrust yet. This is absurd.
Speaker 1: So all that to say, in our system, at least
Speaker 1: in America, we tried to set up this situation to
Speaker 1: say that if we keep this institution pure enough, it
Speaker 1: will police itself. And how you do that because people
Speaker 1: really make their decisions by they purchases. People buy what
Speaker 1: they want. And if you charge too much but your
Speaker 1: brand is trash and we don't believe you, people won't
Speaker 1: stop buying it. That's a price elasticity. What's the highest
Speaker 1: you could charge before people are going to be like,
Speaker 1: all right, you don't lost your mind. This brand ain't
Speaker 1: worth it, which is how you gain the system. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's like, you make your brand
Speaker 1: worth it, but you charge as high as you can,
Speaker 1: not as cheap as you can. You take somebody like
Speaker 1: arizona Ic they charge as little as they can. That's
Speaker 1: their brand. Though for them it worked. But anyway, we
Speaker 1: we as in the Royal weed, not me. But the
Speaker 1: concept is you need to have competition in the market.
Speaker 1: You can't just be the only person selling a thing.
Speaker 1: You can't. You can defeature competitors by having a better
Speaker 1: product at a better price point, but you can't just
Speaker 1: box them out because when you box them out, when
Speaker 1: you're the only option, there is no reason for you
Speaker 1: to not price gouge, and the quality of your product
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be great because you the only people.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by drug dealer. You trying to
Speaker 1: be the only connect. If you the only connect, you've
Speaker 1: charged the people whatever you won't they hooked on the product.
Speaker 1: You could step on your product if you want too,
Speaker 1: because what they gonna do where you go go? I'm
Speaker 1: your only option. I just feel like that with gas
Speaker 1: prices because I'm like, what am I gonna do? There's
Speaker 1: no difference to me between mobile and arco. I still
Speaker 1: have to go to the thing or I don't go
Speaker 1: anywhere like I I now. As a side note, I
Speaker 1: went to Rhymefest this past weekend at the Coliseum and
Speaker 1: I took the train and I was like, no native,
Speaker 1: nobody I know takes trains because it just don't go
Speaker 1: enough places. But this time it was like I didn't
Speaker 1: have to switch once and I was like, bro, why
Speaker 1: don't every time I take the train, every time I
Speaker 1: take the metro in La, I'll be like, why don't
Speaker 1: I do this? So, yeah, maybe there is an alternative anyway. So,
Speaker 1: being mad over gas prices, I'm like, what do what?
Speaker 1: You gonna not go fill up your tank? What you're
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna not go to work? Like I felt
Speaker 1: so hopeless. I was like, this is a monopoly, you monopolize.
Speaker 1: So the idea was in the anti trust law. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they call it that, they just do.
Speaker 1: Antitrust law is saying we do not believe in the
Speaker 1: American economics system that it is legal or even in
Speaker 1: the spirit of who we are as a nation, that
Speaker 1: any one company should have a have a monopoly over
Speaker 1: a business. There needs to be competition, meaning there needs
Speaker 1: to be other companies that are pushing you, because what
Speaker 1: that does for the consumer is it means we're getting
Speaker 1: the best products because y'all are fighting against each other
Speaker 1: for our dollars. They're not concerned with just one company success.
Speaker 1: We're talking overall success of the entire country. Because they
Speaker 1: looking at it again as the economy as capitalism. Capital
Speaker 1: c not just are you doing all right? We mean
Speaker 1: the whole country. So the whole country gotta win, which
Speaker 1: means that I don't really care if your one company
Speaker 1: is doing I we need a whole thing to work.
Speaker 1: In theory, because you could go get the off brand stuff.
Speaker 1: You grew up like us. Oh man, there was cheerios,
Speaker 1: and then there was multo meal. There was tasty os.
Speaker 1: You feel me, I was like them is nasty. I
Speaker 1: used to get so mad when my mom brought that
Speaker 1: off brand cereal. I wanted the name brand cereal was cheaper,
Speaker 1: but it but that ain't like that ain't work. Now
Speaker 1: what that meant was that made cheerios because my mom
Speaker 1: sometimes was like, I ain't buying the cheerios. It costs
Speaker 1: too much. So that means the cheerios because there's such
Speaker 1: thing as multi meal and tasteios, fruit rings, not fruit loops,
Speaker 1: because those things existed. That meant that, like yo, cheerios,
Speaker 1: gotta work harder to make sure that they products they
Speaker 1: bomb and at the price point is something that we
Speaker 1: willing to pay. That's why there's one hundred different car
Speaker 1: companies while they fighting for our attention. Why everybody racing
Speaker 1: to get an electric car like thing with Tesla's they
Speaker 1: was just there first. Well, actually Saturn was there first.
Speaker 1: You should see a documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car? Anyway,
Speaker 1: but they not the only ones. They couldn't. They couldn't
Speaker 1: get to electric car and shut the door. There's companies
Speaker 1: like Rivian who they trucks are amazing, you know, But
Speaker 1: there's there's other companies. There are other people making electric cars.
Speaker 1: It's so it's like, yo, get your weight up, like,
Speaker 1: do something great now. It could become a monopoly if
Speaker 1: they do this, they take all the road mapping that
Speaker 1: they've done with their self driving, get it perfect, and
Speaker 1: then make sure every a new electric car has to
Speaker 1: buy their software for the road mapping of self driving.
Speaker 1: Like if every new electric car had Tesla's software in
Speaker 1: there from for their self driving cars, which right now
Speaker 1: would be a disaster. But if they continue to develop
Speaker 1: what they got and then they box out everybody else,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't matter if it's a disaster or not, because
Speaker 1: every car comes equipped with their software. That would be
Speaker 1: a monopoly, to which they could argue, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: welcome to uninstall it and put your own one in there.
Speaker 1: Do you know how to uninstall software on your car?
Speaker 1: Are you going to google it? Think about the dial
Speaker 1: up modem, sounds, your aim user name. We all got sidekicks,
Speaker 1: but I don't even know if we got sidekick It
Speaker 1: was in pagers there. You know what I'm saying, you
Speaker 1: about to have a sidekick, and boyd, the early Internet
Speaker 1: feels like Caveman energy. So Microsoft, led by Bill Gates,
Speaker 1: was young, scrappy startup. You know, you got to remember,
Speaker 1: like at this point McIntosh. Those was just the computers
Speaker 1: in the school lab. Like when you went to the
Speaker 1: computer lab at school, there was these funny look at
Speaker 1: things that we just had to learn when we did
Speaker 1: our typing classes. You know, you just did it on that.
Speaker 1: So Microsoft at the time was developing Windows, right, so
Speaker 1: Windows Night, you know, Windows ninety five and that's that,
Speaker 1: which was the operating system, which you guys know already.
Speaker 1: And then Microsoft Office so spread you know, PowerPoint, Microsoft
Speaker 1: Word and everything that comes just microsoftic like just mic
Speaker 1: it's Windows, like it's Microsoft. What they started doing because
Speaker 1: Bill Gates ain't dumb, is he was taken over while
Speaker 1: while while Apple and them was working towards school and
Speaker 1: fun and stuff like that, Microsoft was taken over the
Speaker 1: corporate world and every company, every you know work computer
Speaker 1: was a Windows and Microsoft Office. And then eventually once
Speaker 1: we hit Windows ninety five, you know that whole like
Speaker 1: you know the the Apple like you know sessions where
Speaker 1: they launched new products, like Windows invented that, Like that
Speaker 1: was Microsoft, Like it was just goofy. Even the user video,
Speaker 1: the training video for how to use Microsoft Office and
Speaker 1: Windows ninety five had, believe it or not, actors from
Speaker 1: Friends from the show Friends was on it. Jay Leno
Speaker 1: did the monologue like it was the biggest thing in
Speaker 1: the world because it was just change. You gotta remember,
Speaker 1: this is where tech was. And what else that they
Speaker 1: did that was amazing was if you bought a laptop,
Speaker 1: you gotta remember there was a million different types of laptops.
Speaker 1: You remember HP, you remember Acer, You could get any
Speaker 1: type of just like before the iPod there was zooms,
Speaker 1: Like there was a million different other products. And then
Speaker 1: somebody takes over and just wins. The thing. What Microsoft
Speaker 1: did was they cut a deal with PC and laptop
Speaker 1: companies and was like, yo, so let us be your
Speaker 1: default operating system. So if anybody wants to use another
Speaker 1: operating system an OS, like a Macintosh, you got to
Speaker 1: take all that stuff off and put a new one in. Now,
Speaker 1: Macintos was smart enough to say, no, our operating system
Speaker 1: works on our products only, but set that to a
Speaker 1: side right now. Microsoft was like, cool, y'all can have
Speaker 1: your own little weird egg shape computers. We will take
Speaker 1: over every other computer on Earth. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: what they did. They just cut a deal. And it
Speaker 1: was just like yeah, dude, like, yo, if you're selling
Speaker 1: a laptop, you're selling a desktop. It's got Microsoft operating
Speaker 1: system already installed. So we already got a deal. So
Speaker 1: we didn't even got to sell it to the consumers.
Speaker 1: It's already sold to the manufacturer. Kind of brilliant. I mean,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you do that. Now, while this is happening,
Speaker 1: something else was being invented, a little thing called the
Speaker 1: World Wide Web, The Internet was being made around this time.
Speaker 1: Sorry about that. Next. Okay, so now that the Internet's
Speaker 1: being made, you know you gotta buy your modems. What
Speaker 1: nobody thought about, because you have to remember nobody knew
Speaker 1: what the Internet was, is you have to have a
Speaker 1: way to get on there. Browser. No, you need a browser.
Speaker 1: It's so stupid, like it's so stupid. I have to
Speaker 1: point that out right. And then because there was no
Speaker 1: separate apps for your emails or for there was no apps.
Speaker 1: The apps were Microsoft. You need a browser to get
Speaker 1: on the Internet. The browser, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: different types. There's Navigator, there was Netscape, and at the time,
Speaker 1: that's all the Netscape made. They were the only browsers.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was fine, Like what else did we
Speaker 1: know you got on the Internet with on a Netscape browser?
Speaker 1: But your little AOL disc, which we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: in a second bunch. Your little Aol disc you popped
Speaker 1: it in, you clicked the disc and then it would
Speaker 1: throw the netscate like you just that was the only
Speaker 1: how you opened the Internet was the browser. Of course,
Speaker 1: now we you know we got Chrome, Firefox, Safari, like
Speaker 1: we got those things. But you remember, like we didn't
Speaker 1: none of those things. They we didn't know what those
Speaker 1: things meant. Like one of those things existed. Netscape was
Speaker 1: how you got to the internet. Bill Gates ain't stupid.
Speaker 1: He was like, Yo, this the future. We need a
Speaker 1: hold up, we need a browser. His browser was called
Speaker 1: Internet Explorer. That's how you got on the Internet. His
Speaker 1: browser was Trash right, because they was too busy making
Speaker 1: too many different things. They was making laptopser was making Office,
Speaker 1: they was making Windows. It was making all these different
Speaker 1: things that they didn't really make browsers. But he's not stupid.
Speaker 1: He knew that this was the future. So the browser
Speaker 1: got better and better and better. And then he realized, like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I have a million vendors I work with.
Speaker 1: Every laptop already has my product in it. Stupid, Why
Speaker 1: don't I bundle Internet Explorer with it? A matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I'll throw it in an exploor free. It just comes
Speaker 1: with It comes with Microsoft, it comes with Windows. Windows
Speaker 1: is already on every laptop. I'll just it's so stupid, like, duh,
Speaker 1: I don't even have to sell it. I'm already nobody.
Speaker 1: Can you name another word processing? What's the mac with numbers?
Speaker 1: Adobe pages? I'm saying, even now, we don't use it.
Speaker 1: Maybe you write in Google Docs, which we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to later, but nobody writes it like it's it's you
Speaker 1: use word almost two decades right, like you? What else
Speaker 1: is there? So they were like, duh, let's just add
Speaker 1: our product. Let's just add Explorer to every laptop. Obviously,
Speaker 1: netscapes like, well, wait a damn minute, bro, are you serious?
Speaker 1: So you're just gonna sell the product for free? Well,
Speaker 1: like I mean there's nothing, Well I mean what cash?
Speaker 1: You're already on every laptop like this is They were like,
Speaker 1: you're breaking antitrust laws. So they wrote a letter to
Speaker 1: Department of Justice like yo, fam, I can't like, can't
Speaker 1: nobody compete with this? This ain't right? Two hundred pays letter.
Speaker 1: Justice Department was like, huh, you might be onto something
Speaker 1: because like you're like this is what seems to us,
Speaker 1: like this is anti competition, Like you just boxed everybody out,
Speaker 1: like you just gave everybody the product for freeze, gave
Speaker 1: everybody to wait free. Somebody come in your hood and
Speaker 1: just passing out weed for free. It's like, well, how
Speaker 1: can I run a business? Like I don't understand? Like
Speaker 1: if if every car come through your neighborhood has already
Speaker 1: got a vapor in it, Like well, I mean what
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do? Why you think the gas company
Speaker 1: so mad or why you think these oil companies so
Speaker 1: mad about electric cars? Cause it's like, oh, nigga, don't
Speaker 1: need you no more? Like wait a minute, this is
Speaker 1: leading us to obsolescence. But they're but but what's specifically
Speaker 1: about an anti trust is or this monopoly is like
Speaker 1: this is the same product, and you guys are like
Speaker 1: this is David and Goliath out this mug like you
Speaker 1: already like there's no I can't compat with this. This
Speaker 1: is like there is no competition. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get into the like operating system business like we make
Speaker 1: an Internet browser and you're just giving yours away for
Speaker 1: free and even if people don't want it, ah, which
Speaker 1: is where we get what has to do with Google
Speaker 1: even if people don't want it. It just comes with
Speaker 1: the lap. So of course, like just the psychology of
Speaker 1: it is like, well, this is the one that come
Speaker 1: with it. So like why would I go out of
Speaker 1: my way unless I'm a tech geek, why would I
Speaker 1: go out of my way? That's just it come with it.
Speaker 1: We don't know enough about the Internet to have a
Speaker 1: preference about it. We don't know about incognito like that
Speaker 1: stuff don't exist no more or yet, So what difference
Speaker 1: does it make? All right, let's Internet Explorer. And it
Speaker 1: made sense to us because it was like or to
Speaker 1: the it made sense to the consumer because it's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's made from the same company that when I open
Speaker 1: the laptop, that's how it runs. They was like, yo,
Speaker 1: this is unjust like this ain't they can do whatever
Speaker 1: they want. And I remember remember the browser was trashed
Speaker 1: like it wasn't it wasn't that good of a browser,
Speaker 1: like it just like what do you? I don't know
Speaker 1: what I can I mean, And they had no incentive
Speaker 1: on making it better per se, because they don't already
Speaker 1: sold the product completely. They didn't already made day money
Speaker 1: off off windows and off office. So there's no like
Speaker 1: you've cornered the market. There's no there's there's you, no
Speaker 1: one can compete with you. So they brought that case
Speaker 1: to the Department of Justice. Netscape did so Netscape bring
Speaker 1: brings brings a case to the Department of Justice. They
Speaker 1: was like just like I just explained, like yo, this
Speaker 1: is a monopoly dog, Like there's nothing we could do
Speaker 1: about it. Like I mean, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 1: It's already on your laptop. I bet you open your door,
Speaker 1: you get a new computer today, bet you it's already there.
Speaker 1: Like how do I compete with that? Like that's not
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? They bring in Microsoft
Speaker 1: to be like okay, well and this is like legendary,
Speaker 1: Like so Bill Gates and them and Microsoft come in
Speaker 1: and Microsoft was just like okay, that's funny. Wait what
Speaker 1: Wait are y'all serious? Old up this There's no way
Speaker 1: in the world you're serious right now? What did you
Speaker 1: What you're saying is absolutely ridiculous. Let me get this straight. Wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold hold on, let me get
Speaker 1: this straight. We made a product, we made smart business moves,
Speaker 1: We used our connections, we developed a new product, we
Speaker 1: took our own product, bundled it with our other own product,
Speaker 1: and use the connections that we took years to develop.
Speaker 1: And you saying that's a problem. What you mean, like,
Speaker 1: what is the problem? You can't possibly be or you're
Speaker 1: so we're smart, you're punishing me for beists. What are
Speaker 1: you talking to You're saying this is anti capitalists. I
Speaker 1: don't understand. So should our products up? Should we not
Speaker 1: try what you want us to? Not make money? What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? This is absurd? Fuck you mean
Speaker 1: we made a product that we hustled. I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Tell them fools to get their weight up. Ain't nothing
Speaker 1: stopping you from finding a computer. You could you could
Speaker 1: approach them with the same contract we approached them with.
Speaker 1: Get your weight up. I don't understand we approached these
Speaker 1: these people, We approached these manufacturers. They could have said no.
Speaker 1: They said, yes, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: You want me to tell the consumers don't buy our product?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Absolutely ridiculous, was Microsoft's argument.
Speaker 1: The problem was they just walked in, super smug and
Speaker 1: super arrogant, and they were just like I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: we smarter than everyone It was our faul, we're smarter
Speaker 1: than everybody else. Apartment just ain't like that. They ain't
Speaker 1: like your little attitude. They asked him very very direct
Speaker 1: questions like, yo, do you remember this email? They pulling
Speaker 1: up emails where them Foods was talking this is the
Speaker 1: first time that was like a part of like because
Speaker 1: remember emails just now were born, pulling up emails where
Speaker 1: they were like knife the Baby like talking about like really,
Speaker 1: we're trying to kill Netscape, like that's our goal, Like
Speaker 1: we're actually trying to get like just cutthroat like Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley like og Like no, we're actually trying to kill
Speaker 1: kill it. They was like, yo, you remember this email.
Speaker 1: He was like no, like you don't remember the one
Speaker 1: you just replied. He's like no, I remember it. It
Speaker 1: was just a jerk about it. Like they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: did you have any concern about any other companies? He
Speaker 1: was like what, I don't understand the question. It was
Speaker 1: like what what don't you understand? He's like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean by concern? I don't know what you mean
Speaker 1: by that? And they were like do you know what
Speaker 1: concern means? Like, I know what it means. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you mean by that. It was like, sir, deep, okay,
Speaker 1: just this like smug, I'm smarter than you, I'm ten
Speaker 1: steps ahead of you. Just it just turned everybody out,
Speaker 1: but they're Ultimately their point was, Okay, dude, you can't
Speaker 1: punish us because their product sucks. Like that can't be
Speaker 1: that can't possibly be our fault. We're good at business.
Speaker 1: This is what happened. Department of Justice was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's a monopoly. Y'all got to break this company up
Speaker 1: because the straw that broke the camera back was carrying
Speaker 1: office and windows with explorer. That's the part that did it.
Speaker 1: Because it's like you've made now nobody has any other options.
Speaker 1: That's the same example I was given with Tesla, because
Speaker 1: the point is, on general principle, consumers are supposed to
Speaker 1: have options, And the argument is having options keeps everybody
Speaker 1: in check, right, because if you have options, that's going
Speaker 1: to force you to make the better product. And if
Speaker 1: you baking the better product, that make all of America
Speaker 1: look good, consumers are happy, money's flowing, right, That's the argument.
Speaker 1: And again using the Tesla as an example, like I
Speaker 1: just said, right now, then I just say that I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking if every electric car in the future,
Speaker 1: if you want to do self driving mode, you have
Speaker 1: to use this because it's the default setting. And this
Speaker 1: gives Tesla no incentive to like they could charge every
Speaker 1: car company whatever they want, because who else you're gonna
Speaker 1: go to, which means that that is going to raise
Speaker 1: the prices for all of our cars, which means it's
Speaker 1: going to rate the price for chips and all this
Speaker 1: good stuff. You're just like, there's no like, this doesn't
Speaker 1: help nobody. This just makes you by yourself rich and
Speaker 1: all of us got to suffer by it. So that's
Speaker 1: the theory. Nobody's happy with that except for y'all, and
Speaker 1: we just decided as a nation back in the seventeen
Speaker 1: hundreds that we wasn't gonna be like that in theory. Now,
Speaker 1: what they told them that they had to do was
Speaker 1: break the company up. You have to put Windows in
Speaker 1: one place as one company in office as another company.
Speaker 1: Is that how you understand Microsoft? Of course not, because
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. Essentially, what they did was just they
Speaker 1: paid the fines, they did what they had to do,
Speaker 1: and then they just promised to not be jerks. This
Speaker 1: really really ain't. Nothing happened. So ultimately nothing changed. Netscape
Speaker 1: ended up selling to AOL. Microsoft just had this ruling
Speaker 1: stand that they were operating as a monopoly. But since
Speaker 1: God is good and just when last time you opened
Speaker 1: an Internet Explorer browser. Now, this is what the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice was considering when they looked at this Google case.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about specifically the ruling. Now, remember Google,
Speaker 1: the company is called alphabet for whatever reason. The ruling
Speaker 1: was that they illegally monopolized the search engine market. Now
Speaker 1: and here here's how they did it. Now, well, they
Speaker 1: did it the same way Microsoft did it. In the
Speaker 1: sense that you just if you're a software company, duh
Speaker 1: make deals with hardware companies. So what Google did was
Speaker 1: like I don't care if you using Chrome. You could
Speaker 1: if even if you use Safari, whatever phone you got,
Speaker 1: when you open it, make a deal with us where
Speaker 1: you automatically your search engine goes to Google. When the
Speaker 1: last time you said I'm gonna bing something, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask Jeeves something, No, you google it. So they made
Speaker 1: deals with phonemakers and other hardware folks to be like, look,
Speaker 1: just let us be your default browser. Now you all
Speaker 1: know you could go into your phone, you could go
Speaker 1: into your settings and say like I want this other
Speaker 1: thing to be the default. But who's gonna do that?
Speaker 1: Some people do, like some of y'all folks who just
Speaker 1: are like anti iPhone because you believe in freedom, you
Speaker 1: want to Android is just another company. Like I don't
Speaker 1: understand how y'all don't understand, But your belief is you
Speaker 1: want to be able to customize it in the way
Speaker 1: that you want to customize it, because app will tell
Speaker 1: you what to do. And one of the things that
Speaker 1: Apple tell you to do is like it's automatically gonna
Speaker 1: go to a Google. Now with that being automatically your
Speaker 1: search engine in them gathering a trillion kajillion mega coad
Speaker 1: billion probably flowbally fillion megabits of information on us. They
Speaker 1: can sell AD spaces. So if you are a person
Speaker 1: like me who make they live in online, I mean
Speaker 1: you have to you have to use the Google market,
Speaker 1: you have to use their ad spaces, you have to
Speaker 1: do search engine optimization, you have to be able to
Speaker 1: show up in their AD revenue space because that's where
Speaker 1: everybody at Why the hell would you buy an ad
Speaker 1: at bing? What is that gonna do for you? And
Speaker 1: if and since they're the only people in town, they're
Speaker 1: the only people that really makes sense to spend your
Speaker 1: money on, they could charge you whatever they want. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you why terraform cobrew wasn't on Amazon because
Speaker 1: I would lose two dollars per can, like I would
Speaker 1: you like I would be paying them like there's no
Speaker 1: But at the same time, terraform cobrew out of money.
Speaker 1: If you went to the website, it ain't no coffee
Speaker 1: there because I'm out of money. You uner see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like they make it where I mean, what
Speaker 1: are your other options? That's that phrase? Like what's my
Speaker 1: other option? That is a monopoly. Now, what Google argued
Speaker 1: was the same thing and Microsoft argued, which was like, fam,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for being good at my business, but people
Speaker 1: can do whatever they want. We just happened to try
Speaker 1: to give people an offer they came to use. Now,
Speaker 1: what was interesting this time was the Supreme Court brought
Speaker 1: up not just x's and o's. It wasn't just business
Speaker 1: and like nerdery around the law. They brought up psychology.
Speaker 1: And it's this concept called the psychology of the default. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: let me say it right, the power of default. Now,
Speaker 1: you and I I don't even have to explain that.
Speaker 1: You understand when something is just your default setting. You
Speaker 1: just after a while, because something just becomes so normal
Speaker 1: you don't even think about that there are other alternatives,
Speaker 1: like you'd have to go out of your way to
Speaker 1: do that. That's the default. And what they were arguing
Speaker 1: is that is proof of a monopoly. In our brains.
Speaker 1: Google's a verb despite the quality of Google, because you
Speaker 1: probably experienced the same thing I'm experiencing when you try
Speaker 1: to google something. It's like because of AAI thing, I'm like, y'all,
Speaker 1: your product's getting worse. Now, that's probably because we're old
Speaker 1: and we're not searching on TikTok, which is where the
Speaker 1: rest of the people search, which was Google's defense. Google's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Netscape or ask Jeeves, I'm worried
Speaker 1: about TikTok, Like that's a search engine, and they're like, fam, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. What are you talking about. The psychology or
Speaker 1: the power of the default is when your brand is
Speaker 1: so strong that you just don't think of you don't
Speaker 1: even think. Of course there's alternatives, you don't even think
Speaker 1: of it, which is like a new strategy to argue
Speaker 1: that somebody has a monopoly. So what's the solution. The
Speaker 1: solution is to break up the company. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: usually what it means. Now, Like I told you before,
Speaker 1: what happened with Microsoft was basically like they were supposed
Speaker 1: to split up Microsoft Office from from Windows. So that's
Speaker 1: that was the plan for Google. It's like you, I remember,
Speaker 1: this is an alphabet's a two trillion dollar company. So
Speaker 1: one of the suggestion was like divest divesting the Android
Speaker 1: operating system was like the most frequently discussed option by
Speaker 1: the Justice Department's attorney, and then some were suggesting the
Speaker 1: force of the ad words like you have to sell that,
Speaker 1: and Google gotta let go of that program, right, the
Speaker 1: search ad program, right, a divestment from that from its
Speaker 1: Chrome web browser. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they haven't landed on an actual verdict as to how
Speaker 1: to solve this. They've just said, no, you violated antitrust laws.
Speaker 1: You want have to break up this company, just curved.
Speaker 2: Them now, things like this is where your super conservative
Speaker 2: capitalists argues is a problem because it seems as though
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 1: Not free market capitalism. They're like, let the consumer decide.
Speaker 1: We just did good business and the government shouldn't interfere.
Speaker 1: These are the same people that don't want the EPA
Speaker 1: to exist, you know. So if there's mad cow disease
Speaker 1: and your beef, they like, people will stop buying it,
Speaker 1: so just leave us alone, that's their argument. Like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, tell everybody else get their weight up. They
Speaker 1: don't want no interference, which I guess I would understand
Speaker 1: too if I owned a company and was making a
Speaker 1: kajillion dollars. But I'm a consumer that really just want
Speaker 1: to be able to have good products, afford the products
Speaker 1: we have, and not hear somebody like Jeff Bezos in
Speaker 1: his rocket that looked like a penis who didn't even
Speaker 1: actually make it in the space and then to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you guys did this by buying stuff like don't nobody
Speaker 1: want to see that? Like, Okay, listen, here's the underbelly.
Speaker 1: We know, all right. The thing is, we ain't got
Speaker 1: no choice. Amazon might be next in this. This is
Speaker 1: the deal we've made without having an option to make
Speaker 1: this deal. We know we're making y'all rich, but we
Speaker 1: also need to live. And sometimes if you that person
Speaker 1: man the consumer like us, it kind of feel good
Speaker 1: that there's some big homies that might be able to
Speaker 1: come in and say, hey, get to treat the little
Speaker 1: hummies like that, because and that's some good stuff, good politics, y'all.
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