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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Meg

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Speaker 1: trend The Stallion trending for the wrong fucking reasons today, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because fucking Drake for the right reasons from her perspectives,

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Speaker 1: but for the wrong Yeah, but because the reasons were weird. Um,

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Speaker 1: I thought, just look, we were, we had, we were

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Speaker 1: talking about this just right before we got off. Should

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Speaker 1: we just go ready? I am we should let the

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Speaker 1: people know first, of course, Damn, I am, I'm Jack.

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Speaker 1: That is Miles and these well, these things that you're

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Speaker 1: about to hear us talk about right now, Well, these

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Speaker 1: are some things that are trending, yeah, on this Friday afternoon. Indeed, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Drake's trending. Making the Stallion is trending. Yeah, the Drake

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Speaker 1: in twenty one Savage album came out, and there's this

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Speaker 1: track Circle Local on it where he's basically, I don't

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Speaker 1: even say the lyrics so he's calling her be word's

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Speaker 1: just nonsense. He's basically he's implying that Making the Stallion

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Speaker 1: was lying about being shot by Tory Lanes and and

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Speaker 1: the lyrics the bars are weak, like for week that

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Speaker 1: I mean, just for context, doesn't change anything, Like even

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Speaker 1: if they were great, it wouldn't change anything, but they're

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Speaker 1: they're tired. His dumb idea is spread is executed dumbly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's I don't know. I mean, so there's

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Speaker 1: a there's another liney like comes at her for like

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Speaker 1: going to college, although he he has like there's definitely

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Speaker 1: like Drake Bars where he talks about how he's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like what did Harvard gets you? But like I got

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Speaker 1: this type stuff. So I feel like he's like one

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Speaker 1: of those weird chips on his shoulder. And just the

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Speaker 1: rollout to the album was super weird, like he was

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Speaker 1: posting like HENTI porn on his fucking stories like before that, yes,

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Speaker 1: he thought he was like on some cool shit. It's

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Speaker 1: fucking weird. He doesn't even know Tory Lanes like that

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Speaker 1: they're not on a track together. Aside from you know,

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Speaker 1: I think many people rightly point out all this like

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Speaker 1: fucked up you know, massage, noir, black misogyny, bullshit, and

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Speaker 1: like on the heels of like that you were talking

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Speaker 1: about this one Instagram post, it's like rightly pointing out

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Speaker 1: like Takeoff was killed earlier this week due to gun

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Speaker 1: violence and then but yet making the stallion being shot

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Speaker 1: and some domestic violence. Ship is just like ha ha

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Speaker 1: hardy heart harsh it right, the fun this dude, So

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he's also coming at Serena Williams

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Speaker 1: like husband and ship like, Drake's a fucking He's so

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Speaker 1: thirsty and it's just it's weird to just see all

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Speaker 1: this ship come out. You're like, this is such a

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Speaker 1: terrible look for you, sir, please, I mean creative bankstands

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Speaker 1: somewhat uncomfortable. You know, he had a he had a

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Speaker 1: spark when he started, but now his ship's garbage. And

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Speaker 1: that's you know what when you are decent at first

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Speaker 1: and then you are at loews like this, you you

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Speaker 1: kind of probably recognize a little bit that your ship

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Speaker 1: sucks and it's probably not fun. Sloppy sloppy. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: doing doing things for he's cloud chasing, which is yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's pathetic. Bad look there's and then Anna said she

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Speaker 1: was like a Zalea Banks we posted. She's like, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna ready to die Drake or some ship like some

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Speaker 1: and it's just yeah, I don't know. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Becca was pointing out to like his album sales, that

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Speaker 1: last album, the one that we it was so bad

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Speaker 1: we memory hold it. We were like yeah, we were like, wait,

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Speaker 1: so what was Drake's last album? You were like certified

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Speaker 1: lover Boy, and I was like, oh right, we're right,

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Speaker 1: the one with the pregnant women emojis on the cover,

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Speaker 1: That's right, that was Drake. Yeah, Drake's last album. And

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Speaker 1: we were as we memory hold a whole album. Yeah whatever,

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Speaker 1: never mind, Yeah, honestly never mind or whatever. The yeah,

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Speaker 1: honestly can't even. We said the title mirror moments ago

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Speaker 1: like I'm just depressed on board, you know, like whatever,

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Speaker 1: I'm tired of this. Being famous sucks. You got your

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Speaker 1: child actors sucks. Yeah, speaking of sucks Twitter. So it's

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Speaker 1: like Twitter just over like that. That seems to be

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Speaker 1: it like that. There's been a lot of times when

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Speaker 1: people are like Twitter's over, right, but this feels like

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Speaker 1: real well, it's like they're like they're just tying, like

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Speaker 1: like untying the not in a balloon and letting all

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Speaker 1: us to space. It's going to turn into fucking trash,

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Speaker 1: like they got rid of all them, like moderation people

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Speaker 1: it's it, you can see. It just feels odd like

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Speaker 1: the algorithms constantly serve me, like they're like, oh, you

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Speaker 1: like the NBA and it's just like some weird anti

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Speaker 1: semitic ship like attached to Kyrie Irving's name, nothing really

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Speaker 1: how I'm even seeing topics is just really fucking all

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Speaker 1: don't know where people there's gonna be something. People are

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Speaker 1: one has a very specific function though that I'm having

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Speaker 1: trouble being like, well, what's the sort of analog here? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. Like the standard response that I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: is whatever, It's not the end of the world, Like

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Speaker 1: this happens to social media networks. Twitter sucked, you hated

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Speaker 1: it all along, and like we're just going to move

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Speaker 1: on to the next one. And I do think it's

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Speaker 1: worth like at least acknowledging that there was like Twitter peek.

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Speaker 1: Twitter was good at spreading ideas that you weren't going

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Speaker 1: to see elsewhere because we have a broken mainstream media

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Speaker 1: and like, you know, it has the lowest bear of

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Speaker 1: So like I do think, I don't know, like everyone

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Speaker 1: It's like, well, but TikTok is like look presentable. It's

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Speaker 1: like a record of video. Yeah, you got like the yeah,

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Speaker 1: like it was people like do derisively called Twitter the

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Speaker 1: Internet's comments section, and but like that is I think

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Speaker 1: an important thing for something to fulfill is like having

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Speaker 1: a place where people who have things to say it

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Speaker 1: can go. And yeah, like any comments section, it needed

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Speaker 1: a healthy amount of moderation to keep it from being

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Speaker 1: overruned by Nazis. And but that ship's all over, Like

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Speaker 1: any that's That's like I'm not confused about whether Twitter

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Speaker 1: very very badly. We're looking at like two versions right.

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Speaker 1: One is we're seeing what happens when someone fires half

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Speaker 1: the staff at a social media platform. Right, Yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: already drastically understaffed to begin with. That's the whole problem.

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Speaker 1: And then the others like we're watching this other bigger story,

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Speaker 1: which is Elon Musk realizing what the fun Twitter even

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Speaker 1: like from like eight dollars is cool. You know, Alexandro

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Speaker 1: fund are you saying? Yeah? Um, but it's I mean,

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Speaker 1: And when you couple that with the fact that you're

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Speaker 1: saying like, well, I don't want to I want free speech,

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Speaker 1: so I don't want to be a safe place for

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Speaker 1: advertisers to come. But it I don't have revenue coming in.

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Speaker 1: I don't you need like millions of people like on

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Speaker 1: And it just feels weird to me. To not more

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Speaker 1: like just very big picture. We're losing something that was

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Speaker 1: much of your life into it. Was definitely toxic, but

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Speaker 1: like could be very useful. Was like how a lot

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Speaker 1: a lot of like interesting ideas. Uh, And it is

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Speaker 1: we're losing it to Nazi straight up, Like that's that's

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Speaker 1: an L. Like we can we can acknowledge that an L.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to be like yeah, well whatever, Tumbler

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Speaker 1: bright spot is inevitably another thing comes that people will

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Speaker 1: find the same way to express their ideas. But I

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Speaker 1: mean that is it's weird because on TikTok you can

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Speaker 1: find stuff like that too, but it's so highly produced.

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Speaker 1: That's sort of the difference is the time it takes.

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Speaker 1: That that might be the only people who are affected.

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Speaker 1: In which case great, like everything moves to TikTok, will

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Speaker 1: move over to TikTok and find interesting ideas. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: we uh so Kyrie got suspended for five games um

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Speaker 1: him for five games without pay. I'm sure they're legalities,

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Speaker 1: just how this ship is. Like would no matter what

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Speaker 1: I I see so many takes of like just all

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Speaker 1: absolutely not like he posted this documentary that is if

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of anti Semitic nonsense in it.

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Speaker 1: But all that to say is I see a lot

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Speaker 1: of people say, well, how come, like this isn't fair.

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Speaker 1: People need to be going after Amazon. They actually should

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Speaker 1: be going after Amazon too. You're right, because this Amazon

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Speaker 1: and yeah they're there. There should to be some some

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Speaker 1: laying they're trying to say he got he's getting fucking

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Speaker 1: punished for posting a link. Right. That's a really really

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Speaker 1: And when they're talking about, oh, we're gonna do forty

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Speaker 1: County tomorrow. Yeah, well, thank you so much for coming on. Man. Absolutely, guys,

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Speaker 1: we'll catch all, yeah for sure. Man. Alright, well, those

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