1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: I'm beautiful. That's how we start this episode of our 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: professional podcast that makes it pays all of our rent. 3 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: This is it could Happen here, a podcast about things 4 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: falling apart, and today we're talking about Twitter because nothing 5 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: embodies falling apart quite like Twitter. Um we have on 6 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: the show today, Garrison Davis, Chris Sharene, James, everybody, the 7 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: whole crew, except for the people who aren't here. They're 8 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: not here, but I hate them, Yeah, I don't hate them. 9 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: How's everybody, don't we all great? I just woke up, 10 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: had my coffee scrolled on Twitter for an hour, so 11 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: I'm ready to go this. This, this has been, This 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: has been legitimately the best three weeks that we have 13 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: had on Twitter since like like two. I feel bad 14 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: for all the people who have like left because they're 15 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: missing Twitter. So first off, I want to say, we're 16 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: not gonna try We're gonna try not to get too 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,199 Speaker 1: into the weeds here if you're not a Twitter person, 18 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: and most people are not Twitter people. The reason that 19 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: number one, I want to start by explaining why we 20 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: think this is worth getting into, which is that like 21 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: Twitter as an undeniable command of like global news discourse 22 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: it's where all of the journalists hang out, it's where 23 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: a significant number of the politicians and wealthy business people 24 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: hang out, and all of us are being broken by it, 25 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: like it's one big opium den that we are all 26 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: like engaging in an addiction that is destroying our brains inside. Um. 27 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 1: It's not good for anyone, but it's undeniably important. And 28 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: since Elon Musk took over, things have been things have 29 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: been quite wild. So we're going to give an update 30 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: on kind of some of the stuff that's been happening 31 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: in Twitter at the end here, but I want to 32 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: read a little lessay I wrote, just kind of looking 33 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: at mostly a single post Musk made and some of 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: the responses to it that I think says a lot 35 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: about where we are as a species right now. On October, 36 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: shortly after taking control of Twitter from its former shareholders, 37 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: Elon Musk went on a frenzy of what you might 38 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: call ill considered emphetamine derived tweets about his ideas for 39 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: how the site should function. At one point, he noted 40 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: that twenty dollars a month seemed like a fair price 41 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: for people to pay to get or keep blue check marks. 42 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: There was even talk of twenty dollars a month being 43 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: the price to use Twitter at all and pay walling 44 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: the entire site. Now, a lot of people thought this 45 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: was bug funk, especially since like Hbo doesn't cost that 46 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: much and it's and it's got and door on it. 47 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: You can watch just Disney, both of both of the 48 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: streaming services that I watch I stole from you Garrison, 49 00:02:52,760 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: So really it's an incredible deal. So everyone made fun 50 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: of the fact that Elon was suggesting this, and no 51 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,679 Speaker 1: one had a bigger laugh than Stephen King. Now, Stephen King, 52 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: if you're not aware, is worth pretty close to a 53 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: billion dollars. He is an unbelievably wealthy man, and like 54 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: he has like actual money, not like stock made up money, 55 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: that is cash. He has hundreds of millions of dollars 56 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: in cash because people like his He has more like 57 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:31,119 Speaker 1: actual money than he probably liquid assets. He's a very 58 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: liquid man because he wrote The Shining and the Stand 59 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: and cou Joe and that's a clown book. So many 60 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: he writes a new book every week. He's the only 61 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: man who has successfully turned a painkiller addiction into putting 62 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: out a best selling novel every single month. What a 63 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: hero anyway, he tweeted, quote, twenty dollars a month to 64 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: keep my blue check. Fuck that they should pay me. 65 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: If that gets instituted, I'm gone, like in ron now. 66 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: In addition to being the kind to wordplay for which 67 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: Stephen King has become rightly famous, the reason that he 68 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: got kind of piste off is actually sensible. Obviously, twenty 69 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: dollars means nothing to someone with his kind of money, 70 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: but he's not wrong about his central argument, which is 71 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: that like Twitter ought to be paying people like him. 72 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: He has nearly seven million followers, and he tweets very regularly. 73 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: Massive accounts like Stephen King's are not Twitter's customers. They 74 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: are the business itself. It is the product. I want 75 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: to quote now from a report in Reuters. Quote, these 76 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: heavy tweeters account for less than ten percent of monthly 77 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: overall users, but generate of all tweets and half of 78 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been an absolute decline since 79 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: the pandemic began. A Twitter researcher wrote in an internal 80 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: document titled where did the Tweeters go? Now? Sonny, It's 81 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: like Instagram or whatever. Once you're like, have a lot 82 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: of followers, you can make money. So I think Twitter 83 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: is different that way. It is. I I am the 84 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: only person in the history of Twitter who was actually 85 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: turned being a ship poster insway lucrative professional career. I 86 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: am the only one. Everyone else that is drill drill 87 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: was already like in in this like drivels already. I think, 88 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: like in the scene doing stuff like well they done 89 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: something has something to do with home stuck. But the 90 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: point is that the people like Stephen King are what 91 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: makes Twitter profitable. The idea that like they owe the 92 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: company money to be able to tweet is kind of 93 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: absolutely absurd, and in addition to that, like it it 94 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: feeds into a serious problem the site is having before 95 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: Elon bought it. They're they're they're they're attempting to answer 96 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: the question of like, why are these people who are 97 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: responsible for most of our money tweeting less? Because it's 98 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: it's costing us like it is. There's a reason why 99 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: Twitter has been on a profit down slope lately. Um 100 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: the only profitable years the company has had I should know, 101 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: we're two thousand eighteen and two thousand nineteen, in which 102 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: they were doing reasonably well financially, and since the pandemics started, 103 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: Twitter has reliably lost hundreds of millions of dollars per year. 104 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: This research was which was attempting to answer the question 105 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: why beat at concluded quote cryptocurrency and not safe for 106 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: work content, which includes nudity and pornography, are the highest 107 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: growing topics of interest among English speaking heavy users. The 108 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: report found at the same time, interest in news, sports, 109 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,799 Speaker 1: and entertainment is waning among those users. Tweets on those topics, 110 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 1: which have helped Twitter burnishing images the world's digital town square, 111 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: as Musk once called it, are also the most desirable 112 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: for advertisers. So basically, the things that advertisers like to 113 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: see ads next to are becoming less popular on Twitter, 114 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: and ship that is poisoned for advertisers has become more popular. Now. 115 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: This is a problem for Musk because he loves crypto shilling, 116 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 1: which is a huge issue for everyone who isn't a 117 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: crypto weirdo. Um, there are some opportunities. One of the 118 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: things that I thought wasn't a bad idea was Musk 119 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: suggested ways in which to like monetize the site so 120 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: sex workers could more effectively monetize their followings, which is 121 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: a way Twitter might be able to make more money 122 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: now is that likely to make the company money in 123 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: excess of what they would lose in advertising for becoming 124 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: known as the Fox site. Probably not, Probably broadly speaking 125 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: of bad idea. Um So, in addition to Musk's outright 126 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: hatred of journalists in reporting, it seems like just his 127 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: general vibes might not be great for bringing back the 128 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: advertisers he seems to be personally having fine. He seems 129 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: to be personally inclined to like go after the things 130 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: and support the things that are directly poisoned for Twitter's 131 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: bottom line, which is fascinating for a guy who's spending 132 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: forty four billion dollars on the side. Can can we 133 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: can we mention for a second, by the way, the 134 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: reason he spent forty billion dollars on the site was 135 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: because he bought the stocks, the sites shares for a 136 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: meme price that someone sugested on Twitter. Yes, it was 137 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: like fifty four dollars and fifty four dollars and twenty cents, 138 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: so there's a four twenty. Yeah, this is this is 139 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: why you sent forty four billion dollars on this And 140 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: he previously it's worth noting he previously did that with 141 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: Twitter stock or with um Tesla stuff. He attempted to 142 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: take Tesla private for four dollars to share heavily for 143 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: that one. Because that's because it's very yes, exactly, because 144 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: that was that was very illegal, we think, very not 145 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: that funny. Yeah, it's also worth noting that like the 146 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: one thing that he actually has he has created, right, 147 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 1: he didn't invent Tesla, like he didn't even his is 148 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: his reply guys. No, his his reply guys are like 149 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: his unique asset, and and he's trying to price him 150 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: out of being his reply guys. The cult of personality stuff, yeah, yeah, 151 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: but like that's largely built on Twitter, right, like his 152 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: the whole cult around him, well and read it. But yeah, 153 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: and just like the fact that like people think the 154 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: genius x y Z whatever. Yeah, that is that's too 155 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 1: big a tapping for today's episode and recently we'll see. 156 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: But you know, we're not talking today about like Musk's 157 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: broadly speaking, why Musk is a con man. Well, we'll 158 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: talk about that. We've talked about that on plenty of 159 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: other occasions. Nor is this supposed to be an exhaustive 160 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: explanation for why Musk's Twitter is likely to fall apart. 161 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: We don't have the end of that story yet. So instead, 162 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: what I want to do is review a single tweet 163 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: and particularly the responses to that tweet, because I think 164 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 1: it is hugely interesting and kind of an important cultural artifact. 165 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: So the tweet was a response by Musk to the 166 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: Stephen King tweet that I I read earlier. Right King 167 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: being like, I'm not gonna pay this, Musk responded simply, 168 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: we need to pay the bills. Somehow Twitter cannot rely 169 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: entirely on advertisers. How about eight dollars? Now, this is 170 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: also very funny because you and you're like, whoa, there's 171 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: nothing in there. There's nothing, but it's it's just bouncing 172 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: around like a fucking bb and a goddamn dryer. Um. 173 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: So the first comments to this response, or what you'd expect, 174 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: there's a mix of anti Musk lib types laughing at 175 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: his bad business sense, mocking the idea of making Twitter's 176 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 1: most valuable users pay for the site. Um, you've got 177 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: your Musk defenders insisting that Blue checks some sort of 178 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 1: out of touch elite, which is one of my favorite 179 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: bits of deranged right wing culture that like there's some 180 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: sort of like yeah verse s I this there's like 181 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: a there's an old left Twitter joke like like like 182 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: literally it was like there was there was a running 183 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: series of jokes about like the blue check bourgeoisie and like, 184 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: and then somehow all of these people became convinced it 185 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: was real and through a process that like I cannot 186 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: even begin to understand the the process, and this is critical, 187 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: is that you cannot tell jokes on Twitter dot com. 188 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: That's true. Um, that that is that is the actual process, 189 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 1: and that is the Yeah, that's that's that's what's happening here. 190 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: So a representative Musk defender responses this comment by Douche 191 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: Canoe Magoo and everyone ha ha ha ha ha. Dude 192 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: worth five million who wants to tax the ricks rich 193 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 1: can't play twenty dollars ha ha. Hey elon Musk, I'll 194 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: play this pay this loser's twenty dollars a month. Now. 195 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: I looked into it, and this guy is an anti 196 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: vaxer with thirty four followers. If you're if you're curious 197 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 1: on the lip side, you've got guys like Keith Olberman's 198 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: subtweeting Musks to try and use like numbers in math 199 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: to show that this business plan which was never a 200 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: business real business plan isn't going to make money. The 201 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: first interesting response there was a few comments down from 202 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: Keith by a journalist named Hopewell Chinono. Good morning, Elon Musk. 203 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: For a lot of journalists in Africa, verification has helped 204 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: us to not fall victim to state tactics to use 205 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,959 Speaker 1: our names to spread propaganda. I have been to jail 206 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: three times inside six months for exposing corruption. Few African 207 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: journalists will afford the U S twenty dollars and attached 208 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: to this tweet where images from Too Guardian articles about 209 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 1: Hope Well. I'm going to quote from one now. Nno 210 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: posted on his Twitter account that police had taken him 211 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: from his house and said that they were charging him 212 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: with communicating falsehoods. The arrest comes after Chennono tweeted that 213 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: police had beaten an infant to death while enforcing COVID 214 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: nineteen lockdown rules this week. Police later said the information 215 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: was false. Before the latest arrest, Hinono was out on 216 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: bail and separate charges of inciting violence as after he 217 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: voiced support for an anti government protest in July, and 218 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: also on contemptive court charges for allegedly claiming corruption within 219 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: the country's National Prosecution Agency. Chanono is one of Zimbabwe's 220 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: most prominent critics of President Emerson. I'm not gonna be 221 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,719 Speaker 1: able to pronounce that last name administration, accusing it of 222 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: corruption and human rights abuses. The government denies the charges. Now, 223 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 1: Hope Well is a Harvard Fellow. He is an award 224 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: winning journalist and I had no idea this guy existed 225 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: prior to this tweet. Uh. He is an extremely courageous 226 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: person who, from everything I can read, is reporting on 227 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: corruption within the Zimbabwean government has been very influential, recently 228 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: led to the sacking of the very corrupt Health Minister. 229 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: I would not have heard of this man without Twitter. 230 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: He would not have had a voice capable of reaching 231 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: a large number of people without Twitter. It's possible those 232 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: Guardian articles about him and his struggle would not exist 233 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: if it weren't for the prominence of his Twitter account. Um, 234 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: and you know, it's also worth noting that if Twitter 235 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: weren't the site that it is, he never would have 236 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: had a chance to make his concerns public anywhere close 237 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: to the CEO of that company. Many things about this 238 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: interaction cry out for the very best about Twitter. The 239 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: smallest and probably most valuable of the major social media websites, 240 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 1: and at least a social level, we all call it 241 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: the hell site, and a huge part of Twitter culture 242 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: is despising it. But moments like this really do make 243 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: a lot of the bullshit worthwhile. In the articles hope 244 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: Will attached to his post, he's wearing a red and 245 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: white striped shirt. The top response to Hopewell's replied a 246 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: musk is by Jason Roeberg. A musk reply by Guy one, 247 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: American News and Fox News commenter. He writes, why did 248 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: they dress you like American Waldo, I'll pay for your subscription. 249 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: Hopo replies, that is very kind of you. That is 250 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: prison uniform. My imprisonment was triggered by tweets exposing state corruption. 251 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: The ruling political elites use captured state institutions to punish 252 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: analyst who exposed the looting of public funds um which 253 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: I don't know. Another perfectly characteristic Twitter response and being 254 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: like look at the way he's dressed and being like, yeah, 255 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 1: that's a prison uniform. I was I just got out 256 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 1: of prison for when I was doing amazing criminalism. Yeah, 257 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: it's just very It says a lot there's a lot 258 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: going on here. Yeah. Have you come across his I guess, 259 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: I hope, Well, you know, no dot com which is 260 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: not his website. No, Jesus Mark God, is it something? 261 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: Is that like a government thing? Yes, it's a government 262 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: I hope. But you don't know. He's very deceptives. He's 263 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: the liar and dishonest person. Yeah. Yeah, so just wow, 264 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: this is an incredible story website. Look at this. They've 265 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: done some work. I love. The background is like a 266 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: boat sailing in the star sol to see what the 267 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: fuck they They're not doing their finest work over there. 268 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: The first section is the title in all caps is 269 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: and I quote Daddy Hope story that his Twitter handled that. Okay, okay, 270 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: his residence looks like a sex he then apparently okay, yeah, 271 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: I don't know what they look like, but you could 272 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: like it's it's obvious, like he's obviously like disinformation about 273 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: him personally. It's a big fucking issue for this guy. Yeah. 274 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: Dot com is just a great example of live verification 275 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: on Twitter is an important it's a wonderful example of that. Garrison. Now, 276 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: the responses to this guy continued to be pretty amazing. 277 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: Another fun reply was simply I thought that in Zimbabwe 278 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: they arrest only white folks. Oh, has that person got 279 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: a picture of like a some kind of white guy 280 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: very short shorts? And yeah, yeah he's some some some 281 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: serious Rhodesian ship on that dude's timeline. Now, I want 282 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: to note most of the responses to Hopeful are very 283 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: positive um and all of the negative replies have multiple 284 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: people attacking the people who are going after hope Well 285 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: and defending him. Because Twitter works the way that it does, 286 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: though this increases engagement provides an algorithmic boost to everybody involved. 287 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: The whole situation in his replies is kind of as 288 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: bleak and hopeless as Hopell's initial reply is itself hopeful. 289 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: Scrolling down further, the applies to Musk's tweet. We get 290 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: this gym from the skin doctor, and this is somebody 291 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: just like tweeting his his advice to Ellen. How about 292 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: privileged classes like white straight men and women upper cast 293 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: Hindus pay a hundred dollars for their blue ticks. You 294 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: keep eight dollars each from it and pay the rest 295 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: ninety two dollars to oppressed classes blue tickers like rich communists, 296 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: LGBT doll its feminists, left journals, vegans, peta fair. No, 297 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: this one is quite the response that it has. It 298 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: has seventy dred likes, which makes sense because the skin 299 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: Doctor has more than half million followers. He is a 300 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: Hindu dermatologist from Flower Mount, Texas who posts like pro 301 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: Hindu fascist content Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. He also posts 302 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: right wing sketch comedy videos about how a modern Titanic 303 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 1: sinking wouldn't put women and children first because of wokeness. Um. 304 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: He's an incredible account. I recommend following the skin Doctor. Yeah, 305 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: this is the world that are our wants. Yeah, and 306 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: this is like yeah. The responses of his to his 307 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 1: tweet are another perfect microcosm of Twitter, because a big 308 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: part of it is he has this like long fight 309 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: with another right winger who doesn't get the joke and 310 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: attacks him for being woke, and also gets thousands of yes, 311 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: it's so good. Um, and it's probably you know, fair 312 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: for me to talk just a little bit about the 313 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 1: liberal lefty you know must reply guys, the ones who 314 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: reply it to one of his posts, but attacking him. 315 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: So let's talk about Eric Davis, a verified candidate for 316 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: the North Carolina Statehouse with fifty four followers. Um, not 317 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: a lot of followers. He is a Democrat. Uh, and 318 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: he seems to be trying to draft off of Musk's 319 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: replies to increase his own popularity. And that this was 320 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: you know, prior to the election. Uh, we should check 321 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: in on how Eric Davis did in North Carolina for him. 322 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: And then I just love that, like all his replying 323 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: just landed with people like it's very funny. Yeah, his 324 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: reply shows a total lack of understanding about what's happening 325 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: with Twitter. Quote. Wait, so Twitter was perfectly fine before 326 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: the supposedly richest man took control, but now that it 327 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: has even more money and got rid of many of 328 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: the workers, so it's even cheaper to sustain now it 329 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: can't survive without paying That is part logic for the 330 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: Musk fan base. I guess, which is completely wrong. Twitter 331 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: hasn't was not making money. Twitter was losing hundreds of 332 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: millions of dollars a year and now makes even less money. 333 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: But anyway, Um, it's got three hundred and seventy four likes, 334 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: which is one of the biggest tweets this particular candidate 335 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: has had, by the way, that that is h he know, Wait, 336 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: what are we think the same guy? Did he win 337 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: North Caroline his school board? Oh no, no, no for school. 338 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: But in the general election he got eight thousand votes 339 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 1: and lost by how much? He lost by by fifty 340 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: two percent of the vote and got seventy six in 341 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: his Yeah, if only, if only fully he tweeted more, 342 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: if only he'd owned Elon Musko a little bit harder 343 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: via tweet, that would have flung things. God, that's funny, 344 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: so further down as a political cartoon, and I do 345 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: not understand it, but I am. I'm going to force 346 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: you all to to observe it. I could look at 347 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: it like I can try to explain it. Drop it 348 00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: in the chat. So that's the that's the political cartoon. Okay. 349 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 1: So it's the meme of the guy who's who's walking 350 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: with his girlfriend and it's looking at the other woman, 351 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 1: except all of their faces are cartoon faces of Elon Mutton, 352 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: Elon Musk's girlfriend. It's wearing a Twitter shirt and he's 353 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:22,959 Speaker 1: looking over at a girl with a red TikTok. What 354 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: does this mean? That's a hard question, Robert. You we 355 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: could do a whole semester about what this means. Yeah, 356 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: distracted by Aiden looking at Ellen. It's like ignoring Twitter 357 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 1: because you're looking over at the red pill. I guess 358 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: I don't know you're looking at Also, you like you. 359 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,239 Speaker 1: I don't think it's supposed to meet anything. They all 360 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: have his face, which makes it so much more complicated. 361 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: It's a lot going on there. I'm so happy that 362 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: none of us have been on the internet enough to 363 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 1: understand what this means. I'm so proud of us. And lastly, 364 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: there's my very favorite reply from someone called doctor Disrespect 365 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: with a staggering two point four million followers. Do you 366 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: not know who this is? He's some video game player 367 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: he wears like a plate carrier while he's playing video games, 368 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: and also public sometimes Oh my god. Anyway, yeah, he 369 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: tweets this to musk. Let the two X give you 370 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 1: a thought. Allow face scan slash retinal scan into a 371 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: blue check mode, similar to iPhone unlock through face scan, 372 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: but in this case only while scan is active. A 373 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 1: tweet is created alongside unique code coinciding with that instance. 374 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: Let's wake up Ellen. This has eight thousand three two lines. 375 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: Who the fund is this guy? Okay, so he's like 376 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: he's like, he's an FPS streamer, right, like he was 377 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: like a big condrom. He he does just like whole 378 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 1: thing because he stopped. He's the first, he's the first 379 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: person shooter streamer. He plays Call of Duty, among other things. Yeah, 380 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: he got banned from Twitch for doing something that like, well, 381 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: I think she was she the guy who got bank 382 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,199 Speaker 1: he took a video and why are you asking us? 383 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: I think he might be the guy who got banned 384 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: for taking a video in a in a in a bathroom. 385 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly. He's also okay. So one of 386 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: the things he's most famous for is he's one of 387 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: the people who are there's this entire cadre of like 388 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: professional like Call of Duty streamers whose entire thing is 389 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: that they don't want there to be ranked batchmaking and 390 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: video games because they don't like playing against good players 391 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 1: and they want to be able to stream pub stomps 392 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: all the time. And they're really really mad about this 393 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: and have been screaming at every game deav who has 394 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,199 Speaker 1: like ever existed for like multiple years now about how 395 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: they suck. Like, so he's the guy video games, Yeah, 396 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: he wasn't. He's also mad about people who are good 397 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: at it. He's really annoying he's okay, okay, that's all. 398 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 1: That's all. That's all we need to know about this fellow. Yeah, 399 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,199 Speaker 1: that's the little thing that I wrote about that I 400 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: couldn't get out of my head. I don't know why. 401 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: I just found that specific post in the comments to it. 402 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: It is fascinating because it both shows that Musk did 403 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 1: not have a clear game plan on what's he wants 404 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: going forward into this, like the twenty how fast the 405 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty dollar a month thing got disregarded for eight 406 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: dollars just because of one tweet because Stephen King didn't 407 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, it's like, it's very clear he's just 408 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: bouncing from one thing to another with no clear idea 409 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: on what he's doing whatsoever. And then with the with 410 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: the thing about the journalist, it really shows how Ellen 411 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: does not understand what verification is or why it exists, 412 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: and slowly, over the course these past few weeks, has 413 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: understood why it exists and just replaced it with another, 414 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: with a second checkmark beneath the first check mark, so 415 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: you have your blue checkmark, that you have your official checkmark. 416 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 1: It's it's just wild that he's he's slowly, he slowly 417 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 1: over the course of mostly thousands of will impersonating him 418 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: to make to make fun of him, he realized why 419 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 1: why verification exists. And I mean, but it's telling that 420 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: like he he did not know why it exists until 421 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: until it was a personal until it was a personal 422 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: problem that impacted him specifically. He doesn't care about the 423 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: journalists from Zimbabwe. He doesn't care that that's going to happen. 424 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: It only becomes a thing when it's going to start 425 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: impacting him. Take a moment of silence for for our 426 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: brave posters who went out in a blaze of glory 427 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,360 Speaker 1: impersonating bust and get getting getting their account band who 428 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: who it was? That was funny, But that's less of that. 429 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: So I want to I want to talk about sat 430 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: what's actually like because people have funked around and had fun. 431 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: A bunch of famous people got banned making fun of 432 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,400 Speaker 1: Elon Musk and it was you know, the funny part 433 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: of this was that damage was done. Legitimate damage was 434 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: done to a couple of companies Locheed Martin and Eli 435 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: Lily and had damage to their stock price done, which 436 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: is at least, you know, probably temporary, although they haven't 437 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,400 Speaker 1: yet recovered to the heights they were before the joke. 438 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: What's less temporary is that as a result of those jokes, 439 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: at least one company, Eli Lily, pulled millions of dollars 440 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: in adververtising off of Twitter. So the eight dollar check 441 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: mark did cause real financial harm to Twitter the company, 442 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: and at least kind of a temporary financial slap on 443 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 1: the wrist to some other people. Um it's kind of 444 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 1: unclear what the long term impacts of that will be, 445 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: but Musk has delayed the rollout of the blue checkmark 446 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: plan on a more on a wider basis for like 447 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: a month until they figure shit out, which they may 448 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: not do at the present time. What you're seeing is 449 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: he's fired and is continuing to fire everybody within the 450 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: company who says anything negative against him. A couple of 451 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: engineers were bold enough to like critique him or argue 452 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: with him on Twitter, and there have also been people 453 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: within the company who have kind of pushed out corrections 454 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,959 Speaker 1: to some of his posts through Twitter's bird watch, uh 455 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: thing of the jig that have been critical of like 456 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: things he said that we're not actually true and at 457 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 1: the moment, kind of the holy pattern what we're kind 458 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: of doing is sort of watching him purge most of 459 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: the old staff of Twitter, as he seems to be 460 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: in the process of trying to hire new people on 461 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 1: um And one of the most recent thing that's happened 462 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: is he's sent out a letter saying basically like we 463 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: all have to everybody has to go into hardcore crazy 464 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: mode to make the company profitable. Uh, if you don't 465 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,919 Speaker 1: want to do this, you know, here's the door. You 466 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: can get your three months severance. And it kind of 467 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: looks like the vast majority of the remaining engineers may 468 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,239 Speaker 1: take the severance. There's a good reason for this. So 469 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: basically the kind of position they're in the way and 470 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: this is this is heavily involved in how Silicon Valley works. 471 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: The way to make a lot of money in Silicon 472 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: Valley is to get equity in a company before it 473 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: gets huge. Right. You can also get a big salary 474 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: at a company, but salaries, a big salary for a 475 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: dev might be for to eight hundred thousand dollars a 476 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 1: year if you're really really good, Whereas if you get 477 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 1: in on the ground floor of a startup that that 478 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: goes public, you could make hundreds of millions of dollars. Right, 479 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: big difference in those things. Musk is asking people to 480 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: work like nightmares start up amounts, but they will not 481 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: have any equity or any but like if they figure 482 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: out Twitter two point oh and suddenly make it a 483 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: website that a billion people use, which is what he wants, um, 484 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: they will not have any share in that. So a 485 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,159 Speaker 1: lot of devs are making the decision to like, well, 486 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: I'm just going to take the severance and try to 487 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: build something else. So try to get a job in 488 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: another startup or like try it, because why why why 489 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't you if you were capable of making the next 490 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: big social media app, why wouldn't you take the money, 491 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: leave Twitter and just try to do it rather than 492 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,360 Speaker 1: try to do it through fucking Twitter, which is a 493 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: goddamn disaster right now. Anyway, that's more or less where 494 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: things are. Yeah, and I think that the everything is 495 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: refreshing yourself, the people who are left at Twitter, like 496 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: I don't know how the site works, Like Musk has 497 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,199 Speaker 1: no idea how the site works, Like you know, this 498 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: is like on the sort of back end infratructure end 499 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 1: and so like we are like we we've we've already 500 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 1: had there. There there was there was a thing people 501 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: found out where like Twitter ads and storing people's like 502 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: most of the digitous people's credit cards in plain text. Um, 503 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: like the site is physically falling apart. It's already started. 504 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: It's probably just going to continue, and like we are 505 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: probably not that far away from just watching the actual 506 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 1: site just physically fall apart. And so you know, maybe 507 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: is taking a step back from CEL. Yeah, he's looking 508 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: to probably hire some competent people instead because he's realized 509 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: how hard it is and it's not fun anymore. Like 510 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: it's that's true, but there there's kind of a problem here, 511 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: which is that like there's a lot of like a okay, 512 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: like i I I really doubt Twitter as like very 513 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: very good. I mean, it's documentation is probably okay, but 514 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who understand how critical stuff 515 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: like how critical stuff works towards has gone right, And 516 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: it's not as easy as just like you can like 517 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: you know, just socket in another person who's like, oh, 518 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: who like knows how programming works right like you You 519 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: you need the expertise from those people who had deep 520 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: understandings of how it works, and like you know, maybe 521 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: maybe there maybe there's enough time to sort of like 522 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: fill in the gaps and like take it out of 523 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: his tails. But but I don't know, especially like with 524 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: you know, the number of people who are just increasingly leaving. 525 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: Nobody really does know, and you know, it's one of 526 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: those things we'll all we'll all watch, is this is 527 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: this shakes out. I don't know if I think the 528 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: whole site is going to actually fall apart um. I 529 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: think the bigger I think the thing that is I 530 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: think when I when we talk about it falling apart, 531 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: the thing that's actually likely is that there will be 532 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: increasing security breaches due to the fact that there are 533 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: less people minding the store. Folks, data will be exposed. 534 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: I cannot size enough. Do not attach your fucking credit 535 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: card to Twitter? Yeah? Absolutely? Do you not like message? 536 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: Like a lot of us use Twitter for reporting. I 537 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: get d ms all the time for people who want 538 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: to leak stuff, people who want to talk to me 539 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: about stuff, some of which might not be legal where 540 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: they are. Like, don't fucking do that on Twitter dot 541 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,959 Speaker 1: com anymore? Asked message someone asked for signal lost approach 542 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: on mail? Do something like that? Like it? That could 543 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: be very dangerous for some people. Yeah, there's a lot 544 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: of ship that could go wrong as a result of 545 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: this for people. Um, but I think it will probably 546 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: be a series of scandals and funk ups like that, 547 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: as opposed to just the site goes offline one day. Now, 548 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 1: that said, it's not impossible that like his Elen is 549 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: a guy who is shall we say, somewhat mere curial. 550 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: It's possible to site will lose enough money that one 551 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: day he's just like fuck it and turns it off. 552 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: He does technically have that ability. That would be kind 553 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: of a fascinating thing to see happen. I don't I 554 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: think that's a much lower likely scenario. Well, yeah, I 555 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: think it's putting it like when when when I say 556 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: the site breaks, like, it's probably not going to be 557 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: there's one day where it doesn't load, Like but what 558 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: we when we've already been seeing like they they, I think, 559 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: by accident, basically broke a bunch of how two factor 560 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,959 Speaker 1: authentification worked because they shut down the micro Yeah, and 561 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: like they're gonna keep doing stuff like that and there's 562 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: just gonna be like random stuff that just stopped working 563 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: absolutely like like that that's already happening. Twitter has already 564 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: been kind of a piece of shp, like even when 565 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: it had an actual staff, and now it's like, yeah, 566 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: it is important to note the people who were running 567 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,719 Speaker 1: Twitter prior to Musk taking over, we're not great at 568 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: their jobs because as evidence by the fact that Twitter 569 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: lost two hundred and twelve million dollars last year. Yeah. Yeah. 570 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: And in the meantime, there's there's an account that documents 571 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: all the dogs of the UC strike, which it's sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 572 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: that does. As this is happening to Twitter, Meta is 573 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: also going through a series of devastating layoffs and as 574 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: sim really impacting their functionality and pivoting very hard away 575 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: from the news driven approach that they've been doing the 576 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: past few years. So the two, both the two main 577 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: like old guards social media sites between Facebook and Twitter, 578 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: are going under significant changes. Um TikTok is of course 579 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 1: owned by companies that are not great on your own 580 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: data of privacy. Instagram is owned by Facebook, and maston 581 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: is miserable. So Mastedon is We're gonna get yelled at 582 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 1: so much by the masted On people. But I'm just look, 583 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't figure out how masted On worked 584 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: inside of thirty seconds and that is all the time 585 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: I will ever devote to learning how a social media 586 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: site works. I'm sorry, guys, I'm sorry. The best critique 587 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: I've seen of Mastodon is that, in a part, the 588 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: kind of the twenty twenty uprising happened because the video 589 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: of George Floyd getting murdered got circulated so much on Twitter, 590 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: like people saw they weren't able to look away from 591 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: the atrocity that could never happen on Mastodon. And that's 592 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: that's the biggest kind of thing for why Mastodon is 593 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: not a not a a replacement for Twitter, because it 594 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: will never At this point, it doesn't look like it 595 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: will have the same cultural impact um that Twitter can have. 596 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: Now of course that could change, who knows, And it's 597 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 1: it's at this point, it's just it doesn't It doesn't 598 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 1: seem to get the same thing that Twitter can do. 599 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's a failure. Like a lot of 600 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: people use it. If you like it, if you find 601 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 1: a community there, great, it's just not the same thing. 602 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: It's not the same thing. Like that's all we're saying. 603 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: That's why I was saying, like replacement Twitter, different things. 604 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 1: Do you mean it's not valuable? Just like if Twitter 605 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: were to turn into just a site for sex workers 606 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: to make money on, there's nothing wrong with that, but 607 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: it would not be fulfilling the same role that it 608 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: currently does. Yeah, I mean, like I tried to overthrow 609 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: my first government on Twitter. I tried to overthrow my 610 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: most recent government on Twitter. Like has to be a 611 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: social media service and facilitates tempting governments, Like Twitter is 612 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: like unique because it's where a lot of people get 613 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 1: their news. It's where a lot of people learn things 614 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: like if the celebrity is trending, are they dead? Like 615 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,399 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, it's just like it's 616 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,359 Speaker 1: where a lot of collective information is. And I don't 617 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: think there's a site right now that can even even 618 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: come close to how many people rely on Twitter. Just 619 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,879 Speaker 1: let's see. I mean, I think it's it's it's it's 620 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: not that that's where people get news. It's where a 621 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 1: certain type of influential person gets their news because a 622 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,239 Speaker 1: lot of people get their news via TikTok. They're just 623 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,799 Speaker 1: people my age of younger like like like like like 624 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: a lot of people do get news on whatever they 625 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: look at. The reason why twitters impactfuls because twitters where 626 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,399 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people who have influence in other 627 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: areas get their information from. And that's why it's that's 628 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 1: why something that has interest, you know, in twenty twenty 629 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: years is when everyone who's on TikTok is going to 630 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: be in there, Like early thirties, who knows what the 631 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: media landscape is gonna be, Right, it's now the most 632 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: influential media. Yeah, it's it's this. It's the same thing 633 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,919 Speaker 1: as how like back during the French Revolution, the most 634 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,399 Speaker 1: influential thing in media was this one chick's coffee house, right, 635 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 1: because it's just where all of the people that had 636 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,359 Speaker 1: the most people listening to them independently happened to hang 637 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 1: out together. That's what Twitter has been for a while. 638 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: Um and and and that's not always a good thing, 639 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,399 Speaker 1: because everyone who hangs out on Twitter gets their brain 640 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: broken in a very specific way. And we're watching it 641 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: continue to happen to the wealthiest man in the history 642 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: of the human race, which has been a hoot. Also, 643 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: I mean, and this is the thing people on Twitter 644 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,280 Speaker 1: talk about all the time. Twitter is like the only 645 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: place in the modern world where you can actually interact 646 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 1: with the ruling class and like make their lives. Like 647 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,440 Speaker 1: the only other thing you could possibly try to do 648 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,920 Speaker 1: in order to do that is like get you and 649 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: seven your friends to try to storm their mansion and 650 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: they'll probably shoot you. When I have bad When I 651 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,320 Speaker 1: have a bad day, I can find the air to 652 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: the Habsburg Fortune and I can tweet him a picture 653 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: of the dead body of his cousin who after he 654 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,800 Speaker 1: was shot to death for carrying out a coup in Mexico. 655 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: I can do that on Twitter dot com and no 656 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: other website. I will warn you that you do get 657 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,759 Speaker 1: banned for certain and dead dictator memes. I've had a 658 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: few Mussolini bands, but otherwise, Yeah, it's a glorious website. 659 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, I'm just enjoying pictures that people have 660 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,359 Speaker 1: responded to Nancy Pelosi's retirement thing with right now and 661 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,560 Speaker 1: it's just you guys click the bottom link as an 662 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:40,279 Speaker 1: absolute banger. Yeah, unfortunately I saw that before. That's one 663 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,399 Speaker 1: of the most that is that is like that looks 664 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: like a horror horror movie picture. No, God, So imagine 665 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 1: if like you were doing a horror movie where like 666 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,799 Speaker 1: people are in a haunted house and there's like a 667 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,120 Speaker 1: demon in the walls, and it at some point like 668 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 1: pulls out like a man size demon comes out of 669 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: the wall and pulls a person into the wall. It 670 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 1: looks like that, but the demon in the wall is 671 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,720 Speaker 1: instead in a copy of the Constitution, and he's cradling 672 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. But she has the body of a twenty 673 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,919 Speaker 1: year old female college student. Oh god, it is well, 674 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 1: I feel like that's that's maybe we should break this down. 675 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,400 Speaker 1: We have, you know, I think I think we have 676 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,839 Speaker 1: gazed into the Twitter abyss for long enough. It's been 677 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 1: about this is enough. We won't I promise we won't 678 00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:44,440 Speaker 1: talk about Twitter like this for another several weeks. Won't 679 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,279 Speaker 1: be here next time. But yeah, we're We're all going 680 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,880 Speaker 1: to log off this and then go on Twitter. I'm not. 681 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 1: I have to. I have to do my job. I'm 682 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: gonna write about Sam Bankman freed. 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