Speaker 1: You know, there's certain things and like family life, regional
Speaker 1: culture that is just so ubiquitous. It's just so known
Speaker 1: that you forget that everybody don't notice that it's not
Speaker 1: a universal And then and when you hear it, you
Speaker 1: already know the code, like you know, the like Southern
Speaker 1: trope of like, oh, bless her heart if you're American,
Speaker 1: like you know what that means. That means they really
Speaker 1: find a dishue. They're about to say something, the most
Speaker 1: terrible thing ever, Like you really you're really actually this
Speaker 1: in this person? How do you you know? We got
Speaker 1: the ugliest little nose, bless her heart? You know, so
Speaker 1: like it's just a way to like scrub away like
Speaker 1: the worst possible things in church, you know, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, pray, pray, pray for sister. We're gonna keep sister,
Speaker 1: Sister Jenkins in our prayers. You're about to gossip, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like, so there's these things that
Speaker 1: are just codes that become so it's like you forget
Speaker 1: to explain it. There's one I just realized, uh while
Speaker 1: I think I did a TikTok about it. While my
Speaker 1: child was talking about, you know, her animal crossing that
Speaker 1: she can't wait to go play. Uh. She was talking
Speaker 1: about playing in the snow there and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we gotta take it to the snow. And
Speaker 1: as it was coming out of my mouth, I was like,
Speaker 1: take you to the snow. I don't think anyone else
Speaker 1: says that unless you from California like this. I was like, Doc,
Speaker 1: that is such a California phrase. We go to the snow.
Speaker 1: The snow don't come to us. We go to the
Speaker 1: snuffs up in the mountains. I see it up there's
Speaker 1: after if I want to go fro look I go.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of it. I drive back. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we go to the snow. I just I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my lord. I never thought about explaining that. That's
Speaker 1: go dang, that's very California. I know when I first
Speaker 1: went to go meet my then soon to be a
Speaker 1: wife's family in in Mexico, there was a moment with
Speaker 1: like washing my hands that it just seems so obvious
Speaker 1: to her, my wife, that is, you know, when I
Speaker 1: got out the bathroom to not just stick my whole
Speaker 1: hand inside of that bucket of water next to their
Speaker 1: outdoor sink. There's clearly a cup right on top of
Speaker 1: that that I was just supposed to like reach my
Speaker 1: hand with the cup and scoop the water. I didn't
Speaker 1: know I was frozen, And she was like, that just
Speaker 1: seems so obvious to me. Maybe that's maybe just not
Speaker 1: a good example. Maybe I was just but I was nervous,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, Like I'm meeting my
Speaker 1: mind sooner be White's grandma. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm working on my Spanish, making sure I don't say
Speaker 1: nothing Hella disrespectful because I learned Spanish from the kids
Speaker 1: in my neighborhood. Yet still there's something I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: y'all today that is so universally understood among black people
Speaker 1: African Americans, Like, you know, it's not maybe it's probably
Speaker 1: don't don't apply to the full diaspora. Uh a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, a lot of stuff I talk I don't
Speaker 1: really apply to the full diaspora. But most of the
Speaker 1: time the stuff I try to give y'all applies to
Speaker 1: the diaspora of just inner city living. This is a
Speaker 1: very specific Black code, and even when someone isn't saying it,
Speaker 1: you could read by the body language. This is what
Speaker 1: they're saying. One of them is if a black man
Speaker 1: says to you, hey, man, you know you like it?
Speaker 1: I love it. They don't like it, they hate it.
Speaker 1: They just tired of arguing with you. You clearly don't
Speaker 1: want to hear what they got to say. It's it's
Speaker 1: what's going on right there, like you look, I'm look.
Speaker 1: I didn't tried, y'all, didn't probably went around a bunch
Speaker 1: of different rounds. You probably already know what this person think.
Speaker 1: You just want somebody to validate your opinions, and rather
Speaker 1: than explain that you just want to co sign, we
Speaker 1: just be like, hey, you know you like it? I
Speaker 1: love it, you know, which is a great turn of
Speaker 1: phrase if it's what we actually meant, which is basically again,
Speaker 1: you know. Do you like the black woman versions like
Speaker 1: do you booboo? Like look, I'm just I'm done arguing
Speaker 1: with you know? Do you I'm good love? That's an
Speaker 1: another one that's a more universal like universal hood one,
Speaker 1: Hey hey, I'm good love, you know? Do you though?
Speaker 1: Like I have no reason I would be wasting my breath.
Speaker 1: But the one we want to land on today is
Speaker 1: one that I think is is really swirling around our
Speaker 1: zygeys right now. And I'm gonna give you the examples
Speaker 1: of what I mean by that, and it's this one.
Speaker 1: Are you gotta chief? You got a champ? Do you
Speaker 1: know what that means? That means you don't got it
Speaker 1: and you are not a champ. I'm just tired of
Speaker 1: arguing with you hood politics, y'all. There's something listen, man,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Dog I It's something I never
Speaker 1: really thought about till I realized how often I use
Speaker 1: this for praise or you know, seeing it being used,
Speaker 1: like I know what's going on that you know we're
Speaker 1: we're pretty good at like conserving our energy, like protecting
Speaker 1: It's it's so crazy, like like really trying to realize,
Speaker 1: like yo, like when we say like okay, I got
Speaker 1: time today, what that is code for is multime. I
Speaker 1: ain't got time to really deal with no foolishness. I
Speaker 1: never thought about that. That that's that's something that we do.
Speaker 1: Like we just be like, look, man, this ain't worth
Speaker 1: my breath. Like I try a few times, but after
Speaker 1: a while, it's like, look, you're gonna do what you
Speaker 1: wanna do. Go ahead on going on in You know
Speaker 1: that our parents would have said that that was a
Speaker 1: generation we're going on in you know what being what
Speaker 1: what went into the zeitgeist went you know again, a
Speaker 1: lot of our phrases just once they hit the the heights,
Speaker 1: they sees being ours, but like but go off, Like
Speaker 1: that's one of our again where it's like I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna tell you like, oh yeah, I would never do that,
Speaker 1: but you know, go off. These are phrase is where
Speaker 1: essentially we're saying this is not it's not worth explaining
Speaker 1: to you, or and it's an acknowledgement that like an
Speaker 1: understanding of interpersonal communication in the sense that like you're
Speaker 1: gonna do what you wanna do, like you think you
Speaker 1: you you you that big and bad. You got it
Speaker 1: under control, and I'm not gonna fight you over it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to help. But if you like you
Speaker 1: clearly don't want my help, ah, you got a champ.
Speaker 1: You know. It's always like okay, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: nicer way. It's a less aggressive way where it's like
Speaker 1: you're not challenging me, but like around and find out,
Speaker 1: like that's an aggressive way to be like you know,
Speaker 1: you're playing games, but you're playing games with me, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna knock your block off, like you need to
Speaker 1: stop playing games with me. I'm not gonna keep going
Speaker 1: back and forth with you living my best life. I
Speaker 1: ain't going back and forth with you, Nicks. That's that's
Speaker 1: more like a personal one. But like if you're trying
Speaker 1: to help a person or person asking your opinion on
Speaker 1: some sort of venture they're trying to do, and they
Speaker 1: clearly don't want your help or not listening to the
Speaker 1: people around them, You're like, oh, you got a champ.
Speaker 1: You know what, If you like it, I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna staying on the side and watch you fail
Speaker 1: because you clearly don't know what you're doing and you
Speaker 1: don't recognize the fact that people trying to help you,
Speaker 1: and even when people was trying to stop you from
Speaker 1: getting into something, or I wonder if y'all can listen, listen, listen,
Speaker 1: like the Black Preachers would say, I can. I can
Speaker 1: cut it short if you get it now, if you
Speaker 1: catch it now, I can preach short. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So if somebody trying to tell you, ay, ay,
Speaker 1: fall back, chief like maybe this ain't this, This ain't
Speaker 1: gonna go the way you think it's go go, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to tell you it's not as easy as
Speaker 1: you're talking. Oh you got okay? You know what? Never mind,
Speaker 1: you gotta chief. It's all gravy, baby. If you like it,
Speaker 1: I love it, don't do you? You got a champ?
Speaker 1: If anybody can listen, if a black man call you champ,
Speaker 1: you are not a chap. Y'all see where I'm going
Speaker 1: with this? Well, I'm going a couple of places, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start here with with the most obvious your
Speaker 1: boy e line. Man. Now, listen, most of y'all know
Speaker 1: this story already, but I just want to see if
Speaker 1: y'all can spot there, like, all right, you gotta chief?
Speaker 1: How many times somebody tried to tell this man, okay,
Speaker 1: you got it? All right, buddy, Maybe listen, man, it's okay,
Speaker 1: It's not was in oranges. I you've you've had a few,
Speaker 1: You've had some incredible successes. Nobody has taken that from you.
Speaker 1: But gee, like, just okay, let's look at the timeline here, sir,
Speaker 1: Like my teenager would say, uh so, mar right. Elon
Speaker 1: must starts criticizing Twitter about free speech, what he thinks
Speaker 1: the company should do about a lot of this was
Speaker 1: around um it being like a function of democracy. Now,
Speaker 1: a little background about Elon Musk if you don't know already,
Speaker 1: which you probably should buy now. So Elon Musk grew
Speaker 1: up in apartheid South Africa. So it's not so much
Speaker 1: that he doesn't understand them. You know, that would be insulting.
Speaker 1: And I don't know this man, so I can't say
Speaker 1: that this man don't really understand what we mean by
Speaker 1: free speech. But that being said, there is something to
Speaker 1: be said about when you were forged in the fires
Speaker 1: and the Gooule wash that is the American um bullshit factory.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that you you, you, you, you,
Speaker 1: you become so well versed in all that it is
Speaker 1: and what we mean by that. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because it starts, you know, in kindergarten, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean so anyway, so he was saying that Twitter, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not adhering to these beautiful American standards. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say here was his first chance to hear somebody say, hey, Homy,
Speaker 1: like have several seats. I don't think you know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about yet. But he's healing. And also as
Speaker 1: a caveat. I'm gonna say this multiple times in this episode,
Speaker 1: but listen, I don't know that man, and I think
Speaker 1: it's very important that whenever we're doing critiques on anybody
Speaker 1: like Mary, if you don't know this person like you
Speaker 1: gotta keep your opinions about this person, specifically about the
Speaker 1: ship they make public, because the rest of the ship
Speaker 1: you're like, you don't know. So remember that. Now April
Speaker 1: four securities filing reveals a Musk is Twitter's largest shareholder,
Speaker 1: with a nine percent stake in the company, and then
Speaker 1: Musk is invited to join Twitter's board of directors. So
Speaker 1: when you take over at least a nine percent of
Speaker 1: the thing, that's it's signaling that, like, y'all, I'm either
Speaker 1: going to buy it or it's gonna be a hostile takeover. Now, April,
Speaker 1: the former Twitter CEO announces that must decline the invitation
Speaker 1: to join Twitter's board. Now, why is that a thing?
Speaker 1: Because in some ways it's almost like, you know, when
Speaker 1: you dare somebody here or when somebody just talks out
Speaker 1: the side today neck and then the homies go all right,
Speaker 1: let's see, and you're supposed to be like, nah, I
Speaker 1: just playing I just play. I just play. It's like,
Speaker 1: uh huh, right, But if you didn't go through that
Speaker 1: like crucible of as toxic as it might be. But
Speaker 1: if you didn't go through that crucible of boy training
Speaker 1: in the playground, then you really think you actually have
Speaker 1: to climb up on the top of the swings and
Speaker 1: jump off it. When you started saying I could jump
Speaker 1: off that, it's like, nah, food, I could jump off that. Okay,
Speaker 1: prove it. Let's see do it. I dare you. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to be like just play, I'll just play, and
Speaker 1: and I'll always be like I see there. You know
Speaker 1: what You're scared you'd be like, nah, I ain't stupid.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You're supposed to be able
Speaker 1: to like clap back because don't jump off the swings, fam.
Speaker 1: But if you ain't go through that, like if you
Speaker 1: was picked on and you feel like I need to
Speaker 1: prove to these boys that I'm not a punk, you're
Speaker 1: gonna mess around and jump off. Now there's a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty chance that you make it, And there's only a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty chance that then boys will start approving of you.
Speaker 1: Because most of the time if we already think you lane,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say we in the sense of being the
Speaker 1: most Now granted, I wasn't always a cool table, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm barely at it now. I
Speaker 1: got a cool table passport that what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: but if you if you was the boys and and
Speaker 1: the dude jump off, they'd be like, oh shitt he
Speaker 1: actually jumped down. That's crazy. Holy damn you you down
Speaker 1: for yours anyway, And then they're gonna turn their back
Speaker 1: and go do their own thing. That is that is
Speaker 1: not an induction. This ain't a movie fan. That is
Speaker 1: not an induction into the cool kids. Now, if you
Speaker 1: fall off and bust your ass, they just gonna laugh
Speaker 1: and be like, man, I told you, dumb man's not
Speaker 1: to jump off the crazy dog dad, you actually tell
Speaker 1: you crazy held me while you over there with a
Speaker 1: broken tail bowl. You feel me? Because look, you supposed
Speaker 1: to be like God's glad. Look man n I sw
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna let y'all
Speaker 1: see me fall are you supposed to be able to
Speaker 1: address it? But if you was talking too much trash,
Speaker 1: then they might call snap back, clap back. At you
Speaker 1: like na man, bring that same energy. April Foo, Must
Speaker 1: makes an offer to purchase Twitter, so that means that
Speaker 1: Must climbed up on them, swings forty three billion dollars
Speaker 1: at per shared to take the company private. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're really gonna do it? Okay, And then filing in
Speaker 1: the United States Security Exchange Commissions reveals Twitter's board publicly
Speaker 1: and unanimously accepted Must buyout offer. You know what that was,
Speaker 1: all right, you gotta chief go ahead? That was his
Speaker 1: first warning. Okay, hey, cho world, honey, you got a champ.
Speaker 1: We accept your offer. Must puts the buyout deal on
Speaker 1: mat on hold and reports that five percent of Twitter's
Speaker 1: daily active users are spam account. I would have done it,
Speaker 1: but like you know what I'm saying, Like I'm in
Speaker 1: my I'm in my good shoes. I don't want to
Speaker 1: mess up my good shoes, not hommy. Y'all got too
Speaker 1: many bots, right, and they say, oh, work work right.
Speaker 1: June two, a letter from Musk attorney sent to Twitter
Speaker 1: Must threatens to terminate the agreement. Musk alleges Twitter is
Speaker 1: refusing to comply with the request for the data. Nah man,
Speaker 1: y'all tripping because like I would do it, but I'm
Speaker 1: in my good shoes and listen, I told y'all, y'all
Speaker 1: gotta stand right here. If I'm gonna climb up there,
Speaker 1: you're not willing to stand right there? Okay. Twitter's board
Speaker 1: complies with must demands, agreeing to provide him a fire
Speaker 1: hose and data and and stream of tweets, and he's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll stand here. Musk announces his attention to a terminate
Speaker 1: the acquisition, claiming at the filing with the SEC that
Speaker 1: Twitter still refuses to comply with the requests of the
Speaker 1: data and count. Twitter's chairman Brent Taylor says that the
Speaker 1: board plans to pursue legal action to enforce this agreement.
Speaker 1: Nah homie, na man, do what you said you was
Speaker 1: gonna do. You got a chap, Do what you said
Speaker 1: you was gonna do. The Twitter finally, July twelve, launches
Speaker 1: a lawsuit against this boy. Right, I guess six. Must
Speaker 1: challenges the former CEO Twitter, her to a public debate
Speaker 1: about spam account and polls followers on whether he believes
Speaker 1: whether they believe that less than five percent of Twitter's
Speaker 1: daily active users are fake. So that's when you turn
Speaker 1: to the crowd and be like, hey, man, look what
Speaker 1: y'all think. You think that this food? Nah man, they
Speaker 1: all cat and all the home is just like, nobody
Speaker 1: told you to climb up on top of these swings.
Speaker 1: You're the one that said you wanted to do it,
Speaker 1: So we're just saying, like you, that's what you said,
Speaker 1: you got a champ. Those were your words. Na man,
Speaker 1: They like we didn't say we would jump on the thing.
Speaker 1: We already know it's dangerous, we already know how hard
Speaker 1: it is. I ain't gonna climb up there and bust
Speaker 1: my ass. You're the one that's saying you got it.
Speaker 1: You do want to say, and you understand free speech
Speaker 1: better than us. Don't get it? You got a champ.
Speaker 1: October four, Must submit a proposal to move forward with
Speaker 1: the acquisition. He originally agreed upon the forty four billion
Speaker 1: dollars on the condition that Twitter drops the lawsuit. In
Speaker 1: a tweet, Must said acquiring Twitter as a parts part
Speaker 1: of a goal to create an everything app called x N.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't even know what I was trying to do.
Speaker 1: I look, I was trying to I had this whole
Speaker 1: thing playing and you just y'all fell into my trap.
Speaker 1: All right, chief, listen again, there's a fifty fifty chance
Speaker 1: that you jump off that swing set and land and
Speaker 1: get the girl. And maybe we bet, maybe we all
Speaker 1: bet twenty dollars. You wasn't gonna make it. You didn't.
Speaker 1: You might be right. You may impress your Linde Anderson
Speaker 1: over there from jumping off that thing, and you may
Speaker 1: actually win. Look, I'm not mad at it. I didn't
Speaker 1: cast out. Good for you cool, prove me wrong. There's
Speaker 1: no there's no skin off my back if you win.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about when you when you try to
Speaker 1: prove something to a croup of people that really don't
Speaker 1: care what you do or not. If you win, great,
Speaker 1: If you lose, godn't told your ass. But I already
Speaker 1: cast out. October twenty and, according to a reporter to
Speaker 1: watching it, both Must starts telling investors he plans to
Speaker 1: terminate nearly seventy of Twitter staff. Now, in his defense,
Speaker 1: I can't believe what I'm saying this. You know, Reddit,
Speaker 1: which is considerably more difficult and complicated of a platform
Speaker 1: um has much less employees than Twitter has. I mean,
Speaker 1: y'all could google whatever I'm saying you already know do
Speaker 1: you do you Google? Um? So maybe Twitter is overstaffed,
Speaker 1: maybe right, but uh he the question is you're just
Speaker 1: gonna come into the room swinging. That's the homies being
Speaker 1: like you got a champ. Yeah, let me go, it's
Speaker 1: all yours. Here go to keys, right, so must tweets
Speaker 1: a video October two of him carrying the kitchen sink
Speaker 1: into the room and starts making all the layoffs, and
Speaker 1: then he says, the bird is freed. Right, and now
Speaker 1: it's all the way back to the of the first original. Okay, chief,
Speaker 1: you're talking about free speech, alright, Champ, have at it, right,
Speaker 1: the bird is freed. So this man quickly funcks around
Speaker 1: and finds out what free speech really means. And if
Speaker 1: you don't know what it really means, the protection on
Speaker 1: the First Amendment is about speech against the government, meaning
Speaker 1: in our country you are allowed to talk about the government,
Speaker 1: that the press is allowed to talk about the government.
Speaker 1: We are protected under the law that if you disagree
Speaker 1: with some laws, you disagree with our our press right
Speaker 1: and us we get to talk to it about our government.
Speaker 1: This Twitter is a private company. Not only that, do
Speaker 1: you get to talk about your neighbor and call it
Speaker 1: free speech. Well they got they got right to beat
Speaker 1: your ass if you talk about them. You can't claim
Speaker 1: free speech. They got the right to be like, shut
Speaker 1: the funk up, for I'll make you shut up if
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk about them. Because the free speech applies
Speaker 1: to talking about the government. That don't mean you can
Speaker 1: say what the hell you want. That's our free speech
Speaker 1: works because you can't actually got consequences. Funk around and
Speaker 1: find out that's how it works. You have to stand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So so the man learns that he
Speaker 1: ain't the absolutist that he think he is, because immediately
Speaker 1: the trolls came back right you started firing moderators, and
Speaker 1: the moderation ended. Then he went into the verification thing,
Speaker 1: which is the debacle that all of us know well
Speaker 1: enough about what he decided to say. It was like, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm a democratized verification, which, again, in his defense, I
Speaker 1: understand this train of thought. He it's tired of the
Speaker 1: cool kids table, This nigga doesn't built a rocket to space.
Speaker 1: And still kind of feel like, now I don't know
Speaker 1: this man, but still kind of feel like he ain't
Speaker 1: at the cool kids table, Like, what more do y'all
Speaker 1: want from me? I'm an ast, not my nigga like
Speaker 1: I gave y'all. But he got his fans, he got
Speaker 1: a squad. Look, Ellen, got his stands. You say one
Speaker 1: sideways thing about him, and the nerds come get you.
Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. Them them boys, they ride
Speaker 1: for their man. And in my mind, I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: you made an electric car and a rocket fan like you.
Speaker 1: You're good? You you you cool? Hold you again. You
Speaker 1: don't have to jump off the top of the swings homy.
Speaker 1: You got your fans like you don't you don't. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're building an everything app called X and look and
Speaker 1: if it works, dope, I'll log it. Oh it's no
Speaker 1: skin off my back. I had I gain nothing from
Speaker 1: missing him. I'm just saying, when you started firing text
Speaker 1: you found out if I felt like the amount of
Speaker 1: Twitter employees that were like, we've been thinking about doing
Speaker 1: this paid verification thing, this Twitter blue thing, but when
Speaker 1: worked out, oh you want to do it, you want
Speaker 1: to run it in its currents that you know what? Bro?
Speaker 1: If you like it, I love it. Enter. So he
Speaker 1: was trying to he was he was trying to get
Speaker 1: rid of the cool kids table. So he's saying, like
Speaker 1: who gets to pick this like elitist court sort of
Speaker 1: like I choose you. You know, it's it's it's seventh grade,
Speaker 1: you know, during recess and you're making a basketball team
Speaker 1: and you're the last kid to get picked. Like that
Speaker 1: feels terrible. So you like, so what if we made
Speaker 1: it away where everyone can get picked? Right, Well, that's
Speaker 1: not what verifications idea was. Verifications idea was was about
Speaker 1: safety and security, so that trolls can't walk around here
Speaker 1: pretending to be somebody they not. We can prove that
Speaker 1: you are who you are, and that if you say
Speaker 1: what you say that this is a trusted way of trusted.
Speaker 1: But I can believe that the person saying this is
Speaker 1: the person they say they are. But if I can
Speaker 1: just buy a blue check, which is what happened, People
Speaker 1: have spare eight dillars a month, started buying Elon musk checks,
Speaker 1: started buying Department of tread Tation checks. People just started
Speaker 1: buying checks and tweeting the most outrageous stuff, but they
Speaker 1: had their blue check. So if if now, if you
Speaker 1: weren't being trolled, if you weren't being more than trolled,
Speaker 1: like actually like harassed and facing the most ugly virtual because,
Speaker 1: as the news reported, the usage of of the in
Speaker 1: word and anti semitic tropes like went freaking nuclear. If
Speaker 1: you wasn't getting all that, it was kind of funny
Speaker 1: to watch these foods being like a look, man, you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't done. He's at the find out stage. Advertisers fled.
Speaker 1: He was trying to get advertised. So when he was like, well,
Speaker 1: what I meant free speech, I mean like like free
Speaker 1: free speech. I meant what had happened was, I'm like, nah, homie,
Speaker 1: you don't look you weren't already climbed up. Now, Twitter
Speaker 1: was in a whole lot of money troubles, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like it was Twitter was underwater. It
Speaker 1: wasn't making no money and not like Twitter was nice
Speaker 1: and safe and stuff like that. It wasn't making no money.
Speaker 1: But what Ellen had to do to make this uh
Speaker 1: to climb up this uh this here swing said is
Speaker 1: he had to borrow from his other stuff. So the
Speaker 1: man borrowed millions and millions of dollars from Tesla to
Speaker 1: cover this debty guy in buying this little toy over
Speaker 1: here that he really ain't have to buy. And then
Speaker 1: the TESTLAS shareholders was like, oh wait, hold up, now
Speaker 1: you just gonna wait, you're just gonna take our money.
Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't sign up for this. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know what, you got a champ right. This man started
Speaker 1: firing people left it right. They had to call them
Speaker 1: people back. It was like, wait, but some of you
Speaker 1: can some of y'all come back though, because I don't
Speaker 1: know how to open this, I need to password for
Speaker 1: the door. Comical. Now, granted, here's the thing. I'm not
Speaker 1: a CEO. I think it's real funny when people start
Speaker 1: their own companies and they called themselves the CEO and
Speaker 1: their employee of one. You know what I'm saying, You
Speaker 1: could you could put janitor on your business card because
Speaker 1: you also that just what I'm saying. So for me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't call myself no. See of course
Speaker 1: I run my own company, but it's an employee. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like I gotta I gotta pay roll of four,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So like CEO seems stupid
Speaker 1: to me, Like I don't call myself that, So listen,
Speaker 1: I'm no CEO. I have no tech startup. I did
Speaker 1: not build Tesla. I don't listen. You're right, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. But I also know when
Speaker 1: i'm in over my head. I'm not from Silicon Valley.
Speaker 1: I know when you're in Silicon Valley you're supposed to
Speaker 1: move fast and break things. I understand that I've never
Speaker 1: done that before. But what I do know is you're
Speaker 1: not Finna. You're not gonna play on my insecurities enough
Speaker 1: to get myself forty four billion dollars in debt ship.
Speaker 1: I clearly don't know what I'm talking about. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do. So when I heard when I
Speaker 1: first the first time somebody gave me a uh you
Speaker 1: got a champ, yeah, I probably would have stopped. Now
Speaker 1: back to the timeline. Okay, November one, in exchange with
Speaker 1: Stephen King where he thought where he was talking about, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, paying twenty dollars a month for verification, I'd like.
Speaker 1: Stephen King was like, uh, yeah, you you can have
Speaker 1: a check back. It ain't that serious player. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna pay for something I've had for free for ten years, right,
Speaker 1: So he was like, So Ellen was like, man, we
Speaker 1: gotta pay the bill some down. What if I bring
Speaker 1: it down the eight dollars a month now, if you
Speaker 1: speak tech bro, clearly, it was always gonna be eight
Speaker 1: dollars a month. Right On a follow up tweet, Must
Speaker 1: reportedly orders Twitter staff to work twelve hour ships to
Speaker 1: accomplish his goal of naunching this new verification system within
Speaker 1: a week. November four, Must lays off half the Twitter
Speaker 1: employees and alleged cost cutting measure on Twitter. Must as
Speaker 1: the layoffs were due to a massive dop drop in
Speaker 1: company revenue. Right he was saying he really ain't had
Speaker 1: no choice. November nine, Twitter launches a new verification system
Speaker 1: using the blue checkmark to be purchased by Blue and
Speaker 1: then due by purchasing Twitter Blue. November ten, Must first
Speaker 1: address the Twitter staff by taking ownership of the company
Speaker 1: and warns about dire financial situation. Must reportedly believes Twitter
Speaker 1: doesn't have the cast flow to survive, mentioning that bankruptcy
Speaker 1: is possible. November eleven, Must pauses Twitter Blue subscriptions due
Speaker 1: to the amounts of abuse verification tracks marks by impersonating
Speaker 1: brands and public years you Got a Champ. November twelve,
Speaker 1: under Must leadership. Twitter fires an estimated of contract employees
Speaker 1: without formal notice. November, Musk announces Twitter is turning off
Speaker 1: micro services or bloatware, which he can claims isn't necessary
Speaker 1: for the site to work. Now, those are stuff that
Speaker 1: like tools that you have in like internal tools that
Speaker 1: we front facing don't have, but stuff that they have
Speaker 1: to help, Like like you know, you download the app
Speaker 1: and it's got all these other things to go with
Speaker 1: it when you install it. That's like blowware. And then
Speaker 1: like micro services, it's kind of weird. It's text stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like it's the way like the app is built.
Speaker 1: It's nothing we really used. Uh. So I can't tell
Speaker 1: you that I was like a s our move, not
Speaker 1: because I don't understand it. So that's me acknowledging I
Speaker 1: don't know what day I'm talking about. And then experts
Speaker 1: warn of a potential outage during due to a turning
Speaker 1: off of micro services and advises to back up your
Speaker 1: personal data now. November, Musk fires UH employees for expressing
Speaker 1: negative opinions about him in a private Slack channel. Okay, uh,
Speaker 1: And then there's a new Blue Verified program that will
Speaker 1: launch on November twenty nine. November Musk and issues and
Speaker 1: ultimatum to Twitter stas asking them to commit hardcore to
Speaker 1: work in conditions to get or to get let go
Speaker 1: for three months severance pay. And on November seventeen, a
Speaker 1: majority of Twitter employees reject musk ultimatum, opting to leave
Speaker 1: the company, and must Uh basically uses a really old
Speaker 1: meme of like a guy throwing up a peace sign
Speaker 1: at a grave site with Twitter on top of it, right,
Speaker 1: and then November Musk reinstates Trump's Twitter account. November one,
Speaker 1: Musk holds a relaunch of Blue Verified until the company
Speaker 1: figures out or holds off the relaunch until he figures
Speaker 1: out a way to stop impersonations. And then November must
Speaker 1: brings on a prolific hacker, George Holts as an internal
Speaker 1: task Twitter for fixing Twitter search engine. And that's where
Speaker 1: we are, and that's where he is bleeding money and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what he's gonna do. Now, Like
Speaker 1: I said, if you land on your feet after jumping
Speaker 1: off that thing, that's amazing. Good for you. If you
Speaker 1: don't tell y'all asked not to do this now, that
Speaker 1: was fun and listen, I'm not on the side of
Speaker 1: just always dragging Eli, don't bother me as much as
Speaker 1: he bothers a lot of other people. He's personally, he's inconsequential.
Speaker 1: I just want to I want to say that to you,
Speaker 1: like in consequences with me, in the sense that like again,
Speaker 1: if he figures the ship out, don't If he don't, whatever,
Speaker 1: it don't make it, just don't. It just really don't
Speaker 1: make a difference to me. Uh. I would love to
Speaker 1: see Twitter survive, but I don't. If it don't, it's fine,
Speaker 1: it's just the social media. Now the next, all right, chief,
Speaker 1: you got it, it's President Biden. This man, Now, this
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be as long as the line one because
Speaker 1: I took too long, despite this man's approval rate, despite
Speaker 1: this man's age. He want another crack at truck. He
Speaker 1: wanted like if he say, if Trump running, I'm running.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I want to beat this
Speaker 1: man again. And all right, man, if you like it,
Speaker 1: I love it. And it's not like and here's what's
Speaker 1: weird about it. It's not as bad as the as
Speaker 1: the line all right, you got it? Because I don't
Speaker 1: know who. I don't know who the Democrats would run
Speaker 1: instead of Ji Biden. But there's definitely this like kind
Speaker 1: of like alright, man, that's our dude. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this, all right, We're gonna do it. If
Speaker 1: y'all like it, I love it. You got a champ,
Speaker 1: you know, and especially after like the after the mid terms,
Speaker 1: which feels like he kind of took a little victory lap.
Speaker 1: But I don't. I'm just trying to figure out like
Speaker 1: it should have been a slow job because I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like you stopped the red wave. Maybe, but
Speaker 1: I feel like the red stop the red wave. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Y'all really like y'all wet the
Speaker 1: bed with this when y'all ran some weirdos, do you
Speaker 1: feel me? Like, Okay, we'll see what's up with with
Speaker 1: the runoff in in in Georgia. But like nah, y'all
Speaker 1: ran weirdos. But like I said before, it's like maybe
Speaker 1: y'all don't understand y'all's constituents because nobody's happy. Nobody was
Speaker 1: happy at the It's like, all right, fam, didn't you
Speaker 1: know do what do that? Do what you do? What
Speaker 1: you're gonna do? You gotta chief, so who knows? You know?
Speaker 1: What I'm saying. Who knows how it's gonna play out.
Speaker 1: I just think, okay again, if you're gonna climb up
Speaker 1: on the top of that swing set, then in these
Speaker 1: next two years, bro, like, look, if you land on
Speaker 1: your feet a bunch of different times. Man, if you
Speaker 1: keep you keep passing legislator, you keep listening to the folks.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that like people that put
Speaker 1: you in office, and you start showing improving that that's great,
Speaker 1: if that's a win. If you don't, I'm told you
Speaker 1: as you're supposed to fall back. Dog, you ain't had
Speaker 1: to do this? Are you cool? And the last okay,
Speaker 1: you got a champa trumping a run again. And in
Speaker 1: his announcement it almost seemed like his whole family saying
Speaker 1: that Jared Kushner like, man, I want no parts of this.
Speaker 1: No mo A Vanka like uh yeah, nah, you're good.
Speaker 1: You gotta chief Rupert Murdoch no less. And now, now
Speaker 1: why did they turn on him? And I don't even
Speaker 1: know if they turned on him in the sense that
Speaker 1: the way I would turn on somebody, because let's be real,
Speaker 1: you gotta know, all these people moved daily ran with
Speaker 1: him because he was winning. You think Fox News and
Speaker 1: him like you you think Ruper Murdoch actually like actually
Speaker 1: like that man, now you're winner, the man, the man.
Speaker 1: No you you we're selling we're selling newspapers here, we're
Speaker 1: selling ratings here that we're selling ads. You help with that.
Speaker 1: But rupert In them like, yo, he messy. They're like
Speaker 1: that man a weirdo. He's messy. The most school dudes
Speaker 1: like that. They don't do messy, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like you you you messy, you sloppy? You feel me?
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't do all that. So uh, in
Speaker 1: the second you stopped making me money or or or
Speaker 1: challenging my my situation awful, Like I don't need to
Speaker 1: mess with you. We're gonna see how effective that he is.
Speaker 1: Though rupert In them might find out how powerful they
Speaker 1: they they empire is real soon too. And it's almost
Speaker 1: like now that he's clacking up all these els, they
Speaker 1: don't have to pretend like they like him. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't again, like understand all the caveats that I'm telling y'all,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know these people. I just know what
Speaker 1: they showed me. And what they showed me is all right,
Speaker 1: you got a champ. Now, you got your little news Max,
Speaker 1: you got your little your little you got your little
Speaker 1: shows over there, you got your little parlor. You got it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Hey, look you want to
Speaker 1: run again? Look you like it. I love it, and
Speaker 1: look you might win. But for real on me, you
Speaker 1: don't have to do this. Bro. Ain't you called like
Speaker 1: seventy two cases right now? Family? You ain't busy money,
Speaker 1: my dog. You got a lot, You got a lot
Speaker 1: on your plate. And you already again, you already got
Speaker 1: your fans. I wouldn't, sir. You don't need to jump
Speaker 1: off the swing set. You we you're good champ. All
Speaker 1: are you still gonna? Okay? So all right go ahead.
Speaker 1: Trump out here taking meetings with Kanye where this thing
Speaker 1: I had to nerve to ask him to be his
Speaker 1: vice president, Like look, I like listen, dare sometimes where
Speaker 1: I'd just be like, okay, I understand the man got problems,
Speaker 1: but like yo, think it got hard. Hey why don't
Speaker 1: you wan't you be my vice? I love it? But
Speaker 1: then he had this meeting with him, this fool Nick
Speaker 1: went says, you know what I'm saying, like former Proud
Speaker 1: boy you know Nazi. This dude Milo meeting. I can't
Speaker 1: even say that man's last name. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be racist, I just don't. I just don't know how
Speaker 1: to pronounce the last name. But like the dude that
Speaker 1: got kicked off Twitter and was fired from Bright Part,
Speaker 1: no less about like kind of start a kind of
Speaker 1: absolutely defending pedophilia like they was even like if Bright
Speaker 1: Part is like, oh, I don't know, Fam, you do?
Speaker 1: You're tripping you know what I'm saying. You're taking meetings
Speaker 1: with these foods and you're trying to run for president,
Speaker 1: Like you know what if you're a stafford, you like,
Speaker 1: you know what? Look I saw you chief, you got it?
Speaker 1: So what do you think I should not? Don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. You like it? I love you. Wanna take
Speaker 1: this meeting? Go ahead? Do you m yeah? Fam? So
Speaker 1: moral of the story is this, Please understand. The lesson
Speaker 1: black people want to teach you is you really don't
Speaker 1: have nothing to prove. You don't need to impress nobody.
Speaker 1: You do you because we're gonna do us. So don't
Speaker 1: be like stepping into stuff just because you're trying to
Speaker 1: like you're trying to prove to everybody you got something
Speaker 1: like you you're good. You ain't gotta do that. But
Speaker 1: if you start talking out the side of your neck,
Speaker 1: we're gonna call you on it. And if you don't
Speaker 1: want to hear our advice, then go ahead on you
Speaker 1: know you like it? I love it. You gotta change politics. Yeah,
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