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Speaker 3: Let's go to Meta, Yes, let's go to Meta. So
Speaker 3: Meta is a company that you have been very bullish
Speaker 3: on for a.
Speaker 4: While, bearish, bearish at first, barish. You have been very
Speaker 4: bearish on they must have closed you. You've been very
Speaker 4: You've been very You've been very Yes, you've been very
Speaker 4: bearish on Meta for a long time. Yes, and Meta
Speaker 4: had one of the greatest stock drops of all time
Speaker 4: in one day.
Speaker 3: Last was that last year?
Speaker 5: That was That was Let's story.
Speaker 3: But since then they have they have been steadily climbing
Speaker 3: the mountain, steadily climbing, climbing the mountain. From they're low,
Speaker 3: I think they're low was like one.
Speaker 6: Hundred and eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Okay, they're low with eighty eighth nine they are currently
Speaker 3: at two forty three.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: I am a believer in Instagram. I've always been a
Speaker 3: believer in Instagram saying and believe in the resiliency. I
Speaker 3: believe in the resiliency of Meta.
Speaker 5: I'll should too, as much as I'm up there.
Speaker 3: So, Okay, is Meta officially back? Have they carved out
Speaker 3: the grave? M H.
Speaker 5: Dono either or either?
Speaker 3: Or what's the what is what is the deal with Meta?
Speaker 5: I think uh, Meta has done it?
Speaker 6: Like and I was telling everyone because I'm in to
Speaker 6: the root text with Zuckerberg and field people and Meta
Speaker 6: or I g they like he's back. Being hungry for
Speaker 6: the first time in a long time. He suffered from
Speaker 6: the same success the Intel did, but after they wanted
Speaker 6: to take his company over, he's been calwn back. I
Speaker 6: don't like all the innovations, but the number one thing
Speaker 6: that Meta's done is cut jobs and knowing people there.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be very honest the morale at Meta.
Speaker 5: While the stock has gone up, everyone who works there
Speaker 5: is on pins and needles.
Speaker 6: I don't like the initiatives of sending everybody home, so
Speaker 6: let them know if they're going to be fired. But
Speaker 6: of course they were too top heavy. Now, of course
Speaker 6: you have to cut costs.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 6: Sometimes the first thing that people do is lay off
Speaker 6: employees as a result of stock is going up. I'm
Speaker 6: still looking to see the innovation. On an earnest call,
Speaker 6: they did say that they're not giving up on the metaverse,
Speaker 6: which I think is a mistake, but there's less of
Speaker 6: an emphasis on it moving in the right direction. They
Speaker 6: have some things that they're going to do in AI
Speaker 6: move in the right direction. So they have come up
Speaker 6: past that fifty percent retracement of forty five percent retraacement
Speaker 6: at one to eighty.
Speaker 5: One, so they are slowly back into the positive long
Speaker 5: way away from three.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I still need to see a little bit
Speaker 6: more innovation on Instagram side. How they monetized, they took
Speaker 6: away away reels, so there's a lot of inconsistency in
Speaker 6: their price and structure that I don't like.
Speaker 5: But I can't lie.
Speaker 6: This has been a hell of a rebound from the
Speaker 6: eighty eight to one on two level for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that the about one hundred and seventy
Speaker 7: percent increase since the low, which is incredible. But you
Speaker 7: said it, I mean, you highlighted all the things.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 7: If I want to make more money, how can I
Speaker 7: do it if I without innovating.
Speaker 5: Number one, let's got some job costs.
Speaker 7: Cut costs, that's number one. Pull back on some of
Speaker 7: the innovative things. I was talking about fifty billion dollars
Speaker 7: being spent on the metaverse.
Speaker 5: All right, it'say horrible products, but let's let's scale it.
Speaker 7: Let's scale that back, let's stop paying out money. So
Speaker 7: let's cut back on reels. But what's helped them as
Speaker 7: well is the AD space that I mean. I think
Speaker 7: they reported sixty billion, fifty eight point nine billion dollars
Speaker 7: in AD revenue, which is incredible. So there was a
Speaker 7: time last year when everybody was in fear of a
Speaker 7: recession and everybody cut back on this spending. Those times
Speaker 7: are easing up and people are now advertising on Facebook again, yeah,
Speaker 7: and spending money, and they're able to sell space again
Speaker 7: because the world's back open.
Speaker 5: Google on only two places at all. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: Corporate accounts that are opening again, and we can see that,
Speaker 7: especially in this space where we're looking at corporations that
Speaker 7: have ad spenditures and we're seeing the amounts that they're spending.
Speaker 7: So imagine that at that level they took in sixty
Speaker 7: that's a lot of money.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's more than a.
Speaker 7: Lot of businesses even generate in the history of their
Speaker 7: existence their enterprise, right, So they're taking that from the
Speaker 7: ad space.
Speaker 5: You've got to take that into account.
Speaker 7: How does that solow down or can they expand upon
Speaker 7: that now when they create more innovative things, will it
Speaker 7: help We'll see. I know that Apple coming into the
Speaker 7: eye space of the eyewear space doesn't help them with
Speaker 7: the oculus, so maybe that won't be the innovative space,
Speaker 7: but it does give them leeway to be innovative again,
Speaker 7: which is helpful.
Speaker 6: They spend thirteen point seven billion on meta in twenty
Speaker 6: twenty two sixty billion here is great. I think if
Speaker 6: they cut the Metaverse project, they would be better off.
Speaker 6: And if they focus on just improving the ad platform,
Speaker 6: I think they have one of the best of all time.
Speaker 6: But they in that ad platform, but there's still a
Speaker 6: lot of room for improvement. It's still not the easiest
Speaker 6: platform to use. Targeting is not always the best. Great balance,
Speaker 6: especially if you're swing trading.
Speaker 5: Great balance.
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Speaker 5: How many jobs can you cut?
Speaker 6: They're not an organization where you can only have two
Speaker 6: thousand people working there and be efficient. So I think
Speaker 6: we're seeing the last of this bounces. Yeah, for a
Speaker 6: little bit of time, until we see some other innovation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that meta. If you would like to
Speaker 3: make me an ambassador or Instagram, I would definitely be
Speaker 3: open to it.
Speaker 5: Oh, hold on, bro hold on, hold on brod.
Speaker 3: No, No, no, I'm not. I'm not in the best.
Speaker 5: Okay, I thought you pitch it. I thought it was
Speaker 5: a pitch coming.
Speaker 3: There's let's not do the zoom in on me today.
Speaker 3: But I would be open to it because I have
Speaker 3: championed you guys through the good times and the bad times,
Speaker 3: and I do feel that they're here to stay as
Speaker 3: a company. I feel that the blue check thing was
Speaker 3: was a good idea. I think it was executed better.
Speaker 5: Let's go back, let's go back. Listen.
Speaker 3: As far as for a user and all that, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about a good idea. As far as business
Speaker 3: for them. For me, no, I don't. I don't like
Speaker 3: the idea. But as far as for them, I'm getting
Speaker 3: more revenue. It's a good idea and it was implemented
Speaker 3: better than Twitter. This is what Twitter did, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: that was a mistake. Instagram. If you have a blue
Speaker 3: check already, they kept it, and it's just like, okay,
Speaker 3: if you want a blue check now you can pay
Speaker 3: for it. So this still and incentive to have a
Speaker 3: blue check because everybody else already kept their blue check.
Speaker 3: Twitter took everybody's blue check away and said, now everybody
Speaker 3: has to pay for money somehow. But when now when
Speaker 3: nobody has a blue check, then it doesn't matter. It
Speaker 3: doesn't mean anything anymore, right, And they haven't been as
Speaker 3: profitable in that endeavor as Instagram has. So it's like,
Speaker 3: you take Kim Kardashian's check away. She's not going to
Speaker 3: pay nine dollars a month for a check, so now
Speaker 3: it doesn't mean anything. So now that efficiently they destroyed
Speaker 3: the power of the blue check for Twitter because you
Speaker 3: took everybody's blue check away except for like one hundred people,
Speaker 3: So now nobody's even really caring about a blue check.
Speaker 3: Instagram kept the blue checks and just made it available
Speaker 3: to buy a blue check if you want it. I
Speaker 3: think that that was way better execution Twitter.
Speaker 7: I agree, And I don't think everybody can get it either,
Speaker 7: Like even if they wanted to pay, they just can't
Speaker 7: get it.
Speaker 5: Who didn't get up?
Speaker 7: Yeah, like I know Instagram. Yeah, shout out to the MG.
Speaker 7: I know he's been He said that there was some
Speaker 7: issues with him trying to get his.
Speaker 3: Can't get a blue check. Why can't he get a
Speaker 3: blue I don't know.
Speaker 7: If you overad metal, make sure my brother MG can
Speaker 7: get his blue jack. Please stop playing with MG man.
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Speaker 3: Still feel like they have a long way to go
Speaker 3: with WhatsApp because WhatsApp is a hitting gym. Well it's
Speaker 3: not hitting to people that international national the international community.
Speaker 3: They on WhatsApp all the time. So I'm not sure
Speaker 3: if they're monetizing WhatsApp because it's free.
Speaker 6: You asked my question if they're trying to monetize it,
Speaker 6: do you think people will pay a little bit of
Speaker 6: the same issue at Twitter because I told him, like
Speaker 6: most people internationally can't afford to pay ten months, not
Speaker 6: even a centive.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think they have to do a version maybe where
Speaker 3: it's a free version and then you have a premium,
Speaker 3: a premium service. And I don't know if that premium
Speaker 3: service is for business owners or if that premium service
Speaker 3: allows you to do a little bit more. But I
Speaker 3: think that they have to find a way to start
Speaker 3: monetizing on whats app. They have billions of people that's
Speaker 3: on there, Like they have a lot of people on WhatsApp,
Speaker 3: So what.
Speaker 7: Do you think they'll shout out to? Isaac Gay's the
Speaker 7: third who will also be at investments. But he did
Speaker 7: something very intelligent with his certification.
Speaker 5: He changed the color. That's smart. So do you think
Speaker 5: that at.
Speaker 7: Some point Instagram goes from blue to when it's now
Speaker 7: a premium, it's a different color, like it's gold or
Speaker 7: it's you know, I mean something like that.
Speaker 6: I think if they did, it would be too much
Speaker 6: of a liability to potentially get sued.
Speaker 5: Since Isaac has already put that out there.
Speaker 6: I know some people on Twitter tested as well, But
Speaker 6: like that blue chat historically for half a decade, is
Speaker 6: that's the standard something? So yeah, Shelton out for the
Speaker 6: cost cut of measures.
Speaker 5: But employee morale is down.
Speaker 6: Like praise and once again going back to the top two,
Speaker 6: great pounce are they better than Apple? Microsoft LinkedIn in comparison?
Speaker 6: Like we're just taking tech across the board?
Speaker 5: Are they?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: They fell from top five to its tenth. Maybe the.
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Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will
Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
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Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,