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Anytime a rich person tells you that money doesn't make you happy, just ask them for their money then. Like, cool, cool, cool.
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I guess it's useless, right?
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Can I just give me a bunch of it then? All right.
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Fellas, welcome to the Friday episode of The Boys React.
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We're going to go through some news stories.
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Let's start with the thing that everyone is talking about, everyone is always talking about, which is Elon.
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Elon has gotten himself in trouble a couple times this week.
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First, he tried selling some houseplants, office plants I should say, to his employees to raise money. Wait, really?
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And then also ridiculed and and sort of kind of fired an employee who who is disabled.
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Your thoughts on the endless drama of Elon? Cringe. What do you think?
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Yeah, Elon is is the cringe master.
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He has to make everything about him.
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Like it's just me, me, me.
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He is now known as Milan Musk in my house.
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This guy This guy is too much.
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The The crazy thing, Sam, did you watch this all go down with the the guy that was like, "Hey, am I fired?"
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I think we should we should explain this. Yeah, so do a recap.
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I I didn't understand all that at first.
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I had to like click through.
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So, guy goes on Twitter who's got I never heard of this guy, but he's got like 150,000 followers and he says, "Hey, 9 days ago, I lost access to my work computer.
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Just can't I can't access Twitter anymore. I work at Twitter.
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I can't access my work My work computer doesn't log in anymore. It doesn't work. Can't get into my email. Can't do anything.
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Um I'm not sure if I'm fired.
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Nobody told me I'm fired, but I just can't get into my email or my computer. I've emailed them. I've waited 9 days.
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I've gotten no reply from HR, from my you know, from anybody.
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Um so, I guess hey, @elonmusk, am I fired?
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And so, they you know, he tweets that out.
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Was he getting paid still? I don't I don't know.
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I don't think so cuz but it was whatever, it was only 9 days, so maybe it was he hadn't got it got in between yet.
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So, he tweets that out and he goes, "Maybe if this gets enough retweets, then um you know, then I'll get a response."
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So, it gets retweeted a bunch of like cuz people you know, there's the whole uh group of people that you know, love to hate Elon, myself included.
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And so, people are like, "This is another example of, you know, how poorly Twitter's being run right now.
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Like, why why would you If you're going to fire somebody, tell them they're fired."
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That's, you know, common decency, right?
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Like, I feel like Elon's got this flowchart where it's like, "I'm firing this person. Should I tell them?" It's like, "Yes."
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And it's like, "No, no, no, I'm going to go with no.
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Okay, what happens after no?
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Like, should I just Should I um you know, you know, meet with them in person?
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No, just cut off their computer access."
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Dude, he's like Irish goodbying their jobs.
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It's basically He's just walking out without saying goodbye. Exactly.
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And so, anyways, this thing gets um this thing goes viral.
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So, basically, uh Elon then, you know, again, he sees all he sees this thing going viral.
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So, instead of um instead of uh instead of actually just email "You are fired" or confirm, "Yes, you you were you were fired."
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He instead says, "Um what have you been working on?
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Like, what have you accomplished?"
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Is the uh So, then he goes, "Well, if I, you know, if I say what I'm working on, I I think I'd be breaking my NDA.
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Do I have permission to break my NDA and tell you what Like, can I say publicly here what I work on?"
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And Elon replies, "Yes, go ahead."
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And so, dude, what a pathetic start to the story. That's already pathetic. He goes, "All right.
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Well," the guy goes, "Well, I was, you know, leveling up the design of this. I was working on this.
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And um you know, I was helping save money on this contract" or whatever.
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And um and he goes, Elon replies, "Level up the design from what to what?
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You know, pictures or it didn't happen."
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And like, yo, [ __ ] you cut off his computer access.
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How was he supposed to have screenshots of his work if you took away his computer?
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He's not He's not even able to do it.
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And um and then he's like mocking him basically.
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He's just replying with like the crying laughing emoji.
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He's replying trolling him with like a clip from Office Space.
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And now here's where Elon went wrong.
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So, Elon's not dumb, but he's a dumbass.
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And there's a big difference between dumb and a dumbass.
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Dumb is you're just not smart.
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Dumbass is you're smart, but you do dumb things.
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And that's what Elon does here.
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So, he basically picks on a guy that it comes out So, this guy sold his company to Twitter.
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And the guy So, Elon comes out and he Here's what he says about the guy.
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He goes He goes somebody was like, "Dude, this is the uh this guy Alex Cohen had this great tweet.
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He goes, "I'm not going to lie.
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This is the most entertaining exit interview ever.
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Just watching this whole thing go down in public."
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And then the guy and then Elon says, "The reality is this is a guy that who was independently wealthy, did no actual work, and claimed as an excuse that he has a disability preventing him from typing.
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Yet here he is tweeting out a tweeting up a storm."
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And wait, and so and so the disability thing Elon said that first?
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"He claimed as his excuse that he has a disability preventing him from typing.
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Yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm.
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I can't say I have a lot of respect for that." What a douche.
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Why could How could he even reveal that?
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the other side of the story.
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This guy has like This guy's in a wheelchair.
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He's had muscular dystrophy for 25 years.
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And so he goes So, this guy came back with just kind of some some fire.
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So, he goes um Thunderclap, I think you called it.
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Yeah, he he did a solo thunderclap basically.
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So, he comes back, he goes "Glad to see you're taking such an interest in my health.
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Um I assume what you're talking about when you are sharing my private health information online is the fact that I've had mus- muscular dystrophy for 25 years.
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And I guess I'll go ahead and tell the story now.
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So, you know, I uh lost I lost the ability to use my legs 20 years ago.
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I've been in a wheelchair.
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Um unfortunately, it's been spreading and I've my my arms have been getting weaker over time.
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In fact, that's why I sold my company.
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Remember you said I was independently wealthy?
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I guess what you mean by that is I built a successful company and sold it, unlike, you know, somebody else who might have inherited inherited a emerald mine, which is you know, how you Elon's dad owned a emerald mine.
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Which is [ __ ] Which is that's a [ __ ] thing. [ __ ] you. Whatever. A good story. In this case, it's good.
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Um and so he goes, I guess that's what you mean by independently wealthy and you know, so here's what here's the story.
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This guy's got muscular dystrophy.
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He he's losing feeling and our strength in his arms becoming very painful to to type.
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He decides, okay, I'm going to sell my company and instead of taking a lump sum payment, he chose to get paid out uh through like a a salary instead of an upfront money, which is like, dude, who would do that? Why?
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Because he wanted to pay more taxes in Iceland where he's from. Or I think it's Iceland.
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Maybe yeah, I think it's yeah, I think it's Iceland. Wait, really? more taxes.
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Why do you want to pay more taxes?
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Because he felt like he's as a disabled person, he had benefited a lot from like the social welfare system there and was like, I want to contribute as much as I can to that.
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Which honestly sounds like too good to be true.
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Like that's so different than me.
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I almost can't fathom that.
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I'm almost like, why don't you just take the money and donate it instead of paying in taxes?
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I don't I don't really understand that, but e- either way, uh this guy so built a company, had 100 employees working for him, it was profitable, it decides to sell it.
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Um you know, he he's his body's basically been giving out on them.
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He's like, you know, financially it wasn't the best decision.
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Um my company was making a lot of money.
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Twitter's offer was lower than other companies, but I made a bet on Twitter.
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It was growing at the time.
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Um and he goes, and by the way, he goes, anyways, I digress.
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Are you still reading or is your bathroom break over? Okay, what was I saying?
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And he goes uh Hey, ah yes.
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Uh so you bought the company, told employees you weren't firing them, firing 75% of them, and then you did.
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I was not in the first batch, or the second batch, or the third batch of layoffs.
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I don't know which batch we're on now now, but I you know uh whatever.
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You know, I I think I got I think I'm fired now. I'm not sure.
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I just want to make sure I I get paid out because in his contract, he had it where okay, I'll take the money as a yearly salary rather than an upfront payment.
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But, if you ever fire me then you have to pay out the rest, right?
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So, I'm guaranteed this money.
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I'll take it, you know, slower rather than than faster, but you know, that that's fine.
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And so anyways, this guy this guy not only not only says how he's typing. What's that?
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He also mentioned how he was typing.
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Yeah, and I think he was just like, you know, I can't do like sustained thing, but like I can type with like one finger on my phone and um blah blah blah.
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And so anyways, he he explains this.
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He goes um Like this guy was literally named person of the year in Iceland.
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This guy like his his side hustle is he's building wheelchair ramps throughout Iceland so that other disabled people can be like he's he's building hundreds of of these wheelchair ramps.
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Like that's who you're That's who you're picking on here.
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That's who you're That's who you chose to to fight with. I saw this great quote.
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He goes Elon, man, this guy's a dumb ass.
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He [ __ ] with the wheelchair Mr. Rogers.
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He goes He goes what is this guy thinking?
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Uh you know, like and so this guy, you know, I read this thread and I was literally like 911, I'd like to report a murder. Right?
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Like you know, it was just like the ultimate clapback.
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And then Elon tries to backtrack and he basically goes um Some random dude tweets in the thread goes I know Halli and this is, you know, you're saying that he's a liar and was just trying to do no work and get paid out and that's not who this guy is. Random guy tweets.
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And then Elon tweets back, this is the most [ __ ] of all the [ __ ] He goes Based on that comment, I decided to call Halli rather than um rather than just tweet it tweet each other and um he goes, I decided to call Hallie uh uh he goes um what did he say?
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He goes, and you know, have a have a video chat with him.
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Turns out, you know there was a misunderstanding.
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The information I was given was either incorrect or correct, but not important.
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That's that white flag, bro. You you lost. He surrendered.
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you know, you know, we've discussed him, you know, staying with the company.
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And you know, this is the ultimate backtrack.
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It's like, first of all, you you you want him to stay with the company because you have to pay him out if you fire him.
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So, that's like, you know, the first thing.
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Second thing you basically [ __ ] up and stepped in it and this guy could sue you for like you know, a whole bunch of money for like, basically you know, discriminating against a disabled person as well as disclosing his private health information, as well as probably three or four other, you know, issues that there were there were you know, labor laws that were broken in this process.
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But, it's like, dude you decided to have a video chat, not when the guy said he's, you know, your employee said he hasn't heard from you.
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Not when he, you know, asked for an explanation.
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Um but, when a random guy on Twitter said, "Nah, Hallie's a good guy."
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You decided there to stop in your tracks and do a video call with him.
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[ __ ] Like, this is all this whole thing is [ __ ] and Elon continues to be you know, king the king of [ __ ] Have you heard the uh the song, "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangster"? Sure have.
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There's a line There's a line in it.
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I can't say the real line, but it basically says uh real gangsters don't flex nuts, cuz real gangsters know they got them.
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And right now, Elon's he he is pretty gangster. I mean, he's the man.
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He ain't He ain't acting like it.
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He's flexing nuts hard and he shouldn't be flexing as hard as he is.
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And uh I get the personality type.
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There's some people are like dude, he's just saying whatever he wants.
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The same thing with Trump, where he's like, he's just saying what he Says it like it is.
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Says it like it is, and I I hate I actually dislike that.
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Uh I like that like to an extent, but I'm like there's but just because you say it like it is like well, he's just doing what he wants.
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Yeah, but he just you just punched someone.
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Like hitting people isn't good. Do you know what I mean?
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It's like yeah, I want to do what I want.
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Does that mean I want to like go take a dump in the corner of the room?
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Like you know, there's like Do you let's be polite to one another also if possible.
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We don't we're not going to be needlessly needlessly rude to one another, and that's kind of how I feel he acts right now, and that's not cool.
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Two other two other parts of this new story.
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One, it's going around that this guy's payout was $100 million, which makes no sense.
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Anybody who's in business is like, well, that number makes no sense.
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There's no way he's getting paid $9 million a year of salary.
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There's no way that they bought his agency for $100 million.
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That's not how much you would acquire an agency for.
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It's probably more like 10.
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But it all and I went I found it.
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It just started with some random guy who goes, oh man, Elon backtracking now cuz he realized he that Holly has a $100 million payout.
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And like five tweets in somebody's like, where'd you read the $100 million? I've never saw that.
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He goes, oh, I'm just estimating like, you know, acquire is a million dollars ahead.
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They had 100 employees, so you know, 100 million dollars.
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And now that's just like in a bunch of places.
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It's like that's how that that's how bad like information spreads. fake news starts.
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Second thing is Elon owned himself when he goes the end of his thing he goes, better to talk better to communicate through talking instead of communicating on Twitter.
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It's like just just literally [ __ ] on his own platform.
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But like you know, so so self-owning, you know, all around.
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Um so that I thought that was interesting.
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And then Ben said this other thing about the house office plant thing.
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What do you make of this?
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This I mean this makes no sense. Try What happened?
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I didn't I didn't Dude, I I had I muted Elon.
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I I love what Elon's doing, man, but I like I even think the Twitter thing's interesting, but [ __ ] it's hard to be on his team, and so I had to mute him.
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He so he's been selling like office furniture and memorabilia from the office like just liquidating to like get more cash and stuff.
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buying They had a Twitter logo.
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I tried buying it, but it got up too high.
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And apparently like there was like plants in the office that he tried selling to an engineer like one of the employees or something like that.
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It's like I mean, I don't know either this guy's a marketing genius he's trying to get PR like trying to like it's the thing where it's Amazon was like we use doors as desks to save money. Which is a [ __ ] story.
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of those just like stories that sounds like man, he's really turning over every rock to save money for this this bleeding company. way, I tried doing that.
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An IKEA desk is significantly cheaper than a door from Home Depot. Yeah, exactly. I tried doing this. A desk is way cheaper. A desk is like 50 bucks.
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You can't even like write on them.
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So so I don't know what to make of this story, but just sounds like it just makes no sense.
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Either he's lost his mind or there's a masterful PR thing that's like 9,000 IQ and I can't understand it.
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Or someone's just making things up. I don't understand. Uh maybe maybe all.
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I think all of those things could be true.
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about a weird thing he said cuz he's lost his mind. And makes for good PR. Got you. And he's a genius.
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It could be all those things.
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You know, he could be he's he's not dumb, but he's a dumbass.
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That's a That's a great line.
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I saw people call him Elmo Elmo Musk and I thought that was pretty funny.
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Uh but you know, he's he's [ __ ] up.
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Do you want to do one more? Yeah, bet. What else you got? All right.
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Let's go with the with money and happiness, guys.
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So there was a 2010 paper that said that basically above $70,000 more money does not make you more happy does not make you more happy.
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Turns out more money less problems because a new study says that is completely untrue.
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It starts to flatten a little bit as it goes up, but what do you guys think of this?
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I I So here I I'm pulling this up.
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So here's what it says, Sean.
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It says that um So if you are in the happiest of the unhappiest 20% does plateau after reaching $100,000.
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But, after that uh if you're not Mac Group, more money does mean more happiness.
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And uh and it basically it goes all the way up.
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They studied it all the way up to $500,000 and they said after that we we really didn't study it much, but up to $500,000 people do get happier.
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But, that said, the researchers found that the overall emotional effect of more money on a person is small compared to other circumstances.
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It's even compared to a weekend.
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Approximately uh a fourfold difference in income, so four times your income, is equal to the effect of a weekend, which is kind of funny. Wow.
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Um but, that said, more money makes you happy.
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So, and this is all like there's this like 2010 study that where it said $70,000 from the beginning I thought that was the most [ __ ] study.
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I've said on this pod so many times, that's nonsense.
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That is absolutely not true. $70,000?
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My sister, when she was like younger, lived in New York for $70,000, you're basically below the poverty line. Right. not happy.
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Um so, $70,000, not a chance.
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I used to say I thought it was at like 250.
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I actually believe it could be 500 or even more where you get happier.
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This is one of those things like um you know, that might be true.
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I had when I heard this study I was like, that might be true.
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I'm going to go ahead and test for myself.
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Like I don't know if the earth is flat or round.
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I don't really have the ability to go out there and check it out.
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I don't know, you know, if if sulfur gas is poisonous, but I figure, you know, no need to test that.
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This is one of those scientific claims that I had just decided a long time ago, I'm going to go ahead and check.
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I'm going to go ahead and do my own research on this one and and go ahead and try to go get the go get a bunch of money and see how it feels. And you know what?
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I'm glad I did because the study was [ __ ] Dude, I got an MRI yesterday and the lady at the front desk was like, all right, that's $750.
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And she was like didn't say that, she just handed me the she goes, there's a the today. And she showed it to me.
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She thought that I was going to like freak out, and I was like, "All right, you take Apple Pay?"
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And I just scanned my card or whatever, and I remember thinking like, "Where do I tip?" I am Yeah.
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I remember thinking, "I am so happy I'm in a spot.
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I used to not be able to afford that at all, and I'm so happy I'm in a spot."
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I call that, you know what I call that?
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I call that braces money.
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I'm just going to be able to swipe my card and get my kid braces and not think twice about it.
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When I was younger, my parents bought me braces and they told me that it was two grand that they had to pay on a credit card, and at the time they had like $6,000, and I remember thinking like, "God damn, that sucks."
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Like that's not I would be a lot happier if I had $9 million in the bank as opposed to $9,000 or whatever you guys had.
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Anytime a rich person tells you that money doesn't make you happy, just ask them for their money then. Like, "Cool, cool, cool.
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I guess it's useless, right?"
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Can I Just give me a bunch of it then, right?
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Like, you know Yeah, dude, and Let's let's look at the actions versus the words in a lot of these cases.
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I always thought this study was [ __ ] also because I I I wonder how much money the people making this study make.
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I was always like, "Yeah, that's what they think.
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Sure, they they think that."
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Cuz I want to know how much bias goes into a study when the It's always the researcher's salary.
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They're at the pinnacle of happiness. Yeah.
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Or they're like making only 50 and they're like, "Hey, see, boss, 70,000."
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But I've always wondered what like the biases are because like I don't know what the biases wondered.
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I'm like, "This is obvious.
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This is obviously not true, and um you know, if I get to the finish line and I realize, hey, you know, 5 million and 10 million felt the same, well, shame on me for going the extra mile."
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Do you know another thing?
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Have you ever tried to read a study? Yeah, dude. Studies are hard. They're crazy. Yeah. It's hard. I have no idea.
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And then I'm like, I follow all these like smart like a Huberman or like the these other guys who like break down studies and I'm like and they'll say like, "Well, this study's actually [ __ ] for this reason."
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And I'm like, "I guess I'll believe you, but I don't like I can't read this."
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And they'll like say like studies that I'm like, "Well, it said the word study in it. It must be true."
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And they're like, "No, no, no, it's actually way off for this reason."
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And like their sample size was like eight people or college students.
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or you know, a bunch of bunch of different things like that.
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Dude, I don't know how to read any of this.
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Or there's a chart and it's like the error bars are huge.
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It's like, "Yeah, it's that plus or minus, you know, it's 70,000 plus or minus 500,000."
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It's like, "Whoa, okay, hold on. What's going on here?" Right?
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So, so yeah, I think science is uh is used as a like uh a shield for like you can't argue with that um in in many cases.
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And there's good science and there's bad science and there's weak science and there's strong science and there's you know, and then there's physics where it's like, you know, empirically true.
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Um and and so But the only thing that I know is three things.
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There's good science, there's bad science, and I don't know the difference between the the two.
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That's like the only That's the only truth right there.
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That's like the only truth that I know, which is like it exists.
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I'm just That was a little too smooth. Big old brain.
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Look at that big brain on today.
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All right, what else we got? Got that big brain. Attention. All right, here we go. Uh let's go to TikTok.
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Uh Biden administration in conjunction with Congress they're evaluating a new law that would um make it possible for companies to be banned that pose a national security risk.
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People think this means that they're going to ban TikTok. What do you guys think? Should they ban TikTok?
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I don't know anything about that. Wow.
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Is this why they pay you the big bucks?
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Dude, like people talk about I don't I don't know anything about China.
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I don't know what they're doing. That's true. Uh Do you? No. Honestly, I don't know.
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How how I mean how would I how would I really know?
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Um the Biden so I think that being able to ban something if it's a national security risk, yeah, I think that's that's fine.
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I think that sounds like appropriate.
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Uh I also by using Tik Tok a ton, I could totally see how I wouldn't want this in the hands of my enemy.
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It's like, oh, the ability to like take in all of my data, my camera roll, turn on my microphone, my camera on, as well as feed me, spoon-feed me any amount of any like feed of information based on, you know, a mysterious algorithm that that can surface good stuff, bad stuff, weird stuff, misinformation, whatever.
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Like, that's a pretty powerful weapon, right?
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So, so I definitely see the merit in that.
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Now, is Tik Tok actually a threat? I I don't know.
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All right, what's the next one?
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Our software is the worst.
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Have you heard of HubSpot?
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Let's go with favorite cities.
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A new poll from a real estate advice website reveals where Americans would move if money was no object.
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New York, Austin's in there, that makes sense.
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Also on the list though, Las Vegas, and at number nine, Baltimore. Dude, I'm from St. Louis. I'm from the city of St. Louis.
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A lot of people don't know this, but if you look at what the highest murder rate per 100,000 people, and it's been St.
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Louis like either it's usually number one, sometimes number two for the past 10 years, there's like 500 murders a year. St.
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Louis and Baltimore, very similar. That sucks. It sucks.
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I don't want to move there. Not at all. I don't understand that. That's weird to me.
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Once I worked in the media business, I realized that uh polls, rankings, lists, all [ __ ] Just things to get generate clicks, links, controversy.
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You know, if I was going to make a list and I made a list that was like, you just nodded and you said, "Yeah, that makes sense."
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You're not going to share that.
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You're not going to talk about that.
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I throw Baltimore as the this fourth most desired city to live in or whatever, like put New York ninth just to make them outraged. Guess what?
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I'm going to get a lot more clicks, a lot more discussion, a lot a lot controversy, and a lot more backlinks for for my SEO.
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And you know, so so once you know their incentives, you'll know why these lists are often outrageous.
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Either they're just paid to put like, you know, things on the top or they're trying to do things that will generate a bunch of shares.
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Do you Do you know what state Baltimore's in?
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Yeah, Baltimore is in Maryland. All right, nice.
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I didn't think you'd get that.
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If you Google If you Google Baltimore to let my brain think.
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I was like, of course I know that.
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Baltimore Dude, dude Google Baltimore and look at the images. Very very unimpressive.
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And not not impressive at all. I'm sorry.
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Baltimore, that skyline not interesting one bit.
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They need to The the tourist association needs to work on their SEO. Not not so good.
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Uh what else you got, Ben?
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Can we wrap this up with the slap fighting one? Yeah. Do it. Do the story, Sam.
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So, Dana White is putting muscle behind UFC Sorry, Dana White and the UFC is putting muscle behind Power Slap League.
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So, if you guys have not seen this, it's basically two guys They're typically like huge fat guys standing at a table smacking each other.
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I think they get three times to smack when I They get to three times to smack each other.
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I don't know the rules, but it seems like someone gets knocked out every slap. Every fight, yeah. Right. What are the rules?
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Is it like the first one knocked out loses or It's simply three to five rounds.
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They take turns hitting each other in the face with an open hand.
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And the other person has to stand there and take it.
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They get 60 seconds to recover.
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And then They can earn up to 10 points based on the effectiveness of the slap and the defender's reaction. That's good.
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So, you you know, I like things where you get rewarded for pretending like it didn't hurt cuz that's a skill that I I I honed as a little sibling for many many years.
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Dude, this is the stupidest thing on earth.
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I don't know So, look, am I I'm not a woke guy.
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I consider myself right of center.
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Maybe I'm getting more woke as I get older.
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I'm hating on Elon and also this slap thing is the stupidest thing on Earth and I'm not going to give it any of my eye I'm not going to give it any of my eyeballs.
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I'd prefer to see two people in their underwear fighting to the death in front of a million people like UFC, but the slap thing, not a fan.
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Yeah, like you know, to me knockouts are like dip.
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It's like, you know, I like chips and dip, but if you take the chips away and it's just dip, now I feel a little dirty.
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That's how I feel about this.
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Like, I'm cool watching a fight where somebody gets knocked out cuz there's skill and there's defense and then there's strategy.
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When it's literally you have to stand still and get hit as hard as you can by somebody else, now you I'm just, you know, now I'm just eating barbecue sauce and I I I don't really kind of Which is kind of ridiculous that it's considered okay that we can use a we can use a, you know, chip as a spoon and with cheese, but when you just use a spoon as a spoon for that cheese, it's we consider two different things.
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That is a little weird, isn't it?
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questions in life that I might spend a whole lifetime trying to wonder why we are the way we are in this way.
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Now, let me tell you something else. That's a great example.
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Michael Vick like got booted out of the NFL and like went to jail for a dog fighting ring.
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Colin Kaepernick can't get a job because he you know, took a knee during the national anthem to protest Those two are not even remotely the same thing, by the way.
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I'm just saying, people have got a lot more punished for a lot less than this.
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How is Dana White not like how is he not canceled for doing this?
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How is this a legitimate thing that they're allowed to do?
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Um kind of insane to me that like you could you could get away with doing this and not others.
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I I guess it's because they're consenting adults and that's that's the line.
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I guess anything above that line works.
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I don't know, that sounds a little little iffy to me, but uh Yeah, I think this is so stupid.
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I'm not going to give it I try not to give it my attention. I can't stand it.
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I think it's really dumb.
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And they're all like I watched the trailer.
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I was I was heavily entertained by it.
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So, you know, just from the trailer.
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It's kind of like there was this subreddit called watch people die and it was like videos of people killing themselves and it was huge and people were obsessed with it and then they deleted it and I remember thinking that's a good idea to delete that and yet it was really hard not to go to that subreddit.
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It's like it's it was impossible like when you see it when I would see it come up I'm like oh my God this is horrible.
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I cannot watch this and I would have to I had to stop myself from like clicking some of that stuff.
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Let's finish with a little show recommendation.
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Have you watched Physical 100 on Netflix?
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You keep telling me to watch it. No.
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Oh my God everybody needs to go watch this show and I'm going to warn you it's a weird show if you had just described it to me I would not have watched it.
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It's just that Korean Netflix thing in real life right?
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It's Squid Games in real life yeah kind of.
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So basically here's here's why it's amazing.
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So the premise of the show is they got a hundred athletes of different types so bodybuilders MMA guys boxers women men small large gymnasts ice climbers luge people from the Olympics uh whatever everything wrestlers and they put them all together and they walk in and it's basically like we're going to see who is the mighty of athletic competitions um like who is the overall what is the best body what is the perfect body?
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body what is the perfect body? Is it this guy or is it this girl or is it this guy and and so and like the very first like you know competition they have is basically there's a ball in the middle of a mud pit and it's like whoever has this ball
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at the end of three minutes wins and it'll be guy versus girl it'll be giant bodybuilder versus tiny there's no weight classes no nothing and they go there but there but the best part is it doesn't have this American tackiness like slap fighting or ranch. Like Koreans don't eat that [ __ ] they
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Like Koreans don't eat that [ __ ] they don't do that stuff.
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All these people there's three reasons why it's amazing.
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Number one they got legit the best athletes.
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So they literally got like the guy from the world's strongest man they're Olympians gold medalists like their most famous MMA fighters like they got their most famous athletes to go do this reality show.
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It's like if LeBron was competing against Patrick Mahomes versus competing against Serena Williams, but like they actually and they not only they show up, they actually gave a [ __ ] Like they were like, "I really want to win this."
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And so they weren't just there for like a reality drama. That's the first thing.
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Second thing, they play with honor.
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So they'd be like, "You The winner of the first round gets to pick who their opponent's going to be in the second round."
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It's like, "Oh, well, you know, an American would just be like, 'Oh, I can beat this person, so I'm going to choose the weakest one and I'm going to do that.'"
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And then what they would do is they would go to whoever they felt was the strongest, that would be be the most honorable to compete against, and they'd be like, "It would be my honor to compete against you."
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And they the whole thing's done with subtitles. Sorry, sorry, dubbed.
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So it's like it's all in Korean, but then you're listening on a dubbed thing, which is hilarious cuz there's even some guys that speak English, they dub them also in more English, it's hilarious.
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So so they That's how the show works, and they just eliminate people until they get to the very end, the final winner of the Physical 100.
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And so you, this is like you will love the show.
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Once you get in you get two episodes deep, you're going to love the characters.
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Which Which body type is best?
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Well, I don't want to give it away.
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I mean, this is this is the show, right?
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So like this this is a a giant spoiler.
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But you know, you got to have it all.
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You got to have attributes.
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You got to have the speed, you got to have the strength, you got to have the endurance, you got to have the the dexterity, you got to have the the the agility, you got to have it all because they test you in all these different ways. How would I do? is amazing.
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You got to watch this thing, Physical 100. How would I do?
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Oh, here's the other thing that's great about it.
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They don't really edit it.
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So like in an American show, they'll be like, "The start of the competition."
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Then there's like montage.
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And then it's like the big fight, they'll spend 5 minutes on the big argument, the ending.
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Whereas with this, it's like these contestants have 1 hour to pull this like 10,000-ton ship as a team to from one side of this room to the other. "Go."
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And they just show the whole thing in its entirety.
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It's even a little bit boring sometimes, but it's kind of like watching National Geographic where you just get really into it like Planet Earth where you're like, "Ooh, is the lizard going to get the ant? I got to watch it."
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Like and it's going to just happen I'm going to watch the whole thing play out.
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You know, with no no jump cuts.
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And it's such a refreshing change from like Tik Tok and like these other things that are like just such surface level stuff.
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I'm looking at the winner.
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Uh, we're not we're not that different, are we?
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Well, don't give it away.
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You'd be surprised why this person won.
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It It's It's pretty crazy.
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So, anyways, yeah, you got to watch this show. It's kind of amazing. All right, that's it. That's the pod.