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Here we go. Here we go. Yah okay, I'm trying to wake up. Live from your three sided ESG dice that continue to confuse monopoly players worldwide. Ooh. That's oddly specific. It's a business pants Friday show here at August 7th studios featuring analyst Hole Matt Muscardy. Yeah boy. On today's weekly wrap-up, Uber sucks even more. That's me, hey hoo. yeah, they do. Courts are trying to make up for complacent shareholders. And billionaires sell their rogue AI. Bank banking on trouble or something. Yeah. I was can we just can we just say that I was for once correct about something? I mean, it did Right? I think you might be, yeah. I well, I think you are with Meta, maybe not the other two. Our show today is being sponsored by Freeflow Analytics and Freeflow Analytics dot com. The only platform measuring board power connections performance for free. Now I have a family member who looked at the platform and she was look, I'm gonna be fair. She doesn't understand ninety percent of it, but normally when I show her things from our company she really doesn't care. She was completely. Yeah. Whoa. Yes. completely blown away by this. Like I couldn't stop praising it. It was like showing me different features and being like how cool is that? I don't know what it means, but how amazing is this? Like I I so yeah. Okay, but to be fair, you know, she doesn't have a she doesn't work in this field. I mean she has like a th masters in theater history. So what are we talking about? The I don't know what it means is a gap th that that has to be filled. But I will say that the beta email went out. So the people who were on the original freeflowanalytics dot com platform got an email that said, Hey, you you have access now to the beta platform until and it's beta until the end of the you know month. Once we hit Labor Day, I heard it's gonna switch on. It's just gonna work it's gonna switch over. It's gonna be the platform. It's the only one. My My doctor's office and my insurance company I use, Anthem, they put out a a a email saying that that you're crazy if you don't use this platform. Medically. Yeah. They did, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They said they won't even they won't even cover your co medical costs anymore if you don't use the platform first. If if you do any research of corporations at all, ev even if you're a retail investor, if you're a you own a hedge fund, whatever your your deal is, if you don't use this, you're nuts. That's what the anthem said. You're nuts. You know that th they they there's actually the portfolio function is turned on for everybody now. And I heard they already expanded the free access from two hundred and fifty companies to five hundred companies. It's already like we're already given more is there more away free. All right, let's do this because otherwise I'm gonna get too tired to do the story of the week. All right, good. I don't know about I don't I don't know about how I feel about that. Story of the week. I'll gonna go try to go quickly on this one. In in no particular order, this is from the New York Times Uber's strategy for fighting sexual assaults, assault suits. What were you wearing? That's the title of the article. Uber's attorneys aggressively interrogated survivors about their clothing. E.g., this is you know, this is all real stuff. Asking if they were underwear or heels. ask asking about their drug and alcohol consumption, sexual history. Nope. Nope. they they basically they legalized they weaponized past trauma by scouring private medical records and therapy therapy notes, even petitioning courts to force survivors to undergo psychiatric exams or reveal details of childhood abuse to paint them as unreliable narrators. This is in response to at least what 4,000 lawsuits filed by passengers accusing Uber of failing to protect them from sexual assault. Now The background to this is even worse because there there was a blog post put out by Uber Chief Legal Officer Tony West called Why Safety is Personal to Me. he brags about the transparent reporting, despite the fact that Uber is burying f 400,000 other assault complaints because they they they labeled them as things like unaudited or or you know, they weren't like they didn't rise to the right level or so It wa it was y we we sent like a an a stamped envelope, but no one wrote us back via the mail, so we don't know. yeah. So that's all I'll spend on this. If you want to hear more, we went into depth on our Tuesday show. If you want to download that show, we sp we spent a lot of time on this, including I I personally was triggered by the by Mr. West's does he deserve to be called Mr. at this point? Mr. West's blog post why safety is personal to me because it was just full of utter nonsense, including blaming the ad adversarial legal system for why the why his attorneys are so aggressive. Not only Yeah, yeah. He he said it's the legal it's the legal system that does this. It's not our fault to say there's no other way to fight this except to be total and complete ba you know, asshole, you know, ingrates. I do want to say one I only say one thing about this because it's horrible. Like I I couldn't even f quite finish the story. Like I had to skim through the end 'cause it was like so disgusting to me. other than CEO Dara, know the board members' names. Here they are. 'Cause this is the way it's done. This is just the way it's done. Yeah. No. Yeah. Ron Sugar. Ron Sugar, also on Apple board. Robert Eckert. Bob Eckert actually is on Amgen's board and Levi Strauss. So if you're buying those cute jeans and wearing them in an Uber, and then they say, Were you wearing cute jeans? It's it's Robert Eckert who's on both fucking boards. You're saying your jeans are nice and tight because we made them that way, and also Apple Apple, right? He's an a no. Apple, right. Yep. interesting. Yeah. Were they tight? Yeah. Interesting. Can't win your lawsuit for assault because you wore my Levi's jeans. How about Ursula Burns? Ursula Burns on the Taiwan Semiconductor and IHS boards also. Nikesh Aurora, who's on Palo Alto Networks. He was just in the news because he is like the third highest paid CEO in the United States for for a company that no one's ever fucking heard of. What the what the hell is Palo Alto Networks getting paid that much for? Ew. Yeah. Like Cybersecurity, maybe? Yeah. Mandy Ginsburg, a universal music group. Remember when universal music was a thing that anyone cared about? Not really. I thought there's just Spotify. Isn't that all that's left? Also, Mandy Ginsburg on ThreadUps board. I'm sensing a pattern that these people are on clothing companies board so they have insight in how to beat your assault lawsuit because they're, you know, I know we know you bought that from from that cute underwear that used. How about John Thane? I don't know if you remember John Thane, that name. John Thane was the CEO of Merrill Lynch, but in the I don't like what you're saying, yeah. Ew. Yeah. I do. financial crisis who tried to sell he sold Merrill Lynch to Bank of America during the financial crisis during all the consolidation and he actually was holding out because Bank of America said Merrill Lynch was going bankrupt. He ran them into the ground in like the seven months he was running them. And he held out for bonuses. He forced Bank of America to pay out his bonus so that y he would keep working there. or Ravathi Adva Advaithi, I don't know who that person is. Also on Flex Limited's board. Turkey, I'll no Wazer, who's on Lucid, Hapog Lloyd, and Heathrow Airport board. Heathrow Airport, which is I'm flying there and I'm not looking forward to it. And then finally, Alexander Weinance, who's on Deutsche Bank and Air France's board as well. All of that's on the platform, but this is the thing. Those are the you want to be angry at this? It like you can be angry at the CEO but do nothing. You can vote out all the board members. This is a one class, one one share, one vote company. And I can't imagine an investor who's sitting there saying, like, like I have a kid, daughter or son. I am excited for them to take an Uber, get assaulted, and then get told that, you know, they're because they've been a victim of abuse in their past that they're an unreliable narrator and lose the assault lawsuit. You can vote out well, you can vote out Darrell from the board at least. Th these are horrible people running a horrible company. Get out. I wanna what's probably not in the platform but should be if we were if if we were tagging news back in two thousand eight is this do remember this great w when he was CEO at Merrill Lynch, John Thane Tane? He he famously s he spent over one point two million dollars of company money to redecorate his office, including an eighty seven thousand dollar ear rug and a fourteen hundred dollar wastebasket in two thousand eight. Yeah, Thane. Do remember what happened around two thousand eight? Yeah, I I vaguely remember, yeah. It was like a financial pandemic. Yeah, something like that. horrible. Move on, move on. I hate it. Some kind of a collapse. Yeah. okay, that's the Uber story. Th the second one, TikTok withheld a safety feature for millions. One died by suicide. I I I know it's odd that I selected the story, but you know what? I I'm just like it's weird that we never talk about TikTok. I I don't know how they I don't know I don't know how they I just don't know how they avoid the we talk about meta all the time. Instagram, Elon. Right, so I just wanted to give I wanted to give TikTok tickets due. So what the story is about is that it they they tweaked their algorithm in twenty twenty one to stop users from being overwhelmed with harmful content. Well now TikTok is owned by Ellison, right? Like isn't that isn't an Ellison property? overwhelmed by it. They just wanted to them to be whelmed, not overwhelmed. Yeah. At that point that's when you should be shutting the company down. But that's a whole nother story. but the company did not roll out the safer version to everyone, including to internal documents, to see if the change might reduce the app's stickiness. The company conducted an experiment and it created a control control group of ten percent of US users, which would have been about fifteen million people, and according to documents one of those people was a sixteen year old named Chase Naska, who again, according to the the documents, the algorithm pushed him thousands tho I I can't even believe that I can't believe I'm reading, pushed him thousands of videos about suicide, sadness, hopelessness, and loneliness right up to the moment where he killed himself. I I so I I I to your point about Uber, I mean, we're taking this very specific viewpoint about, you know, voting people out and holding people accountable, but I don't know, like w when are the CEOs just gonna lose their jobs for crap like and when's it gonna get worse? When's it gonna get elevated to a criminal how is this not a criminal matter? You can't do that at TikTok. But Byte Dance Byte Dance is it's Chinese owned. It well the the that's that's a good that's the good ang right, like because they are conducting social experiments on their users. That's what they're doing. They ba and they said that. They basically said we will conduct an experiment on and on ten percent of the users, right? Like so gig work is a social experiment. Yeah, right. Which is fifteen million people, mind you. It is a b a couple of tech bros came up with the idea and they're conducting it as a mass social experiment on the United States. Social media constantly conducting social experiments on you. How are people going to react? How what emotions they're gonna have? There was just a story about Zuckerberg has been they at Meta they've been paying content creators now and they're finding that the content creators that they're paying are are paid to induce rage. They're paid actually to make you angry. That's what they're paid to do. That's a social experiment. it's I don't want to talk about the do you have any stories that I'm gonna like? Hmm. cool. Well, I I feel angry. Yeah. Fifteen fifteen million people, by the way, is the population of New England. So basically like anyone you see is someone that they were maybe experimenting on it. That's a lot of people. by the way, on a side note, there was a terrible story that happened on TikTok where some celebrity gossip dude, Perez Hilton, was live streaming acts of self harm. I don't know the full story. I don't like that. Might as well. Yeah, yeah. but I I don't know, he was like hurting himself and they th is something that shouldn't have been shown. And TikTok TikTok is blaming it on a moderator error. Not on themselves, but on a moderator who probably makes what, like seven dollars an hour, if that. Yeah. I moving on. No, you're not gonna like any of my stories. moving on. Yeah. Aren't the moderators contractors too? That's that's so much better. Yeah. That's so much better. The government accountability office finds Elon Musk's doge inflated claims of a hundred and ten billion dollars in savings for the federal government. I know you're not you're not surprised by this, but it's a data story and it covers like the biggest director and CEO in our database. So I was like, I'll just cover it. So they found that not this is crazy. This whole story is nuts. I this is like I I What I don't know why anyway, I'm not gonna get on a soapbox about Elon Musk, but they found that ninety-six percent of the savings Doge claimed from grant cancellations lack supporting evidence or methodology to verify. they claimed that twenty-seven billion dollars in savings across twenty five hundred contracts were never actually terminated or reduced, so they lied about that. Over forty percent of the lease cancellations listed were already in progress before the agency was created. That sounds like What? being a founder of Tesla, right? He was never a founder of Tesla. That that's right. They b somebody else did the work and you show up. Uncovered uncovered widespread data errors such as overstating total lease savings by nearly sixty million dollars and then it failed to disclose how they calculated its metrics and they completely ignored requests for interviews and supporting data. So yeah, right? I mean I know you're not surprised, but y you know the same stuff's going on at SpaceX and Tesla, so as retail investors get anyway I This is how they operate. This is how the sist they yeah. Here's the real reason I I grabbed the story, because you know, we look at the people behind these companies. We don't just like deal with the headlines. So there's another story. He said, Where are Elon Musk's former Doge staffers now? Okay, so I'm just gonna quickly go over this. Edward Edward Big Balls Edward Big Balls Corestine. Remember there was a guy named Big Balls? So now he he he works at something called the National Design Studio. He's trying to make federal websites like prettier. yeah. I don't w wanna know. I'm gonna be angry. Yeah, big balls. I remember him, yeah. Okay, whatever. Jeremy Levin, Lewin. he actually is now on the White House National Security Council. after moving to the State Department C becoming a senior official for foreign assistance, humanitarian affairs, and religious freedom. So after dismantling USAID, he basically got a Nate Kavanaugh, Justin Fox, founded this is now we're getting to the founder part of the story. They founded a holding company called Special. Okay. That's horrible. Religious freedom? Come on. Which promises to do for private businesses what Doge did to the federal government, which I guess means what? Like ruin it? Fake everything. Gavin Kleiger, Luke Ferrator, Marco Alezn, Jack Stein. No sir, though everything I'm everyone talking about is a man. Founded Cathedral, a startup that plans to use AI to expand US military cyber capabilities, including defenses against China, right? Of course. W inflate the numbers, fake like accounting fraud? China. Just say China a bunch. And then finally, Ethan Choutran founded Blitz Industries, which he described as a defense company backed by big names. This this again, here's why I'm triggered by this. This is why all this is so important to me. Like it's it's so important to me to constantly remind people how important it is to know who, who are making the decisions, getting the f the VC funding, who. You gotta know who is involved. You can't just This is You can't just squint and blame everything on like like Target, you know? You gotta like drill down a bit deeper. That's all I'm saying. It's not just you can't get mad at Doge, right? I mean you gotta get a little more sophisticated than getting mad at an acronym. Yeah, get a name. Yeah. Look, if you were like a medieval serf, like working in the fields, you wouldn't throw your cabbage at like the company. You'd throw the cabbage at like at at like Gus, the guy who like d did you wrong, right? Just know the name. Right. At the company's sign. And finally, in an article that we covered earlier this week, but I wanted to give it praise for a story of the week, why companies that call themselves meritocracies don't always pay equally. and this other article, meritocracy claims make managers pay men more than equally qualified women. So some of the takeaways from this study is that explicitly branding an organization of meritocracy lowers managers' vigilance against bias, making them more likely to discriminate. given it identical job titles and performance ratings, men are are making more money than women, of course, even though they're equally qualified than women. blah blah blah. I think you can imagine the takeaway from all of this is that the meritocracy is a sham, it's a joke. In fact, it's worse than that. It's a system used to keep women down. Yeah. I mean the short version of that the short vers the y using the word meritocracy. Yes. The word meritocracy by itself. In fact, the MIT study that was ha that is worth repeating this because we did it on Tuesday, but the MIT study found that using the word meritocracy, and if you have like a bonus program at your company and if you say it's a meritocracy, they will pay men more. If you say it's not a meritocracy, they tend to pay women more. That that's it. That's the whole thing. It cr it's a s it's a systemic illusion which is h keeping women underpaid, right? So y the this is this is the incredibly s heavily biased overreaction to DEI by the conservatives in America, right? Like Conservatives led by Elon Musk and the hundreds of millions of dollars that he throws at this very cause, right? Because it this is his thing. all right. It's you know, we're in the part of the summer, really since July first, like where it's kind of hard to find traditional business stories. I don't know if everyone's off or And doge, yeah. I don't like these stories. Do I have to choose one or what's the what's the rules? Yeah, I'll f we're we're off next week. and I don't know if we're off the week after that, maybe even to to recoup. Yeah, maybe. man. Yeah, I mean there's kind of no I'm going I'm gonna go with the meritocracy. Yeah, I'm gonna go with meritocracy because well, first of all, Doge we knew. What? Double? A double off? Alright, what do you got? What do you pick? Really? Okay, I'm okay with that. We that they they were covering how that was a big fat fraud from the beginning, from the very start. It did nothing, it cost us money, and in fact it just ruined our stata status in the world. Like Elon Musk cannot run a company. He's not good at it, right? But yeah Right, but true. But what what I like about the story though is that and it's what we try to adhere to here daily as we do our work is that instead of just saying a thing, like actually try to like align it with data and objective findings, right? Like with an actual methodology and you can't just say a thing and then move on, like right. I like that too. But but I I at least the the content of the story I we we kind of knew it. T TikTok, we also knew that they're all they're all doing social experiments on us. Get off of Just put your phone down. Go outside. We know. I just wanted to remind people that TikTok sucks. It could have been Uber. I would have been accepted I would have accepted Uber and meritocracy. Uber was the other one I would have considered because it's so heinous. But I think, you know, the the the platform solves that problem, which is you know exactly who to vote out. And you can write them a letter and say, this is why I'm voting against all of you, because this is heinous. especially blaming the legal system. It's the legal system's fault. You're all you're horrible human beings. The meritocracy we knew was a fraud, but finally people are doing studies on the idea of the meritocracy. In fact Horrible. Yeah. On the platform itself, on the Free Flow platform, there is a section called Advanced Diagnostics, Merit, Network, and Risk, where it shows which directors have merit on paper. You can see at Uber, for instance, that all like only three of the what is it, 12 directors actually cross a single line into has merit to be on this board on paper. The meritocracy we knew was a fraud. And I love that they're proving it. I like that they're doing that. All right. Let's Let's not forget too before we move on that even if you're not an investor, if you're a consumer, you can also, like Matt said, y first you can stop using Uber, but you can write a letter just like an investor might and say, Hey, this is why we're not going, and these are the directors that we're mad about and th and you know you can s l list their names and you can use the database for more than just investing, right? Or voting decisions. Consumer decisions are just as important. yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In fact I mentioned that, you know, Bob Eckert's on the Levi Strauss board. Like that that's a you can write two companies. You could write to Uber and to Levi Strauss and say, You have a director that is basically okay with the fact that they're victim blaming. And as a person shopping at either Levi's or, you know, using Uber, I'm not okay with that. all right, let's move on because I hate everything. it's meritocracy. Right. Let's move on. Goodliest. d goodliest, yeah, goodliest. I've got I got one, but it's like four things in the one. Alright, well, then I'll go first and get mine over with. Because I I took a map perspective this week, which is I'm like, the I kind of, but actually, okay, here's the lesson. The the headline is Google scraps AI satellite images within twenty four hours. so this happened after fierce backlash from journalists, researchers, and open source intelligence experts who warned that it could accelerate the spread of misinformation. It was basically it was letting users generate AI created satellite images. Ironic good. on the Google Earth and on Google you know, I the whole thing sounds ma like a madness to me. But but but here's my takeaway. Here's my takeaway. Alphabet and I and not really companies, I'm talking about the men who run the companies, right? Like you can stop things. Look look what you did here. It took you twenty four hours to shut it down. You can do this with other things. You don't have to make us all like I w why? What w what's the upside? Yeah, yeah, the dictators, yeah, yeah. Drooling idiots who don't know how to socialize, don't know how to read, don't know how to write, like who rely on your technology to function. Like you can shut things down. Okay, so yeah. Okay, all right. Yeah, I'm not gonna vote for that one as goodliest. mine my goodliest is just the court system in the United States. Here are the four headlines I saw. Court rules against Trump's EPA freeze on twenty billion in green bank funds. So I wish they'd rule against all this like there was another article today about he's paying another European company to shut down like they're paying like a d a one point two billion dollars. To shut down wind. He is using taxpayer money to stop us making money, right? Like it's unbelievable. UBS fined record 125 million for money laundering violations. Awful awful man. Yeah. I hate that the I hate that they get away with stuff like that. With it's just a fine. Meta find 567 million and largest child safety ruling against social media giant. So half a billion's not nothing. Yeah, well that's a that's in addition to the fine that so th that's not a New Mexico. That's an additional so the the original fine was like three hundred and something million and this is an additional they're like tagging it on because they're creating a fund basically because you know, because meta is so heinous. Yeah, that's the New Mexico one. Honestly, this is the Aaron Brokovich thing, right? Like they they're just gonna have a fund that they pay out to every teen who's been like you know ruined by this. And then f finally, Judge says Nextstar can't appoint its executives to Tegna's board of directors. So do you remember Nextstar and Tegna when the FCC attacked Jimmy Kimmel? Like it par remember Tegna and Nextstar were the affiliates who said Jimmy Kimmel Hey. Yeah. Huh? What is that what's the quick story there? Kind of. yeah. Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah. they were the ones who came out and said Kimmel besmirched Charlie Kirk. and and they wanted to merge and create like one massive affiliate group. Well, now a judge is saying, Well, yeah, but you you like the judge can't say you you can't merge because somebody else said they could merge, but the judge is like, Well, you can't put your executives on the board. You it's not it's not gonna be like you know, your executives are sitting on this board. Yeah. Thank God. huh. Wow. I was gonna say if if you weren't off next week, I was gonna say I wanna get more into that story. That sounds fascinating. Okay, later, later. Yeah, we'll go more into it when we get back. all right, so I'm gonna go with quartz as as the winner for that. All right, but here we go. We didn't do assholes. The story of the week was the ass a bunch of assholes. I don't know what I'm gonna add here. just move on. It's courts, yeah. Well, we've look Yeah, look, we've made it clear all year that the the the court system is really in this country has become like the most important wall of defense against a a lot of the sh the horrible behavior coming out of corporations in the Donald Trump administration. So yeah, I I think you're right to praise the courts. Every time we see something like this, I think you're right to and and the good news is that everything we tag here and talk about will if you go to the meta. page of the new platform, you'll see that when you scroll down, you'll see that they're every time they've been fined by a court or whatever. All this all this great stuff. I I didn't do what you love though, which is to find out if every judge was a woman, because that does seem to be the only thing that happens. All right. I've you got four options, okay? number one, everything's a publicity stunt. I'm I'm just gonna read headlines. I'm gonna keep this simple. Just gonna read some headlines. All right. headline jealously watching open AI and anthropic meta suddenly claims that its AI went on a hacking spree, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kee asshole. Yeah. Okay, what does that mean? Yeah, let's keep it simple for once. Well, you do deserve kudos for this because you you s you suggested as such, but here's where I'm gonna here's where I'll just disagree with you a little bit, is that a at at AI, you suggested that that Sam Altman too was doing it to show off. I think Sam Altman actually is is a sociopath and and you can't really understand why he does anything he does. He's at once warning you that he's ruining the world, but at the other side is saying like don't stop me. But but we know that Zuck is Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OpenAI did it. is definitely doing this for publicity because he's like he's failing so hardcore at everything he does with meta and now with AI. He's losing so much money that I absolutely agree with you. You called it like they're they're pretending like this is a good thing, right? He is sh So pretend. I like honestly. Is there if you put Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg next to each other in the hierarchy of punchable people, it Zuck is number one, right? Like 1A to the 1B, maybe? Like the he's just such a like needy, like look at me, like copying. He's like that the the like I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's a great question. Yeah. Kid in your neighborhood who you never wanted to pick for dodgeball and you fucking hate that he follows you around. that's good. and I also saw the headline Zuckerberg conveys quote apologies for child sex abuse material errors and operating platform government sources say. Yes, this and he he said he conveyed his apologies. good news is that you have two you have two you have two fists, you realize. You realize you have two fists. This is India, right? Yeah. my bad. Just sorry for all the child sex abuse material. Yeah, and the only reason why he's doing that is because the population of India is a bit bigger than the population of New England. Cause there's so many potential like addicts there that he that's the only reason because he doesn't apologi he doesn't apologize, but he doesn't want to he doesn't he's not gonna lose that customer base. So if they tell him to apologi 'cause they they force him to apologize. I we've tagged those stories throughout the week where the government, the Modi government was basically you Yeah. Yeah, he can't leave. He can't leave there. Better apologize. So we did, yeah. Yeah, come out and apologize. a how about these for publicity stunts? Pure insanity. Elon Musk details SpaceX plans to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site. It you know, it's funny you mentioned that there was a funny headline in Futurism this week that said they finally like SpaceX finally landed something on the moon, but it was a but it was like a going at four thousand miles an hour or whatever and crashing into the moon. 'Cause they cr yeah, 'cause now they're just d SpaceX is just dumping its crap that it doesn't know how to control onto like you know, celestial bodies that orbit the Earth because that's what Elon Musk does. Yeah, fifty four hundred miles an hour it crashed into the moon. Literally, the guy, the guy whose whose starting point for Tesla was we need to save the earth from climate change and fossil fuels, is dumping trash on the moon. He's just putting his trash on the moon. You're a fucking asshole. Anthropic's mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident. So look, Anthropic. On the moon. Yeah. Great. Okay, so now we got right, we have anthropic meta and AI. Yeah. Anthropic came out like four months ago with their Mythos is too powerful to give to anybody, so we're going to keep it under wraps press release. Then open AI and then Anthropic, their valuation crossed open AI's. It was b they're they're more valuable. Created fake identities to fool humans. Yeah, they're 'cause they're can now I actually really do believe you because the the worse the company is, or the quote unquote, the smarter they are, right? The the more nefarious the model is, the more devilish it is, seem to th their valuation goes up immediately, right? 'Cause Yeah, right. Suddenly the valuation goes up. And so open AI, once their valuation was below anthropics, they announced, we accidentally went rogue and hacked somebody. And then open AI gets a whole lot of attention. And now you got Zuck. guys, we did it too. I mean, look, the the fact is we know the Zuck's version of this. Sam Altman is sociopathic enough to have like used Yeah. Good call. Yeah, we broke into the cookie jar too, yeah. an actual incident because I think the incident's probably real. I think he's sociopathic enough to use the incident as a marketing device. I think Zuckerberg literally was like hack a site we need to announce. I mean I don't I'm not fucking joking. I th I honestly think that that guy was just like we're we look like we're falling behind. RAI needs to hack somebody. So just you know like hack you know the local you know car gra auto mechanic. I don't care. yeah, it's real. Yeah. I I think you're probably right. Yeah. 'Cause they are. Yeah. I I usually don't fall for your nonsense, but I if there was actual any independent oversight at that company, I I bet you you they would unearth exactly that. I bet you th if the directors were allowed to do their jobs there, they would find that Mark Zuckerberg does stuff like that. Yes. Are you saying Dana White's not looking currently? Dana White also losing money. I heard he lost like thirty million dollars on his weird fight at the White House. The all just lose money but somehow are the most powerful people in the world. I don't know really know how it works, but yeah. Yeah, I would have. Th they're they're big fat frauds. And and then the last one was the GAO Elon Musk story, which is the the Doge was a a publicity stunt. It was a publicity stunt in in its entirety. A fraudulent pro publicity stunt. I it was but i but the diff here's the difference is that Elon Musk has like an otherworldly ego. I don't know where he got it and I think he thinks because he th because he says a thing that he's gonna achieve it. Like when he says, we're gonna colonize Mars by twenty twenty one, he just assumes it's gonna happen because he just thinks th that highly of himself. I I think that's possible, but I think actually like th like they're all meant to I mean, Elon Musk was brought in to slash and improve the US government. The result was the and the result was he's a trillionaire, right? Like he went from a hundred two hundred billion dollar net worth to a trillion dollar net worth. The the di this is the ends justifying the means. This is like seven guys have all the money and they think, well, what I what we say is truth. 'Cause he paid his way in by giving hundreds of millions of dollars to the election. Right, yeah. Right. Because even if like I just do a vanity project and I lose money on that project, it doesn't matter. What I say is truth because I have all the money in the end. number two, everything's a vanity project. Speaking of vanity projects, Jeff Bezos says he's selling one billion in Amazon stock every year to fund Blue Origin. It's the most important work I'm doing. Alright. What else you got? Y you're not wrong. What else you got? Mm-hmm. More important than than like shipping like shoe trees from from Vietnam to in like one hour for seventeen cents. I can't I can't argue that. I can't argue against that part. But doesn't he have a nonprofit that does like climate work? Yeah. Supposedly there was a there was a press release about some partnership with like Leonardo DiCaprio this week. It's all just fluff. But like what he's saying the most important work he's doing is shooting penis rockets into the the mesosphere. That's the most important work you're doing. That's it. It's not saving the planet. It's not using your billions to help hungry people. It's not like you know, like that's the most important I mean, you had a yacht built in a place that couldn't actually get the yacht out, and so you didn't wanted to destroy ancient bridges for your personal yacht. But the most important work you're doing Is actually crafting like out of clay a a penis shaped rocket to send in the outer space. how about SpaceX achieves its first moon landing, crashing it at 5400 miles an hour? SpaceX is basically a vanity project for this fucker. I I I mean, I I know I just hate everything about it. And then this one, Judge sets Paramount Warner Brothers merger trial for March. Yeah. March. Wow, that's a f long way away. Well, I forget how long it is. Paramount Warner Brothers is a vanity project. The merger is Daddy, Daddy, give me some money, Daddy. I wanna buy some TV shows. Like it's so lame. For the Al for Ellison? Yeah. Let's not forget, if it wasn't for his friendship with Trump, Larry's friendship, Netflix would have already owned it at this point, right? I mean, yeah. How about this one that I'm just gonna add this one only because it tweaked me and I didn't know how to fit it into my stories. OpenAI's Greg Brockman gave six million dollars to protect the home of an internet famous bald eagle named Jackie. So this is yeah. Yeah. What a shoot on a douche back. I mean, luckily w they've solved like the homeless crisis in California. But so this tool from OpenAI is giving six million dollars for an eagle nest. That's that's great. That's cool. Yeah. It's good. That's good. I mean, six million dollars. If I go back up to what you pulled out of the Doge story, that's like you know, ten percent of the lease savings that they screwed up, right? Like so that's good. how about number three? Everyone's a victim. There you go. Great. yeah, you've had a lot of these this summer. There's been a lot of good like we are victim stories this summer. Well I you pull the story, The AI bros are lonely. That's the headline. And it's talking about like how they like they're they they're in dark rooms, they don't leave their desks, they wish they could go out, they don't socialize. and I was like, Boo fucking who do something else, AI dumbass. And and then when I saw these stories, it all sort of felt like just victimhood. Palantir CEO Alex Carp. Yeah, yeah. That yeah. I bet. It's the world they created. Yeah. Well, can I Yeah. I was gonna say when you talk about the the AI bros are are lonely that because there was a reporting out this week that says that we're using thirty percent fewer words a day than we did twenty years ago. Th this is the world that they created. They have final go ahead. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, that's their fault. It's not any there's a straight line from that them to us. Yes, they have funnel us into a dark world where we consume like media and a and that's it. That that's w that they are fundamentally changing our brains and we're all sitting around watching it happen. We're all simultaneously angry about it, but we ref we kinda refuse to do anything about it. It's my fault, right? Yeah. Well, it is my fault because if I could figure out how to get this platform into like the hands of But it's also your fault. That's the thing. It's a it's not it's not their fault. they're a victim of this. everybody and have everyone invest and vote based on like what is in our platform, then maybe we start making a difference. But you're right. Since I'm failing at that, it is my fault. You're right. Yes. It is your it's your fault that you failed. Palantir CEO Alex Carp says Frontier AI Labs will steal your IP, your know-how, and your expertise. You deserve to be colonized. How about that fucking word? Like it's isn't that unbelievable? Like, like, the AI is coming for you, and if you use it, you deserve to be like taken over, have all your shit stolen. What if Just that he's using that word colonized gave me the gave me the creeps. I know. It's not a word to throw around, yeah. Jerk. Isn't this the guy who claims to hate elite people? Yeah. But now people deserve to be colonized. yeah. What are you talking about? Like, are you supposed to aren't you on my side? We deserve to be what a fuckhead. And finally, my favorite Bill Ackman. Socialism is a disaster. Bill Ackman says Zoran Mamdani's bad left-wing housing policy is worsening New York's affordability crisis. Cause it's Mamdanny's been there for like nine minutes, and it's his fault. Not that you bought all the houses because you're a billionaire and a blowhard and can do whatever you want. Right. yeah. Well Mamdanny definitely ruined housing in New York. It's his fault. Yeah. Yeah. Not that you don't pay any taxes. Like I know you're gonna say like, I pay more in taxes than everybody else. Yeah, but not as a percentage of your income or net worth. So that that that's not, you know, has nothing to do. I'm h it the the problem is Mamdani. Ackman's just a victim. Yeah, it's a brown man who who cares too much. He's bleeding heart, I guess. And then finally, number four, no one is accountable. these just these three headlines just threw me mentally for a loop. The first one really just blew my mind. Bobby Kotik, former CEO of Activision. Okay. Go ahead. yeah. We used to cover him a lot back in the day. May join Paramount's board of directors. I love how I love that first of all I love that it says May join it's the first time they've had a headline where someone might join a board. Yeah, I've fur yeah, I've not seen any headlines where someone maybe could join a board. Feel like that's the perfect relationship, the the Ellisons and the Koticks. But they have approached him to join the board after the acquisition. and so so he hasn't joined yet. But just so we're clear who Bobby Kotik is, he's the guy who had basically like sex dens and y like at Activision, the they had some of the worst sexual misconduct stories we saw in years. Mm-hmm. Which means he will. Yeah. Yeah, we covered them. There were stories for months. We couldn't stop covering them. I I mean like it was like sh some of the worst possible stuff. Like hotel rooms where they would bring like there were like seven girls who worked there and they'd bring them to hotel rooms and force them to have sex. It was like cr super creep. And California California like find them. it ended up like forcing his hand into the sale of Activision to Microsoft, except that he golden parachuted his way out, obviously. He made a Super creep. Yeah. Worse than worse than creep. Yes, absolutely. Mm-hmm. Course, yeah. Well that's how it always happens, yeah. It can it broke up his empire, but he still benefited from it. And then I saw that And then he's gonna join the Ellison, you know, Nepo babies on the Paramount board. Yeah, well Paramount they're the ones who show things like, you know, UFC the Dana White UFC rumbles, so there you go. Yeah. Fucking hate it all. and we cover this on Tuesday, but Jeffrey's analyst calls out simple-minded criticism of SpaceX governance. I love this one. I love I love this guy. What are you doing? This is the Anakin Shaw. Yeah. I actually was thinking about this. I was having a very nerdy thought this morning about governance where I was thinking like 'cause there there seems to be this established like level of governance internationally that's okay. Right? Like like we all we we're all gonna agree that this minimum level of corporate governance is an absolute must. These are the standards that we should all otherwise it's gonna we're gonna crumble into this corrupt world of but but if it goes like there's some like imaginary line that if we step over, then we're all a bunch of bird brain idiots, right? Like like w you gotta have some, but we're gonna tell you when enough is enough. And that's what that that's what this guy's doing. He's basically saying like, Okay, yeah, but no. 'Cause I 'cause I love I love sir I love Elon Musk, so get away. Yeah, but his version It he doesn't he doesn't love Elon Musk. His version of it is you you'll make a lot of money on S you could make a lot of money on SpaceX. So your simple minded government your simple minded governance is you aren't taking into account the fact that you'll make a lot of money. And it's like, yeah, what the fuck? Like like that first of all, that that like So why have Why care about it at all? So why do we why do we have any rules then? Throw it all away. Disproportionately is great for the rich people who can afford to buy the stock and sit on it for 30 years and wait, right? Like they make all the money. Post IPO, you're down 30%, right? Like already, right? Like so, and if you're gonna say it's a long term stock, sure. There are other companies there you could have a company that allows for governance, like proper governance, to happen and be a long-term stock just because. Free IPO, yeah. The last few tech bros had dual-class shares. Does that mean that that is simple-minded to ask for your basic rights as an investor? Yeah, there is a there there is a world possible where companies that are governed like that remain private, right? 'Cause that's what they are. They're private. And then on the on the public markets we actually have standards. Like that's a that's a world that we could live in. Yeah. And the second thing is, how about the word simple-minded? Because he's talking about like like he basically is like, all you like people who are thinking about like dual class shares and that you don't have rights that you know, like that's a simple way to think of it. It's the same argument that Jeff Sonnenfeld made, except I'm not looking at simple-minded data. I'm literally looking at data on 250,000 directors around the world over 30-year periods. Yeah. W looking at how they perform, what boards that they're on, the connections they have, their merit, their how they're deferential to executives. Like there's a lot of not simple data. So saying it's simple-minded is actually like I take personal like affront to that because I'm looking at the names of these people and the boards that they're on and what they actually do, and they're just they just suck Elon Musk's dick all day long. That's all they do. And you're asking for my money. Well I c can I re Yeah. To have those people suck his dick all day long while I get what little they're willing to give me in the hopes that it's a generational wealth event. Get out. You're part of something. Yeah, you're part of something. Look look, can I I need to remind people too, and and including what's this guy's name? Anniket Shaw, who's I'm connected to on LinkedIn. I've met him before. He's very nice, but this is a fucking stupid. I want I want him to come on the show. But Anakin, let's not forget that it was only seven years ago that the business route round table and and believe me, they wouldn't have put this out if they didn't have some belief in it. they wouldn't have gone this far. but they put out a statement about the purpose of a corporation, basically opening the door saying, Hey, the world's getting a little nutty and and we need to re reframe how we think about shareholder capitalism. Like it's It's time to grow up. And beyond that, e even like the CEO of places like Walmart, who was the guy? McMillan. McMillan was like fully in to stakeholder capitalism. Because again, like i the world has changed drastically, right? And that's seven years ago. So we know there's some truth in there. So now you fast forward seven years and we've all like conveniently forgotten and and and this the Jeffries analysts is just Yeah, McMillan. They haven't forgotten All we all we can focus on is is making shareholders making money. That's it. That's it. That's the end of the statement. What they've done is bend the knee. That's all they've done. There's more to just shareholders making money, Jeffrey's analysts. And you know it's true. Yeah. All all all I know is that that that they need to justify a position that is you are giving up every right you have in the the only goal is total shareholder return. That's the only goal. There is no other goal. There it doesn't matter if it destroys the earth, it doesn't matter if you have less rights, it doesn't matter if you it will. It's gonna take us into the Dark Ages. It's gonna Yeah. I I don't know that it's gonna destroy the earth, but we already see evidence of it destroying our our culture and civilization. We know that. Yeah. Look, I'm taking a flight tonight. I'm go we're going away. y you know, we're t we're on British Air. They've changed our seats four times since we booked the flight in December. Because capitalism, that's why. They changed the plane. They they they charge you for premium. They want to charge you for put things like the the fact is, like there is a cost to total shareholder return. You aren't factoring it in because you don't give a fuck about it. There is i the Why? Because they can su they could Right. Yeah. True. Yeah. The offset to total shareholder return that to limit the cost of it, but still get it, is shareholder rights. It is the board. It is governance. It is the things that you get as an investor for your money. It's like the that's the that's the job. This just so triggered me. And all this is is capitulation. and then the last one is ABC C B S N B C aired near. And st and stakeholders. Yeah, stakeholders. All right. it's more. Yeah. nearly two hundred segments about three US heat events without mentioning climate change. You know what? We're I I realize now that our brains are are a little bit too like overlapping because I saw that headline too and I my first thought was like I gotta pull out who who owns these who owns ABC, C B S and N B Cause I'm curious, like this can't be a coincidence, can it? Yeah, that's exactly what I did. Did did you know Iger's still on the board of Disney? He's he hasn't left yet. He's he's he's still in it he's in his advisory board role. He's still on the board or whatever. I d actually did not know that, yeah. Well at least Disney is is like I guess the only company that is a a a regular boring one share, one vote, non family controlled company, right? That's true. That's the one. The other two are are are the Ellison family again. It is l you know, little David and Daddy Larry and the Roberts family who owns Comcast, which owns MBC. The Roberts family, a dual class company, owns MBC outright, as a dual class company. So it's basically one cowed executive in Bob Iger and two dictators who we're getting our information from and they refuse to mention climate change. Yeah. So every like sh so every like schmuck on the subway will mention climate change in relation to like the horrible heat, but the the news, the the the news from our three big networks won't mention it. Right. Oof Oof. I'm gonna go right to known as accountable. You triggered me with They refuse to mention that it's what scientists told us. Yeah. The news won't. Cause they're 'cause no one is accountable anywhere. those are your four. Everything's a publicity stunt, vanity project, victim and no one is accountable. Ooh, I didn't expect that. I I you know, you know me. I get triggered by the Jeffree Sonnenfelds of the world and the Jeff the Jeffries analyst calling out simple minded criticism I'm that I'm of course, I mean I he probably did that to get attention. I don't know why he's I don't know why he's using terms like but that's very Sonnenfeldian, right? Is to like to kinda go the opposite direction and really just like make it this a hyperbolic statement like s I don't know, I just thought it was unnecessary. No, I I don't think it was I think it was like I think it was a justification for look if we don't invest in this we could miss out. It's FOMO, right? What happens if I don't invest in this because of s of of some governance thing? Right? Like that's simple minded. Well that's that's the thing. Like, you know, like y y y you you haven't assessed the trade off. You haven't said like, well I could've get two thousand percent return. Great. At what fucking cost? We ride winners. Yeah. I don't care about your FOMO. W is he a teenager? I don't care. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Like literally SpaceX is in swamplands in Louisiana, like blowing up like c conservation lands. They're polluting everywhere. XAI was building data centers in people's backyards and just chucking pollution at them. Like the the one guy is a trillionaire and he's buying elections and he's the guy you you but you get a two thousand percent return. So you could you you could You could spend a hundred hours listing every horrible thing that Elon Musk has done. All right, yeah, let's come on. I feel like we're making good time though. We're making good time. Although I feel like I'm about to slow it down. Unfucking real to me. All right, let's get out of here. Let's yeah, I'm so d I'm like peppy and angry. headlines, winners, predictions. I unfortunately I think I'm gonna slow it down with my headlines. I had a lot of things. I I I had a lot of misplaced thoughts, but I'll try to go quickly. Pepsi's launching soda scented body wash. Pricewaterhouse Cooper's Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. I know. Yeah, you know what it is, is I got greedy because you're going away and and I and because everything is now complicated in the world. I used to be able to like man, I have one short headline. Yeah. Did you wait a minute, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You needed another headline after that? record my own shows and put them out so easily. But now every platform we have is like makes everything so hard and I you know I'm not gonna be able to figure out how to do it and put it out without you. So I just wanted to throw in a few thoughts before you left. Price Waterhouse Cooper's US CEO Paul Griggs advises young workers to say yes a lot even if it means working on the weekends, right? Which I loved. But then there was another article about Price Waterhouse Cooper saying that they got caught using AI on their thought leadership report about AI resulted resulting in a corporate document filled with bizarre hallucinations. So so who is I don't know who is working a lot there? The people are just using AI? Well no, that's that's the work you're doing on the weekends. You just say, Yes, I'll do that report, then you throw it into Chat GPT and it pops out a report and you're like, See, I worked over the weekend on this so My other headline that triggered me was DoorDash CEO Tony Shu once thought his $87 billion company would only make $100 million. He tells founders to be greedy. Now, let me just show you what greed. I I want to show you what greed is. it's it's having multiple class shares, right? Where the class B shares have 20 votes. So Tony, so yeah, so Tony. Yeah. Be greedy. Yeah, which he has. bigger than the ten normal the normal ten. Tony Shu only owns about 3% of the actual shares, right? But because of a binding agreement with his other founders, he controls 55% of voting power, right? And and even worse, I was digging into the proxy. he quote unquote made four hundred and thirty two thousand dollars last year, right? That's according to the total summary compensation. And they actually said that that resulted in a CEO pay ratio of only 12 to 1, right? What a hero! That's what they said. Nice. My hero. But then you just scroll a little bit further down, he actually made $343 million from shares and stocks last year. He he exercised that much on options and shares, right? So that's a lie. And then I dug in little deeper. They happened to leave out the dashers, the door dashers who keep the company running. They weren't figured into the actual median conversation because they don't really exist, right? They they They're gig workers. They're not real. They're not real. They're just the people who do the assault. They're not real. And they they make about fifteen dollars an hour, not even including all the expenses that they have to they have to pay for, like fuel, vehicle wear, self employment taxes, blah blah blah blah blah. So it's all it's all a bunch of just a bunch of I mean, I guess he's right though, right? I mean you gotta be greedy to to build an empire like this, right? That's true. He yeah, he did. just f just for the record, Tony Shu also on the meta board. So he's a dictator engaged w engaging a dictator, yeah. Is that right? I forgot about that. With w and finally my my last one, last headline of the week, anthropic CEO Des Dario Mode. reportedly worried new hires only care about money that that they're they're cut they're coming to the company for money rather than the mission. He's worried about that. wait, I th Wait, I thought that you were supposed to be greedy. And I thought I was supposed to say yes to things and be greedy. yeah. Also, it's your it's your dumb company like helping to d destroy the world. So I don't know, just like I don't I I mean maybe change the whole structure? Maybe maybe I I don't know. I mean make it a non profit, make it a public benefit corporation? I I don't know. I mean it is? So maybe just change change how you pay people. I don't know. I just like you're the boss. Like make it It is a d anthropic's a PBC. Anthropic is a PBC, yeah, yeah. Maybe turn off the AI and go start a shoe store. Yeah, you're blaming people for for so you're you get to be a billionaire, all your buddies are, but you're you're mad at people who who are coming to your company to make money? I Jesus Christ. all right, what do you what you got? Good. I have a lot of things to say before you go away, yeah. But I'm mad that somebody wants some money. I'm mad at you for wanting money. I wanted all the money. I got one. I did this right. The headline is. Stripe CEO says his urgency to drop out of MIT, quote, was a bit unnecessary. We should pin that to our website for everyone at college who Peter Thiel is forcing to drop out because he wants to like he wants to take over your brain, just stay in school. Alex Carp is saying the best education you can get is working for Palantir and making no money. We'll give you a better education. Don't go to those elite colleges. Just just remember Stripe CEO said, maybe it was a bit unnecessary to trap out so quickly, maybe. who won the week for you? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Don't go to MIT. Yeah. Stay in college. Harvard Business speaking of Cambridge, Massachusetts, right here in our beloved New England, Harvard Business School graduates, TikTok CEO Shu Zhi Chu and TikTok US CEO Adam Presser both got MBAs from Harvard, because nobody ever talks about them. Nobody knows where they are, and they just get away with like social as you said, social experiments and but it's like n nobody knows where they are. Nope. Nobody knows. I barely know who they are. I'd have looked them both up. I have a much easier winner. I dw I I don't know I guess that th those two you're saying that the two CEOs are the winners of the week 'cause no one knows who they are. Yeah, because that's that's the goal, right? I mean, isn't that the ultimate win in this world? Yes, isn't that the is to to somehow yes, exactly. Yes. Well they're not I I guess TikTok US is not a publicly traded entity, right? I mean Byte Dance is, but it's confusing, right? All right. And go ahead. To have all the money and no one knows who you are. Yeah. All right, well I have a Kind of, yeah. Kind of. It's k they're yeah. Well, mine is way easier. My winner is meat. This meat. I I saw the headline Salad and Go files for chapter eleven bankruptcy as t after Cyclospora Fears worsened its challenges. Meaning I I mean like they filed for bankruptcy not because of the parasite, but then but then nobody wanted lettuce. D like Okay. I'm sure there were problems before that, but yeah. They just gave up. Yeah, I get it. Perfect time to give up, I get it. I mean, actually, the thing it did when I saw that headline, first of all, it made me think what a w winner meat is now, right now. Like like you're not getting the the like cyclospora from meat. But the second thing I thought is, could it be possible that RFK Jr. actually manufactured this parasite to get people to buy meat? Because he redrew the food pyramid and put meat at the top of the food pyramid. Guess? It's expensive, right? Yeah, that's true. You know Yeah, you know he's not that smart. You know he's not that smart. Yeah. But you know he's not that clever. And then the bottom of the food pyramid was like lettuce because of parasites. I thought no no, I don't think it exists anyway. Well, now you now you definitely won't hear of it because it doesn't exist. predictions. Salad and go? Yeah. I never even heard of salad and go, so I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so you know, you know me. I a lot of my stories I just add on just to sets up my prediction. The whole the whole Tony Shoe DoorDash was a ruse. it's just setting up my dumb prediction. Cause I I'm that desperate to tell a dumb joke. Tony Shu, my prediction is that Tony Shu introduces a class F stock. I mean short for FU probably. Class F stock where shareholders' children enter indentured servitude. I almost chose that story for other things, but Yeah, yeah, yeah. And must deliver one thousand cheesy Gordita crunchers from Taco Bell before they are set free. And at that point, when they're set free from their indentured servitude, they will get z point zero zero two shares per vote. So that's a c that's a clever system. You gotta be greedy. Yeah. I think it w I think we need indentured servitude back at these coup at these like dictatorships in the US. look, you gotta be greedy. You gotta be greedy. You gotta be greedy. we covered a year ago that child labor's back in the United States, isn't it? Like child labor, the meritocracy of child labor. I th I heard speaking of meritocracy, that meritocracy story triggered me into this prediction. Do it. Let's go. What? Yeah. What do you got? Because I saw this headline. Boards are calling retired CEOs back as succession pipelines run dry. There are hundreds of millions of people in this country. There are eight billion people on earth. You can't find anyone to be the CEO. So here's what here's my prediction. Boards actually run out of ex CEOs to re king. How is that possible? Why is that? Yeah. I like that. I never thought of that. Like you get you get the checker piece to the end of the board and you get you get another checker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You all of are kings and then you can't like you're done. and they begin looking for different egalitarian integrated professionals to fill new roles and they call it D E and I. I thought you were gonna go the other way and say th they they just get rid of the CEO position 'cause so no one can no one can own it. If we can't do it, you ca no one can do it. Yeah. Well, that's the few that's the real future. AI just is there's three CEOs and all the other CEOs are AI. That's all we got. 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