Business Pants – 2022-07-29

Live from room 729 at the Royal Sonesta. Washington, DC, Dupont Circle. It's another big old fat Arias edition of business. Pants for Friday, featuring the data Queen's, two favorite front of maize irritating. I'm a lurking and esg's favorite a-hole, Matt mascardi. I'm a delicious and refreshing, quaff What's a quaff? I don't know. But that's does. It does sound? Gross is a beverage? Damien, if you're gonna write the intro, like you write it for Emma to say it pronouns, are, are there different than what you were used to from your child? Use a pronoun. I said, Emma can introduce all of us. Instead of himself and me me and then herself again, maybe Emma. And I maybe our brains are morphing. Maybe we're gonna start sharing down. That could be That that's a possibility. I'm learning. I'm away to to live in, like Iceland. So she's gonna, we're gonna do a grown up, mine melt and then, I don't like any of these words. I don't know what's going on. Pronouns, a quad. Come on story. We're here to be a Friday, big Friday edition. A big Friday, it's big Friday. We get some positive feedback, a lot for some of our content. Matt, I don't know if anyone's ever said thank God for the Friday show, I don't think I've ever heard that. Feedback. I don't think any feedback ever has been thanked God for any of your shows. That's not, I mean, people that's absolutely not true and you know it, there are like two, I know of two people who do occasionally listen and sometimes smile, absolutely, does that count, as this is still necessary content there. All right, Story the week. We got good list of the week and she already is not here. So, We have mats terrible version of probably cynical and pessimistic. We have what Matt is actually good at a hole of the week and then Emma, wraps it up with your titties. The Weeknd Emma's really, the only one knows how to play this game, right? So come on. Oh, maybe some prediction, I'm winning this way. Pretty one this week. All right, story of the week. I'm Gonna Keep it quick. This. This first kind of this first one is kind of it. Morphed into all things meta, but it really started with the Federal Trade Commission. Suing to block me from buying a virtual reality Fitness up. So this is news because there's a new chair Leena Khan and she's Anti-Trust and we talked about this yesterday, but This is somewhat big news someone's going after meta but but then there's just a lot more happening at meta really this week first. So first, we reporter that Facebook and Instagram is making big changes, that was making it more like tiktok. But an Emma, you can help me with this. Now, it looks like Instagram and Zucker pulling back because the Kardashians complained about it is that real It's slightly more complicated now, honestly, actually, I'm gonna take that back. It's not that much more complicated than that. The only color I have to add to. This is that actually it comes up in my segment, I'm saving it. Okay, fine. Because keep going, I like the way you described it actually, because that's how I felt about reading it. Like what's really happening is a matter who cares, and of course, businesses that are took the opportunity with this beautifully click-baity headline, that Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner are now somehow smarter than markers like a book because they complained yeah businesses We complain all the time all the time. No one is accusing us of being smarter than the the founder of S&P 500 companies so I don't know what's wrong with us. Oh I don't know what's up with that. That's confusing. And I wanted to add this, I guess this is also report to the BBC. Something about met his sales falling for the first time ever. But here's a popular frame that keeps going around. The interweb is that people love to compare. Facebook and meta to Yahoo. They keep suggesting that my, that Yahoo is the comp for Facebook, in the Zuck is about to fail at everything, which I love, of course. I'm for that, you know, I don't know if this is clickbait or real or no, it's totally stupid. Anyway, that's that's all the Menace stuff surrounded by the new beautiful and wonderful. FTC chair. Lina Khan! Who's going after meta? Number two, based in our reporting. Ah, is, is that the story that BlackRock has officially given up? We have now, have proof. Yeah, and I wait a black mark to reach out to us if we got it wrong and I didn't reach out, so that means we got it, right? But BlackRock is officially giving up on all of its bravado about changing the world about stakeholder capitalism. We found actual evidence is 2022 investment stewardship, voting report that it has given into the Ron. DeSantis anti woke climate and it's done. And and they, how do they announce this Matt, you pointing this out yesterday, by the f word, they said the f word their approach to climate risk is based on their role as a fiduciary to our clients. So they it's over. They've given it all up. There, even lose a penny for their clients. It's not worth saving the planet. We're not worth it now. It's get out Planet. I lost a penny, they caved another quick cave and Larry Fink. Yeah, he came out strong, he came out with the, you know, he pulled back the JC Penney suit. He revealed that the S the Superman s from the ESG logo, you know, the I'm Gonna Save the planet and now he's buttoning up his not any scribble the S out and wrote an F for fiduciary on there and now he's the F-bomb. That's the second Story the week number three. I always thinking like, do I insert summer travel chaos? Do I insert a bunch of boring stories about? Like Elon musk's Affair but I don't think so. No. I mean how Debbie's yeah I'm done rolly bag, lost a wheel and she's suing Delta and that's on business inside or cannot be. So I'm giving you giving you official permission to vote on it but I'm not gonna talk about it because I don't care. I think it's not gonna and finally something I don't think we've talked about and that's and I was I was I debated whether I should include this because it's not officially been enacted as law yet but and there's a there was a huge deal supposedly out of the Senate which would a massive carbon cuts Would help to cut us carbon dioxide emissions by 40% by 2030. But, you know, just some good stuff. I mean, some some genuinely good stuff. Joe manchin finally caving into some kind of internal pressure. Yeah, yeah. But I don't know, we allowed to talk about. This hasn't happened yet. We allowed to talk about. It looks good. I mean I'm hopeful about it but I put it on the list for you to do it. Consider at least that's it. Those are my stories. I think I know what the story the week is, and I think, you know, too really, but I think, I also yeah. Oh, yeah. And we're gonna pick the same. Write down a piece of paper. So go ahead. Pick it first and I'll agree with you. I am pretty sure that it's the Senate deal. Oh yes correct. Yeah, correct interesting. And I wasn't even include this because again, we haven't we don't have an active legislation yet, but it's a step closer. But I think that my reasoning and I assume that math reasoning is relatively similar is like, first of all, the fact that we got Joe manchin on board with any startling is news. Startling is a word I agree with for sure. Also being that climate change is probably issue. Issue, Numero Uno, out of most issues. Yeah. This is probably going to be the biggest deal. Yeah, what you are hiding, the big story because most importantly this this could be a win for me. Because as my 2011, Super continues to fail and sputter, I have my eye in a new electric vehicle and there might be a tax credit up to 7500 in there for me for me. Sorry I do for you all. I care integrate the Damien upside down. Next time promo was a congressional bill that passed and the LED they acronym was Damian. What Would stand for. Yeah, that was there. We know that I don't know where Zing self. Sing know. This is a, this is a big deal, because just in comparison to the others, right? Yeah. Lina Khan suing is basically a guaranteed loss. Oh, she's doing it to make a point. She did she's doing it to me. Okay, it's fine. I'm Pro con here. I'm Pro con I'm not, I'm not anticon. I'm saying she's making a point in action, but it's not gonna stop. She's thinking just like regular here. They could regulate Facebook by saying you're just too big right rather than suing over this deal or they can actually say leadership. How about that? Oh, 90% of the social media landscape? No one entity, no less a College Dropout with the Dual class shareholdings. Easy out right control? That could be the easy out of this for hers that that that this can't be in the control of one person, right? Like if you were a traditional right, but publicly traded company with checks and balances fine, maybe we'd allow this but wait a minute. You're the only one making decisions here, that's scary. You then which case why Sue over a virtual reality Studio? Like just get the ball rolling. The leadoff hitter leader, BlackRock giving up single office. Probably That's our story of the week. Yeah, Linguistics dare. You know, the linguistic gymnastics. Are amazing. Yeah, for like, the seven people who listen to the show, I Black Rock and we love, are you? We love that, right? But not the story of the week because I've seen that approximately zero, other places summer travel chaos and Elon Musk isn't even doesn't even rate. And then Mansions Mansion, I will say this man, we'll see this. The CEO of msci, texted me, last night and said, Damien comma. You are the smartest person ever for that, incredible, Black Rock Expose. And I I didn't I didn't, I left him on read but still I was I was happy. He pointed that out so you're kind of wrong just I'm sure all of that happened. Yes, Let's do good list. Oh, Brought down by the pessimism of Matt McCarty. Come on what he got. Matt know there's three good stories here and I am half channeling re and I'm just lacing. I'm just sprinkling sinuses and over re okay? That's all. Okay. It's like it's like Ari's bubbly happiness. With a dollop of cynical whipped cream on top. here is Story number one, Mark Zuckerberg sees apple as metaverse rival report says Okay. I don't know what's not to like about the fact that you we've now pitted in the future of web 3.0 metaverse end bro, culture. College Dropout at running a company who's only ability to stay relevant, is to acquire other companies at this point who has moved all of their cash into building a place where we can say, the N word freely. I guess that's what we're doing there. Mostly Versus. A very stayed, very smart. Gay CEO with oversight of one of the largest companies in the entire world. Yeah, I like picking your overlord. I like this, look, there's over a good Overlord battle is a article. Actually had a Business Insider yesterday that had line Tim Cook has been taking shots at Mark Zuckerberg for years. It's working so, you know, I, I just want to, I just, I we talked yesterday and post actually about this, this like red state blue State version of companies, right? Like if Zuckerberg is the Libor techie and red State company, Tim Cook is your perfect Blue State foil, right? Privacy embedded in a lot of what they do. Yeah. With the, with the dot with a dash of suicide in China, and Zuckerberg is just evil, right? So I like, you've been this one. I like, Emma. You gotta think. I'm not gonna put you on the spot. Maybe another show. I gotta think you would pick. Tim Cook over markzuckerberg. You don't have to reveal your answer. That's what I love about it. I chose it. Come on. I like that's actually like that one. I like she liked this number two, number two. Oh, thank of course I am. Yes, there you go. And Deep into it. Number two. Here's the deadline new Hong Kong rules. Will create 1300 more board seats for women? This is like, this is like feeling the Supreme Court. Right? Adding they just are women in Hong Kong, it's amazing but no one is accusing. China of being too woke or Hong Kong of being too woke. Here, they have a new rule that effectively says, you need to have at least one female director if you want to list in Hong Kong and they're adding gender, diversity, forcing gender diversity on the boards by 2024. So, there's a phase-in period, but they're doing it. But this is an interesting version of doing. It is, instead of waiting for people to retire, right there, adding board seats, right? They're adding right? And the amazing part of this is, this is no, like, in California in this stupid country. There are people challenging the California law is not leaving the they struck down, right? About to say successfully, struck down that and then in China, in Hong, Kong of all places Asia, which has one of the worst records of diversity on any of their boards, anywhere in the world. They have successfully, we allowed to officially, you're just calling Hong Kong China. And now you're just your full, your fully on board calling Hong Kong. That's where you are there. It's an administrative region. Where you are just calling Hong Kong China. I'm just saying how dare you. I'm just the reason why I'm saying, Taiwan Kanye China is. I just want, I just want to contrast it with the wokeness thing. I'm with you, that's all I'm going for. Number two. All right. And number three, Screwing the murdochs and recent Horowitz and Liberty Utah. This is the unspoken thing about the FTC suing medical to buy this virtual reality Studio. It's called within unlimited. The biggest investors in with thin unlimited. According to frequent data are Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century, Fox Marc Andreessen, who's a meta board member and Greg Maffei of Liberty Media. Which if you know anything about Liberty Media, it is like It is basically another one, man, dual class Rupert, Murdoch, and Liberty meters, probably the strangest company ever, that has the most bizarre interwoven web of shell companies and fake. It's an American shape, I don't know what it is, it's American cable. So, if you don't, if you know, the Korean the Korean company structure, they have cables, which are basically a bunch of companies that all kind of co-own each other. And usually, there's one family at the middle. Who runs all these companies, but it looks like they're kind of independent Liberty Media is a lot like yeah. Like the company that basically has an investment and within on limited John or Greg macay is on the board of that. And in he's the CEO of Liberty, Media and Liberty. Media owns that it's like a whole thing. It's a thing. And, and frankly, Lina Khan is stepping not into, she's not breaking up Facebook for this. The old school social media but what she Is doing is clearly stepping into the metaverse on regularly, but that's why I think this is important. Exactly. You're right. And we've been screaming and moaning for months like hey there, You they're, they're telling you something. They're telling you that they're, they're trying to do a thing. Like, remember, how all the hand ringing about, how you didn't do a thing last time? Well, now's your chance. They're still building. I just love that they're doing. I want them to break up to other thing and I want them to do with that. Is it too much to ask? I love Leena, I do like that. This This actually feeds back into, like the, there's this libertarian anti-capitalist, dual class, you know, group of investee type that are going to get their ass handed to them by a regulator who, effectively by doing it. Might solidify apple as a rival for the metaverse. So those two kind of three, they feel good. Despite the fact that Lena was born in England and not my beloved New England, I still, I still love you Lina Khan. See how good I am. Okay, this one is very easy for me. I can go first. Yeah, Lina Khan is my girl always, I think. Yeah, I started falling her. When I first started working with you, too. I was thinking, I was gonna say womb in the womb. But yeah, you're right if only but no I think that I reported about something that she did when she first got a boy I remember like maybe two years ago at this point and I think that Matt in particular was like like shot me down on it and I feel extremely good, that she's still relevant in doing stuff and now, Matt is interested in. Yeah, I mean, you know what she's done? You know where she was waiting for was dialing. She was waiting for the 5th, member of the FTC commission, which is a Democrat to be appointed, which gave the Democrats control of the commission, which is now unleashing her ability to actually make this good decisions. And Lena, Unleashed is exactly what I have been waiting for like it. Oh, that's the next. That's what? Yeah, that's what I'm watching. Snow on HBO Max you know Unleashed I can't wait. It's a good. It's a great show. Oh it's on HBO that was Netflix they got screwed. So yeah Lena's clearly having herself a hot girl summer and I am here for it. It's it's Yeah, that's I like, that. Emma shows, screwing the murdochs and Andreas and Horowitz and Liberty Media over women. This is tough General, right? For me, I'm with you. I'm a rather. Screw someone then have right? Yeah, go ahead. And this is us this is a foothold into a much larger movement and that is being started by a woman of color. I would like to point out. Yeah. And of course it is. Because why would a man, right? Do something. You know what? That's the important Point here. You which basically what I was gonna say is that the two of these stories overlap in that way, right? Because what we've been pushing forever here is is like it's done experiments over women. We need to let women take over, just like Reddit, what's Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, that his name. He just stepped down completely from his leadership position and handed over to a woman. Like that's the perfect move like right on that. That's what we need. So And you're right about Lena Khan. I want to vote for Lina Khan here, just to piss off Matt because I don't know why he's not like Pro Lena like we are, but I gave it as an army. Let Matt do be the tiebreaker because I like what's coming out of Hong Kong, they're just creating board seats for women. They're just putting they're not waiting for retirement. They're not waiting for some mandate that the company may or may not follow with some weak fine or something. They're just adding women to the board that just, that's it, right? I mean, I love it. So I'm gonna go dilution voting for Hong Kong adding 1300 boards. See what? Matt, so you break the tie? Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna side with Emma because I always like the more cynical thing I like that thing. I just like that. Emma, also plays there. So now, we have, and I gave him a new TV, show idea for unleashing Lena, so that's just a bonus. Yeah, that does help. Yeah. That show runner HBO, Max. And at night, it's true, I have been doubling. That's, that's what I do. That's the week and that's it, there's your goodness. That wasn't too crazy actually like that and now we can, oh segue. Yeah, let's get to ask other week back to Matt. Absolutely. All so brought to you by me. Um, all right, I'm Gonna Keep the asshole, simple, I'm just going to give you heads. I actually don't even need to know. Okay, all right. I'm not gonna fill a buster ready. Headline. Number one, um, well the asshole number one is guns CEOs. Here's the headline at a CNBC gun CEOs. Call shootings, quote, local problems and defend, quote, inanimate weapons? I mean do you don't need any more, what do you? Go asshole. Number two is the s e r s e c and here. Wow. The entire SEC and here's why even Dave's headline even Dave We like Dave, Dave is the worst. We like Dave, is the world? Never mind if you did. Here's why headline is, Vince McMahon now being investigated by SCC Federal prosecutors, do they need a link to Elon musk's Twitter? I don't know what, what is your your hiding your point below, like, a layer of trans fat. What is your, why are we investigating Vince McMahon and not a full press again? Well, Elon Musk, you gotta do both. No, I mean, how do you not? They're not doing both. We're doing one. And not really, the other man is a terrible CEO and terrible business owner. I mean, we do have to look into this dope. Great. Yeah, did you do that, too? But can we please like Where is the mass investigation on Elon muscles the whole Twitter thing. He's got 43 children. Now from Executives like he worked with right like what point do we say like well that guy shouldn't do the same thing either, right? Like that's allegations too like he didn't disclose any of this stuff. Yeah. Nope. Okay, number three and asshole number three, Joe Manchurian Candidate. We are being held hostage by a coal. Owning he his son is the CEO of coal company in which he owns a large amount of shares in a quote Trust. I know the deal is a big deal and it's great. But don't at some point we stop asking him to be a part of our deal. Like can we do something like we're being held hostage I think is cold. Let's band the Senate enough of the Senate enough for the 50 states. No, not enough there. Well there was there was a there was a there was just a bill that there were passing and it had something to do with gay rights and a there was a senator who gave a speech at his gay son's wedding, you know. And then like a week later votes against gay rights because he's a Republican and it has to vote against gay rights. We're not thinking anymore, we're not thinking we're just voting on on whatever some like talking point Center says to vote on like you can't be seen to have a thought. Yeah. Think about the senator from West Virginia having his equal power to senator from California say with 55 billion more constituents. That's just it's not something still nonsense. I'm just a little tired of all right, reading any headline with Joe Manchurian? I got an easy win for this one. Now, I don't know. About you, go ahead gun CEOs. We don't spend enough time on this category, right? I mean, I think we should start digging into the more. Gun CEOs. The worst. That's come on. That's me. That's my guns. I love that. That's that's like they're basically claiming that. Yeah, we just make like anything more off and they know what they're doing and they're like and to use like language this way is just it's it's really shameful. Honestly like just beyond there. One. F-bomb saying fiduciary away from being the biggest asshole of the year. What? Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna agree with Damian here. I'm also going gunty as though, I would like to point out, Matt, that this I think is a I know that the SEC one Damien found a little bit questionable, but I actually don't really disagree with you there, because the Elon Musk thing at this point has been drawn out so much. And there is now, so much to investigate. Its this allegation, it's the texting. It's the stock dropping like, all of that. Yeah, it's far and the fact that none of it. We have heard results on none of it is ridiculous. I do agree with that. Their, the SEC did make from his original tweeting at Tesla went in 2018 2019 they did they did strip his chair role right and they were restricted his ability to do certain tweets and I mean they have Come on. Okay, I'm just saying things have restricted. His ability to do things. He tweeted in contrast that he signed not to do anything. I don't want to bog The Showdown any further, but It. When they say he's being when the SEC is investigating, is that that word itself is a bit. It's a bit loose, right? I mean, is that a full investigation or they're just looking into things or the suping thing because they do constantly subpoena mosque. I just don't know what it all to your point. I don't know what it all comes through. I don't know what it amounts to well. It's like, if the police said, we're investigating a crime and then you never hear of it again and you're like, huh? I thought that was a criminal act that they were investigating know. We're never know. Okay. Okay, I guess they'll just investigating. We'll never hear the outcome, all right. Yeah, I also do like the Joe Manchurian Candidate. I think this is a solid roster of assholes. I really did to me. It was a slam gun CEO slam dunk, that's the asshole, but we got CEOs calling it in. I saw a great clip of Katie Porter at some of these hearings who was basically, like, do you see my phone? Do you see how I need to use my thumb print to open my phone? Why is It harder to open my phone then to shoot a automatic weapon. Like I don't know, it's great. It was excellent agreed because it's an inanimate object. Just like a phone. Keep the mic. I'm Gonna Keep Going irritating into the week. Okay. All right, let's just jump in. Number One, your headline is Elon Musk reportedly had an affair with wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Maybe this is a hot take and you guys are going to totally disagree with me, but I think that this is arguably one of the most irritating headlines of all time. And here's my, I think that this might take the cake permanently because one, we all woke up on Monday morning, looked at the news, saw this headline and I know that we all grown rolled our eyes punched ourselves in the face. Like, I don't know what your individuals were, but mine was along those lines and we immediately started bitching to each other about how annoying it was. We were all irritated by this instantly and because he has managed, Elon has managed to make what should be an earth-shattering Scandal boring. It's boring now Champion. Like, are you kidding? So if this is in, at least on some level away, okay, wait no, wait, wait, wait, hold on. So you're irritated because You're because despite the magnitude of the story, your bored by it, like it, irritates you. Because there's just too much, that's part of it. All right, I'm trying to understand how, yeah, he's been. It's tedious now. It's Scandal is tedious. Yeah, got it. That's annoying. I'm sorry. Um two Here we go. This is what we were getting into it Mark, teach me Mark. Zuckerberg ignores objections says, Instagram will show twice as much AI recommended content by the end of 2020. When was that when was that article like he's already pivoted from that, tell us that was yesterday. This article is. Yes. And Matt, I think. Matt may or may not shit on this one because you're going to have some like Who cares? About Instagram and social media. It's all Bs, and you're not wrong about that. But I think what even Matt can't deny is that this is a perfect irritating example of Zuckerberg's dictatorship, because basically, so he had, He had some of the biggest creators on his platform. Say this change isn't working for us and like, whether or not, that's valid fine. But these people are generating him money. Like the kind of the truth is that the Kylie Jenner's and the Kim Kardashians, are printing money for Mark Zuckerberg. And he's saying, yeah, I don't think so. I think it's, I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do, but this also did lead me to go to look at Mark Zuckerberg's, Instagram account for the first time. I'd never looked at it before. I don't know if either of you have, but, you know, 10 million followers for very straightforward? No, have a knot. Yeah, it's 10 million followers and for reference Kylie Jenner has 362 million followers. So like, yeah, I got it, you know. So sucks like free, full level of followers. Exactly this one for me, because the decision between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg obvious, right? I know who I chose every time, but the decision between the Kardashians and Mark Zuckerberg, I mean, I'm asleep 10 minutes ago. I don't like, that's the thing. I don't care. I don't feel like keep going. And number three, this one pretty cut and dry a UPS worker, says his boss reprimanded him for taking a sip of water. While I would say they suffered heat exhaustion and soaring temperatures. So the only detail you need is of course, a highly specific number released, which was that he stopped to take a sip of water for 47. That's more than a 74 to be fair to be. I'm with ready, I'm with the sea suite at UPS. That is a that is a damn long. Does a gulping here? I Hear is my water. You will continue and I will stop at the 40 second mark. So that's really it's so he was in New York, New York was reaching highs of 95 degrees and and it's horrible. There's nothing more irritating than watching. Hardworking people get told that I don't really, I mean water. I know this is very. I know this is probably she's exhausted. That was 20 seconds. I'm feeling 20 seconds, I'm guessing this is a business inside her because it's very clickbaity. But what what where did the situation occur? Where was the boss? Like where was the sipping? I mean, you know details, I'm very valid in real to me. Who's standing next to their co-worker with a stop on a hot day? Like the New York City, seven seconds. I don't know if I buy this. It didn't say roughly 30 seconds, roughly one minute and try. Try sipping water for 47 seconds. There's no way. It was 47. Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's not a good tour of the business inside our offices. A few months ago, I'm pretty sure they they took me to a department called the Wii makes shit up the apartment. They didn't we didn't spend much time there, I know it exists. This is the same. They have like four people in a department that only covers individuals and Technology. That's this energy. We make shit up travel. You know it this is this is in that department this one's not irritating because it's a business inside her head, like you're dating that to me is so ridiculous. You go ahead, you both. Elon Musk. I know you want me to vote for that and you picked two other weak ones. So it's like leftover and I have to vote that the Zuckerberg won. I don't find it irritating because it's kind of like yeah. Yeah. That's what, that's what that's the thing, right? Like, that's the thing. This could be Zuckerberg. Ignores objection, says, Facebook. Will contravene in all future elections? It could say anything after that, ignore his objections is the point. That's the point. He ignores investors suggestions, he can ignore content. Provider suggestions, he can ignore advertisers suggestions. He ignores the objections of Sheryl Sandberg and anybody else who has one tenth of a morality Compass, he can do whatever he wants. That's please for second Matt. I think actually you might like what I'm about to say, there is an argument to be made that. This headline goes in good least. Why? It sounds like a matte twist because if this if his creators and the people who are generating money for him are unhappy with the changes and get ignored, does that mean that they might actually stop using his platform? Can I did I cut in Force rank? No Force rank, the owner dictator of a company and the vainglorious desire to have 300 million followers. You can't get 300 million followers on Snapchat or some other lesser known thing right below media. So you you're not going somewhere else and that leaves you in a place where they'll come in, what Mark knows you can go anywhere else you want, but the fact is all the people. We have a different perspective on this. I'm And it's yeah, sure. No, it's terrible. Here's why I'm pissed off by this. And actually why I'm gonna vote for this one. I don't know if we have my boat yet. Here's why I'm pissed. I, I like every instance of Zach potentially turning meta in Facebook, whatever into the next Yahoo. And when people step up and correct him, and help him See the error in his ways and keep the companies strong. I'm Irish, I'm actually very irritated by these celebrity idiots because I want it to all fall apart. I want Zach on an island making terrible decisions without Sheryl Sandberg. Whoever I want him to screw it all up. I don't want him to have any help. So I'm at them because I think the tick tock of occasion of it was gonna lead to more to the demise. So I thought that's where I stand. That's my boat. No, I'm gonna vote for Elon Musk because when I read that headline, Emma's correct, I read the headline and I was like, oh my god. Do I have to talk about this Emma? Yeah, that was my other tiebreaker that's pure. What's the most Iranian I am gonna go with Matt? Because I do think that this sort of thing, you don't always win something out every week. That's the, that's the table. I have to talk about this and we did we did discuss this yeah. Before we get out of here, let me wrap up. Irritating is the week. We have to talk about Elon Musk that irritates us. As always The Weeknd CEOs, terrible people goodluckies are the week I'm gonna call Lina essentially at the FTC and the story of the week. The Senate striking him a pretty big climate deal. Pretty, pretty, pretty. Damn, good. Pretty damn good. All right, before we gotta here who won the weekend? I'll go first, because My obvious. It's it's our the girl with the hot summer. Yeah. You, it's shame. You spelled her name wrong, but it's still, I'm still gonna give you credit for Lina Khan there. But, you know, I almost want to switch mine to Lina Khan now. But I actually picked the Kardashians and that's for getting credit for For being smarter than Zuck for, just asking for things to say the to stay the same. I don't know what's going on again, this is from Business Insider but I don't know what's going on with the world anymore. You don't know you're turning into business. Yeah you're really gonna change my vote to leave with Emma like come on. Join us on her reality side right now as we speak, I'm gonna go with Joe, Manchurian Candidate and I hate it predictions. He won, he won the election. That's the point of conduit prediction. Um, can I do a quick prediction here? Yeah. Um, my prediction is Alex. O'hanian signs a contract with Unilever for the rights of Choco Taco And then realizes that no one, actually likes chocolate taco and tries to back out of the deal by claiming. It's not a real taco and he had no idea. He isn't enough money, though. We're he doesn't care. He'll just buy it for his parties. Well that's what Elon Musk said. I'll just buy it. I'm guessing by that money. The Choco Taco you see on Twitter. See what I'm doing. Do you see? Did you see what I'm doing though? Totally like it's it's like you missed the joke. Audience. What do you think about that one? Oh yeah, they appreciate it. Thank you. See, they got they got the Gemma predictions. Wait, this isn't a real taco. My prediction is unfortunately Elon related. Apologies, we my prediction is that we will eventually find out that Elon Musk did have an affair with Sergey brin's wife, but it was actually, it was actually an agreed-upon weird triples. Um, yeah, I think it's like weird or weirder more which weirdo triple a triple Don't know what that I prediction. The mainstream media starts to copy us and starts to refer to people exact as corporate dictators. I think that that I think that they're eventually going to realize these people are in their gonna steal our Thunder. I like that prediction a lot because I have seen where a lot of stealing of our stuff over the past year and a half where like we say a thing for three months and then all of the sudden I start seeing it appear and like my LinkedIn feed from other people and they're like pimping it like it's their hot take but it definitely started here. Love that prediction. I think Damien's prediction won this. Totally. I love the idea of Alex o'hanian being like, this isn't a real taco. And, and then I love that idea, and then being upset by it. All right? That's the week wrapped up, that's Emma, lurking and Damian relish. And I was Matt mascardi, will be back next week. I've only got a half week, next week, you fools are doing a full week but I'll be here for half the week. Next week, when we do more, this is pants. Goodbye.