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Kind: captions Language: en it’s like yeah I took one look at you it’s like how much longer do you want to live as a New York five because you could be in Idaho nine with one plane ticket baby and so I I feel like every city should have to make their pitch as to why a 20-something year old should move there and live there that a 25 year old I might create a whole new show around just this just this pitch [Music] Ben this is your segment you you own this segment you take it away all right here we go we’re reviewing the news we’re letting the boys react uh by the way I like the thing you started doing where you’re like fellas I think that’s kind of like on the first episode of the news of the boys react I feel like you kind of nailed the catchy thing like that was pretty natural by you good good move by you fellas there is a new Instagram the founders Instagram are back with a new app it’s called artifact it’s being described as Tick Tock for text um fellas is this the next big thing damn did you see this thing so the page says I’m trying to pull it up the page doesn’t really say what it is it’s okay they they in the news they kind of talked a little bit more so I heard Tick Tock for text and I was like okay what is that basically it means two things number one Kevin system the founder of Instagram was like when I saw Tick Tock and how the feed works where you just open the app you’re already in you don’t have to follow a bunch of people you just start swiping and it just learns what you like he’s like oh this is the way everything should work this way I can’t believe Twitter doesn’t work this way I can’t believe why are we still trying to do this like manual follow interesting people thing when I suggest the the app should just give you what you’re interested in uh through machine learning so he goes that’s number one number two what they’re doing is they’re instead of what Tick Tock did for videos these guys are trying to do with news actually not just text but news so they’re trying to serve you text-based news based on your interest um and that’s where that’s where he lost me I don’t think people want to read a bunch of news in the same way that they’re willing to like swipe through mindless videos for entertainment and so I think that’s where it has this problem that a lot of Silicon Valley ideas have which is they try to sell you what you should do instead of what you want to do and it sounds Noble and high and mighty and when they go to dinner parties and they say this is what we’re gonna do everybody you know Pats them on the back but I think that this is not going to work for news so I’m out so here’s the thing that I’m wondering by the way you like how I went Shark Tank on it and now I’m in or out that’s maybe a new that might be a new part of this I’m not I’m out all right well you can’t see me but I’m holding like I’ve been watching Andrew Tate videos because it’s just hilarious now that he’s in jail and it’s kind of funny he always holds his hands like in a V when he’s sitting down uh and that’s like how the alpha sits so you gotta like if you’re gonna say you’re out you gotta like sit with like your yeah yeah yeah there you go you gotta like so that’s yeah there it is that’s all Alpha sit according to Andrew Tate let me try that again and for that reason I’m out yeah a little I had a little snap to it my wrist felt a little something there yeah so here’s the thing um they’ve been this guy Kevin Systrom killed it right you know this little fella he created Instagram awesome been out of the game that’s Ring rust my friend when you I watch it absolutely I’ve watched enough uh fighting to know that ring rust is real for a lot of people so I wonder like is he actually in touch with uh what people want is he hungry is him and his partner you know they’re billionaires flying on planes with Ashton Kutcher does he actually know what people want but I don’t know about you but I study a lot of Japanese like he’s like Ashton Ashton I see you got Tick Tock open wouldn’t you rather that those were all just news articles dude I the the I love studying like how the Chinese and particularly the Japanese do things the Japanese these news apps in Japan are so popular it works wonderfully now what works in Japan it don’t necessarily work here two totally different cultures there’s a term for that I’m not going to pretend to even know what that term is but it’s like basically when things work in Japan and vice versa in America it doesn’t always translate to each of those cultures because they’re so different but it works there maybe it could work here in fact I think the parent company of bite dance uh or Tick Tock bite dance they have another app which is basically this it’s an algorithmic news app called I don’t know how you pronounce like teautau I don’t know I don’t know how you say it’s Xiao I don’t know what the name of it is but this is what it does and it’s super super popular so maybe maybe yeah that’s the right answer baby but uh I don’t know it’s just I think it’s hard to be a billionaire who’s been out of the game and to start something from scratch I think that uh I gotta I gotta give us a director’s note here so I was watching something uh somewhere and basically uh I was watching first take the you know like the I don’t know if you’ve ever watch these ESPN shows where it’s like two guys doing this they react to the news um these shows only work if you disagree so um basically on all of these by default you got to take one side and then I gotta argue the other uh regardless of how I actually feel so if I’m out you gotta be in and I think it’s a good case to be in to say you know this actually already Works in China and Japan so just I’m just saying good content comes from disagreement not agreement I was a hard maybe you were a hard no that’s kind of a disagreement yeah that’s far enough it’s far enough all right all right what else we got Ben all right next one uh the thing everyone is talking about tech layoffs more than 150 000 Tech workers have already been laid off in the last six months that includes 12 000 at Google 18 000 Amazon 11 000 meta 10 000 Microsoft so fellas any advice for our fallen comrades comrades I hate that these people use the word comrades I saw dude we are not comrades these guys made like they’re trying to do the Soviet Union [ ] bro you made 600 000 a year in Cash Plus another 250 000 in stock bonuses and you had free pizza every single day yeah we are now you can drink oat milk like get out of here yeah yeah yeah we are not comrades like you know like like you know comrades don’t like eat grape upon we are not that so I hate when people say comrades and plus we’re not even Conrad conrades I don’t know a person who works at Google whenever Sam lacked motivation he would just go meet a lazy Google engineer and just be and just get their W-2 salary out of them and then he was like fuel ignited back to the lab I am dude I remember I went to the Facebook campus once and I remember I overheard people complain that the line for the so like Facebook’s campus for those who haven’t gone it’s basically like a like it’s like a mall it’s like a mall but everything’s free I’m not joking I wrote an article about this actually if you look up like Sam par Facebook office they had a vending machine but instead of candy bars it was like computers yeah iPhone Char you could get like a computer MacBook charger if you just like push if you push D3 you would just get a huge MacBook charger yeah it was all free it’s incredible and then they had like a dentist they had a barber they had a dude I swear to God they had a wood making like a wood shop like you can go and like there’s a van you could just go and get a hand job if you’re bothering you it’s crazy dude they have everything there they you could go and leave your car and your oil would get changed when you came back from work I remember seeing all this stuff and I just thought of like oh this is it we made it and then I realized that the tenure at Facebook is like 18 months and so I was like oh okay this isn’t actually all the good so anyway long story short these people ain’t comrades okay but what are they gonna do I actually don’t know like is a hundred thousand is 150 000 layoffs I’m not I’m not well versed enough in like the macro economy what’s going to happen to them I I don’t know do I think they’re gonna start companies no I don’t some will some will and I think that’s uh that’s good um I think it’s good to recite I think it’s good for these companies to trim the fat they got way too much fat uh when I went and when we were getting acquired by twitch twitch had I think 2 000 employees at the time and um they made me like do go through a round of interviews during the acquisition process like you know meet the team and whatever and they would ask me questions for 55 minutes and then the last five minutes they would say do you have any questions for us and I just said how many employees does twitch have and then they would say 2000 and then I’d say how many employees do you think twist should have and uh this was my IQ test for them and I was trying to see uh if I was actually not even IQ test it was an honesty test um who here has the courage to say a number less than two thousand and um only one most were just taken aback by the question because they knew what I was implying uh because they you know if they said if they said more I just started laughing uncontrollably if they said 2000 is the right number I would raise the people’s eyebrow and be like oh really you just happen to have the perfect match of resources to to needs like isn’t that isn’t that fortunate that you guys are just playing it perfectly wow you guys are amazing leaders and if they were honest and said you know if we wanted to just keep doing what we’re doing we probably only need 250 amazing people and for us to do some of the new initiatives new bets I think maybe another another hundred people would be would be right I would stand and give them I would give them a standing ovation in a job interview which is awkward because they’re just sitting down in front of me uh only one person was honest in that out of the seven that I talked to that day the rest were liars and so uh so yeah these companies have had it coming they need to trim the fat if you got laid off it’s okay I’m sure you will bounce back you uh you’ve had a very very cushy situation for a very long time hopefully you built up a little safety net for yourself and uh go do something interesting I think this is a healthy recycling and flushing of the system um you know this is the juice cleanse for Silicon Valley right this is the detox cleanse for silica Valley it needs to it needs needed to happen dude juice cleanses are the stupidest thing it’s not like it’s not like the juice is like a pipe cleaner my influencers tell me differently dude I hate when people talk about this like it’s not like you’re just like you have like gunk in your veins and like the juice goes through like a pipe cleaner just pulling the gunk cleaning your veins I always hated that idea of a cleanse but in this case yeah I think that is actually true [ ] we’re agreeing again but um dude a lot of a lot of these companies are really generous uh like they’re giving six months uh lee or six months Severance and if you have been there for a while you get even more so I actually think that it you know now’s a good opportunity to turn [ __ ] into gold and take you know two months to freaking chill which sorry they kind of already were I bet but take some time to like actually chill and then get after it and um you know there’s I’ve been thinking about uh job hunting I call it job hunting because a lot of people think of like oh I’m out I hope hopefully I’ll find a job and I’m like no no Now’s the Time to job hunt you know you make like a list of 10 companies where you’re going to work you uh find the hiring manager and you hunt them down and you get that job you know it’s a hunt it’s not like a you know I’ll just apply to these 100 companies on indeed and hold slash their tires you put your resume inside the tire when they go to find it that’s all they know you wanted it yeah so now’s that time and I I always perform best when I have my backings to all you know we use that phrase burn the burn the ships or burn the boats you know you now is maybe a good time so hopefully people will find opportunity in it but let’s get one straight one thing straight we’re not comrades okay give me a break I I hate that stuff I didn’t cut the words comrade listen comrades and solidarity I never want to hear that word solidarity again more behind the scenes someone else wrote the question which they actually wrote uh any advice for our fallen brothers and sisters but I like to thank you as Sam who is just setting himself up for like I’m gonna I’m gonna set up this question and tear it down don’t say solidarity don’t say comrade if you make over a hundred thousand dollars a year you you don’t you don’t get solidarity okay uh these next ones rapid fire okay uh Doomsday Clock the Doomsday Clock got moved to 90 Seconds To Midnight uh this is largely due to fears that the Ukraine war could escalate into a nuclear conflict Doomsday Clock is all these nuclear scientists who just tell us how close the world is to ending fellas are we all gonna die no I I’ve I honestly had never even heard of this Doomsday Clock Ben you’re the historian around here is this a common is this something I should have known about and uh does this happen all the time or how big of a deal is this bed and it’s not like by the way it’s not like a clock right it’s more like a meter is this like Smokey the Bear like uh like what’s the threat of like a bonfire so it is a wildfire you know like there’s smoke in the bear it’s like today’s like a day where like there could be a fire the clock is a bad thing because yeah yeah it’s always hits midnight it started during uh during the Cold War and there’s basically a bunch of nuclear scientists got together and wanted to tell everyone how close the world was to ending so everyone would take the threat of nuclear war nuclear disarmament very seriously the problem with the with the clock is it started at I think like three minutes to midnight and so like every time something happens they’re like oh we’re we’re actually really close we’re Two Minutes to Midnight um and and the clock moves back and forth a little bit so uh so we’re at like the 50 yard line basically that’s also a dumb analogy why that’s a distance because what they were trying to do is like give people this feeling of impending doom right like it’s only a matter of time Russia and the United States for you or like uh you know what do you need like a weightlifting analogy I want like a like a like a like a temperature bulb you know like the temperature can go up and down I just think look you want the Smokey the Bear thing I was thinking about this since like humans started existing if this was like a book it would be like a thousand pages and the period that we’re in now would be like a paragraph on the thousandth page and I just I just think I am not so important that this one paragraph is going to be more important than the rest of the Thousand pages so I almost always refuse to believe that anything doomsday related is gonna happen while I’m here so no I’m not worried about this at all that was a good analogy by the way the book thing you’re welcome that’s a free one all right uh chat GPT can pass a bunch of tests now uh it can pass the U.S medical licensing exam and it passed a test from the Wharton MBA program University of Pennsylvania uh are you annoyed that you didn’t have the chance to use chat GPT to cheat in high school and or college hey hey Ben how come you didn’t read the uh the actual headline that’s written in the doc I’m curious well what’s wrong with that one it says chat GPT is rgbt is Asian how good it is at taking these tests and I gotta say I had my human chat gbt I was a prolific cheater throughout School uh fifth grade reading program I ordered I organized a Syndicate I realized that if I I was not going to read 32 books and win but I had 10 friends and if we each read three books that we could get to the 30 bookmark and all win we would all just take the test for each other that’s what we did I won the teacher called my mom let her know that I had cheated my mom couldn’t have been prouder uh the second thing that happened um you know math tests they used to uh give us a TI-83 calculator and um my buddy used to be smarter than me and take the test before me and then he would just type in all of the answers into the TI-83 calculator under the Y equals sign button and I used to just simply open that up and fill in the answers and go on my way so I don’t need Chad gpt3 I was ahead of the curve on this and um I you know cheater’s gonna cheat dude we used to take you know how you’re allowed to have like a water bottle at in school we used to take the labels off like the Dasani bottles and write the answers and the cheat sheet on the back of the label and then put the label back on and that was where the answers were and so I don’t know man that deserves an a just for that but uh am I jealous that they have this yeah sure but I’m not jealous that I’m in school again nerds so we win that one I have a wife yeah yeah by the way Sean I didn’t read the headline because it only got a B on the test at Wharton so I’m not sure if God nice nice I have nothing to do with this what else you got all right uh Justin Bieber uh sold his share of his back catalog for 200 million dollars to an investor smart move yeah definitely why why did he do it you know has he had income coming in like why I think somebody said his tour got canceled but that I mean is he really living tour to tour at this point I I don’t know I think I would just assume it was a good offer and he had to make a decision he decided yeah so let’s go with that dude Dr Dre did the same thing and people are like why would you do that and someone said well listen to this so he got he recently got divorced and so he owes his wife you know half of what he had he probably made 500 million dollars off of Beats half of that went to his wife and then there was another article that said in the divorce it was released that they were spending three million dollars a month so on travel clothes so that’s 36 million dollars Neil potato status yeah man holy moly so he actually probably needed the money is it smart yeah he he better go write some hits now man he better get dancing uh but yeah you know look dude he sold it the work that he did from 13 to like 30 he sold for 200 million dollars that’s pretty dope and by the way he sold just his share the the like he owns only a smallest part you know his agent and then the label owns it and the whoever there’s like four other parties involved in this so he just sold his share which means his total back catalog has got to be worth close to a billion dollars a good move in fact I’m just going to say this now if I ever sell something for 200 million dollars and people come to be questioning if this was a good move you’re getting a slap you’re getting a slap from me and like do you need an explanation as to why I took this 200 million dollar check like I mean how dare you you better have 900 million dollars if you’re gonna ask me a question like that if you ask me that question I will say please show me 900 million dollars before I answer this question otherwise you get in a slap and uh so so yeah I do not question this also Bieber makes good decisions he follows me on Twitter two dots make a line baby that’s two data points of Bieber making good decisions and that’s a lot two dots don’t make a line but uh just because it Rhymes and sounds good it doesn’t mean that it actually works any two points can be connected by a line two dots make a line all right does he really does he really follow you on Twitter by the way he does dude DM him did you DM him uh I never have been sort of crafting the right way a couple dozen years now how many people did they follow how many other people does he follow smooth two hundred eighty thousand oh there’s the line does he follow you does he follow any of the bends on this call no dude by the way uh you made the announcement on one pod that you want a woman to reach out to you because you have a great d2c idea that you want to help from a woman I have had like 15 women reach out to me half of them think that I’m you because we only have four female listeners so they must have told them oh by the way we’re not saying that anymore someone had to talk with me I’m gonna bring it up next part we’re gonna we shouldn’t say that anymore I’m gonna explain why but for now that joke is killer okay no it’s not and I’ll explain why later but listen I’ve had about 15 women and like seven of them like have a million followers on Instagram and like wow their profiles are are such that when I’m scrolling through them and Sarah my wife is sitting next to me she’s like what are you looking at because it’s like the hottest Instagram models in like bikini models and things like that so like I don’t know what you’re getting at but it probably worked I don’t know what you’re working yeah so I had so many people reach out to me well well send them to me right why do they reach out to you oh it’s because my Instagram’s like private and like locked uh oh yeah that’s not gonna be that’s not gonna work yes still I’m still uh I’ve there’s definitely been some good Outreach I’m talking to two people who I think are the right how many people uh I don’t know I didn’t count maybe 20 25 something like that I had a lot of serious people reached out I had a lot and there and and and up yeah they’re trying to reach you or they think that I’m you it’s pretty funny um but anyway that’s that this data is wrong every freaking time have you heard of HubSpot HubSpot is a CRM platform where everything is fully integrated well I can see the client’s whole history calls support tickets emails and here’s a test from three days ago I totally missed HubSpot grow better I have just one last one last one which is a new study uh shows how much money you need to make to be in the top one percent income earner in every state 850 000 in California New York Connecticut is tops actually surprisingly with nine hundred thirty thousand dollars the bottom is West Virginia uh with three hundred seventy thousand dollars per year to be the top one percent this question is specifically for Sam Sam what do you have to say to my comrades who are not in the top one percent oh oh um I actually am going to do a big thing about this next episode that shows that you can be in the one percent of New York and make that income and still not be able to retire because that’s how much it costs to live there um yeah dude move to Missouri uh I think that’s crazy 800 000 is so much money um it’s so much money so eight hundred thousand dollars by the way is 456 000 post-tax and um if you assume that you spend fifteen or twenty thousand dollars a month which is very reasonable and that means they’re saving like 200 Grand a year you just gotta you gotta make that for 20 years in order to actually be able to retire which is even crazier than the 800 000 stat if you’re making that much money in New York I’m getting a remote job ASAP and moving to you know uh West Virginia or Florida I’d rather if I’m just making a W-2 income I’d rather live like a king in Florida than live like a plebe in New York and be in the rat race so get out that’s what I that’s what I would do yeah people always talk about um you know the big city and all that stuff but big fish small pond uh you know that is a a a uh what do we call a small pond syndrome you want to have small pond syndrome that that is a much more better way to live now of course there’s no there’s no end to that you could go live you could be at the top one percent in uh Thailand with probably like I don’t know 120 Grand so so you know there’s no there’s no end to that but it definitely just shows how much of a ripoff California and New York are and uh I think I say this you live in New York half the year and I live in California the full year so you know who are we to say but like Charlottesville pretty nice Boise Charlottesville not bad no this time of year yeah lovely this time of year the Land of Lincoln it’s beautiful uh honestly like places like California you’re like oh wow that’s a lot but then you scroll down you’re like South Carolina 500 000 man like Idaho 508 000 really like you gotta like why why would that be why would that be so high and um they’re not they’re not bringing enough assets to the table or as you like to say you got to have some attributes at least California’s got the oceans it’s got the weather it’s got this you know the scenery it’s got the celebrities it’s got whatever you want Silicon Valley Hollywood you gotta have some attributes if you’re gonna be gonna be demanding this level of income up to be in the top one have you ever been to Flora Bama in Georgia you know what that is Flora Bama I’m sorry Flora Bama in in Alabama you know you know so we’re Alabama and in the Florida Line meets this is where we would go for our Island grew up in Missouri all Missouri people go to Florida for spring break you go to Flora-Bama it’s the Line This is the MTV show right yeah it’s the it’s the redneck Riviera my friend it is the trashiest place on Earth and it is so fun you could eat popcorn shrimp all day for four dollars Flora Bama is the place to go you get those Alabama prices while being on the basically the Florida coast it’s all right I actually think there should be a Pitch competition like Shark Tank that’s just cities or states just doing what you just did be like you ever wanted to wake up and have shrimp because we we do that here right like you’re tired of not having shrimp before 10 a.m because that’s not a problem in the in the the redneck Riviera fried popcorn shrimp grouper for dinner it’s the best man Florida’s the place to be you don’t have to own socks it’s the best man no shirt no shoes no problem I’m all about the floor Bama it’s like yeah I took one look at you it’s like how much longer do you want to live as a New York five because you could be in Idaho nine it was one plane ticket baby and so I I feel like every city should have to make their pitch as to why a 20-something year old should move there and live there that a 25 year old I might create a whole new show around just this just this pitch yeah man we need some uh we need uh Alaska to sponsor this pod um all right I think that’s it right that’s it foreign