Based Camp - Blue Sky is Cutting Dems' Last Ties to Reality

00:00:00.000 hello simone i'm excited to be here with you today today we are going to be talking about

00:00:03.860 the platform blue sky um which is a competitor ish to twitter it was actually started by twitter

00:00:10.120 we'll get into this week no yeah it was started and owned by the twitter corporation but it's

00:00:16.480 like they're not a non-profit it's like some weird type of like for whatever

00:00:20.080 to blue sky right now first i want to get into the fact that i love that leftists are fleeing

00:00:29.380 from twitter i have seen some great memes about this i want to start with one right here that

00:00:34.800 uniquely and it is the personification of x thing what's wrong user you're gonna cry you're gonna 0.75

00:00:42.380 shit your pants i'm like you know what i don't more people need this in their lives right now 1.00

00:00:49.460 right a little bit a little bit bring back bullying people and then the user is sadly walking away 1.00

00:00:56.180 and x is like hey where are you going get back here you pussy but x is absolutely right about this 1.00

00:01:06.360 these people are pussies and then he's hugging oh sweet little blue sky they're there it'll be okay 1.00

00:01:14.440 says blue sky chan but here's the thing i love this because it presents almost a horror aesthetic to me 1.00

00:01:22.580 and this is such a thing in horror where you have the obviously evil and sheltering mother who is

00:01:30.300 hiding somebody from their potential their ability to interact with the world

00:01:34.100 and feeding the munchausen's my proxy mother typically that's the trope 1.00

00:01:38.580 you know you could see this as the mom from water boy you going to twitter

00:01:43.960 i'm sorry mama i wanted to tell you you all gallivant with your fancy the right friends

00:01:50.840 it's twitter while i'm sitting here all day with nobody to keep me company except blue sky

00:01:56.860 the chickens are coming home to roost bobby boucher you reap the fruit of your selfish ways 0.82

00:02:04.220 you're gonna lose all your fancy elections and you're gonna fail your big exam because twitter 0.95

00:02:09.860 is a nazi everything is a nazi to you mama well i like twitter and i like the right and i'm gonna 0.99

00:02:19.040 keep doing a book because they make me feel good and by the way mama women don't have penises 1.00

00:02:27.580 and i like trump trump that's my back or the rapunzel mom right like oh yeah 0.98

00:02:40.160 mm-hmm yeah very rapunzel right mother knows best it's a scary world out there something will go wrong

00:02:47.820 i swear ruffians thugs poison also large bugs men with pointy teeth mother will protect you 1.00

00:02:55.860 darling here's what i suggest you know oh you you just can't go out there in the world 0.99

00:03:00.580 yeah yeah don't you know yeah mother knows best take it from your mumsy 0.91

00:03:07.380 but on top of all this it's so like an embodiment of the safe space song in south park

00:03:21.300 where these people are isolating themselves from reality everyone likes me and thinks i'm great 0.98

00:03:29.620 in my safe space my safe space you might call me a pussy but i won't hear you in my safe space 0.99

00:03:39.640 you will see there's a very select crowd in your safe space people that support me mixed in with 0.99

00:03:48.320 more people that support me and say nicely you cannot stop me from getting inside i am cold and i am hard

00:03:55.600 and my name is reality oh no not reality somebody stop him where these people are

00:04:04.660 isolating themselves from reality and i want to talk about this because it has hugely deleterious

00:04:10.900 psychological consequences to the individuals who are doing this this is not a mentally healthy

00:04:17.360 thing to do and oh let's go over some some more memes before we go further here okay so next here we

00:04:24.160 have mastodon x and threads kicking at someone and laughing at them and then they go to blue sky

00:04:33.860 which i think shows how quickly they mastodon it seemed as blasted how do we just have their own

00:04:39.740 little safe servers it doesn't work they'll never be satisfied with anything that's the thing they

00:04:47.320 wanted to be able to lord their power over conservatives they didn't want to just be lording their power over

00:04:52.300 each other oh so uh yeah okay and they they when they go to mastodon well who can they pick on but

00:05:00.960 only other progressives and so they go on other progressives pick on them and they know that they're

00:05:05.280 going to be picked on soon with it they're all going to leave blue sky soon i mean this is a

00:05:10.360 all i love the progressives look at all the numbers that are leaving and we'll get into the numbers and

00:05:14.160 i'm like well the numbers really aren't that big and they're not bigger than the numbers that went to

00:05:17.560 mastodon so i don't know why you think it's going to work this time but have fun it turns out what

00:05:23.520 you hate is each other you wanted an environment where you could bully someone who couldn't protect

00:05:31.100 themselves yeah and now you're in an environment where you're the one being bullied they just have

00:05:36.140 themselves to to eat yeah it is and i love you know when many people are talking and i actually think 0.98

00:05:42.000 that this is really true about this it's a rick and morty meme here where morty's saying what shit 0.69

00:05:47.060 is that and then rick says it's it's burp it's a new competitor to x it lets people post pictures 0.57

00:05:53.540 and videos and write bits of text marketed as some kind of twitter thing as an alternative to that

00:05:59.760 asshole elon musk platform and then morty says that's just instagram with extra steps and you know 0.99

00:06:05.840 that's effing true by the way i don't think elon's an asshole elon's awesome but that that is true 0.99

00:06:11.200 and we've mentioned this on other things more people will increasingly realize as elon is 0.96

00:06:16.900 increasingly entering the public mind sure that he might be more awesome than you thought he was

00:06:21.820 anyway here i'm gonna read a post by richard hanania which i thought was really awesome on this

00:06:25.840 particular topic the left seems demoralized without twitter they're all just crying into the void

00:06:32.500 there's no coordinated mechanism for them to encourage each other and respond to events

00:06:37.820 fragmented media landscape hurts the mainstream media the left has lost their power do you want

00:06:43.980 me to go into the statistics around blue sky before we talk more about it yeah i'm also like do you have

00:06:50.540 details on how they were founded because why would twitter create a competitor to itself 0.96

00:06:57.580 they did though because they were a giant bureaucratic company that was idiotic but yes essentially

00:07:03.520 somebody i think one of the leadership team at twitter was like we need to create and i'll add 0.97

00:07:08.500 more in in post blue sky began in 2019 as a research initiative at twitter led by then ceo jack dorsey

00:07:17.380 the project was initially funded by twitter for 13 million dollars to begin development however blue sky

00:07:22.820 was incorporated as an independent company called blue sky social in october 2021 it is a public benefit

00:07:29.680 corporation the reason for twitter creating a competitor to itself was because it was likely

00:07:35.840 never meant to be spin out i think it was spin out with the knowledge of a potential acquisition on hand

00:07:41.680 so i suspect there's going to be lawsuits around this in the near future in addition to that the goal was

00:07:48.560 to create something that was slightly more decentralized in the way twitter was operated however uh now that blue sky

00:07:54.800 is running as essentially a twitter clone and competitor it is all centralized so what i mean by that is

00:08:00.960 it's a technically a decentralized architecture that is all being controlled by one team and ran on one

00:08:07.360 server making it functionally not decentralized at all i see okay okay by the way you know they call

00:08:13.840 their tweets skeets skeets okay all right so since its launch blue sky has experienced significant gross

00:08:22.880 initially available through an invite only beta in 2023 it opened to the public in 2024 and has

00:08:29.200 rapidly gained users to passing 20 million by november 2024 the platform's growth has been fueled

00:08:35.360 partially by dissatisfaction with changes on x under elon moss ownership however this represents a

00:08:42.640 significant increase so if you're talking about like the users this year they have grown by 13 million

00:08:46.880 users since october 2024 but remember they only recently launched before that the platform added one

00:08:52.720 million users per day for eight consecutive days in november as of 2024 x formerly twitter has a

00:09:00.480 substantial user base specifically so when people are like oh blue sky is so big right they've got 20

00:09:06.080 million users x has 335.7 million users okay wow but the bigger problem comes in their active users okay

00:09:18.000 okay because blue sky has been kind of fudging their active users when twitter says that has 335.7

00:09:26.880 million active monthly users what is its active daily users the active daily users on x is 237.8 million

00:09:38.960 the active daily users on blue sky right now at its absolute height is 3.5 million

00:09:46.560 and that's a 300 percent increase since election day that before election day it was at around

00:09:53.920 one million active users quiet backwater while twitter was 237.8 million active users wow basically blue sky is

00:10:08.480 completely irrelevant yeah well i mean there is an argument to be made i don't think this is the

00:10:16.240 case of blue sky but there's an argument to be made that very small social networks that have the right

00:10:21.360 people on them like very high agency people in the world live players by samuel berger's definition

00:10:27.680 are incredibly meaningful and are the only networks that matter but this is not that this is not that

00:10:32.800 blue sky is like an automatic lefty opinion generator so i tried to like reload the front

00:10:39.680 page a few times to one find out what type of reach you get if you're a famous person on blue sky

00:10:44.400 and to understand like okay what type of things are they talking about on blue sky so i'll put here

00:10:50.560 two random front pages i got the first was it is the top post on blue sky at the time was mark cuban

00:10:58.640 saying remember new users are coming on daily unsure of engagement the more posts you like

00:11:04.480 and reply to the stronger the platform becomes exclamation mark so mark cuban is shilling blue 0.82

00:11:10.720 sky did he like become like shadow elon musk like the dark pathetic version of him because he sided with

00:11:16.560 the lefties and elon musk actually had the ball side was the side that was standing justice and love

00:11:22.240 pretty funny yeah oh no i think that that's what happened is he thought he was doing the right

00:11:27.280 thing and initially he historically has been somewhat based at least but now he's sort of

00:11:32.960 stuck in lefty sphere and being like discount elon musk and so he is and you'll see him a lot like

00:11:39.520 when i look at blue sky he's a lot the top poster he's sort of like to twitter where you see elon's

00:11:45.280 tweets all the times and you're like i did not ask for this he has blue skies version of elon musk tweets

00:11:51.520 and it's like sad shilling and then what's the one under that it's under grateful deadpool

00:11:55.680 and it goes this needs to be said aloud and often can i tell you a secret i don't care if there are

00:12:01.520 undocumented immigrants in this country i think it's a non-issue without social security numbers

00:12:07.120 they're not getting the welfare people claim they're getting in the vast majority of them are

00:12:10.960 normal people trying to live a better life by the way this isn't true there are many ways you can get

00:12:16.880 government assistance without a social security number a lot of illegal aliens are getting government 1.00

00:12:20.800 assistance but this person's an idiot they're eating the dogs they're eating the cats eat the cat 1.00

00:12:26.400 eat eat the cat they're eating the dogs they're eating the cats eat the cat eat the cat 1.00

00:12:33.440 the springfield ohio police department has debunked this very bizarre and very hateful

00:12:39.520 eat the cat eat the cat eat the cat eat the cat eat the cat actually one thing that i i heard

00:12:58.480 recently read is that the un has been giving prepaid debit cards to many migrants and oh what's

00:13:06.400 the word for people fleeing countries refugees to move prepaid debit cards to come to the united

00:13:14.560 no the un the united nations so that is using some taxpayer dollars from people in the u.s because

00:13:21.200 the u.s supports the united nations so yeah there's a lot of different forms of aid that people receive

00:13:27.440 and it's not necessarily directly from the u.s government but it can be from u.s taxpayers nonetheless

00:13:32.800 yeah no it's just ridiculous and so by the way like how many likes are these things getting

00:13:38.160 right so with the top one the top one on the platforms right now you're looking at 3.6k likes 0.91

00:13:45.280 and 12.3k likes basically no one is seeing this shit okay and what else because i love that people 0.91

00:13:52.560 are like oh no it's not just lefty nonsense and like self-congratulatory all right here's another one 0.97

00:13:58.320 okay what what happened the next time i loaded it right it's a meme of scientists and a huge

00:14:04.400 crowd of scientists and somebody saying yes you all are wrong and then it says a man who saw a youtube

00:14:11.200 video and it's like well if you understand how much the scientific community is held hostage by the

00:14:16.320 memetic virus you would be like yeah that makes perfect sense i know lots of scientists who don't

00:14:21.280 feel comfortable saying anything against the virus and then okay what's the next one well the next one on

00:14:26.960 the platform is a guy saying tim walt need a podcast to help get us through the next four years do you

00:14:34.400 agree and then the next is an onion article which appears on there all the time so no it is just lefty

00:14:42.560 slop and it's something you would only go to if you only wanted lefty slop well they need a safe space

00:14:50.160 safe space because keep in mind so this the the the hyper progressive left community anyway like

00:14:59.120 uniquely and disproportionately sees any interaction or exposure to someone who is non-compliant in terms

00:15:05.920 of um ideology and belief as being like infection like like a zombie and infectious disease you you can't

00:15:13.920 go near it or you get tainted my name is reality oh no not reality somebody stop him in the same room

00:15:23.440 as someone declared by the woke mind virus as an enemy a racist whatever because by doing so you

00:15:32.400 you will yourself be somehow tainted or ruined or whatever because i guess they'll change your mind

00:15:36.640 that easily but that would make sense right i mean that's yeah that is what is implied by that

00:15:51.200 not by us but by that ideology so i'll tell you another reason why a lot of people are leaving next 0.81

00:15:56.640 okay and this is like actually more comical to me the stupidity of this the new x contract allows for

00:16:04.240 it to be used and what's posted to be used for ai scraping and people everything's been scraped like

00:16:11.040 up to how what do you think people have been using for ai training data so far why would you not want

00:16:17.920 your information scraped for a ai is going to be the dominant player in human civilization going forward 0.55

00:16:24.400 the stuff created by ai that is going to be counter scraped by other ai is the stuff that the foundations

00:16:31.360 of our descendants millions of years from now is going to be based on you are lucky that you get

00:16:36.880 the chance to conceivably possibly contribute to stuff that ai is going to scrape hold on though

00:16:42.480 you're telling me the blue sky doesn't allow this right uh no they don't allow ai scraping because then

00:16:48.320 that's a feature not a bug that means that like a leftist like no but so a blue sky itself isn't

00:16:53.600 building an ai model and scraping data on the platform to build an ai model in the same way x is

00:16:58.160 with grok it however does not prevent other parties from scraping its data for ai building

00:17:04.960 i wish it did because i agree with what simone's saying here how cool would it be if we trapped

00:17:09.200 all of the leftists in a little bubble and prevented all of their slop from making it into ai training 0.93

00:17:14.480 sets the point being is many of them are idiotically leaving twitter because of this and i'm like 0.58

00:17:19.920 i i right now we reached out to the non-profit that runs the pile or it's like an ai company that this

00:17:25.440 is a big training data set i'm like can i give you our training data for all our episodes and our

00:17:29.600 books uh because i will give that to anyone training ai yeah anyone anyone who's opting out of ai

00:17:35.680 training data is opting out of being part of reality in the future that is it's i can't understand it

00:17:42.080 that's crazy right no it literally is it is it is memetically taking a gun and shooting yourself in the

00:17:50.480 head it's it's emptying out of relevance why would all the horses start running and one of the horses

00:17:58.000 is just like i'm like what the did you do that for yeah i don't want to race for other people's

00:18:05.600 amusement i'm like well that's what you were bred for you

00:18:13.120 oh my god yeah but it's one of these things where it's not like and i point this out to people who don't

00:18:17.680 understand what all this means they're like oh ai is like taking like artists jobs it's like no it's

00:18:22.160 taking humanity's job to a large extent if you opt yourself out of ai training data that isn't not

00:18:29.840 letting somebody they look at it like somebody's like copying them or cheating off of their homework

00:18:34.800 that's like you get to be the cognition or an aspect of the cognition of the future of humanity

00:18:40.320 and you are opting out of that it's not ideal that's crazy so yeah i uh i i want to talk about

00:18:52.800 the psychological effects of something like blue sky as well i don't like by any stretcher in any way

00:19:00.960 i'm a medically isolating yourself i think that it can lead to really toxic behavior and it has done so in

00:19:07.200 the past so that scares me but it also just it makes me sad because we're looking at a social

00:19:15.760 group here that is uniquely unwilling to engage with outsiders and this is just another example

00:19:20.160 of it and these are people who have cut friends out of their lives we've had plenty of people cut

00:19:25.120 us out of their lives because we hold views that are considered non-compliant and these are people who

00:19:30.000 already are buying in to an ideology and culture that atomizes them that separates them from their

00:19:35.760 communities that replaces religion with therapists that replaces community with you know paid child

00:19:41.680 care and paid elder care and that replaces friends with social media scrolling and here you

00:19:48.960 have another example of of now even more exposure to the outside world being cut off even more friends

00:19:55.120 being cut off and it just it makes me sad to see these people increasingly isolated increasingly alone

00:20:01.280 because you hear people talking about the loneliness epidemic and this group caring about the well-being

00:20:06.480 of people at least performatively at least believing they care does worry about loneliness does worry about

00:20:11.920 sadness and just to see that they like keep making it worse makes me sad and plus also this is just

00:20:20.160 another condemnation or endorsement on their part of this this concept that any criticism any bullying any like

00:20:28.880 bad mouthing or teasing is a harmful act of violence when really like the whole point of exchanging ideas is

00:20:37.840 that there has to be disagreement it's not interesting if there's no disagreement and hearing these memes

00:20:43.760 that you're showing like it's it's people are leaving x because they don't like that people there sometimes

00:20:49.680 don't agree with them don't give them uh a participation trophy for the desire for constant

00:20:57.280 affirmation and the expectation psychologically of constant affirmation causes gigantic negative

00:21:04.320 deleterious effects and it reminds me of like the parents who freak out on me for not giving my kids

00:21:10.240 constant affirmation i recently got in trouble not for bopping just for yanking my kid out of a an environment

00:21:16.160 because he stole something from another kid and i was like okay we're going home and and two moms like

00:21:20.880 chased me out and we're like how dare you punish your child and i was like do you not understand like

00:21:28.640 the negative consequences that will happen to your child's brain if he never experiences somebody

00:21:34.560 being angry at him if he never experiences punishment if he never experiences boundaries and

00:21:39.440 they're like well i would just sit him down and explain that it's not very nice and i'm like this is

00:21:45.200 what blue sky is it's the people who are yeah but also like lady what do you think we spent the

00:21:49.520 morning doing like we also coached the the kids ahead of leaving like if we're going to a shared

00:21:54.400 space here are the boundaries here are the things you can't do uh because they also had a they

00:21:59.840 developed a reputation of being the child equivalent of wedding crashers like they kept going to other

00:22:05.040 kids birthday parties and well because the parents don't turn them away it's horrifying my kids will hang

00:22:11.440 out around the arcade and wait for somebody to pay for a game for them and i'm like stop feeding the

00:22:17.600 bears if you feed the bears the bears are going to expect food

00:22:24.800 yeah not ideal we'll do a whole episode on this particular topic but like it is deeply disappointing 0.70

00:22:30.640 to me and i hadn't realized how far the inspection had spread and how pathetic most parents were

00:22:38.240 in terms of discipline in terms of and this wasn't me bopping the kid this is me just

00:22:45.200 grabbing a child who was leaving now yeah in an in an angry tone to something that the kid went in

00:22:54.000 saying i have only one rule i know this rule i won't do this still did it our kids like pushing

00:23:02.160 boundaries and that's what kids should do our kids should push boundaries but the problem is

00:23:07.520 and boundary pushing and play and all that is a core part of child development it is very important

00:23:14.160 but the whole point of that is that they learn where the boundaries are the boundaries yeah

00:23:17.760 like you remove all the boundary there do you not see that you're going to scramble the Roomba's brain

00:23:23.520 if you keep a Roomba from ever hitting a wall do you not do you think that's going to be good

00:23:28.080 for the programming of the Roomba yeah then the Roomba goes into the real world and goes straight

00:23:32.160 off a cliff right into a busy road like i don't know just just bad this is bad it's bad i don't

00:23:38.080 like it it's sad and pathetic and i'm really like yeah i can give you is there you have a what gossip

00:23:47.520 what gossip two fun pieces of gossip okay so one was in a previous episode we had been like

00:23:53.760 talking about like i bet that like blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth line

00:23:58.880 like that doesn't mean we right the way that a lot of people take it to me yeah it means like

00:24:04.800 i look it up you know what it actually means oh what like in the original yeah no what in Greek what

00:24:11.520 the word meant as it was written in its original form okay the the word meant people with self-control

00:24:18.800 uh uh it was specifically used to describe tamed horses is it blessed are the disciplined

00:24:25.760 yes blessed are the self-disciplined for they shall inherit the earth oh that's that's great

00:24:32.480 that's i love where did meek come from what kind of psyops was that that's the in psyops right there

00:24:40.240 that is wow okay who okay so here's another fun thing so ellen degenerate you know she's leaving the 1.00

00:24:47.280 us oh she's actually going to good for her someone needs to go to canada or apparently she's planning 0.99

00:24:53.040 to go anyway because even progressives hate her now um so she had this show that was like semi-popular

00:24:58.720 and then it turned out that she was a terrible human being i so love that you and i don't have

00:25:02.800 to worry about that like we are so open about like we punish our kids we expect good things for them

00:25:08.400 that's the worst thing you're gonna find on us i think that the important thing is you set expectations

00:25:13.360 low and then surpass them and then you're okay the problem is that everyone just assumed she was the

00:25:18.720 nicest person in the entire world because she ended every show was and being nice well and like she 0.80

00:25:24.000 didn't she play dory and finding nemo just like you just assume that she's going to be this like

00:25:28.000 super nice doesn't have a mean thought in her entire you know soul which is just not human 1.00

00:25:33.520 apparently she's like the meanest human being ever born she would have problems all these people who 1.00

00:25:38.960 have like friendly like rachel ray is famous for this too you know she had this cheerful brand and 1.00

00:25:43.520 then like you know she wants privacy at a restaurant or something and you know people freak out and lose

00:25:48.640 their minds because god forbid the one she's she's gotten people fired for saying hey how was your day 0.99

00:25:57.360 okay at the studio not on her team

00:26:01.840 she got a she got a a she tried to get somebody fired from a restaurant because they served her with 1.00

00:26:06.560 chipped nail paint not like chipped on her food it just wasn't perfect nails oh no um she has like 1.00

00:26:14.800 the karen she is the the end boss of karen 1.00

00:26:26.560 dude this is pretty up right here 0.99

00:26:28.320 oh god damn it not again we'll get you you bitch and i think i actually watched your hbo special oh 1.00

00:26:40.160 that's that is really bad well and the left to realize this and so she was deciding and she talked 1.00

00:26:46.240 about it before she was going to leave the country anyway but now she's saying she's doing it because

00:26:49.440 of trump and everyone's like well that's wonderful oh so now she gets some redemption

00:26:55.760 even at like the top of like reddit the the far lefty brain and i don't like a conservative subreddit

00:27:00.560 on our advice animals you're like oh that's okay i'm glad to see you go ellen oh no oh no poor ellen

00:27:08.560 she's just a person i don't think so she's a person who utilized her power to hurt and dunk on 1.00

00:27:18.160 people who she saw as less powerful than herself and wants affirmation in spite of that

00:27:24.080 people who do that are bad that sounds just extremely human people who do that are people

00:27:30.640 but like you in the entire time i've known you have ever tried to attack somebody weaker than

00:27:36.320 yourself i'm not a human i'm an autist we don't have souls as your mother made clear i don't count 0.75

00:27:43.200 this doesn't matter well okay here's the question i experience love do i ever lash out at people who

00:27:52.560 are obviously weaker than us simone ever you just miss them all the time you'd have a terrible

00:27:58.160 reputation but i don't try to hurt them no you don't try to hurt them no i it's sorry when she says i

00:28:03.760 dismiss them she's like i have this thing that's like a muggle when it sees magic when i'm talking to 0.82

00:28:08.480 somebody who i know doesn't matter like my eyes yeah and you're just like you try to end the

00:28:13.520 conversation really fast or like find some way to walk away quickly and it's super obvious to them

00:28:18.400 that you think which is tough because like they're they're even fans of like our podcast to like try to

00:28:23.840 engage with you and then they like immediately know like oh god welcome thinks i don't matter because

00:28:28.880 you like suddenly can't see them anymore and you like it really it's not that i think they don't

00:28:33.920 matter simone the problem is i know they don't matter no i'm just trying to spend the little time

00:28:39.200 i have in this world judiciously yeah but anyway like that wouldn't get you points as a famous person

00:28:46.080 but i guess the important thing is back to my point is that if you set expectations very low and then you

00:28:53.120 turn out to be like an okay person then you're okay if you set expectations high and everyone expects

00:28:59.600 you to be glen to the good witch or whatever like super nice then they get disappointed when

00:29:04.320 you aren't that which is so yeah but we've made all our flaws known so hopefully yeah

00:29:11.280 when we get doing famous people saying because we get and some people are like oh my god these

00:29:16.720 people are so desperate to become famous and it's like yeah our goal was a lot of this the only people

00:29:22.880 who are saying that are people who haven't achieved any level of fame yet they even have already

00:29:27.440 achieved fame they're like i really appreciate your guys hustle like i like your content and i

00:29:31.840 appreciate how much you hustle at this and how much you know you projected this but also you know when

00:29:38.160 you've got three guardian articles about us this year a wall street journal piece it seems like a new

00:29:43.120 york time piece do you think they're still going to publish that what happened to the new york

00:29:47.120 chinese person i don't know i don't know yeah but we'll be there soon oh one thing that asma gold

00:29:55.280 said about ellen that i really take to heart about our own careers and i want you to remember this simone

00:30:01.280 is at one point she took time off because she was being attacked publicly and asma gold said that's

00:30:06.720 the decens never ever ever take a break no you you never well one it never apologize but

00:30:14.080 also like don't disappear he said that too yeah he said never apologize unless you mean it

00:30:20.080 yeah yeah i mean if you if you if you made a mistake but also like yeah there's things i regret i

00:30:25.040 regret selling our own bitcoin and telling other people when we when we did but i don't personally

00:30:31.680 regret that but i know that you do we made the most optimal decision given the information we had at

00:30:36.560 the time at least i i don't regret it given the context because we told people to buy in at less

00:30:43.040 than 50 percent that like like less than half that price so anyone who bought it when we told them to

00:30:46.960 would have more trouble their money and as to why i was okay with selling out then because many people

00:30:53.200 i i guess i didn't fully explain my logic camel had said she was pro bitcoin and trump was known as

00:30:58.400 pro bitcoin so i didn't expect a bump in bitcoin when the president was elected because i assumed

00:31:04.320 both candidates had signaled a pro bitcoin status so that was priced in in addition to that my assumption was

00:31:11.760 that the rise in bitcoin price cycle would be less than other cycles because the happening mattered less

00:31:19.760 to the new supply and thus to the amount of bitcoin on the market and in addition to that my assumption

00:31:26.400 was that if in any cycle the peak of the cycle was lower or around the peak of the cycle before

00:31:33.440 the price of bitcoin would almost immediately collapse and i didn't want to risk that with something that was

00:31:38.880 such a ginormous portion of our portfolio and it was absolutely enormous in terms of our wealth that

00:31:43.760 was invested in bitcoin so i am okay with it because it's better than losing everything welcome we made

00:31:50.080 money and we reduced downside risk again like i don't i don't see the problem here we made the most optimal 0.60

00:31:56.080 to shit like there and there there could have been information that i didn't have that obviously had i had 0.70

00:32:00.560 it i would have made a different decision but the the whole thing is like in terms of of thinking but i admit 0.90

00:32:06.880 when i'm wrong and i was super wrong about that and i'm embarrassed about it but i won't remove the

00:32:10.880 episode you didn't make the wrong decision you just made a call that turned out to

00:32:16.400 not yield the the top payout i'm embarrassed when i'm wrong i want i want people to know people who train

00:32:23.520 people in playing like professional poker a very big bugaboo that they frequently have is the person

00:32:29.440 plays as optimally as they can then they lose the hand or that round or whatever i don't know how to play

00:32:34.080 poker and they're like oh well i'm i lost so i must have done something wrong and no technically

00:32:39.840 they did everything absolutely right sometimes you just don't have enough information to have made a

00:32:46.240 winning play um and and that's that is that is how it goes that doesn't mean that you did it wrong

00:32:52.640 that means that like a lot didn't have it that you know or you didn't have the right information to do

00:32:57.760 that so i'm now there are things that we could have done like i could have maybe researched more

00:33:03.040 like asked more people for advice or something so yeah i mean there's always more that we can do and

00:33:08.800 it is our fault in the end for anything that we do anything that that goes wrong it's going to be our

00:33:12.720 fault but like i'm just saying i don't have any regrets because i'm pretty like i did no i think that

00:33:19.760 we did like as i've been replaying it to my mind i think the risk that many people aren't

00:33:24.240 considering is if this cycle didn't top out significantly higher than the last cycle there

00:33:29.280 would have been an immediate collapse in the price and that's what i was trying to avoid given

00:33:34.240 how much of our portfolio was but this morning or like last night maybe someone on x sent us a meme

00:33:39.600 of like how people who sold their bitcoin before the election feel it was like this gif i think maybe

00:33:45.360 from oppenheimer it looks like it was from oppenheimer it's just like the protagonist like everyone's

00:33:50.640 congratulating him and celebrating and he's just like has this thousand mile stare

00:33:56.080 i just said it to you i really don't mind when crypto goes up i always want even when we don't

00:34:00.720 own it crypto to go up because when crypto goes up good people with good political opinions have more

00:34:05.040 money yeah and they're spending money on stuff yeah dude yeah i'm all for it it's great and actually a

00:34:12.000 point that the guys on the online podcast are making to be reducing like dumb regulatory bloat because

00:34:17.920 keep in mind like to invest in businesses and you know to be an investor you have to be an accredited

00:34:23.040 investor at this point right and yet you're allowed to gamble you're allowed to go to vegas you're

00:34:28.080 allowed to do sports betting in most states in the united states you're you're allowed to buy bitcoin

00:34:33.920 and you can't invest in businesses like that is insane by the way people who want to buy into gpus

00:34:39.840 let us know we're doing uh uh play in this space it looks like it might have like a 50 ir a year

00:34:45.520 over year but we'll see but that's what the data says that's what the historic data says which is

00:34:49.920 pretty effing crazy anyway simone any any other points you want to make on our general a lot of

00:34:56.560 people like our general random chat yeah which you used to be quite opposed to who knew

00:35:02.400 well i think there's not a lot of models out there for what like loving smart couples say to each 0.99

00:35:10.320 other well i was reading another article recently that was posted in some like san francisco

00:35:17.600 newspaper about apologetic risk or selection and it started by talking about us and the fact that we do

00:35:23.200 it but it's like gonna backfire and it's terrible and it's the it's a very common argument made by

00:35:29.920 typically progressive commentators that apologetic risk or selection is new and who even knows if it

00:35:36.960 works and so like basically per their belief set they're like okay well maybe it doesn't even work

00:35:43.200 this is still new who knows like it's just risks anyway nothing is guaranteed and like how could you

00:35:50.080 put it on these children like now they're growing up with these insane expectations like this is

00:35:55.760 irresponsible parenting and then i think like they're not criticizing that the progressive

00:36:02.800 democrats today are republicans from the 1990s well you know where they're criticizing they're not

00:36:08.000 criticizing like chinese families that have like they're you know they try to have a kid during like 0.99

00:36:12.480 the year of the tiger or dragon or something oh yeah you know or anyone who's like looking at like

00:36:16.800 auspicious dates and all these other things and and i'm like but but you know what ultimately if you

00:36:22.240 were to ask a progressive person behind closed doors like okay well yeah but what about like

00:36:26.320 all the people who are having kids like on auspicious dates or other other ways that they you know that

00:36:31.600 they don't think are science-based they don't think are like realistic but leave those kids with

00:36:35.920 expectations and they'd be like well yeah i don't really support those either but like then what do they

00:36:40.000 support like waiting until you're 37 panicking trying to have a kid at great like physical and personal

00:36:46.800 expense like only managing to have one child getting super stressed about your career kind of stepping

00:36:52.160 back kind of not like their their option their plan for parenting is not very good and it's just insane

00:36:59.360 to me that like they would shit on both like the the culture of the tech entrepreneur who like okay fine

00:37:07.360 like if if pgt doesn't it's pgdp doesn't work which by the way it's this is very like science-based

00:37:13.040 is very obviously does like assuming they're right right like assuming they're right it's just our

00:37:18.240 culture like let us do let us do our version of horoscope all right like why why do you have to

00:37:24.800 like dunk on our culture especially when your culture doesn't work for you so it just made me

00:37:28.320 mad to see that article but oh my god came up and started yelling at me about like the way i was

00:37:34.240 because i punished our kids i was like but like look at the suicide rates like obviously society isn't

00:37:39.760 working right now and she's like don't pass it on don't pass like like break the cycle for the next 0.97

00:37:45.120 generation do you want your kids to treat their kids this way i was like obviously i do yeah i want

00:37:51.040 my kids to punish their kids are you out of your mind lady and she was horrified by this i was like

00:37:58.000 i'm not punishing my kids because i lost my tipper i'm punishing my kids because kids need punishment

00:38:04.080 kids need boundaries kids need boundaries i don't i i don't really believe in punishment i believe in

00:38:14.000 showing you where the wall is and and doing that artificially when the real world is is not yet a

00:38:20.320 safe place for that to happen right like the real world is the kid runs into the street when i was

00:38:25.520 taking the kids out of the place when i went to find octavian when i went to find him he was pretending to

00:38:31.360 bite some like teenager's leg and they were like oh my god whose child is this our kids are savages 0.82

00:38:38.800 they are they're savages but yeah like so in the real world your kid runs into the street they die

00:38:44.640 like parents don't punish they provide walls that are more gentle than the real world and and consequences

00:38:51.360 that are more gentle than the real world and then they hopefully prepare children for the real world so

00:38:56.320 that they don't run into the road and die like i don't know i just

00:39:01.920 everyone has their own parenting methods and quite frankly those parenting methods are probably

00:39:06.960 appropriate barring toxic monoculture culture but they're probably good for the kids talking to you

00:39:14.160 she was so proud and i was like well this is going to cause mental health issues for our kids if i do

00:39:18.000 this she goes you didn't know this about me but i have mental health issues she was very proud of this

00:39:24.800 fact like she thought she was like getting this like in on me like i had just made a major social

00:39:30.480 faux pas i know my head i'm being like yeah 70 of the women in your generation think they have mental 0.99

00:39:34.720 health issues like they identify as one of the massive part of their personality that's not surprising 0.96

00:39:40.800 if you are basic is as basic millennials are just like screwed up um self-diagnosed 0.52

00:39:47.120 diagnosed i get a bonk stick i really want like a doge bonk stick whenever i'm talking to someone who's 0.96

00:39:52.800 so you should and it just like appear that in the word i could go bonk bonk bonk bonk

00:39:59.360 why can't i do my childhood

00:40:03.120 oh god what well i remember for the boring company when they sold those limited edition

00:40:08.880 flamethrowers it'd be great if there was like limited edition doge merch that could like help

00:40:13.280 to fund the employment for the program yeah i'd like that this child simone you're not beating her

00:40:19.200 or not she's just wiggly she has wiggles that she has to get out of her system i really like you

00:40:26.800 i really like teddy bear suits for infants why would you not just like have a teddy bear right

00:40:35.360 or a teddy bear

00:40:37.680 yeah like it's it's just you is knock up a woman or get up women 1.00

00:40:44.800 anyway that's your duty i love you very much malcolm and i'm going to start your slow cooker

00:40:53.120 beef you're okay with chopped onions right do you want long bits or do you want confetti

00:40:59.040 confetti chopped onion confetti and the two packs of rendang and the coconut milk and the chopped beef

00:41:08.400 and the not only one can i think you need at least two cans or else i need to put in chicken broth or

00:41:13.120 tomato at least two cans of what coconut milk oh then put in two cans i just thought that one can

00:41:19.200 would be fine you got a lot of beef is it okay that i cube it because i just think it's going to cook

00:41:25.360 better if i cube it you said you wanted whatever you think is best i just think that when i stir it

00:41:29.680 it'll break down faster if it's sheets and then you don't have to cut twice but if you want a cube

00:41:35.760 instead of sheets that's fine for me all right i'll do sheets i understand what you're saying

00:41:39.520 is like sort of the cleaving is easier of the cleaving will happen as i stir it and if it's

00:41:44.400 cubed you might get more cubes lasting for longer in the yeah and then you'll never you'll never let me

00:41:50.320 live it down will you i'm just trying to explain to you how to best create a mess the goal with our

00:41:57.440 slow cooking is to create something where the meat totally breaks down and creates a meat slurry

00:42:02.800 which can be eaten like a forever stew and then i reheat it in various other dishes

00:42:08.560 which goes into fried rice it goes into taquitos it goes into well what i'm going to do the first

00:42:15.120 night that it's ready so tomorrow night is we're going to try those viral smashed potatoes which 0.99

00:42:19.760 almost come out kind of like chips mashed potatoes yeah so i think you parboil them and then you bake

00:42:24.640 them and there's a lot of butter involved that's why they're amazing but you smash like parboiled

00:42:29.120 potatoes under like a glass so they get smashed and sort of flattened and then you bake them

00:42:33.760 and then they come out like crispy and delicious so you know i want to tell you something do you know

00:42:40.880 how many guys would kill for a wife like you i mean literally kill i am not surprised if i end up dying

00:42:48.000 because of somebody who wishes they could be married to you i think a lot of humans would just literally 0.92

00:42:52.480 kill if they were given the option like the ultimate sport so i don't know how much i would do that you

00:42:57.440 know that yeah you wouldn't you wouldn't have to kill for anything you would just kill 0.99

00:43:02.320 no but i mean kill even with society's rules

00:43:07.120 oh like at the risk of being there's this happened to a lot of youtube couples

00:43:13.680 what do you mean he's like that wife is too good for that man 0.67

00:43:17.120 oh that someone's gonna try to kill you yeah i think that you think it's after seeing the number

00:43:22.720 i don't think that i think it's gonna be in our house no no i doubt that also like i'm i'm i'm 0.95

00:43:29.680 famously you know ugly online four slash three apparently but if margaret robbie's mid i you're

00:43:36.480 obsessive fans simone oh i i don't think they would like me for my looks they're kind of like the ones

00:43:41.760 who are like i would yeah they might like you they might like you for your personality and dedication

00:43:48.880 to being a great wife oh thanks well i don't i don't like you for that i want to be clear i think 0.60

00:43:54.960 that you're pretty disgusting but yeah you like me for i like you only for your looks

00:44:00.800 i've i've learned this from girls i've dated in the past yes there's only one answer that you can 0.98

00:44:10.800 give to a woman which is i like you because you're irresistibly beautiful and young looking

00:44:16.560 this is 100 true i'm not breaking eye contact

00:44:23.520 oh my gosh son you are a delightful person can i just like i don't say that enough

00:44:28.080 oh yeah like you don't say it like 10 times every how often do i tell you that i appreciate you

00:44:36.880 i mean multiple times a day like at least five times every night but that's only at night time

00:44:43.600 that's after the sun has set so before then you're the most loving and affectionate

00:44:51.200 husband out there which is insane because normally like the high value ones are just kind of cold and

00:44:55.440 like they understand their values so they don't have to reciprocate i appreciate yeah i don't have

00:45:00.960 wives who make them amazing dishes see something online and they're like oh this is a popular dish 1.00

00:45:06.000 on the on the tiktoks i'm gonna see if i can make this for my husband i mean yeah because our kids don't

00:45:14.320 eat anything good i like make all these amazing things for you and i hope the kids will eat it and

00:45:18.400 then they're like where are my dinosaur nuggets where's the pizza well if they're not dinosaur

00:45:23.920 nuggets they're not real dinosaurs simone this is a kid did you did you forget who you bred with

00:45:30.400 yeah no i i mean i keep in mind i did not eat vegetables until i was like 16 years old i only ate

00:45:37.040 like bland not even tall so i wouldn't eat mashed potatoes even i would only eat the like reconstituted

00:45:45.360 flakes if it was like what do you think about us being over five million views oh that's 0.82

00:45:54.560 i can't really think about it because it's we're getting to stupid numbers like i can't 0.99

00:45:59.360 make sense of that a human isn't capable of wrapping their head around that kind of 0.89

00:46:04.880 size of a group you know so it just becomes like more than i can comprehend and we've had 0.81

00:46:14.000 it's a lot of people it's a stupidly large amount of people you guys shouldn't be watching 0.98

00:46:20.720 this this is a kid making farting noises and a wife and a husband jacking off about how terrible 0.98

00:46:27.440 blue sky is yeah okay well i'll let it go and i'll start your dinner but i love you malcolm taquitos tonight

00:46:34.080 right taquitos tonight yeah hey don't forget to put mostly cheese basically the the the meat is a

00:46:40.560 flavoring agent exactly it's a spice god and wrap them tight because i'm trying to get a lot of crunch

00:46:47.360 there for everything maximum crunch minimum meat and we got more tortillas so do not be stingy with the

00:46:56.880 tortillas okay do you want any leftovers or should i just take a tiny tiny amount of meat

00:47:05.360 any leftovers yeah like do you want leftover taquitos to snack on during the day whatever

00:47:09.600 you think is good i i'd have them tomorrow i'd have them today whatever you think is good okay great

00:47:15.360 thank you love you love you bye i was thinking this this morning about your musings as a team that

00:47:27.840 you could use cult tactics to brainwash yourself into doing good things i mean if a cult can make

00:47:34.880 totally logical even very smart and successful people do things that are very damaging to themselves

00:47:39.760 despite them being you know very difficult things then you could probably brainwash yourself into

00:47:45.120 doing stuff that you want for yourself and i'm like well how else can we maybe apply this to help people

00:47:50.800 do things that are good for them and i was just thinking about like all these not like mediocre marriages

00:47:58.400 especially where women like just aren't that into their husbands and like get resentful and things like 1.00

00:48:03.440 that and then i was thinking about popular romance genres and i was like oh wait so enemies to lovers

00:48:10.320 is a really popular genre like could you possibly create some kind of regimen whereby women start like 1.00

00:48:20.480 building this own enemies to lovers fantasy like if already they're getting resentful of their husbands

00:48:26.400 and like getting all machiavellian and stuff then why not like turn it into something that like in the

00:48:32.240 end goes full circle and they end up like madly in love with their husbands after like super enemying 0.99

00:48:37.440 them like i i think it's possible well no here's why it doesn't work okay when women enemy their 1.00

00:48:43.840 husbands they also degrade them and recontextualize them as lower status not yeah no no but yeah but 1.00

00:48:49.600 you have to be very concerted about it so you'd have to do like an enemies to lovers and of like

00:48:53.840 well then i'm gonna be where you have to you have to shanghai them into a pygmalion relationship by

00:48:59.520 the definition of our pragmatist guides to relationship so you have to be like well i hate 0.53

00:49:04.240 him so much i'm just gonna exploit him and make him the best possible husband and like help him

00:49:10.000 succeed so that i can make tons of money off of him and then it doesn't work that way once they have

00:49:15.520 degraded their husband even if even if they plan on investing in their husband to make him a better

00:49:20.240 person because i feel like you don't understand you don't understand once they see a man in that way

00:49:27.280 they can never see him in any other way really because i feel like there are lots of there are

00:49:31.760 plenty of relationships that end and then like a woman sees her husband thrive after like he gets

00:49:36.800 rid of his dad yeah it doesn't work until they've left him and they're jealous so i have seen many

00:49:42.480 women who look down with their husband super big deal and then they weren't able to see that or 1.00

00:49:47.520 contextualize that can we can we can we skip the leaving part we're like the marriage stays together and

00:49:52.960 we like get the woman to go yeah if he's sleeping with other women if he's no that's what triggers 0.79

00:50:01.840 it for them they're like oh other women yeah social yeah but but if the man's going through a dumpy 1.00

00:50:08.160 phase it's a lot harder for him to women look to where other women are looking to the social

00:50:13.680 group yeah there's some great studies on this actually as a man like it's much easier to pick up

00:50:19.920 women with a wedding ring than it is without a wedding ring if you're going out there hitting 1.00

00:50:23.440 on women put on a wedding ring because they view that as a sign of i forget the word but it's like 0.58

00:50:28.800 like social proof social proof yeah it's social signaling so and you can pick up a wedding ring

00:50:33.280 on amazon for like 10 and 11 dollars because we just buy them in bulk at this point because malcolm

00:50:39.200 keeps losing them so you can do it guys if you're single and you just need to

00:50:43.360 you know i'm not i have never lost a wedding ring in my week like i must have lost it was in this

00:50:51.120 house 60 wedding rings at this point or something like that like a large number and we have no idea

00:50:57.920 where they're going one day like literally we're gonna hit like a floorboard or something and a bunch

00:51:03.520 of rings are just gonna come pouring out because it'll turn out that tourist den who keeps stealing 0.93

00:51:07.280 them from you by the way he really does like stealing them from me he's asked me for a wedding ring himself

00:51:11.920 and i said i can get him a little one for him and he goes but then it won't be big like daddy and

00:51:15.200 mommy's oh he's a sweet kid last night he's like can i hold those two batteries for daddy and mommy

00:51:24.720 and he wanted to like take them into his bed he just wants to hold batteries that's all he wants

00:51:28.640 in this little world just holds his little battery like torsten those batteries have chemicals that

00:51:33.440 can kill little children like you and he's like 1.00

00:51:35.520 what did he say something about like killer batteries he's like can i have the killer 0.95

00:51:43.040 batteries who wants them he doesn't he just understands now that they're dangerous but he

00:51:50.240 needs to he needs to hold them and go

00:51:54.400 he he rubbed me against his face you know the whole rock thing

00:51:57.360 yeah he like took my hand and was like like he's just he's he's he loves rubbing the things he

00:52:06.080 loves against his face yeah the autism is strong with this one yeah i love him so much all right

00:52:11.360 so simone i sent you a collection of memes thank you go to the bottom one so the the most recent

00:52:17.200 one which is just a post and then we'll go through the memes in just a second okay hi so right now it's

00:52:22.880 just a post on blue sky which we'll be talking about later but yes okay so mark cubans on blue sky

00:52:28.960 yes we'll talk about it and he's shilling it a lot it's creepy oh okay

00:52:43.360 hello what can i do for you today uh

00:52:48.560 torsten show it your sword

00:52:52.880 sword that sounds exciting don't do that torsen or you'll break the uh ornaments

Based Camp - November 26, 2024

Blue Sky is Cutting Dems' Last Ties to Reality

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