Based Camp - April 25, 2025


Was Banishing Libs to the Bluesky Crystal a Mistake?!


Episode Stats

Length

39 minutes

Words per Minute

175.31119

Word Count

6,920

Sentence Count

15

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

In this episode, we discuss whether or not blue sky is a good thing or a bad thing for the left. We discuss the numbers behind it and the current state of anti-leftism on it. We also talk about our plans for the future of the podcast and why we think it should be called a cult.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 hello simone i'm excited to be with you here today today we are going to be discussing
00:00:06.720 as people with a tech right or new right perspective is blue sky a good thing or a bad
00:00:16.920 thing because part of me feels a bit like we there was this meme for a while that the left
00:00:24.520 was going to be banished in crystals and that we were going to trap them there under the trump
00:00:29.160 administration and with blue sky it's like it came through it's like in superman where the enemy
00:00:35.100 is banished to a crystal and then shot into outer space where they can't interact with anyone else
00:00:40.320 and they're like ah no more harm
00:00:42.400 you will not down before me jor-el
00:00:55.960 but then on the other side you're like well is it really good to like isolate these communities
00:01:06.120 where they can radicalize did we want this everyone likes me and thinks i'm great in my safe
00:01:13.760 space my safe space people forget how bad these communities used to be and do not remember like
00:01:22.640 how evil leftists actually are and because i we've heard you know you're on npr and and the guy was
00:01:29.200 like oh no normal leftist would ever say that and you're like literally every day somebody says i'm a
00:01:34.120 nazi like i know you say no normal leftist would ever say this but they do so first i want to get
00:01:40.860 into what i mean by all of this so blue sky if you just look at the numbers and you're not being
00:01:48.320 delusional but we will go into the rest of the numbers because they're actually pretty interesting
00:01:51.960 gets about 3.5 million active users a day and x on the other hand gets 259 million active users a day
00:01:59.980 which means that blue sky is getting 1.35 the users of x yeah or twitter it's so small it's so small i
00:02:09.640 didn't realize before going into this just how small it was i had no idea basically nobody uses it except
00:02:15.900 for and and i will note that enough of the people who used to participate in like cancellation mods
00:02:22.140 mobs use it then we have gone viral on blue sky like i don't know last weekend or something and we
00:02:29.540 have stopped going viral on twitter entirely we used to do this thing called media baiting where
00:02:33.320 we try to freak out progressives you know she dressed like a handmaid right and then they'd come do some
00:02:38.020 pro natalist piece on us and then we do something to freak them out and then we go viral and it was
00:02:43.900 great for you know growing attention growing interest and yet it doesn't work anymore like literally
00:02:50.120 cancellation stopped working in part because everyone involved in them went to blue sky
00:02:55.840 but now they're just yelling at each other although i i will say that it's not just like we went viral
00:03:01.760 on it last weekend or last week there are posts about us from all sorts of time ranges and there's also
00:03:09.040 this concerted desire in the community to not talk about us along the lines of that one article saying
00:03:14.460 stop talking about simone and malcolm collins one person on blue sky lizzie o'leary posted i think
00:03:21.620 you call it skeeting because you're skying slash tweeting she skeeted i'm issuing an executive order
00:03:28.020 banning writing about malcolm and simone collins anymore on february 4th 2025 which was quite a while ago
00:03:36.500 actually it didn't work because we've gone viral on blue sky since then it really didn't yeah and like
00:03:42.540 people people just like to go on there and make fun of us for no particular reason on april 14th
00:03:49.580 max posted whenever i see that one eugenics couple i think they look like a pair of protractors that
00:03:54.520 were brought to life by a magic wishing star it's fun by a magic wishing star i guess i guess i could
00:04:04.160 look like a protract i guess he means i'm skinny he must be in a world i think like a protractor i think
00:04:09.000 they're just thinking like can i think of a nerdy object and then humanize it with magic i i don't
00:04:14.380 know though i mean you're doing the yankee thing so we've been thinking i like what can i dress as if
00:04:20.580 she's gonna dress as like a pilgrim like full japanese yankee with like the hair back the whole
00:04:25.820 greaser outfit i'm so for it i'm ready i'm still a little too timid to do the full pompadour look but
00:04:31.780 we'll see we'll see give it time you have the hair for it you can get the volume i do so you know
00:04:38.620 our podcast even got a shout out on blue sky someone someone radical agile gach slash college
00:04:46.100 hill wrote simone and malcolm collins the tech eugenicist couple just dropped a strong contender
00:04:51.440 for worst podcast of 2025 where they compare gender transition to lobotomies
00:04:56.780 which is just it is exactly like lobotomies and it will be viewed in the future that way
00:05:06.200 we now he argues clearly the cult here because we talk about cults in the in the podcast is all the
00:05:13.380 trans people and not an insular group of weird venture capitalists who want to create the uber
00:05:18.100 bench they have not such a people view of us that's very we're in the process we're in the
00:05:26.580 process okay you're not denying are you no don't deny it if we remember what niche was it's just a
00:05:32.400 self-actualized individual like no and we want human flourishing that is 100 percent what we're
00:05:37.580 going for genetic perfection it just meant being self-actualized and making your own choices about
00:05:44.140 what's right and wrong that's what it meant to be an uber bench not basing your morality off of a
00:05:48.540 pre-existing moral set and i'm like are we trying to create the uber bench was that what all of our
00:05:54.200 education we want oh we want a universe full of uber uber what are they mentions munchens
00:05:59.820 with minchai minchai i i i i love that they're watching our podcast yeah i mean you know fans of the
00:06:08.960 pod shout out to all of you on blue sky yes oh do you have any other blue skies that you clipped
00:06:14.300 these are fun to listen to i mean a lot of them just make fun of our appearance like the the
00:06:19.580 protractors one another guy took a screenshot of our podcast with with curtis yarvin jim stewartson
00:06:26.140 anti-fascist he has to let us know skeets curtis yarvin and his pals simone and malcolm are all
00:06:32.120 peter teal pro natalists who believe their dna is so amazing that they have a responsibility to share
00:06:37.680 their magnificence with the world before we go extinct they apparently own no mirrors
00:06:43.420 oh no mirrors yeah there's this really common thing amongst progressives who apparently aren't
00:06:51.340 eugenicists that like where they love to imply that we really shouldn't be into it we shouldn't
00:06:56.900 be reproducing because we're ugly what they're literally like no i know i know it's wonderful i
00:07:04.100 mean one one they imply that we think that we're genetically better which we don't and we wouldn't
00:07:08.400 be using things like genetic testing if we thought we were superior somehow and two they're like but
00:07:13.840 ugly people shouldn't reproduce right yeah like obviously ugly people shouldn't reproduce like what
00:07:18.920 are you guys doing and it's like whatever like we'll replace you whatever i'm fine with that i'm fine
00:07:23.800 with that we'll replace you you won't exist anymore don't worry about it yeah like we we don't mind
00:07:28.420 like this isn't like a an actual fight with us because we know that they're self-extinguishing
00:07:33.380 right you know so yeah it's very it's not stressful at all but i i i you know that they're they're
00:07:40.080 yelling around in their safe space and i'll put the safe space song here people that support me
00:07:45.720 mixed in with more people that support me and stay nicely you cannot stop me from getting inside
00:07:52.980 i am cold and i am hard and my name is reality oh no not reality somebody stop him but i want to
00:08:02.460 before i get into the numbers because i actually think the numbers are less are interesting than
00:08:06.480 the philosophical argument here which is to look at all of the positives of blue sky existing of
00:08:11.700 trapping the progressives in their crystal yeah and that is what blue sky is it's it is the crystal
00:08:17.820 the crystal happened oh my gosh that is mind-blowing it literally happened we trapped them in a crystal
00:08:23.580 of their own we did it guys we did it crystal achieved elon elon did it by the way come on give
00:08:30.100 give give credit yes i'm sorry we really of course but anyway i want to because the positives okay
00:08:37.760 cancellations can't really happen anymore their their toxic culture cannot leak into the public
00:08:44.660 discourse as much anymore it really doesn't yeah it really doesn't like you just don't see or hear
00:08:49.920 about it as much outside of the mainstream news organizations which have become more radicalized
00:08:54.560 like drudge report guardian and stuff like that since the trump election and win if you're like oh no
00:09:00.660 they can't be that crazy here's a recent excerpt from a guardian article about us because these people
00:09:07.460 are styling themselves after the super villains of a saturday morning cartoon they are of course now
00:09:13.000 deeply influential in the trump administration it is not interest in making pregnancy safer or in
00:09:19.000 making child rearing less damaging to women's careers it is not interest in these because all
00:09:24.000 of these pursuits are in fact antithetical to the movement's real agenda which is to encourage
00:09:28.420 primarily white births to enforce regressive highly hierarchical and stratified social roles
00:09:33.540 to push women out of the public sphere and to narrow women's prospects for social professional
00:09:38.600 and intellectual life to little more than pregnancy childbirth child rearing and housekeeping or as
00:09:45.400 that collins might put it kinder kush kish that basically she's trying to argue that we're nazis
00:09:51.800 although i don't think we've ever said those words and and that's why i feel like this may not
00:09:56.060 have the the the final point and sargon of akad was making this point which is people have forgotten
00:10:01.920 how crazy the far left is and how and how hateful topics they are and i think that he is right about
00:10:11.440 that to an extent like they're not on twitter where a lot of people are but they still are in the
00:10:16.380 newspapers like the drudge report is still like psychotically toxic that's true the the guardian is
00:10:23.380 still psychotically toxic but i think the problem is that nobody reads that stuff because a lot of these
00:10:27.820 organizations like i think the guardian even completely withdrew from from twitter and went
00:10:31.880 to blue sky which basically means they've got no reach anymore with their accounts which is like
00:10:37.260 okay like i get that you were being dogpiled now that you didn't have like a control of the platform
00:10:45.520 when you posted things that were untrue which they do a lot like of all of the the most tabloidic
00:10:52.560 writers on us the guardian is by far like i think the like we get like actual quote-unquote tabloids
00:10:59.280 writing about us like the new york post and stuff like this never do they make as many factual errors
00:11:03.740 as the guardian that is whoa that's true how can that be true that should not be true a few days ago
00:11:10.960 guardian was where snowden's leaks were published that was like gumshoe journalism that was the good
00:11:17.960 stuff yeah yesterday it was yesterday what was it well to recording of this it doesn't matter to
00:11:23.200 you guys but anyway yes recently on us and they said that simone was worried about them coming and
00:11:31.460 taking her room one day implying that them like progressives or like some sort of scary i have
00:11:36.660 some conspiracy about some unknown faceless yeah she's like they will take my womb one day and like
00:11:42.100 quote scare quotes and and the the actual full quote is you know i have to get a c-section every time i
00:11:47.680 have a kid you know the maximum number of kids anyone ever had is 11 eventually surgeons will
00:11:52.440 take my uterus in a botched surgery not not like but like they're like deliberately twisting reality
00:11:58.700 to attempt to manipulate people well just to make me look unhinged actually you know this is a topic i
00:12:05.520 wanted to talk about that i don't think deserves a full episode so i'll drop it here which is my theory
00:12:11.520 called the directionality of what would i call it oh reputation reputational directionality yeah
00:12:19.720 reputational directionality which is to say that within the online environment all reputations have
00:12:27.360 a directionality attached to them and if you start universally loved that directionality is negative and
00:12:35.260 you will eventually because the only articles worth writing are you are on ones where you hate on the
00:12:39.800 person become universally hated if you start universally hated you become universally loved
00:12:45.320 or not universally loved but most of the stuff coming out on you is you know and that's why
00:12:49.680 early on in sort of our public fame i leaned so much harder even than i do today into the stuff that
00:12:55.800 that drew negative controversy because i wanted to have this universally negative picture of me
00:13:01.820 among the lines of like the people who didn't actually engage with our ideas or anything like that
00:13:05.260 so that it could be so if you want to like see examples of this great examples are you know
00:13:11.780 somebody like harry and megan right you know they start absolutely universally loved and then the only
00:13:17.140 things you can publish on them are the only thing you can think on them is like well subversive right and
00:13:21.400 so then they end up completely universally hated especially because they're trying to control their image so
00:13:25.220 much um or you start as somebody like what's an example here that started like universally sort of
00:13:33.720 cringy and then everybody started to like them i think i think chapel roan who i don't think you
00:13:40.280 would have heard of might fall in that category maybe well i i think the the guy martin screlly
00:13:45.740 definitely falls into that category kim kardashian way back in the day oh yeah oh the best example of
00:13:51.500 this is paris hilton yeah everybody hated paris hilton they thought she was trashy and garbage and all
00:13:57.180 the stuff about her was just trashing now she's like oh wow she's a smart business woman she
00:14:00.960 the south park is just about her being a slut and now everyone's like she seems pretty based like
00:14:08.260 she seems like a decent huge smart business woman and who is respectable and i would want to be her
00:14:13.560 friend and i think that that's a great example of this this trip and then some people have been
00:14:18.980 around long enough to go both ways or britney's trump trump has gone both ways for sure yeah trump
00:14:24.460 has been around long enough to go for you love hate it love hate it britney spears love hate it love
00:14:28.660 right yeah you know she starts love then everybody hates on her and oh how can you like britney and
00:14:33.800 then it's like oh this might be a little low for her right now this sort of point that she's in i think
00:14:39.980 we need to cheer for her again and so i i think that a lot of people don't consider this when they're
00:14:46.440 building their online fame and they try too hard to enter the scene loved instead of understanding that
00:14:53.580 entering the scene is where you want to be hated it's later that you want to be loved
00:14:58.540 but it makes sense given this contrarian environment like i think we're about at the breaking point we had
00:15:06.360 yesterday the team that that filmed the harry and megan actually documentary for netflix come over and
00:15:12.040 film a pilot or a sizzle reel for a documentary about us they're working on studios with and i think that
00:15:19.800 if we can get this made this could be the thing that breaks us over into the average love category
00:15:25.380 now of course the people on blue sky will still be screeching and screaming but you know they've been
00:15:30.400 trapped well and you can still go from hated to love to hate it as is demonstrated by some of the
00:15:35.360 examples we gave no if we go it's just the problem is we've always been so reasonable in all of our
00:15:42.560 takes right like the trans is similar to lobotomies i mean i think that that's just something that
00:15:48.020 anyone who's engaging with the evidence is like yeah it seems about right it's a commonly used
00:15:54.820 procedure especially among like democratic power players like the kennedy family that later we learn
00:16:01.320 was just not a good way to deal with body dysmorphia in the same way you know somebody had body dysmorphia
00:16:07.760 like they were anorexic which is another culture-bound illness which is also disproportionately appears in
00:16:13.100 young women with autism just pointing out that that you wouldn't remove their uterus to lower their
00:16:19.060 weight just because they liked it happening you'd be like that's really toxic don't do that but they
00:16:24.100 they do it so anyway you you've got or the study just for people who are new to this podcast that showed
00:16:30.920 that of people who are of the age of i think it was 14 who are uncomfortable with their body by the age
00:16:38.140 they're 23 more than 9 out of 10 of them completely identify as their birth gender if they're not given
00:16:43.740 access to puberty blockers yeah because all puberty sucks you you can't cure that dirt yeah so but i
00:16:52.160 wanted to talk so i had labeled all the negative things right you know the negative things are the
00:16:56.600 crystal the the the the you know why it's good right oh why it's good okay what why i can't
00:17:06.280 add or negative yeah the the positives yeah and then that the negatives are that it provides an
00:17:12.560 environment where far left ideas can like fester and become even more extreme and normalized so when
00:17:18.600 you isolate people with extreme beliefs like this they can begin to believe these beliefs are normative
00:17:24.060 and okay to hold within like an open world environment the question was that i think twitter was already
00:17:29.380 doing that to an extent yeah i think people were already so siloed what we saw with progressives
00:17:35.540 more than with conservatives on x twitter is they would block and mute anyone who didn't hold values
00:17:43.800 and views that they well they'd even build like block lists that they'd share with everyone else right
00:17:49.040 so it was very easy for people to silence any voice that they found offensive or uncomfort uncomfortable
00:17:56.100 so i yeah i don't even like they kind of had their own little version of blue sky before they created
00:18:02.300 blue sky oh it's just that other people still had to listen to them yes so they had more of a platform
00:18:10.780 before but they still didn't see other people's views that's fascinating
00:18:17.680 yeah okay i buy that and they also had more of a platform because before x was acquired
00:18:24.300 you know that more conservatives were censored yeah conservatives were just censored on the
00:18:29.240 platform it's wild for me to think and this is something that like actually worried me for a bit
00:18:33.160 when i heard that lotus eaters was demonetized on youtube even still and i was like what why is
00:18:38.760 lotus eaters lotus eaters is so tame compared to us yeah um and then i went it was like oh well that
00:18:45.020 happened in 2023 and i was like oh that makes sense back when they had more cultural power than they
00:18:49.940 have today but and it was and it was censored because of sargon of akad who is on lotus eaters
00:18:57.640 other channel instead of his actual work on lotus eaters and i was like well that seems really unfair
00:19:03.640 for censoring them based on another channel but okay so on the net what's your take is blue sky
00:19:10.780 good for the right or bad for the right i think it's bad for the right because i think the right still
00:19:16.160 needs to have its views regularly challenged and i think that they need to understand what people with
00:19:24.180 opposing views think and they're just not being exposed to that enough on x as it stands there's
00:19:31.120 not enough pushback and and whether or not you'll ever have your your mind change or your views moderated
00:19:36.900 by people who oppose you people you might even really hate they still help you clarify your own views and
00:19:44.280 values they still strengthen so i'm gonna push back on that take really yeah i don't think i think
00:19:51.560 that the people who engaged in like serious argument stayed on x and twitter no people who left were the
00:19:58.300 ones who screeched no people who like to debate things online left and went to blue sky keep in mind
00:20:08.300 blue sky is only one percent of the daily users of twitter and we'll see when we go to the statistics
00:20:12.200 people on blue sky actually interact with the platform a lot less than people on twitter per
00:20:15.780 session oh really that's interesting that happens as much yeah that is interesting i i still think
00:20:22.760 it's better to have more antagonistic people together on in one place okay so was our account really
00:20:29.940 active before the blue sky exodus yeah it was do you feel like we had more argument back then
00:20:36.940 yeah we had tons more engagement back then we have like no engagement now
00:20:40.420 most i think most of the interaction with our content was with people who have now gone
00:20:48.560 to blue sky so we were just totally shock jocks i guess yeah well we were almost entirely hate watched
00:20:56.620 which is not the same as our youtube channel it might be the same but like they don't
00:21:02.520 upvote videos because i have like average upvote rating is like 98 yeah i don't think that's the
00:21:06.400 case i don't think we're hate watched that much here because one you actually have to invest time
00:21:09.960 to hate watch here and on x you really you don't even have to read someone's posts to say something
00:21:16.020 snarky and mean to them it's just like you slap your children you know like you don't have to
00:21:20.500 i could have just posted something about you know changing statistics and some population in china but
00:21:28.020 that doesn't matter so yeah i just yeah you have to invest more we don't have hate watchers here
00:21:34.180 they would show up in the comments do you know what i realized i haven't checked facebook in like six
00:21:38.160 months like i used to be pretty facebook addicted it was one of those things i checked every morning
00:21:43.360 yeah it still has a really active platform for what it is and i don't know if that's because a lot
00:21:49.760 of people just still use facebook messenger and facebook is referring to them as daily active users
00:21:53.760 but facebook has a striking number of daily active users and i can only assume it's because
00:21:59.080 they're messing with the number somehow because it doesn't seem plausible to me so for example
00:22:04.380 facebook has 1.03 billion daily active users compare that with only 122 million on youtube
00:22:12.440 or 500 million on instagram facebook has been caught faking their numbers before by the way yeah i think
00:22:19.220 they might be combining all of their platforms but i don't think that's true because for example
00:22:23.220 whatsapp has 2.9 billion so almost three times as much as they're lying across all the platforms
00:22:30.120 they own like that's not surprising maybe maybe but you know the the the incident i'm talking about
00:22:35.560 here when facebook started facebook video they basically lied to people about how many people
00:22:39.380 were using it and so a bunch of people went and invested a lot of their careers in trying to build
00:22:43.000 facebook video platforms and then it turned out that facebook video was mostly a scam and nobody was
00:22:47.660 really using it and so it screwed up a bunch of people's like content creation careers
00:22:52.260 did they provably lie yeah if i remember correctly yeah they well because it had to do it's eventually
00:22:59.280 like the the ad revenue just wasn't coming in right like they they said oh we have this many people and
00:23:04.160 everybody we're not that many people that's awful so i put up a blue sky gross chart here you can see
00:23:10.820 that they did have a bump between november and december and and and they have grown like in the early
00:23:17.080 days significantly but if you look at like the february versus march numbers you're looking at 31.5 to
00:23:23.100 33 million which is decent gross but it is teetering off from that initial bump no it is seeing what is
00:23:31.360 considered to be a classic cat sort of casting or like our slowing down of growth after the initial hype
00:23:37.400 cycle however i don't consider that the same oh we shouldn't worry about that statistic as people would with
00:23:44.520 other platforms because i think all the initial growth was really just leeched off of twitter this
00:23:51.480 wasn't organic growth this was just all the progressive people at once deciding to leave x
00:23:55.700 and that wasn't in my view earned in the same way that x and facebook and whatsapp earned and snapchat
00:24:04.820 earned their audiences and tiktok yeah even the heads of blue sky have said that this isn't real organic
00:24:09.960 gross and it's not going to continue and we need to find a way to get people just copied x and we're
00:24:15.000 like we're x for for progressives that doesn't no you don't get credit for doing that at all here's
00:24:23.980 something you might find interesting is blue sky users by age so i'm gonna guess the majority is
00:24:29.640 between 25 and 40 no what okay who by far the largest category is 18 to 24 year olds the youngest age
00:24:38.680 group possible and then the next largest is 25 to 34 year olds the next youngest if you go 35 to 44
00:24:46.760 you're looking at only about 15 so it's a younger platform but not maybe a very young platform well
00:24:54.920 tiktok's younger i think as much of a third of tiktokers are 14 years old or younger it's a very
00:25:00.440 like here's what's going to shock you blue sky is not just overwhelmingly male but more male than x
00:25:09.240 i is more male than how yeah so blue sky is 62.04 percent male x is 60.9 so it basically 60 versus 62
00:25:22.920 x to blue sky in fact blue sky is one of the most male platforms there are if you order platforms by
00:25:29.960 how male they are it goes discord 66 okay reddit 63 blue sky 62 x 60 telegram 57 facebook 56
00:25:43.160 quora 56 what about twitch come on in 56 hold on it's it's more male than youtube which is 54
00:25:51.720 it it yeah twitch is 63 men so twitch is also at the top so come on youtube yeah yeah twitch
00:26:00.600 has anyone used twitch twitch it's like weird like lefty cuck mint like there's like this weird category
00:26:05.880 of like male that like i don't know i feel like a lot of the streamers that are on youtube have
00:26:10.200 like they do the recording on twitch and then they publish later on youtube and it's just kind of a
00:26:16.680 two-for-one and so they're they're very active on there and they have active audiences that just want
00:26:20.840 someone to keep them asma gold does that i think and i think and i think a lot of youtubers do that as
00:26:25.880 well does that mm-hmm leaflet actually is a separate team publisher if you watch our episode with her
00:26:31.240 we're big fans she's awesome yeah she's she just seems so endearing like i i watched some other
00:26:36.920 vtubers and we might do other co-op labs with vtubers but none of the the female vtubers are as
00:26:43.000 endearing as leaflet i was actually talking with simone about this i get the impression that these
00:26:48.120 other ones like have like only fans accounts or whatever and i was like yeah but leaflet definitely
00:26:52.760 doesn't she she doesn't give that vibe but hold on i gotta keep going with my interesting statistics
00:26:59.400 the us has the largest proportion of blue sky visitors 42.27
00:27:03.560 wow it's really surprised about that here's another one that surprised me on average each
00:27:10.360 blue sky user visits approximately eight pages per session contrast that with x it's 12 pages per session
00:27:19.000 it's interesting in fact x if you're looking at like per session is the top of the engagement list
00:27:26.280 so if you go by platform x is 12.26 facebook 11.74 instagram 11.52 youtube 10.91 then way down
00:27:36.360 is blue sky 7.91 only only lost to snapchat to talk and reddit
00:27:44.360 by the way i was surprised that reddit it was more male than than blue sky or x
00:27:49.320 no i'm not i'm not there's a lot of women on both yeah you want to go over top accounts on blue sky
00:27:59.800 yeah i'm curious yeah who's big on blue sky okay blue sky is big on blue sky it doesn't really matter
00:28:05.720 then the the largest real account on blue sky with 1.98 million followers is aoc
00:28:12.840 okay setting the tone here under that is cut elon which is mark cuban what yeah he's like a lefty
00:28:25.320 version of elon which is interesting because he used to position himself as like a righty politician
00:28:29.640 right yeah i could actually see him running for president in the next cycle he could do well he's
00:28:35.400 like uncucked enough power to do well if he's like a new right person pretending to be a lefty
00:28:41.320 absolutely yeah i'm okay with that next george takai okay okay yeah next is mark hamill
00:28:52.120 what the guy who played luke skywalker i know but why what does he have to say why does anyone care
00:28:57.960 what mark hamill has he must i really don't know he's like famous in like a deranged lefty and maybe
00:29:04.520 that so he's just fun unhinged unhinged hot takes yeah next is the onion i didn't know they were
00:29:11.080 still around okay all right i i love it that like babylon b has genuinely replaced the onion in the
00:29:17.160 eyes of the public like they're bigger than the onion now right like i the onion doesn't do anything
00:29:22.200 anymore like the onion used to be so funny and like everyone would do stuff with it and now it's all
00:29:25.960 babylon b which is like the right leaning version and we actually reach out to the guy who who who who
00:29:31.240 runs it a cool organization they're they're a mormon organization right like that's where the
00:29:36.840 b right yeah i think so yeah the babylon b adam ford is the founder is adam ford mormon no doesn't
00:29:45.400 seem like it he's a he he's an ordained anglican priest anglican anglican yeah who knew anglicans do
00:29:54.200 anything here's one we've got one anglican just be a catholic okay like i'm not even that pro cat
00:30:03.560 but but anglican come on tried really hard it was there was a whole thing you know this is this is
00:30:09.880 like when when even gobert said that being an agnostic is is just being an atheist for people
00:30:16.680 without balls being an anglican is just being a catholic for people without balls sorry i don't mean
00:30:23.880 this i don't mean to insult our anglican but i'm just like the actual history of the anglican movement
00:30:29.160 like it's it's it's it's meant to be like catholic right like it's just a recreation of
00:30:35.000 catholicism was with a centralized church but just with a separate centralized i mean i'm sorry i don't
00:30:40.040 mean to be too after the onion i love that this is after the onion sorry we're so insulting to even
00:30:47.320 like conservative christians i hope we don't lose all our anglican followers over this we're insulting to
00:30:52.440 ourselves enough too one hopes under the onion is the new york times i loves it among progressives
00:30:59.320 you got the onion and then you got the new york times come on yeah next is stephen king okay
00:31:06.840 yeah he's very next is midas touch i don't know what midas touch is the next is rachel maddow okay and
00:31:15.080 then next is npr i love rachel maddow beats npr oh npr is so sad to me they're just like you know
00:31:22.280 when you've got on npr they've been so low energy so like we went to this like npr like in-person
00:31:27.640 filming thing do you remember when we went to that was like those people who took us and we were like
00:31:31.320 out on a field by philadelphia it's like oh no no yeah we no no we watched an in-person we were in
00:31:36.120 the audience of wait wait don't tell me which is yeah it's not exactly npr it's it's i think chicago
00:31:41.640 public radio but yeah it was it's one of their very long-running game shows what an interesting
00:31:47.000 audience it was such a thing it was so for progressive audience it was so weirdly like
00:31:53.000 and also wait wait don't tell me such a jewish show and so it's just so odd now that we live in
00:31:58.760 this age where there's so much anti-semitism on the progressive side progressive side and yet
00:32:05.400 you have this super super jewish show so yeah i don't know what to make of it yeah i mean you know
00:32:11.400 the the progressive jews aren't having kids not in not in large numbers they're you know two
00:32:16.840 generations from extinction yeah well what you gonna do oh no anyway so your your thesis is still it's a
00:32:27.640 net bad because we're not engaging with the outsider perspective as much yeah i don't like seeing
00:32:33.800 siloed siloed siloed networks like this unless it's a dating network and they're just trying to
00:32:41.080 find people value aligned to do stuff together but they're not doing stuff together that's not the
00:32:45.160 impression i get from blue sky so i don't see that as being valuable or helpful if this is a place for
00:32:52.120 online discourse it should be a place that is as ideologically diverse as possible and that's why i also
00:32:57.880 like x a little bit less now than i did before because there's less there's less ideological
00:33:03.960 diversity but it's i i think that it's improved i mean grok is amazing i like the algorithm more now i
00:33:10.440 think that it's more interesting so when i go on it now and i go to whatever feed i go to whether it's
00:33:16.600 so grok is like a high tier now like what like it makes sense that you know it was trained on xdata and
00:33:23.800 i appreciate that they they they did the acquisition and freaked out all the progressives that grok grok
00:33:29.720 if you don't know now owns twitter and everybody who invested in the twitter acquisition came out on
00:33:35.800 top because of that it's a win yeah but yeah not being trapped in the crystal i'm hearing good things
00:33:45.640 about gemini ai by the way apparently some people are saying yeah people are ranting and raving about
00:33:49.640 it now i haven't tried it i like still haven't like reused it so i should probably
00:33:53.560 i'm still traumatized from it not handling basic math but i know we've gone very far and it being
00:33:59.000 super racist when they first launched it oh yeah no that was fun i would i would go to to see that
00:34:04.760 you know to see all the black nazis yes create a crowd of nazis and they're all black and it's like
00:34:13.240 what why why did you think this was a good idea it's great it's perfect yeah you go for that it's the
00:34:21.320 math that threw me off but and now google's like removing pride months and everything from its
00:34:26.200 calendar which oh they are no yes well it doesn't have any of the nonsense holidays in its calendar
00:34:32.520 anymore only like mainstream religious holidays now which makes sense anyway i love you to decimum
00:34:40.200 what do you think about the most blue sky members being male thing like more than twitter
00:34:44.840 i really don't know what to make of that maybe it's that the most angry people on twitter who were
00:34:53.960 very active were male maybe yeah because they they thought they were signaling and maybe getting
00:35:00.520 something out of it and yeah i can see that but i i really don't know what to make of it to be honest
00:35:07.720 with you gender skewing of platforms is so odd and what the weirdest thing that i heard of which we we
00:35:13.960 got from the documentary team yesterday is that pinterest is now seeing this huge surge like it's
00:35:20.520 making a comeback but amongst you but like prepubescent male users who are using it to make like
00:35:28.760 stranger things and it meme boards like the clown it the scary freaking clown i love that young males are
00:35:37.720 still into horror i love that young males are somehow on pinterest like i i don't know how
00:35:43.480 their staff is dealing with this like i don't know if they know what to do with this after years and
00:35:49.160 years of wedding boards and hairstyle boards and dream bathroom remodel boards suddenly it's like
00:35:56.520 it memes and they're like how i i mean how do they monetize it right this is very interesting but
00:36:03.080 yeah the the 11 year old son of one of the producers who was here at our house yesterday
00:36:11.320 apparently just that's where he spends his time not on minecraft not on tick tock on freaking pinterest
00:36:18.440 nothing makes sense about young people well i i will say when i was a young male you might not know
00:36:24.120 this so my family my mom wasn't around much during a certain time when i was like like like young
00:36:29.560 like in that pre-teen age but we lived near a blockbuster and i was allowed to go and rent
00:36:34.680 movies whenever i wanted and the core section that i rented movies from was horror like that was the
00:36:41.400 main thing that i watched um i just loved horror movies during that period especially they're good i was
00:36:50.120 just remembering one that i that i loved as a kid deep star six for anyone who who liked that movie
00:36:56.440 but you know i i not the best the best horror movie i've seen that i recommend if you like
00:37:03.800 oh i you know horror ginger snaps two is the best horror movie ever made not one ignore one it's not
00:37:11.880 very good if you're not gonna watch two watch three they're all standalone stories so don't worry about
00:37:16.280 it but yeah no horror needs like good characters and plot and like it makes sense and everything like
00:37:21.720 that yeah i'm all about uh like genuine oh you want it for the part do you no well no do cheesy
00:37:28.920 good horror okay and i love that you know if they're if they're like it it is not good by the
00:37:34.360 way it is not good horror i don't care if it's good or bad if there's clowns i'm out
00:37:41.880 what was it what was the other thing that they were made it was it was it or stranger things which
00:37:46.520 stranger things is good horror stranger things is one of the best modern properties made
00:37:51.240 in the past 10 years or something like that it's great yeah absolutely wholesome fun for the whole
00:37:56.360 family yeah anyway love you to death simone i love you too gorgeous a spectacular day and all of you
00:38:03.960 out there have a spectacular day i really hope things go well for you and i really hope that you're you
00:38:09.240 achieve your dreams yeah for real actually we want i want to see human flourishing so do your do your
00:38:15.720 jobs people get it done yeah get out there and flourish you nerds dinners for closers i love you
00:38:23.560 love you too
00:38:27.320 oh gosh i can you going to squitter
00:38:30.840 sorry mama i wanted to tell you you all gallivin with your fancy the right friends it's twitter while i'm
00:38:37.560 sitting here all day with nobody to keep me company except blue sky the chickens are coming home to
00:38:45.720 roost bobby boucher you reap the fruit of your selfish ways you're gonna lose all your fancy elections and
00:38:52.680 you're gonna fail your big exam because squitter is a nazi everything is a nazi to you mama
00:39:00.360 well i like twitter and i like the right and i'm gonna keep doing a book because they make me feel good
00:39:09.400 and by the way mama women don't have penises
00:39:18.840 and i like trump trump that's my back