Was Banishing Libs to the Bluesky Crystal a Mistake?!
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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.
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hello simone i'm excited to be with you here today today we are going to be discussing
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as people with a tech right or new right perspective is blue sky a good thing or a bad
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thing because part of me feels a bit like we there was this meme for a while that the left
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was going to be banished in crystals and that we were going to trap them there under the trump
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administration and with blue sky it's like it came through it's like in superman where the enemy
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is banished to a crystal and then shot into outer space where they can't interact with anyone else
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but then on the other side you're like well is it really good to like isolate these communities
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where they can radicalize did we want this everyone likes me and thinks i'm great in my safe
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space my safe space people forget how bad these communities used to be and do not remember like
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how evil leftists actually are and because i we've heard you know you're on npr and and the guy was
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like oh no normal leftist would ever say that and you're like literally every day somebody says i'm a
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nazi like i know you say no normal leftist would ever say this but they do so first i want to get
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into what i mean by all of this so blue sky if you just look at the numbers and you're not being
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delusional but we will go into the rest of the numbers because they're actually pretty interesting
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gets about 3.5 million active users a day and x on the other hand gets 259 million active users a day
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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
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didn't realize before going into this just how small it was i had no idea basically nobody uses it except
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for and and i will note that enough of the people who used to participate in like cancellation mods
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mobs use it then we have gone viral on blue sky like i don't know last weekend or something and we
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have stopped going viral on twitter entirely we used to do this thing called media baiting where
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we try to freak out progressives you know she dressed like a handmaid right and then they'd come do some
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pro natalist piece on us and then we do something to freak them out and then we go viral and it was
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great for you know growing attention growing interest and yet it doesn't work anymore like literally
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cancellation stopped working in part because everyone involved in them went to blue sky
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but now they're just yelling at each other although i i will say that it's not just like we went viral
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on it last weekend or last week there are posts about us from all sorts of time ranges and there's also
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this concerted desire in the community to not talk about us along the lines of that one article saying
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stop talking about simone and malcolm collins one person on blue sky lizzie o'leary posted i think
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you call it skeeting because you're skying slash tweeting she skeeted i'm issuing an executive order
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banning writing about malcolm and simone collins anymore on february 4th 2025 which was quite a while ago
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actually it didn't work because we've gone viral on blue sky since then it really didn't yeah and like
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people people just like to go on there and make fun of us for no particular reason on april 14th
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max posted whenever i see that one eugenics couple i think they look like a pair of protractors that
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were brought to life by a magic wishing star it's fun by a magic wishing star i guess i guess i could
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look like a protract i guess he means i'm skinny he must be in a world i think like a protractor i think
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they're just thinking like can i think of a nerdy object and then humanize it with magic i i don't
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know though i mean you're doing the yankee thing so we've been thinking i like what can i dress as if
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she's gonna dress as like a pilgrim like full japanese yankee with like the hair back the whole
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greaser outfit i'm so for it i'm ready i'm still a little too timid to do the full pompadour look but
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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
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our podcast even got a shout out on blue sky someone someone radical agile gach slash college
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hill wrote simone and malcolm collins the tech eugenicist couple just dropped a strong contender
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for worst podcast of 2025 where they compare gender transition to lobotomies
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which is just it is exactly like lobotomies and it will be viewed in the future that way
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we now he argues clearly the cult here because we talk about cults in the in the podcast is all the
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trans people and not an insular group of weird venture capitalists who want to create the uber
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bench they have not such a people view of us that's very we're in the process we're in the
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process okay you're not denying are you no don't deny it if we remember what niche was it's just a
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self-actualized individual like no and we want human flourishing that is 100 percent what we're
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going for genetic perfection it just meant being self-actualized and making your own choices about
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what's right and wrong that's what it meant to be an uber bench not basing your morality off of a
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pre-existing moral set and i'm like are we trying to create the uber bench was that what all of our
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education we want oh we want a universe full of uber uber what are they mentions munchens
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with minchai minchai i i i i love that they're watching our podcast yeah i mean you know fans of the
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pod shout out to all of you on blue sky yes oh do you have any other blue skies that you clipped
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these are fun to listen to i mean a lot of them just make fun of our appearance like the the
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protractors one another guy took a screenshot of our podcast with with curtis yarvin jim stewartson
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anti-fascist he has to let us know skeets curtis yarvin and his pals simone and malcolm are all
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peter teal pro natalists who believe their dna is so amazing that they have a responsibility to share
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their magnificence with the world before we go extinct they apparently own no mirrors
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oh no mirrors yeah there's this really common thing amongst progressives who apparently aren't
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eugenicists that like where they love to imply that we really shouldn't be into it we shouldn't
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be reproducing because we're ugly what they're literally like no i know i know it's wonderful i
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mean one one they imply that we think that we're genetically better which we don't and we wouldn't
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be using things like genetic testing if we thought we were superior somehow and two they're like but
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ugly people shouldn't reproduce right yeah like obviously ugly people shouldn't reproduce like what
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are you guys doing and it's like whatever like we'll replace you whatever i'm fine with that i'm fine
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with that we'll replace you you won't exist anymore don't worry about it yeah like we we don't mind
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like this isn't like a an actual fight with us because we know that they're self-extinguishing
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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
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yelling around in their safe space and i'll put the safe space song here people that support me
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mixed in with more people that support me and stay nicely you cannot stop me from getting inside
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i am cold and i am hard and my name is reality oh no not reality somebody stop him but i want to
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before i get into the numbers because i actually think the numbers are less are interesting than
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the philosophical argument here which is to look at all of the positives of blue sky existing of
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trapping the progressives in their crystal yeah and that is what blue sky is it's it is the crystal
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the crystal happened oh my gosh that is mind-blowing it literally happened we trapped them in a crystal
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of their own we did it guys we did it crystal achieved elon elon did it by the way come on give
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give give credit yes i'm sorry we really of course but anyway i want to because the positives okay
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cancellations can't really happen anymore their their toxic culture cannot leak into the public
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discourse as much anymore it really doesn't yeah it really doesn't like you just don't see or hear
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about it as much outside of the mainstream news organizations which have become more radicalized
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like drudge report guardian and stuff like that since the trump election and win if you're like oh no
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they can't be that crazy here's a recent excerpt from a guardian article about us because these people
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are styling themselves after the super villains of a saturday morning cartoon they are of course now
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deeply influential in the trump administration it is not interest in making pregnancy safer or in
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making child rearing less damaging to women's careers it is not interest in these because all
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of these pursuits are in fact antithetical to the movement's real agenda which is to encourage
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primarily white births to enforce regressive highly hierarchical and stratified social roles
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to push women out of the public sphere and to narrow women's prospects for social professional
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and intellectual life to little more than pregnancy childbirth child rearing and housekeeping or as
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that collins might put it kinder kush kish that basically she's trying to argue that we're nazis
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although i don't think we've ever said those words and and that's why i feel like this may not
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have the the the final point and sargon of akad was making this point which is people have forgotten
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how crazy the far left is and how and how hateful topics they are and i think that he is right about
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that to an extent like they're not on twitter where a lot of people are but they still are in the
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newspapers like the drudge report is still like psychotically toxic that's true the the guardian is
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still psychotically toxic but i think the problem is that nobody reads that stuff because a lot of these
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organizations like i think the guardian even completely withdrew from from twitter and went
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to blue sky which basically means they've got no reach anymore with their accounts which is like
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okay like i get that you were being dogpiled now that you didn't have like a control of the platform
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when you posted things that were untrue which they do a lot like of all of the the most tabloidic
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writers on us the guardian is by far like i think the like we get like actual quote-unquote tabloids
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writing about us like the new york post and stuff like this never do they make as many factual errors
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as the guardian that is whoa that's true how can that be true that should not be true a few days ago
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guardian was where snowden's leaks were published that was like gumshoe journalism that was the good
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stuff yeah yesterday it was yesterday what was it well to recording of this it doesn't matter to
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you guys but anyway yes recently on us and they said that simone was worried about them coming and
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taking her room one day implying that them like progressives or like some sort of scary i have
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some conspiracy about some unknown faceless yeah she's like they will take my womb one day and like
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quote scare quotes and and the the actual full quote is you know i have to get a c-section every time i
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have a kid you know the maximum number of kids anyone ever had is 11 eventually surgeons will
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take my uterus in a botched surgery not not like but like they're like deliberately twisting reality
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to attempt to manipulate people well just to make me look unhinged actually you know this is a topic i
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wanted to talk about that i don't think deserves a full episode so i'll drop it here which is my theory
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called the directionality of what would i call it oh reputation reputational directionality yeah
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reputational directionality which is to say that within the online environment all reputations have
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a directionality attached to them and if you start universally loved that directionality is negative and
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you will eventually because the only articles worth writing are you are on ones where you hate on the
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person become universally hated if you start universally hated you become universally loved
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or not universally loved but most of the stuff coming out on you is you know and that's why
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early on in sort of our public fame i leaned so much harder even than i do today into the stuff that
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that drew negative controversy because i wanted to have this universally negative picture of me
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among the lines of like the people who didn't actually engage with our ideas or anything like that
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so that it could be so if you want to like see examples of this great examples are you know
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somebody like harry and megan right you know they start absolutely universally loved and then the only
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things you can publish on them are the only thing you can think on them is like well subversive right and
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so then they end up completely universally hated especially because they're trying to control their image so
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much um or you start as somebody like what's an example here that started like universally sort of
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cringy and then everybody started to like them i think i think chapel roan who i don't think you
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would have heard of might fall in that category maybe well i i think the the guy martin screlly
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definitely falls into that category kim kardashian way back in the day oh yeah oh the best example of
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this is paris hilton yeah everybody hated paris hilton they thought she was trashy and garbage and all
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the stuff about her was just trashing now she's like oh wow she's a smart business woman she
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the south park is just about her being a slut and now everyone's like she seems pretty based like
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she seems like a decent huge smart business woman and who is respectable and i would want to be her
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friend and i think that that's a great example of this this trip and then some people have been
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around long enough to go both ways or britney's trump trump has gone both ways for sure yeah trump
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has been around long enough to go for you love hate it love hate it britney spears love hate it love
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right yeah you know she starts love then everybody hates on her and oh how can you like britney and
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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
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we need to cheer for her again and so i i think that a lot of people don't consider this when they're
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building their online fame and they try too hard to enter the scene loved instead of understanding that
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entering the scene is where you want to be hated it's later that you want to be loved
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but it makes sense given this contrarian environment like i think we're about at the breaking point we had
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yesterday the team that that filmed the harry and megan actually documentary for netflix come over and
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film a pilot or a sizzle reel for a documentary about us they're working on studios with and i think that
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if we can get this made this could be the thing that breaks us over into the average love category
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now of course the people on blue sky will still be screeching and screaming but you know they've been
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trapped well and you can still go from hated to love to hate it as is demonstrated by some of the
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examples we gave no if we go it's just the problem is we've always been so reasonable in all of our
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takes right like the trans is similar to lobotomies i mean i think that that's just something that
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anyone who's engaging with the evidence is like yeah it seems about right it's a commonly used
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procedure especially among like democratic power players like the kennedy family that later we learn
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was just not a good way to deal with body dysmorphia in the same way you know somebody had body dysmorphia
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like they were anorexic which is another culture-bound illness which is also disproportionately appears in
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young women with autism just pointing out that that you wouldn't remove their uterus to lower their
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weight just because they liked it happening you'd be like that's really toxic don't do that but they
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they do it so anyway you you've got or the study just for people who are new to this podcast that showed
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that of people who are of the age of i think it was 14 who are uncomfortable with their body by the age
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they're 23 more than 9 out of 10 of them completely identify as their birth gender if they're not given
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access to puberty blockers yeah because all puberty sucks you you can't cure that dirt yeah so but i
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wanted to talk so i had labeled all the negative things right you know the negative things are the
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crystal the the the the you know why it's good right oh why it's good okay what why i can't
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add or negative yeah the the positives yeah and then that the negatives are that it provides an
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environment where far left ideas can like fester and become even more extreme and normalized so when
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you isolate people with extreme beliefs like this they can begin to believe these beliefs are normative
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and okay to hold within like an open world environment the question was that i think twitter was already
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doing that to an extent yeah i think people were already so siloed what we saw with progressives
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more than with conservatives on x twitter is they would block and mute anyone who didn't hold values
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and views that they well they'd even build like block lists that they'd share with everyone else right
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so it was very easy for people to silence any voice that they found offensive or uncomfort uncomfortable
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so i yeah i don't even like they kind of had their own little version of blue sky before they created
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blue sky oh it's just that other people still had to listen to them yes so they had more of a platform
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before but they still didn't see other people's views that's fascinating
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yeah okay i buy that and they also had more of a platform because before x was acquired
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you know that more conservatives were censored yeah conservatives were just censored on the
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platform it's wild for me to think and this is something that like actually worried me for a bit
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when i heard that lotus eaters was demonetized on youtube even still and i was like what why is
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lotus eaters lotus eaters is so tame compared to us yeah um and then i went it was like oh well that
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happened in 2023 and i was like oh that makes sense back when they had more cultural power than they
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have today but and it was and it was censored because of sargon of akad who is on lotus eaters
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other channel instead of his actual work on lotus eaters and i was like well that seems really unfair
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for censoring them based on another channel but okay so on the net what's your take is blue sky
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good for the right or bad for the right i think it's bad for the right because i think the right still
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needs to have its views regularly challenged and i think that they need to understand what people with
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opposing views think and they're just not being exposed to that enough on x as it stands there's
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not enough pushback and and whether or not you'll ever have your your mind change or your views moderated
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by people who oppose you people you might even really hate they still help you clarify your own views and
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values they still strengthen so i'm gonna push back on that take really yeah i don't think i think
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that the people who engaged in like serious argument stayed on x and twitter no people who left were the
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ones who screeched no people who like to debate things online left and went to blue sky keep in mind
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blue sky is only one percent of the daily users of twitter and we'll see when we go to the statistics
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people on blue sky actually interact with the platform a lot less than people on twitter per
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session oh really that's interesting that happens as much yeah that is interesting i i still think
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it's better to have more antagonistic people together on in one place okay so was our account really
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active before the blue sky exodus yeah it was do you feel like we had more argument back then
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yeah we had tons more engagement back then we have like no engagement now
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most i think most of the interaction with our content was with people who have now gone
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to blue sky so we were just totally shock jocks i guess yeah well we were almost entirely hate watched
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which is not the same as our youtube channel it might be the same but like they don't
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upvote videos because i have like average upvote rating is like 98 yeah i don't think that's the
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case i don't think we're hate watched that much here because one you actually have to invest time
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to hate watch here and on x you really you don't even have to read someone's posts to say something
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snarky and mean to them it's just like you slap your children you know like you don't have to
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i could have just posted something about you know changing statistics and some population in china but
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that doesn't matter so yeah i just yeah you have to invest more we don't have hate watchers here
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they would show up in the comments do you know what i realized i haven't checked facebook in like six
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months like i used to be pretty facebook addicted it was one of those things i checked every morning
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yeah it still has a really active platform for what it is and i don't know if that's because a lot
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of people just still use facebook messenger and facebook is referring to them as daily active users
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but facebook has a striking number of daily active users and i can only assume it's because
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they're messing with the number somehow because it doesn't seem plausible to me so for example
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facebook has 1.03 billion daily active users compare that with only 122 million on youtube
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or 500 million on instagram facebook has been caught faking their numbers before by the way yeah i think
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they might be combining all of their platforms but i don't think that's true because for example
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whatsapp has 2.9 billion so almost three times as much as they're lying across all the platforms
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they own like that's not surprising maybe maybe but you know the the the incident i'm talking about
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here when facebook started facebook video they basically lied to people about how many people
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were using it and so a bunch of people went and invested a lot of their careers in trying to build
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facebook video platforms and then it turned out that facebook video was mostly a scam and nobody was
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really using it and so it screwed up a bunch of people's like content creation careers
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did they provably lie yeah if i remember correctly yeah they well because it had to do it's eventually
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like the the ad revenue just wasn't coming in right like they they said oh we have this many people and
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everybody we're not that many people that's awful so i put up a blue sky gross chart here you can see
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that they did have a bump between november and december and and and they have grown like in the early
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days significantly but if you look at like the february versus march numbers you're looking at 31.5 to
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33 million which is decent gross but it is teetering off from that initial bump no it is seeing what is
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considered to be a classic cat sort of casting or like our slowing down of growth after the initial hype
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cycle however i don't consider that the same oh we shouldn't worry about that statistic as people would with
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other platforms because i think all the initial growth was really just leeched off of twitter this
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wasn't organic growth this was just all the progressive people at once deciding to leave x
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and that wasn't in my view earned in the same way that x and facebook and whatsapp earned and snapchat
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earned their audiences and tiktok yeah even the heads of blue sky have said that this isn't real organic
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gross and it's not going to continue and we need to find a way to get people just copied x and we're
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like we're x for for progressives that doesn't no you don't get credit for doing that at all here's
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something you might find interesting is blue sky users by age so i'm gonna guess the majority is
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between 25 and 40 no what okay who by far the largest category is 18 to 24 year olds the youngest age
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group possible and then the next largest is 25 to 34 year olds the next youngest if you go 35 to 44
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you're looking at only about 15 so it's a younger platform but not maybe a very young platform well
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tiktok's younger i think as much of a third of tiktokers are 14 years old or younger it's a very
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like here's what's going to shock you blue sky is not just overwhelmingly male but more male than x
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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
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x to blue sky in fact blue sky is one of the most male platforms there are if you order platforms by
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how male they are it goes discord 66 okay reddit 63 blue sky 62 x 60 telegram 57 facebook 56
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quora 56 what about twitch come on in 56 hold on it's it's more male than youtube which is 54
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it it yeah twitch is 63 men so twitch is also at the top so come on youtube yeah yeah twitch
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has anyone used twitch twitch it's like weird like lefty cuck mint like there's like this weird category
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of like male that like i don't know i feel like a lot of the streamers that are on youtube have
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like they do the recording on twitch and then they publish later on youtube and it's just kind of a
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two-for-one and so they're they're very active on there and they have active audiences that just want
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someone to keep them asma gold does that i think and i think and i think a lot of youtubers do that as
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well does that mm-hmm leaflet actually is a separate team publisher if you watch our episode with her
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we're big fans she's awesome yeah she's she just seems so endearing like i i watched some other
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vtubers and we might do other co-op labs with vtubers but none of the the female vtubers are as
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endearing as leaflet i was actually talking with simone about this i get the impression that these
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other ones like have like only fans accounts or whatever and i was like yeah but leaflet definitely
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doesn't she she doesn't give that vibe but hold on i gotta keep going with my interesting statistics
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the us has the largest proportion of blue sky visitors 42.27
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wow it's really surprised about that here's another one that surprised me on average each
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blue sky user visits approximately eight pages per session contrast that with x it's 12 pages per session
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it's interesting in fact x if you're looking at like per session is the top of the engagement list
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so if you go by platform x is 12.26 facebook 11.74 instagram 11.52 youtube 10.91 then way down
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is blue sky 7.91 only only lost to snapchat to talk and reddit
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by the way i was surprised that reddit it was more male than than blue sky or x
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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
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yeah i'm curious yeah who's big on blue sky okay blue sky is big on blue sky it doesn't really matter
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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
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version of elon which is interesting because he used to position himself as like a righty politician
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right yeah i could actually see him running for president in the next cycle he could do well he's
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like uncucked enough power to do well if he's like a new right person pretending to be a lefty
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absolutely yeah i'm okay with that next george takai okay okay yeah next is mark hamill
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what the guy who played luke skywalker i know but why what does he have to say why does anyone care
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what mark hamill has he must i really don't know he's like famous in like a deranged lefty and maybe
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that so he's just fun unhinged unhinged hot takes yeah next is the onion i didn't know they were
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still around okay all right i i love it that like babylon b has genuinely replaced the onion in the
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eyes of the public like they're bigger than the onion now right like i the onion doesn't do anything
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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
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b right yeah i think so yeah the babylon b adam ford is the founder is adam ford mormon no doesn't
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seem like it he's a he he's an ordained anglican priest anglican anglican yeah who knew anglicans do
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anything here's one we've got one anglican just be a catholic okay like i'm not even that pro cat
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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
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without balls being an anglican is just being a catholic for people without balls sorry i don't mean
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this i don't mean to insult our anglican but i'm just like the actual history of the anglican movement
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like it's it's it's it's meant to be like catholic right like it's just a recreation of
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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
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like conservative christians i hope we don't lose all our anglican followers over this we're insulting to
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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
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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
00:38:30.840
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