TikTok, On The Clock

We're not gonna lie - the past week has felt like a literal year with the TikTok ban and the inauguration of president chomp. take a seat and let's dig in!

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I've gotta say the last week, I don't say this lightly. Was the most stressful anxiety inducing heart palpitating cluster. Fuck of a week of my entire life. Uh, shit. Exploding shit. Just shit, exploding, brain rotting, hair, clumping, and falling out Inc. Skin. Belting I bowl popping. Tom exploding. Yeah, sure. Yeah. That's what happens to tongues? Week of my fucking life. Oh, here we are on the tail. End of what? The only described as one of the fucking. The week that will go down in history. It was the longest year of my life last week. It felt like There was a spell put over the world and time was going by so slowly because there was so much happening. I do know why. There was a. There was a long along a full moon. It was, yeah, it was the same period of time. It's like the moon looks like it was a fuller for longer. It's supposed to represent like stagnancy and whatever else. I don't like it in the universe. Because Mrs. Tik TOK ban. With all encompassing. And now as we are on the tail end of the inauguration as well, there's so much going on in the world that we are about to fucking dig into. So take a seat. Take a seat, grab a knife. Grab a fork. No. And I've signed enough. You don't need anything other than a knife? Don't use on yourself. And let's dig into what went down last week. God. We went through trauma together as a society. Yeah, the U S went through trauma. The whole world was fine. The world was fine. They were laughing at us. They were like, what the fuck is happening over there? And that janky ass country you live in. And we were like, I made the active choice to live here. We said, yeah, let's move here. Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, no, it's not, it's really not. I don't know. Should we do a timeline? Should we start from the beginning? Yeah. Which was last Monday. Crazy how that feels like a year ago. Last Monday. It was the beginning of the week of clusterfuck. We woke up. Because we knew that tick-tock abandon was happening. When was the Supreme court that was Wednesday. No. When was the Supreme court hearing we went, did they have that hearing? Oh, they're hearing Last week, the week before. Okay. But Monday we were waking up and we were like, okay, the tick-tock ban is happening. We were like, we know what day is going to happen. It's going to happen on Sunday, the 19th. But we know the Supreme court is going to issue a decision maybe who knows. On Wednesday. We're going to find a release, like a statement of like our opinions for the week. Yeah. The Wednesday came and went. And guess what? We got nothing from those little fucks. And yeah, we were riddled because if you don't know already, like textbook is all like primary source of income. We like do brand partnerships on like multiple social platforms, but Tik TOK is like the most lucrative. This girl. Five years building a community on this platform. And so to see it. Ripped away. Potentially to see it this week, this past week be like just toyed in front of us. Like a pizza, like a piece of meat, pizza meat, like a piece of meat, like bait. Yeah, you. I want this things that you're not going to get it. You might your income might be stripped away from me. You Ooh, your business might be just like poof, who knows? Because some old fucks want to. Want to rule in some way. It's not just us. It's not just us. The like content creators of the platform and they're on the world. Who we're going to see such a hit. It's crazy to me that, to think that how many there's 170 million American users on Tik TOK, which make up, you think that's like half of the population, but it's not because like most of the population. There's kids in the elderly people who don't use the social platform. There's people in prison who, some of those use the platform I've seen prison talk. And there are rest of the 175 million, which actually make up the majority of people who can use the platform. That use the fucking platform and 7 million small businesses that are going to be directly affected by this tick tock. 7 million small businesses. The Supreme court was just like, No, I don't care about anyone. I don't care about the co actually don't care about the economy and don't care about how this is going to impact literally everyone's life. The timeline and the timeline, the template. And the timeline. On Wednesday. I was up at 7:00 AM watching the live stream of the SCOTUS ruling know what Skoda stands for. Okay. Cool. Yeah. I don't know if you knew. And then POTUS is president. I have Instagram. Unfortunately. no. Who was Pelotas. It's a different one. I don't know. Perry, the Platypus. Who the fuck is Pelotas. So on the timeline, I was waiting for the Supreme court ruling on Wednesday. It didn't happen. I was anxious that day. No, I was still hopeful. I think that day, I think I was like, okay, they're waiting until another they're there. They're drawing this out. They're making this. The most horrible season finale of the U S ever by drawing it out to the end. So I was hopeful still on Wednesday. I'm going in my emotions. This is an emotional timeline. Thursday. I was. Anxiety induced anxiety ridden. Was I anxious on Thursday? I dunno. I think Thursday was the anxious day where I was like, oh, we are. I was like, I'm going to cry. We were moving towards the van and we were like, no, one's doing anything. Hello government. You want to do something? And this is the time where people like the Congress, men and women who like actually voted for the ban were like, oh wait, maybe I don't want the band. Maybe because all of the youth and the entire country are against me right now. Like Cory Booker and. I'm like all these people they're like, Ooh, maybe let's think about this again. Okay. Don't vote for it in the first place. I know it's crazy. He's a shit crazy work piece of shit. I'm sorry. And then Friday came around. And we got the ruling. Oh my God. And it was nine to zero. I was like, okay. That's fine. And what was the ruling? A unanimous. The face, your fucking little pieces of shit. What they said to us. And I was like, huh. Okay. Turns out it didn't fucking matter. Because all of a sudden on Saturday morning, Or maybe it was this Friday, the tick tock CEO is like, we're going to be working with chomp to. Figure out how we can all move forward together. We are for, he actually said that we are fortunate for president Trump during that tech talk that he put out. We are fortunate that we have a president lacked wasn't a president at the time. Look a little bitch. I get it. You know what? I get it. You know what you're trying to save this thing. Who am I to say? How you shouldn't do it. This literally seems like the only way. Yeah. It to have been. Whatever. And then Saturday evening comes around. We like expect it to go dark by like midnight that night. Midnight EST. And then there was like word on the street that it was going to go dark by eight 30 PT. It was a random email from tick-tock shop to like agencies. That it was like, oh my God. At eight 30 E S T five 30 PST, it's going to go dark. And we were like, oh, that's in three hours. I thought we had until midnight. I'm going. No one actually said no one actually said midnight or eight 30 or 9:00 PM. No. It's like a historical world event. Everyone's like, where were you? Yeah. Second tower was hit. Yeah. I was on my friends. 40th birthday dinner. And I went on the app and then it said, And duck is banned in the United States, but. Working with president charm, but we're fortunate that president Schomp has our backs. God save us president. And then I was like, you know what it's happened? And now I know it. It was freaky. It was freaky. I was a mess. No, I run into other friends and I like run to the other table. I was like, look, what the fuck just happened to them? There was like a whole like murmur on the, in the room about it all in. What. I have a few glasses of wine down. Let me just continue drinking and just forget that this happened. And then tomorrow I can wake up and. I dunno, doom scroll, Instagram reels. We tried that night to scroll on both reels and YouTube shorts. YouTube trusts is a fucked. And I've said this, and I've said this, and I've said this, and I will continue to say this. What the fuck is YouTube? What the fuck are you doing on this app? This app is one of the most demented, not the app itself. The short shorts feed the most insane. What the fuck? No. It's like weird. It feels like what reels. It's supposed to be. Cause reels isn't is bad. But it's not as bad. YouTube torts feels like you open tech talk for the first time. And then you get like the fresh feed. And you can tell because of the fucking comments that you get on Instagram. And YouTube. Discuss us, is it tech talk because tech talks algorithms. The algorithm if they sell and then the algorithms like, no, the algorithm is going to stick. We're going to stick. We're going to keep the algorithm. This is what I mean. I'm like, if they sell them, they don't sell the algorithm. Then the app is fucked and ruined in the. Anyway, so it doesn't really matter. I posted the same tick sock, making fun of Donald Trump. JD Vance's official portraits. They're not curation portraits on Tik TOK, Instagram and YouTube charts. TechTalk funny as fuck. So funny, everyone is. A fucking comedian on tech talk. Cause I'm like, everyone's on the same page. The video is going to the same people. Yes. It's like an echo. Whatever chamber, but it's not going to like Maga hats. You posted on Instagram and YouTube shorts straight to manga, straight to mega land. And they're like, that's your president you're talking about? Or he looks like that because he's a leader and he's a man. You hate like masculinity. People microwaved, huh? He looks like he's in a microwave. Yeah. It's like he's been put in the microwave for one and a half minutes. On Harvard on high. And then whatever came out was this. He's like a marshmallow. You have you ever put a marshmallow in a microwave now? Why the fuck would I do that? Because, okay. Do you know what happens with marshmallow and microwave? No. You put a marshmallow. Like Expand so much. And then it, like when you take it out, like implodes, he looks like the imploded, like after the, after you've finished. I can imagine. It's just like a really it's a really Potent kind of burnt a little bit shady. Like yellow. Yeah, exactly. That's. He looks like. Yeah. It looks very jaundice. JD Vance looks like Miley Cyrus at the 2008 Grammys. I don't know. Grammy's that one? That 1008 spooky times. Yeah. He also looks like someone said, he looks like. Uh, White Walker, he looks like a demented pug. Trump looks like a gender bent, Dolores Umbridge, which I live for. There's so many good ones, but they put it on YouTube torts and it's just like, That's my president. I'm like not my fucking president. Yeah, I mean, You know how embarrassing that these people anyway. Okay. And then on the timeline, I thought we were going to have it gone for at least two days until the inauguration. So Saturday night I went away. I thought we were going to have at least until past noon on Monday without Tik TOK. Cause I didn't think it'd come back over the weekend because I think he'd had to make like the executive order, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, and then we got it back. What time, just because it like 2:00 PM. Sunday at 2:00 PM. No, it was less than that. Really? I think it was less than that because we no, no, no, because we lost it at nine. Nine something on Saturday 6, 7 0 7. It was like seven or 8:00 PM, We had it gone less than 24 hours. It was like 12 hours. Yeah, it was gone. And I kept like I know exactly where Tik TOK is on my home screen. So I kept pressing it, like out of habit. But I was like all of a sudden the pop-up went away and it just had no internet connection. And then I was back on my feed, but there was no for you page. So I was like, What's happened. He is risen. He has risen Hala, fucking Lula, Lupe, Lula. what the fuck. Are you doing? And then the, for you page came back, came back and I was like, not at all. And then the conspiracy theories style. But I'd like to take a step backwards. For a moment. If you will allow, I would allow indulge. I would indulge. So this episode is about the tech. Talk about if you have not already gathered. We're having gum. A deep dive in, into. Just the inner workings of our brains during that time. Because our careers were falling off of a cliff. As they were for many other people, like a lot of the creatives in the app. Some of which took to take, talk to reveal. Deep dark secrets that they'd been hob harboring the harboring. Yeah. Career ending. I will say people really expected the app to go down forever and they revealed that darkest secrets through a trend, through a trend. On Tik TOK, where they were admitting to basically lying to that followers, giving the humble, influence the bad name. Fitness influences lying about. Doing the workout, doing that workout. Doing the workouts lying about not having surgery. This one. And so who had a BBL and she was like, Here's the secret I had to BBL. I don't actually have this from working out. Which is wild. That's crazy. Bang girl, who was like, I don't actually eat all the food that I claimed to eat. That's crazy, even though that's her whole platform. Did you hear about the ice cube girl? No, he's an ice cube. Go. Like people are, I don't know why people about. About ice cube. I love the ice cube golf slide. Cause I feel like this is like a, no, this isn't in the grand scheme of things. Ice cube go. Ice cube gate is not a big deal. Ice cube. This girl has 20 million followers or like maybe she got 20 million views on this, like one tech talk. Okay. Restocks ice cube trays. Oh, fru unlike. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it makes this whole like, just so many ice cube trays, and she puts like berries and stuff. Yeah. And she was like, Here's my secret. It's very High school, musical state is quo. Like I got a secret to tell and they're like no. But yeah, that was the trend basically. And she was like, I don't actually eat all of these ice cubes. And then everyone's like, Say it ain't so ice cube girl, you lied to us. And then she came back on when. Chuck was, yeah, she was like, I don't eat them all, but like I had some, sometimes they're like my friends and my partner has salmon. We like have them on like weekends and sometimes put them in cocktails. That is not a big deal. Ice. I just was spiraling because when something's taken away, you look really cherished afterwards. In my blissful doom scroll yesterday, I was just going down this rabbit hole and everyone was like, Ice cube girl sucks. And it was like, wait a minute. Have we just like really lost the plot? Because this isn't that bad. She just made Iceland. Didn't have some of them. I know there's other things fine. Other things to be angry at how is she going to have all that? It's happening during the inauguration too. And I'm like, please redirect your anger elsewhere. This is not that bad. It is crazy. As. Someone whose career is concentration and who this is like our whole life. like it says, if we, cause we do a lot of food, we said we don't eat any of this food. We like chew it up and then spit it out That's the dumbest career move you can ever make. The brain do not also have other platforms that people follow you. Which you repost your tuk-tuks on shore. All credibility. You're an idiot. Even if you like made it one afterwards. It was a joke. It was so funny. I'm like you ruined your credibility. Yeah. you're an idiot. Idiots dumb. And the people who also deleted tick talk from their phone, Dom. We can talk about dumb. We can talk about dumb in this country. We store it on inauguration. Off of your phone, even if you thought that it was not going to come back, why wouldn't you just keep it for as long as you could? I don't know. It doesn't make people. The also some people I saw that were like, they deleted off their phone because they saw other people were back on it. So they were like, let me delete. And then re-install the app. To see if I can get the app back. But it's something, someone else be your Guinea pig still don't do it. As an influencer as. It's still not in the app store, yeah. And it probably won't be for awhile. Those brain cells together. What's left of them, rubbed them. Rub them together. It's crazy to me, bonkers. To spark some kinds of thought. there's no fire happening in those brains. So that was crazy. They're really did feel like it was a week. That was a year. And then all of a sudden it was gone. It was like That one clip from SpongeBob. If you can do the time, don't do the crime and they walk into jail and then the guy goes, okay, time's up? They walk in and they walk straight back out of prison. I think it's so funny that Most, if not, all of our references are from Tik TOK, because I saw that exact same thing on Tik TOK. And I know you took that reference from that. And if we didn't have tech talk. Where would I reference this? Nope, no way. I'm not fucking getting it from Instagram reels. Am I finding it was a really fucking traumatic time I had to As you heard, I was drinking a lot of wine inside tonight. I woke up on Sunday, mildly hungover. And I was like there's nothing. I'm not going to read a book. I have had it, but I'm not going to look at a page. Because it's really hard to like, imagine, Fake scenarios in your head about your hallucinate whilst you read into a fucking book, reading words on a page, imagining all this things in your brain. It's difficult to do that whilst you're hungover. Totally. Okay. I'll just start a new book and I'm just like really struggling to get into it. Fuck. no, this is my justification for having to fucking scroll on Instagram reels. How was it? What did you see to heritable? Some of the things I'll on Instagram wheels. I'm like, what the fuck? How does this not violate community guidelines? Yeah, I see having their content. Removed from the app of Instagram because they violate community guidelines because they talk about this or that censorship is real. You guys, censorship is real, but all of a sudden, why can I see the shaft of your penis? Oh, Instagram. Swing it around. And around the video, the videos of the judges. My patients is a lot like my Instagram algorithm than it does anything, but it's fucking insane. My Instagram algorithm is like men working out or just like men in general. As a manager, it's just mad men in general, actually. What is that? What is it right now? Cause I want to try and Prove that it's somewhat wholesome. There are only men. It. There are only. Men gay people. Oh, there's some makeup stuff. There's some makeup. There was a man holding like a anal beads in his mouth. They've literally alarm. That is crazy. That is wild. And next day. Like someone getting her makeup done. Sat. Right. I was like right next to that. This makes sense. Oh, my God Instagram's algorithm. I don't know how it's like. Yeah. Your guy you interact with one or two gay people. RedNet was a phenomenon. You never got into it. I got into it for a second. And I'm off it. I was like well, the week started, everyone was downloading red now. And I was like, I just don't have the time to learn Mandarin right now. I'm sorry. I just don't have the, I don't have the brain classy. My career's on the line. Sorry, I can't do that. I did see some things though from Tik TOK people with screen-sharing the algorithm on red note. Really good, because as soon as I like scrolled a little bit and then started hearing. Hi gay. Ah, welcome to the body shop. No. Not her. She was a guest judge on yes. Why does she get stressed? Because she was a phenomenon. Random one, like Vargo video. Yeah, it was a big one for the case. It was just viral and gaze. So funny though. And then we got it back. And then we've got to back and then we got it back. And now we have tech talk for 75 days because of. My Lord and savior, chop chomp. Chop you saved us. Anyone who thinks that Trump actually saved Tik TOK is brainless. Domus I don't know if we need to take it back to 2020 when he originally created the concept of the Tech-Talk ban. Hello. The inception of the Tik TOK ban came from that like tiny little Walnut brain inside that giant orange had, because he didn't like the conversations that were happening around BLM. During that time. Because Tik TOK was becoming our town hall and it was the most liberal app. Out of all the apps and it was the place that everyone could share ideas and have conversations and share everything that was happening with BLM. And he didn't like that. If you think about the app itself, if you think about Instagram and you think about other apps either. YouTube. Yeah, YouTube. Yeah. Yeah, YouTube apps. YouTube in my mind is like a big search engine just for like videos. Like I will type like how to do something or how to do that. The tube. Fuck ex fuck that little piece of shit. Fuck that dumb, ugly little fucking rat man. Fuck him. Fuck his app. Fuck his entire lineage. Fuck you. Actually not his lineage because his daughter is like slight isn't. What was he described as yesterday? Oh It looks like the after picture of someone with a skin graft and I'm not even going to get into the gesture, but he did two times during the, the, you know, gracious. Elon Musk. It was the most, it's the most insane thing. If you are. Someone who voted for Trump and you're witnessing this and you are still okay with everything that happened yesterday. All of those executive orders that he did. everything that happened, Elan's dumb fucking gestures that resembled, fascism. It wasn't a hundred percent. If you see that and you're like, huh? That's fine. That's fine by me because eggs will be cheap at festival and other when you're dumb. And they will not be cheaper or why. Talk. Thank. Fucking God, she is going to be, how many days are they in Trump's presidency? Like 1000, 1,200. She's like here is like my series of 1000 times 100. Days of Trump's presidency, where I'm going to be ranking egg prices every single day. To make sure to see how they change and they're not going to change because guess what? Just in case you're dumb. The president of the United States does not get to determine the price of things. And it just happens due to in flight. There's a bird flu happening right now. There's a bird flu. There's an actual edge. I had to go on the great egg heist last week to go and find eggs. On a Wednesday last week, just run around. Two. Multiple different stores to try and find eggs. And I did, and they were expensive and I was like, you know what? Beggars can't be choosers. To buy a different brand that we never bought from who the fuck is Ben and Ben and Jerry, I don't know. I'm a vital farms. Jerry, but it was Ben and Jerry. No, it was it. Been in Gary bedding, Gary Bennett. Terry and Terry zags or something crazy. I was like, shoot here. Were they? Who were they? Who these strangers in my house. These strange white men in my house, all of a sudden, but I don't know how to eat your eggs. I'm going to eat your ass because we're desperate. Trump does not have the power to make anything cheaper and he will not. And his policies have been proven to actually make things more expensive. Because when you cut taxes on the rich. Things get more expensive at the bottom. Even the bottom, like you. Like your bottom half. 75%. 95%. Yeah, it's a 96%. It's a 4% the top wealthiest people. the lineup of dare I say, fucking loser is behind him at the inauguration to. And. What was Lauren Lauren Sanchez. Who is her name? Jeff Bezos is fiance. What was she wearing? Blazer over Abrar lap. I don't know, over a bralette, I don't know, for an inauguration. Except bra. It was very telling that. If they didn't allow the spouses of most of the Congress people to come. The integration. was allowed to have her. But she was stood right behind Trump. Yeah. Because Jeff paizos is. Sucking his fucking Dick. Yeah. Oh my God. Oh, this is going to be crazy. You guys the crazy? No, this is like a different stage of America's devolution and to chaos because of the oligarchs right behind Trump in front of his cabinet, like they were in front of his cabinet. The oligarchs were and by oligarchs, all of Metta, Google Musk. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Our evening. At front book, nobody's safe. And they all donated like millions of dollars to his inaugural fund. I'm like what is happening? What is happening? I'm scared. He's like this presidency is just opened the door for everyone to just come out as. Big fat racist. And also ugly. The two go hand in hand. Sorry. The more conservative. You get the ugly irrigate. No shit. It's proven. Then the more like melted you look. Yeah. But at least we have ticked off. At least we have to take talk in the Gulf of America. And that is a Gulf of Beijing. That is the goal of Beijing. Niihau motherfucka. I don't give a fuck. I'm sorry. That is so fucking insane. We now have to just wait and see what's going to happen with tech talk, as everyone else does. I'm. Gonna segue into the topic of conspiracies. I love conspiracies put on the tinfoil. Let's talk. As soon as Tik TOK came back, everyone was like, It seems different. Has anyone not been able to see the lives tab? No one can see the tick talk shop there we're slowly rolling out the features and people were like the app's different. Something's not right here, but we like as creators, we get emails from Tik TOK. Like I get emails from tech doc and they were like, it's going to slowly roll out. Like you might not see lives. You might not. They literally said you're not going to see lives and you're not going to see tech doc shop for a second. And those were the things that were missing, but everyone's they don't want us to see what's happening in the world. So they've taken away lives. And even on the app store yet, like this slowly rolling things back in, I don't think you can. Look, I don't know why it isn't on the app store yet. Maybe it won't be for the next 75 days. They figure out that whatever deal they're going to do, but the conspiracies were crazy. It's insane. They were like Maribel. Oh my God. and like now, You can see because show Chu. She talked in his bio. But here's the thing people were saying show choose. Tik TOK, bio no longer says CEO of TechTalk and Facebook and Instagram now have accounts on Tik TOK. That means this, that means that turns out. If you use a brain. Just one, you don't need to use your own. You can just have, you can use someone else's. Yeah. There was never the word CEO written in. The CEO's bio. To begin with. And if there is a humongous merger like this happening. Legally, they have to disclose it to the public. Like it has to be either. Can't do things like that in secret. If these huge companies are merging or if there's like legal things happening by law, it has to be like open to the public because they're publicly trade. Well, Facebook is a publicly traded company. Yeah. It has to be shared. Yeah. And also the us does not like monop, like regardless of what we think about the status of the U S right now as an oligarchy, we do not like monopolies because a United explain where the oligarchy to me is if I'm a fucking idiot, It just means like it's like a vegetable. I think a root vegetable. It means the government. I never thought of it as a root vegetable. It basically means that the power is in the hands of the few. So like the strings are being pulled by the richest people in the world. Like the T is the business Titans. And those people are actually in charge. So you see the government, like we have the government and that's technically a democratic Republic. that's the type of government we have and have had. But whenever we have an oligarchy, that's just changed to the rich are the ones pulling the strings. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, totally. Oh, but the U S does not like monopolies because United was trying to merge with spirit airlines And then that got shut down by the government because we do not like monopolies. It takes away competition. So Metta was going to buy Tech-Talk. Hey, that would have to be public. Be that would go into the courts and we would have this big, massive fight over it. Can't just happen. It can happen within the space of 12 hours. I just don't understand. Because Facebook made a Tik TOK profile. And on Facebook, there were popups saying to connect your tick, talk, everyone with all your brain cells said, oh, that means metabolic tech doc. You can have, why do you always. You can, you could have all ready, connected your Instagram to tech talk. Like it's just not a thing. It's not a thing that those two platforms like haven't been like in sync before. I think we were all I think everyone was in panic mode. Like I ended up in defense of all the conspiracy theorists. Like we were in panic mode. We were in, we were traumatized. We were trying to make everything make sense in our heads rather than like, it just came back at everything's normal. That's boring. Because also it was like, so anticlimactic, I'm like you can leak and take it away for a bit longer. I was actually like starting to be a little bit productive. I was like, actually let me read a book. Let me clean the house a little bit. Let me get my life together somewhat. And then all of a sudden was like, nevermind, here you go. And then we have, and then we have this like influx of like sappy posts all on tech talk like we did this outage. I know. Hey, you guys is plump or Ms. My little. And I would do it again because takes off. Is that important to me? Yeah, totally. And I will not say embarrassed that I was sad. No, I was sad because Tik TOK has changed our lives. Rugrats, you guys Brag roots. No workouts. What. What did you say? Now what? Yeah. Hey. We are I guess when more like shit becomes publicly known, I guess we're going to, all discover it together and figure out where we go from here because we have 75 days and they're going to try to make a business deal. Trump is going to come in and make a business deal, make America great again. And we're all going to be so happy. The amount of like ass kissing. That's just happening with this fucking president is crazy to me. And the amount of people who are like so thankful that he's saved. Tech-Talk I'm like, I don't get it. I don't get it because I know history. And I remember what his. Past presidency was like, And I remember what happened. Just seems to have a lot more like, oh, it's going to be really scary for years for sure. That's for sure. But it was also scary other four years. Yeah, that's right. We started off the last presidency with Muslim ban and we forget about how crazy that was. Like we were protesting at the airports. Oh, my God, people were protesting the airports. They were shutting down things. We were like, making sure this didn't happen. So we do have the power. I think a lot of people are less interested in fighting back. Because we had hired. Yeah, we went through a lot. We've been through trauma. We've been through so much and now we have to do it again. Yeah. I think a lot of people are going to be more focused on like local things and like community building at the local level, like working with your cities. And working with your communities and your. And your towns and your like neighborhoods. Rather than this, these big national things. And I think also it's good too. Be happy in the face of it. They're. Be happy in the face of it first. Experienced joy in the face of adversary. In spite ad set adversity. No, it's just spite everyone who wants you to be sad and angry and confused. Yeah. Be happy. Yeah. Be happy for the next four years. It's stressful for sure. But put on a happy face, put on a smile. And pretend that you're having the time of your life. Because they want you to be sad. They want you to be like, oh my God, he's going to, he's going to evade Greenland, how dare he, he can't do that. Let him say what he wants. Because I think in the first term we were like, don't take him at his word. Don't take them, literally take them. Literally this time, if he's going to invade Greenland. Let him try. I would like to see him like really fails. So that's what I mean. Cause he's going to fail. Yeah. Yeah. Let them try to make eggs cheaper. He's going to fail. But let me keep my chick, Joel, my duke dog. Let them make a deal for tech top bottom. Let everything happen. That's gonna happen. I'm worried about. Me, my family and my immediate community family. And the people who are, the most at risk. By his administration. Yeah, which is literally most of the glitches, literally everyone. Yeah. And then hopefully in four years we can all collectively. Vote for Gavin Newsome for president. I think back on this time as the small, but deadly scourge. That it was the Tech-Talk ban was like a silent, but deadly fart. Oh, my God. It was so quiet and so short, but it felt so potent. I was posting, you know, No, I don't know. I would have never produced such a foul odor. I'm looking at me. I'm a I never farted in your life. Never. Never Never. It's just sparkles. And rainbows from in there. Oh my God. Disgusting. And to round off this episode with a dinner table game, we're going to play peaks and pits, otherwise known as rose and thorn. Watch. And. Buds. Oh but Wait. We can play. The equivalent of a Pekin pit with a bud. Peak pit and like a C level. No cause I didn't know Rosen, Dawn, I didn't know what a Rosen Dawn was until like here. Rose, thorn, bud rose. Okay. Let's pay. Laura is. time to play. Let's do our roses and then our thorns and then our buds from last week. No, but it's not with negative. Fuck. Okay. I start with the positive. All I don't give a fuck. You can start with the positive. Was it positive? From last week, do you have a positive from last week? Yeah, exactly. No, there are positive. Exactly. Oh, they're positive. I have positive. When Tik TOK was being banned. And we were like in our final stretches. My whole for you page was filled with sounds and audios and trends from 2020. And it felt so nice and like warm and like people were sharing like the whipped ice coffee trend. I was like, this is nice. This is a nice flashback because we've been on the app for five years and I'm like, so much has happened since then. It's good to look back and be like, oh, this is where we started. We were so cringy back then. So cute. And five years ago you don't remember, but fuck, who are so cringy back then. So Chris, I scroll back all the way to the bottom and I was like Oh, It's cringy. I'm going to say that my phone was just the Supreme court. Oh, we were like, oh my God, what are they going to say? We're in the hand where like we are in, we, our livelihoods are in the palms. Of these. The people who don't know anything about. What's going on. They have no clue about this app and all of my truly my livelihood is in the hands. and then it ended up being for nothing. Like we were stressing about that decision and that decision had no consequence to anything. And it didn't matter. It has so much consequences. We forget that this ruling against tech top is not just about tech talk. It's giving it has given the government power to ban any outfit wish basically based on. Evidence that they might or might not have. Any app. Any app that's owned by a foreign adversary, whatever that means. With data security reasons, blah, blah, blah. The government now has the precedent to. get rid of that. Get rid of that. That's fine. Yeah, we can get rid of. It's happening over that. Jesus Christ, but it's not just like the ruling was not for T for Tech-Talk. It was not for free speech at all. Yeah. That's crazy. And this is nine to zero. The whole thing was a mind. Fuck thorn, a thorn in my ass. Victoria, my thorn then. everything was a thorn. Every single thing was a thorn. Everything else, but what I said was a thorn. Like literally the whole week was a thorn. Can Trump being inaugurated, be a thorn? Totally. Yeah. Trumping inaugurated. Fuck that. But actually it was funny that he was too cold that he had to do it in or Tundra. That's funny. I think that's funny. He's like, oh, I'm so cold. I can't go outside and do it like outside, I think that's so funny that this entire presidency and like his entire PASI behind him as all supposed to be like masculinity and man they're like manpower, but two cultures. Don't also. And I'm just like, actually That's a release for me, the fact that all of the. It's hard to go and stand outside. Waiting to see the Lord and savior. Yeah. he was inside. All these people traveled from across the country for nothing wall Blom. And they had to go to the capital one arena to watch him signs and executive orders. Losers embarrassing. Doug sixth birthday. Yeah, that. That was that was diverted. She's almost a senior. And now to the bud. Something that will bloom, but has not yet developed. I think just if you will. I don't have a bud. I took the plan B. I took plan B. You don't have a bud? No. I took the anti baby. And that buddy's dad. No, but for me, I have a bud, for sure. I can be hopeful about something. I have hope that six o'clock. That'll make a deal for Tech-Talk that works for everyone. And that keeps the platform as it is. Because I don't like the pessimism that it's going to completely change and be a different app blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The rich and powerful were going to screw us over. No, I have faith and takes off as a last left leaning platform that we have that we can keep this town hall. That is so good for conversation and discussion and. Information. I have hope for it. Information. That's what everyone's scattered off. I think the whole thing started from the idea that we were able to share information freely and openly with each other on such a mass level. I'm learning so much. That I never, ever would have known. And it's all because of the Tech-Talk. Yep. It's such a powerful platform and if it changes, it will ruin it. And so the hope is that it won't change too much. Yes. And with that, we leave you some hope. Y two. No I joined on. And as long as Del Ray wants. Uh, To hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have. But I fucking got at me. Thank you so much for tuning in On today's episode of let's dig the fuck in. Please be sure to follow us on Instagram and Tiktaalik. And I'm right. As on wherever you listened to a podcast. Five stars only. 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