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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Welcome inside Final Hour tonight at The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon. Olden Polonies in for Mike Harmon, Hobo
or I feel like I'm in the beginning of a revolution.
I just signed up for Threads with everybody. I figured
I may as well do it. Watch sign up. It
just takes a couple of minutes, Goads. I'm on Threads
now by the field. If my bank account gets empty tomorrow,
(00:49):
I'm gonna be really mad. No, you know you feel dirty?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Do you feel good?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No? I feel good. I feel good because and look,
I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
How much did you pay?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Nothing? Threads is free?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well that's true. Like I said, if my bank account
gets empty, then I'll know something's up. But it's weird
because it's you know, we talked about this last hour,
the biggest story right now. I mean, you see millions
of people are tweeting or talking about getting on threads,
threads being a great place to not have to worry
about the restrictions of Twitter, and it's it's really I
(01:24):
don't want to say it's really unique, but it's unique
for sports because you know, sports needs there to be
no restrictions. We need to be able to scroll and
see things as they happen. I have not as a
Dodger fan. I would if I wasn't watching the game.
But I'm following the ninth inning and the Pirates load
the bases with nobody out. I'm hitting my Twitter limit
within ten seconds. What's happening, What's happened? Scrolling scroll and scrolling,
(01:46):
scroll and strolling. And if that's where the future of
sports social media is, that's where the future of sports
social media. I feel like the beginning of Facebook, like
I mean, like the beginning of social network and I'm
right on the ground floor. I'm joining right away. It's
very very strange, very very strange. I'm upset. I couldn't
keep how about a Fresco, but the real Jason S
(02:07):
because that was my Instagram account. I don't really use Instagram,
but now I'll use this for threads. That that's kind
of where if I got to say the same thing
twitter at how about a Fresca and on threads at
the real Jason S. And now we have to wait
and see who winds up winning this big social media war.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Hey man, I told you before I thought it was
about clothing, So I'm good unless this thing. Again, I
don't do enough tweeting. Is that it tweeting, right? Yeah,
I don't do enough tweeting or instagramming to worry about
(02:44):
what's going on with these people.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm sorry, you just hit your restriction old and talking
about that cut you off.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I'm sorry, no, but it's funny to me. I mean
I like going on and seeing it. Just like when
you said earlier there was a limit. I never knew that. Yeah,
I don't scrolls back much to where okay, but I
don't pay enough attention rather, so it's like, okay, if
it happened this weekend, I didn't know up until this point,
So I'm good either way. Threads I might get on
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I don't know. It's like, if I can find you
on Twitter, I'm gonna do it. If I can find
you on Facebook, shoot, if I can find wherever, or
I'll do what you know we used to normally do.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Just call somebody.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I gotta find out where this trade is. I'm just
gonna call somebody on the phone, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Hey, you know what, you know, what's so funny? I
did this a couple of years back. I wrote a
letter and mailed it out to a friend of mine, teacher. Really, yes,
a handwritten letter, just for the hell of it. Okay,
this was way before that thing in twenty twenty happened,
so you know, the mail actually got delivered around that time.
So he thought it then, yeah, he got it. It
(03:58):
was like, Yo, what the hell is? He called me
right away, Man, what the hell? What you write me on?
I just wanted to write a letter, man, Hey, how
you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You wrote a letter with a stamp and everything and
send it out.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's what it's going to be. A message in the
bottles to be like, hey, man, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And he wrote back, Hey, things are good? How are
you well? Lots of things have happened in the last
seven weeks since I wrote you my letter. It'd be like, well,
like people would send letters in the eighteen hundreds and
the you know, the mail guy would come into the
town for everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, by the time you got the letter, what the
letter was about wasn't about it anymore.
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Speaker 1 (04:51):
You know, the crazy thing is this is that just
to just to think about this and this is not
you look, obviously anything is going to be turned into
a political argument. Musk you know, leans to the right
for his for his politics. But the changes he has
made to Twitter that just nobody likes is the paying
for the blue check marks, which I didn't do. I
(05:12):
took me a while to get verified on Twitter. But
now I'm gonna pay for it. Well now I've been
having it for free for the last eight years. I'm
not gonna suddenly start paying for something I used to
get for free. That's a big miscalculation by him, and
that upset a lot of people, and that started people
thinking is Twitter still what it needs to be is
it still the future, the present and future for social media.
(05:32):
And now with the limits. I'm looking at this as
people saying, you know what, I've had enough, because is
the limits thing gonna wind up being something that stays forever?
And if you see too many, if you see enough
things on social media, enough posts, you wind up getting
locked out. Is that gonna be something that's there forever?
Probably not. But this is where people have said, you
(05:53):
know what, I've had enough, and I'm ready to go
to something else.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I want I want things the way that it should
be that I feel they should that I've been accustomed to.
And now here's this billionaire who is making all kinds
of changes like this. And this is what I don't
get olden, is that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are
the richest guys in the world. Right. I mean that
goes back and forth every couple of years, but Elon
Musk is a guy that's worth like two hundred and
(06:16):
fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You don't get to be worth two hundred and fifty
billion dollars unless you're smart, Unless you're a smart businessman
and you know what you're doing. And while forty four
billion dollars from to pay for Twitter is a lot
of money. I mean, oh my god, it's a lot
of money. It's not that he can't afford it, But
the guy doesn't want to go down and say, hey,
(06:38):
you made the worst business move of all time, because
that's what we're really Elon Musk loves his reputation, and
everybody who's rich loved the reputation. He doesn't want his
reputation to be Dude, you took a really big social
media app and just burned it into the ground. And
that's one of the worst business decisions ever. You paid
forty four billion dollars for something that lost all its value. Right,
(06:59):
you don't want that. But he doesn't want that about
his reputation, even though it's not about the money. He
wants his reputation. What get is it. He's a smart guy.
He's a smart guy because you don't get to be
that way unless you're smart. And he's okay with what
he's doing, knowing full well that these changes aren't going
to be met this way, and this is what's happening
to the product, don't I don't understand that. It feels
(07:21):
like there's something I'm missing like, maybe I'm not smart
enough to figure it out that there's some kind of
above the rim game being played that Okay, there's got
to be a reason why tanking the value of Twitter
is going to work. Whether I don't know whether it's
some kind of long play that he's going for, but
I just feel like there's something I'm missing that's going
to that that has me saying, Okay, this is like
(07:43):
one of the worst business decisions you could possibly make,
and still this is what's happening. There's got to be
something I'm missing.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
On this, well possibly, but I'll tell you this. I
was verified November twenty one, nineteen sixty four. Okay, when
I was born. All of a sudden, they come up
with all this social media stuff of where, you know,
you need to verify yourself, and I was like, what
the hell? I ended up getting the blue check, right,
you know, I don't know again, I don't even know
(08:09):
thise this thing I just went on while you were
talking right quick. I'm like, oh, snap, I don't have
my blue check anymore. Oh yeah, oh they took it.
I'm like, okay, I don't tell I'm still mean, so
it doesn't matter. The blue check doesn't do anything for me.
But now to your point in what you were just saying,
(08:29):
I think the endgame or whatever is, You're right, he
doesn't want to be the guy that tank Twitter lost.
You know, the money, the money, the money is a
non issue. What if these guys are all in cahootes.
What what if he and Zuckerberg are like they got together,
because you know, billionaires hang with billionaires, they talk, let's
(08:52):
let's start this whole rigamarole. Like you know, hey, we're
fighting with beef and Da da da, and you know, hey,
come out with something against me.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You know they'll go for it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, it's just like direct competition with the damn gas stations.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
They all.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Get the gas the same.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's gonna be the same price gallon wherever you live.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I wish i'll take right now, Well.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
There's most of America's Yeah, three ninety, I'll.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Take three nine nine l A right now, I'm saying
four something five something. But I'm like, wait a minute, now,
isn't the same company. You guys are the same company.
Oh yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
We went to we have we have really good friends
in Arizona, and last year we usually do a road trip.
Every two years we do a road trip to visit them,
and then every other year. Every other year we go
visit them and and then they go visit us. We
have two sets of friends that live in Tucson and
in Chandler, so we drive. As soon as we got
across the border, we went to go to Costco to
(09:58):
get gas and I go to Costco. No, it was
a dollar ninety nine. Oh my god, how does the
rest of the world live.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Can't even park at Costco in LA for that?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean, I'm filling up the gas tank for twenty
eight dollars. I want to move to Arizona. I mean,
never mind the fact that I can't touch the handle
of my car because my my flesh would would would
burn to the to the door. But I'm like, oh
my god, I can't believe the rest of the world
lives like this.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
It's it's insane, and we keep doing it right, everything's
going up except wages for the common folk.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Time.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I like to I like to speak for the common
folk because I don't think they get hurt enough. But
it's like everybody people that are making you know, minimum
wage and all. It's like minimum wages is like come on,
y'all gotta do better. We have to do better, but
yet here we are arguing about the playthings of billionaires.
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Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'll tell you it's stunning that it's happened this fast.
I really I feel like this is this is the
beginning of a big revolution type day. Because look, I
had a conversation I was talking with Justin and Alex
off the air during the show, going if people are
jumping to this do it? How much do I really
need to continue to do social media? I didn't know.
Am I gonna do? I really want to do it?
(11:30):
You know, I'm fifty. You know. The show does the
social media for the show and puts out everything, and
I'm like, ah, I don't know. I don't know if
I should really keep doing it. Do I If something
happens and Twitter winds up being a really bad place
to do it, do I want to go someplace else
and do it. I wasn't sure, but I feel like
just this is like tonight is a thing like it's
like a revolutionary night where you're seeing things change right
(11:54):
in front of you. And I was like, it was
impossible for me to not be a part of it.
I'm gonna join. Why why not know if it's gonna
be anything? Who knows, threads might not be a thing
in a week, but if it is, I can I
can remember tonight and saying this is one of those
welcome to the revolution type nights. It's it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Hey, I'm gonna come out with one. Okay, I'm gonna
call my.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Kicks kicks Okay, k I c k s.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah. You know, since they got threads shoes clothing, people.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Are gonna think they go to your site and get shoes. No,
that's you do you make your You make yours a
social media shoe site, and it's all about new shoes
coming out. Shoes people are buying.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Today.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Specialization in social media. Oh you know what what social
media have?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I have the Kicks, that's the you know, the second
one that olden Polonies does. I have the Mets social
media site because that's all Mets and I do. I
like that. It's kind of like cutting the cord. It's
kind of like cutting the cable cord and you wind
up yeah, oh I know. I have ESPN and FS
one for sports. I have T N T and T booze.
I have food.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
What what a mother?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Until you just mentioned yuck.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I'm cutting the cord, man, I'm cutting the cord. I'm
going I have with just these specialty things. It's fantas
I didn't
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I've had the chord like them boys did on that
other network, so fast,