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I heard this in the mid and Skin Show. I think this is a
good teaser for our nine o'clock segment today picks with Glenn's We got a big
local name. Yeah, we do big local names as our mystery celebrity guest
and also Malcolm. Danny's two and a half year old son always picks games.
But I heard this on the mid and Skin Show a couple of days
ago. What does Mosquito say? What does Mosquito? He says? What?
Fast? Pray again? It's pretty good, Dooey. We're doing our
impressions of Mosquito. Do you want to say hi to Mosquito? Slayeo Hou's
Musquito? Ice Mosquito. What does Mosquito say? He does all right?
Say bye bye? Oh oh? I love him, I love he answers.
That's pretty good. That's pretty good, pau. What are we doing?
What are we even doing right now? But I think every thirty seconds?
And mosquito a tough word for you know, a two year old's mosquitoo?
What a sweet kid. Do we get his picks? We absolutely will
get his pics. I haven't heard them, but they have been sent to
me Danny the Bonner bayliss off this week. But he did he send his
predictions in? He did, Yes, he did. I've not heard them
again. I've just downloaded them and put them into the file. I want
to be surprised with the rest of the audience, but hot ones in the
pavilion today. We'll see if you just read them dry into his boisch or
corder microphone like you and I did, or if he's had a little extra
time because he's put this song. What's he doing this week? What's dingu
doing all week? Something creative and brilliant. I think today's the day where
he's like, I'm ready to get back. You think I think he misses
his friends Kevio and Magic. Mike. I've intentionally not even really text him
this week. He text us the other day, so we sounded good.
That was very nice. Yeah, I've stayed away too. I'll just not
want Yeah, take it break. We're tired of me anyways, So I
don't think so that tries to text anyone too much. He sent his picks
in, so we'll get with those picks with Glenn's and you can all join
in two and four eight one seven seven eight seven one nine seven one where
you can call or text in at any stinking time. But we do like
to have a Glenn Pick standings on that. I do want to quickly update
the SNL BET as well. Mike before we get to the most important thing
in the world. Because you had a couple of announcements you yesterday. I
saw that, and I feel like there's some names that somebody probably has.
We have points points on the board. The current standings are in first place
Mike Siroy with two. You have Timothy Shallow May and Jason Momoa excellent,
Danny got the Foo Fighters, I've got nothing. And the way this works
is at the end of the season, which is in May, whoever's in
last place has to change their their cell phone the smartphone case for a week
and carry it around the office to whatever the other two deem worthy, which
requires ordering one off Amazon or whatever. It's probably gonna be a foot we'll
figure that out this week on the show, it's Emma Stone. And then
a musical guest is some guy who I'm still never seen, but he's like
a big name, Noel Kahan. Is he more popular than Feed at this
point? He's more well, I don't know, because Feed is top six
globally. Noel Cahan and he's like he's headlining music festivals and stuff. I
get the feeling he's like a Hosier type, but I can't tell I think
it's because his name is Noel Cahan. Then well, good for him.
Your next week in the ninth Adam Driver and Olivia Rodrigo. What the first
pick in the draft in the first round, at least the third pick overall.
Kevin Turner took Olivia Rodrigo on the board, on the board, give
me one to tie the game up. No one took Adam Driver. Yeah,
I thought there's a chance I had Adam Driver. In fact, I'm
taking Mama off, Timothy Shallow mayoff Foo Fighters for Danny. And then the
Christmas episode is Kate McKinnon and Billie Eilish. Anyone take Billy Eilish going through
the boards here, Mikey, you could have took Billie Eilish in round nine,
but you took Junk Cook. Understand why that the guys are obsessed that
I drafted junk Coock. It's my favorite thing. And then also that my
finger on the pulse man. Your super picks were also wrestlers too, The
Rock and John Cena Boy. After seeing the Cowboys halftime Thanksgiving show, I'm
really uh not loving my super pick of Dolly Parton. You know she's pulling
out so you can't even walk. So she's gonna wear an outfit on spn
out like she did for the Cowboys. Come I address his mango just crushing
a pineapple where Mike Myers with a helmet on and a little stretchy cord a
hyperactive hypo. Pretty good one. So if there's your snl bet update you,
let's do the most important thing in the world, allegedly. Wake up
your little sleepyhead. It's time to get your stupid ass out of bed to
you about the most importing thing in the worst. All right, I'll functioning
a bit. I think yesterday during oh gosh, this happened around the five
PM hours ago, don't know. I saw I saw this about ten minutes
after it happened, and it was someone on Twitter who had tweeted I can't
believe this is real. Elon Musk was doing a press conference type thing on
CNBC and there's a lot going on here because he had liked a tweet by
someone who has anti an anti Semitic past, and then you know, it
ends up going a lot of different ways. He apologized for the anti Semitic
tweet that he liked, says that was not his intention, But who even
knows really, you know what's going on with him? And here he is
on live TV on CNBC with some guy. There's a public perception that that
was part of a apology tour, if you will, that this had been
said online. There was all of the criticism. There was advertise. As
leaving, we talked to Bob, I stop, you hope don't advertise.
You don't want them to advertise. What do you mean if somebody's gonna try
to blackmail me with advertising, blackmailing with money, go for yourself, but
go yourself? Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey, Bob,
you're in the audience now. Bob is Bob Iger of Disney, so
you yeah, Well, well let me ask you. Then that's how I
feel. Don't advertise? How do you think that about the economics of x
IF if part of the underlying model at least today, and maybe it needs
to shift. Maybe the answer is it needs to shift away from advertising.
If you believe that this is the one part of your business where you will
be beholden to those who have this view, what do you do? Why?
I understand that, But there's a reality too, right yes? No,
no, I mean we know Yacharino's right here, and she's got to
sell advertising. Okay. So Linda Yakarino worked at NBC, but back in
May she was appointed CEO of Twitter slash x. Okay, and that's what
the guy's going. She's right there, she's got to sell advertising as the
CEO of your company. Ye know, what do you say to her?
Absolutely? So, no, no, don't tell you so No. Actually,
what what this advertising boycott is is going to do it. It's going
to kill a company. And do you think that and the whole world?
Well, no, that those advertisers kill the company, and we will document
it in great detail. But there are those advertisers, I imagine, are
going to say, they're going to say we can kill the company. Oh
yeah, they're going to say to tell it to Earth. Huh. But
they're gonna say that. They're gonna say, Elon that you killed the company
because you said these things and that they were inappropriate things and that they didn't
feel comfortable on the platform. Right, That's what I said. And let's
see how Earth responds to that. Right. All I wanted to do is
remember the response, huh, tell it to Earth, Tell it to Earth?
What a child? Let's how Earth response to that? Boy, when
you say something that you really just can't respond to you though, Yeah,
I mean kill it to Earth. I guess, I don't know. Yeah,
pretty good job by the guy on stage. I don't even know who
that was, but the guy moderating to kind of keep the train going a
little bit, because Elon seemed comfortable with go after yourself. Huh, it's
like and then spiked the end zone. Yeah, I spiked at the football
in the end zone. But yeah, And I guess Bob Iger spoken at
that same conference that same day, so he was saying that as if he
was in the audience somewhere, which he may have been. He acted like
he was when he waved at him. I don't lose a whole lot of
sleepover CEO slap fights. No, but there is something juicy about Elon always
and you know, oh, a guy kind of going a little bit unhinged
on live TV, the live TV GoF yourself uncensored always good. I'm gonna
chose his ego, which I can you imagine? I mean, he's worth
a you know, two hundred and fifty billion dollars, so even if a
forty four billion dollar thing goes belly up, you know. I mean it's
easier for us to spend forty four billion dollars if someone else's money is still
a lot, for sure, but not as much as it is for him
to cave ego wise, right, yeah, I mean, so what's the
whole point? Though? So I keep coming back to is like did he
really does he really want to take the company? Our advertisers really get to
pull their money. I mean they've got it, They've got enough for a
while. But yeah, no, I imagine he doesn't want to, and
he thinks that by taking that hardline stance, maybe that advertising money will be
replaced by companies that like that sort of thing. You know, there's always
that dance. But I just don't know if he cares, you know,
like if the whole I mean, it's not worth it for him to buckle
at the feet of Bob Iger or anyone like that, or a god forbid,
kiss their ass. No, if the trade off is saving something that
he dropped forty four billion dollars on, you know, I guess when you
have that much. I mean, it's not like Elon's doubting that he going
to be all right now, there's a lot of people in jobs, you
know, that are tied to this. I don't know if his ego includes
their livelihoods. Daddy cares probably doesn't care because he cleaned house make out there.
What I don't know is how Twitter survived for what ten fifteen years before
it just turned into a daily advertising at the center of chaos. Yeah,
like how they seem to be all right, but right when he took over.
We have to talk about the health of Twitter always and just it changing
and changing for the worse in most cases, and it's it's not sustainable.
And if you know him admitting that if the advertiser's boycott, it'll kill the
company. I mean, maybe he's just been more transparent about the things that
go on behind the scenes of a you know, major corporation every day.
You know, maybe he's just vocal about those things or maybe more dramatic about
them. I really don't know. But how did Twitter survive for as long
as it did, seemingly with minimal changes and just kind of working fine and
now turn into a weekly, weekly something. And I don't know, has
your experience with Twitter change since he took over? I mean, I just
canna say he said his experience change its mine has because I don't have tweet
deck anymore. But that's very few people are using tweet deck, so I'm
not yeah, you know, but I know that made it easy for you.
I definitely get more things thrown at me that I wouldn't see, but
that's normal, right, And the ads are a little different sometimes, that's
normal. Yeah. I still use it every day. But if I didn't
have this job, I would I wouldn't. I would either, I wouldn't.
But every morning I wake up and I check trending and stuff, you
know, Like I just said, don't want to miss anything. And I'm
thankful for the good years of Twitter before too many people were on it.
You know, those first five, six, seven, eight years were great
and then everyone, you know, once it kept growing and more people keep
getting accounts. At some point, just too many Cretans get in there,
and it turns into something that is not like fun anymore. And I have
the sea of Nookie girl loving or liking my some tweets so many four years
ago. But it's fun to then click on my own tweet from six years
ago and then read the thread and be like, oh, oh, I
mean look that was hilarious, Mike, A great job. I've had so
many funny tweets in my life that I downloaded all of my tweets and I'll
be publishing a book on it. Yeah, a coffee table book in the
future. A coffee table book that I'll read when I'm slade underneath it when
I'm depressed. So two utter big advertisers, including Disney, Apple and IBM,
stopped spending money on ex after he agreed with the post that accused Jewish
communities of pushing hatred against whites. This will cost the company up to seventy
five million dollars just this quarter. So the downbeat, don't no, man,
I don't think right now until there is a viable option and everyone's a
blue sky or Threads thought they could be. It's still the easiest way to
get breaking news live as it happens. I wish a viable alternative. I
wish Threads had worked. But what is that? Oh, that's a far
better ownership, you know, like who knows? As that part of me
blames Jack Dorsey for selling it to Elon. You could you could have sold
it to a lesser egomaniac at some point. Yeah, but a lesser egomaniac
wouldn't have been fleeced for way more than the company was worth. Yeah,
you know true, he wanted it. He wanted to prove he could have
anything he wants. He was mad on Twitter and he said, watch this,
I'll buy Twitter and run it into the damn ground. I don't think
that's his plan, but that seems to be what he's doing telling you.
And all I want is the credit when this happens. I'm at the forefront
were this is the dawn of the super villain. When Elon Musk turns on
society, creates his own militia, and the richest man in the world starts
launching rockets and satellites for his own personal use. We're gonna have our Lex
Luthor well, and when he when something happens to him in a rocket accident
and all his kid XO sixteen gets all the money, maybe that kid will
be the super villain. I'm just I'm at the forefront of this. I
warned you you did, and I wish I could just say, oh,
that's a funny, playful bit you're doing. No. I think what people
underestimate too, and maybe I'm maybe I'm guilty of overestimating. He has a
following. Yes, people that will follow him into a dark There are a
lot of people out there, a lot of people yesterday when they saw him
do that, Yeah, go after yourself, who went yes, of course,
it's my guy, and they put on their Viking hat and it was
on. There's a lot of people I know and there and we don't see
him, maybe because they're hanging out in the shadows. We've never had someone
this close to flipping the switch and doing the supervillain thing. It's always been
leaders of established nations because who else has a military. But with the gap,
the financial gaps that our world has right now, one dude with two
hundred and fifty billion dollars. That probably changed from the first time I said
at the beginning of the segment. You know it changes by billions every hour.
Just watch and you align behind me, and I'll be the superhero that
fights the supervillain. G f Y. Don't think I'm just saying this out
loud. I'm saying it because I'll be ready because we'll need a hero,
and you're the guy on the gun, and I'll need you to make donations
to my Venmo magical account to fund my defense of Planet Earth, the new
superhero Big Mike, shake that tiny d magic Mike has your back, Planet
Earth. Tell it to Earth, Tell it to Earth. See how he
responds or she responds. She Earth is a woman. Earth's a woman.
What about God woman? Seems likely? Yeah, you got time for birthdays
right now? Not not on this God Day. Maybe a little later.
Though, We're gonna continue pushing point. We made it through the harm in
the hour. Let's now hit the seven o'clock hour with a lot of steam
because the Cowboys play tonight. They played the Seahawks, they host them.
They try to keep their home winning streak alive. They try to stay within
a distance of the Eagles, who lead the NFC East. It's gonna be
a big one tonight at the AT and T Stadium, and we'll get you
ready for that. Next year of ninety seven, won the Free