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Speaker 1: 0:32

Welcome back to another episode of Gather them Podcast. I am your host, jerome, and we're back for another episode. We are on the last week of well, the last full week of April and I am feeling very, hmm, I don't know what I feel today. I feel almost mentally, I feel mentally tapped a little bit, I think. But I feel mentally tapped a little bit, I think. But I feel like it might be just because I, like I, had really good news happen this week and I just have been overwhelmed with emotions happy, sad, anxious, sad, anxious. I don't know, stress isn't really an emotion, but I've been stressed mainly because I'm just trying to figure out what I'm going to do about certain things that are going on and I'll mention them eventually next month, like what all happened. But, um, I yeah, it's just been a whirlwind and it didn't help that Scorpio was in the full moon. We had a full moon at Scorpio, that's what it was. We had a full moon at Scorpio during tourist season, so it was an emotional week. It was an emotional week for me, um, and I feel tapped a little bit today. Um, so I'm doing my best and my allergies are really impacting me today. I don't know what it's like a buildup. Almost. I thought it was going to happen a little bit later, but I guess because we didn't have a real winter, it was just cold, like it didn't really snow, but, um, I think that the spring season is really starting to hit me now, um, which I mean better now than like June, because in June I'm going to want to turn up, have fun and all that good stuff and not have to think about freaking like I don't know, like allergies, like stupid stuff, like that. So sorry, I'm like opening something while I'm talking and I should not be doing that, but, um, asmr, whatever. But yeah, um, yeah, it's just been an interesting week, um, and then next month, um, a lot of other interesting things will just kind of come about and happen.

Speaker 1: 3:16

And, yeah, it's like one of those things where you feel like life is on, like finally getting on the right track, and that things are starting to happen, but you're also like dealing with the reality that you have to. Um, that is not all perfect, like it's not all. Everything doesn't work out exactly the way you want it to, and you know you have a lot of wants and needs and things like that. Yes, but I don't know. It feels like you still are supposed to almost like sacrifice some stuff. Like everything is like you get what you want, but it's always it's not exactly exactly, exactly like how you thought it was going to be, or you know how things kind of turn out. So you know, you just adjust and you keep pushing and eventually things happen. And that's the good part, um, eventually shit does happen. So, um, that is, you know, as long as you're working hard, things happen.

Speaker 1: 4:15

So that's what I think my takeaway um for this week is, or has been Um, but other than that, like I was on uh, or has been Um, but other than that, like I was on uh terror or Marcus's podcast, um was on our 50th episode, uh, you guys should check that out. Um, that was on. That was a 420 episode. Um. Marcus came to the show when uh episode 50 and um. I loved uh being. That was like my first feature. I love being a guest on the show and I loved hosting the show uh as well. Um, so that what our hosting, our co-hosting um, like his, like my show and then doing his show um midnight, moonshine and marcus, you know wherever you get your podcasts, uh, what else, what else it's been like a really like I said, this has just been a really exhausting. Like I had so much stuff that I was gonna like thinking about, talking about writing stuff down. Um, I wanted to talk a little bit about that. Um, jupiter Uranus conjunction and um, what that felt like. Um, and it was almost like the all of the things I like manifested like prior going in and then doing a little bit of extra manifesting on the day of the conjunction. I was like not prepared for this week at all. Um, good things to come. I don't really know exactly what I wanted to really focus on too much today. I mean, I feel like there's been so much happening. I definitely support 100% these students that are protesting right now for Palestine because it's so ugly, like something's got to give.

Speaker 1: 6:22

We just had our primaries here in PA and like with the primaries first of all, like I didn't even know the primary the primaries were this week Like I didn't know that it was this past Tuesday. I thought it was going to be in March or May, because May is usually when I feel like we have our primaries and I was like, does anyone, did anyone else like catch that? Like we, why are we having our primary so early? And then I went to like look for where to do the voting and then the voting was like it wasn't anyone standing outside, like how it usually is, like there weren't people just outside, there weren't signs on, that many signs out about who you should vote for, who you know wants your vote. I thought that was weird. I thought that it was weird that the even social media wasn't ablaze, like there were. It was.

Speaker 1: 7:22

I saw a lot of Trump versus Biden ads, but I didn't see anything really that was promoting anyone else or anyone else's campaign, which sucked. Because I went in to work and then it was like, oh shit, I forgot the today was the day you vote. And then ended up getting to the you know polls, kind of like who do I vote for? Like what do I do? I didn't know there was like this thing about the uncommitted vote, which a significant portion of Pennsylvania did uncommitted. As you know. It's one of those things we don't know who's the best option. Like they're both trash it's a giant turd, a turd sandwich and a giant douche. Like it's not anything that is ideal either way.

Speaker 1: 8:15

And now things really change. Like everything has been very consistent, very status quo, and I think a lot of people can sense that, because nothing really significant has happened. Like things are happening where, you know, I saw certain things that were working out where um jobs are required to pay people over time if they go over their hours, and how um jobs are um, now I don't know like jobs are also or not jobs. They're like airplanes or like flights are supposed to uh give you your money back because of whatever fuck-ups they do, which I mean honestly makes sense, and I don't know why we've had to, you know, and I don't know why we've had to, you know, grunt and bear and fight and all of that just for this, because if you pay your money for something and it doesn't work out like, you're supposed to be able to get your money back, and that, I feel like, isn't how capitalism is supposed to work.

Speaker 1: 9:27

Like, isn't that the point? Is that if you sell a good or a service and it doesn't work out, or it's not good or you don't get to like, isn't that why people have insurance? Like I don't understand. So, either way, I'm just glad that we're at a point now where the government was like y'all got to pay, because I mean, in the long run it's gonna that's. I don't think it's gonna suffer, suffer, but I think it's gonna suffer in a sense of like, if people are noticing that they're not able to fly out or just go somewhere because their flight is delayed or canceled or, um, overbooked or whatever it's like, it's just too much of a headache and eventually people are going to be like I don't really want to fly and I imagine flying right now is very profitable. I also imagine that with this new law, the prices of things are going to go up pretty significantly and I think that's okay. I mean, as long as I'm getting my money back, I don't really care, because I was still going to book the flight anyway.

Speaker 1: 10:30

But I just want to know that when I get there, like and I get it, like if I get, you know, get there late and the doors close, like too bad, so sad, but y'all haven't even got me in the door, like on the plane, or even through the I forget what that thing is called the thing that connects the airplane and the airport. Um, I don't know what that's called, but it's like that little hallway you know that you go through, but I haven't even gotten on that and y'all are like, well, we can't give you your money back, but we can give you like a hotel credit and like some drinks or whatever. Like it's just like, just give me my money back. I'm, I'm tired of the shit. Like I just want my money back. I you know, especially when you wake up super early for a flight and it was already hard getting out the door and you done did all the things you don't, went through tsa, took all your clothes off and all of that, it's like, well, I want my money back, I don't want anything else but that If you can't get me on the next flight, then just I need my money back and that's it. So I'm glad about that.

Speaker 1: 11:40

You know, as a whole, like nothing is really happening per se, like we're all just here and waiting for the shoe to drop. And you know students are protesting right now and that's looking, um, that's a lot. I know the bus was detouring the other day, um, and at first I was like I don't know why the fuck where's my bus? At Like, I spent an hour trying to get home when I could have maybe just walked home and it would have been like 30 minutes versus, like, waiting for the bus, trying to figure out when the bus was going to come, and the. I didn't realize that, um, the students were all protesting, and I feel like I fell victim to the like what the fuck is? It was like what is going on that, you know, is keeping the bus. You know, whatever I was, I was mad, though, because I was walking home. I did eventually walk home, and on the way the bus was coming and I, like ran up to the bus, had to tap on the door because he closed the door before I could even stand there, I tapped on the glass and he just drove off. I was like, oh, fuck it, I'll just walk home at this point. But yeah, I fell victim to the, you know, wanting them students to basically go to class. You know what I mean. Like I, you know, and I I feel like it wasn't. I think in if I had known that it was, that was what was happening, because I did not know that, I knew there was protesting happening, because people were saying, oh, it's happening on you know such and such as campus, and then I was like okay, I, it's happening on you know such and such as campus. And then I was like, okay, I know it's going to be, uh, you know, traffic at some point somewhere, but I didn't think it was going to be on market street and I was like what the fuck? But it worked out and I'm glad that you know the students are protesting.

Speaker 1: 13:43

Someone has said something about how protesting doesn't work and I mean it works eventually. You know, you eventually kind of get some kind of justice or something comes out of it, but usually it's very small and it's not as we are living in like a very big world right now. We are living in like a very big world right now and I think the best way to protest is almost like to protest in silence and just you know, we talk about like where your money's going, like being more conscious of that like don't have your money going to, like places that are supporting the thing you're against, um or um, making sure that you are um, supporting like mom and pop places in your community and not these, like really big corporations and you know things like that, or buy locally and and all you know all of that stuff. I feel like that is kind of where we are at, or where we maybe should be at when it comes to protesting now, because all of this, you know being in the streets and getting dragged across the ground by police, and you know it just is weird to me. Like that we live in this society where we have choice to not kill people and that anything that gets said, like the idea, first of all, of protesting what Israel is doing to Palestine isn't anti-Semitic, like that's not what that means, like being anti-Semitic means that you are discriminating against, like Jewish people, like that, literally, is what that. And it's not discrimination to say you guys shouldn't be killing Israel, shouldn't be killing the nation of Israel, should not be killing Palestinian people. That's not anti-Semitic, that just is. That's where I feel like people are losing the plot and there's a lot of Jewish people that are standing with Palestine because they know what Israel is doing is wrong and that, to me, is all I need to know to support that. You know what I mean or get behind it and understand what is happening.

Speaker 1: 16:24

But it feels like there's this messaging for people that are I don't know maybe not, as I don't want to say smart, but I kind of want to say smart like people that don't understand nuance or they don't understand the separation of identities. I think that's what it is. You can be a Jewish person and also support a ceasefire and a and like the ending of bombing of people and genocide. Like you can literally stand for that and both things can be true. You can be Jewish and stand for that.

Speaker 1: 17:21

And I feel like that's again where people get lost, because they're one-track-minded. They're very much, oh, anything you say against this is anti-Semitic. It's like no, it's not that, it's the fact that you are killing people, which is against religious law, Like you're not supposed to kill people. I don't understand that. Like I don't understand the idea that we have all these rules from God but then no one is abiding by them. Everyone's doing something. It's either you are like sleeping out, you're stepping out on your you know, out of your marriage, or you're killing somebody, or you're stealing money, or you're lying and being deceitful, like you can't use both messages and that's how I know people are like one track minded, because how can you say one thing and then do something completely different? That doesn't make sense. So again, knowledge is power. I'm just going to say that Knowledge is power and the more you know and reading is fundamental, and those are my key things and context also, again, context clues, understanding satire.

Speaker 1: 18:39

That's the one thing I realized I don't like about the internet right now is the fact that even in satire, you're confused. It's like is this satire or is this like like, is this made up or is this not made up? You know what I mean? It's very hard to tell right now because of how dystopian life is. So sometimes I'll read things and people will be like how did you? Um? And also, too like I'm starting to realize that a lot of um with this like I don't know, celebrity culture, we just seem to be just doing too much right now.

Speaker 1: 19:36

Um, with this way things are going, and I'm specifically thinking about Megan Thee Stallion and how um, allegedly she was uh, allegedly she's supposedly um going to court over the fact that or she's got a new trial or something's going on about her um forcing this man to watch a sex act between her, as some girl and you know, or some other woman, and how this woman or Megan anyway um force him to watch and record it and not say anything about it, and all this and that, and I'm like, all right, it's starting to feel like and it's funny because Megan hasn't even addressed the rumors and that to me feels so. Without trying to get too much into it, because I can't say whether or not I feel like she did it or not, but it feels very similar to like the Lizzo thing. When you're hanging out with someone that is a certain way or acts a certain way, then that's kind of what it is Like you, that's what is almost like it is. You know what I mean. Like it's not like one of them things where and this is not to say like she didn't do it or anything like that but it's like let's just say like for a listen, like going to the club in amsterdam or whatever, and her telling you to eat like a banana or suck up in it, whatever it was like. I forget even what that whole thing was about, but you know what I mean. Like you just know like, if you want to, if you're hanging out with that person like you, kind of this is the vibe and I feel like it's sometimes very hard to believe when men, especially the fact that this man didn't claim like he was actually like physically, sexually assaulted or anything like that, but that he was forced to watch her make out with another woman, and I don't know if that's all it is, but I mean, when I read, when I was reading through, initially, that's all it seemed like it was. Was that, that's all it was? Yeah, but I just, I don't know, it feels very like Lizzo coded in that way.

Speaker 1: 22:24

It feels like I need more details, like I need more information, like I need to know what exactly went on. I need to hear the full story, you know. And then, at the same time, I'm like I also don't really want to hear the full story, you know, and then, at the same time, I'm like I also don't really want to hear the full story, because I feel like and my thing is too is like, if it is true, it's like well, damn, damn girl, like what the fuck? Like we all been like supporting you and and I imagine that's how people feel about a lot of their faves like people probably feel that way about r kelly, but I mean the tapes like they literally have physical hard evidence. So I mean, if a physical hard copy of whatever video this man was, you know, told to record came out and I saw it, I'd be like, oh shit, like all right then. Like we got a damn girl, what did you do, you know? Oh, my god, sorry, my throat is like let me drink something real quick. Hold on asmr. Yeah, my postnatal drip right now is terrible. Um, these allergies are really bad, um, yeah, and so, yeah, there was that. And then also I started watching this show, um, called high hopes, and high hopes is like very interesting.

Speaker 1: 23:50

I don't know what kept me watching this show. I watched the whole thing. I didn't binge it, binge it, um, but I did watch the whole thing. It's only only six episodes, which was very easy to watch, um, and it makes me really want to move to la even more. Like this show, just the wild and interesting things that they would just kind of get into the very cool, calm aesthetic. You know there's still those like glitzy things. There's still those, you know, very fabulous, you know, knowing a celebrity, a celebrity maybe popping into a shop or whatever, like those things happen. But I just love how calm it seems. It's not like the hustle and bustle here like in philadelphia or new york. It's very much more chill and I like that. I like more chill.

Speaker 1: 24:49

I think the show itself was a little weird. It's like the idea of it, um, knowing that the United States as a whole has not embraced cannabis. It is still criminal to do recreational cannabis, but it is decriminalized. Because of how Philadelphia is not Pennsylvania, like we're not the, we are here, like in this state, but it is not the same at all by any stretch of the imagination and it, like what's going to happen in Altoona is not going to be what happens here. Um, which is interesting about living in Pennsylvania Also, I got to get the fuck out of here. It is just too much.

Speaker 1: 25:58

But um, yeah, needless to say, um, it is a show that, where it feels weird that this exists now, like it feels like it should exist in the future, like not now, because it's still such a polarizing thing, um, that I feel like I could get more joy out of it if it were um, and I think the thing that's, and I'll say, like, just kind of be candid and just kind of open up and say exactly what the problem is, but it's the fact that there's these two brothers that you know they're from a different country. I forget if they're Russian or um, I know they they're Jewish, I believe Um, but they, uh, you know, own a MMD. Um is their brand and they um dropped a series on Hulu on four 20. I will say it was a very smart marketing campaign, because if you binge the whole thing, um, you will have gotten to the end and then by the end they're like oh, we're opening up, you know other locations in LA and you know we're going to start opening locations across the United States and you know these are the things we're looking for employees and these are. It makes you almost want to work there, like you kind of want to work there a little bit.

Speaker 1: 27:17

But the thing that bothered me the most, I think, was the fact that, like there's still black people that are being black and brown people that are still being locked up for weed possession in the United States, and it's like these white people just come in and dominate the industry and profit off of it, when Black people are, you know, have been doing it as well, like selling it and consuming, and we don't get to benefit in those same ways. So it is very interesting and I think about it sometimes. I think about owning my own cannabis shop or working at a cannabis shop as, like a bud tender or something like that, because I do like weed and I find that learning about it is very interesting most of the time, I'll say, but I just didn't like that part of it. I didn't like the part that you know it felt like it's this show where these brothers get to, you know, sell and they and also too, they didn't really um initially and I guess that was part of the show was like I was like okay, like eventually it was like all right, cool. But like the whole thing where the employees had to basically do backflips just for them to get more of a lead at their job. And I think now, seeing episode six, where I was like, okay, now I get it a little bit more, because I was like I don't understand why y'all didn't just go to Danny and ask her, or like I don't know why she didn't feel comfortable enough to go to y'all in the first place, just to be like, oh, I'm working on a cannabis plant, let's talk about a collab or let's talk about growing my spot here. I just feel like if you know someone is your best bud tender, why not try to keep them? You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 29:40

The same thing was for Jarrett with his music and wanting to be their social media branding person. I was just like, well, obviously it makes sense. He's hip, he has a good way with the customers, he's very personable. He's very personable People like also attractive People, like talking to him. So it makes sense to promote him within the company to do something that's a little bit more social media driven or that has some like creative x aspects to it.

Speaker 1: 30:18

You know, um, I thought yurio was hilarious. He at first he was like I was kind of annoyed with him because I was like, oh my god, like he's literally a freaking idiot. But then I'm like, no, I kind of get him like he's lovable and he does look out for his friends and, um, he's like a very easy person and I like people like that, like I do like people that are very easygoing and easy to get along with. He doesn't seem like someone that is like threatening or anything. You know, he's like very, uh, he looks out for, you know, the people that he cares about and he kept pushing for himself and I was like really shocked to see that where he was drawing that design for the little matron, uh, release that they were doing, and I was so confused. That's the thing. That's why I was like I know, that's the thing, that's why I was like I watched this show High one Sunday and I was just like, what the fuck is this show?

Speaker 1: 31:27

Because I could not figure out if they were dropping. I didn't know what they were dropping. I thought they were opening up because they were like oh, we need to find a venue, we need to find a venue. So I thought they were like trying to find a venue or trying to find a space to open up another location and they were going to call it that. That's what I was thinking and that's what I was like. I don't understand why, like what is happening right now. Because, like, why are you making shirts for this cannabis? Like, if you, I thought you were making shirts for, like the business. So that was very confusing to me initially.

Speaker 1: 32:04

And then the part, uh, with Danny trying to sell and how that was a conflict of interest which, again, granted, like that is technically a conflict of interest. But I also feel like if my best butt tender was like, oh well, you know, I have to sell, or I have to do this or I have to do that, I again I don't know what I would do per se. I just feel like, as a small business, to have a non-compete agreement is a little weird. Like I'm not going to lie, I think it is. It makes sense when it comes to, like, if someone has access to trade secrets, to put that in their contract, um, but I feel like I, as an employee, don't even know enough about my own place of employment to create anything that would be a compete or a competition or create that level of need within a contract. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 33:18

Like I, I sometimes I just go to places and I, and the only thing I really take away nine times out of 10 is the way in which the job treated me, how easy it was to get stuff done, um, whether or not they were well-resourced, and that's it. Like that's kind of all I take into account. Really, I don't, you know, when it comes to this whole, oh well, you know you could be taking trade secrets or ingredients or this or that to compete. It's like I'd rather just come up with my own thing, you know, because then that's me, like I know that I did it and it wasn't a thing where I, you know, had to steal from my you know job or whatever to just get my product out. Like that, to me, is the thing that I I feel strongly that, um, as a starting, you know, it just makes sense to me. It's almost like in therapy too, like where I feel like I'll say this I had a non-compete clause for when I was a therapist and starting therapy again, like, shout out to that.

Speaker 1: 34:25

But when I was a therapist initially, when I first started out, there was a non-compete clause of you can't open a practice within like such X amount of miles and you can't take these clients with you. And yada, yada, yada, x, y and Z, and I'm like, okay, but like you're not going to, I hear you, like I do, I hear you, but the patient's also not going to want to stay with you, like that's also the other thing they may want to. But if you open a practice and you're able to take their insurance and keep the same time, the meeting time and all of that good stuff, if you were able to just do that, then you know, I feel like that to me makes sense, like why would I want to keep a patient at a practice that I now have to fill those shoes? I have to fill the shoes of the therapist that they were seeing, who they had a relationship with and oftentimes I've had more than one therapist where I've been like I don't really like this therapist as much as my last one, or I feel uncomfortable telling this therapist certain things about myself because I don't have that relationship with them, or you know the way in which they act, or whatever. But again, I don't know, people have their own ways of doing things. I just felt like it was weird that they didn't ask from within first, because they did like all of this testing and spent all this time like going to all these places and I'm like y'all could be partnering with someone on your you know that you're already hired with and you know you can modify the contract, whatever. Like try her, we like it's not this big to do to me. Like if you're a small business, like if you're a small business and you're like all right, right, I'm going to just take a sample of this, but you know you would have to change their contract or create a new role for them in the company If you were to. You know, take them on and they're like well, we don't really have the money for that, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I guess I I get that part, but I don't know, I'm just like.

Speaker 1: 36:38

I feel like I wasted a lot of time, uh, in episodes two and three, um, just trying out a bunch of different brands and then to make that comment or talk about that man's shirt. Um, he was like, well, don't talk about, you know, the person you're trying to get money from, or money to help you with, like your business, or whatever, and then make fun of their shirts or whatever. I don't think they were making fun of his shirt. I think they were just commenting on the fact that he wasn't dressed in a way in which they thought he should be dressed, and that, to me, I think, was the thing that would have made me feel more, because I feel like I see both sides. I see both sides of it as, yes, you're right, like you should be a little bit, you know, dressed professionally, but then it's also like it's weed, like it's not like you're on wall street or something, like it's literally just it's weed. Um, but I don't know, that's just me.

Speaker 1: 37:49

I just take a very relaxed approach to it, I think, because if you're just starting out, it's like you can kind of you're not, you don't even have like a full Idea of what your brand is and like, why not just build from within? Like, if you have really great bud tenders, just lift them up. Like, if you're trying to open new stores, like, promote to managers, promote to. I'm getting a lot of weird fucking text messages. I don't know what the fuck that's about. Um, sorry, that was very random. I hate when my phone vibrates and I get, uh, the messages on my watch and they're just like very weird. Um, but yeah, just promote from within. Long story short, we're just going to promote from within. But yeah, just promote from within. Long story short, we're just going to promote from within. Um, the people that he works with. I thought that was like really cool and yeah, that's pretty much it. Yeah, yep, I think that might be all that.

Speaker 1: 39:22

Like, I don't really have too much. My brain is just like so I'm tired, I'm tired of shit. Um, I am ready to just get on with the weekend. I suppose it'd be nice and that's supposed to be nice next week. I can't wait for it to stop feeling cold or just like weather of, where it's like warm in the daytime and then like colder at night because I have to wear either a heavy coat or not a heavy coat. Like it's just too much. I just need consistency right now. That's what I need. I need consistency right now. That's what I need. I need consistency.

Speaker 1: 40:03

Yeah, sorry, I'm just looking at some looking at Biden's day to day debate with Trump. I actually don't want to see that because it's like embarrassing. It's starting to get very embarrassing at this point. Like it's not funny, like it's really embarrassing. It's starting to get very embarrassing at this point. Like it's not funny, like it's really not fun, like I can even watch it and laugh. Like it's so embarrassing to be a nation that just operates like this. Like this is like embarrassing as shit.

Speaker 1: 40:34

Lastly, big Sean talked about how X isn't, I guess, how people are, just like nudity's flying everywhere, everyone's flying boobs everywhere, vagina, penis, all that everywhere all over, and how accessible nude is on there, and I actually do agree with him on that. People were joking because they were talking about how he is the same person that goes and like watches that stuff. But again, I don't know if y'all you know what I mean. Like I don't. It's like so he's grown. But I think he's also making a point and and the point is just that it's way too easy to access and you can just be on public. Just, you know, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, and next thing, you know, you just see a penis like or, or you can see. My friend posted this one thing of a baby's hand coming out of a woman's vagina and she was, or the baby was trying to grab a piece of pizza that was, I guess, on her stomach or whatever, and she, it was just weird and I was just like this vagina just out here to the world, to the world, you know, I think that sex is, you know, one of the things that shouldn't be taboo.

Speaker 1: 42:04

But I also feel like there is, I guess, what porn itself is too accessible, is too out there, the fact that kids can. Just I was lying about my age when I was a kid. Like I, you know, there's nothing that can be done about that. Like I would just fake it and just like, unless you have someone upload their ID card, there's not going to be really be a way, and I feel like, even then, if someone really wanted to access something, they would probably upload their parents ID card or, you know, their big sister or somebody. Like they'll find a way, there's always a way to figure it out, and so I don't know what can be really done about that per se.

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There are options to you know, create sensitive you know those sensitive media filters on top of the pictures so that when you click it you can see it. But a lot of times I find that those aren't effective and like, don't block the things that aren't porn, and it's like, well, I do want to see this, but I don't want to see that like, I just want to be able to navigate the internet without randomly popping up on a penis or you know, and I, and that's also too like the thing is you also. It's like who you follow. You have to just block out who you follow, but that doesn't help if you're a child and you are just on there. Um, that's why I respect tiktok, which they also banned that shit this week. I forgot about that.

Speaker 1: 43:49

They also banned tiktok finally, um, and they were not banned it. They didn't ban it. They agreed that if it does not get, if it does not get sold, then you know it will be banned in the United States. They said that they would sell it and that if they I mean this is rumor they're saying that if they did sell it, then they wouldn't sell the algorithm like TikTok, which I mean, honestly, that's pretty smart, like that's actually very smart to sell an app and then keep the algorithm, because the algorithm is a thing that makes TikTok like that's what makes it so successful, and without that it's like, well, what do you have? You have to create the algorithm yourself Me personally, yourself, me personally.

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I'm such a stickler where I'm like I'm just gonna, I don't know, and that's probably what my problem is I just be like fuck y'all. Like the rest of the world versus the United States is crazy. I hate that. Oh, I hate that so bad. I hate that. Oh, I hate that so bad. Um, but that's it. We're, we're done. Um, I promise next, the next episode will be better. I promise y'all it will be. But, yeah, that's it. Follow me on the socials. Gather them pod on X and on Instagram and then, if you have any listener letters, gather them pod at gmailcom. But that's it for this week's episode. This was really short, yes, I know, but you know we're here for a good time, not a long time. So until next time, take care of yourselves. Bye, thank you.