The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - Share & Rage & Tell with Mina Kimes and Dan Le Batard
Fri, 22 Nov 2024
LeBron is taking a break from social media. Should you? Are you ready to stop being performatively fascinating and get authentically dull? And is Bluesky the XFL of Twitter — or a refreshingly Musk-free community worth joining? Plus: "Re-Potting with Pablo," making lentil, fighting in Temecula, road rage, Mastodon, two ejaculating giraffes, a charging wildebeest and the actually hungry hippo (with suspenders and a pocket watch). Relevant reading: How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth (Mike Isaac) The Age of Social Media Is Ending (Ian Bogost) The Bluesky Bubble (Ian Bogost) "With so much hate and negativity in the world today..." (Rich Kleiman) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main sound of this episode?
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
Did we sound extra woke in whimpering about a need for community? This is not an echo chamber.
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With the Galaxy Watch 7 or the Galaxy Ring and the Samsung Health app.
Dan has stories of great road rage that he has felt himself personally that have maybe humiliated him in front of loved ones.
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Chapter 2: Why is community important in today's society?
Recently, my wife, and when I say recently, I'm going to say a year ago, my wife had to sort of hold or try to hold unsuccessfully me, my seatbelt and my chest back because the After shooting me a bird, somebody also started talking to me. And this is not safe for me to do. It's not wise. It's not smart. But the last words I heard set me off.
And the way rage works is you don't do smart things or do much thinking. And what did you do?
i leap from the car and scare my wife and it's dumb because people here are armed you tried to get out of the that was an actual i did get i did get out of the car i did get out of the car yes no i got out of the car if you're out there if you're out there send it in send it in to our show we want the tape of this that's that is actually uh i'm glad i'm so glad valerie was there jesus man
Well, it went okay.
I'm still here and I've learned my lesson and the person scampered off because I was enraged.
You were a charging wildebeest and you effectively intimidated them.
That's right. That's right. That's what happened. Well, I was enraged. I was legitimately enraged.
So my theory is it's one of the very few spaces right now in public life where the customer doesn't have recourse, where if you're mad, you can't log on and leave an angry review. You can't find someone's social media and spit vitriol at them. It's literally... Only IRL, right? There's so few places like this now in our lives where there's no way for someone to express their anger virtually.
So if you're in a car and something happens and maybe a guy cuts you off or somebody doesn't go at a green light, I suspect there's like increased anger because of the sense of impotence you feel relative to other situations.
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Chapter 3: What are the dangers of road rage?
It's just impossible to disentangle your experience as a user trying to read things that are meant as just actual thoughts from the things that are meant to trigger. It's just really hard to think that I am getting a thought as opposed to someone's attempt to get money.
I'm so glad you bring that up because so much of the discussion about these two platforms and the exodus and what people are looking for at echo chambers is about politics.
And you're just doing the Trump dance, by the way, while you did that, the way that you were doing that, you were doing the Trump dance.
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
The one that's ejaculating two giraffes is the only Trump dance that there is. That's right.
Certainly there is a political element to this, but Pablo, you're speaking to the other thing that has made that app fairly and significantly less user-friendly and unpleasant. And I think it's not political at all, which is the engagement farming, which is that people are now using it to make money in the lowest... It is all either rage bait, engagement bait, misinformation.
It's the lowest common denominator. And one thing that has been nice is when I opened the algorithm on Blue Sky, the viral posts have just been funny. It's been like good jokes. It reminds me of Twitter back in the old days.
Why we fell in love with this terrible, addictive platform that we all hated initially also in the first place.
And not it's not they're not political jokes. They're just like weird, goofy observations, mundane things. They're cleverly written. And that's what I want out of social media. I just want to be entertained. I also I will say this, though, I have really and I hope it lasts and I hope that the moderation tools keep working.
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