The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Youtube Bans China Misinformation, Instagram Ads & Other Tech News Aug 23, 2019

Episode Date: August 23, 2019

Youtube Bans China Misinformation, Instagram Ads & Other Tech News Aug 23, 2019

Hi folks, it's Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com, thechrisvossshow.com. Hey, thanks for tuning in. We certainly appreciate you guys being with us for another Chris Voss Show podcast. To see our other six podcasts, you can go to thecvpn.com, that's chrisvosspodcastnetwork.com. You can go to either one and it'll get you to the same place. It's internet magic. Hey, it's good to see you guys. And we're doing some news.

It's pretty much Thursday, August 22, 2019. And we're still here. So that's a good thing. Every day above ground is usually a good day unless you're, I don't know, in the Supermax prison or something on death row. Maybe that's not a good day. But I don't know. You make the most of what you have. So I don't know, in the Supermax prison or something on death row, maybe that's not a good day. But I don't know. You make the most of what you have. So I don't know.

Maybe that's not as funny as I think it is or interesting or whatever. Moving on. That's not why you tuned in. We didn't tune in for this, Chris. Maybe you did, actually. I don't know. Whatever makes it work for you guys. That's what I want.

So anyway, guys, let's talk about some of the news of the day some of the news in tech and business uh things that stuck out to me and my take on it and you're going to get some of that thing watch for some future guests we have coming up that are really exciting and interesting as always we have all the best guests i shouldn't copy that because that doesn't make any sense. Usually people who say that don't. But it's funny to parody, you know. Anyway, so let's do that. Kind of an interesting thing going on in the world with our technology stuff.

Google said it shut down 2,010 YouTube channels after they found it had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters. This is from CNBC and a lot of other newslet outlets are, of course, reporting this as well. You know, we, like I said, you've heard me talk about this on prior episodes. You know, I came, I started with, when Twitter was starting to really hit in 2008 and, you know, everyone saw this beautiful, it was like Woodstock, everyone saw this beautiful utopia

of the change of the future and colors and pretty love and and everyone's happier and we're all just running through daisies with our long hair and sex in the sun and you know whatever man uh but uh it's been kind of interesting we've kind of uh went through about five or six years of this utopia and then we started seeing like governments overthrown uh by social media and uh and awareness that social media brings so not only the way social media can bring light to darkness and deception uh it could you know sweep down governments and and then i think that's where a lot of dark political forces decided to say or and in political you know influences to politics said hey man maybe we can manipulate that to instead of throwing over our governments bad

governments that we can learn to install of our own so uh given what you believe in politics whether you're left or right or anything you can honestly say that using the technology of facebook and social media ads between their trump campaign the russia campaign and and everything else uh and all the dark players that you know we've found out about over the years. They use social media as a tool to get people elected, and the majority of the country thinks it's negative. That's a fact. Let's not argue about the other semantics. So it went from throwing over bad governments to,

well, let's figure out how to basically overthrow politicians to get the politicians we want into stock so it's it's going to be this really interesting game that i'm watching and that's what i'm getting to uh coming up to this next election in 2020 we saw in 2018 election they started the social media companies started shutting down uh different you know fake advertising science fake news all that sort of good stuff um google's you know now shutting down youtube channels found after hong kong protesters that followed i believe uh twitter and facebook doing the same thing earlier they found that there were

different tweets or twitter accounts and facebook accounts that were uh showing disinformation tied to hong kong protesters um on top of it it's gonna this is gonna be interesting how to see how this and Facebook accounts that were showing disinformation tied to Hong Kong protesters. On top of it, this is going to be interesting to see how this plays out in 2020 because Iran, Russia, and other people are trying to already influence our elections. And they see how much damage this causes by the fact that if they can teach us not to trust our polls, we might overthrow our government and then we'll have like i don't know something like uh uh somalia for 10 years i don't know or it's just uh everyone's killing each other and and whatever but uh you know i don't believe that's really going to happen but you know if we did overthrow this government the u.s government

it would be kind of i don't know what it would be. It would be crazy. It would be like, I don't know, like the Division II game I play. It would just be everyone's fighting amongst themselves. I don't know. I don't know if that would happen. Maybe we'd just overthrow the government and everybody would just be like, we're just going to do our own thing, man. I don't know. So on top of that, the intricacy and the complexity of this fight is what kind of engages me.

It's the same reason I kind of like watching politics and understanding politics. It's not so much that I'm pushing my tribe or what I think is my tribe, because I'd vote on either side depending upon how horrible the person is on one side or the other, how bad I think for the country. But to me, it's the complexity of it. It's the negotiation. It's kind of like when you do a business sale or when you like business. The thing that I love about business is the complexity of the challenge.

I used to tell people I really don't love any industry I've ever been in or invested in. I'm really interested in the challenge, the challenge of making a profit, the challenge of making it work, the challenge making it work the challenge of succeeding the trials Of the whole process and everything else So it's interesting to me whether it's politics or technology or in this case what seems to be meeting at the intersection on a crash course is both politics and and and

Technology and these sites like Twitter Facebook Facebook, Google, who suddenly now have to step in more and make tougher decisions and how their platforms are used. Um, because their platforms are private property. Uh, if you're out there in the thing and you think that posting on social media is free speech, it is not the constitution had no realm to that sort of thing. And the way these companies are set up, they are private property. And so you can't go onto people's private property and expect to have free speech. You can't stand on my front lawn that's on my property and scream with the bullhorn whatever the hell you want now if i call the cops they will move you to the public side of the thing so you may end up being able to stand on the sidewalk or the street and then you can exert your free speech so um a lot of these people just don't understand that concept and they think that they can you know free speech is free speech wherever they want to say it um so they're balancing this free speech thing that they got to do which we thrust on ourselves as americans uh to where they try and be fair and equal to

everybody's ideas and the community you know they're trying to serve the community as a whole and when you get to be this kind of size with billions of billions of users you know it's a big community with a lot of crazy people. I'm just being funny. Uh, so on the meantime, the GOP seems to be going after, uh, the tech companies they've, they've kind of, uh, uh, implied they're going to sick the justice department on everything else. Uh, they're going to start investigating for being too big and stuff and you can you see the muscle this is muscling that's going on this is just political theater is more of a sophisticated uh i don't know if you could call it sophisticated but more let's just say a more sophisticated intric intricacy of say the mob

so um you know this is this is the mob's way of when they come into the the guy's storefront and go that's a nice place you have here it's a be a shame if it burned down you should probably pay somebody for protection um like us so um so anyway uh you know i mean it's it's just more sophisticated intimidation negotiation that's what i'm I mean, it's, it's just more sophisticated intimidation negotiation. That's what I'm saying. Uh, but it's going to be interesting to see how these all intersect. Certainly I can see the GOP is going to push the tech companies to try and give, try and

not regulate some of the conservative voices that are out there. And, and we're just seeing more and more of those are getting cut back. And I'll get to that one in a second. Uh, we recently saw the falun gong epic uh news i believe it's called epoch news uh got kicked off of facebook uh for violating their rules and of course these are the new rules that are being put into place so that there's transparency to the consumer and the consumer's made aware of what's going on and and who is trying to get that going on so Google said it shut

down these 210 YouTube channels that have been tied to misinformation here's the other problem that these tech companies have and I think it's a conversation includes us that's why I'm discussing it with you my very intelligent listener is you know who is who is the one person who decides which information is correct? I mean, we have this problem at the White House with stuff, but we also have this problem with whoever decides that they are the decider, right? And then you're like, well, who watches the decider? You know, it's the same thing with police officers that we have.

It's the same thing with, officers that we have it's the same thing with uh uh you know science as as oversight you know you you that you have to peer review your stuff um this is the whole point once one person decides that they're the decider and they're unquestionable and everyone should listen well then you have a problem because you know some guy over here thinks this and the other guy on the over there thinks the other and then they're both being like well you're just not the decider and you're deciding wrong because you're not deciding the way i want to decide so how do you balance what like is fucking reality like if you have all these web companies spewing out all this or not web companies but if you have all this media that, you know, these misinformation, government exposure, dark money, whatever, you know, are pushing out, how do you decide what's right and wrong?

Like, what's real and what's not? I know Snopes does a lot of this where they fact check stuff. But even then, there's a process to it. And you're living in an information pool of the Internet that I don't even know. I mean, I don't know how big it is. How many pages are there? I don't know. Wait, are there pages?

You know, I mean, it must be like, I don't know, like trillions and trillions and trillions of data i i don't quote me um and so how do you process that all look at it i know snopes goes through a lot of work to validate information that gets sent to him and it's a process like it it costs a lot of money to staff it and and uh do that sort of research so you know, and they've got to balance prejudice too. And what's been interesting is I've been getting in trouble more on Facebook. Like, I'm not kidding you. I made a joke about the term white trash, and I guess white trash has become sort of an offensive term on Facebook.

And twice the post and comment got suspended, and I just went, okay, I give up. I get it. Okay, all right, fine. White trash people. I got to tell you, I'm white trash. So I'm not being prejudiced in any way or trashest against people that are white trash

because, you know, I'm white trash too okay that's just i'm not special um so i i should be able to say the term white trash just like you know you you get it so anyway um there's that so it's going to be interesting how this plays out in 2020 uh you're going to have, uh, the political fights trying to get their message out. You're going to have people that are buying these crazy ads on Facebook like this fall on Gong Thong Epoch times.

Um, and, uh, everyone's going to be fighting for their messages. And meanwhile, they're starting to get cut off and that does not make people up. Uh, so,

uh, there you go uh it was just announced uh this night that facebook is banning apps from the epoch times after a huge pro-trump uh uh buy but they violated the uh who who they hid um a multi-million dollar dark money ad spend by bypassing facebook's political advertising transparency rules, this according to NBCNews.com. And so they banned them, which is good. Recently, the Epoch Times,

which is actually run by, I believe it's called the Fallen, it's that Chinese group. You heard them over the years. Falun Gaoo something like that um anyway uh they took in they took in uh they have huge reach like huge reach money and power and so um they've been you know trying to spread their message the way they want but what's kind of interesting is they're anti-China, but they also have some really conservative views. In a recent report with Rachel Maddow and some other people, they kind of exposed how this is like the Falun Gong group that's banned from China.

I believe China deems it a religious group. I'm not sure they deem themselves a religious group. I think they're kind of like a self-help group. I don't know. But that's my memory of it. But it's going to be interesting. So they banned this group. And if you're familiar with this group, you watch the recent Rachel Maddow thing

or just Google Epoch Times, E-P-O-C-H Times. You're going to get – they are a powerful social media marketing group. And they're very powerful at giving their ideas. In fact, the White House has let their reporters in to interview and stuff. And what's interesting is they tend to target people who are 50 and older. So they target that older kind of conservative crowd, people that might have deep, uh, racial prejudices from the fifties, or that is a question. There's a lot of people that do from that era. It's the

era they grew up in. It just, it's just logic. Um, in, in, and I think a lot of them are still closeted racists and they have issues with it. So, um, these guys, the Setback Times targets that whole demographic. They'll even send paper flyers and news things to people who aren't online but are in the senior citizen crowd because they know those guys vote. They always show up to vote. They do two things. They go to the doctor. They show up to vote. So, good for them.

And they'll come to your bar mitzvah or your birthday party. Thanks, Grandma. I love you she's wonderful she was so this is kind of interesting you've got this Falun Gong group the Epoch Times you've got these Hong Kong protesters where China and stuff is in there and the other dynamic of this whole conversation is China gives a hard time to Google about, you know, having a search engine and doing anything in their country. And so, you know, Google has this game they got to play. We're like, well, do we piss off China or do we stand up for, you know, it's an interesting balance with a lot of multiple spinning plates and i'm just i'm just watching how this all this formula this complex moving of the gears uh makes some sort of safe open and and then we have to find out what what's on the other side so and it could be anything so it's

gonna be it's just gonna be interesting the one thing I get from life is stories and then watching the intricacies of play, the complexities of fate, luck, chance, work, ethic, stuff like that all come together. And then you're like, wow, okay, that turned out bad or that turned out good. So let's move on to some other news. The Wall Street Journal is reporting news corp is developing a news aggregation service called news let me spell that for you because it probably sounds like what uh k-n-e-w-z canoes with a z all right so there you go uh to address publisher concerns about google and facebook so it looks like news corp is realizing uh if you listen to podcasts as you should

every day you don't want to miss a thing uh uh if you listen to the podcast uh what was it um a few days ago uh we talked about how facebook had announced they were going to be hiring their own news editors and basically doing their own news creation and and of course I'm sure that will get take priority over third parties so again this ties back into what I was saying earlier this correlation of all these companies deciding who's right and who's wrong and I'm the decider. And you're not. You will listen and follow whatever I tell you. Why? Because I'm the decider.

I have the final answer. This is like 1984-ish, really, right? The number is whatever the party tells you the number will be. That is all you need to know. The decider has spoken. So anyway, News Corp is doing this app. I imagine a lot of other people might be looking at the same thing, or a news aggregation service would be doing the same thing.

They're concerned about Google and Facebook. There is a lot of dominance there. And for years, Facebook has tried to combobulate or formulate or recipe some sort of controlling but interest-bearing for them. I suppose either paying them money for it or whatever. It's some way of delivering and enhancing the news that's out there what's what is a nice reaction to politics in 2016 is now media almost seem to be dying print online everything is seem to be dying now it's a back again so that's good these there's new you know these big companies have got money now you know it's not dying and and they figure out how to make it work and they can give

Facebook a run for their money I'm not, like I said before the decider, uh, I like many voices who can speak, um, just as long as they're not fucking crazy and take us down the road. But again, again, that's relative. Like who's not crazy. Like what was the, I think somebody told me one time, the definition of sanity is the, the, the is the people who are more crazier than the average crazy person or something like that. Something that can get the gist of it. But basically, we're all fucking mad crazy. But there are some people that are way beyond us. And those people got to go in a jumpsuit.

They got to go in like a jumpsuit and they got to go in a, you know, they got to go in a special white rubber room, which is probably where I should be when it comes down to it. Get on, Chris. Two filter announces. Facebook has pushed Instagram and doubling the number of ads last year. Instagram is testing two back to back ads and stories. I'm going to fucking puke i gotta tell you i gotta tell you something so i i have youtube i think it's called youtube red where it's ad free or youtube i think they changed the name recently but it's youtube premium i think it's called

now i think it was youtube red before but it's YouTube Premium, and you pay like $10. It's gone up. I think it was like $9, and then it became $10. I guess I paid $12.95 or $12 the other day to restart it. What's interesting is that service, when I moved, I was doing a bunch of things. I moved up to a place to write a book. When I moved, a lot of stuff got lost, and credit cards, debt, paying for vans, movers, and stuff.

I'm still spread out over two states. This is crazy. And I have two storage units in two states, and then my house, and it's... I don't know where I am half the time these days, but that's okay. You've got to write a book. You go into the woods you write a book there you go you come out emerge from the wilderness and go I have the tomb of wisdom that or I don't know I might just emerge with copies of Playboy and be

like I don't know there's just pictures I don't know anyway maybe i'll just i'll be the second you after i don't know what is there print is there was there any money in print oh there is because they keep seeing him at stores so um so what's interesting getting back to the story sorry about the 50 segues there uh is uh youtube's uh my subscription somehow ran out somehow whatever credit card it was on it wasn't getting re-pinged and i'm sure they sent me some emails about it but it all got lost uh and because i mean i literally was moving for like i don't know 10 it was moving for like a week of u-haul and then loading and unloading all that crap and then uh you know it's all the other you know moving i'm pat like you're like what box is that in so anyway what's interesting is my youtube

subscription ran out for the YouTube premium and and I started seeing ads and I started seeing a lot of freaking ads on YouTube oh my god it was like two to three ads per break and I'm wait, I remember there used to be like one, maybe two YouTube ads in the front. Why are there 50 cuts of ads? And holy crap, it is so annoying. And finally I was looking at the thing going, I'm really sick of these ads. I mean, it's almost as bad as watching TV for the TV ad breaks. And then I got some emails. I come back to YouTube premium. I'm like, oh, crap.

Whoops. So I got signed up with it, and now it's just so wonderful and peaceful. So I guess Instagram has figure that one out and they're just going to either add you to death or you're probably going to pay like $10 a month. Hey, for $10 a month, you won't have to see Instagram ads and it'll all just be hot, weird chicks. And you're like, I'll pay to see that. Um, hasn't in Las Vegas, really, I mean, come on, so it's gonna be interesting, they're doubling the ads, so have fun with that, Instagram, I always love how these, once these social media companies hit max, what is it, max peak,

max threshold, max size, or size or you know they just become uh finally too big to fail with their fu money um then they start being like oh yeah we're gonna charge for this shit now and you're just like what i thought this is free this is like free and like no man no man it's kind of like kind of like they're really like a drug dealer who just goes, here's some free smokes or here's some free stuff on me. Just try it. It's free, man. Don't worry about it, man.

And then you're hooked. And then later, you're hooked now. That's going to cost you. Social media drug addiction. I think my friend Brian Solis has a book about dealing with that or doing that. So check that book out. I don't have it readily available, the title. My apologies.

But he's a great guy and he's a wonderful writer. CNBC, VMware is acquiring a cybersecurity company in carbon black for $2.1 billion and Pivotal for $2.7 billion. Interesting, buying a cyber security uh company that went public uh i still don't know what vr vmware does um they're kind of like uh what was that company that was buying a lot of stuff in the 90s and no one knew what they did anymore because they bought so much stuff uh they used to make rout, and then they changed that too. So good for you, VMware and Pivotal and Carbon Black.

I don't know. Acquisitions are king. I suppose the economy is fairly good if companies are acquiring that or they're impending doom. If I was a company, I'd probably invest in a cybersecurity company because this is the other thing I was going to expand on earlier when I was doing that earlier thing about what's going on in the world and everything else. The new future of war, like what we saw with the YouTube channels getting cut down, that's World War III. It's misinformation. It's going to be social information.

It's not going to be bombs. It's going to be people attacking each other under the table. This is kind of like when your wife says to you, I love you. You're wonderful and you're perfect. And then she goes and tells all her girlfriends what a piece of shit you are. It's kind of like that. Basically, we're all walking around this earth and governments are talking to each other going, yeah, we get along with China. Yeah, we're all walking around this earth, and governments are talking to each other, going, yeah, we get along with China, yeah, we're all friends and shit,

and then, like, China behind the scenes is like, fuck those guys, so anyway, it's going to be interesting, what happens that way with the cyber security, and how it works, and we really got to get our game up, and we got to get more people into security and we got to have better laws rules and all that sort of good stuff so hopefully we'll get down that journey uh this is kind of interesting if you've followed android for as long as i have and my favorite phone is the 18t samsung galaxy uh s10 i love the phone it's rocking and uh what they've stopped doing, or they've announced they've stopped doing, is dessert-themed names. So they're going to call the next version of Android, Android Q, Android 10.

And they, you know, they gave it a new logo. So, ooh, there you go, man. Android Q, huh? So that's kind of interesting. It's always been fun with the desserts and personality. But I don't know, maybe Google is just so old that they've decided that sugar is bad for them. Their doctor said, hey, man, you've got to back off the sugar. You're pre-diabetic, Google.

You've been around too long. You're an old company. You've got to get off the sugar you got to back off the sugar. You're pre-diabetic, Google. You've been around too long. You're an old company. Got to get off the sugar, baby. Get off the sugar. So I'm glad they didn't go for Android bacon. Or did they? I don't know. There were so many of them I lost fucking count.

There was like a cupcake. I think it was a candy bar. No. Was there a candy bar? It's all becoming a blur so no more dessert names which is probably good because probably healthier because when you used to hear you know that Google was it called cupcake Google Cupcake or something you'd be like Google Oreo you'd be like oh man I need to have some of that right now I need to eat that so they were

probably causing half the world to be fat with their reach fuck you google i'm just kidding uh this is kind of interesting google's chrome team from this article from tech crunch have proposed a new privacy and anti-fingerprinting open standard to make it harder for marketers and advertisers to track across the web kind of interesting that Google Chrome starting that fight when they want people they want on Google search for people to know and they didn't track people so I'm confused like they want to track you so they can sell ads and that's where all their money comes from but they're coming up with an initiative to make it harder for marketing advertisers to

track you way are they doing that so they can silo their information even more and make more money I'm the decider yeah I should call that this podcast maybe that's the way I should start out the podcast all the time. Hello, welcome to the Chris Voss Show. I'm the decider. People would be like, give me, holy shit, turn off the radio. Wow, holy, it's fucking possessed. The power of Christ compels you. Throw some holy water on it.

Radio is possessed. What if I did the whole podcast that way? That would be fun. Let's do the whole podcast that way? That would be fun. Let's do the whole podcast that way. And today in Google News, I'm like one of those Swedish heavy metal singers. What if I did that? That might be actually an interesting podcast. Maybe more people would be interested in that.

The Swedish metal band's reading of the news podcast. Introduce new President Trump. The Amazon forest about to... I think I actually tore my voice in that part. I'm going to have to keep moving on, all right, so if you want me to do Swedish metallic band, metal band, satanic metal band, whatever, voice podcast, let me know, and if I get enough, if enough of you write in and say, you gotta change the format of the show, Chris, I'll do it, I'll do it for you,

I mean, I'll do it for you i mean i'll do anything for you i love you please don't leave me uh so what else do we have going on um um bada bing bada boom uh doordash announced their new tipping policy that will keep let drivers keep 100 of tips rolling out next month and pledges, pledges to bump up base pay across the board. Yeah, this, I mean, this is reported in the verge.

Uh, this is reported a while ago because their drivers went up in arms because they weren't getting their tips. Uh, I really find this behavior by any corporation despicable. Um, you know, one of the what I grew up with the environment that you tip the waiter because that was her

money and you were rewarding her for the quality of service that she given you and and you were always understanding there was their money because I knew people that were waiters and waitresses and, um, they would, you know, they'd be like, Hey, I made $8 and off this table and tips or something, you know, whatever. Um, but yeah, it's real, it's real. It started with this real dickish move by Steve Wynn at the Wynn hotels where he, they started doing this pooling bullshit where they had to pool. And I believe some, I believe some places for tips had to pool their tips.

Like some places did have just kind of applied agreement that, you know, you throw, you know, you get $5 tip, you throw a buck to the cook, you know, cause you know, everyone's in the food chain of, of, uh, helping successful shit. Um, but no, it was a great way to reward people for, um, for performance and, and, uh, for just, you know, just doing your job. Uh, sadly, I mean, there's a huge history on it and what it goes back to, but, um, and I think some of it's racial. So you may want to read about it. Cause it's an interesting thing to learn about, uh, as to, you know, how we got to where we are. Um, and, uh, uh, so, you know, all this pooling started happening and, you know, then more

and more, it's like, well, those aren't your tips. And you're just like, wow, man. Um, and I don't know about you, but I, as a consumer still, after all these years of being alive, I consider that when I tip somebody, they're going to get it unless they have, you know, uh, a nicety agreement to share that tip with the cook or something or maybe the bus boy you know they throw some change to um and but you know that's an agreement they're not their employers like you'll give us that money and the the depravity is the depravity depravity depravity potato tomato is that these companies they're taking advantage of the e sort of element of this where there's not a

cash transaction so it's been really easy for them to hijack those tips I just think that's wrong man I just think that's wrong I think it's despicable I think it's unethical if the consumer was under the complete understanding complete understanding that those guys um uh that that that uh the uh what am i trying to say i just lost complete track of everything and that's it folks thanks for tonight i'll, we'll be here tomorrow night, tune in, have a good day, I'm off, and we're out, no, I'm just kidding, I totally lost my train of thought, and all, what is it, like, 350 podcasts or something, and 350 podcasts, I just went off

the gears, you know why, it's because I was looking at more articles to read to you on the internet. Something struck my eye and the brain went dead. So this is probably a good time to just round it up. We're in a special moment right here. It's kind of huggy, warm, or embarrassing and makes you want to cry. Oh, there was some, this is another thing I wanted to talk about. You know, my audience is the most intelligent people in the world. So I'm just, what I'm doing is I'm giving you just some runway with that last thought.

And maybe I didn't really forget where I was going with it. I'm just testing you to see if you can fill in the blank. And I trust you, man. I trust you. So let me know what the answer was because I forgot. This is kind of interesting. AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other U.S. carriers announced an agreement with 51 attorneys generals.

There's 51 states, right? To implement new tech to block robocalls one of those must be a puerto rican uh uh thing i don't know whatever uh so anyway they're meeting with 12 largest uh telephone companies on thursday and they're going to uh spot and block robocalls i'm really amazed this hasn't done i'm like why doesn't the fcc just have rules that you're gonna block robocalls. I'm really amazed this hasn't done it. I'm like, why doesn't the FCC just have rules that you're going to bust robocallers, then you're going to charge them like tens of thousands of dollars in fees? Oh, wait, we have that.

So why aren't they being enforced? So anyway, I'm glad this is finally going down. I can't wait for all the damn robocallers. I can't even answer my phone. [phone] of my calls are robocalls. And they're either computers or they're salespeople pitching everything. It doesn't help that I've used GoDaddy all these years and they always sell my data every time I put up a website because I'm too cheap to spend the $2.99 or something to make it privacy but we're not having that problem anymore because

we left GoDaddy um we're leaving I should say we're leaving we're slowly moving stuff out the door as it comes up um I'm kind of I'm kind of tight with uh I'm like I paid the $18 I will get my 12 months then I will move I'm kind of will move, I'm kind of like that guy, I'm kind of like that marriage where it goes, I'm leaving you, but I paid for the rent for the rest of the year, so I'm going to stay here for the next, and then I'm going to leave you, I'm sure it's going to be a nice relationship now. That's not good. Don't do that, Chris. So anyway, there you go, man. There you go. Some of the news, some of the things that stuck out to us today, some of the interesting technology, where will it go? We'll go on this journey, this sort of thing. China, the China-Hong Kong thing is sure going to escalate. It's going to

be a real test to see uh what tech companies do how they react what major governments do uh and of course china has their own choices they have to make towards their thing who knows maybe there's a world war three oh you do the world war three uh reference again uh maybe there's a world war three where you know hong kong you're trying to beat something on hong kong and the whole world kind of goes hey man knock it off eh or else we're going to do something about it and china's like do you know do what throw it out buddy and then we're like fuck okay so there's your world in a minute and you live in it. Hey, you know what? That sounds like a rhyme.

I'm going to make that shirt. That's your world. You live in it. Don't poop in it. Anyway, guys, thanks for tuning in to the Chris Voss Show. It's been an interesting little journey here. A journey. But this is the journeys that I like.

And you know what? I like that you're with me. I don't know why I'm talking like Mr. Rogers, but you're special. I just want you to know that. You're a special little person, and so am I. And we're just going to go down this journey together.

Oh, my fucking God. I'm sorry. Okay, so I love you, and I hope to see you tomorrow. And we'll be on this journey. Join me again for this journey. That should be the ending of our Chris Voss show. Join me again on this journey with Chris Voss.

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And, you know, peace be out. We'll see you next time.