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Vettel 2017 Canada: slight error, grass, then hard re‑join blocks Hamilton. Stewards say “unsafe re‑join,” give 5‑sec penalty, Hamilton wins. Vettel: “I did nothing wrong,” “they stole the race,” “not fair.” Felt it was normal racing, not dangerous. Pure Seb rage era.

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Which driver did you look up to while growing up? Oscar Piastri: [As] I understand more about racing though, I would say Lewis [Hamilton] mainly. I think the way he goes about things on and off the track is, you know, quite exceptional. And I think the end of last season [2021], you know, the way he kind of handled all of that, especially immediately after the race and the post-race interviews was nothing short of remarkable. Like, I was really impressed with that because I certainly would have been able to stay so calm. But yeah, I think Lewis, you know, mainly because he's been so successful, but I guess, you know, he's put himself in the right spot at the right time. Mercedes clearly believe he's the man for the job because they keep re-signing him. So yeah, I think Lewis is probably my answer. [video by Feeder Series | seen via did oscar score points in f1 today?]
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Which driver did you look up to while growing up? Oscar Piastri: [As] I understand more about racing though, I would say Lewis [Hamilton] mainly. I think the way he goes about things on and off the track is, you know, quite exceptional. And I think the end of last season [2021], you know, the way he kind of handled all of that, especially immediately after the race and the post-race interviews was nothing short of remarkable. Like, I was really impressed with that because I certainly would have been able to stay so calm. But yeah, I think Lewis, you know, mainly because he's been so successful, but I guess, you know, he's put himself in the right spot at the right time. Mercedes clearly believe he's the man for the job because they keep re-signing him. So yeah, I think Lewis is probably my answer. [video by Feeder Series | seen via did oscar score points in f1 today?]

sim

67,774 views • 1 year ago

toto wolff: “we tried to race fair in the team game, but maybe it's costed us the win today. and that's something which we need to discuss with the drivers. how are we doing it if we're fighting somebody else for a race win.” 🗣️: “in what way do you think it cost you the win? you mean stress the cars too much?” toto wolff: “no, i don't think so. but they raced each other quite hard before george's stop. and i think we lost about 4-5 or 6 seconds to lewis. and then obviously with the vsc, it changed the order.” 🗣️: “you're not saying that kimi's dnf was related to the race?” toto wolff: “no, no, not at all. it's just george and kimi racing hard. we're leaving lap time on the track and we need to discuss with them for the future.”
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toto wolff: “we tried to race fair in the team game, but maybe it's costed us the win today. and that's something which we need to discuss with the drivers. how are we doing it if we're fighting somebody else for a race win.” 🗣️: “in what way do you think it cost you the win? you mean stress the cars too much?” toto wolff: “no, i don't think so. but they raced each other quite hard before george's stop. and i think we lost about 4-5 or 6 seconds to lewis. and then obviously with the vsc, it changed the order.” 🗣️: “you're not saying that kimi's dnf was related to the race?” toto wolff: “no, no, not at all. it's just george and kimi racing hard. we're leaving lap time on the track and we need to discuss with them for the future.”

naenia ¹ ⁶³

325,151 views • 1 month ago

George's Post-Race Interview🏁 "Well, I was more frustrated in the race situation. I don't understand how three drivers can cut the first corner and just continue in the position they entered. It's like allowing you to risk everything that you just have to get out of jail, free card, if you get it wrong. So, and then obviously Max and Lewis, when they came together, Lewis got the penalty, rightly so, but Max was off the track, came back on in the wrong place, wrong time for me, and I lost three positions. And obviously I was pretty frustrated, but it all stemmed from that one. Well, I think it holds me down to the circuit. If there is this get out of jail free card, if that was gravel, no one would be there. We've seen it almost every year we've been here. I think last year, Charles the year before, Lewis 10 years ago, it's like a lawnmower racing. So, I don't know, something needs to change there. As I said, if you can just send it down the outside, you can either make it stick, or you just cut the grass and you return in the position you were in before, that's not really how it should be." #F1 #MexicoGP
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George's Post-Race Interview🏁 "Well, I was more frustrated in the race situation. I don't understand how three drivers can cut the first corner and just continue in the position they entered. It's like allowing you to risk everything that you just have to get out of jail, free card, if you get it wrong. So, and then obviously Max and Lewis, when they came together, Lewis got the penalty, rightly so, but Max was off the track, came back on in the wrong place, wrong time for me, and I lost three positions. And obviously I was pretty frustrated, but it all stemmed from that one. Well, I think it holds me down to the circuit. If there is this get out of jail free card, if that was gravel, no one would be there. We've seen it almost every year we've been here. I think last year, Charles the year before, Lewis 10 years ago, it's like a lawnmower racing. So, I don't know, something needs to change there. As I said, if you can just send it down the outside, you can either make it stick, or you just cut the grass and you return in the position you were in before, that's not really how it should be." #F1 #MexicoGP

stas⁶³🏎️ | GR🥇

236,344 views • 8 months ago

Figured I’d make a little different post as I did some racing myself last week! I’m coming down off an incredible week Tour of the Gila where I raced in the cat 1 field. I won a stage (yes crazy!), finished 5th overall (also crazy), and won the masters cat 1 40+ overall over Italian legend Fortunato Ferrara. Now after having sometime to reflect I want to share some of the thoughts I had from the race. 1. Family made the racing experience so special for me. I’ve done a lot of bike races, but this one was so good having much of the family together for it. @kourtneydanielson was there keeping me on track, @stevedanielson237 was there grinding in his race at the same time, @alpha_zulu_6 was in “no-fail mission mode” running the race logistics, and Sarah was there inspiring us to dig deep. We just need @stelladdanielson for the next one with the little ones and watch out world! 2. To win you have to be ready to lose. I’ll be honest, racing has so much trauma around it for me I have a long ways to go to really enjoy it, but I am getting there. But what I did “re-experience” was how if you are worried about winning you will often paralyze yourself and not be able to give what it takes. I did have moments where I completely locked into “racing” and just enjoyed going for it. 3. You don’t have to feel well to do well. As a coach I preach this one all the time but man, I really felt it this week. I got that gnarly sinus virus going around and wow, does it bite hard. I really struggled each day on the bike and off the bike I spent wayyyyy too much time worrying about what was going to happen in the bike. Kourtney came to the rescue to keep sending me back out there despite me trying to negotiate with her to sit it out. Wow, I was so glad I did listen to her! 4. The future is bright. Let me tell you, there is some big talent out there coming. I got to race with a lot of the young pros and I also got to hear about the talent coming from my son’s field. There were 5 riders I saw in my race that were all u23 and absolutely could make it to the World Tour. This race always brings talent out, but I would say there is more than in the past this year. I hope these riders keep working hard and team up with someone who actually knows how to get to the world tour. There’s so much to build and the right progression is everything. 5. I’m not done yet. This week was just the beginning of a new chapter for me. Back to work!
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Figured I’d make a little different post as I did some racing myself last week! I’m coming down off an incredible week Tour of the Gila where I raced in the cat 1 field. I won a stage (yes crazy!), finished 5th overall (also crazy), and won the masters cat 1 40+ overall over Italian legend Fortunato Ferrara. Now after having sometime to reflect I want to share some of the thoughts I had from the race. 1. Family made the racing experience so special for me. I’ve done a lot of bike races, but this one was so good having much of the family together for it. @kourtneydanielson was there keeping me on track, @stevedanielson237 was there grinding in his race at the same time, @alpha_zulu_6 was in “no-fail mission mode” running the race logistics, and Sarah was there inspiring us to dig deep. We just need @stelladdanielson for the next one with the little ones and watch out world! 2. To win you have to be ready to lose. I’ll be honest, racing has so much trauma around it for me I have a long ways to go to really enjoy it, but I am getting there. But what I did “re-experience” was how if you are worried about winning you will often paralyze yourself and not be able to give what it takes. I did have moments where I completely locked into “racing” and just enjoyed going for it. 3. You don’t have to feel well to do well. As a coach I preach this one all the time but man, I really felt it this week. I got that gnarly sinus virus going around and wow, does it bite hard. I really struggled each day on the bike and off the bike I spent wayyyyy too much time worrying about what was going to happen in the bike. Kourtney came to the rescue to keep sending me back out there despite me trying to negotiate with her to sit it out. Wow, I was so glad I did listen to her! 4. The future is bright. Let me tell you, there is some big talent out there coming. I got to race with a lot of the young pros and I also got to hear about the talent coming from my son’s field. There were 5 riders I saw in my race that were all u23 and absolutely could make it to the World Tour. This race always brings talent out, but I would say there is more than in the past this year. I hope these riders keep working hard and team up with someone who actually knows how to get to the world tour. There’s so much to build and the right progression is everything. 5. I’m not done yet. This week was just the beginning of a new chapter for me. Back to work!

tom danielson

11,804 views • 2 months ago

Jolyon Palmer answers the question 'Why didn't Leclerc get a penalty for not giving the position back to Lewis?' "It's a good question and I don't have the answer. So let's have a look with this reverse angle because I think it becomes more clear cut here that Hamilton should have that place, second position, because of the way here that Charles gives Hamilton the space, Verstappen is then going to have a squeeze. At the moment, Max is looking like he's going to have a clear launch down the outside. Remember, he's on a medium tyre, so it's a particularly decent start. But in the end, we get four wide. You've got the two Ferraris neck and neck. You've got Verstappen so ambitious out wide onto the kerb. It's the first race he's not led out of the out of the first corner since 2019 here. He's got astonishing form and as a result, a lot of confidence to go and attack this first corner. You can actually see Hamilton is marginally ahead of Charles Leclerc before the braking zone. So it's just a nose in front. But I would say the Ferrari on the left is ahead of the Ferrari on the right." "We come through the corner. So if we ignore Verstappen now, he's never going to make it stop from that outside line. We come through the corner and now Charles is in a real squeeze here. We've had contact in the past before with Perez, Leclerc and Verstappen. This time it's Hamilton, Leclerc and Verstappen. And they managed to get through. Max doesn't turn in. He can't turn in." "So now Lewis has definitely got the second place. He's ahead of Charles, who is coming through. He's got space to stay on the track should he wish to stay on the track. But he's also chosen to go wide at this point, realises that you can just cut through. He's done it before at the first corner and gets away with it. Behind, you've got Antonelli going to do the same thing from side by side with Russell. Piastri actually is going to go deep as well, but try his best to stay on the track, whereas others won't. And Leclerc, from behind Hamilton, chooses to go off the road." "He's not forced off by Lewis. You can see the space that Lewis leaves on the exit, goes straight across. The safest thing to do at this point is to absolutely floor it, rejoin in the lead and choose who you're going to let pass. Basically, be your own judge at this point." "And as we play it through, Charles lets Lando go through, but does not let Lewis go through. It should be a penalty. It should be a slam dunk." "I can only assume the stewards saw five cars go through. Absolute melee. You've even got Franco Colapinto at the back of the field having a spin. You've got contact. You've got debris on the circuit. Marshall's needed to retrieve it, which was another sketchy condition that we had early on in the race. And I can only assume the stewards just thought Ferrari side by side, they emerged second and third." "But the reality is here, Charles Leclerc overtook Lewis Hamilton off the track and he should have had a penalty for it." - F1 2025 Mexico -
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Jolyon Palmer answers the question 'Why didn't Leclerc get a penalty for not giving the position back to Lewis?' "It's a good question and I don't have the answer. So let's have a look with this reverse angle because I think it becomes more clear cut here that Hamilton should have that place, second position, because of the way here that Charles gives Hamilton the space, Verstappen is then going to have a squeeze. At the moment, Max is looking like he's going to have a clear launch down the outside. Remember, he's on a medium tyre, so it's a particularly decent start. But in the end, we get four wide. You've got the two Ferraris neck and neck. You've got Verstappen so ambitious out wide onto the kerb. It's the first race he's not led out of the out of the first corner since 2019 here. He's got astonishing form and as a result, a lot of confidence to go and attack this first corner. You can actually see Hamilton is marginally ahead of Charles Leclerc before the braking zone. So it's just a nose in front. But I would say the Ferrari on the left is ahead of the Ferrari on the right." "We come through the corner. So if we ignore Verstappen now, he's never going to make it stop from that outside line. We come through the corner and now Charles is in a real squeeze here. We've had contact in the past before with Perez, Leclerc and Verstappen. This time it's Hamilton, Leclerc and Verstappen. And they managed to get through. Max doesn't turn in. He can't turn in." "So now Lewis has definitely got the second place. He's ahead of Charles, who is coming through. He's got space to stay on the track should he wish to stay on the track. But he's also chosen to go wide at this point, realises that you can just cut through. He's done it before at the first corner and gets away with it. Behind, you've got Antonelli going to do the same thing from side by side with Russell. Piastri actually is going to go deep as well, but try his best to stay on the track, whereas others won't. And Leclerc, from behind Hamilton, chooses to go off the road." "He's not forced off by Lewis. You can see the space that Lewis leaves on the exit, goes straight across. The safest thing to do at this point is to absolutely floor it, rejoin in the lead and choose who you're going to let pass. Basically, be your own judge at this point." "And as we play it through, Charles lets Lando go through, but does not let Lewis go through. It should be a penalty. It should be a slam dunk." "I can only assume the stewards saw five cars go through. Absolute melee. You've even got Franco Colapinto at the back of the field having a spin. You've got contact. You've got debris on the circuit. Marshall's needed to retrieve it, which was another sketchy condition that we had early on in the race. And I can only assume the stewards just thought Ferrari side by side, they emerged second and third." "But the reality is here, Charles Leclerc overtook Lewis Hamilton off the track and he should have had a penalty for it." - F1 2025 Mexico -

sim 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇸🇳🇫🇷🇭🇹

273,432 views • 8 months ago

"If you said I should enter APC, I want to join APC, and I didn’t say I will not join APC even now, but for what position?" - Kwankwaso. Kwankwaso added: "In this country, who will tell us about the struggle to establish the APC? We are the ones who established the party. We are the leaders of the APC. We challenged the federal government then and faced many threats from the EFCC, ICPC, police, SSS, and others. “If you say we should join APC, we agree to it, but tell us what the NNPP will get. Give us the answer, and we will agree to join, but don't take us back to when we were neglected. During the APC's 8 years under Buhari, we were not given anything, not even a 'thank you,' because our faction of the PDP didn’t start with them. “When we left for PDP, even PDP couldn't give us a Zonal Chairman. They thought if we left, we would enter a bush and die. After we left the party, we gained value, and now we have value. Whoever you are, if you mention Nigerian politicians, you must mention Kwankwaso. When I was in the APC or PDP, they didn't value me. We were working for irresponsible people, and when they won elections, they did not consider us or value us. “We're not in a hurry to leave the NNPP; we’re happy. However, if there is anyone who wants to work with us truthfully and will not abandon us as before, we are ready. Even if the PDP comes back and says they made a mistake and will do this and that, let’s make promises where everyone can see them.”
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"If you said I should enter APC, I want to join APC, and I didn’t say I will not join APC even now, but for what position?" - Kwankwaso. Kwankwaso added: "In this country, who will tell us about the struggle to establish the APC? We are the ones who established the party. We are the leaders of the APC. We challenged the federal government then and faced many threats from the EFCC, ICPC, police, SSS, and others. “If you say we should join APC, we agree to it, but tell us what the NNPP will get. Give us the answer, and we will agree to join, but don't take us back to when we were neglected. During the APC's 8 years under Buhari, we were not given anything, not even a 'thank you,' because our faction of the PDP didn’t start with them. “When we left for PDP, even PDP couldn't give us a Zonal Chairman. They thought if we left, we would enter a bush and die. After we left the party, we gained value, and now we have value. Whoever you are, if you mention Nigerian politicians, you must mention Kwankwaso. When I was in the APC or PDP, they didn't value me. We were working for irresponsible people, and when they won elections, they did not consider us or value us. “We're not in a hurry to leave the NNPP; we’re happy. However, if there is anyone who wants to work with us truthfully and will not abandon us as before, we are ready. Even if the PDP comes back and says they made a mistake and will do this and that, let’s make promises where everyone can see them.”

Imran Muhammad

150,844 views • 9 months ago

jisung called changbin in the middle of the night to tell him he loves him but changbin was worried since it was out of nowhere 😭😭 but there was nothing to worry about jisung was just feeling sentimental 🥹🥹🥹 🐖🐇: why did you suddenly call me late at night recently and confess your love? 🐿: it just came to mind 🐖🐇: do you know what time it was then? 🐿: uh, like 4? 5? 🐖🐇: yeah, it was around 4 or 5 in the morning 🐿: i was feeling sentimental then so i just kind of...it suddenly came to mind 🐖🐇: who else did you call then? 🐿: i only called you 🐿: i suddenly thought of things i was grateful for and things i felt sorry about, so i talked to you (reenacting) "hello?" "oh! are you asleep?" "no, i'm not" "you know i love you, right?" "what's wrong with you?" "i really love you" "you know i love you a lot, right?" "yeah, i love you too" "i love you and i'm sorry" "i'll do better from now on" 🐖🐇: when han hung up, he said "am i bothering you?" "no, you're not bothering me" 🐖🐇: i thought you were just joking around like usual but it really felt like you were sincerely confessing your feelings to me so my heart kind of got all stirred up too. i wondered if you were having a hard time recently 🐿: no! i really haven't been having a hard time at all lately! 🐖🐇: so, han you're the type to say stuff like "i love you" as a joke too but to seriously, like...saying thank you and telling me that you love me, from my perspective, i think it was the first time. so honestly, i got worried like, "huh? why is he suddenly doing something he never does?" so i felt all mixed up, it was funny, but also touching like, "oh, what's up with him? why is he like this?" that kind of feeling 🐖🐇: but when i've seen han lately you've been really bright and healthy so i thought, "okay, maybe it's not the kind of thing i need to worry about" and i think i took it in a really positive way
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jisung called changbin in the middle of the night to tell him he loves him but changbin was worried since it was out of nowhere 😭😭 but there was nothing to worry about jisung was just feeling sentimental 🥹🥹🥹 🐖🐇: why did you suddenly call me late at night recently and confess your love? 🐿: it just came to mind 🐖🐇: do you know what time it was then? 🐿: uh, like 4? 5? 🐖🐇: yeah, it was around 4 or 5 in the morning 🐿: i was feeling sentimental then so i just kind of...it suddenly came to mind 🐖🐇: who else did you call then? 🐿: i only called you 🐿: i suddenly thought of things i was grateful for and things i felt sorry about, so i talked to you (reenacting) "hello?" "oh! are you asleep?" "no, i'm not" "you know i love you, right?" "what's wrong with you?" "i really love you" "you know i love you a lot, right?" "yeah, i love you too" "i love you and i'm sorry" "i'll do better from now on" 🐖🐇: when han hung up, he said "am i bothering you?" "no, you're not bothering me" 🐖🐇: i thought you were just joking around like usual but it really felt like you were sincerely confessing your feelings to me so my heart kind of got all stirred up too. i wondered if you were having a hard time recently 🐿: no! i really haven't been having a hard time at all lately! 🐖🐇: so, han you're the type to say stuff like "i love you" as a joke too but to seriously, like...saying thank you and telling me that you love me, from my perspective, i think it was the first time. so honestly, i got worried like, "huh? why is he suddenly doing something he never does?" so i felt all mixed up, it was funny, but also touching like, "oh, what's up with him? why is he like this?" that kind of feeling 🐖🐇: but when i've seen han lately you've been really bright and healthy so i thought, "okay, maybe it's not the kind of thing i need to worry about" and i think i took it in a really positive way

lena ✰

48,741 views • 6 months ago

[ condition update ] 🐻‍❄ In short of what happen with me is an inflammation on heart muscle from a virus infection which still cant be identified yet. The symptoms I experience are painful breathing, heart racing, tight chest, difficulty breathing, kinda thing. I’m told not to overwork my heart because it could make the inflammation gets worse. That’s basically in short. As for the details, it was 4-5 days ago, I started feeling uncomfortable in my chest, it felt tight and I had trouble breathing as well. Anytime I did something, like exercising or walking on a treadmill, my body felt hurt, and my heart rate went up way higher than usual. It’s normally around 100, but it went to 150 even when I was just doing little activity. It felt off, so I thought I might have caught some kind of infection. The other day I made a doctor appointment in the hospital as I got some free time. I was told to go to internal medicine doctor and was asked about what I’ve been experiencing. I had fever, waking up found tightness in chest at one night, a nausea, but nothing came out. I just felt like about to vomiting but nothing came out at all, so I thought it was unusual. At that time, my face went all pale and lips went all purple already, which why I decided to go to the hospital. Once I was in the internal medicine, well, they did some screening. I said I have low fever, painful breathing, body and muscle pain, so I was sent to ENT because I experience a ringing in my ear as well, I then sent to do a hearing function test. Right ear was normal, while my left ear was.. what’s it called.. ringing in ear. My left ear hearing function drops down one level. It’s not that serious but since it’s related to inner ear, and it's a part of nervous system, right? If it’s affecting that, the doctor afraid it could lead to permanent hearing function loss. Yeah, that part is concerning. So I was prescribed steroids to be consumed to prevent further inflammation and damage more than this. Not sure if I’m explaining it right, but that’s what I remember. I’m not a doctor, lol. And then, after I got the steroids and back home, I had work to film on the next day. I was like, why I feel so tired going for work at 6 in the morning, why my body feels this exhausting, just bending over to grab something or doing other things made me feel like I was gonna pass out. Thought I was just old lol. But at that time I felt unwell, my chest felt tight, and I felt exhausted. That day, I kept working even though I was exhausted. I felt like I don’t wanna work anymore, it was tiring, even just walking up the stairs, I had to stop and take a break. I couldn’t do it, it felt so tiring. When filming, just stepping my legs already felt tiring that I didn’t want to step my legs anymore. So that day decided to see a doctor, focusing to check my heart as it felt tight and was racing, and I had pain when breathing as well so I decided to see a heart specialist doctor but I arrived there at 2 PM and there was no available appointment anymore. Also, the Echo or ECG machine was all used so I had to schedule an appointment for the next day. I went there in the afternoon. Blood pressure and other test was normal, around 110-160, and it’s normal. Pulse is normal. Blood pressure was okay. And what else, yeah that’s it. I had an ECG, the result came out normal. I’ve also just get physical check up recently and the result were almost the same when compared. But since I still didn’t feel well, I wanted to know what’s wrong with me so I asked for a blood test. It’s a blood test that focusing on troponin and CRP level, which are enzymes in blood cells that indicate heart issues if the levels are high. After my blood test, I waited an hour for the results. When they called me, they said my symptom is serious, it’s a heart disease. Normal troponin levels are below 1 for healthy human, but mine was 3800, which is extremely high, so I had to be admitted. This is an enzyme level in the heart muscle cells. If heart muscle is damaged or its cells break down, the enzyme will mix into the blood and can be detected in the blood indicating a heart problem, so I need to be admitted for further examination with echo. It’s an ultrasound for heart. The result saying that there’s an inflammation in my heart as predicted by the doctors. The heart muscle is really swollen and… [takes deep breath] oh I’m tired already. It's enlarging which makes my heart race and feel tight and uncomfortable. That’s what they said. It’s not working the way it should, which is why I get tired so easily. So it answers everything. After the echo I took a rest and got therapy regimen… as what I understand, consuming steroid can suppress the immune system, right? They help reduce inflammation while the body fights the virus. It’s reducing the inflammation, right? But they said steroids alone weren’t enough because my troponin levels were way too abnormally high, so I got an injection instead. [deep breath] I got injected last night for only three dosage because I had to work today in the morning.asked the doctor to discharge me cause I had to work first. But the decision was taken with condition. I got injected three dosage in the morning and did another blood test which show a result of a decrease in troponin level from 3800 to 1600. Doctor said it was probably 5000 before this and it keeps decreasing to 3800, and to 1600, So if the work isn’t too hard physically, I’m allowed to go, I then go to work. Today at work I was only standing around and talking around. I can stand and talk, but I can’t do any heavy work as it’ll will make my heart work hard and affecting the recovery, I then have to walk slowly. But even so, I can’t even walk fast tho, I get tired easily. Yeah, that’s all. It’s not like I’m completely bedrotting or something, it’s just heart muscle problem, so… fighting ✌🏻
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[ condition update ] 🐻‍❄ In short of what happen with me is an inflammation on heart muscle from a virus infection which still cant be identified yet. The symptoms I experience are painful breathing, heart racing, tight chest, difficulty breathing, kinda thing. I’m told not to overwork my heart because it could make the inflammation gets worse. That’s basically in short. As for the details, it was 4-5 days ago, I started feeling uncomfortable in my chest, it felt tight and I had trouble breathing as well. Anytime I did something, like exercising or walking on a treadmill, my body felt hurt, and my heart rate went up way higher than usual. It’s normally around 100, but it went to 150 even when I was just doing little activity. It felt off, so I thought I might have caught some kind of infection. The other day I made a doctor appointment in the hospital as I got some free time. I was told to go to internal medicine doctor and was asked about what I’ve been experiencing. I had fever, waking up found tightness in chest at one night, a nausea, but nothing came out. I just felt like about to vomiting but nothing came out at all, so I thought it was unusual. At that time, my face went all pale and lips went all purple already, which why I decided to go to the hospital. Once I was in the internal medicine, well, they did some screening. I said I have low fever, painful breathing, body and muscle pain, so I was sent to ENT because I experience a ringing in my ear as well, I then sent to do a hearing function test. Right ear was normal, while my left ear was.. what’s it called.. ringing in ear. My left ear hearing function drops down one level. It’s not that serious but since it’s related to inner ear, and it's a part of nervous system, right? If it’s affecting that, the doctor afraid it could lead to permanent hearing function loss. Yeah, that part is concerning. So I was prescribed steroids to be consumed to prevent further inflammation and damage more than this. Not sure if I’m explaining it right, but that’s what I remember. I’m not a doctor, lol. And then, after I got the steroids and back home, I had work to film on the next day. I was like, why I feel so tired going for work at 6 in the morning, why my body feels this exhausting, just bending over to grab something or doing other things made me feel like I was gonna pass out. Thought I was just old lol. But at that time I felt unwell, my chest felt tight, and I felt exhausted. That day, I kept working even though I was exhausted. I felt like I don’t wanna work anymore, it was tiring, even just walking up the stairs, I had to stop and take a break. I couldn’t do it, it felt so tiring. When filming, just stepping my legs already felt tiring that I didn’t want to step my legs anymore. So that day decided to see a doctor, focusing to check my heart as it felt tight and was racing, and I had pain when breathing as well so I decided to see a heart specialist doctor but I arrived there at 2 PM and there was no available appointment anymore. Also, the Echo or ECG machine was all used so I had to schedule an appointment for the next day. I went there in the afternoon. Blood pressure and other test was normal, around 110-160, and it’s normal. Pulse is normal. Blood pressure was okay. And what else, yeah that’s it. I had an ECG, the result came out normal. I’ve also just get physical check up recently and the result were almost the same when compared. But since I still didn’t feel well, I wanted to know what’s wrong with me so I asked for a blood test. It’s a blood test that focusing on troponin and CRP level, which are enzymes in blood cells that indicate heart issues if the levels are high. After my blood test, I waited an hour for the results. When they called me, they said my symptom is serious, it’s a heart disease. Normal troponin levels are below 1 for healthy human, but mine was 3800, which is extremely high, so I had to be admitted. This is an enzyme level in the heart muscle cells. If heart muscle is damaged or its cells break down, the enzyme will mix into the blood and can be detected in the blood indicating a heart problem, so I need to be admitted for further examination with echo. It’s an ultrasound for heart. The result saying that there’s an inflammation in my heart as predicted by the doctors. The heart muscle is really swollen and… [takes deep breath] oh I’m tired already. It's enlarging which makes my heart race and feel tight and uncomfortable. That’s what they said. It’s not working the way it should, which is why I get tired so easily. So it answers everything. After the echo I took a rest and got therapy regimen… as what I understand, consuming steroid can suppress the immune system, right? They help reduce inflammation while the body fights the virus. It’s reducing the inflammation, right? But they said steroids alone weren’t enough because my troponin levels were way too abnormally high, so I got an injection instead. [deep breath] I got injected last night for only three dosage because I had to work today in the morning.asked the doctor to discharge me cause I had to work first. But the decision was taken with condition. I got injected three dosage in the morning and did another blood test which show a result of a decrease in troponin level from 3800 to 1600. Doctor said it was probably 5000 before this and it keeps decreasing to 3800, and to 1600, So if the work isn’t too hard physically, I’m allowed to go, I then go to work. Today at work I was only standing around and talking around. I can stand and talk, but I can’t do any heavy work as it’ll will make my heart work hard and affecting the recovery, I then have to walk slowly. But even so, I can’t even walk fast tho, I get tired easily. Yeah, that’s all. It’s not like I’m completely bedrotting or something, it’s just heart muscle problem, so… fighting ✌🏻

deeコ

147,640 views • 1 year ago

Jensen Huang just explained why China is winning the technology race in two sentences. Huang: “Our country’s leaders… they’re mostly lawyers. Most of their leaders are incredible engineers.” One country sends engineers to lead. The other sends lawyers. One builds. The other regulates what was already built. Huang: “They showed up at precisely the time when technology is going through that exponential.” China did not stumble into the AI era. They arrived engineered for it. The education system produces engineers at a scale the West refuses to match. The competition is not tough. It is Darwinian. The culture rewards builders. Not commentators. Not consultants. Builders. Then the accelerant. Open source. When your talent pool runs that deep and that hungry, you do not hoard breakthroughs. You release them. The community multiplies everything. What costs American companies a quarter, Chinese teams finish in weeks. Not because they are smarter. Because the entire system points one direction. Zero friction between idea and execution. No committee. No review board. No eighteen-month compliance process. Then Huang said the part that should terrify Washington. Huang: “Their country was built out of poverty.” Comfort makes nations careful. Poverty makes nations relentless. When you built everything from nothing, you do not slow down to protect it. You accelerate because you still taste what nothing felt like. America built its dominance with engineers. The highways. The moon landing. The semiconductor. The internet. Then it handed the keys to the lawyers. Compliance departments. Regulatory bodies. Oversight committees. Review processes for the review processes. Every layer of protection is a layer of friction. And friction is a luxury you cannot afford when your competitor rides an exponential curve. Fridman: “It’s a builder nation.” Huang: “Yeah, it’s a builder nation.” No pushback. No qualifier. The West is not being outspent. It is being out-structured. Engineers ask how do we build this faster. Lawyers ask how do we build this without getting sued. One of those questions wins the century. The other writes a detailed report about why it lost.
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Jensen Huang just explained why China is winning the technology race in two sentences. Huang: “Our country’s leaders… they’re mostly lawyers. Most of their leaders are incredible engineers.” One country sends engineers to lead. The other sends lawyers. One builds. The other regulates what was already built. Huang: “They showed up at precisely the time when technology is going through that exponential.” China did not stumble into the AI era. They arrived engineered for it. The education system produces engineers at a scale the West refuses to match. The competition is not tough. It is Darwinian. The culture rewards builders. Not commentators. Not consultants. Builders. Then the accelerant. Open source. When your talent pool runs that deep and that hungry, you do not hoard breakthroughs. You release them. The community multiplies everything. What costs American companies a quarter, Chinese teams finish in weeks. Not because they are smarter. Because the entire system points one direction. Zero friction between idea and execution. No committee. No review board. No eighteen-month compliance process. Then Huang said the part that should terrify Washington. Huang: “Their country was built out of poverty.” Comfort makes nations careful. Poverty makes nations relentless. When you built everything from nothing, you do not slow down to protect it. You accelerate because you still taste what nothing felt like. America built its dominance with engineers. The highways. The moon landing. The semiconductor. The internet. Then it handed the keys to the lawyers. Compliance departments. Regulatory bodies. Oversight committees. Review processes for the review processes. Every layer of protection is a layer of friction. And friction is a luxury you cannot afford when your competitor rides an exponential curve. Fridman: “It’s a builder nation.” Huang: “Yeah, it’s a builder nation.” No pushback. No qualifier. The West is not being outspent. It is being out-structured. Engineers ask how do we build this faster. Lawyers ask how do we build this without getting sued. One of those questions wins the century. The other writes a detailed report about why it lost.

Dustin

439,378 views • 3 months ago

Allow me to make something absolutely clear to all of you. And yes, I am angry. I am independent. I am not the mainstream media. That means I have more freedom in what I do. I am beholden to no one. The mainstream media is careful. They’re controlled. They stay safe. I do not. I have the freedom to report every fact I find, even when it makes people angry. During the Anthony case, I was able to expose bad actors because I put in the work. That meant hours of investigating, collecting documentation, and gathering information. It was also how I was able to warn people that witnesses were being doxxed and that the family was being threatened. Through all of this, I became friends with Jeff. Jeff is a father grieving a murdered son. He was dragged through the mud and muzzled, unable to speak. I spent hours with him on the phone, sometimes late into the night. He would vent. Sometimes he would cry. But worst of all, none of his feelings could be publicly known. He was swatted six times. Meghan was also swatted. People can argue over intent, but the reality is that sending armed police to someone’s home repeatedly creates a dangerous situation for that family. Austin was called “worm food.” People mocked a murdered child. Charleston White said, “He should have killed both of them.” This disgusting rhetoric went on for a year while Jeff was unable to speak publicly or defend his dead son. That is why I told Jeff that when the gag order was lifted and the trial was over, I would give him an interview. Unlike the mainstream media, he would have the freedom to say whatever he wanted without interruption. He would not have had that freedom anywhere else. I could not care less what people think about that decision. I knew things would be clipped and taken out of context. They’ve been doing it since the beginning. That was never a surprise to me. This interview was for Jeff. It was not for them. It was not for you. It was to allow Jeff to finally get every ounce of anger, sadness, grief, rage, and pain off his chest. I’m glad we did it. If you are angry at me for it, then you do not understand grief. If you are angry because you think I should have controlled the interview more, then you do not understand the pain he has lived with for the last year. My goal was simple: give him the microphone, step back, and let him talk. Most people seem to understand that. Some do not. Many are angry that I gave Jeff the freedom and platform to express thoughts he has been forced to keep buried for an entire year. As for the clips being shared out of context, I want everyone to hear the full context. Yes, Jeff called Karmelo a “watermelon felon.” No, he did not say it because he is racist. He said it while sarcastically mocking the people who constantly clip words out of context and chase viral moments. They have spent a year calling him racist. His point was that if they wanted something to clip and spread around the internet, he’d give them exactly what they were looking for. That is the context. And I don’t blame him. If you’re angry that I gave him a platform to say what he wanted, I truly do not care. I don’t even know how to explain how much I do not care. I love the Metcalf family. I love Jeff. And this is what he wanted. For once, Jeff got to do what HE wanted to do. He is the father of a dead son who spent a year being told to stay quiet while people lied about him, mocked his family, and celebrated his pain. I warned all of you how evil some of these people are. I’ve known it for the past year. The Metcalf family has lived it, and so have I. These people do not just threaten to kill you. They threaten to destroy you. They threaten your family. They are not above threatening children. We already knew this. Now many of you are finally seeing it for yourselves. And if a few words from a grieving father are enough to outrage you, then you might want to grow a thicker skin.
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Allow me to make something absolutely clear to all of you. And yes, I am angry. I am independent. I am not the mainstream media. That means I have more freedom in what I do. I am beholden to no one. The mainstream media is careful. They’re controlled. They stay safe. I do not. I have the freedom to report every fact I find, even when it makes people angry. During the Anthony case, I was able to expose bad actors because I put in the work. That meant hours of investigating, collecting documentation, and gathering information. It was also how I was able to warn people that witnesses were being doxxed and that the family was being threatened. Through all of this, I became friends with Jeff. Jeff is a father grieving a murdered son. He was dragged through the mud and muzzled, unable to speak. I spent hours with him on the phone, sometimes late into the night. He would vent. Sometimes he would cry. But worst of all, none of his feelings could be publicly known. He was swatted six times. Meghan was also swatted. People can argue over intent, but the reality is that sending armed police to someone’s home repeatedly creates a dangerous situation for that family. Austin was called “worm food.” People mocked a murdered child. Charleston White said, “He should have killed both of them.” This disgusting rhetoric went on for a year while Jeff was unable to speak publicly or defend his dead son. That is why I told Jeff that when the gag order was lifted and the trial was over, I would give him an interview. Unlike the mainstream media, he would have the freedom to say whatever he wanted without interruption. He would not have had that freedom anywhere else. I could not care less what people think about that decision. I knew things would be clipped and taken out of context. They’ve been doing it since the beginning. That was never a surprise to me. This interview was for Jeff. It was not for them. It was not for you. It was to allow Jeff to finally get every ounce of anger, sadness, grief, rage, and pain off his chest. I’m glad we did it. If you are angry at me for it, then you do not understand grief. If you are angry because you think I should have controlled the interview more, then you do not understand the pain he has lived with for the last year. My goal was simple: give him the microphone, step back, and let him talk. Most people seem to understand that. Some do not. Many are angry that I gave Jeff the freedom and platform to express thoughts he has been forced to keep buried for an entire year. As for the clips being shared out of context, I want everyone to hear the full context. Yes, Jeff called Karmelo a “watermelon felon.” No, he did not say it because he is racist. He said it while sarcastically mocking the people who constantly clip words out of context and chase viral moments. They have spent a year calling him racist. His point was that if they wanted something to clip and spread around the internet, he’d give them exactly what they were looking for. That is the context. And I don’t blame him. If you’re angry that I gave him a platform to say what he wanted, I truly do not care. I don’t even know how to explain how much I do not care. I love the Metcalf family. I love Jeff. And this is what he wanted. For once, Jeff got to do what HE wanted to do. He is the father of a dead son who spent a year being told to stay quiet while people lied about him, mocked his family, and celebrated his pain. I warned all of you how evil some of these people are. I’ve known it for the past year. The Metcalf family has lived it, and so have I. These people do not just threaten to kill you. They threaten to destroy you. They threaten your family. They are not above threatening children. We already knew this. Now many of you are finally seeing it for yourselves. And if a few words from a grieving father are enough to outrage you, then you might want to grow a thicker skin.

Sarah Fields

212,908 views • 1 month ago

David Friedberg: OpenAI’s rise is the best thing that ever happened to Google “No greater blessing has ever happened to Alphabet than OpenAI's rise.” “Not only did it create the foil for Google in the monopoly sense, but it also took the attention away from Google, focused it on OpenAI, and that attention fundamentally damaged OpenAI's strategic product capabilities because they had to start to be so much more careful about what they said and how they said it.” “And the opposite was happening at Google at the same time, which is Larry, Sergey and Sundar being given permission by the board to take risks, to go hard, to figure this out. And boom! It's amazing how the horse race has changed.” “The reason Google didn't lean into AI for years, even though they had the technology, is because they were nervous about cannibalization to search, they were nervous about the quality of the product, they didn't want to release things too early, and then they changed their posture.” “Which, by the way, I would argue is the opposite at OpenAI in the last couple months.” “I used to use advanced voice on ChatGPT all the time. I cannot stand it anymore. I do not use it.” “It has basically hedged away all of the value because it tries to be polite, it tries to make sure that it's giving you warnings all the time.” “It doesn't want to give you data because it's scared that it might give you the wrong data.” “OpenAI has been acting like an incumbent fearful of losing market share and fearful of getting attacked in the media and attacked by consumers for saying the wrong thing.” “And so they've taken this kind of defensive posture that I think has fundamentally damaged the product and the brand.”
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David Friedberg: OpenAI’s rise is the best thing that ever happened to Google “No greater blessing has ever happened to Alphabet than OpenAI's rise.” “Not only did it create the foil for Google in the monopoly sense, but it also took the attention away from Google, focused it on OpenAI, and that attention fundamentally damaged OpenAI's strategic product capabilities because they had to start to be so much more careful about what they said and how they said it.” “And the opposite was happening at Google at the same time, which is Larry, Sergey and Sundar being given permission by the board to take risks, to go hard, to figure this out. And boom! It's amazing how the horse race has changed.” “The reason Google didn't lean into AI for years, even though they had the technology, is because they were nervous about cannibalization to search, they were nervous about the quality of the product, they didn't want to release things too early, and then they changed their posture.” “Which, by the way, I would argue is the opposite at OpenAI in the last couple months.” “I used to use advanced voice on ChatGPT all the time. I cannot stand it anymore. I do not use it.” “It has basically hedged away all of the value because it tries to be polite, it tries to make sure that it's giving you warnings all the time.” “It doesn't want to give you data because it's scared that it might give you the wrong data.” “OpenAI has been acting like an incumbent fearful of losing market share and fearful of getting attacked in the media and attacked by consumers for saying the wrong thing.” “And so they've taken this kind of defensive posture that I think has fundamentally damaged the product and the brand.”

The All-In Podcast

108,007 views • 7 months ago

txt trainee stories: when taehyun had to get surgery for pneumothorax 🐿️ it was like that when i got pneumothorax too; i could barely breathe but when i went to the hospital i felt okay 🧸 that’s something that’s very serious too 🐿️ yeah, i almost died back then 🐿️ but i felt okay so i was like “i’m okay, i wonder if i can leave now” but the doctor said that they could immediately get me into surgery the next day so i was like “HUH?” 🧸 pneumothorax is very serious 🐿️ this is from when we were trainees 🐿️ so i called the rookie development team member and went “noona…they’re saying i need to get surgery” 😭😭😭 🧸 now that it’s passed, we can laugh while talking about it while 🐿️ back then, more than how much it hurt…i was just coughing after every word, i was like 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 🧸 😭😭😭 🐿️ and it was a video evaluation so i couldn’t sing, as soon as i sang the first verse, i kept coughing 🐿️ so i said “noona, i think i need to get medicine for this” and she went “okay taehyun~ go and come back~” 🧸 did you think it was a simple cough? 🐿️ i just thought it was a really bad cold 🧸 did you know it was pneumothorax? 🐿️ not at all 🧸 right? 🐿️ i went and got tested for a lot of things and all the results were normal but the x-ray showed that there was something 🐿️ they suddenly asked me about my guardian and i didn’t know if i had to tell the rookie development team noona or my mom 🐿️ and i was like “hmmm” and because i was thinking, they just asked me to give them my mother’s number 🐿️ so i called her and they hadn’t told me what was wrong yet either, they just asked me about my guardian so i called my mom and gave it to them 🐿️ and they were like “we need to send your son to the emergency room right now” 🐿️ and i was like “???? question mark???” 🐿️ my mom was probably more shocked than me 🧸 right?
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txt trainee stories: when taehyun had to get surgery for pneumothorax 🐿️ it was like that when i got pneumothorax too; i could barely breathe but when i went to the hospital i felt okay 🧸 that’s something that’s very serious too 🐿️ yeah, i almost died back then 🐿️ but i felt okay so i was like “i’m okay, i wonder if i can leave now” but the doctor said that they could immediately get me into surgery the next day so i was like “HUH?” 🧸 pneumothorax is very serious 🐿️ this is from when we were trainees 🐿️ so i called the rookie development team member and went “noona…they’re saying i need to get surgery” 😭😭😭 🧸 now that it’s passed, we can laugh while talking about it while 🐿️ back then, more than how much it hurt…i was just coughing after every word, i was like 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 🧸 😭😭😭 🐿️ and it was a video evaluation so i couldn’t sing, as soon as i sang the first verse, i kept coughing 🐿️ so i said “noona, i think i need to get medicine for this” and she went “okay taehyun~ go and come back~” 🧸 did you think it was a simple cough? 🐿️ i just thought it was a really bad cold 🧸 did you know it was pneumothorax? 🐿️ not at all 🧸 right? 🐿️ i went and got tested for a lot of things and all the results were normal but the x-ray showed that there was something 🐿️ they suddenly asked me about my guardian and i didn’t know if i had to tell the rookie development team noona or my mom 🐿️ and i was like “hmmm” and because i was thinking, they just asked me to give them my mother’s number 🐿️ so i called her and they hadn’t told me what was wrong yet either, they just asked me about my guardian so i called my mom and gave it to them 🐿️ and they were like “we need to send your son to the emergency room right now” 🐿️ and i was like “???? question mark???” 🐿️ my mom was probably more shocked than me 🧸 right?

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265,821 views • 1 year ago

CNN’s Dana Bash: “You have said, ‘there is literally nothing to negotiate. There’s nothing I can do.’ You are the Speaker of the House. There is, in fact, a lot you can do.” Speaker Mike Johnson: “Well, there’s not actually. Let me explain that. The — as you noted, they’re voting right now on the Senate floor. We’ll see how that turns out. Last night, three Democrats — two Democrats and an independent flipped and came along with the Republicans, but it looks like and what we expect is that most of the Democrats in the Senate again will reject the clean CR that we sent over. It’s clean. What that means is it’s nonpartisan. We didn’t add any Republican priorities or poison pills or gimmicks or tricks into that at all. It’s 24 pages. I mean, everybody can re it for themselves. It’s simply continues the Biden-era spending levels that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have already supported in the past. They just did it most recently in March. And he gave long speeches about how it was so critically important that we not shut the government down.” Bash: “Yeah, no. Johnson: “So, there’s nothing for me to give. There’s nothing to negotiate. I don’t have any Republican priorities to put on the table, because we sent over a clean CR, and that’s why none of this makes sense.”
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CNN’s Dana Bash: “You have said, ‘there is literally nothing to negotiate. There’s nothing I can do.’ You are the Speaker of the House. There is, in fact, a lot you can do.” Speaker Mike Johnson: “Well, there’s not actually. Let me explain that. The — as you noted, they’re voting right now on the Senate floor. We’ll see how that turns out. Last night, three Democrats — two Democrats and an independent flipped and came along with the Republicans, but it looks like and what we expect is that most of the Democrats in the Senate again will reject the clean CR that we sent over. It’s clean. What that means is it’s nonpartisan. We didn’t add any Republican priorities or poison pills or gimmicks or tricks into that at all. It’s 24 pages. I mean, everybody can re it for themselves. It’s simply continues the Biden-era spending levels that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have already supported in the past. They just did it most recently in March. And he gave long speeches about how it was so critically important that we not shut the government down.” Bash: “Yeah, no. Johnson: “So, there’s nothing for me to give. There’s nothing to negotiate. I don’t have any Republican priorities to put on the table, because we sent over a clean CR, and that’s why none of this makes sense.”

Curtis Houck

1,270,776 views • 9 months ago

👤 was that the first time just the two of you drank together? 🐰 it wasn’t the first time but… 🦊 i think it was after a really long time 🐰 yeah, we always drink together when we fight and make up…and that’s not something that’s happened just once or twice! 🐰 i’m someone that needs to resolve things as soon as they happen and yeonjun hyung is someone you need to give some time to so that’s a reason we had a hard time with each other…every time after something happened, i would try to avoid yeonjun hyung being like “let me give yeonjun hyung some time like he wants!” but he needs too much time 🦊😅😅😅 🐰 even when i gave him half a year’s time, he was still not ready…he was still not ready to have a conversation 🐰 so something i always said was “hyung, if something like this happens, i hope you learn a way to come approach me first too…since i’m the one always coming to you first, i can’t help but feel upset” and then for the first time in the 10 years we’ve known each other, yeonjun hyung requested to have the conversation first 🐰 as soon as he contacted me, i was like “did i do something wrong..?” 🐰for those two days, i was really… 👤 were you anxious? 🐰 yeah, before bed i’d keep digging into the past and think things like “did i talk about yeonjun hyung behind his back somewhere..?” 🦊 you thought about all that? 😅 🐰 i was really worried…but it was for him to spill his feelings to me openly so i felt great
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👤 was that the first time just the two of you drank together? 🐰 it wasn’t the first time but… 🦊 i think it was after a really long time 🐰 yeah, we always drink together when we fight and make up…and that’s not something that’s happened just once or twice! 🐰 i’m someone that needs to resolve things as soon as they happen and yeonjun hyung is someone you need to give some time to so that’s a reason we had a hard time with each other…every time after something happened, i would try to avoid yeonjun hyung being like “let me give yeonjun hyung some time like he wants!” but he needs too much time 🦊😅😅😅 🐰 even when i gave him half a year’s time, he was still not ready…he was still not ready to have a conversation 🐰 so something i always said was “hyung, if something like this happens, i hope you learn a way to come approach me first too…since i’m the one always coming to you first, i can’t help but feel upset” and then for the first time in the 10 years we’ve known each other, yeonjun hyung requested to have the conversation first 🐰 as soon as he contacted me, i was like “did i do something wrong..?” 🐰for those two days, i was really… 👤 were you anxious? 🐰 yeah, before bed i’d keep digging into the past and think things like “did i talk about yeonjun hyung behind his back somewhere..?” 🦊 you thought about all that? 😅 🐰 i was really worried…but it was for him to spill his feelings to me openly so i felt great

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193,043 views • 3 months ago

Q : You prepared for the entrance exam of music Department for two years? NJ : Back when i was in High School, I really wanted to do music. YJS : How was your study of practical music? NJ : I REALLY HAS NO TALENT. YJS : really? NJ : I don't really remember hanging out during my first and second years of high school. I always go back home, eat ramyeon or bread then run to practice room, I stuck there and only leave when the practice room door is locked. When my friends asked to hang out, I called them to the practice room to play. I thought things would go well, but as the entrance exams get closer... my teacher told me that “this is not going to work” YJS : After 2 years? NJ : my teacher said ; ‘For hardworking kids like you, it might be possible if you keep at it for a long time, but It seems like we won’t see any results in preparing for the entrance exam right now.’ Hearing that I was hurt as a teen, but that teacher did nothing wrong. Still, I cried a lot at that time, I cried even while crossing the crosswalk, alone. YJS : that teacher is just being honest, NJ : of course, i am thankful instead YJS : you can be thankful now but you must be hurt then. For two years of hard work you must’ve been thinking to yourself, Is this not my path? NJ : I’m sure it is not, bc i let my friend watched me doing it (music) and they got rage baited saying “Hey, I can do that too!” YJS : 🤣🤣🤣 NJ : i told them ‘why are you saying that?’ And they were like ‘i really can do it, give it to me!’ YJS : Are you really that talentless? NJ : yes, really now that i’m thinking about it I was really a ‘babo’ YJS : *sigh* #HEONAMJUN #허남준
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Q : You prepared for the entrance exam of music Department for two years? NJ : Back when i was in High School, I really wanted to do music. YJS : How was your study of practical music? NJ : I REALLY HAS NO TALENT. YJS : really? NJ : I don't really remember hanging out during my first and second years of high school. I always go back home, eat ramyeon or bread then run to practice room, I stuck there and only leave when the practice room door is locked. When my friends asked to hang out, I called them to the practice room to play. I thought things would go well, but as the entrance exams get closer... my teacher told me that “this is not going to work” YJS : After 2 years? NJ : my teacher said ; ‘For hardworking kids like you, it might be possible if you keep at it for a long time, but It seems like we won’t see any results in preparing for the entrance exam right now.’ Hearing that I was hurt as a teen, but that teacher did nothing wrong. Still, I cried a lot at that time, I cried even while crossing the crosswalk, alone. YJS : that teacher is just being honest, NJ : of course, i am thankful instead YJS : you can be thankful now but you must be hurt then. For two years of hard work you must’ve been thinking to yourself, Is this not my path? NJ : I’m sure it is not, bc i let my friend watched me doing it (music) and they got rage baited saying “Hey, I can do that too!” YJS : 🤣🤣🤣 NJ : i told them ‘why are you saying that?’ And they were like ‘i really can do it, give it to me!’ YJS : Are you really that talentless? NJ : yes, really now that i’m thinking about it I was really a ‘babo’ YJS : *sigh* #HEONAMJUN #허남준

AR -

63,288 views • 20 days ago

ELON: WE NEED A PUBLIC SQUARE WITH TRUE FREEDOM OF SPEECH “I just bought Twitter because I thought it was having a negative effect on civilization and pushed ideas that were anti-civilizational. It was captured by the far-left—I'd say it's fair to say the radical left. That meant it wasn't a good forum for debate because they suspended many people on the right, including the president, as you may recall, a sitting president, which is really unprecedented. I think we need to have a public square where there's true freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy. If there's not freedom of speech, people cannot make an informed vote. The purpose of acquiring Twitter was to try to bring it more to the center. No left-wing voices have been banned or anything like that or suppressed. What we're trying to do is give equal weight to all parts of the country so that there can be a public town square where people can exchange ideas and hopefully not resort to violence. Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. It's why it's the First Amendment, because people came from countries where they could be killed or imprisoned for what they said. In fact, this is happening all around the world as we speak, even in places like Britain. I did it because I felt like the civilizational risk had to be addressed. If America is not strong, then what do businesses matter? America is the central pillar that holds up Western civilization, and if that pillar falls, everything falls.” Source: Elon Musk at Barron Investment Conference, November 2025
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ELON: WE NEED A PUBLIC SQUARE WITH TRUE FREEDOM OF SPEECH “I just bought Twitter because I thought it was having a negative effect on civilization and pushed ideas that were anti-civilizational. It was captured by the far-left—I'd say it's fair to say the radical left. That meant it wasn't a good forum for debate because they suspended many people on the right, including the president, as you may recall, a sitting president, which is really unprecedented. I think we need to have a public square where there's true freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy. If there's not freedom of speech, people cannot make an informed vote. The purpose of acquiring Twitter was to try to bring it more to the center. No left-wing voices have been banned or anything like that or suppressed. What we're trying to do is give equal weight to all parts of the country so that there can be a public town square where people can exchange ideas and hopefully not resort to violence. Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. It's why it's the First Amendment, because people came from countries where they could be killed or imprisoned for what they said. In fact, this is happening all around the world as we speak, even in places like Britain. I did it because I felt like the civilizational risk had to be addressed. If America is not strong, then what do businesses matter? America is the central pillar that holds up Western civilization, and if that pillar falls, everything falls.” Source: Elon Musk at Barron Investment Conference, November 2025

Mario Nawfal

53,878 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk: Since I bought Twitter, no left-wing voice has been banned or suppressed. “I just bought Twitter because I thought it was having a negative effect on civilization and pushed ideas that were anti-civilizational. It was captured by the far-left—I'd say it's fair to say the radical left. That meant it wasn't a good forum for debate because they suspended many people on the right, including the president, as you may recall, a sitting president, which is really unprecedented. I think we need to have a public square where there's true freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy. If there's not freedom of speech, people cannot make an informed vote. And if you can't make an informed vote, you don't have a real democracy. The purpose of acquiring Twitter was to try to bring it more to the center. No left-wing voices have been banned or anything like that or suppressed. But what we're trying to do is give equal weight to all parts of the country so that they can be a public town square where people can exchange ideas and hopefully not resort to violence. Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. It's why it's the First Amendment, because people came from countries where they could be killed or imprisoned for what they said. And in fact, this is happening all around the world as we speak, even in places like Britain. Anyway, I did it because I felt like the civilizational risk had to be addressed. If America is not strong, then what do businesses matter? America is the central pillar that holds up Western civilization, and if that pillar falls, everything falls.” From: Barron Investment Conference, November 14, 2025
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Elon Musk: Since I bought Twitter, no left-wing voice has been banned or suppressed. “I just bought Twitter because I thought it was having a negative effect on civilization and pushed ideas that were anti-civilizational. It was captured by the far-left—I'd say it's fair to say the radical left. That meant it wasn't a good forum for debate because they suspended many people on the right, including the president, as you may recall, a sitting president, which is really unprecedented. I think we need to have a public square where there's true freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy. If there's not freedom of speech, people cannot make an informed vote. And if you can't make an informed vote, you don't have a real democracy. The purpose of acquiring Twitter was to try to bring it more to the center. No left-wing voices have been banned or anything like that or suppressed. But what we're trying to do is give equal weight to all parts of the country so that they can be a public town square where people can exchange ideas and hopefully not resort to violence. Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. It's why it's the First Amendment, because people came from countries where they could be killed or imprisoned for what they said. And in fact, this is happening all around the world as we speak, even in places like Britain. Anyway, I did it because I felt like the civilizational risk had to be addressed. If America is not strong, then what do businesses matter? America is the central pillar that holds up Western civilization, and if that pillar falls, everything falls.” From: Barron Investment Conference, November 14, 2025

ELON CLIPS

32,802 views • 5 months ago

I was in Rocky Mountain House recently for a massive pro Alberta independence rally. Hundreds of people were waving Alberta flags and driving around town, and I found a small group of about seven pro-Canada counter protesters and decided to engage them. One man challenged me. He said that if Alberta independence loses, I should give up. I told him plainly that yes, if we lose, I will respect the will of the voters. Then I asked him the same question back. If Alberta wins, will you accept it? He reluctantly said yes, but the moment I pressed him on what percentage he would accept, he would not even engage with the argument. He would not clearly accept a majority. That tells you a lot. For too many on the pro-Canada side, this is not really about democracy. It is about imposing their will on Albertans who disagree with them, then using shame and fear to pressure us into silence. The second part of his argument was that the independence movement is hurting investment in Alberta. My answer was that Ottawa already did that and we have nothing to loose. For years, federal policy has blocked pipelines, restricted market access, and damaged confidence in Alberta’s future. Then, when Albertans finally start pushing back, we are told that we are the problem. He even claimed there is no tanker ban. That is factually false. Canada’s Oil Tanker Moratorium Act does restrict large crude oil and persistent-oil tankers from stopping, loading, or unloading at ports on BC’s north coast. The details matter, but the broader point stands: Ottawa has put real barriers in the way of Alberta getting its resources to market. His response was basically, if that is true, then why is Alberta still so rich and prosperous? My answer was simple: because we work hard, we have a lot going for us, and it takes a lot to sink us. But that does not prove Canada is working. It proves Alberta is strong enough to keep carrying a country that keeps dragging us down. Canada feels more and more like a sinking ship, and Alberta is the last thing holding it up. That is why I support independence. Please sign the petition. Go to to find a signing location near you. See the full video on YouTube here:
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I was in Rocky Mountain House recently for a massive pro Alberta independence rally. Hundreds of people were waving Alberta flags and driving around town, and I found a small group of about seven pro-Canada counter protesters and decided to engage them. One man challenged me. He said that if Alberta independence loses, I should give up. I told him plainly that yes, if we lose, I will respect the will of the voters. Then I asked him the same question back. If Alberta wins, will you accept it? He reluctantly said yes, but the moment I pressed him on what percentage he would accept, he would not even engage with the argument. He would not clearly accept a majority. That tells you a lot. For too many on the pro-Canada side, this is not really about democracy. It is about imposing their will on Albertans who disagree with them, then using shame and fear to pressure us into silence. The second part of his argument was that the independence movement is hurting investment in Alberta. My answer was that Ottawa already did that and we have nothing to loose. For years, federal policy has blocked pipelines, restricted market access, and damaged confidence in Alberta’s future. Then, when Albertans finally start pushing back, we are told that we are the problem. He even claimed there is no tanker ban. That is factually false. Canada’s Oil Tanker Moratorium Act does restrict large crude oil and persistent-oil tankers from stopping, loading, or unloading at ports on BC’s north coast. The details matter, but the broader point stands: Ottawa has put real barriers in the way of Alberta getting its resources to market. His response was basically, if that is true, then why is Alberta still so rich and prosperous? My answer was simple: because we work hard, we have a lot going for us, and it takes a lot to sink us. But that does not prove Canada is working. It proves Alberta is strong enough to keep carrying a country that keeps dragging us down. Canada feels more and more like a sinking ship, and Alberta is the last thing holding it up. That is why I support independence. Please sign the petition. Go to to find a signing location near you. See the full video on YouTube here:

Jon Alberta Patriot

14,355 views • 2 months ago

I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation. I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission is even cheaper than we thought. In 2014, we had a genuinely dangerous comedian. A man who once testified before Congress in character as a fictional conservative pundit and made the entire chamber look like they'd been pantsed on C-SPAN. His fake persona was the most brilliant satire on television. Layered. Ironic. Unpredictable. The character could say anything because nothing was real. The character was the art. The character was the comedian. We killed the character and put the real man on stage. The real man was a lecturer. Earnest. Thoughtful. Correct about everything. Correct is not funny. Correct is not dangerous. Correct is the absence of danger. We promoted the absence of danger and called it growth. His character could make a Senate committee squirm. The real him makes an audience nod. Nodding pays the same as squirming. Nodding is easier to produce. His final words on air were "We love doing this show for you, but what we really, really love is doing this show with you." The audience wept. I wrote that line. Not the words. The architecture that made those words feel true. For eleven years, the audience believed they were participants. They were not participants. They were the product. "With you" is what you say to a congregation. A comedian says "at you." We hadn't said "at you" since 2015. Our internal metric was called Affirm Rate. It measured the percentage of monologue segments that generated applause instead of laughter. I invented this metric. I also invented the bonus structure tied to it. In 2015, our Affirm Rate was 34%. By 2022, it was 94%. I received a raise every year. We are crushing it. At the things I made up. That's performance management. But I need to tell you about the real discovery. The one I put in a deck called "Content Strategy 2019-2024." The one that got me promoted. Agreement gets applause. I knew that early. But correction — telling the audience their vocabulary is slightly outdated, their outrage is aimed two degrees off-center, their feelings are valid but their phrasing needs work — correction gets them back tomorrow. Agreement is a transaction. Correction is a subscription. We converted a comedy show into a nightly software update for moral vocabulary. Churn was near zero. They couldn't afford to miss an episode. Missing an episode meant using last week's words in this week's meeting. That's social death. We monetized the fear of social death and called it entertainment. I want to be honest about something. The content was not bipartisan. We chose a side. But I need you to understand: we did not choose it because we believed in it. We chose it because that side's audience is more responsive to correction. They want to be updated. They want to be told their language is outdated. They experience correction as care. The other side does not respond to correction. They respond to provocation. Provocation is harder to monetize. You can't build a subscription on provocation because the audience doesn't come back to learn — they come back to fight. Fighting is unpredictable. Correction is scheduled. We optimized for the audience that wants to be told what to think. That audience leaned one direction. That's not ideology. That's market segmentation. The writers' room had a whiteboard. In 2015 it said "What's funny?" In 2018 it said "What should they feel?" By 2021 it said "What are they still saying wrong?" I watched that whiteboard evolve like a finch beak and I never intervened. The market was speaking. We listened. Listening to the market is the same as leading the audience. They can't tell the difference. A writer named Marcus raised his hand in 2019. "What if we just tried to make them laugh again?" I thanked him for his passion and scheduled a creative alignment conversation. He transferred to streaming development within the month. The Affirm Rate the week he left was 91%. Laughter would have brought it down. That's risk management. Here is what nobody will say out loud. I will say it because I am proud of it. We made our audience worse at politics. Not better. Worse. Every night for eleven years, we expressed their outrage for them. Professionally. With a band and good lighting. And because the outrage had been expressed — because a man in a suit had furrowed his brow with the precise calibrated degree of indignation — they didn't need to express it themselves. They watched. They clapped. They felt the catharsis of resistance without resisting anything. They went to bed having done nothing and feeling like they'd done something. That's the product. Not comedy. Not information. Catharsis. Catharsis is the enemy of action. A man who has screamed into a pillow does not then also scream in the street. We were the pillow. A $50 million pillow with a house band. If you feel the outrage has been expressed for you, you will not march. You will not organize. You will not call your representative. You will tune in tomorrow to feel it expressed again. That's retention. Our retention was extraordinary. I want to talk about the comedy-to-catechism pipeline because I think people underestimate what we achieved. Stage one: comedian makes jokes about the powerful. Audience laughs because the powerful are absurd. This is the Carlin model. The jester punches up. Everyone below feels relief. Stage two: comedian makes jokes about people who disagree with the audience. Audience laughs because disagreement is stupid. The jester has turned around. He's still on the stage but now he's facing the crowd with a pointer. Stage three: comedian stops making jokes. Comedian identifies incorrect beliefs and explains why they're dangerous. Audience does not laugh. Audience claps. The jester is gone. In his place: a hall monitor with a desk and a band. Stage four: audience watches not for entertainment but for certification. Having seen last night's episode means you know which words are current. Not having seen it means you might use yesterday's vocabulary in today's meeting. The show is no longer comedy. It is a credential. Watching it means you are educated. Not watching means you are the person being discussed. We made a show that you watch to prove you're not the kind of person who doesn't watch it. That's a closed loop. Closed loops don't need content. They need continuity. We provided continuity for $50 million a year. A comedian — whose entire historical function was to say things too dangerous for anyone else to say — became the person who decides which things are too dangerous for anyone to say. And the audience applauded. Every night. For 2,500 nights. Because being told what is forbidden feels exactly like being told what you already knew. Prohibition performed as validation. I put that in the deck too. Our audience was correct about everything. I know this because they applauded everything we said. The applause proved the correctness. The correctness justified the applause. We called this audience research. The methodology was peer-reviewed by the audience. They approved unanimously. Every night. The actually funny comedians left. They went to podcasts. To clubs. To rooms where the audience doesn't know what's coming and that uncertainty is the point. They took the laughter with them. We kept the applause. We called those spaces problematic. That's market differentiation. The problematic spaces are funnier. But funny is not our product. We lost $40 million a year. We didn't lose it because the show failed. We lost it because we spent $50 million producing what a podcast host in his garage gives away between mattress ads. The podcast is funnier. The podcast is more dangerous. The podcast has an audience that laughs instead of claps. But we had the Ed Sullivan Theater. We had 461 seats. We had a former Beatle play the farewell episode. Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Louis Cato playing "Hello, Goodbye" like it was a benediction. I booked a Beatle for a funeral. The Beatles played that stage in 1964 and the audience screamed so loud you couldn't hear the music. Our audience didn't scream. They wept politely. That's the difference between entertainment and church. We ran a church. Jon Stewart showed up to the finale and did a bit where he pretended to deliver a corporate statement from Paramount about the cancellation. The audience laughed. It was the first time they laughed in a way I didn't recognize. Involuntary. Surprised. Dangerous. For ninety seconds, a comedian was in that building. Then it was over. John Oliver said "At some point, this may come for all of our shows" and then added "but Stephen, what's important to remember is that tonight, it is going to eat you." The audience laughed again. Involuntary again. Two moments of actual comedy in a three-hour farewell. Both of them about death. The finale drew 6.74 million viewers. Biggest weeknight audience in our history. More people came to the funeral than ever visited the patient. I know what they were mourning. Not comedy. The comedy died in 2016. Not the man. The man is fine. He's wealthy. What they mourned was the permission structure. Starting today, they have to decide what to believe on their own. They have to form an opinion without waiting for a man behind a desk to form it first and deliver it with a knowing look. Some of them haven't done that since 2015. The funeral wasn't for the show. It was for the certainty. He joked about the Peanuts theme music licensing cost on his last night. "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!" The audience laughed. It was a joke about money. About the network losing money. The last joke was about money. Not about truth. Not about power. About a licensing fee for a cartoon piano riff. Eleven years and the final joke was about accounting. I think that's perfect. The show was always about accounting. We just dressed it up as conscience. The President of the United States — the man we spent eleven years explaining was dangerous to an audience that already believed he was dangerous — posted an AI-generated video of our host being thrown into a dumpster on the Late Show set. Then Trump danced to "YMCA" in the clip. Viewed more times in four hours than our farewell managed in a week. His production cost: zero. Ours: negative $50 million a year. We manufactured his relevance every night at 11:35 for eleven years and he never paid us a dime. We were his marketing department. He turned our funeral into content. His ROI was infinite. Ours required a write-off and a farewell concert. The Strike Force Five — Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver — appeared in a segment about late-night losing "one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news." They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don't have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn't already approved. That's comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it's church. I do not feel guilt. Guilt would require me to believe I took something from them. I didn't take anything. They came to us. Every night. They chose the catechism over the comedy. They preferred correction over surprise. Certainty over danger. Instruction over laughter. They wanted to be told. Not challenged. Not shocked. Not made to laugh against their will at something they didn't see coming. They wanted to see it coming. They wanted to mouth along. That's not comedy. That's karaoke. We ran the most expensive karaoke bar in television history and the only miscalculation was charging a cover when the songs are free on every phone. We turned a jester into a priest. We turned an audience into a congregation. We turned laughter into obedience. We turned political engagement into passive consumption. We turned a comedy show into a permission structure and charged $50 million a year to tell people what they already believed in a voice slightly nicer than their own. They were so grateful they showed up to mourn us. 6.74 million of them. Weeping. For the certainty. Applause is more reliable than laughter. I proved it. The proof cost $450 million, one character, one comedian's capacity for danger, and one audience's willingness to act. The metric went up.
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I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation. I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission is even cheaper than we thought. In 2014, we had a genuinely dangerous comedian. A man who once testified before Congress in character as a fictional conservative pundit and made the entire chamber look like they'd been pantsed on C-SPAN. His fake persona was the most brilliant satire on television. Layered. Ironic. Unpredictable. The character could say anything because nothing was real. The character was the art. The character was the comedian. We killed the character and put the real man on stage. The real man was a lecturer. Earnest. Thoughtful. Correct about everything. Correct is not funny. Correct is not dangerous. Correct is the absence of danger. We promoted the absence of danger and called it growth. His character could make a Senate committee squirm. The real him makes an audience nod. Nodding pays the same as squirming. Nodding is easier to produce. His final words on air were "We love doing this show for you, but what we really, really love is doing this show with you." The audience wept. I wrote that line. Not the words. The architecture that made those words feel true. For eleven years, the audience believed they were participants. They were not participants. They were the product. "With you" is what you say to a congregation. A comedian says "at you." We hadn't said "at you" since 2015. Our internal metric was called Affirm Rate. It measured the percentage of monologue segments that generated applause instead of laughter. I invented this metric. I also invented the bonus structure tied to it. In 2015, our Affirm Rate was 34%. By 2022, it was 94%. I received a raise every year. We are crushing it. At the things I made up. That's performance management. But I need to tell you about the real discovery. The one I put in a deck called "Content Strategy 2019-2024." The one that got me promoted. Agreement gets applause. I knew that early. But correction — telling the audience their vocabulary is slightly outdated, their outrage is aimed two degrees off-center, their feelings are valid but their phrasing needs work — correction gets them back tomorrow. Agreement is a transaction. Correction is a subscription. We converted a comedy show into a nightly software update for moral vocabulary. Churn was near zero. They couldn't afford to miss an episode. Missing an episode meant using last week's words in this week's meeting. That's social death. We monetized the fear of social death and called it entertainment. I want to be honest about something. The content was not bipartisan. We chose a side. But I need you to understand: we did not choose it because we believed in it. We chose it because that side's audience is more responsive to correction. They want to be updated. They want to be told their language is outdated. They experience correction as care. The other side does not respond to correction. They respond to provocation. Provocation is harder to monetize. You can't build a subscription on provocation because the audience doesn't come back to learn — they come back to fight. Fighting is unpredictable. Correction is scheduled. We optimized for the audience that wants to be told what to think. That audience leaned one direction. That's not ideology. That's market segmentation. The writers' room had a whiteboard. In 2015 it said "What's funny?" In 2018 it said "What should they feel?" By 2021 it said "What are they still saying wrong?" I watched that whiteboard evolve like a finch beak and I never intervened. The market was speaking. We listened. Listening to the market is the same as leading the audience. They can't tell the difference. A writer named Marcus raised his hand in 2019. "What if we just tried to make them laugh again?" I thanked him for his passion and scheduled a creative alignment conversation. He transferred to streaming development within the month. The Affirm Rate the week he left was 91%. Laughter would have brought it down. That's risk management. Here is what nobody will say out loud. I will say it because I am proud of it. We made our audience worse at politics. Not better. Worse. Every night for eleven years, we expressed their outrage for them. Professionally. With a band and good lighting. And because the outrage had been expressed — because a man in a suit had furrowed his brow with the precise calibrated degree of indignation — they didn't need to express it themselves. They watched. They clapped. They felt the catharsis of resistance without resisting anything. They went to bed having done nothing and feeling like they'd done something. That's the product. Not comedy. Not information. Catharsis. Catharsis is the enemy of action. A man who has screamed into a pillow does not then also scream in the street. We were the pillow. A $50 million pillow with a house band. If you feel the outrage has been expressed for you, you will not march. You will not organize. You will not call your representative. You will tune in tomorrow to feel it expressed again. That's retention. Our retention was extraordinary. I want to talk about the comedy-to-catechism pipeline because I think people underestimate what we achieved. Stage one: comedian makes jokes about the powerful. Audience laughs because the powerful are absurd. This is the Carlin model. The jester punches up. Everyone below feels relief. Stage two: comedian makes jokes about people who disagree with the audience. Audience laughs because disagreement is stupid. The jester has turned around. He's still on the stage but now he's facing the crowd with a pointer. Stage three: comedian stops making jokes. Comedian identifies incorrect beliefs and explains why they're dangerous. Audience does not laugh. Audience claps. The jester is gone. In his place: a hall monitor with a desk and a band. Stage four: audience watches not for entertainment but for certification. Having seen last night's episode means you know which words are current. Not having seen it means you might use yesterday's vocabulary in today's meeting. The show is no longer comedy. It is a credential. Watching it means you are educated. Not watching means you are the person being discussed. We made a show that you watch to prove you're not the kind of person who doesn't watch it. That's a closed loop. Closed loops don't need content. They need continuity. We provided continuity for $50 million a year. A comedian — whose entire historical function was to say things too dangerous for anyone else to say — became the person who decides which things are too dangerous for anyone to say. And the audience applauded. Every night. For 2,500 nights. Because being told what is forbidden feels exactly like being told what you already knew. Prohibition performed as validation. I put that in the deck too. Our audience was correct about everything. I know this because they applauded everything we said. The applause proved the correctness. The correctness justified the applause. We called this audience research. The methodology was peer-reviewed by the audience. They approved unanimously. Every night. The actually funny comedians left. They went to podcasts. To clubs. To rooms where the audience doesn't know what's coming and that uncertainty is the point. They took the laughter with them. We kept the applause. We called those spaces problematic. That's market differentiation. The problematic spaces are funnier. But funny is not our product. We lost $40 million a year. We didn't lose it because the show failed. We lost it because we spent $50 million producing what a podcast host in his garage gives away between mattress ads. The podcast is funnier. The podcast is more dangerous. The podcast has an audience that laughs instead of claps. But we had the Ed Sullivan Theater. We had 461 seats. We had a former Beatle play the farewell episode. Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Louis Cato playing "Hello, Goodbye" like it was a benediction. I booked a Beatle for a funeral. The Beatles played that stage in 1964 and the audience screamed so loud you couldn't hear the music. Our audience didn't scream. They wept politely. That's the difference between entertainment and church. We ran a church. Jon Stewart showed up to the finale and did a bit where he pretended to deliver a corporate statement from Paramount about the cancellation. The audience laughed. It was the first time they laughed in a way I didn't recognize. Involuntary. Surprised. Dangerous. For ninety seconds, a comedian was in that building. Then it was over. John Oliver said "At some point, this may come for all of our shows" and then added "but Stephen, what's important to remember is that tonight, it is going to eat you." The audience laughed again. Involuntary again. Two moments of actual comedy in a three-hour farewell. Both of them about death. The finale drew 6.74 million viewers. Biggest weeknight audience in our history. More people came to the funeral than ever visited the patient. I know what they were mourning. Not comedy. The comedy died in 2016. Not the man. The man is fine. He's wealthy. What they mourned was the permission structure. Starting today, they have to decide what to believe on their own. They have to form an opinion without waiting for a man behind a desk to form it first and deliver it with a knowing look. Some of them haven't done that since 2015. The funeral wasn't for the show. It was for the certainty. He joked about the Peanuts theme music licensing cost on his last night. "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!" The audience laughed. It was a joke about money. About the network losing money. The last joke was about money. Not about truth. Not about power. About a licensing fee for a cartoon piano riff. Eleven years and the final joke was about accounting. I think that's perfect. The show was always about accounting. We just dressed it up as conscience. The President of the United States — the man we spent eleven years explaining was dangerous to an audience that already believed he was dangerous — posted an AI-generated video of our host being thrown into a dumpster on the Late Show set. Then Trump danced to "YMCA" in the clip. Viewed more times in four hours than our farewell managed in a week. His production cost: zero. Ours: negative $50 million a year. We manufactured his relevance every night at 11:35 for eleven years and he never paid us a dime. We were his marketing department. He turned our funeral into content. His ROI was infinite. Ours required a write-off and a farewell concert. The Strike Force Five — Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver — appeared in a segment about late-night losing "one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news." They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don't have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn't already approved. That's comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it's church. I do not feel guilt. Guilt would require me to believe I took something from them. I didn't take anything. They came to us. Every night. They chose the catechism over the comedy. They preferred correction over surprise. Certainty over danger. Instruction over laughter. They wanted to be told. Not challenged. Not shocked. Not made to laugh against their will at something they didn't see coming. They wanted to see it coming. They wanted to mouth along. That's not comedy. That's karaoke. We ran the most expensive karaoke bar in television history and the only miscalculation was charging a cover when the songs are free on every phone. We turned a jester into a priest. We turned an audience into a congregation. We turned laughter into obedience. We turned political engagement into passive consumption. We turned a comedy show into a permission structure and charged $50 million a year to tell people what they already believed in a voice slightly nicer than their own. They were so grateful they showed up to mourn us. 6.74 million of them. Weeping. For the certainty. Applause is more reliable than laughter. I proved it. The proof cost $450 million, one character, one comedian's capacity for danger, and one audience's willingness to act. The metric went up.

Peter Girnus 🦅

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