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Hey there, it's Rodney Smith, your guide through the labyrinth of thoughts and ideas in this episode of Dangerous Misinformation. We've just embarked on a rollercoaster ride through the digital realm, exploring the overwhelming chaos of social media and questioning the authenticity that seems to be slipping away.

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I shared my frustrations about the pressure to conform to the norms of the internet, where outrageousness often overshadows genuine human connection. We pondered the paradox of the online world, where flashy colors and constant stimulation dominate, leaving us craving simplicity and authenticity.

But we didn't stop at social media. We took a critical look at the flaws within our economic and political systems. I questioned the sustainability of capitalism, delving into the widening wealth gaps and challenging the existing power structures. It's a passionate exploration of the flaws and the potential solutions, sparking a call to action for us to think beyond the status quo.

Amidst the chaos, I expressed my gratitude for you, the listeners. Your support is what keeps this journey alive. I urged everyone to share this podcast, to foster a community of like-minded individuals seeking genuine human connection amidst the digital noise.

So, as we navigate the chaos together, let's keep the spirit of authenticity alive. Let's challenge the norms, embrace meaningful conversations, and stay bold in our pursuit of genuine connection. Until next time, stay curious, stay passionate, and keep questioning the world around you.

 

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Yes, 

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yes, welcome, welcome petty people to Dangerous Misinformation, the number one source on the interwebs for Dangerous Misinformation. I am your host. My name is Rodney Smith. You can find me on all social media platforms at some sort of version of Lord Petty with some underscores. Just look for the pasty face and you'll find me appreciate you tuning in I hope you're having a great day. I hope you're enjoying these daily podcasts. I get to spend a little bit more time with you if this is your first time tuning in welcome. I said, this is the only podcast one we love everybody, we hate on everything and I appreciate you being here. Please be sure to leave a rating. Please be sure to subscribe whatever app you are listening on. Do all those good things and let's dive into it, bro. I'm fully bought into this social media stuff. Okay, I'm fully convinced that it is the past, 

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present and future, and that is where the thing I want to do. It is. What I'm passionate about is what I' enjoy doing is what I'm constantly uh, obsessed with, and I really enjoy creating content, but the one thing about it is I'm so annoyed that we have all and I'm in the same way. I'm so annoyed that we've all became just these goldfish. They were getting like up distraction up though. Shiny bright little things up, little things popping up, 

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little 

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it's like. The short the short form content, you know the way that we're conditioned to because there's just so much stuff to look at and then so the things that will stop and make you scroll or just the most outrageous. I've always made fun of Youtubers even way before I got in the game back in the day we'd be like what's up, guys. They pop out at the camera and there's always such a turnoff thing for me, but one thing I've learned throughout the years is to not so much fight the system as much as to just play the game to get in position to you know, learn the rules to break them, I guess, but I guess I'm just annoyed by the internet culture about how you have to just make this super corny, super energetic, super over the top content for people to stop there and look at it, but I want to believe. I want to believe that there is a market of people that don't want all the loud annoying colors popping out at you and random noises like I'm not saying anything bad about Mr. Beast, 

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but I have 0 interest in those videos because it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to make these videos and it's just every second there's something Joe. It's like you're just sitting like 

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ugh, 

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it's like that movie Uncut Diamonds, you know with Adam Sandler where I just don't like I'm just more of a chill. Person and I enjoy content where I can kind of sit back and you know have a that actually I feel more involved when it's a little slower and I have to use my brain versus just constant stimulation, you know, and I think that's a generational thing or just people in general. Now with how much we're so over stimulated, you know. I remember I was watching a Harry Mac video the other day. If you guys don't know who Harry Mac is, he's this freestyle rapper who his brain is basically a computer. It's the wildest shit ever people will give him 5 words and he will just spit the craziest freestyle you've ever heard in your life with these 5 words and I know what that sounds like. Okay, I know the freestyle, another rapper but literally go look up, Harry Mack. It's the craziest shit I've ever seen in my life, but uh, he'll get on omegal or Omega whatever it's called, 

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and then you know, he'll ask the people on the computer, give him some wars and he'll just bust this freestyle to them and blow their minds. And there was a kid on there he was 

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he 

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he was on Omegal, he was playing a video game so he had the computer on Omegal. He had his TV playing a video game, but then he also had a movie going. I was like dog, how much stimulation do you need like you're doing these? 3. Things now you want to invite more people and that just doesn't make sense to me. Like I'm just an old person. I guess I still like reading books and listening to podcasts and stuff like that. So it's real hard for me to create all this jumpy content where there's just constantly somebody going, hey, what's up, guys? Here's my hook like I understand it. I understand the formula. Okay, create a hook, create value in the beginning and then stretch it out. Keep people's interest peaked. I don't know. Do you do I really want the people with a attention span of goldfish paying attention to me. I don't even know if I want those people paying attention to my stuff. I'd rather I' want the humans. I want human connection. I want to use the technology to have a human connection. 

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I don't want all this jumpy bright colors text, popping up, wah uh, let's do it so annoying, so hopefully somebody out there will like that approach. I'm going to try to dial it down and it's like I think about it' like this. You know when you walk into a nice designer store they have flat like the walls are white or black or a very neutral color and then uh, it's just like very or like really nice clothes. Designer clothes are typically typically simple like they don't beg for your attention, but if you walk into a gas station for instance, it's. All just bright reds, greens and all these super bright colors like people just trying to jump and grab your attention right? And I don't like that. I like uh, I like simplicity and I like cleanliness and I like sleek and I like you know, I've said this before. If I had fuck you money in my house like everything in my house would just be black and white and uh, so hopefully there's a market. 

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I'm hoping there's a market for this type of content. That's why I just have a black background because I don't want. I don't want a bunch of things in the shot like I want you to actually pay attention to what I'm talking about and maybe that's a hipster thing to do, but 

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I don't know. 

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Dude, I just really don't want to be that annoying. I don't have it in me. It's the whole like keeping a real thing I guess, but um yeah, so show your support. If you support that message, be sure to like this podcast and share it. Maybe you know other people out there that aren't freaking goldfish. I want to listen to something that isn't way over the top with bright colors and loud annoying sound effects. Good anyways, moving on, plow and forward. 

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Here's the big hypocrisy on the Left because the Left will always say that Republicans are uneducated and stupid, but they also hold all the wealth and hold all the power. And they make up the patriarchy, so which one is it? How can you be uneducated and stupid and not know what you're talking about, but control everything that makes no sense when in reality it is the left that controls all the institutions because they are the quote educated ones. But my question is always if we're living in the age of information, right where all the information you want is for free? If you really wanted to, I mean, it'd be a huge time suck, but you could go learn everything that a general doctor knows by just going online and reading all the studies, reading all the course materials. You wouldn't actually get the certificate and have somebody say okay. This guy, you know, approve you into that institution, but you could have that actual knowledge right? And so let's let's take STEM out of the field. So when people say oh 

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I'm, I'm, 

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you know, when somebody that's quote educated is talking about somebody else being uneducated, but they can't pay off their student loans. 

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Uh, 

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wouldn't that make you the dumbass unless you're getting something where you have to be certified like a STEM. Feel like a for instance being a doctor or something like that. I never understand that, but there's this notion that the Republicans are the old rich white men, 

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and maybe that 

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was true like 50 years ago, but I really do think we did a big swap because if you. Look at all the institutions now all the institutions are, you know, very, very left leaning and I'm not saying that's you know, good or bad or whatever it is. It just is what it is you can look at the campaign, donations, all the big corporations donate to the Democrats and because I think tech is so influential now because tech is such a low testosterone field and it attracts a certain type of people you know. They they're they're all left and money's power dude, and that's what's so crazy nowadays because throughout human evolution history all that to be able to make money you've always had to be a pretty competent and like strong type of guy and like the most rich people were these guys that built these steel companies and got into the railroads or auto manufacturers like all these things were kind of takes like a manly competent guy to do these things. 

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But now all the money is sitting in these text sectors where it's kind of these geeks that get into these things, you know. Besides, you know there's finance bros and there's tech nerds and that's kind of where all like the big wealth is sitting and because the 

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um 

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you know because money is so powerful it is power now you get really weak people like just weak dudes um controlling a lot of way of how the world goes and 

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uh, 

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bad things happen when weak people are at. The helm so I think we really do need to separate. You know the the money from being able to influence politics and policies and all this stuff because the people controlling the money right now are fucking dorks the people that sit behind computers that have never maybe some of them. Okay, I'm not saying that every tech nerd 

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uh 

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grew up rich or whatever, but typically when you get into that field like you were pretty good in high school, then you went to college, then you went and got an internship, then you went and got a job and you're making 90 K at least straight out of college. So what the fuck do you know about the world so you want to be this virtuous person? Right? You want to talk about all these. Oh, we should be doing this, we need to do this. We need to not control the boards yeah, because you don't have to deal with any of the repercussions. You're rich enough to be completely shrouded from reality because you're sitting there coating stuff on a computer. 

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Yeah, it's crazy dude. Um, but also I gotta respect what they do because I can't do it. I'm shitting on it but it was so easy I would just go do it. I would just go learn the skill of being a being a coding person or a program or something like that because it is important. Look at technology. I got 2 computers in front of me. I got a phone right here. I got a you know, a camera right there even though camera I guess that is tech is that tech I don't know and I'm using all these different tools. I mean, I'm using at least for I'm using 4 different pieces of software right now just to get this in your ear. 

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Alright, 

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actually way more than that, if you think about the distribution platforms in the upload line it's crazy so somebody has to build this stuff so I am very thankful for the tech. I just wish these people would kind of really take a step back and realize yes, we are people punching numbers and ones and zeros on laptops and we are a little removed from reality. So and we make a lot of money for it so we shouldn't force everybody else to deal with the consequences of what we're saying because we are quote educated anyways, dude, I've been getting trolled a lot and I deserve it because I say outrageous things. I probably set some outrageous things in that last little mono like I went into, you know. Ah, that's name of the game you wanna be loved and hated if you're just liked. That's why it's so hard to grow on social media by the way, I'm a kind of I'm a I'm gonna come back to a what I was meant to talk about, but um, I find it's. Very hard to grow on social media now because the social media companies they want you to be very vanilla. 

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You can't say certain things like you really can't rattle the cage anymore, and it's like I'm trying to create clickbait, but the human interest right? The people as far as the human, the people that the humans like are either people that are loved or hated, and the social media companies just want you to be a likeable person. But when you're just a likeable person you don't create interests from actual humans, so you gotta like find this weird gray area of like okay, how are you pleasing the algorithms by being somewhat vanilla and within the boundaries of how the tech companies want you to act, but still differentiate yourself enough to be interesting. Actual humans you know? Like how can you either be um, lovable for being your authentic self and having a new perspective on things which will just in automatically make some people hate you because you can't please everybody, but you can't get caught up on that obviously. But so I'm, you know, there's a lot of people that hate me rightfully so, and I'm totally fine with that. I love everybody so I don't really care, but I wouldn't. I understand why people wouldn't like me because I've 

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I'm very opinionated. People come from different walks of life and they have every right to look at the world in a different way. And disagree with me, but one thing I've noticed that every every single person this is 100 percent of the time of the people that disagree with me. They never have profile pictures, or when they do they're wearing a mask and they' have pronouns in their bios, and that's fine. If you want to have pronouns in your bios, I get it you want to show solidarity with the certain community. If you're wearing a mask you're trying to, you know signal some things as well, but for the most okay, I would say 98 percent of the time that people that troll me do not have profile pictures. 

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It drives me nuts because they'll oh and then they'll you won't be able to add them too, especially on Instagram. By the way, Instagram is dead, we'll get into that in a second 

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I'm talking about that. 

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In a second Instagram is dead. 

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They never have profile pictures and you can't. They'll leave a comment and then I type something back to them. I hit senate like oh user blah blah blah can't be at so it's like dude why you leave in comments if you can't respond like these are the people you know judge me by my enemies and allegedly my enemies are all fucking geeks. So I'm feeling pretty good about myself for the fact that the people that wanna beef with me I would never want anything to do with them and when they do. Have a profile picture. They're usually complete fucking nerds and that's fine. It's okay to be a nerd as long as you're not developing nuclear weapons or hurting people or using that that big common sense lacking brain of yours. Usually what happens to nerds is that evil people will recruit the nerds to do the dirty work form to figure out ways how to push their evil agendas. That's the trajectory of a nerd. Nerds are never in full charge of things. They're just kind of the right hand men to evil people because they're fucking nerds and they're easily manipulated 

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and you just tell them how smart they are and kind of boost their ego a little bit and give them and paying a bunch of money. That's what these corporations do. They find these nerds that they can kick around paying a bunch of money and then they go and push the agenda. Push the agenda because that's um, so we're gonna push in the agenda. Okay, I am and I know. I said I was going to talk about Instagram being dead, but let's just leave it at that Instagram is dead. It's a dying platform. They're trying way too hard to police it, and maybe I'm a little biased because I'm completely just banned on anything and everything as far as Instagram because I posted I reposted a picture of Hunter Biden and I got just they were like, oh, your stuff won't show anywhere. Blah blah blah blah and it's so weird too, because the things that do well on Instagram for for me is if I post text on Instagram, if I post videos on twitter, 

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if I post like screenshots on TikTok and shorts on YouTube, those are the things that do well. For some reason it's the weirdest thing in the world, but I just think Instagram is dead. I think they've really just um. You know you know I think people are sick of content creators on Instagram like you you missed the posts of your friends on Instagram and uh yeah, it's just not. I mean you're I don't follow new people on' Instagram anymore, so it's kind of hard for me to justify. Basically you follow somebody on Instagram that you know from somewhere else. You're not going to build a following on Instagram anymore. I think the only way you're gonna really do that anymore is by TikTok and YouTube, but maybe I'm just salty, but I wanted to talk about. We're talking about the quote system here a little bit ago and I agree with the far left ease on one thing and that is that there is there are definitely flaws with capitalism. I'm a huge capitalist. 

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I believe in the idea that you are only one idea from being away away from being a millionaire or being successful and you can pursue anything you want. That's a beautiful thing about America. You got an. Idea pursue it and you can make that thing a reality, but people get to a point like these. You know these finance lizard people and stuff like that where it's just never enough. And though this insider trading and politics and like if you look at the wealth gap, the wealth gaps are just really fucking out of control and everybody now. I mean if you look at the wealth gaps between the generation, I think once the boomers die off, a lot of this wealth is gonna get passed down and that's gonna be really weird. I wonder what's gonna happen to the economy once millennials actually have this because there's all this money. So the boomer's parents they come from that generation where everything really 

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popped off and then 

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those parents built this great economy for the Boomers. So then the Boomers acquired all this wealth and then the Boomers are sitting on all this wealth and it all just keeps going to the top to the lizard people in the Boomers. And once the Boomers die this money is gonna get passed down and then I wonder what kind of economy that's gonna create. So 

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I don't know. 

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Dude, I'm gonna try to dip my little hand in there, but I just don't see how sustainable because the inflation keeps going up. It just it makes no sense to me. I can't wrap my head around how sustainable that system is and I'm not saying we. Ushering full on fucking communism because that's stupid, but I do think that there should be laws protecting average people from banks and certain like like I pay my rent, right? I pay my rent and there's only one way to pay it and I gotta pay a $5 transaction fee. It's like what it's like ah ah why am I paying a fee to pay you you know what I mean. It just makes no sense. There's so many little. They they get you on so many little things or like when you overrun your checking account they charge you more money for not having money and it's like, how is this legal? How is it illegal for somebody to? I don't know j walk and you'll get a ticket for that, but you got 

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this just white call or criminal ship going on and that's where I agree with the lefties. It's just I don't think that's standing around outside wearing 2 masks with your tits out screaming with the cardboard signs. Gonna do anything about it. 

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Um 

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and uh as Stone called Steve Austin will say, and that's all I got to say about that' anyways. Thank you, guys, we're gonna wrap it up here, we're gonna wrap wrap it up so you guys have yourselves a wonderful rest of your day, have yourselves a great rest of your quick, I appreciate you tuning in Yama FX, take care of yourselves, please leave a rating. Go check. Out my book The Petty Principles. Tell somebody about the podcast and I thank you very much. God bless you. 

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