Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Builten. This is the last and probably the best episode of the year or maybe it's the worst who knows but I would like to welcome to the show the one the only

The man who soon will no longer be in the White House

John Kelly and I'm waiting for this joke to end and I think actually next week it's going to finally end it ends when he leaves John

That's when it ends. Yeah, you're a funny guy Nick Hilton.ton. Thank you very much. So, last year at this time, we decided we were going to do an episode where we were going to predict all the things that would happen in 2018, this was at 2017 at the time of course,

we got all the predictions correct, we won't even go back and look at them because we know they were right,

but we decided what better time of the year to do this again, make it a tradition for 2019.

We have a whole lot of shit going to happen just in like the first week of the year and we're going to get to

a lot of these things so John and I are going to kind of bat this around back and forth and

talk about some of the things that we think are going to happen, some of the things we know

are going to happen, and some of the things that we are going to completely speculate with

absolutely no idea about, you want to take it away John with the first

yeah and I'll and I'll know too that there is no equivocation on this

podcast we're not those kind of we need journalists who say well it could be

this it could be that we're gonna to tell you exactly what's going to

happen to take this shit to the bank all right question number one for you Nick

Hilton will will snap be headed for a sale this time next year.

Snap, whose stock price, I think was like, like $5 on Friday.

Yeah, it was, it was the, uh, it was the lowest it had ever been in its history, which is not a very long history, which it had fallen to 542 and then, well actually a little lower than that, and then it had bounced a little lower than that and then it had bounced a little bit on the

speculation that there could be a suitor in the wings.

My prediction I so I'm gonna I'm gonna eat a little crow here. I don't even know where that saying comes from but I'm still gonna use it and I'm gonna say because I was very bullish on snap in the beginning and then I've done a little reporting, spoken to some people, read some things and I'm going to say

Snaps in a whole fucking lot of trouble right now.

Evan Spiegel has a mentality that is,

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