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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. I'm in studio today with Ryan Broderick, who runs Garbage Day.

It's an awesome internet culture newsletter. You should be reading it right now. I'm so psyched to join us because it turns out there's some news in the internet today. That's right. Well, you have a lot to talk about. Ryan is someone that I have come to rely on to sort of explain how the internet work. We're really as socials work. Obviously, Twitter. We're going to spend a ton of time talking about that. Facebook and stuff that I'm not spending a lot of time watching, like Tumblr, Ryan, Ryan spends a lot of time on Tumblr.

He is wearing a Tumblr shirt right now. I am. You can't buy this one. I got this one through other channels. So we will talk about Tumblr and have a couple of Be Real questions for you, but Twitter's in the news. So we should talk about Twitter. We're recording this on Monday morning. So by the time you listen to this, it's possible that Elon Musk will have sold Twitter or shut it down or force everyone he uses Twitter to speak French. Who knows? But we're going to assume that it'll still be intact. And so we can talk about sort of broadly what has been happening. I've just going through all your recent posts and so many of them are quotable. You've got one that I love here describing Elon Musk having the cultural understanding of a 12-year-old boy who just saw South Park episode for the first time. That was probably a couple weeks ago you wrote that. It all blurs together now. I'm running out of one-liners for him. But I also think, you know, it's a pivotal moment in every young boy's life to see Cartman for the first time.

It does have, I mean, he had a Monty Python like that's, I mean, it's one of the things about Elon that is confounding for me.

There's a lot about him that I recognize either in myself or other internet nerds, not that we're all the world's richest man and build big important companies, but like kind of get where his brain is at in some parts. And then there's just

parts from like, I'm very confused. We can talk about all that. But before we get into what Elon is

doing to Twitter and what might happen next, I'd just like you to explain why Twitter is important and also sort of situate it for us in its importance.

I've been spending time in slacks and on posts saying, you guys, we're kind of overinflating Twitter's importance.

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