Welcome to another edition of OGOT. I'm Joe Ovias and Lauren Brownlow is going to join me for a conversation where we remember the good old days, what it was like on sports Twitter.

I was inspired by a podcast that I consumed this week from The Verge. They do a great podcast called The Vergecast.

And Neelay Patel, who is the editor-in-chief, wrote a story, wrote a feature on this premise that

2003 was the year Twitter died.

Not just because some guy bought it the previous year, just the concept of this platform and what

it had meant for so many people finally coming to an end,

for what we've known it for forever, finally came to an end.

And I wanted to take that conversation and apply it to us locally.

Because I think most people recognize that Twitter has been massively impactful for a lot of us here

and massively impactful for bringing people together over what we love,

sports, and how that's diminished over time.

So hope you enjoy this conversation.

I certainly did.

You and I should have, we should pour one out for our dear old friend Twitter.

Not ready. I'm honestly, I'm going through the stages of grief. I've been in like morning almost. It's been a wild thing because like denial, anger, you know, all of those things.

And I'm still in like slight denial.

I'm still like waiting for someone to like save us from this.

I've been wanting to have this conversation with you because I think you and I can admit that a lot of our career trajectory is owed to our use of that social media

platform. Yes. And this week, over at The Verge, they've unveiled this series called The Year

that Twitter died. And one of the more fascinating articles that I read in this series. To be fair,

it didn't die. It was murdered. But whatever. There is that. And in the series, there was a feature

called how Twitter broke the news. And for a decade, Twitter was the most powerful force in news.

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