Hi, welcome to the podcast. I am Joe Posnansky, and with me is Michael Schor. Michael, welcome.

Thank you for having me, Joe. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're just, you're just living your best life right now, aren't you?

Really am. I just, there's nothing going on in my personal or professional life that is causing agitation of it.

No, no, everything right now is just going smoothly. Yes.

We got it. We got a big show today. We have a lot to cover. Yeah. And, and because it's as we're recording this, it's Tuesday, August 1st at 11 o' 6 a.m. That's right. My, my time, two o' 6 p.m. Yes. Your time. This is the majorly baseball trade deadline.

The, the, the trade deadline is literally the, the sort of conclusion of the trade deadline is happening as we are recording this lot.

Right. And so I have a pitch for what we should call today's episode of the podcast.

Oh, this is exciting. This is exciting. I wrote it down because I want to get it exactly right. It's very important that we get the name exactly right.

Okay. That's what I think we should call it. What should we call it? It's, it's Mike and Joe's annual metal arc media, podcast, annual, special trade deadline spectacular.

So important to get annual in their twice because people need to know that it's annual. So it's Mike and Joe's annual metal arc media,

podcast, annual, special trade deadline spectacular. I love this. I love it. This is, this is very good. The, the Mike and Joe annual,

Mike and Joe's annual metal arc media, podcast, annual, special trade deadline spectacular. There we go. This is, see,

you're writing skills are not going to. This is what happens when, when you go on strike as you forget how to write.

So, so this is great. So it is. So, so there is a chance we will be for our listeners who will hear this in 12 days, sex, I we don't know what this will go out.

Right. We will be breaking news to them potentially. They're, they're, you are one of us or both of us will be scouring Twitter. And well, I guess what is it called now Xville X X

By the way, okay, brief side note. This is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened in the history of corporate America. This X thing. I, I, so you know, I stopped tweeting. I stopped going on Twitter

when, when Elon took over. Yes. And, but I have not erased Twitter from my phone. And occasionally, I will freely admit when big news events have happened because

Twitter is, or X is still a good place to go for new for breaking news. I go, but now I, it is so embarrassing to look at my phone and see that app with just a dumb black X on it. Like someone said, someone on Blue Sky, which is now where I event my thoughts and feelings and some jokes.

Someone said, like, it's got, it's got the vibes of like one of those, like, Bacardi, black extra dark after hours ice malt liquor drinks. You know, like, it's like, it's like the cheesiest, like, Vegas nightclub nonsense. And I just don't, it is, if, if we found out

weeks or months from now that this whole thing was, was like a Brewster's millions type situation where someone said to Elon Musk, you need to spend $44 billion and lose all of it within six months, or whatever. We're, or we're going to kill your dog. Like, I would 100% believe it. I don't know.

Did you saw the thing where he put that big black X sign above Twitter headquarters, and it was like a strobe light, and it was strobing all over the neighborhood. And then they got all these complaints. And then after like a day, they had to take it down, it's, it's, it's just humiliating everything worst. He's so bad at this. Why is he so bad at this?

Well, there are a couple of things that I thought about with the X. First of all, when they first announced that it was going to be called X that Twitter was going to be called X. It's, it sounded like a joke. It like it's not like that's not really going to happen. It's not like a joke. And as bad as that was when the app actually appeared on the phone when the, when the new, the new logo appeared. It was like, you're joking. That's your, that's not really.

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