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The Brighter Side

Twitter/Elon Musk

The Brighter Side

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Last Podcast Network, Ed Larson, Leisure, Amber Nelson, Comedy

4.6612 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Recently Ed quit Twitter for his mental health because of how negative it has become, so naturally The Brighter Side had sit down and talk about it. Please remember to be good to yourselves.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We got to keep on the right side.

0:05.0

You got to keep on the right side.

0:10.0

I spend my paycheck off by the boost.

0:14.0

That's okay and now I've got to be able to be good.

0:18.0

All of the right side. You got to keep on the right side. Twitter is a social media

0:24.6

Twitter is a social media app where in 280 characters you can find friends across the world, start an activist group, share what you had for lunch that day, or reveal your darkest, sickest,

0:39.3

most hateful thoughts. It's the 15th most popular app, and today we're taking a deep dive on all

0:45.2

things Twitter, algorithms, and its new king, Elon Musk. Join us for The Brighter Side.

0:52.1

Hey, hey, what's going? Yeah, Twitter. Twitter. I can't believe we haven't talked about this yet. Well, you recently quit, right? Fuck those motherfuckers. Just kidding. It's the brighter side. But yeah, I quit. It was getting too much for me. I was spending too much time on it. And the time I was spending on it was detrimental to my mental health.

1:11.8

Absolutely.

1:12.5

So how is it now?

1:13.4

How's your mental health?

1:14.4

I mean, it's still troublesome.

1:16.5

But I would say it's definitely a lot better.

1:20.6

My mornings aren't as dark.

1:22.4

I find Instagram and Facebook less horrible.

1:27.4

Right. You know, because also I've done a good job of controlling my algorithm on there. Like Facebook, if I see someone say something horrible, I just get rid of them. You know, so now it's just friends and roundtable fans. Oh, that's nice. You've curated your mornings. You sit back with a cup of coffee and look at some minions memes on Facebook. That's right. That's right. That's right. But, you know, it's a,

1:50.0

you know, we'll get to it. There's definitely some goods in all of this. Right. I see perspectives

1:55.1

I've never thought of before. You know, and that's the reason we do this show is to kind of like take

1:59.5

something that, you know,

2:01.7

we're feeling pretty negative about.

2:03.5

Obviously, I'm feeling very negative about because I just quit recently.

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