Nick Martell

We're also not sure podcast is the right word because both TBPN and MTS are live streams on X or YouTube, which that's not really what a podcast is.

They're not really listened to after the recording.

They're listened to live.

TBPN is three hours long and MTS is 24 hours long.

Although Nick, they're not really watched live either.

We'll get to that in the takeaway.

Besties, both of these shows cover news focused on tech and politics as it is happening in real time.

And unlike our show, which is 20 minutes for a once daily news digest, these shows are intended to be always on background content.

Although Nick, I said always on, it's specifically designed for people always on

X, that social media platform.

Exactly.

Here is how Andreessen Horowitz, which also helped Elon buy Twitter, described their investment in this new media brand.

He said, of course, X is and always has been the real world.

Or at least, X is the place where the people who run the real world

makes sense of what's happening.

And then in Andreessen's announcement post, they said MTS is CNN, but on X instead of cable.

That's the model here.

Now we should point out, this is definitely Silicon Valley navel gazing.

If you watch these shows, it's techies talking to other techies about tech.

and it's broadcasted on tech.