Nick Martell

Well, to quote Harry meeting Sally, Andreessen wants what she's having.

Oh yeah, extra pastrami.

So Andreessen Horwitz launched MTS this week, short for Monitoring the Situation.

Monitoring the Situation is a popular internet meme acknowledging that chaos is all around us and we're all just monitoring the situation.

As in pause the pod, Jack, I am checking Instagram to monitor the situation.

Yeah, it's a really kind of like legit way to describe your mindless feed scrolling and like the three second pause you did on the news update.

Sorry, mom, I'm situation maxing right now.

And now there is a live stream 24 hour show on X that is adopting that meme as its official legal name.

It's called MTS, and it's like CNN had a baby with Twitch raised in Menlo Park by the two product managers who launched Clubhouse.

And that 24-hour live stream just got funding from Andreessen Horowitz, a.k.a.

A16Z, America's most famous venture capital.

And what exactly does this look like if you watch this brand new, crazy, hybrid CNN internet?

A 100% knockoff carbon copy of TBPN.

which was OpenAI's new tech podcast, but this thing is way longer.

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.