Peter Hamby
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144 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 24 Jun
Peter Hamby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, yeah. He wants to be like John Summit, and he never will be. By the way, there's also something you see in Elon and a lot of these tech people who are posturing. Your interview with Jason Kalkanis was amusing in this sense. I picked up on his body language. some people are who they always were, you know?
And like, there's that, there's a great video of Mark Zuckerberg, like at a UFC fight where he's like nervous and he's like getting ready to go out with like the fighters. And he like, he thinks someone's about to high five him and he like reaches his hand out and they weren't. And he like takes his hand back in. And it's like, everyone go look up this video. He's a nerd who wants to be cool.
That's it. Maybe the social network movie actually nailed it. Too flattering, possibly. The Zuckerberg thing is so... I'm really surprised by just how transparent... It is like usually large corporations make these subtle pivots and they couch it in certain language. Like Jamie Dimon has done this a little bit with like JP Morgan and like their commitment to like DEI.
Like he just subtly changes language over the years, you know, while remaining committed to it notionally and building a diverse and equitable workforce. Zuckerberg is just like firing all the diversity people. Like we're going back to quote civic content after downranking civic content. Like we aren't going to fact check this and like we're going to do community notes.
And then he goes on Joe Rogan to announce it and goes to Mar-a-Lago to hang out with Donald Trump. Again, I mentioned this with Mike Johnson, but like that was the first thing I thought about with Mike Johnson when he was on the Trump plane going to the UFC fight with like, Dana White and all these other dudes. He's like, oh, this is cool.
I get to hang out with the guys that didn't want to pick me a gym class to be on the basketball team. It is very transparent. I think it's larger than just Facebook, though. There is just something in the culture. And then this gets to Trump's victory, like up and down the ballot. Not a mandate necessarily, but kind of. Unlike last time, it was a fluke when he won in 2017 or whatever, like 2016.
This time, the Republican victory was robust, Tim. And people are making changes accordingly. Whether we like it or not. But the Facebook thing is just, I'm aghast with just how bluntly transparent and political it is. Nakedly political. And, you know, we're going to have to fucking deal with this guy for a long time. He's our age.
Like, when President AOC comes in, like, what's he going to be dressing like then?
And Zuckerberg tried to buy Snapchat back in the day, and Evan said, nah. And Zuckerberg has tried to copy everyone else's cool products because he doesn't have original ideas. He attacked Apple the other day. And Apple sort of has a lot of power over social media companies, but whatever. He said Apple hasn't come out with a new product in a long time.
This is somebody with no... By the way, from a business, tech, and product perspective, but also clearly now with politics. There's no... inner core set of values. There's no guiding light. There's no point of view. Evan cares about design and art like he does. And he genuinely cares about what Snapchat is at this point, which is connecting closely with your friends.
And we saw the value of that during the pandemic, I think. Zuckerberg has no core values about what his company should be doing when it comes to politics, when it comes to trust and safety, what kind of products it should build. It's just survive in advance. He's like a bad politician who enters a primary company And there's no message. There's no, they're there.
He's like, I should be running for president. Why? What's the, what's the message?
And then, you know, he hired some of our old friends to like, you know, maybe fluff him and tell him he should run for president. But like, you have a couple of town hall meetings. Yeah. But like in leadership, in business, in politics, like,
Having a clear and consistent point of view is the best thing possible because you can... If you believe in it to your core, all the other things kind of fall into place around it and you can be successful. But if you're always pivoting, look, he'll be successful because he built something and the time was right and like...
you know, there's infinite scale and he's always going to be making a shitload of money, but like, I don't know. It's just, it's just, he doesn't have any core values and that's the issue.
Let me go narrow first on Soupy, then there's my holistic view on TikTok. So this clip was amazing. My Snapchat show, Good Luck America, today, we made fun of Soupy. There's some really good Soupy dunks on Twitter. My guy, Peter Twinklage...
He replied to Soupy and said, call me a bootlicker, but if you side with an illiterate Disney adult named Soupy over a bipartisan coalition constituting 81% of Congress, you should not be allowed to vote. Another one from a guy named-
Here's a better one for you that I think you and I are aligned with. Some guy on Twitter, James Lippins. I don't know who you are, James, but good tweet. Honestly, one of the most skillful uses of TikTok has been to convince a generation that other governments have solely benign intentions while the U.S.
government is literally Hitler and every single action it takes is to personally ruin the lives of Zoomers. If you are so addicted to this... which is a Chinese owned giant corporation, like young liberals and people like AOC and Jamal Bowman.
And apparently Ed Markey, who thinks he's cool and hip because of that one primary in which he, you know, talked about the green new deal and beat a Kennedy, you know, It's just amazing. There are journalists, aforementioned journalists and writers, who have bent over backwards to defend TikTok just because they personally like it.
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