The Great Pizza Poll of 2025 3-31-25

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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is the great pizza poll of 2025. Now, again, you may find this to be an absolutely ridiculous episode, but I'll give you the context of it. One of the things I found myself recently addicted to – it's not pizza. I love pizza, but I'm not addicted to it –

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is to Twitter and X. They've totally gamified Twitter and X. And I realize there are so many crazies on Twitter and X. You have to be so careful what you look at so you don't come away like with your head bursting open. But with Twitter and X, you could constantly look at how many people viewed your impressions, how many people have liked this, how many people have liked that.

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You could also promote a post to see how many people engage with the post. There's just a million different ways to play with Twitter, and they've totally gamified it, totally datified it. So it can be very engaging. Like I was on a plane yesterday coming back from Europe for eight hours, and you could literally spend the whole time playing.

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Like today's version of a video game being on Twitter because it's crazy, it's interesting, and there's constant stat watching. If you're a stat person like I am, it's like the modern day version of video games. You just constantly gamify how many people are reading this, reading that. So we were on vacation for a week visiting kids, you know, a long story.

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But of course, ate too much, drank too much, all those kinds of things on vacation. And so, you know, but yet I had a craving when I got home yesterday for pizza. And one of the things that's beautiful about Twitter is they make it very simple to do a poll. And the poll that we conducted yesterday, the great pizza poll for 2025 was. is it okay to eat pizza tonight and start my diet tomorrow?

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And so this poll received 3,700 votes. There's still some time left in the poll, but what happens with these polls is once you get to a certain spot, you fit 90% of the results. And what I found was is 80% of people said, 79% said, it's okay to have pizza tonight and start your diet tomorrow. And 21% no. And many of them on the no side gave pretty good reasons.

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You know, you're not really going to start it tomorrow. You could always make that excuse, et cetera, et cetera. And I love that. And many of them, of course, are right, though I am trying to hold tough today. I'm doing the best I can. But I did find it very fascinating. And what a great game they've made it into. And this is not an endorsement of Elon Musk. I have my own thoughts on Elon Musk.