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Why Twitter is a better purchase financially versus other billionaire media purchases (WaPo, Time, etc) Bot removal improves product and can improve advertising rates Elon musk is a businessman that had to have a clear business plan and profitability trajectory to obtain financing

Elon Musk's Twitter purchase Monthly active users as a mechanism to value tech companies and how this relates to Twitter Advantages/disadvantages of going public as an internet company  Why social media companies do not remove bots The profit potential of Twitter - discussing financials and turnaround strategy

Mike and Matt discuss: - If WWIII started, would you see professional athletes serve like was common during WWII? - The effect of the Ukraine war on professional athletes - The effect of sanctions - Interconnectivity of humans in 2022 - The role of digital influences and news cycles - The effect of war on ordinary civilians and recounting Russia and Germany fighting during WWII  

Mike and Matt discuss: - The risk factors to US financial and economic dominance - Foreign influence in energy and mineral policy  - Foreign influence in popular culture - China and the illegal drug pipeline - US's downfall likely not from invasion - Declining birthrates - World paradigm shifts - Modern philosophy - Redefining foundations, institutions, and global frameworks - Crypto - Adaptation...

Mike and Matt discuss: - What are bitcoin and cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin vs Fiat - Why people are interested in bitcoin and what makes it appealing? - Why is bitcoin considered digital gold and an inflation hedge? - Ethereum - Fiat currencies push people to risk assets - the role of inflation - What is Bitcoin mining - Burying money in the backyard - Mike's bad Bitcoin pun - Russia's exclusion fro...

Mike and Matt discuss: - Water and water resuse considerations for companies - Hydrogen as a replacement fuel for oil & gas - Future hydrogen production and sources of hydrogen feedstocks - Methane capture from cattle and food manufacturing operations - Desalination - Dwindling fresh water resources in the plains - A future with interstate fresh water pipelines - Water resuse operations in oil & g...

In this episode, we cover our primary goal to serve our listeners and how to contact us if you have a topic you would like us to address on the podcast.

Matt and Mike discuss the mad dash to reshore industries that are currently in areas with geopolitical risk like semiconductors and how years of inaction has left the US economy in a vunerable position.

Mike and Matt discuss: - East and West divergence - China and Russia own the base production required for the energy transition - Shaming China and Russia over emissions when they are producing goods for Western consumption - Chinese technology sharing requirements - COP26 - Selective human rights - How China and Russia control the supply chain of renewables - China’s goal to feed their people fir...

Mike and Matt discuss: - Nuclear power catastrophes - Nuclear weapons as a deterrent - Ukraine and Kazakhstan’s former nuclear weapon stockpiles - The Ukraine Russia war - US Weapons systems and NATO expansion - Postives of a new European Army

Mike and Matt discuss: - How China and Russia control the supply chain of renewables - China’s goal to feed their people first and build geopolitical strength - China’s growing global dominance - US financial sanctions moving countries away from trading in US dollars and the ending of the petro dollar - The outcomes of potential Russian fertilizer shortages - Moving too fast to renewables and unin...

Mike and Matt discuss - The growth of electric vehicles - NIMBY-ism (not in my back yard) of the minerals extraction process for the switch to renewables - Why the current supply chain for renewable energy is problematic and needs to be reconsidered (child labor, slavery, etc) - Why China and Russia dominate the supply chain of the future

Mike and Matt discuss: - Energy as the most important feedstock of the US economy - Why energy independence matters - Emotional energy policy decisions - Remembering the Iraq was from the liberal political perspective - Dividing political groups over energy fear and motivating people to vote  - Russia – Ukraine and how the war may affect commodity flows - The energy generation needs required to ru...

In this episode we discuss a pivot for the podcast talking more about topics related to energy, finance, geopolitics, and technology. Our new co-host is Mike McVey, host of the Nobody's a Nobody podcast.  After Matt was on his show last year, many people expressed that they loved the discussion relating to complex topics (energy, finance, geopolitics) in a way that was accessible for non subject m...