Boys React: Elon's Troubles, Happiness & Money Study, TikTok Ban, And Power Slap League

anytime a rich person tells you that money doesn't make you happy just ask them for their money then like cool cool i guess it's useless right can just give me a bunch of it then right fellas welcome to the friday episode the boys react we're gonna go through some new stories let's start with the thing that everyone is talking about that everyone everyone's is always talking about which is elon elon has gotten himself in trouble a couple times this week first he tried selling some house plants or office plants i should say to his employees to raise money wait really and then also ridiculed and and sort of kind of fired an employee who who is disabled your thoughts on the the endless drama of you on cringe what do you think yeah elon is is the cringe master he has to make everything about him like it's just me me me he's now known as elon musk in my house this guy this guy's too much the the crazy thing sam did you watch this all go down with the the guy that was like hey am i fired i think we should we should explain this yeah so do a recap i i didn't understand all that first i had like click so guy goes on twitter who's got i i never heard of this guy but he's got like a hundred fifty thousand followers and he says hey nine days ago i lost access to my work computer just can't i can't access twitter anymore i work at twitter it can't access my work my work computer doesn't log in anymore it doesn't work can't get into my email can't do anything i'm not sure if i'm fired nobody told me i'm fired but i just can't get into my email or my computer i've emailed them i've waited nine days i've got no reply from hr from my you know from anybody so i'm guessing hey at elon musk am i fired and so the you know we tweets that out when when's he getting paid still i don't i don't know i don't think so because it but it was whatever it was only nine days so maybe it was he hadn't got it got in between that so he tweets that out and he goes maybe if this gets enough re tweets then you know then i'll get a response so it gets retweeted a bunch of like because people you there's a whole group of people that you know love to hate elon myself included and so people are like this is another example of you know how poorly twitter's being run right now like why why would you if you're gonna fire somebody tell them they're fired that's you know common decency right like i feel like elon got this flow chart where it's like i'm firing this person should i tell them it's like yes and it's like no i'm gonna go with no okay what happens after no like should i just should i you know you know meet with them in person just shut off there he's like dude like irish buying their job it's basically this is walking out without saying exactly and so anyways this thing gets this thing goes viral so basically elon then you know again he sees the all he sees this thing going viral so instead of instead of instead of actually just eva ebay you are fired or confirmed yes you you were you were fired he instead says what have you been working on like what have you accomplished is the so then he goes well if i you know if i say what i'm working on i i think i'd be breaking my nda do i have permission to break my nda and tell you what like can i say publicly hear what i work on and anyone applies yes go ahead and so dude when a pathetic start to the story that's already pathetic he goes alright well the guy goes i you know leveling up the design of this i was working on this and you know i was helping save money on this contract or whatever and and he goes elon replied level of the design from what to what you know pictures or it didn't happen and like you dip dips shit you cut off his computer access how was he supposed to have screenshots of us work if he took away his computer he's not you're not even be able to do it and and then he's like mocking a basically he's just replying with like the crying laughing emoji he's replying trolling him with like a clip from office space and now here's where elon went wrong so elon is not dumb but he's a dumbass and there's a big difference between dumb and a dumbass dumb is you're just not smart dumbass is you're smart but you do dumb things and that's what elon does here so he basically picks on a guy that it comes out so this guy sold his company to twitter and the guy and so elon comes out and he here's what he says about the guy he goes he goes somebody was like dude this is the this guy alex cohen has a great week you ago i'm not gonna lie this is the most entertaining exit interview ever this was watching this whole thing go down in public and then the guy and elon says the reality is this is a guy that who was independently wealthy did no actual work and claimed as an excuse that he has a disability preventing him from typing yet here he is tweeting out tweeting up a storm and wait and so and so the disability thing elon said that first he goes he claimed as his ex excuse that he has a disability preventing him from typing yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm i can't say i have a lot of respect for that one a douche why could how can you tell that here's the other side of the story this guy has like this guy in a wheelchair he's had mike muscle dystrophy for twenty five years and so he goes so this guy came back with just kinda of some some fire so he goes thunder clap i think he called it yeah he he did a solo thunder clap basically he goes back he goes glad to see you're taking such an interest in my health i assume what you're talking about when you are sharing my private health information online is the fact that i've had muscular dystrophy for twenty five years and i guess i'll go ahead and tell the story now so you know i lost i lost the ability to use my legs twenty years ago i've been in a wheelchair unfortunately it's been spreading and i've my my arms have been getting weaker over time in fact that's why i sold my company remember you said i was independently wealthy i guess what you mean by that is i built a successful company and sold it unlike you know somebody else you might have inherited inherited a emerald mine which is you know how you elon dad owned a emerald mine which is bullshit which is that's a bullshit thing okay people say but whatever a good step we'll we'll use that in this case it's good and so he goes i guess that's what you mean by independently wealthy and you know so here's what here's the story this guy got muscular dystrophy he he's losing filling in or strengthen his arms to becoming very painful to to type he decides to okay i'm gonna sell my company and instead of taking a lump sum payment he chose to get paid out through like a a salary instead of an upfront money which is like dude who would do that why because he wanted to pay more taxes in iceland where he's from or i think he's iceland maybe yeah i he's yeah i think it's iceland wait really pay more taxes why do you wanna pay more taxes because he felt like he's as a disabled person he had benefited a lot from like the social welfare system there and it was like i want to contribute as much as i can to that which honestly sounds like too good to be true like that's so different than me i almost can't fathom that i'm almost like why don't you just take the money and donate it instead of paying taxes i don't i don't really understand that but either way this guy so build a company had a hundred employees working for him it was profitable decides to sell it you know he he's his body basically been giving out on them he's like you know financially it wasn't the best decision my company was making a lot of money twitter's offer was lower than other companies but i made a bet on twitter it was growing at the time and he goes by the way he goes anyways i digress are you still reading or is your bathroom break over okay what was i saying and he goes yes so you bought the company told the employees you weren't firing them firing seventy five percent of them and then you did i was not in the first batch or the second batch or the third batch of layoffs i don't know which batch we're on map now but you know whatever you i i think i got i think i'm fired now i'm not sure just wanna make sure i i get paid out because in his contract he had it where okay i'll take the money as a yearly salary rather than upfront payment but if you ever fire me then you have to pay out the rest right so i'm guarantee this money i'll take it you know slower rather than than faster but you know that that's fine and so anyway anyways this guy this guy not only not only says how he's typing what's that he also mentioned how he was typing yeah i think he was just like yeah i can't do like sustained thing but like i can type with the one finger on my phone and blah blah and so anyway he he explains this he goes like this guy was literally named person of the year in iceland this guy like his his side hustle is he's building wheelchair ramps throughout iceland so that other disabled people can get like he he's building hundreds of of these wheelchair ramps he's like that's who you're that's who you're picking on here that's who that's who you chose to to fight with i saw this great quote he goes elon man this guy's a dumbass he fucked with the wheelchair mister rogers because he because what is this guy thinking and you know like and and so this guy you i read this thread and i was literally like nine on one i'd like to report a murder right like you know it was just like the ultimate clap and then elon tries to backtrack and he basically goes some random dude who tweets in the threat goes i know hall and this is you know you're saying that he's liar and was just trying to do no work and get paid out and that's not who this guy is random guy tweets and then elon reads back this is the most bullshit of all the bullshit he goes based on that comment i decided to call hall rather than rather than just tweet to each other and he goes i decided to call hall he goes what did he say he goes and you know have a have a video chat with him turns out you know there was a misunderstanding the information i was given was either incorrect or correct but not important that's that white flag bro you you lost you know standard you know you know we've discussed him you know staying with the company and you know this is the ultimate it's like first of all you you're you want them to say with the company because you have to pay them out if you fire them so that's like you know the first thing second thing you basically fucked up and stepped in it and this guy could sue you for like you know a whole bunch of money for like basically you know discriminating it's a disabled person as well as disclosing his private health information as well as probably three or four other you know issues that that were there were you know labor laws that were broken in this process but it's like dude you decided to have a video chat not when the guy said he's you know your employee said he hasn't heard from you not when he you know asked when for an explanation but when a random guy on twitter said no hell he's a good guy you decided there to stop in your tracks and do a video call with him bullshit like this one's whole thing is bullshit and elon continues to be you know king the king of bullshit have you heard the the song damn it feels good to be a gangster sure that song there's a line there's a line in it well i can't say the real line but it it basically says real gangster don't flex nuts because real gangster know they got them and right now elon he he is pretty gangster i mean he's the man he ain't he ain't acting like it he's flex nuts hard and he shouldn't be flexing as hard as he is and i get the personality type but some people are like dude he's just saying whatever he wants the same thing with trump he's like he's just saying what he's just like it says it like it is and i'm i i actually dislike that but i like that like to an extent but i'm like there's but just because you say it like it it like well he's just doing what he wants yeah but he just you just punch someone like hitting people isn't good do know what i mean it's like yeah i wanna do what i want does that mean i'm like go take a dump in the corner of the room like you know there's like do you let's me polite it to one another also if possible right we we're not gonna be needlessly needlessly rude to one another and that's kinda how i feel he acts right now and that's not cool two other two other parts of this new story one it's going around that this guy's payout was a hundred million dollars which makes no sense anybody who's in business is like no that number makes no sense there's no way he's getting paid nine million dollars a year of salary there's no way that they bought his agency for a hundred million dollars it's not how much you would aqua hire an agency for it's probably more like ten but know and i went i found it it just started with some random guy who goes oh man elon backtracking now because he realized he that hal has a hundred million dollar payout and like five tweets and somebody's like where did you read the a hundred million i never saw that he goes oh just estimating like you know yeah aqua hours are million dollars they had a hundred employees so you know hundred million dollars and now that's just like in a bunch of places it's like that's how that that's how bad like information spread oh fake new starts the second thing is elon owned himself when he goes the end of his thing he goes better to talk better to communicate through talking instead of communicating on twitter it's like just literally shitting on his own platform by the way like you know so so self owning you know all around so that i thought that i was interesting and then benson said the other thing about the house like the the office plant thing what do you make of this is i mean this makes no sense try what happened i didn't i'm dude i i had i muted elon i love i i love what are elon is doing man but i like i even think the twitter thing's interesting but fuck it's hard to be on his team and so i had to mute him he so he's been selling like office furniture and memorabilia from the office like just liquid to like get more cash i tried buying they had twitter logo i tried buying it but we got up too high and apparently like there was like plants in the office that he tried selling to an engineer like one of the employees or something like that it's like i mean i don't know i either of this guy's are marketing genius just trying to get p r like trying to like it's the thing where it's amazon was like we use doors as desks to save money which is a bullshit either one of those just like stories that sounds like man he's really turning over every rock to save money from this this bleeding company by the way i tried doing that an ikea desk is significantly cheaper than a door from home depot exactly i've tried doing this a desk is way cheaper doors stuff yeah yeah you can't even like write on him so so i don't know what to make it the story but just sounds like image just makes those sense either he's lost his mind or there's a master full p r thing that it's like nine thousand iq and i can't understand it or someone just making things up i don't understand maybe maybe all i think all of those things could be true an exaggeration about a weird thing he said because he's lost his mind and makes for good p r gotcha and he's a genius that's it could be all those things you know he could be he he's he's not dumb but he's a dumbass that's a that's a great line i saw people call him elmo elmo musk and i thought that was pretty funny but no he's he's fucking up do we wanna do one more yeah bad what else yeah alright let's go with the with money and happiness guys so that there was a two thousand ten paper that said that basically above seventy thousand dollars more money does not make you more apt does not make you more happy turns out mo money less problems because a new study says about is completely untrue it starts to flatten in a little bit as it goes up but what do guys think of this i i so here i i'm pulling this up so here's what it says sean it says that so if you are in the happiest of the unhappiness twenty percent does plateau after reaching a hundred thousand dollars but after that if you're not in that group more money does mean more happiness and and it basically it goes all the way up they studied it all the way up to five hundred thousand dollars and they said after that we we really didn't study it much but up to five hundred thousand dollars people do get happier but that said the researchers found that the overall emotional effect of more money on a person is small compared to other circumstances it's even compared to a weekend approximately a four fold difference in income so four times your income is equal to the effect of a weekend which is kinda funny wow but that said more money makes you happy so and this is all like there's just like two thousand ten study the where it said seventy thousand dollars from the beginning i thought that was the most bullshit study i've done this pod so many times that's nonsense that is absolutely not true seventy thousand dollars my sister when she was like younger lived in new york for seventy thousand dollars you're basically below the poverty line right that is not happy so seventy thousand not a chance i used to say i thought it was at like two fifty i actually believe it could be five hundred or even more but you get happier this is one of those things like you know that might be true i when i heard this i was like that might be true i might go ahead and test for myself yeah like i don't know if the earth is flat around i don't really have the ability to go out there and check it out i don't know you know if if sulfur gas is poisonous this but i figured i'm no need to test that this is one of those scientific claims that i had just decided a long time ago i'm a go ahead and check i'm a go ahead and do my own research on this one and and go ahead and try to go get a bunch of money and see how it feels and you know what i'm glad i did because the study was bullshit dude i got an mri yesterday and the lady at the front desk was like alright that's seven hundred and fifty dollars and she was like didn't say that she just handed me that she goes there's a bill today and she showed it to me she thought that i was like freak out and i was like alright you take apple pay and i just scanned my card whatever whatever and i remember thinking like where do i take i am yeah i remember thinking i am so happy i'm in a spot i used to not be able to afford that at all and i'm so happy i'm in a spot i call that you know what i call that i call that braces money i'm just gonna be able to swipe my card and get my kid braces and not think twice about it when i was younger my parents bought me braces and they told me that it was too grand that they had to pay on a credit card and at the time they had like six thousand dollars and i remember thinking like goddamn damn that sucks right like that's not i would be a lot happier if i had nine million dollars in the bank as opposed to nine thousand dollars whatever you guys had anytime a rich person tells you that money doesn't make you happy just ask them for their money then like oh cool i guess it's useless right k just give me a bunch of it then alright like you know yeah dude let's lift look at the actions versus the words in a lot of these cases so right this i always thought this study was bullshit also because i i i wonder how much money the people making this study make i was always like yeah that's what they think sure they they think that because i wanna know how much bias goes into a study when the it's always the salary either well yeah or they're like make it only fifty and they're like hey so sea boss seventy thousand but i've always wondered what like the biases are because like i don't know haven't even wondered i'm like this is obvious this is obviously not true and you know if i get to the finish line and i realized hey you know five million and ten million felt the same well shame on me for going the extra mile you know another thing have you ever tried to read a study yeah dude studies are crazy yes it's hard i have no idea and then like i follow all these like smart like a human or like the these other guys who like break down studies and i'm like and they'll say like well this study is actually bullshit for this reason and i'm like i guess i'll believe you but i don't like i can't read this and they'll like say like studies that i'm like well it said the word studying it it must be true and then they're like no it's actually way off for this reason and like their sample size was like eight people wasn't or you know a bunch of bunch of different things like that because i don't know how to read any there's a chart and it's like the error bars are huge it's like yeah it's that plus or minus you know seventy thousand plus or minus five hundred thousand like well okay hold what's going on here right so so yeah i think science is is used as a like a shield for like you can't argue sometimes in in many cases and there's good science and there's bad science and there's weak science and there's strong science and there's you know and then there's physics where it's like you know empirical true sorry but the only thing that i know is three things there's good science there's bad science and i don't know the difference between the the two that's like the only the only shirt right there nice that's like the only truth that i do that's just like it exists i'm just that was a little too strange big old brain look got that big brain on to today what else we got got that big brain alright here we go let's go tiktok biden administration in conjunction congress they're evaluating a new law that would make it possible for companies to be banned that pose national security risk people think this means that they're gonna ban tiktok what do guys think should the tiktok i don't know anything about that wow just wanted to pay you the big bucks dude like people talk about i don't i don't know anything about china i don't know what they're doing that's true do you no yeah honestly i do not how i mean what would i how would i really know the biden so i think that being able to ban something if it's a dash security risk yeah i think that's that's fine i that sounds like appropriate i also by using tiktok ton i can totally see how i wouldn't want this in the hands of my enemy it's like oh the ability to like taken all of my data my camera roll turn my microphone my camera on as well as feed me spoon feed me any amount of any like feed of information based on you know a mysterious algorithm that that can surface good stuff bad stuff weird stuff information whatever like that's a pretty powerful weapon right so so i definitely see the merit in that now is take tiktok actually at threat i i don't alright what's the nice one our software is the worst have you heard pub hubspot see most crm are a cobb together mess but hubspot is easy to adopt and actually looks gorgeous i think i love our new crm our software is the best hubspot grow better alright next one let's go with favorite cities a new poll from a real estate advice website reveals where americans would move if money was no object new york austin's in there that makes sense also on the list though las vegas and at number nine baltimore dude i'm from saint louis i'm from the city of saint louis a lot of people don't know this but if you look at with the highest murder rate per one hundred thousand people and it's been saint louis like either it's usually number one number two for the past ten years there's like five hundred murders a year saint louis and baltimore very similar that sucks it sucks i don't wanna move there not at all i don't understand that that's weird to me once i worked with the media business i realize that polls rankings lists bullshit just things to get generate clicks links controversy you know if i was gonna make a list and i made a list that was like you just nod and you say yeah that makes sense you're not gonna share that you're not gonna talk about that i throw baltimore as the this fourth most desired city to live in or whatever like put new york ninth just make them outraged what i'm gonna get a lot more clicks a lot more discussion a lot more controversy and a lot more backlinks for for my seo and you know so so once you know their incentives you'll know why these lists are are often outrageous either they're just paid to put like you know things on the top or they're trying to do things that will generate a bunch shares do you do you know what state baltimore is in yeah baltimore is in maryland alright nice i don't think you could get that if you google if you been baltimore let my breath i was like of course i know that baltimore dude if you google baltimore and look at the images very on a very oppressive and not not impressive at all i'm sorry baltimore that skyline not interesting one bit i need the the tourist association needs to work on the seo not not so good well else you got can we wrap this up at the slap fighting one yeah do do the story sam so dana white is putting muscle behind u c sorry dana white and the u is putting muscle behind power slap leak so if you guys have not seen this it's basically two guys they're typically like huge fat guys standing at a table smacking each other i think they get three times a smack when they get the three times to smack each other i don't know the rules but it seems like someone gets knocked out every slap every fight yeah right what are the rules is it like the first one knocked out yeah loses or it's typically your three to five rounds they take turns hitting each other in the face with an open hand and the other presenters stand there take it they get sixty seconds to recover and then they can earn up to ten points based on the effectiveness of the slap and the defenders reaction that's good so you you know i like things where you get rewarded for pretending like it didn't hurt because i that's a skill that i i i have a little sibling for many many years dude this is the stupidest thing on earth i don't know so look am i i'm not a woke guy i consider myself right of center maybe i'm getting more woke as i get older i'm hating on elon and also this slap thing is the stupidest thing on earth and i'm gonna not give it any of my eye i'm not gonna give it any of my eyeballs i'd prefer see two people and their underwear fighting to the death in front of a million people like u have c but the slap thing not a fan yeah like it to me knockout outs or like dip it's like you know i like chips and dip but if you take the chips away and it's just dip now i feel a little dirty that's i feel like i'm watching a fight where somebody gets knocked out because there's skill and there's defense and then there's strategy when it's literally you have to stand or get hit as hard as you can by somebody else now you i'm just you know now i'm just eating barbecue sauce and i i don't really which is kind of which is kind of ridiculous that it's considered okay that we can use a you can use a you know chip as a spoon and with cheese but when you just use a spoon as a spoon for that cheese it's we consider two different things that is a little weird as it big questions in life that i might spend a whole time trying to wonder why we are the way we are in this way now let me tell you something that's a great example michael vic like got booted out of the nfl like went to jail for a dog fighting ring colin cap can't get a job because he you know took a knee during the national anthem too for those two are not even remotely the same thing by the way i'm just saying people have got a lot more punished for a lot less than this how is dana white not like how is he not canceled for doing this how is this what's weird thing that they're allowed to do kind of insane to me that like you could you could get away with doing this and not others i i guess it's because they're consenting adults and that's that's the line i guess anything above that line works i don't know that sounds a little little iffy to me but yeah i think this is so stupid i'm not gonna give it i try not to give it my attention i can't stand it i think it's really dumb and they're all like lie i watched the trailer i i was heavily entertained by it you know just from the trailer it's kind of like there was a subreddit called watch people die and it was like videos of people killing themselves and it was huge and people were obsessed with it and then they deleted it and i remember thinking that's a good idea to delete that and yet so it was really hard not to go to that subreddit it's like it's it was impossible like when you see it when i would see it come up i'm like oh my god this is horrible i cannot watch this and i would have to look away i i to stop myself i'm like clicking some of that stuff let's finish with the little show recommendation have you watched physical one hundred on netflix you keep telling me to watch it no oh my god everybody needs to go watched the show and i'm gonna warn you it's a weird show if you had just described it to me i would not have watched it it's just that korean netflix thing in real life right it's squid games and real life yeah kind of so basically here's here's why it's amazing so the premise of the show is they got a hundred athletes of different types so body builders mma guys boxer women men small large gym ness ice climber lose people from the olympics whatever everything wrestlers and they put them all together and they walk in and it's basically like we're gonna see who is variety of athletic competitions like who is the overall what is the best body what is the perfect body is it this guy or is it this girl or is it this guy and and so and like the very first like you know competition they have is basically there's a ball in the middle of a mud pit it's like whoever has this ball at the end of three minutes wins and it'll be guy diverse girl it'll be giant body builder versus time there's no weight class to know nothing and they go out there but they're but the best part is it doesn't have this american tack like slap fighting or ranch like koreans don't eat that shit they don't do that stuff all these people here's three reasons why it's been number one they got legit the best athletes so they literally got like the guy from the world's strongest man they're olympia gold medal like their most famous mma fighters they got their most famous athletes to go do this reality show it's like if lebron was competing against patrick mah homes versus competing at serena williams but like they actually and they not only they show up they actually gave a shit like they were like i really wanna win this and so they weren't just there for like reality drama that's the first thing second thing they play with honor so they'd be like you the winner of the first round gets to pick who their opponent's gonna be the second round it's like oh well you know an american would just be like oh i could beat this person so i'm gonna choose the weakest one and i'm gonna do and then what they would do is they would go to whoever they felt was the strongest that would be be the most honorable to compete against and they'd be like it would be by honor to compete against the the whole thing's done with subtitles i'm sorry i dumped so it's like it's all in korean but then you're listening on a dubbed thing which is hilarious because there's even some guys that speak they dub them also in more english it's hilarious so so they that's how the show works and they just eliminate people until they get to the very end the final winner of the physical one hundred and so you this is like you will love the show once you get in you get two episodes deep you're gonna love the characters which which body type is best well i wanna give it away i this is this is the show right so like this this is a giant spoiler but you know you gotta have it all you gotta have attributes you gotta have the speed you gotta have the strength you gotta have the endurance you gotta have the the dexterity you gotta have the the the agility you gotta have it all because they test you in all these different ways how would i show is amazing you gotta watch this thing physical one hundred how would i do oh here's the other thing that's great about it they don't really edit it so like in an american show they'll be like to start with the competition then there's like montage and then it's like the big fight they'll spend five minutes on the big argument the ending whereas with this it's like these contestants have one hour to pull this like ten thousand ton ship as a team to from one side of this room to the other go and then just show the whole thing in its entirety it's even a little bit boring sometimes but it's kinda like watching national geographic where you just get really into it like planet earth where you're like oh is the lizard gonna get the ant i gotta watch it like and it's gonna just happen i'm gonna watch the whole thing play out you know with no those jump cuts and it's such a refreshing change from like tiktok and like these other things that are like just such food stuff i'm looking at the winner we're not we're not that different are we well don't go away you'd be surprised why this person wanted it it's it's pretty crazy so anyways yeah you gotta watch the show it's kind of amazing alright that's it that's a pod