fect. And it was short. And you know sometimes memes can go out a little bit too long. That's my only complaint about the political memes. I like them short. This was just the right length. Perfect visual.

And part of the reason I think they were complaining so much about it is that it was really powerful visually. When you watch the two kids hugging, you can just feel their joy. These are two little kids who are really genuinely happy to see each other. I mean they really like each other. And it immediately reminds you that that's how you started, right? Like you immediately go to your baby self and say, oh yeah, there probably was a time, not that you remember it, right, but there probably was a time that I couldn't even tell the difference between black people and white people. Like I didn't even know it was important. It just wasn't a variable. Everybody looks different somehow. Why was I going to pick out that one difference? It didn't occur to me. That was my friend Bob.

So it's really powerful in the way it works on your mind. So this isn't just a funny meme. It's hilarious. It's well crafted. It's race sized. Got the president's attention. Got national news. Got a controversy about it. Got removed from a lot of places. Man, you can't hit a longer long ball than that. So this one I will elevate to masterpiece status. If they were giving awards for memes, this would be your Academy Award for 2020. So congratulations to Carpe Donktum.

By the way, if you're not watching Carpe Donktum's career, how it sort of evolved from the first election, it's really fun to watch because he, as well as many others, are just putting together their talent stacks and just watching it come together. It's just fun to watch. It's a great show.

Speaking of art and speaking of masterpieces, this next thing I'm going to tell you is maybe the hardest thing I've ever tried to communicate. I spent probably 30 minutes last night trying to compose a tweet on this topic, and in the end I sort of gave up because there are some things that by their weird nature can't be explained to some people. In other words it's something you could explain easily but only if I can't.

Here's the situation. You've probably seen on Twitter Akira the Don. His username is @akirathedon. And he makes music. One of the things he's made, and there was a little clip that he's released, is he's taken my audio from my periscopes and he's taken selected clips from audios, especially of the periscopes that are not political so that there's nothing political in the music. But when I talk about the user interface for reality, for example, and he put it to music.

Now here's why I couldn't compose the tweet, because I need more time to talk about it like I'm going to do now. If I just told you that somebody whose music you were not familiar with necessarily had put my audio from my periscope to music, what would be your first impression of how good that would be? Not very good, right? Wouldn't that be your assumption? Your first assumption would be I don't know if I want to listen to that. I mean maybe for curiosity, but it's not gonna be like art or music, right? I mean it doesn't make any sense. You're gonna be surprised.

All right, now here's the part that I couldn't tell. When I listened to it, it actually just blew me away. But I couldn't tell if it's because I was listening to my own voice. Because think how powerful that would be to hear yourself talking to yourself in a way you weren't expecting. So you don't know what's gonna come. It's because the order of it and the presentation was new to me as well. Even though it was my words, it was somewhat new to me because of the way it was composed. So I wasn't sure if what was happening is I was just having a personal experience that would not be in any way generalized to other people.

So I tweeted it out saying as little about it as possible because I couldn't describe it and I wanted to see what the comments were. It turns out people really like it. People really liked it. And I was trying to figure out why, and I'll take my best crack at it.

You know you've seen the popularity of mashups where you'll have let's say a rapper doing some kind of rap part of the song and then maybe Rihanna or somebody would come in and do more musically. I don't know. I don't have the musical terms, but you know what I'm talking about. So you'd have somebody with a completely different style, a rapper style, mixed with somebody who was more classically a singer. And so how is it better? I don't know why. Like I've thought about it for a long time. It's like why is this better when you put two completely different things together? It doesn't quite make sense but it is. I mean I listen to it like, okay that's better. I don't know why.

I think it has something to do with in that case you're waiting for the part. You're waiting for it or there might be some anticipation about it. I don't know. Maybe there's some context or contrast that makes it a thing.

But what I listened to, here's my best guess about why it had an effect on me. You know I'm a trained hypnotist and a very experienced communicator. So when you hear my words they tend to carry more weight than an untrained communicator. So if you said to yourself it's just somebody talking and they put it to music, it wouldn't be this. Because even when I