how to turn off your ads and your ad blocker, which isn't too much of a bother. I would say I skip almost everything that's asking me for money or a password or my email address or to turn off ad blockers. And every time I go to one of those links I get angry.

Now Twitter users are gonna have that experience. They could be like, hey that looks interesting, click. Oh I'd have to pay for that. I'm angry. Oh here's a good one. Oh I'd have to pay for that. What would happen if everything that's useful on Twitter turns into a paywall? Because that's the only thing that'll be behind the paywall, right? Good stuff. You're not going to put your worthless stuff behind the paywall. So Twitter has a really big challenge how to handle the customer's psychology.

Now as you know I have a full subscription account separately on the Locals platform. But the Locals platform was built for just that. Its only purpose is to be a subscription platform. So there's no psychological barrier there. Nobody would sign up for it unless they knew exactly what they were getting. So they're all happy. But if you're used to it being free, people don't like you adding any kind of friction to that, even if it's the extra stuff, because they're going to think we used to get the extra for free, didn't we?

But I do think subscription is the way things have to go. So Twitter is making the right move. It's just going to be hard to implement in their case. I think they'll be successful at some level. All right. But if you don't want to be banned etc., something like Locals would be better.

Now I keep hearing about a new platform called Clubhouse, which as I understand it is some kind of open audio conversations with some set of rules. And I've received a number of invitations to it. I guess it's still invitation only. And I've declined them all so far. Now the reason that somebody says Clubhouse is Chinese, that's not true is it? I don't think that's true. So don't believe that unless you see some confirmation. I don't think that's true. But you got my interest if it is true. I definitely want to know it. Somebody says it's not a U.S. company. I was sure it was a U.S. company. No, the API they use is Chinese, somebody says. All right, so there may be some connection. Let's put that as an open question.

But that's not what I was going for today. What I was going for is I don't understand it. So this is the interesting thing. Clubhouse, everybody's talking about it and signing up and everything, so there must be something to it. But I keep waiting to hear something about it that makes me want to do it and I haven't. And I don't know what other people are hearing that makes them want to do it, because lots of smart, connected, forward-thinking people are already on it and telling me I should be on it. But I don't know why. Does anybody know why? Because I don't think you can monetize it, right? And if there's no video, isn't it less good?

All right. Somebody says think live podcasts. Well, I suppose if they did a good job on the interface it would be interesting. I'll probably check it out eventually. But my only point is not that it is or is not valuable, but why have I heard so much about it and yet nobody has told me what its value proposition is? Isn't that weird? Well, you would think that almost any