Two of the manliest men of the internet said incredibly sarcastically
challenged each other to a cage fight for real.
This I would actually love to see.
Here are the details.
It all started with reports that Instagram would soon have a feature called Threads
to compete with Twitter competition.
No.
Mario Nawfal tweeted, Meta to released Twitter rival called Threads.
Not making this up.
Meta, the same company that copied Snapchat, TikTok,
StumbleUpon, Foursquare, BeReal, and Clubhouse,
began coding Project 92 three months after Elon acquired Twitter.
Rumors have been circulating about the app's public name being Threads.
Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox described Project 92 as our response to
Twitter, and mentioned it will allow Instagram users to automatically transfer
their followers and user information straight to the new app.
At least that would be good.
Cox threw shade at Elon Musk's Twitter by claiming Meta's been hearing from
craters and public figures were interested in having a platform that is sanely run.
This is ironic considering the Wall Street Journal's investigation a few weeks ago
into the proliferation of child pornography rings on Instagram and
Facebook.
And let's not forget Meta is the same platform that censored the lab leak
theory and the Hunter Biden laptop.
Will Threads be a genuine Twitter rival?
Muskie no like that, and took a shot at Zuckerberg tweeting,
I'm sure earth can't wait.
Yes, I'm sure earth can't wait to be exclusively under Zuck's thumb with no
other options.
At least it will be, quote, sane, was worried there for a moment,
laughing emoji.
Twitter users started warning Musk, but
the defiant CEO doubled down tweeting in response to somebody saying,
be careful Elon Musk, I heard he does the Jiu-Jitsu now.
Musk replying, I'm up for a cage match if he is lol.
And that led to the other billionaire chiming in.
Zuckerberg shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk's tweet with
the caption, send me location, in the very human way Zuckerberg likes to talk.
He's always got that human touch.
Send me location I show up and do fighting program.
Musk versus Zuckerberg would be as good as it gets.
Musk, 51, has the upper hand as far as size, physically, and he has talked
about being in real hardcore street fights when he was growing up in South Africa.
Musk responded to Zuckerberg saying, if this is for real,
I will do it, fire emoji, fire emoji.
But has Elon thought this through?
Here is some broll of Zuckerberg fighting.
Zuckerberg, 39 years old,
is an aspirational MMA fighter who is already winning Jiu-Jitsu tournaments.
He also claims to have recently competed the Grueling Murph challenge workout in
just under 40 minutes.
He trained with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion Mikey Musumeci, but
also who knows that's an employee of his who he's afraid he would be
murdered if he beat him in a fight.
So seems like the guy's submitting pretty quickly.
That's just my opinion, you be the judge.
Guys like, there's, knock me over, no problem.
But maybe Elon does need to rethink this.
SDL SocDoneLeft tweets, there's like an 80% chance
Zuckerberg is gonna give Musk a traumatic brain injury.
Another one, all right, that's where we're at, Jenk.
>> Okay, so I'm guilty, I'll get to that in a second.
But that video did have Vladimir Putin vibes.
>> It did.
>> When he played against the Russian national hockey team and
Putin scored five goals.
This is one of my favorite videos we've ever shown in the Young Turks.
The incredible athletes are sitting around going, I cannot catch you, another goal.
Well done, Vladimir, okay?
But in this case, I know they're just training.
To be fair, they're just training, okay?
[LAUGH] I could probably rip Zuckerberg's head off, and they made out later, so
it's okay.
I mean, that was a lot of rolling around there, [LAUGH] anyway.
>> It'll make me more appealing, if I am, by curious.
Give me a shot.
>> [LAUGH] But he even looks like a robot, let's be honest.
Let's be honest, okay?
Anyways, now why am I guilty?
Look, this is all a circus, right?
The whole country is turned into a circus.
But I've done, I invented this thing, okay?
Not the circus part, but the whole challenging to a fight thing.
Let's keep it real.
So you know I challenged Rogan to a fight.
I said debate or legitimate cage fight, etc, right?
And then everybody went, nah, it's, my God, he's gonna give you traumatic brain
injuries, just like they're saying about, he's trained, you're not trained.
And just like Musk, I said, I used to do straight fights, etc.
So I too am a knucklehead, okay?
I too have done this drug, but I didn't even invent it with Rogan,
I did it with Smirkonish.
But I have a specific point I'm trying to prove which is,
Smirkonish at the time had said, the Democrats and the Liberals,
they're worsifying America, they're a bunch of wooseies.
And I was like, okay, then I'll debate you about whether we're wooseies.
But if you don't wanna debate and you're a manly man,
right, and you wanna do some wrestling, okay, I can do that too, right?
And then he panicked, he wet himself, he complained to mommy,
which was Ariana Huffington at the time.
We were both blogging at Huving the Post.
Joe Rogan hasn't responded at all.
Although me and Rogan as an undercard to Zuckerberg, Musk, I don't know if
it's an undercard or overcard, but, I mean, the pay per view on that one.
[LAUGH] Okay.
>> True, and the next day I will be the new lead anchor
of the Young Turks [LAUGH].
>> [LAUGH] With all respect, no, are you kidding me?
I'm a street fighter.
I got this, I got this.
>> Who do you take in the fight, Musk versus Zuckerberg?
Who do you think wins it?
>> I think Zuckerberg is.
So two reasons, one, he's been training lately, right?
Two, he's younger.
I think younger in this case is an advantage.
He's probably in better shape.
And three, I don't think Elon Musk knows what he's doing about anything.
>> True.
>> [LAUGH] Right, he'll probably fire his trainer and be like, yeah,
I've got a great idea, I'm gonna do this with no employees, [LAUGH] okay?
>> [LAUGH] They would also call your match against Joe Rogan, Younger versus Uger.
But that's not bad, it's not bad.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, come on, admit that me versus Rogan,
everybody would watch, okay?
>> Pretty great.
And Mad, don't underestimate me just because I might have put on
a couple of pounds [LAUGH].
>> Although I would love- >> And I've been trained in a while.
>> Although I would love to see you actually fight Smirkonish,
and Rogan just announced the fight just so
he could keep changing his opinion to based on who's winning.
>> No. >> See him constantly being like,
I really believe James Abraham.
Wait, Smirkonish, upper hand, big fan of his, always have been.
>> [LAUGH] All right, and I used to be a wrestler in high school, so
don't underestimate the big guy.
But look, guys, seriously, we've turned into idiocracy.
And like I said, look, I'm guilty, too, okay?
Okay, but me and Rogan are talk show hosts.
And by the way, to be fair to him, he didn't even respond.
But these two goofballs are billionaires.
They pretty much run the country as it is.
But no, they gotta see who's bigger, right?
>> And watch, they're gonna agree to do it.
We'll all get excited and then we're gonna see them in those big inflatable wrestling
things, those inflatable sumo outfits that we do it to children's birthday parties.
>> And by the way, and so, yeah, I would also pay for that to watch that.
But guys, man, enjoy your billions, you're knuckleheads, enjoy your billions.
What are you doing?
And what are you gonna go get brain damage for?
Okay, it makes no sense.
>> No, I think maybe they're hoping to correct the brain damage,
jog stuff back into place.
>> Okay, now we're having a better conversation.
By the way, I challenged Rogan for the same reason.
I don't remember exactly what it was now, but he was claiming that the people on
the left are weak and this and that, and that they're the real men.
And look, that's why that kind of talk is nonsense.
By the way, after I challenge these folks, all of a sudden there isn't a lot of talk
about how they're the real men and how they're strong, etc.
Usually tuck tail and run, okay?
So that's the reality of it, too.
But in this case, there's no point that's being made, and
they're not offering a debate as a possibility, which I do with Rogan, etc.
I'd much rather have that cuz then you're having a conversation about the issues.
But these folks, they're just trying to measure themselves,
you know what I'm saying?
Because, look, guys, once you're a billionaire,
you don't need any extra money ever, ever, ever.
You can't possibly spend that much money in a lifetime.
All they're doing is measuring penises.
This is just a different way of doing that.
>> True, and I also have a realization here, too.
You're challenging Rogan, Smirkonish should challenge Rogueain.
>> Think I got it.
>> That's a ball's man.
You've been bald-smacked.
>> What are you gonna do about a Smirkodish?
Step into the ring?
Just kidding, we're kidding.
Okay, Smirkodish, calm down, you don't have to call Ariana.
>> I'll wipe the smirk right off.
I'm kidding, I would never.
>> [LAUGH]