#1318 - Hotep Jesus

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Two, one, boom. Hotep Jesus. How are you, sir? I always wanted to say that.

I wanted to call somebody that.

Bryan Sharpe (0:08)

I need that drop.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

How the fuck did you get a name like Hotep Jesus? How'd that come about?

Bryan Sharpe (0:13)

It wasn't my idea.

You know, I was, I had just went through my spiritual awakening. I just left the hip hop industry, and I went through like that mace thing, you know, where you go to church every week.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

We got a lot going on up there.

Bryan Sharpe (0:24)

I had to tie my hair down. It's the black thing, man. Hey, I got squeal.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

So you had a spiritual awakening.

Bryan Sharpe (0:31)

Yeah, I had this spiritual awakening, and I'm, you know, tweeting on Twitter like I do.

And somebody said, what do you think you are? Some kind of Hotep Jesus?

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Ooh, that's good.

Yes, I do think I'm Hotep Jesus. That's perfect, and now you own it.

Bryan Sharpe (0:47)

Now I own it.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

That person is probably like, fuck. God damn it, that was a great name I gave that dude.

Bryan Sharpe (0:53)

Yeah, I don't know who that person is, or was, or where they are now.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

Shout out to whoever you are.

Bryan Sharpe (0:58)

Exactly.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

And Vibe Hi, your Twitter, why didn't you switch it to Hotep Jesus? Can you switch it?

Does anybody own Hotep Jesus?

Bryan Sharpe (1:06)

I do.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

So you have Hotep Jesus on Twitter, too?

Bryan Sharpe (1:08)

Yeah, I reserved it.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

Oh, dude, I think they could probably swap, do you have one of them cute little blue check marks yet?

Bryan Sharpe (1:14)

No.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

What the fuck is that? How do you get one of those?

There's some people that have those that have like 1,000 followers.

Bryan Sharpe (1:20)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

How are you getting it? Like if you worked for The New York Times or some shit?

Bryan Sharpe (1:23)

I thought you had those up. I was like, I'll do Joe and then I get verified, right?

Joe Rogan (1:27)

I don't know how Twitter feels about me.

I mean, I think Jack likes me. He's been in a couple of times, but I think the whole, they're weird, man. They want, I mean, I think all social media, all tech companies want you to toe a line right now. And if you're not towing that line and you're bringing on forbidden guests and you have people that have controversial ideas, you know, they have that finger on the button of getting rid of you. They don't know what to do.

Bryan Sharpe (1:53)

It's just like radio, you know? Like radio, a lot of people don't know it, but radio has to play happy songs because happy people buy things.

Really? Yeah, well, that's what the studies say, allegedly. The marketing studies and advertising studies say people who are in a good mood tend to buy things, right?

So the radio is supposed to play happy songs all day long. And the radio works for the advertisers, kind of like media and so on and so forth. So social media is no different. They have advertisers. So if there's people on the platform who are creating disgruntled crowds, it could be hurting the bottom line.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Yeah, but Facebook's algorithm actually favors that. The way Facebook has it set up. Like say if you get into debates with people on abortion or something like very controversial, they will start sending that shit to your feed. They will prop, they'll sort of steer it in your direction. Because the more you engage, the more clicks they get, the more money they get, the more advertising dollars they get.

Bryan Sharpe (2:50)

Absolutely, absolutely. The Facebook algorithm is quite unique in the way that things can go viral there.

Twitter, I feel like the Twitter Safety and Counsel Board.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Yeah, what do they call it? Trust and Safety? Yeah, is that what it's called?

Bryan Sharpe (3:07)

Yeah, so when I go and look at the entities that contribute to that board, I kind of start saying, oh, okay, I see why certain topics are taboo. When there's a board, those people on the board are the voice. They're the ones that have the opinion.

So if your group isn't represented, maybe you need to figure out how to get on that board. You know what I mean?

Joe Rogan (3:31)

Right, I don't know if anybody's getting on that board.