(Transcribed by TurboScribe. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) I recently saw now that there are ads
on WhatsApp, they will feed us ads on
WhatsApp and you see at this point it
sounds inconvenient.
None of us want to see ads on
WhatsApp man, but you're using it for free
and they have to pay.
Remember the episode where I talked about your
phone listening to you or not listening to
you literally.
I consider ads as an infection of anything
that comes free.
When you use a service for free, you
will be met with advertisement because you have
to pay for it in other forms and
the people who orchestrate this justify it by
saying at least we give you for free
and then give you options of things to
spend money on.
Things that we calculate to be relevant to
you based on your behavior on the internet
that we also track with and without your
knowledge.
You see this ping pong of guilt and
justification now.
He still pulls the ball in their court
and that is where the ball died.
What I'm saying is they are the ones
that created the playground that we are in.
And they are blaming us not to complain
about the rules of the game when they
put us in the game already.
And by the way, if you're lost so
far, I'm talking about free things like Instagram,
Facebook, WhatsApp, Gmail, all these things that we
are so used to using.
These are used for free.
Somebody, some people created them, but just by
having data, we have access to use them.
I said that storage has become a big
thing in the tech world.
You are running out of storage.
All these apps, I even wonder like, how
big is the memory card?
Is it as big as Africa that is
storing all our information?
How big is it?
So now with billions of people on these
social media platforms, with billions of megabytes or
terabytes of data stored in these sites, there
are companies who provide storage.
Those companies now have price of storage, or
let me say the value of storage.
The value of storage has increased.
Therefore, the price of storage has increased.
And for these media companies to keep up
with the price of storage, of storing your
data, they will have to charge you, right?
They will have to charge you to store
your data, not literally or not directly.
Obviously, they will not come and now charge
you.
And how do they do that?
Instagram will not come and charge you to
store your data.
Hey, we are keeping your pictures that you've
posted since 2016.
Come and pay us.
WhatsApp won't do that.
We are keeping your chats since 2015.
Facebook won't do that.
Email will not tell you how your mail
came back.
They have people who pay directly for them,
for the storage.
But it is the advertising companies.
It is the advertisers.
And for those advertisers to get more money,
they need these platforms to show their ads
to more people so they can generate more
sales, so they can pay for the storage.
And so they will show you those ads.
You have to view those ads to pay
for your WhatsApp storage.
On Instagram too, we are already managing, already
suffering or enduring the ads.
Yeah, but that's what's paying for that picture
from 2016.
Why that can't be justified now?
There's a danger that I foresee.
Gege said something, be careful what you start
because if you do that forever, I mean,
it's a quote, but there's no context to
it.
His own context to it was you're doing
something.
You may think you're doing it temporarily.
It could be people who are doing fraud,
who are doing drugs.
You know, whatever it is you're doing that
you think, okay, it's only for the temporary,
you start up, you go into something else.
Be careful what you start because you'll be
doing it forever.
A lot of old mama, asha'u, they
didn't think that wasn't their intention.
Even bikemen, bus drivers, whatever.
Gege, in his own case, is Okada.
That's why he left.
He was in Okada business, but he was
like, listen, it ain't like this.
This is not what he wants for his
life.
So he better leave it now instead of
buying more Okada and expanding the Okada business.
Like if he leaves Okada business now, I'm
going to look for something else to do.
That would be more lucrative.
If not, he will end up as Okada
merchant.
That's not what he wants to be.
Not to say that an Okada merchant is
bad, but that's not what he wants to
be.
That's not who he wants to be.
I saw an episode of Black Mirror.
One of my favorite seasons, one of my
favorite series of all time is Black Mirror.
How futuristic it is.
And in one episode of season seven, this
lady was a teacher.
Her husband worked in a construction company of
some sort.
They had a very small family, had a
good income.
They were getting by.
And then all of a sudden, while the
lady was teaching in class, something happened to
her.
She collapsed and she had a spinal injury.
Her husband was devastated.
At one point, they were telling him, you
may have to just give up on your
wife, like she's going to be a vegetable
forever.
So you decide if you're going to pull
out of life support that you're getting her
or you want to just keep her.
We'll give you time to make this decision.
You don't have to tell us now.
In that confusion, somebody walked up to him
in the hospital lobby and gave him a
card or something and explained to him that
they are doing this clinical testing for this
new product.
It's like it fixes human beings like magic.
It's something they put inside your body.
And they gave me a call if I'm
interested.
Obviously, he was interested and he gave her
a call and they met up and they
explained to him what the thing was.
You don't even have to put up any
money up front.
We can spread the payment plan.
You can spread the payment as you like,
because we are still testing you.
So if you get into our human testing,
we'll put it for your wife.
We hold every liability, but we are confident
it will work and your wife will be
back to normal again.
He agreed.
It was signed.
They put it in his wife.
Thankfully, it worked.
She was healthy again, teaching, going to school.
Life was good.
It was like a miracle.
They couldn't stop thanking the lady that introduced
them, that works for the cheap company that
put the cheap in her.
After a few months, she started seeing some
symptoms.
First of all, she'll be having migraines, very,
very big headaches.
They will take her back to the clinic
where they put the cheap.
They'll tell her, okay, it's like this, it's
like this, take this meds.
You have to upgrade to a new plan.
If not, that is the updated version that
is there.
So they have to update their plan and
upgrade to be stopped, to stop getting those
headaches.
I know this man, you know, this is
putting a strain.
It's expensive, putting a strain on their account.
They didn't plan for this, but it's his
wife.
He cannot be seen her in pain.
It was affecting their sex life.
So he agreed.
He upgraded plans.
It was costing them like $500 monthly or
something like that.
So they were okay with that moving and
living life.
But the man said, I'm having to work
extra shifts at work and the woman too.
So he was slaving away.
He was losing himself.
You could see that he wasn't sleeping and
all of that.
It was straining, but at least she wasn't
having those headaches again.
Until at one point in school, she was
talking to a student.
And then she just stopped in the middle.
Instead of reciting what seems to be an
ad for like 30 seconds, and then the
thing will stop and she will get herself
and then continue teaching.
It happened again one time when she was
having sex with her husband and then he
said something.
He said something about like lubricant or something.
And then she recited it just to like
a robot and then performed a lubricant ad
and then just snapped back and continue.
I was like, what was that?
And she was like, what was what?
He said he just said something about lubricant.
She went to school the next day.
And so in class, her little people came
up to her and they were discussing.
And then he said something about his mom
defrosting his dad or something about his dad
not being a Christian or whatever.
And then he triggered her again.
She started reciting an ad about one church.
I'll be donating to one church.
I'll be joining one faith something.
But it's a church ad.
And then the little boy listened to that
and went to him to tell his mom
that the teacher said if you join this
thing, I'll be able to do that.
And the mother came to the school and
reported her to the school ownership.
School ownership was leaved.
He cannot be advising students about religion.
He gave her a serious query.
Also, this was clearly a problem in their
life.
And so the husband had to take her
back and they went over to the clinic,
made you leave that, put the chip in
her and said, why are you routing ads
to us?
He said, oh, that this plan now is
this is what they do in this plan.
There are no headaches, but from time to
time you do ads.
It forces you to do ads.
It's in your spine.
Okay.
But if you upgrade, you will not be
seeing it.
How much is the upgrade?
It was something like three times more.
Once they had the amount, they just devastated
the couple.
So they couldn't activate the upgrade.
They went home and they were managing with
the ads like that.
It first started as if it was a
free plan.
The story got so terrible that the lady
died.
She chose that, okay, she doesn't want to
get that.
Just go back to the day she was
supposed to die.
That's how bad it got.
The man was doing weird shit on social
media now, like he was on the dark
web, removing his tweets for money and doing
crazy.
It actually really got pretty dark.
And it just reminds me of how crazy
something can get to starting from something so
harmless.
But if you spot a pattern or something
seems so good to be true or it's
free, have foresight, have imagination.
Think of the worst case scenario, because something
could slowly metamorphose into a problem that you
would wish you were dead than to deal
with.
I've just launched something we may now refer
to as the Good Living Podcast Network.
And this is an umbrella of podcasts that
serve different audiences.
A lot of times, I have topics to
talk about regarding mental health or depression or
even certain particular professions, like what kind of
figure the nurse or the doctor is seen
in the hospital.
But I can't do everything on the Good
Living Podcast.
And so we have dedicated podcasts with experts
in those fields discussing issues pertaining to those
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Very soon coming your way on the Good
Living Podcast Network will be Real Matters Only,
a podcast hosted by a psychotherapist on psychology
and relationships and things like that.
Now, due to the way you grew up,
so many of you have had to do
so much to get validation.
Some of you grew up in households where
you did everything possible just to get your
father's attention.
Some of you did so much just to
get your mother to say, I am proud
of you.
So now you're mentally conditioned to the idea
that love has to be fought for.
Now you are in a relationship and you're
the only one doing everything.
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Let's get back to the episode.
So, ads are coming on WhatsApp, but you
never saw it coming when you first signed
up for WhatsApp.
My mom, you just don't trust this big
tech company, Sha.
You know, your forefather survived somehow.
Just seek spiritual fulfillment in this life.
That's my own solution to it.
If your focus is spiritual fulfillment, you'll be
less attracted to the things that big tech
is selling, especially for free.
If you're satisfied with it within your soul.
There are people who are paying for benefits
on Instagram now so they can see how
many times somebody will watch their story or
view their profile or whatever, you know.
If that does not satisfy their soul, good
and fine.
But I believe that there's a level of
satisfaction you have within your soul, you will
not be interested in that kind of information.
And therefore, big tech cannot sell you some
of these things because this is what they're
selling these days, you know, this aspirational lifestyle.
And so if you detach and deconstruct from
the desire for that aspirational lifestyle, I believe
big tech will have less to sell you.
You will only need the essentials and you
will still live a very, very comfortably modern
life.
Thank you for watching this Netflix Good Living
Podcast.
I love you guys.
See you next week.