Yelp

Stop advertising your services.

Take your Yelp page with all of your reviews down in Los Angeles.

Step back, let the path unfold.

And ultimately that led me on this path of five years of memory recall and initiation into a multidimensional faction.

So looking in the encyclopedia, we learned that in those early years, the great houses were not happy with this new ownership.

They were giving one-star Yelp reviews all around.

Yeah.

I think the waiter stabbed my kid and then drank his water.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's free.

And like I said, it's kind of like Yelp.

You know what I mean? People just put their thoughts and things on it.

I think it said... oh something like over three million different places are ranked on there so it could really be helpful especially if you're trying to figure out a new city and trying to find a place i mean you definitely don't want to get to some place and it not be accessible not be able to get in there not be able to get around and again just because it's got a ramp to the door doesn't mean you can make it to the restroom or to the other places that might need to to kind of be there so um what It'd be a really great app just to try out and see if, and again, kind of maybe be the decision maker if you're between a few different places you want to go to figure out which one might be a little bit more.

And when we do that, typically Google will take that review down.

Yelp will not take the review down, usually.

I'm not a Yelp fan.

I'm so glad you said all that, though, because people reaching out to us first is imperative.

Oh, yes.

And if you would write out and fill out a postcard for your local bar, then often you would get a free copy of the guide in the mail.

So it was like pretty Yelp.

Except you would get something instead of just being farmed for your data.

Those were the days.

We are in a moment of efflorescence of lesbian and women's and lesbian queer trans bars.

They declined to 15 in the 2017 Damron Guide.

Now, There are reasons to suspect that the people who were reporting things into a physical guide at a time when Yelp was very well established and Google Business were really well established, that there's reason to suspect that the guide was not as sensitive to what was going on on the ground.

But nevertheless, a guide run by a lesbian only listed 15 lesbian bars in the country.

A really big shift happened two months ago.

ChatGPT partnered with Yelp.

And the reason that's such a big thing is because before they were trying to pull in Google stuff, but they're competing directly with Gemini.

So now they are actually licensing all of Yelp reviews, Yelp requests to quote information, everything Yelp related is now going to be in ChatGPT.

Literally over the next three to six months you're gonna see it rolled out.

Now, y'all could hate Yelp, I've been there, done that, and I get it.

What I am telling you is that all these platforms are trying to figure out what their angle is going to be.

When it comes to the ads in ChachiBT, there was a study that came out that literally less than 1% of home service businesses are using ChachiBT ads, and the reason is is because they're not productive.

I don't think it's severe enough to even call it a challenge, but we are living in a text-based world, right? And if there's a lot of text, for example, like going to a restaurant that has very...

a lot of crucible stuff for crucible writing and very lengthy with no pictures, then I will just pull up Yelp and see the

food pictures.

Right.

I'm sure many of you listening have seen a horror movie or two and thought, there ain't no way that someone could be that twisted.

Who the heck would hack and slash a body like Art the Clown or slowly stalk the streets like Michael Myers, have serious mommy issues like Norman Bates, or casually write a five-star review for a restaurant on Yelp discussing the perfect pairing of human liver with fava beans like Hannibal Lecter? And let me guess, as I say these scenarios paired with their muses, I'm sure your mind can already see flashes of potential real-life counterparts that might make some of the most notorious Hollywood slashers look like child's play.

And that's exactly what I plan to do in tonight's episode, but we're not stopping there.

Hollywood has taken real killers and turned their stories into blockbuster hits, remarkable television series, and true crime sensations.

Mm-mm.

All of a sudden, because of the high cost of food, Yelp data shows people are searching for all-you-can-eat buffet near me more than ever before at any other time in history.

Wow, I guess

I'm just not that poor yet, because I don't think the sneeze guard is enough of a guard between me and you people's nastiness.