Cortex 48: Parade of Failures
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so we have the secret project that has
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resulted in an enormous file I think
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about 300 gigabyte file that I want to
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synchronize between my laptop and my
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desktop but it's taking forever to
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upload on my house over my Wi-Fi so i
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was thinking i can bring my laptop to
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your house to synchronize over your
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faster Wi-Fi I don't think that I've
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mentioned on this show but i have i have
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gigabit internet now yeah there's a
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company in the UK called hyper optic
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which i discovered head cable run
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through my building num so I now have
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super fast internet so yes by all means
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grey you can bring your laptop over to
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my house when you visit mega office this
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weekend and you can you can upload it I
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mean you can upload it I can download a
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video game we can stream TV shows I've
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got banned wit for days my friend no
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problem here I told you know I I ran a
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speedtest before we started the show
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because I just like to do that now I
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know you do I know you'd and over Wi-Fi
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I'm getting 500 up and down right now so
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whatever you need buddy whatever you
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need I know you like to run speed tests
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all the time I know you like to tell
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everybody about your super fast internet
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it's you can't you can't go an hour
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without telling someone in casual
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conversation that you have super fast
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internet I'm sure the barista at your
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local coffee place knows that you have
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super fast internet you just casually
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drop it into conversation all the time I
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got a new tattoo of my upload and
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downloads yeah yeah that's that's what's
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happening yeah that's going to be the
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tattoo on your other arm but there were
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days where episodes of cortex will cost
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me actual money right like I had to pay
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to increase my mobile bandwidth cap to
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download the logic file right so now I'm
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able to do this in a flash like I'm able
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to upload videos to YouTube like
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multiple gigabyte videos in like a like
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it gets in the count of seconds rather
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than minutes right yeah I know I know I
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mean look look Mike when you first got
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your super fast Wi-Fi did I not say
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there was no man in the world who was
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more deserving of this than you I know
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man who had struggled through
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sadder slower flakier internet for years
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building an internet-based business who
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deserve this upgrade than you did I not
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say that you did say that I did say that
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right but now I keep hearing about your
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great internet and he keep mentioning it
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all right yo you're getting tattoos of
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its you bringing it up all the time gone
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too far and how now I'm just resentful
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and envious I don't my goodwill is
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somewhat gone my goose is like Oh Mike's
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gonna tell me about its internet again I
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know I know you'll get to experience it
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you'll be able to upload your
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super-secret project and step one for us
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sharing an office together will be
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complete I'm gonna vote miss out desk
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inside of mega office of a corner and we
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can share that internet together great
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me and you it will be lovely oh it's a
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trap I just realized that the trap I'm
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not gonna do it i also have a VR headset
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in here if we both could be our headsets
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could we work together no way we could
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just wear the VR headsets and we like
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not even in the same room you could just
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have a VR world created of your current
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office so it's like I'm never there but
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you then still get the really fast
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internet actually you know you could
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stream an actual live stream of the
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office into the other office because
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we'll have enough bandwidth for it it's
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gonna be great you're making a lot of
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sense and scary also speaking of your
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office mmm I tell you who I haven't
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heard about in a while your office mate
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uh how am i doing he's doing good he's
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still there still making phone calls
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have you seen him yet I don't know what
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he looks like no you still don't know
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what he looks like I don't I don't want
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to know what he looks like although I
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did I did take a picture for you of his
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crazy white board no because i know p
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people don't believe me with the like
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writing big words like growth and focus
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and customer service surrounded by
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nothing but i did happen to pass the
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office and i just want to show you to
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prove that this is really really what
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I'm dealing with how did you
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snap the picture like did you like hide
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your phone under one arm and just like
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grab it on the move it's like oh I'm
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just I'm checking my phone for a text
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message may be in a slightly camera
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holding angle yeah that's that's what
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I'm up to you know that's that's how
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that works like this is a up high text
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message yeah sometimes up high down low
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too slow you know that's how you take
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your text messages sometimes alright oh
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look at this rather you growth this year
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four arrows pointing at this year that's
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amazing just in case you didn't know it
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was this year with the word conversion
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in the middle Wow but you see what I
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mean it's like it's it's just buzz words
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but with no like there's no plans
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there's lots of arrows there's pointing
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why would someone deal with us choose us
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wow this is serious stuff man because I
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think sometimes when people hear me tell
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the stories they think Oh surely it must
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be an exaggeration nobody would write
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motivation on a whiteboard and circle it
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three times surrounded by nothing it's
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like but someone does someone does my
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office neighbor does yeah they really do
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they've got like a four quadrant thing
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once there's potential on one side I
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can't see what the other one says with
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arrows next to them man this is
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incredible BAU brilliance do you know
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what that means no I don't know what
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that business as usual oh I see look at
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you you know all the jargon oh yeah I'm
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seeing loads of it loads of thing it's
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been a continual source of frustration I
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do also have a plan that I'm slowly
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trying to enact over this which did
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include looking for another office but
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so far it has proven unfruitful hope
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this is a plan to finally get rid of him
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is that what the 300 goodbye file is
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look I just you know if my talking like
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a crazy person with Thunder sounds
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hasn't convinced him to go away like
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nothing was going to convince him to go
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away that sure I'm not going to do
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anything here I looked into moving
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within the same building and that that
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wasn't going to work out for us a couple
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of other problems actually did try to
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find another office in my
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extraordinarily narrow reading
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where I'm drunk where I would like to
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find an office and I thought I had found
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one but of course real estate people you
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can't trust them I don't know if you had
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that experience Mike or not but yeah
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this is like they have a reputation in
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their industry and it is well deserved
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is my small experience of trying to find
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another office now I'm sure not all real
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estate brokers but like vast majority of
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yes yeah yeah it's it's super fun it's
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like hey I have a bunch of requirements
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for an office can we meet tell me yes
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can you tell me if this office has those
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requirements it's like I would like this
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I would like this I would like this and
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like this here are the four things that
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for me are total deal breakers that I
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would like in an office and they say oh
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we found a great place for you why don't
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you come on down and take a look at it
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and like why don't you answer my
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question about if the office actually
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has these properties like I just take a
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look you'll love it it's like that's not
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an answer right that doesn't tell me if
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I have a thermostat that I can control
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right you're just you're just trying to
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get me in the door it's very frustrating
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itself is definitely has four properties
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ya know it does more of them mm-hmm one
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hundred percent has four I actually came
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very close to signing a lease for a new
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office because i like it like a miracle
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right like manna from heaven I did find
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an office that met all of my various
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picky requirements that's exactly where
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I want it to be it has everything I
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could possibly want in it it was a
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little bit expensive like a little bit
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out of a little bit out of the Rings I
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actually wanted to but it was way too
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expensive is what it was it's a little
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expensive but I was like you know what
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this is like this is totally worth it
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like I'm you know if if it meets all of
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these things it's fine like I can deal
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with this and like oh you just have to
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sign for a three-month lease like okay
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let's find it's a reasonable amount of
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time right but then as as negotiations
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go on they're like oh do we say three
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months uh we meant six months and you
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have to put up 25 percent in advance and
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like six months that's a long time to
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commit if I don't know if I like the
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office for sure like it has all of the
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properties that I want but just like
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this guy who's next door to me and my
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current place maybe there's some sort of
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deal breaker that
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I don't know about and signing up for
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six months without without knowing that
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like it's a long time yeah so I was like
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six months I hemmed in hard about it for
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a little while and I finally decided
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like okay six months I'm willing to take
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this gamble because again I'm picky and
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it meets all of my criteria what you
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gonna do like you have to do this when
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you buy a home as well like when you
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rent a home you always have a contract
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you never know what it's actually gonna
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be like sometimes you yeah roll the dice
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yeah always there's always some sudden
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you have to roll the dice but guess what
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when I showed up on the actual day to
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sign the actual final lease it was oh
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did we say a six-month we meant a year
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and you have to put down twenty five
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percent and it's also more expensive
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than we originally thought like I see
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what you're doing right I'm no fool here
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you like you knew this right from the
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beginning you've just been slowly
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cranking up like once you get me used to
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six months you're trying to see if you
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can lock me in for a year so it's like
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ah the hell with you like I'm walking
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out of here I don't want anything to do
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with this office I'm not falling for
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your tricks I'm getting out of here so
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anyway I don't have a new office putting
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into growth growth so you gonna do wrote
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this what you're gonna hear what I've
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been doing is spending more time working
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like I used to with different places
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around the city which has been an
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interesting change of pace this is like
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something like that i haven't want to go
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into my regular office i'm gonna go
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somewhere else just like I used to and
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so that's been an interesting thing to
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do but that's what I've been up to
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lately with my office you know wasting
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money now on your office though there's
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savings time so there's a two-week gap
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good one this is totally crazy making i
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every year yeah it takes me our surprise
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every single time yeah i don't i don't
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have to deal with obviously as many sort
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of cross ocean meetings call
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this this time of year I'm always just
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vaguely aware is the crazy time of year
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we kind of I want I want to kind of ask
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you about time shifting and anything
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when that is a thing for you but before
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apples calendar allows you to do this to
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set event times in other time zones oh
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yeah yeah so I do this we're like I'm
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setting my shows in the time zones of my
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host so I don't need to change my entire
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time hits it just does it on its own so
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schedule with people in other time zones
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time changes you end up like you have
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never do that math I was just I was just
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different things I find them useful in
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schedule in different in different
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manners but I have apples calendar up
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time zone support by default that is not
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listed there and when you turn that on
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time right and I enter that into my
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calendar that way and then it just shows
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helpful to do it that way because it's
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Mike so I see meeting with mike in my
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calendar like that's no good you need to
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like use everyone's names all right
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everyone's names if any names or no
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names at all I think you're complaining
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everyone does is I have meetings next
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week what I'm meeting myself like four
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times next week it's gonna be really
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good fun I forget that you can't change
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the name on the other end that it's like
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thing that it's synchronized between
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both people but both people should be
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able to call it whatever they want and
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just work the way it works in my head
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which is like magic and so I just forget
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other person I know he's saying but I
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don't think that would work right like
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because I don't even know yeah like
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that's why I mean it would have to work
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by magic right because it's like
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computer I want you to read my goddamn
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mind right about what do I want in the
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title of this thing I just mean like you
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imagine there's like a meat innovate
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different people and everyone keeps
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changing the name of it right it's just
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like nobody knows what the meeting is
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yeah there's no win situation there's
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there's no proper way to handle this in
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the way that I would want that's that's
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why I I totally acknowledge it
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works the way you think it should just
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send the just send the invitation
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everything's good so time shifting is is
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kind of what i refer to as when you
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observe somebody else's working hours
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past and like one of the reasons i got
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the bed so late is because i can pick up
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some stuff in there in the evening which
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some time zones in the US and i just
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that way i don't know if you work with
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as many people in the US as i do i'm not
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like the the primary time zone
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relationship that I have is between
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myself and my assistants and I am always
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hugely aware that it is very helpful to
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me that she is on us central time the
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overlap between her working hours in my
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working hours and when I am open to the
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world versus close to the world like it
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is just the perfect time zone ever
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relationally to me and so if if I ever
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had if I ever had to get another
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assistant it would be like tell me where
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you are in time zone world like this
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this is hugely important Weiss's do you
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find central to be better than Easton
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very early right so if she was in if she
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time zone would probably be better but
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her her schedule has kind of shifted
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very early in the day and it is also a
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quarantine my mornings like I don't want
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the external world involved in my
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mornings at all so it's like by the time
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her day right and so she has like the
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because I would never be sending
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requests or receiving information from
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someone during those times like that
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everything so this is why I had a
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revelation in the last two weeks hmm I
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thought I was this way right that I like
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my quiet time in the morning and I do
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like it but I do also want someone that
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I'm working with to be available to me
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and the difference in our business right
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that you're balling yourself off for
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creative work completely and I'm doing
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some of that but I'm also dealing with
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paperwork and don't sponsor copy and
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recording shows so I can't work with my
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kind of time zone math right this is why
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something like just that x don't exist
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of paper or are you asking four to six
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this because like yeah well that's a
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really good solution action so gmt is is
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time zone because i get availability in
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the morning if i need it when it's just
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you something past lunch tomorrow is
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fine it's lunch time of course we're on
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there were we're on the other side of
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this thing so yeah I didn't really think
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of that going for like as an option when
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I started the whole thinking about an
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assistant process but I decided instead
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of because what I
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doing before is I was paying attention
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to how much time it took for me to do
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things not necessarily when I'm doing
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them when I pay a bit more attention to
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that it helped and for me personally I'm
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still gonna continue doing things the
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way I do things where like there's more
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work happening at midnight but I would
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never ask anyone to do that for me
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because that is a silly way to work but
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it's the way that I work there would
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seem unreasonable to ask someone to be
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available during UK work listen I've
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always not even a strong enough also for
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until midnight can you be away 24 7 s
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that all right yeah we can do this right
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we're good together I don't know Mike
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maybe it sounds like you need two
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assistants one assistant is none
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assistant how many assistants do you
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have I have none assistance by is there
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an update on the assistant I'm curious
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there is what's going on we have hired
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someone oh wow it solved all done Lock
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shock and barrel all done all taken care
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of Wow getting business done Mike that's
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what you're up to not yet about to get
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training done okay so first tell me
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though how did the how did the
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interviewing process go is there
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anything that you can say about that it
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was it was bad and I thought it was
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going to be we booked in the majority of
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interviews to occur over two days hmm
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and I thought that was going to kill me
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but it was absolutely fine because we
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put them in one hour blocks and they
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were like half an hour each so it was 30
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minutes on off so you know I got 30
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minutes of entering time 30 minutes of
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playing zelda fresh and they're just
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replicate that over two days come and
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yeah it was it was illuminating as I
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said I came to my realization about when
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my working hours should be during this
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process because it was more in my mind
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than usual of like thinking about what
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of these people and the times that they
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would be available and I was like oh I
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need to do this thing right now that
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persons not going to be awake right so
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like that was kind of like a big thing
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that that was like playing on my mind as
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we were going through I realized that
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like I wish I had all the money in the
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world because
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they were like ha ha three people that I
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would have hired you know so it was it
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was very interesting uh but a rewarding
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experience and and I think that we've
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ended up in a pretty good place and yeah
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it was it's been it's been very
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interesting and it's made me feel like a
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grown-up which is very strange yeah I
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think when you get to the point where
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you're hiring people you're you're a
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proper grown-up no getting around that
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we're setting up accounts now right like
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email addresses and authentication for
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such and such system and yeah i'm really
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i'm very excited though to see where
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it's going to go especially because i'm
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traveling a lot in april lew so i'm
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really pleased that we're able to get
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the ball rolling now on this so i can
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have some assistance in april and also
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so we don't have to wait until May
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because there's a lot of time that we're
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going to need to spend together looking
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at stuff together right so I can show
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them how this works and how that works
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so yeah that I am actually in I'm
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interested to see how it goes I'm
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excited to see how somebody tries to
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interpret my system and I wonder will is
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gay like on the other end of it you know
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fine I have to try and explain to
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someone the way I do things how am I
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gonna feel about that stuff I don't know
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you're gonna you're gonna feel terrible
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about it is how you're gonna feel yeah
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this is this is this I find as part of
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the whole process is explaining how you
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do things to another person it's it's
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just like when we're having a
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conversation talking about anything
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right but whenever someone's talking out
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loud their own thoughts you you're
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thinking about it as well and especially
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when you have to explain it to someone
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else all of the flaws become much more
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obvious right or I I know I definitely
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had the experience of constantly
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realizing wow I'm doing this in a way
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that was not really the best way to do
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this but I've just been doing it because
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this is the way I've always done it and
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I also haven't thought about this
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particular part of the process you know
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very much at all until this this moment
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so yeah that's I think that's what
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you're going to find is that as you go
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through your own thing
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you're going to realize ways to do it
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better and also ways to do it
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differently when you're working with
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somebody else it what that was honestly
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as uncomfortable and difficult some of
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that stuff's going to be for me this was
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part of my motivation and even beginning
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this process was it's time to get some
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of this stuff out of my brain mm and put
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it down on paper and establish systems
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and processes loop because we need that
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if the business is going to keep growing
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right like that's what it has to be
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right we're kind of me we're kind of
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hitting that point now where it's less
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kind of making it up as we go along and
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we kind of have to write some of this
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stuff down yeah and also the like you
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said getting things out of your head and
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getting them into being a process i
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still think for me the most the most
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shocking example of a process that i was
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originally doing that i had kept all in
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my head was the process of making the
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which was a thing that I used to be
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responsible for the whole of that and
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when I started having my assistant help
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help with that we were going through it
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like we did it we did a the way we did
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it was when I was putting an episode up
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live we did a screen sharing chat
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together so it's like I'm gonna do this
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you're going to watch you're going to be
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writing down the process as you go along
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and then afterwards like we'll take a
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look at the checklist and like well
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we'll build this up but I'm gonna go
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through it once and you see and then
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let's figure out how to do this I think
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one difference between me and you though
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is that we won't be doing this in
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silence no I wasn't in silence we were
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talking to each other oh you said you'd
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only ever exchanged one word no we've I
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think maybe spoken to each other ten
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times in three years okay whatever right
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and if this was one of those times we've
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never done like a FaceTime phone call
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right but this was just a screen sharing
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thing and it's useful to do it in voice
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because voice is just higher bandwidth
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well you have to if you're gonna do this
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stuff it would be mind-boggling to try
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and do that any other way that's
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I'm with you with that one out if it
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would be ridiculous well but this is
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yeah if we ridiculous but I would say
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that that was the most shocking thing to
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me was and as I've mentioned before like
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I had a big checklist that I was using
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for here's all the switches that need to
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be flipped putting it up on YouTube
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putting up on patreon for doing all the
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back end on the system like filling in
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all the metadata tat like all of this
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like there's tons of stuff like I
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already had a really long checklist but
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when we went through it and it has to be
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explained in a way that a person who is
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totally unfamiliar with this system can
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do it I realized oh this checklist it
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ended up exploding to be like five times
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the size because even when I thought I
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had written down everything you just
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don't realize all of the little things
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that you don't even think are part of
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the process that you're just doing
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automatically but that are not going to
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be obvious to somebody else who is
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unfamiliar with it and so now we have
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the result is is a document that a
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competent person could follow through
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because it literally does have here are
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all of the steps that are required not
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just here are the steps that I want to
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be reminded of when I'm doing it myself
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and like those are two totally totally
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different things but I'm constantly
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surprised about how processes expand
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into multi-level steps when you start
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working with other people I'm expecting
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a bit more of like why do you do it that
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way I'm like I can tell you why it was
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the way I did it the first time yeah and
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it just never changed yeah yep yep st
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that's the answer to very many things
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well how do you do with this light it's
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the way I did it the first time and then
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this groove got well worn over time but
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it is gonna be a time-consuming and
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challenging process I'm sure right we
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will be with anybody but I'm excited to
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do it because when it's done everything
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gets better hmm and and I'm looking
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forward to that future I have yet to
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meet anybody who's gone through this
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process who on the other side of it
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doesn't make a comment like I should
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have done this a year ago right just
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just like just like we were talking
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about last time right hires are always
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made six months too late this is the
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same kind of thing like by the time
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you're looking into getting someone to
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minimalism that is the perfect way to
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like this you want to feel like it's on
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hands blue dials that really pop which I
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thing right like it is a good-looking
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this show and relay FM so Mike you know
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I'm a subscriber to your vlog yep and
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episodes are on the schedule yes on the
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schedule schedules are very important to
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entire video that was a choice so i made
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audio down I've recorded and also into
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about how to make those things smoother
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something's good enough so I had a real
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best at this stuff of everybody that I
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a lot of experience they're very good at
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what they do they have all of the
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knowledge and the technology all built
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that style that's the endgame if I want
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wanted it to be and then I had an idea
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for what I felt like I could achieve
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formats which here's a thing that I want
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8k resolution yeah but we're not gonna
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start there nope so you're knocking it
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down and you're saying all right here's
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what I think I can achieve that is in
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starting point lips that you're going
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for yeah like this is the bar of quality
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that i think i could maybe get right hmm
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now i think that i probably only got
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about sixty or seventy percent to that
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point to the revised starting to the
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revised goal right and it's because it's
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really difficult to do this sort of
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stuff it's really difficult for me to
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try and achieve some shots without the
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right equipment OOP because a lot of the
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stuff the way you see like you know like
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the camera moving around the device like
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purchased but they weren't the optimum
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solution so they would provide not as
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good a look right and also the camera
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camera right like it's not a red yeah
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things where like I wasn't aware that
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there was some stuff that I wouldn't be
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able to do with the equipment that i had
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right just at all like I thought that
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maybe I could try and fake some stuff
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input but like like we're we're always
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saying people should just start like if
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you want to make a podcast or if you
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want to make youtube videos like there's
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no barrier here like just get started
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this is interesting flip side which is
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easy to produce you just don't realize
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how much is involved behind the scenes
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of all of the shots but look at all of
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everything that was set up they probably
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how hard can that be and the answer is
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wrong on camera because you don't have
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the machine that's able to twirl the
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camera around a fixed point in a smooth
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motion and it turns out like there's no
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faking that you can't possibly get
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around it but like to go back to that
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stuff without the technology that's
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what I tried to do Yeah right don't say
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video I think all in all look better
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limitations that you have all right like
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if like if you're doing a vlog yeah you
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shouldn't be aiming for like the thing
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that I produce is going to look like a
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professional drone footage and fancy
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timelapses and all the rest of that but
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equipment do i have and what is
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something that can be done within this
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universe of equipment like that's that's
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a very different thing and it's easy to
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not be aware of how hard it is to get
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not noticing how much work can go into
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producing something that's super high
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quality yeah but that doesn't mean that
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that like if you can't hit that mark you
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equipment that you have and that may be
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some things that are in your mind that
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ended up getting like sixty percent of
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the way there right like that's kind of
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where I think I got to and I then
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started reshoot in some stuff hmm
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perfecting some stuff spending more time
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on things reading about things I didn't
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know how to do in Final Cut so I could
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try and make this thing look good right
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and then I would be like oh but now that
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shots out of focus because little did I
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know that turning off auto focus is good
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when you're trying to shoot technology
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right and then it's like how do you stop
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getting screen reflections so you don't
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see the camera in the screen at the
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technology device right surprisingly
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hard yeah so going back and trying to
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fix this and trying to fix that and I
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got to the point where I'm like this
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product came out X amount of days ago
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there were already reviews about this
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all over the internet I'm not trying to
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make something that's going to get me
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millions of views but I don't want to
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put something out in a month right right
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like there has to be a cut-off point
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here and over the weekend the weekend is
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past the product came out on Friday
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weekend was gone and then by Tuesday I'm
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like I've got to put this thing out
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because it's going to get to the point
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where just like it's just going to be
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old and boring because I'm still the
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audio i recorded was after like my first
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day or two with the device right so all
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of my thoughts are just like first
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impression thoughts which is all there
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ever going to be that was the plan for
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the video but I can't put that out week
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late exactly you can't do a first
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impression too long after the device
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comes out if you want to hit this for it
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is relevant for your audience because I
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mean yeah i could have if i wanted to
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but the plan was always to
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review this thing over a month and then
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make a video that is like a month in
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with the switch then that's one thing
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but that wasn't the video that I was
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making it was a here is my initial
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review of this product after a couple of
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days of it so I hadn't put it out but I
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didn't think it was good enough it
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wasn't what I wanted it to be hmm and
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that was really difficult for me because
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I had this idea in my mind I didn't feel
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like I'd made it and I was just dreading
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the thought of people seeing it and
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seeing what I could see mmm all of the
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faults because I was trying something
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new I was trying to like break out of my
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comfort zone with the videos that I've
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been making because this is a type of
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video I also want to make like I want to
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still make the vlog style stuff but I do
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want to make these product review videos
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because they're the two types of YouTube
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videos that I really enjoy watching so I
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want to make them to write but was like
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if I put this out and everyone sees how
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bad it is does that mean I'm never gonna
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do this again right and this was this
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thing that was just going around on a
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round in my head and you know over on I
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was showing it to was being nice about
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it but like of course they're gonna be
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nice about it because they're my friends
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you know I showed it to you and you were
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nice about it which made me feel better
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because I know you tell me if it was bad
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but i like that i like the way you know
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the way who started that sentences like
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i was showing it to you and you said it
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was nice and that's good because you're
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not my friend and you would be mean if
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it was necessary like that's I sounded
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like it was you're just some dude that I
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work with yeah this is actually the only
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time we ever talked to each other even
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then like I know that you would tell me
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if it was bad but you might just still
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be like not giving me the whole thing
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right like I'm just saying that this is
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good but you can still see what I can
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see and I was really struggling with
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this like really struggling with it like
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I haven't felt this way about something
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in a long time because like if i have a
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new podcast i give i'm working on a new
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show there is an element of it that I
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always know in which it's good then
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because like there's there's things that
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I can judge with
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you're fine right like audio quality
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production value like all of that stuff
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I've got that stuff like I know how to
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do that and then it's the content but
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this was everything like is my content
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any good do people care about the
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opinion that I have and then also is to
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quality at this video even worth putting
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out and I was really struggling with it
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but I did put it out because it was it
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was it was like a do I die moment I Eva
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put this out now or I don't do it at all
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but I've been talking for like a month
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about the fact that I'm gonna make this
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video woohoo so I kind of had to do it
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so i put it out and the video has been
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received very well people been very
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complimentary about and lots of people
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said about how good it looks which has
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made me feel good there are a couple of
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people that totally picked up the points
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that were wrong and many of those people
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gave me good feedback right like
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feedback that I'm really pleased that I
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got because I'm still mostly within the
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people were nice to me on youtube face
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right right mostly which is good this
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video I noticed did get into the it must
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have gotten into the recommended for
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some people because like some of the
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comments changed like there were people
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that were referring to me as him as
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opposed to you or Mike right yeah like
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we've said that that's the big
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difference when you know things are
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getting very popular this tech reviewer
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dude right who must make these things
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all the time this video that I'm
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watching yeah mm-hmm so you know it was
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it was an enlightening experience I
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still don't know why I didn't get
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completely pan for it because I just in
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my mind this video just it just isn't
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what I wanted it to be but it got to a
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certain point where I was like it just
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has to go out there and I've learned a
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bunch a lot of the stuff that I've
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learned I don't think I'll still be able
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to do most of it you know like he's like
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okay I know this thing now but I still
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don't know how to do it like I know how
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to fix it but I can't fix it right does
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that make sense right like there's a
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thing that I know will make this thing
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better someone has told me I understand
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what they're saying but I don't know how
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to do it still there's several things
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here right with it sounds like that part
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that you're talking about is just a pure
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technical skill all right like I think
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the video is really good and I think it
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is very impressive especially
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considering that it is the first kind of
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video that you have ever done like this
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right there are some shots where I can
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look at and say like oh that that shot
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is overexposed all right but this is the
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kind of stuff that like nobody cares
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right it's nobody watching those videos
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notices or really cares about those
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things but you is the person making it
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are aware of two things you're hyper
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aware of any of the little problems like
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an overexposed shot or something out of
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focus in a way that nobody who's
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watching the thing will ever notice in a
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thousand years and just like you're
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saying this whole time you're also extra
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sensitive because in your mind you have
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the idea of what the thing was supposed
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to be and then there's the actual thing
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that you have created right and I mean I
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don't know about you but I feel like I
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have never put anything on the internet
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that I felt like yeah that was that's
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what I was going for I nailed it yeah
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right it's like even even my reference
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is like the the video that for me was
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the easiest and the closest ever was my
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Netherlands video like that is the
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closest I've ever come to like having an
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idea and executing it but even that's
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not not perfect like there's mistakes in
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that thing there's there's shots that I
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don't like and this is also why I very
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rarely very rarely watch stuff after i
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put it up right or listen to podcasts
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after the after the editing phase
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because all i'm aware of is like oh that
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conversation didn't go the way it was
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supposed to in my head I didn't hit any
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of the points that I wanted to hit or
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you look watch a video and you feel like
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oh look at this look at this parade of
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failures right that I had all these
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things I wanted to do and I was only
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able to do sixty percent of them I think
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that's just naturally part of its
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naturally just part of the creation
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process so you still feel that way with
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your youtube videos then so that was
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what I wondered like I wondered if if
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this gets you to oh yeah oh yeah without
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a doubt like it definitely does I feel
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that way with podcasts I feel that way
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with videos you know like the rules for
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rulers video you know my last
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video that I put out like you know I
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haven't watched that since it went up
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because I remember even the last couple
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times when I'm watching it after it goes
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live just to make sure everything's fine
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you know looking at it like oh look look
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at all of these missed opportunities
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right all over the place things I didn't
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do ideas that I wanted two points that I
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don't feel like I explained very well
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yeah of course I really feel like this
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is just naturally naturally part of the
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part of the process this is funny like
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because usually I think one of the
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things that we try to do on this show is
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to talk about something and then offer
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some advice right like this is how you
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can maybe try and make this thing better
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but like this is one of those times
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where I don't think there is any right I
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think there is no advice really like
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he's just this is I feel like this is
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just a thing that people that make stuff
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no matter what it is they go through and
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that's just kind of it really like we go
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through it yeah there's no I don't think
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there's a way to fix it now it gets
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easier with time right because you know
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over time i will get sixty five percent
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of the way because i will get better so
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there'll be things that i'll do which
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will become easier I feel like you're
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very optimistic about the progress of
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that logarithmic curve right I think
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that's gonna be a very long time right
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but like I'll get a 60 and a half
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percent yeah that's my yes yeah that's
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that's kind of what happens because the
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problem is as your skills increase your
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vision increases faster alright so it's
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like ooh actually I think I could do
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even more so maybe it even goes down oh
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I've achieved fifty percent of what i
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wanted to write like I think one of the
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things that has made it easier with me
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over time with podcast editing mm-hmm
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it's not I've gotten better at hiding
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how are people probably going to receive
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take that and that's that's kind of why
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pretend hard time in the opening like oh
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videos on things that interest me and
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this is this isn't
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the topic always going to be we're
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looking through the back catalogue like
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creators to do things differently but if
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you generate any kind of audience you
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have that audience because people like
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the thing that you do and and so they
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want more of the same thing always and
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for you is a creator that might not be
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what you want to do I think of course
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like the most the most high level public
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version of this that's happening right
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the old stuff and his desire as a
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different and everybody goes through
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it's it really is important to try and
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it always puts you on on edge because
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it's like gotta plow ahead anyway and
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in the music industry it's the same
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thing like a band will do the thing and
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they get a huge audience and you see
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like that band in their next album wants
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to do something that's very different
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from what they did previously and their
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audience might not like it's not what I
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signed up for yeah exactly like you did
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a thing that I liked do that forever do
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that until the end of time but it's like
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that's just not how it works if you're
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in any kind of creative field yeah I was
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definitely thinking about this and none
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of the conclusion that i came to is that
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that it wouldn't be terrible mmm and it
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I was gonna do this you know it's like
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original stuff right like my next video
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be a more travel focus vlog again whoo
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review of the new iPad I'll keep our
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fingers crossed yeah I know Oh God
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something please come on unhappy times
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for everyone in the Apple world no
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matter what you like like fingers
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that they expect to mix of these things
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videos for me hmm and that people are
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sharing in that but eventually if things
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go the way that I would like them to I
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do lose a bit of that control and and I
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understand that you have to have to
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respect the audience you know and I
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think that there is a tightrope to walk
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are decided to spend their time with you
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the thing that they want as well yeah
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it's definitely a delicate balancing act
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and you are totally right that in the
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same same thing well isn't that what
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curiosity Mike do you have any idea how
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long this vlog took you did you do time
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your future vlogs I mean tech product
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future history videos thank you I've
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like oh he's a science channel like
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which video is that Austrian science
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another tag line for your channel yeah
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cgpgrey he should all history all
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perfect games console for aggregation as
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looks super cool as far as consoles go
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it is definitely the console that has
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piqued my interest the most of anything
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and like mm-hmm you know I mean the last
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10 years really cuz i've just i've just
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time but the but it looks it looks
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awesome and I to have very fond memories
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of Nintendo from my childhood so i do
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feel i do feel tempted I feel very
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tempted I'll convince you okay i'm going
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to show you sober I just me to see the
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majesty that is this zelda game
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because I'm not if I'm not zelda was
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never really one of the properties that
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I played very often but this is just
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nothing like any zelda game before hmm
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it's it's astounding it really is just
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unbelievable up so i guess this podcast
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is just interrupting years all the time
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is that what's happening everything is
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poor Mike what's it happens when you get
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obsessed with the game mm-hmm well your
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whole life is just an obstacle in the
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way of playing the game do you know what
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I'm gonna bring in a fear of right now
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there what the moment where I stop you
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mean when you win no the moment where I
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am we both suffer from this mmm where
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you're playing a video game mmm and then
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you just immediately lose all interest
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in the video again oh you have this too
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okay I don't think we've discussed this
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but I didn't okay so you have this
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feeling to people either get that said
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they don't all right so like I'm I am
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like everyday playing a game thinking
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about it like it is consuming me and
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then all of sudden stops the complete
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loser stops sometimes especially with
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iphone games it's like I went on a trip
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and didn't play it on the trip and they
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just decided never to play it again it
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just pops out on my head and I'm just
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like am i interested anymore hmm and for
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some reason like I know this is gonna
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happen moselle de but I don't want it to
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I want to finish it and i'm i'm i'm
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concerned i won't finish it and i just
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need to keep plowing ahead i feel like
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i've got to get it done before mario
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kart right so call about a month okay
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that's your deadline yeah before
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mariokart mariokart on the switch get
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even more tempting yep even more
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tempting that'd be great how many hours
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of my childhood did I pour into mario
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kart all of them yep get ready it's
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coming I want to do something we haven't
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done in a while gray yeah care tax know
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where we are dick no no what we're not
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doing this again what is care text yeah
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caretech
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Andrew asked this is a question that we
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receive from a bunch of different people
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written in a bunch of different ways but
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Andrew put it into one sentence how long
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should you make no money on a side
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project before you know it's time to
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move on ooh now I want it just like
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straight up say and just get this out of
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the way this is obviously different for
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every single type of side project right
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so there is not a fixed timeline I think
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I don't think the answer to this is
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actually calendar time okay I think the
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answer is something else I'm gonna say
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six months I'm gonna I'm gonna put a
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calendar date on it all right great how
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long were you making YouTube videos
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before you quit your teaching job okay
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well all right Mike it depends on what
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you're talking about haha I just said
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it's six months asterisk well yeah I
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mean part of it is part of it is that
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the YouTube videos it took me a long
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time to recognize like oh this is a
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thing that can even be a career as I
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constantly need to mention because it's
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like The Forgotten mists of time that
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YouTube was not really a thing that you
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made money on when I started it so i
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think it's that's a little bit different
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but that's the thing knows i think so
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many people sigh projects start that way
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like here's a thing i want to do so you
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started doing the thing and then all of
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a sudden you're like I'll hang on I love
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this more than any other thing at first
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it was just a thing I wanted to try
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because I'm interested in it like
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podcasting or YouTube or writings like
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this is just a thing that I enjoy me
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then it's like oh I enjoy this so much I
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can't bear to do anything else right and
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then maybe that the clock starts ticking
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I mean I guess this is this is Mike Mike
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talks about how much he loves podcasting
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and he's living his dream right but
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there's the like cgpgrey over here who
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had a bunch of projects that were all
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just cynical projects right did you
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escape from the working life that's our
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let me say in your in your terms of like
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this is the thing I
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couldn't bear more than anything else
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all right is that make you feel better
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sure whatever whatever but like there is
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a moment in which you decide I want to
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do this thing right no matter what
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reason it is your siding whether it's
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like the thing that takes the least time
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or it's the thing that you're interested
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in the most whatever your reasons are
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but I think they even from that point I
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couldn't say to you you should then only
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take six months on it mm-hmm because
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that's not what i did i spent like
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another three years from that point but
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i still got there right and and again
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i'm not saying like you should do that i
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will actually advised that most people
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don't do that like take three years on
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it but i think it's it shouldn't be
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about time and and and i think that
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that's for me the only thing i can say
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is don't put it in a sense of pure time
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but surrounding factors which could be
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health which could be i don't have any
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friends anymore more could be my spouse
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wants to kill me right like and i'm
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making fun of all of those things but
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they are all the things hmm and it is a
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you need to keep going to the point in
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which you realize the sacrifice is worth
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it anymore and it's like that's the
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worst advice to give yeah that's
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terrible advice but it's the only thing
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that i know because i don't think that
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there is a time frame like you have to
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do it until there is another factor
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yeah I like six months right be good all
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right so well because anybody hadn't
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already realized that mean you are very
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different I think this is it right like
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I'm like until the passion in your belly
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yeah my soul like doing with love and
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the money will follow and yeah and and
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now it's look like because I think built
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into this question is there's an intent
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in this question how long should you
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make little to no money with a side
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project before you know it's time to
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move on right there's an intent there
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which is I have a side project the
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purpose of which is to make some money
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right that's I think that's embedded in
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this question if there's a there's a
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thing that you love to do right that it
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puts rainbows into your brain and you
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you love it above everything and it
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makes no money but you still want to
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keep doing it like that's fine
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everybody's got to have hobbies right I
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guess except me I can't maintain any
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hobbies but I think that's what that is
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that's a description of a hobby but this
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feels like a thing that's that's an
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intent with purpose and I guess I feel
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strongly about this because when I when
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I look on past idiot me who was trying
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to spin up his own thing I think this by
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far by far is one of the costliest
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mistakes that I made which was sticking
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with projects for way too long right way
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too long like I think of some of the
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other stuff that I that I used to do and
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it was like so I used to do this time
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management business thing like forever
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ago now like in the mists of time and
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that was actually a side project that
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did make money but more importantly it
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was like it never quite made enough for
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me to do it as a self-employed thing
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right to be on my own one hundred
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percent but I like I just stuck with
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that for too long and it was a kind of
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mediocre success like it's earning some
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money but I'm not like I'm not spinning
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this up into another thing and I i still
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like i still remember actually exactly
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where i was when i made the decision
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that like
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it's time to drop this even though this
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project is making some money this is not
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going to be the thing you've been
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working on it too long and that was like
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one of the best decisions I ever made
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and there's some other projects like
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that works like I worked on this thing
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for too long and I should have switched
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project sooner so that that's why I
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think like if your intent with a side
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project is to actually make money with
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it i think from from everyone i know who
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has successfully transitioned to being
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like a self-employed on their own person
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their side project that was the thing
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that actually did it for them made money
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relatively quickly and also scaled up
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relatively quickly it's not it's not so
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much like a oh i was working on a thing
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for four years and then suddenly one day
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it became the thing like i just i don't
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really think that that happens so that's
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why i say like if this is really your
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explicit intent six months six months
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and if you don't see a really promising
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trend line ditch it start the next thing
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do for ya you want to do it a year
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that's fine whatever but justjust have
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something in your mind don't just don't
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just keep going on with it in a vague
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way and thinking like oh someday this
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thing is going to pay off because it
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probably won't this question comes from
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daniel daniel says I find it fascinating
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to hear your takes unemployment
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particularly to that come to mind are
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your responses to leaving employment for
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self-employment and where the universe
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he is or isn't worth it hmm those are
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big questions okay I guess the reason I
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find myself writing is because I don't
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fully fall into either of those things
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you guys have answered so don't worry
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great we don't have to answer those
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questions today he's university worth it
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discuss haha maybe for a later show I'm
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currently a student with an office job
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that is currently sucking the soul out
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of me don't get me wrong I feel like I'm
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lucky for having an office job at a
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young age while most of my friends do
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not however lately getting dressed for
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work in the mornings has felt like I'm
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bracing myself to go into a battlefield
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I find myself drowning in the amount of
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work i have and also constantly arguing
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or putting up a banner
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tubes for as little as saying good
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morning it also doesn't help that I am
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hourly not salary based and being paid a
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ridiculously smaller amount than the
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person I ended up replacing it feels
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chaotic and although changes are said to
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be coming to help with the chaos they
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always are mmm no we're comin don't
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believe that those changes they're just
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on the horizon any moment now just stick
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with it so although changes are said to
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be coming to help with the chaos I can't
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help but feel like it's only downhill
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from here the place that once felt like
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home might as well be a minefield
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waiting to explode all that said I don't
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have another thing to jump to there is
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no sign hustle without limited education
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or experience I'm not one hundred
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percent sure how easy it would be to
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find another job so my question is what
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would you guys do would you try to take
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more money and stay all of these signs
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that I should be running or am i just
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being a rebellious young person who
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doesn't want to put up for being put
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down constantly it's signed that you
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should go definitely yeah that's that's
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what I like my experience with this
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stuff is when things in a working
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environment turn for the worse you just
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you just cannot believe ever any of the
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promises of future improvement tho those
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will not be coming those are
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modifications to to keep you where you
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are I if you don't if you don't have a
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side hustle like this is obviously like
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you don't want it to jump into the void
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of nothing but I would be very actively
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looking for another better position to
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get into somewhere else that's that's
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what I would be doing and I know what
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Daniels saying about the fact that
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they're young and the general of
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experience and like I get all of that
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like any would be tricky to find another
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job that might be like on paper is good
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but if you allow yourself to get into
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this mindset for your first job mmm you
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will be doing this forever yeah if you
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allow yourself at this point to just
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stick it out you will be sticking it out
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in every job you ever have you're in
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this position you know what whatever it
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is like this is a bullet
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on your resume and and you use this you
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use this to stretch into the next job
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because look here's a pro tip when
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people put out requirements for another
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job but those are not hard and fast
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requirements right like you can you can
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try to stretch it in applications for
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other things so like this is a ladder
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that you want to try to climb like
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stretch it to two a better position if
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you can even if you don't necessarily
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think like you're one hundred percent
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yep you're one hundred percent qualified
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for that other position because like but
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just just try it like just just go for
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it so we've already got a job with no
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experience yeah if you now have
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magnitudes of experience more than you
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have the last time it literally
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infinitely more yes than what you had
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before you have all of the experience in
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the world you know if you look at how
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you were last time yeah but but like
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more i think the metal lesson here is
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just never trust never trust your
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employer when they tell you next year
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we're gonna we're gonna like make things
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up to you for this year or those changes
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coming it's like no yeah i never
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believed that stuff because here's the
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thing that may be and they may change
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the things that are upsetting you now
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but there'll be new problems that need
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new changes mm-hmm right like if you're
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in a workplace where it feels like
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there's always changes around the corner
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mmm it means that the changes in ever
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come in as quickly as they should be mmm
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right and and this is usually the mark
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of a big machine yeah right trundling
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its way through the corporate world i
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spent too long in a job that I shouldn't
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have been in lieu feeling all of this
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and any I took too long before I made a
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change and I will always regret not
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doing that because of like what it put
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me through so if you are in this
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situation of course it's never easy to
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just get a job yeah but there are always
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jobs and the thing is you should if
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you're feeling like this you should at
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least be looking elsewhere so you get an
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idea of what is available and at least
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said you feel like you have your future
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in your hands a little bit
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yeah you're real job when you have a job
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is to find your next better job yep and
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that can be inside the company around
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side the company yeah anywhere like when
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when I was teaching like I switched
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schools like for the same kind of thing
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like i like i want to have a better
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position like in terms of what that
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meant to me of like what is it that I'm
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looking for but even when I was at a
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school where I was totally one hundred
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percent happy I never never did not look
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at those job listings right i had an
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automated thing for like job listings
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that matched a bunch of criteria that I
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was looking for as like every week I got
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that little listen it's like I'm
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perfectly happy in my position right now
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but I'm gonna take a look I'm gonna take
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a look and just see what's out there
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like this is if you have a job I think
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this is this is part of it is always
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keeping an eye on the horizon do it
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Daniel good luck man
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