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I want you to try this to start creating content.
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the pod.
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I'm Mike Draden Figueroa.
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This is Unscripted and Unrehearsed, where I give you my take on the state of events, things I've heard, seen, and experienced throughout the past week.
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Yeah, um, this week, well, this week's episode was to be dedicated to all of you, my watchers, visitors.
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Um, and I say was because um all the platforms I checked, not a single question came in for the AMA episode.
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Ask Mike anything.
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And I thought maybe a couple of questions would come through, but um, hey, it's alright.
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Not many people have a lot of questions.
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I also think that the way the algorithms are set up now, it is really hard to break through.
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And not that I'm looking for a huge amount of views or a lot of interaction, I would like some just to you know keep this going and grow and advance for the other projects that I'm working on.
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Um, but nothing came through, and I put it out there.
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So I a couple things.
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I decided to explore for you guys who happen to come upon this, um, how to start creating content.
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But first, uh the major news of the week that really a lot of a lot of passings, a lot of death.
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I hate to say it, but you know, there it is, it's just that the older that I get, and I know these a lot of these people are not in the current ethos of a lot of young people's consciousness, is just the the creators that I follow and have been fans of since I was a kid.
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And uh one of those was Rob Reiner.
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Now, when I was a kid, Rob Reiner was uh he played Michael Stivik on All in the Family.
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Now, All in the Family was based on a family from Queens uh featuring Archie Bunker, Edith Bunker, their daughter.
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Uh I forgot her name, and uh their son, who I can't remember his name either, but he was called Meathead, dead from the neck up, as Archie would say.
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So the the reason we, I mean, the show is very, very funny, but it was very true to what life was here in New York City in the five boroughs, as far as I know, because I mean I saw my grandmother in in Archie and the way she spoke, and she didn't always say those things in public, but around the family, she said a lot of those things, which my mother would say, Ma, you can't say that, or Ma, you know, and then she'd point to me and my sister, like they have colored, the colored people, you know, stuff like that.
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But my grandmother was once we came along, I think she she was a different person from what my mother had as a as a mom growing up.
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But um, I had a lot of great memories.
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So it uh Rob Reiner was great on that show, and he was always the um anti antithesis to Archie, and where he was this progressive person where Archie was stuck in his in his ways, right?
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His racism and his bigotry and all of that.
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Um so he passed away, and it was a very terrible way to go, and it hit me hard, and as details have come out, I just tried not to listen because I didn't want to know the details, but it was very tragic.
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But this is why I also was still a fan of his.
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A lot of the movies that became what's the word?
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Um, not iconic, although they are, uh, they've bec they've become part of the Americana.
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What's that word I'm looking for?
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Um they are woven into the American way of life, I should I'm trying to say, I guess.
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Uh for instance, uh, this is Spinal Tap.
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Mostly improvised.
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I only learned recently.
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Um, mostly improvised, but hilarious and ridiculous, but great.
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Then there's um Stand By Me, which as a young kid, I'm watching these actors who are these young guys, or very young, far younger than I am, um, grow up into incredible men and incredible actors.
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But watching them, I could see myself as when I was a little bit their age, exploring Green Point and Williamsburg on my bicycle, just getting lost until the streetlights came on and I had to hustle home.
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You know, but I did those things and a lot of and and there was the neighborhood bully, and then there were there was no dead bodies, but you know, a lot of adventures.
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And then there was, of course, uh, and that was in 1986, 1984, he did Spinal Tap.
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And then came The Princess Bride, one of my all-time favorite movies.
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I can't tell you how I know there's a lot of you out there who know that the joy I get watching The Princess Bride, which I found by accident because there was nothing to see, and I was bored, and I just picked it up at the video store.
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Yes, there was a place you went and got videotapes that were like this big, and you put it in a machine that was that big, and you watched the movie for a couple hours.
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Um, and it became huge, huge.
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Um, and that was in 1987 he did that.
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Uh, then Misery in 1990, which I thought was I'd never heard of the Steve, this uh um Stephen King novel, but I thought it was interesting, and it was getting a lot of buzz, and it was in the movies, and then it was on videotapes.
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Oh, let me check this out.
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Um, I huge Michael, uh not Michael, um shoot, what's his name?
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Um he played Sonny and the Godfather Khan is his last name.
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Huge fan of his, and then here's this woman, Kathy Bates, who I'd never seen before, who was playing this lunatic, and she was brilliant.
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So much so that I was like scared.
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She she really scared me.
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Brilliant performance, and that he also directed that, and that was uh 1990.
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Then, of course, the major this is all before for the 2000s, for the new the new millennium, uh folks, uh 1992's uh A Few Good Men, huge Tom Cruise fan, huge uh Demi Moore fan, huge Kevin Bacon fan, and of course, uh okay.
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I'm at a loss for words and names because I've only had a sip of coffee.
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I need more coffee.
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Jack Nicholson, see magic of coffee, Jack Nicholson fan, huge.
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And plus, there were a lot of peripheral actors in that film that uh some have gone on to do incredible things and uh and not.
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So yeah, that that hit me hard because it was not what I expected to hear.
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I'm looking at my calendar and like it it sometimes I wonder if I'm a conspiracy theorist because the way the description of how they were found I don't know.
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It doesn't seem it doesn't sound right.
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However, I mourn because a great artist has has and and his wife were taken from us too soon, and his family is going through a hard time.
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I don't wish these kind of things on anyone.
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We struggle enough with our everyday, day-to-day as it is, this one thing.
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It's not it's not what I want for anybody.
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Then of course, there's um Anthony Geary who passed.
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Now, for those of us who are huge General Hospital fans, which I was not so much, but because of the fad the fad of the Luke and Laura years and everything they went through, and then they finally got together and they got married, he played Luke Spencer on General Hospital, and Jeannie Francis played um Laura.
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Jeannie Francis is married to um Jonathan Frekes, who played Bill Riker on Star Trek.
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See how I brought that around?
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Everything just comes back to Star Trek.
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Okay.
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Um, so yeah, he passed away.
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And I just started remembering too all of the um the craze for Luke and Lauren, how you know we would rush home after school to uh watch soap operas.
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Good morning, Missy.
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Um, so for those of you listening, Tony Girl has joined me on my desk, and she's gonna get in front of the camera.
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Now she wants to curl up on my desk.
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Like I said, I could be move your tush, please.
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So yeah, uh it just reminded me how much I loved soap operas and how much I wanted to be on soap operas and um the Luke and Laura uh craze and fad.
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Um nice, and then so I started thinking.
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Oh, I just had a memory that's not in my notes, but uh so my mom used to work for an allergist, and uh his office was like on 72nd and West End, and a lot of soap actors used to go to him, and there was one, I forget his name, but he was on As the World Terms, and that was my all-time favorite soap, and I wanted to be on that.
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Second to Young and the Restless.
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And uh he Max is chewing on his toy now.
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Uh, he uh brought a script from an episode signed uh of from As the World Terms that um I just love.
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Do you mind?
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See, I'm why is this happening?
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I don't know if you guys can hear.
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Uh so there was that.
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So I went, I started going down a list of soaps that I love.
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So it it in this order.
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Well, first of all, my mom used to send us on the Fresh Air Fund uh summer camping trips.
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And basically, as inner city kids would go spend a week or two with a family in the burbs.
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So I ended up in Canasarrega County, New York, which is 60 miles southeast of Buffalo.
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I still remember this.
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I was 11 years old, and uh I stayed with the Earls, who I missed terribly.
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Mrs.
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Earl and Mr.
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Earl were wonderful.
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So this is what I learned from from the these beautiful people.
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Um, Mrs.
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Earl was involved in the church.
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Um, so she gave me a book of psalms, and while I was there, I got to go to their services, and I got she they wanted me to memorize a psalm, so I read I did a psalm in church one one Sunday I was there.
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She also taught me piano.
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She had a regular piano to practice on, excuse me.
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And she had an organ that lit up the keys lit up so you could have a book with the letters and you just match the letters.
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And I was playing, you know, I learned how to play.
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Um, and then she transferred me over to the piano.
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But I was there for two weeks.
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So the first week I was doing the organ with the light-up keys, mostly.
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Well, it was one of those electrical things.
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You could be an organ or a piano.
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And then she moved me over to the to the piano, and then I did play at the church, which I thought was kind of cool.
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Uh, she also taught me how to sew, and basically it's just a simple stitch to connect two pieces of material.
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And to this day, I use that double stitch knot pull thing to fix a hole all these years later.
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But Mrs.
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Url was a huge Young and the Wrestless fan.
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She turned me on to the Young and the Wrestless.
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So in the afternoon, you know, after breakfast, you know, we do we did stuff before Mr.
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Earl would come home from whatever he was doing, I guess work, uh, we would watch soaps and sew little thingies that she made chotch keys for people.
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And I had I got a kick out of it.
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Um, but I was so enthralled with soap operas.
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So Young and the Restless.
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Um, oh, Mr.
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Earl taught me how to chop wood.
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Strong.
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And I got to see a bear.
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Uh I'm having a memory that of love that I can't I can't express.
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I mean that was the best summer ever.
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Um, one of the best.
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So uh in this order, Young and the Restless, As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital.
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I was into uh Bold and the Beautiful, Guiding Light, and Search for Tomorrow, but those were not the the anyway.
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So uh yeah, uh Anthony Geary has passed on, and that's another uh generational thing where as I get older and I lose friends and and connections to the past, you know, it just brings back memories of a time that was far simpler.
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And I'll be honest, before these devices and everything, life was just exciting and and uh it was so exciting that you couldn't wait to tell someone what you did or experienced.
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Uh and then of course, a sci-fi death happens in threes, people.
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This is true, I believe it, but there's so many others.
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But these, you know, uh Gil Gerard, who, for those of us who are sci-fi geeks, uh who played Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 24th century, whatever.
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Uh yeah, he he passed away.
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And that show was so incredible.
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Where I thought, I'm like, oh, I hated the 80s so much.
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It was a lot of time travel stuff going on.
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So there was, you know, of course, Buck Rogers in the 24th century, 25th century, and there was uh Back to the Future, and then a couple other time travel shows.
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I'm like, oh, I want to go to the future, I want to see what it's gonna be like, is it better?
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And I'm here now, and I'm like, it could have been, it's just few a lot of people fucked it up.
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Um, so yeah, that was the the the majority of the the wamp mop of the week.
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And I'm like, the year is ending, and all of this is happening, and I'm like, at least they don't have to suffer through the nonsense we're going through right now.
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Um celebrity interaction.
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Uh, so I mean, I don't know how many of you get this, but all I know is uh let me put it to you this way: the scene in Avengers Endgame, when they all come together, and you see that video that went viral of the audience going crazy as you know the portal opened, and then you see Black Panther come through, and then um uh condor, no, whatever he comes flying through, and then it's like bananas where everybody comes through, like one of the epic comic book scenes that you could ever have.
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Well, Iron Man came to see chess.
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All right, Robert Downey Jr.
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came through.
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Uh so security came through, they bring it some.
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It's usually what happens when big celebrities come through.
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We scan their tickets ahead of time and we give it to them and then just walk them in.
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Um, but today this was like I guess a last minute thing, or they forgot, or whatever.
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So uh security, my one of my buddies in security came.
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I'm like, all right, who's coming?
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Because usually when he does that, it's a big deal person.
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He's like, Robert Downey Jr.
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I'm like, right on.
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I'm like, bring up to my door.
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So he was with his entourage, security, his his security.
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I wonder about this man.
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His security was like, you know.
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Let me just say he could get it.
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This man, I'm okay.
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Um, so they arrived.
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Uh, I think his daughter was with him.
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I'm not quite sure.
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And I looked up to see what his daughter looked like.
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But I don't know if it was, I don't know how many kids he has.
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I don't know.
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But uh it was more people, but I was so fixed on him because he had like a gray mask that was far more conspicuous than just having a plain, you know, black or whatever mask on, but it was like a gray one that came like this.
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And uh so I'm like, I'm like, hello, sir.
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He was like, hey, how are you?
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But it it like okay, for me, I know when people recognize me or they want to interact with me, not that I'm anywhere near this level, you know, I'll stop and say, hey, you know, what's up?
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Thanks for, you know, whatever.
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But I guess they get it so much where they don't want to interact.
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Of course, he's there to see a show, and the show is starting, and it's not the greatest moment, but um, and it's like okay, obviously I know them, they have no idea who I am.
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They just discovered that I exist.
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Same as you know, we all discover other people that exist.
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It it I don't know.
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I just get a little bit disappointed when they don't get excited to see me because I I'm excited to see you.
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All right, whatever.
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That that's nuts.
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At least I acknowledge it.
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Okay, coffee.
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Okay, so there was that.
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And I was, and he's okay, so it's very true how the camera adds 10 pounds because this man is skinny.
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He he's skinny, unless he's working on a new project and he had a drop, but he's skinny.
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You can see in his face too.
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Um same deal with Kate Mulgrew when she came through the last week, you know, very trim and you know.
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Uh all right, so this is the other ridiculous thing that I heard, but I might look into this because I think we all pet parents should have this option.
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Now, there's a woman who reported on 1010 Wins, it's a radio station here in New York, uh, who is suing the IRS because she wants to claim her pets as dependents.
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Um, she's spent hundreds, I'm reading my notes, she's spent, according to her, she's spent hundreds of dollars on pet food and pet and uh vet visits, and uh she'd like to be able to recoup some of that money.
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However, according to the IRS, your pets are considered property.
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Now, if we want to get philosophical about it, I don't consider Tony Girl, who's laying right here, and Mr.
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Beck there.
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I don't consider them property.
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I consider them living beings I take care of, and they're my friends and they're my my dependent.
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I I look at them as my kids.
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You know, they they you know, they get on my nerves, they piss me off.
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Yes.
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Um, and they bring me lots of joy more often than not.
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And I think that's what raising kids is like.
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We I've gotten on my parents' nerves, I've pissed them off, but I I guess I suppose maybe I brought them more joy than not.
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Um, why shouldn't we?
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Do you know how expensive a friggin' vet bill is?
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Excuse me.
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Pardon me.
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Um I maxed out their emergency fund already, and I'm like, alright, gotta dig out from under this because I'm gonna need it again.
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But I should be able to, well, we should all be able to write some of that stuff off, you know.
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We agree to take care of them, and not that we have to, but you know what's the difference between progeny and adoption?
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No, he didn't.
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Oh my god, you guys.
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Max What did you do, Baba?
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Okay, so my Okay Here Don't eat the plastic! Oh my god, he just he's just all of his toys, all of his toys get destroyed because he even the the power chew toys are made to you know for power chewers he's tore them apart.
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I've hold on here's a neighbor's toy that he took because you know he doesn't know how to let go.
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Look they look.
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There's a thing in there was supposed to light up or some shit.
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I don't know.
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I found batteries.
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I'm like, where the fuck are these batteries from?
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There's a little thing in there.
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I hope he didn't eat the batteries.
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But look, these are not these are supposed to be indestructible.
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Not the case here.
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Anyway.
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No, it's not the ball.
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Alright, so um.
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Yeah.
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I want to claim these kids.
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I want to be able to.
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Well, she I'm trying to keep up on that because if she's suing the IRS for this, I want to see how far she gets because you know, there's two things that are of uh a constant in the universe as far as we know it right now, and it's deaf and taxes.
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And hey, why not?
00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:13.599
It would go a long way too because that money you could, you know, the extra things that you write off, you could always just put it to the side, or you get some of it back, whichever way it works.
00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:21.440
Um, and of course, on Friday was I don't know if you participated, but it was National Ugly Sweater Day.
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I didn't I didn't do it this year.
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So yeah, so it's the third Friday in December in case you ever wanted to know.
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Um there it is.
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Send me pictures of your ugly sweaters from 2025.
00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:38.559
I would like that very much.
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I want to see.
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I think uh last year uh I got one.
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It's like this this muscle dude on it, and it says uh pain and gain some stupid shit like that.
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All right, so here we go.
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I really and I I had to do this on the fly all over again because um as I was going through everything hoping there would be some questions to answer and and participate in for today's this week's post, um, which is by the way, it's the first day of winter and it's a little springy outside.
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Um I thought, okay, a couple things hit my mind, and I was I was talking about uh mentioning this on the live post that I did uh on Wednesday.
00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.920
Um maybe I'm shadow banned, and I'm not quite sure if I am.
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Uh so what I did was I I used Chat GPT, and I think the prompt was something like, if you wanted to start a uh podcast and you created blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, did all this and you posted it and you weren't really getting any traction.
00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:54.720
How would what would you do to go about finding out if you've been shadow banned?
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So it came back.
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There's really not such a thing as being shadow banned, but this is what I would do, blah, blah, blah.
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You could start looking here, you can start there, have your friends try this who you're not connected to socially on social media, and see what comes up for them.
00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:13.680
So I'm trying these experiments, and I I know I'm I consolidated a lot in there just now.
00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:16.000
Um, and maybe I'll put it in the show notes.
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Uh, you know, I'll put it in the show notes the the prompt that I asked and the feedback I got.
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Because maybe you can find out too for yourself if you've been shadow banned or if you're not getting through to people you want to get through to or engagement.
00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:35.920
Because ultimately the way this has evolved, whereas instead of you're sharing your creativity, I don't know why I said that.
00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:47.519
That that I'm trying not to be Brooklyn, your creativity um with your friends and family, because that's what it was like before, everybody you were connected to, that's all you saw.
00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:50.000
Now it's like just ads and people you don't know.
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And it's like, I okay, it's a lot.
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I just want to know what my friend in Berlin is doing.
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And I hardly ever see any of his posts.
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I have to go to his page to see what he's doing.
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It's annoying.
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Anyway, you can find out.
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Um, so I'll put that in the in the notes so you can figure it out.
00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:16.079
Um, so I thought, okay, what would be a beneficial post to talk about?
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And I thought maybe where you could go to or how you would go about starting to create content.
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Content.
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Content.
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The first thing you need to do is just start recording because I think I mentioned this in past posts.
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The I think we all have a, if we really want to do this, we all have this insecurity of maybe nobody will like it, or you know, maybe I'll be wasting my time, or you feel some sort of imposter syndrome, or who am I to do this?
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You know, who would give a shit?
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And I've felt it, I've thought about it.
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It's part of the reason why, you know, morning Kofifi start stopped, and then it became Morning Joe.
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I wanted to go back to Kofifi, but just invoking that idiot, I just don't want that in my energy.
00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:11.519
Um, I'm sorry, I'm distracted because he's tearing that thing apart.
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And there's foam, there's foam everywhere.
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So I I put I put together some ideas on what you can do.
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So, first and foremost, pick up your device and just start recording yourself.
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Don't worry about lighting, don't worry about any of the feature stuff now.
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Just make it what you want, figure out, figure out what you would like to talk about, and just start.
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Um, but let's talk about, I guess the way they describe it is a niche, right?
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And I don't want this to be cliche where a niche becomes this big amorphous thing that you have to find your expertise in this niche.
00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:51.920
It's not exactly that, I don't think.
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Um I like to talk about stuff that I experienced.
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I like to uh talk about theater and music and and and fitness.
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These are things that bring me joy.
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So whatever brings you joy, do that, right?
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Okay.
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But niches, as far as I think, and the way I've gotten a lot of my ideas and and followed the different people in those niches for inspiration, are educational and tutorial, whereas you're you know, you're teaching a tech course.
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If you're an expert in some idea of tech or uh, for instance, if you're a whiz in in uh Excel, which for many years I've been using Excel, but I hardly know how to use the damn program.
00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:46.160
And it can do so much.
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Um, if you're an expert in Excel, start doing Excel tutorials.
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There's a lot out there, but maybe you're not getting through, and maybe you can get through or whatever.
00:27:56.079 --> 00:28:09.759
Um, you can do how-to videos, simple, like you know, how to use Excel or or whatever, how to you know create a uh a bustle or bot a bodice or whatever.
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Um how to how to sew a hem, how to do that.
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And DIYs, all of that.
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Educational tutorial, that's a niche right there.
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So if you if you feel like you have something to contribute to something, go for it.
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Then there's the informative.
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:24.799
Um, there's a lot of uh people in the news.
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.720
All right, I don't know if you can hear that, but hold on.
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:47.200
Okay, so it's hot in here, the heat is on, it's a sauna, I have a window cracked open and a fan going.
00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:48.960
I'm trying to keep the noise minimum.
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I'm ranting right now.
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Ignore me.
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So there's the informative.
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There are people who uh do the news, uh, they uh do uh opinion, like you know, um all these weirdos that seem to get a lot of uh tend the right wing ones, not the left or moderate ones who get no coverage or or exposure at all.
00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:16.319
We've got all these right wing leaning, except for Good Trouble.
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That do he can get it too, let me tell you.
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Um Good Trouble um or uh any of those.
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If you're informative, if you're a new if you're a budding reporter or what have you, do do something like that.
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Just say, hey, in case you hadn't heard about this thing.
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Um and so yeah, or and interview interviews.
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Uh if you feel like you want to talk to people and share their experiences and what's the word I'm looking for, um get it out there, uh you could do an interview show or videos or what have you.
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:53.839
Then there's the reviews.
00:29:54.000 --> 00:30:00.559
Um, I tried doing a review review, I tried doing review content.
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Um, and I don't I enjoy watching it, I don't enjoy doing it.
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:10.799
Um yeah, that's not for me.
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:11.680
But you could do that.
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You can review tech gear, um, fashion, travel, and and places you can review.
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:24.079
You can not not I I don't want you to think that I'm talking about becoming an influencer because I don't.
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I'm not.
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Um, but if you've used the New York City subway, you can talk about that.
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This is my experience.
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Um, if you know if you're into the history of the subway, you can go to each station and do the history of that station or what have you, stuff like that.
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Or and clothing and accessories.
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I think that a lot of people since I don't want to say no, we've become a consumer society.
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:58.400
A lot of people spend a lot of money and effort on clothing and accessories and and and things, not a judgment, but that's what people do.
00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:03.519
I I've been guilty of it myself where I have to have that that thing if I really anyway.
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You could do that reviews on clothing and accessories.
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:21.279
Um which brings me to the part that the the work part, because what you don't see in this part, like I'm recording this now here in my room.
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.960
Um a lot of distractions, a lot of whatever.
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:39.920
Um, it it's not easy, and you have to you have to uh somewhat stay focused, which it's hard, but some I think the way I get distracted is funny, and I'm explaining it, so it's devaluing it.
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:40.480
I don't know.
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:44.559
Anyway, scripting is the important part.
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:50.000
So as you can see here, these are my notes for for this, what I'm talking about today, right?
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The way I do it, because I'm anal in structure, you know, that's how I do it.
00:31:54.400 --> 00:32:06.880
But I'm it's changing on the fly as I'm talking to you, and when I some of the stuff I did last night before I went to sleep, uh, because I knew I had nothing, no questions to answer, so I wanted to have something to post for today.
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:10.720
And again, like I said, how can I help people get started?
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.200
Because a lot of maybe there's someone out there who's like, how do you how does he do this?
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.720
Uh so scripting.
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What do you want to talk about?
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And then what you're talking about might have a uh a sub a subheading, um, or you might have a note that you want to add to it and keep yourself on track.
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:35.519
So scripting is a lot of a lot of takes thought and work.
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:49.839
So throughout the week, as I'm experiencing stuff, I jot a note that, oh, this happened, you want to remember to talk about this, but that, and then you can organize it in a way that is um uh usable to relay, which I'm doing now.
00:32:50.000 --> 00:33:02.079
And the what you see in the show notes is just uh the it all of the way that is set out with the bullet points and all of that is all removed to make chunks to tell you what this topic is about, and it's there for you to read.
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:06.240
Um it just takes a little bit of effort and a little bit of time.
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:09.200
And you can even you can I use the notes app here.
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:16.079
Um uh I use a sheet of paper or whatever.
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:17.759
Sometimes I just I have a notebook.
00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:20.880
I'm gonna talk about that next week and for next week's episode.
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I don't want to give that away.
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But my notes app is where I keep all of my notes, and it's synced to my computer so I can work on the computer if I you know if I'm sitting here doing stuff and like, oh, I have a one, two, three, shot it down.
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:42.559
Um and what's important to understand is don't edit yourself.
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Nothing is wrong, nothing isn't right.
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It may not fit with what after you review what you've written or what you want to do, maybe it doesn't add up or it doesn't make sense, or you know, you edit it and fix it, but it's not wrong and it's not incorrect, and it's not all of that, everything that's synonymous with wrong.
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:06.079
You know, it's what's coming here, you're trying to express it, formulate it and put it out there.
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Have no fear, don't be afraid, just do it.
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:26.559
So which brings me to the uh tech part, but before before I do that, I just want to make sure I'm not leaving out because all of everything now is being is what's the word?
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:31.760
Um on the fly, I guess it's not prepared because I had to change this.
00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:36.400
And there's also another issue uh or uh possibility.
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:40.559
You might have to change things on the fly as you go because you want to stick to a schedule.
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:44.239
That's a point of of conversation.
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Sticking to a schedule, being consistent.
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Because I know for me, when I was doing the other posts, staying consistent was the hard part.
00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:58.000
Where do I carve out the time of my day to do this?
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:05.679
Um, so now I'm doing this uh this morning, and I'm gonna edit and then and then post it and make sure it's you know scheduled and ready to go.
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:22.800
And there's a lot of tools in the in the programs that you're gonna use, whether it be uh YouTube, Facebook, um uh, Instagram, you can schedule these ahead of time where once you get it done, post it, time it, and then keep it moving, you can move on to the next thing.
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:28.719
And that's a great tool to have, and I'm glad we have them because it helps stay on a schedule.
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:35.760
Um, and it will remove any barriers where you you might like, oh, I gotta do this or I gotta do that, and what do I gotta move around?
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:39.920
If you know you blocked out this time of day to do this one thing, you're good to go.
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:41.519
And there's a lot of content creators.
00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:54.239
I'm gonna put their links in the show notes so this way you can look them up because I've been inspired by many of them in this way, um, and in stuff that I'm working on that I want to do for the new year.
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:56.960
So it could be helpful for you.
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The scripting is important, drop your notes down.
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.559
Um, and you can also put, you don't have to do this the way I do it, where I'm recording this now.
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:06.239
I'm gonna edit it later and then post.
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:12.719
You can do it on the on the fly where you're going live or you're you record a video and then you just post it.
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:16.960
Hey, I'm in Times Square, and there's a great blah blah blah blah blah.
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Show it, show it, show it.
00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:25.840
See you out there, post that that gorilla kind of shooting is kind of fun too to watch.
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:31.119
Like, oh my god, I was just there, I missed that, you know, or oh, let me, I'm down the block, let me go check that out.
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:36.400
Um, yeah, it can be exciting, and you have to keep it fun for yourself.
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:44.639
And I don't know, I'm I'm an entertainer, I'm an actor, I'm I'm I like to to do weird things, different things.
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:51.760
Um so this falls into the my creativity.
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.400
All right, so the next thing up is the tech to help you get started.
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Now, a lot of people I was stuck in this this spiral too, like, oh, everyone looks so professional and it looks so good.
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:07.519
How can I do that?
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.599
I don't I don't have the right equipment.
00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:15.280
And you know, working in film studios myself, I know what goes, you know, from from photographers.
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:21.039
I would I worked with Mike Ruiz uh on a couple of projects.
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He needed a PA.
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:26.960
And you know, I studied uh photography in high school and college, so I was familiar with the setup.
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.960
Although back then we used dark rooms and chemicals to expose film.
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.079
Um he's a great digital photographer, but basically he needed someone on hand to help.
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:45.519
I learned a lot watching that, and I've been on film sets like for you know the skin flicks and with my uncle when he was making films.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:48.719
I'm familiar with the process and stuff that I've done myself.
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:49.199
Okay.
00:37:50.159 --> 00:38:00.159
A lot of the equipment was so advanced and so intimidating that I thought, oh my gosh, this is incredible and scary and in and intimidating.
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.239
Um, but you don't need all of that.
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:07.920
So right now I'm recording on my iPhone 11 using the front-facing camera, and I have three lights.
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:11.679
I have a holder holding the camera, and above it is a light.
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:22.800
To my left is a ring light that I use for my laptop when I'm doing like zoom calls or I have um an audition or I have you know class and we're all zooming.
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:23.840
I had that light there.
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.400
And then I have a little light on the side over here.
00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:37.760
Um that came with um uh handheld uh tripod thingy for outdoor shooting to give yourself some light.
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.480
Um, so you have your three points of light.
00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:46.320
Nothing fancy, but it gives me the great look that I want that I want for the video.
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:48.320
Uh all inexpensive.
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I think this thing was 12 bucks.
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:53.519
That was 20 bucks, I think.
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:54.639
I don't know, I remember.
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:59.840
Um, that came with the the bundle, so it was basically the bundle fee.
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:08.079
Um killed the dam bone.
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:08.880
Oh my god.
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:10.639
I gotta tell April.
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:17.119
Now it's squeaking like it's dying.
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:17.840
All right.
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:26.159
Um so it doesn't have to be that expensive and put you know, kill the bank or whatever if you only have a few bucks to do.
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:33.199
Um and of course, the mic that I use before I had um this mic that I'm giving away.
00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:45.760
So I had this one, and um, I took the foamy part off, put the wind muffler here, and I had pins here, and the receiver was plugged into the phone there.
00:39:46.400 --> 00:40:05.599
But I sort of upgrade because it was there was a sale, there was a sale, and so I got this the hologlands, and it comes with two mics and a receiver, the receivers and the phone there, and it has a lot of great features that that doesn't have, but that I discovered has a noise cancellation feature that's automatic, you don't have to turn it on.
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So um, there's that.
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So your lighting, your mobile device, just set it up, you get something like this.
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Make sure your background looks kind of cool, you know.
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Have your pets around making weird noises, um, and do that.
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So that that's that part, your setup.
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There it is.
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Okay, if you want something a little bit more elaborate, you can do that.
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You can get bigger lights, put them in your living room, and you know, set up set set up a spot on your on your sofa and you know, do do it that way, or you know, turn up, you know, different side of your room or wherever, make it your recording space.
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Um, or maybe outside.
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If you're gonna be outside and do this, just know this.
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There, you have to be really comfortable talking to your phone and having people watch you do this and not where not worry or care.
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Um, try to get someone to help you out because you might need help angling and and because going back and forth, like I remember that one time I was recording the whole time, but I never mind.
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I screwed it up.
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Um, and uh be wary of sound because you're you're gonna pick up a whole bunch of noise.
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Um so cameras digital versus your you know uh an icon or a canon or anything like that.
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I think that the right now the way that our devices are evolved have evolved to these incredible um cameras, because they're really not just communication devices anymore, they've really made them into you know storytelling devices that you can keep in touch with people with in many aspects.
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The back facing cameras, of course, every generation is better.
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:57.519
Um, front-facing cameras are getting better and better as we go along.
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Um, I don't think it really matters, it just depends on what you're trying to do or what you're interested in doing.
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Um, Steve Connell, who has uh Think Media, check him out on YouTube.
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I followed him from the very beginning, many, many, many years ago, when I was trying to figure out lighting and the most inexpensive uh things that hit his tips and tricks to get you started, right?
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So there was so much that I could do with the minimal stuff that I had that I did it all.
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I mean, I shot um the web series on my iPhone 6s Plus, you know, and um we basic lights.
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I had you know a little bit of, you know, I had a tripod, I had a we did it all like that.
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A little bit of editing and lighting.
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We were, you know, that was our story, right?
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Um so I don't think I don't think it really matters.
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It's just using the features that each phone comes with and it would really catapult your your content.
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Um so dive into what your cameras offer, whether it be something like a handheld Canon, whatever.
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And I'm saying these names, not any particular reason why.
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Um, or your your device, your your iPhone or your your Android device.
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Um look into what each one feature all the features they offer.
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And I know a lot of the Android devices have so many more features than iPhone cameras can do, so explore those because they might really be beneficial for you.
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Above all, audio is king.
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100% king.
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Whether it picks everything up or you want to drown out the background, your audio is king.
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Because the video can suck, but if people can't hear it right, or there's wind blowing on your microphone and you don't have a uh wind muffler covering it up.
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I mean, it's the worst.
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:57.519
I have really I mean, someone's got a great video going.
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I'm like, I just can't focus because I can't all hear it.
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It's distracting.
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Um, and I I've been there, so that's that.
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So, yeah.
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You don't need a lot to start, my friends.
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You just need the chance to do it.
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You just I think that's not what I wanted to say.
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You just have to believe in yourself to do it.
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Just do it.
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Just do it.
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No, you know, reference to the sneaker company.
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You just have to do it.
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Just feel no, there's no wrong, there's no right, there's just your your point of view, your expression.
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You know, and if that's what you want to do, do it.
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Um, and you don't have to be on camera like I'm being on camera.
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You can, you know, do things like you know, the tutorial stuff.
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There's a lot of people where they have everything, like Flossie Carter, who I watch all the time for tech reviews.
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He does mostly phones and devices now.
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I mean, I miss his sneaker head videos because I'm a sneakerhead, and I miss his backpack and bag because I love backpacks and bags.
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:11.760
Um, but he's all you know behind the camera, all of his like review and delving into every aspect of that one product.
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Um, and he's a great resource.
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Flossie Carter, Steve Cannell.
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These are two video, um, and they're not paying me to reference them.
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Um, so there's still time.
00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:38.639
I mean, I since no one sent quit the the whole idea was I was giving away these uh things as giveaways for uh an AMA, right?
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:41.920
So you have here a microphone with the charger, right?
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You have the the uh receiver, which is also a power um USB power through to charge your device as you're recording, as well as a handheld tripod, like I was talking about earlier.
00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:02.480
It's a carabiner clip, you can carry this anywhere with you.
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You can set it up with the legs, the legs open, and you can hold it up like this.
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Um, there's still a chance for you to win this or get this.
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:24.239
So, this is what I'm gonna do next week is the finale episode, and I'm just gonna go through all of my followers, and I'm going to pick.
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So, there's two of these, right?
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:34.559
So, I'm gonna pick one from Facebook, one from Instagram to get these, and my YouTube followers.
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Um, you're gonna get the double bundle, which is two microphones, a receiver, uh that has USB and a lightning adapter, just in case.
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So, that's in here.
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So, you get the double that, and that's that.
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So, may the odds ever be in your favor, which reminds me.
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Um if you missed this and this is for the the re review of the week.
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I'm I guess this is uh spontaneous episode, folks.
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Spontaneous episode.
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Did you all hear about the American Hunger Game starting?
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Apparently, the best athletes from every state are gonna come together to compete somewhere, somehow, for some reason.
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So, my question is what sport?
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What at the athlete in what?
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Isn't that the Olympics?
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There's so many different sports, there's so many different kinds of athletes.
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What are we what what are we gonna do?
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What are we gonna what are we gonna do?
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Are we gonna cord North Central Park and make it?
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And then they were like, no, it's not the Hunger Games.
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I mean, what the actual F is going on?
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Like, who in the and I don't think it's from him, I think it's someone in his administration.
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You know what would be really cool if we got like all the athletes from all the states and got them to come compete.
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Um, we have stuff like that already.
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I believe.
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There's the gymnastics competitions, there's little league, there's the baseball, there's football, there's fencing, there's swimming, there's diving, there's everything.
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There's running, there's bodybuilding, there's weightlifting, there's arm wrestling, there's wrestling, there's MMA.
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Hey, let's get one of those idiots from the off Oval Office in the octagon.
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If it wasn't such a farce, it would be really scary, but it's scary and still a farce.
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So all right, so like I said, next week I'm just gonna announce just uh few, you know, one winner from YouTube, one from Facebook, one from Instagram.
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And uh if you don't if you don't see this and you you just get a random message from me, hey, hey, I'm giving this away to you, you're a winner.
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Congratulations.
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Uh so alright, folks.
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Um, have a great week.
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Um, merry, merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa.
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And uh, if you got made it this far, uh put a Santa emoji or Mrs.
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Claws emoji or Santa hat emoji.
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I don't think this is a Santa hat emoji.
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Um put that down here.
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Oh, remember last week I remember I was talking about this hat and I found the snow, the this old-timey snowman.
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That's the one I was talking about.
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Yeah, so I started this has started a trend where I put a snowman on it.
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Um so yeah, have a great holiday.
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Feel free to share this.
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Please follow on Facebook and uh Instagram and YouTube and like and comment and share and all that jazz.
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If you're listening, you know, give me five stars because it's helping raise me up in the algorithm and um you know uh downloading it helps best.
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Um, but yeah, five stars just because I'm cute and funny and dopey and all those weird things.
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Um all right, I can't believe we're almost there, folks.
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Next week is the season finale.
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I hope you'll be there.
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It's gonna be a great episode.
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I think it's gonna be a great episode.
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So again, first day of winter, one bundle up.
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If you're in New York, it's kind of like spring, so hey, wear shorts.
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Uh Merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa, and I will see you later.
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Peace out y'all.
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I want you to try this to start creating content.
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the pod.
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I'm Mike Draden Figueroa.
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This is Unscripted and Unrehearsed, where I give you my take on the state of events, things I've heard, seen, and experienced throughout the past week.
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Yeah, um, this week, well, this week's episode was to be dedicated to all of you, my watchers, visitors.
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Um, and I say was because um all the platforms I checked, not a single question came in for the AMA episode.
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Ask Mike anything.
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And I thought maybe a couple of questions would come through, but um, hey, it's alright.
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Not many people have a lot of questions.
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I also think that the way the algorithms are set up now, it is really hard to break through.
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And not that I'm looking for a huge amount of views or a lot of interaction, I would like some just to you know keep this going and grow and advance for the other projects that I'm working on.
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Um, but nothing came through, and I put it out there.
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So I a couple things.
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I decided to explore for you guys who happen to come upon this, um, how to start creating content.
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But first, uh the major news of the week that really a lot of a lot of passings, a lot of death.
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I hate to say it, but you know, there it is, it's just that the older that I get, and I know these a lot of these people are not in the current ethos of a lot of young people's consciousness, is just the the creators that I follow and have been fans of since I was a kid.
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And uh one of those was Rob Reiner.
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Now, when I was a kid, Rob Reiner was uh he played Michael Stivik on All in the Family.
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Now, All in the Family was based on a family from Queens uh featuring Archie Bunker, Edith Bunker, their daughter.
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Uh I forgot her name, and uh their son, who I can't remember his name either, but he was called Meathead, dead from the neck up, as Archie would say.
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So the the reason we, I mean, the show is very, very funny, but it was very true to what life was here in New York City in the five boroughs, as far as I know, because I mean I saw my grandmother in in Archie and the way she spoke, and she didn't always say those things in public, but around the family, she said a lot of those things, which my mother would say, Ma, you can't say that, or Ma, you know, and then she'd point to me and my sister, like they have colored, the colored people, you know, stuff like that.
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But my grandmother was once we came along, I think she she was a different person from what my mother had as a as a mom growing up.
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But um, I had a lot of great memories.
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So it uh Rob Reiner was great on that show, and he was always the um anti antithesis to Archie, and where he was this progressive person where Archie was stuck in his in his ways, right?
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His racism and his bigotry and all of that.
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Um so he passed away, and it was a very terrible way to go, and it hit me hard, and as details have come out, I just tried not to listen because I didn't want to know the details, but it was very tragic.
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But this is why I also was still a fan of his.
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A lot of the movies that became what's the word?
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Um, not iconic, although they are, uh, they've bec they've become part of the Americana.
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What's that word I'm looking for?
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Um they are woven into the American way of life, I should I'm trying to say, I guess.
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Uh for instance, uh, this is Spinal Tap.
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Mostly improvised.
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I only learned recently.
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Um, mostly improvised, but hilarious and ridiculous, but great.
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Then there's um Stand By Me, which as a young kid, I'm watching these actors who are these young guys, or very young, far younger than I am, um, grow up into incredible men and incredible actors.
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But watching them, I could see myself as when I was a little bit their age, exploring Green Point and Williamsburg on my bicycle, just getting lost until the streetlights came on and I had to hustle home.
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You know, but I did those things and a lot of and and there was the neighborhood bully, and then there were there was no dead bodies, but you know, a lot of adventures.
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And then there was, of course, uh, and that was in 1986, 1984, he did Spinal Tap.
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And then came The Princess Bride, one of my all-time favorite movies.
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I can't tell you how I know there's a lot of you out there who know that the joy I get watching The Princess Bride, which I found by accident because there was nothing to see, and I was bored, and I just picked it up at the video store.
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Yes, there was a place you went and got videotapes that were like this big, and you put it in a machine that was that big, and you watched the movie for a couple hours.
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Um, and it became huge, huge.
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Um, and that was in 1987 he did that.
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Uh, then Misery in 1990, which I thought was I'd never heard of the Steve, this uh um Stephen King novel, but I thought it was interesting, and it was getting a lot of buzz, and it was in the movies, and then it was on videotapes.
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Oh, let me check this out.
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Um, I huge Michael, uh not Michael, um shoot, what's his name?
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Um he played Sonny and the Godfather Khan is his last name.
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Huge fan of his, and then here's this woman, Kathy Bates, who I'd never seen before, who was playing this lunatic, and she was brilliant.
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So much so that I was like scared.
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She she really scared me.
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Brilliant performance, and that he also directed that, and that was uh 1990.
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Then, of course, the major this is all before for the 2000s, for the new the new millennium, uh folks, uh 1992's uh A Few Good Men, huge Tom Cruise fan, huge uh Demi Moore fan, huge Kevin Bacon fan, and of course, uh okay.
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I'm at a loss for words and names because I've only had a sip of coffee.
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I need more coffee.
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Jack Nicholson, see magic of coffee, Jack Nicholson fan, huge.
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And plus, there were a lot of peripheral actors in that film that uh some have gone on to do incredible things and uh and not.
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So yeah, that that hit me hard because it was not what I expected to hear.
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I'm looking at my calendar and like it it sometimes I wonder if I'm a conspiracy theorist because the way the description of how they were found I don't know.
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It doesn't seem it doesn't sound right.
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However, I mourn because a great artist has has and and his wife were taken from us too soon, and his family is going through a hard time.
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I don't wish these kind of things on anyone.
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We struggle enough with our everyday, day-to-day as it is, this one thing.
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It's not it's not what I want for anybody.
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Then of course, there's um Anthony Geary who passed.
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Now, for those of us who are huge General Hospital fans, which I was not so much, but because of the fad the fad of the Luke and Laura years and everything they went through, and then they finally got together and they got married, he played Luke Spencer on General Hospital, and Jeannie Francis played um Laura.
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Jeannie Francis is married to um Jonathan Frekes, who played Bill Riker on Star Trek.
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See how I brought that around?
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Everything just comes back to Star Trek.
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Okay.
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Um, so yeah, he passed away.
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And I just started remembering too all of the um the craze for Luke and Lauren, how you know we would rush home after school to uh watch soap operas.
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Good morning, Missy.
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Um, so for those of you listening, Tony Girl has joined me on my desk, and she's gonna get in front of the camera.
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Now she wants to curl up on my desk.
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Like I said, I could be move your tush, please.
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So yeah, uh it just reminded me how much I loved soap operas and how much I wanted to be on soap operas and um the Luke and Laura uh craze and fad.
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Um nice, and then so I started thinking.
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Oh, I just had a memory that's not in my notes, but uh so my mom used to work for an allergist, and uh his office was like on 72nd and West End, and a lot of soap actors used to go to him, and there was one, I forget his name, but he was on As the World Terms, and that was my all-time favorite soap, and I wanted to be on that.
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Second to Young and the Restless.
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And uh he Max is chewing on his toy now.
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Uh, he uh brought a script from an episode signed uh of from As the World Terms that um I just love.
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Do you mind?
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See, I'm why is this happening?
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I don't know if you guys can hear.
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Uh so there was that.
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So I went, I started going down a list of soaps that I love.
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So it it in this order.
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Well, first of all, my mom used to send us on the Fresh Air Fund uh summer camping trips.
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And basically, as inner city kids would go spend a week or two with a family in the burbs.
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So I ended up in Canasarrega County, New York, which is 60 miles southeast of Buffalo.
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I still remember this.
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I was 11 years old, and uh I stayed with the Earls, who I missed terribly.
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Mrs.
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Earl and Mr.
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Earl were wonderful.
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So this is what I learned from from the these beautiful people.
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Um, Mrs.
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Earl was involved in the church.
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Um, so she gave me a book of psalms, and while I was there, I got to go to their services, and I got she they wanted me to memorize a psalm, so I read I did a psalm in church one one Sunday I was there.
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She also taught me piano.
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She had a regular piano to practice on, excuse me.
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And she had an organ that lit up the keys lit up so you could have a book with the letters and you just match the letters.
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And I was playing, you know, I learned how to play.
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Um, and then she transferred me over to the piano.
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But I was there for two weeks.
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So the first week I was doing the organ with the light-up keys, mostly.
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Well, it was one of those electrical things.
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You could be an organ or a piano.
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And then she moved me over to the to the piano, and then I did play at the church, which I thought was kind of cool.
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Uh, she also taught me how to sew, and basically it's just a simple stitch to connect two pieces of material.
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And to this day, I use that double stitch knot pull thing to fix a hole all these years later.
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But Mrs.
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Url was a huge Young and the Wrestless fan.
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She turned me on to the Young and the Wrestless.
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So in the afternoon, you know, after breakfast, you know, we do we did stuff before Mr.
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Earl would come home from whatever he was doing, I guess work, uh, we would watch soaps and sew little thingies that she made chotch keys for people.
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And I had I got a kick out of it.
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Um, but I was so enthralled with soap operas.
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So Young and the Restless.
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Um, oh, Mr.
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Earl taught me how to chop wood.
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Strong.
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And I got to see a bear.
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Uh I'm having a memory that of love that I can't I can't express.
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I mean that was the best summer ever.
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Um, one of the best.
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So uh in this order, Young and the Restless, As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital.
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I was into uh Bold and the Beautiful, Guiding Light, and Search for Tomorrow, but those were not the the anyway.
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So uh yeah, uh Anthony Geary has passed on, and that's another uh generational thing where as I get older and I lose friends and and connections to the past, you know, it just brings back memories of a time that was far simpler.
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And I'll be honest, before these devices and everything, life was just exciting and and uh it was so exciting that you couldn't wait to tell someone what you did or experienced.
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Uh and then of course, a sci-fi death happens in threes, people.
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This is true, I believe it, but there's so many others.
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But these, you know, uh Gil Gerard, who, for those of us who are sci-fi geeks, uh who played Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 24th century, whatever.
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Uh yeah, he he passed away.
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And that show was so incredible.
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Where I thought, I'm like, oh, I hated the 80s so much.
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It was a lot of time travel stuff going on.
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So there was, you know, of course, Buck Rogers in the 24th century, 25th century, and there was uh Back to the Future, and then a couple other time travel shows.
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I'm like, oh, I want to go to the future, I want to see what it's gonna be like, is it better?
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And I'm here now, and I'm like, it could have been, it's just few a lot of people fucked it up.
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Um, so yeah, that was the the the majority of the the wamp mop of the week.
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And I'm like, the year is ending, and all of this is happening, and I'm like, at least they don't have to suffer through the nonsense we're going through right now.
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Um celebrity interaction.
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Uh, so I mean, I don't know how many of you get this, but all I know is uh let me put it to you this way: the scene in Avengers Endgame, when they all come together, and you see that video that went viral of the audience going crazy as you know the portal opened, and then you see Black Panther come through, and then um uh condor, no, whatever he comes flying through, and then it's like bananas where everybody comes through, like one of the epic comic book scenes that you could ever have.
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Well, Iron Man came to see chess.
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All right, Robert Downey Jr.
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came through.
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Uh so security came through, they bring it some.
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It's usually what happens when big celebrities come through.
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We scan their tickets ahead of time and we give it to them and then just walk them in.
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Um, but today this was like I guess a last minute thing, or they forgot, or whatever.
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So uh security, my one of my buddies in security came.
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I'm like, all right, who's coming?
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Because usually when he does that, it's a big deal person.
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He's like, Robert Downey Jr.
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I'm like, right on.
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I'm like, bring up to my door.
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So he was with his entourage, security, his his security.
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I wonder about this man.
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His security was like, you know.
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Let me just say he could get it.
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This man, I'm okay.
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Um, so they arrived.
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Uh, I think his daughter was with him.
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I'm not quite sure.
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And I looked up to see what his daughter looked like.
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But I don't know if it was, I don't know how many kids he has.
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I don't know.
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But uh it was more people, but I was so fixed on him because he had like a gray mask that was far more conspicuous than just having a plain, you know, black or whatever mask on, but it was like a gray one that came like this.
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And uh so I'm like, I'm like, hello, sir.
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He was like, hey, how are you?
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But it it like okay, for me, I know when people recognize me or they want to interact with me, not that I'm anywhere near this level, you know, I'll stop and say, hey, you know, what's up?
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Thanks for, you know, whatever.
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But I guess they get it so much where they don't want to interact.
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Of course, he's there to see a show, and the show is starting, and it's not the greatest moment, but um, and it's like okay, obviously I know them, they have no idea who I am.
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They just discovered that I exist.
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Same as you know, we all discover other people that exist.
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It it I don't know.
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I just get a little bit disappointed when they don't get excited to see me because I I'm excited to see you.
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All right, whatever.
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That that's nuts.
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At least I acknowledge it.
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Okay, coffee.
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Okay, so there was that.
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And I was, and he's okay, so it's very true how the camera adds 10 pounds because this man is skinny.
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He he's skinny, unless he's working on a new project and he had a drop, but he's skinny.
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You can see in his face too.
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Um same deal with Kate Mulgrew when she came through the last week, you know, very trim and you know.
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Uh all right, so this is the other ridiculous thing that I heard, but I might look into this because I think we all pet parents should have this option.
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Now, there's a woman who reported on 1010 Wins, it's a radio station here in New York, uh, who is suing the IRS because she wants to claim her pets as dependents.
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Um, she's spent hundreds, I'm reading my notes, she's spent, according to her, she's spent hundreds of dollars on pet food and pet and uh vet visits, and uh she'd like to be able to recoup some of that money.
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However, according to the IRS, your pets are considered property.
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Now, if we want to get philosophical about it, I don't consider Tony Girl, who's laying right here, and Mr.
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Beck there.
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I don't consider them property.
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I consider them living beings I take care of, and they're my friends and they're my my dependent.
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I I look at them as my kids.
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You know, they they you know, they get on my nerves, they piss me off.
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Yes.
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Um, and they bring me lots of joy more often than not.
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And I think that's what raising kids is like.
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We I've gotten on my parents' nerves, I've pissed them off, but I I guess I suppose maybe I brought them more joy than not.
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Um, why shouldn't we?
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Do you know how expensive a friggin' vet bill is?
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Excuse me.
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Pardon me.
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Um I maxed out their emergency fund already, and I'm like, alright, gotta dig out from under this because I'm gonna need it again.
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But I should be able to, well, we should all be able to write some of that stuff off, you know.
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We agree to take care of them, and not that we have to, but you know what's the difference between progeny and adoption?
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No, he didn't.
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Oh my god, you guys.
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Max What did you do, Baba?
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Okay, so my Okay Here Don't eat the plastic! Oh my god, he just he's just all of his toys, all of his toys get destroyed because he even the the power chew toys are made to you know for power chewers he's tore them apart.
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I've hold on here's a neighbor's toy that he took because you know he doesn't know how to let go.
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Look they look.
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There's a thing in there was supposed to light up or some shit.
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I don't know.
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I found batteries.
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I'm like, where the fuck are these batteries from?
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There's a little thing in there.
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I hope he didn't eat the batteries.
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But look, these are not these are supposed to be indestructible.
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Not the case here.
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Anyway.
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No, it's not the ball.
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Alright, so um.
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Yeah.
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I want to claim these kids.
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I want to be able to.
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Well, she I'm trying to keep up on that because if she's suing the IRS for this, I want to see how far she gets because you know, there's two things that are of uh a constant in the universe as far as we know it right now, and it's deaf and taxes.
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And hey, why not?
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It would go a long way too because that money you could, you know, the extra things that you write off, you could always just put it to the side, or you get some of it back, whichever way it works.
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Um, and of course, on Friday was I don't know if you participated, but it was National Ugly Sweater Day.
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I didn't I didn't do it this year.
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So yeah, so it's the third Friday in December in case you ever wanted to know.
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Um there it is.
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Send me pictures of your ugly sweaters from 2025.
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I would like that very much.
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I want to see.
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I think uh last year uh I got one.
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It's like this this muscle dude on it, and it says uh pain and gain some stupid shit like that.
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All right, so here we go.
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I really and I I had to do this on the fly all over again because um as I was going through everything hoping there would be some questions to answer and and participate in for today's this week's post, um, which is by the way, it's the first day of winter and it's a little springy outside.
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Um I thought, okay, a couple things hit my mind, and I was I was talking about uh mentioning this on the live post that I did uh on Wednesday.
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Um maybe I'm shadow banned, and I'm not quite sure if I am.
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Uh so what I did was I I used Chat GPT, and I think the prompt was something like, if you wanted to start a uh podcast and you created blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, did all this and you posted it and you weren't really getting any traction.
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How would what would you do to go about finding out if you've been shadow banned?
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So it came back.
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There's really not such a thing as being shadow banned, but this is what I would do, blah, blah, blah.
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You could start looking here, you can start there, have your friends try this who you're not connected to socially on social media, and see what comes up for them.
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So I'm trying these experiments, and I I know I'm I consolidated a lot in there just now.
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Um, and maybe I'll put it in the show notes.
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Uh, you know, I'll put it in the show notes the the prompt that I asked and the feedback I got.
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Because maybe you can find out too for yourself if you've been shadow banned or if you're not getting through to people you want to get through to or engagement.
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Because ultimately the way this has evolved, whereas instead of you're sharing your creativity, I don't know why I said that.
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That that I'm trying not to be Brooklyn, your creativity um with your friends and family, because that's what it was like before, everybody you were connected to, that's all you saw.
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Now it's like just ads and people you don't know.
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And it's like, I okay, it's a lot.
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I just want to know what my friend in Berlin is doing.
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And I hardly ever see any of his posts.
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I have to go to his page to see what he's doing.
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It's annoying.
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Anyway, you can find out.
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Um, so I'll put that in the in the notes so you can figure it out.
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Um, so I thought, okay, what would be a beneficial post to talk about?
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And I thought maybe where you could go to or how you would go about starting to create content.
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Content.
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Content.
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The first thing you need to do is just start recording because I think I mentioned this in past posts.
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The I think we all have a, if we really want to do this, we all have this insecurity of maybe nobody will like it, or you know, maybe I'll be wasting my time, or you feel some sort of imposter syndrome, or who am I to do this?
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You know, who would give a shit?
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And I've felt it, I've thought about it.
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It's part of the reason why, you know, morning Kofifi start stopped, and then it became Morning Joe.
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I wanted to go back to Kofifi, but just invoking that idiot, I just don't want that in my energy.
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Um, I'm sorry, I'm distracted because he's tearing that thing apart.
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And there's foam, there's foam everywhere.
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So I I put I put together some ideas on what you can do.
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So, first and foremost, pick up your device and just start recording yourself.
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Don't worry about lighting, don't worry about any of the feature stuff now.
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Just make it what you want, figure out, figure out what you would like to talk about, and just start.
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Um, but let's talk about, I guess the way they describe it is a niche, right?
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And I don't want this to be cliche where a niche becomes this big amorphous thing that you have to find your expertise in this niche.
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It's not exactly that, I don't think.
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Um I like to talk about stuff that I experienced.
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I like to uh talk about theater and music and and and fitness.
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These are things that bring me joy.
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So whatever brings you joy, do that, right?
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Okay.
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But niches, as far as I think, and the way I've gotten a lot of my ideas and and followed the different people in those niches for inspiration, are educational and tutorial, whereas you're you know, you're teaching a tech course.
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If you're an expert in some idea of tech or uh, for instance, if you're a whiz in in uh Excel, which for many years I've been using Excel, but I hardly know how to use the damn program.
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And it can do so much.
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Um, if you're an expert in Excel, start doing Excel tutorials.
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There's a lot out there, but maybe you're not getting through, and maybe you can get through or whatever.
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Um, you can do how-to videos, simple, like you know, how to use Excel or or whatever, how to you know create a uh a bustle or bot a bodice or whatever.
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Um how to how to sew a hem, how to do that.
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And DIYs, all of that.
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Educational tutorial, that's a niche right there.
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So if you if you feel like you have something to contribute to something, go for it.
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Then there's the informative.
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Um, there's a lot of uh people in the news.
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All right, I don't know if you can hear that, but hold on.
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Okay, so it's hot in here, the heat is on, it's a sauna, I have a window cracked open and a fan going.
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I'm trying to keep the noise minimum.
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I'm ranting right now.
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Ignore me.
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So there's the informative.
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There are people who uh do the news, uh, they uh do uh opinion, like you know, um all these weirdos that seem to get a lot of uh tend the right wing ones, not the left or moderate ones who get no coverage or or exposure at all.
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We've got all these right wing leaning, except for Good Trouble.
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That do he can get it too, let me tell you.
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:24.000
Um Good Trouble um or uh any of those.
00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:29.759
If you're informative, if you're a new if you're a budding reporter or what have you, do do something like that.
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:32.799
Just say, hey, in case you hadn't heard about this thing.
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:35.839
Um and so yeah, or and interview interviews.
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:52.160
Uh if you feel like you want to talk to people and share their experiences and what's the word I'm looking for, um get it out there, uh you could do an interview show or videos or what have you.
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:53.839
Then there's the reviews.
00:29:54.000 --> 00:30:00.559
Um, I tried doing a review review, I tried doing review content.
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:05.599
Um, and I don't I enjoy watching it, I don't enjoy doing it.
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:10.799
Um yeah, that's not for me.
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:11.680
But you could do that.
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:18.240
You can review tech gear, um, fashion, travel, and and places you can review.
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:24.079
You can not not I I don't want you to think that I'm talking about becoming an influencer because I don't.
00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:24.960
I'm not.
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:30.480
Um, but if you've used the New York City subway, you can talk about that.
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:31.599
This is my experience.
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:37.519
Um, if you know if you're into the history of the subway, you can go to each station and do the history of that station or what have you, stuff like that.
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:39.200
Or and clothing and accessories.
00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:47.680
I think that a lot of people since I don't want to say no, we've become a consumer society.
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:58.400
A lot of people spend a lot of money and effort on clothing and accessories and and and things, not a judgment, but that's what people do.
00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:03.519
I I've been guilty of it myself where I have to have that that thing if I really anyway.
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.200
You could do that reviews on clothing and accessories.
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:21.279
Um which brings me to the part that the the work part, because what you don't see in this part, like I'm recording this now here in my room.
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.960
Um a lot of distractions, a lot of whatever.
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:39.920
Um, it it's not easy, and you have to you have to uh somewhat stay focused, which it's hard, but some I think the way I get distracted is funny, and I'm explaining it, so it's devaluing it.
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:40.480
I don't know.
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:44.559
Anyway, scripting is the important part.
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:50.000
So as you can see here, these are my notes for for this, what I'm talking about today, right?
00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:54.240
The way I do it, because I'm anal in structure, you know, that's how I do it.
00:31:54.400 --> 00:32:06.880
But I'm it's changing on the fly as I'm talking to you, and when I some of the stuff I did last night before I went to sleep, uh, because I knew I had nothing, no questions to answer, so I wanted to have something to post for today.
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:10.720
And again, like I said, how can I help people get started?
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.200
Because a lot of maybe there's someone out there who's like, how do you how does he do this?
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.720
Uh so scripting.
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:20.799
What do you want to talk about?
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:29.680
And then what you're talking about might have a uh a sub a subheading, um, or you might have a note that you want to add to it and keep yourself on track.
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:35.519
So scripting is a lot of a lot of takes thought and work.
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:49.839
So throughout the week, as I'm experiencing stuff, I jot a note that, oh, this happened, you want to remember to talk about this, but that, and then you can organize it in a way that is um uh usable to relay, which I'm doing now.
00:32:50.000 --> 00:33:02.079
And the what you see in the show notes is just uh the it all of the way that is set out with the bullet points and all of that is all removed to make chunks to tell you what this topic is about, and it's there for you to read.
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:06.240
Um it just takes a little bit of effort and a little bit of time.
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:09.200
And you can even you can I use the notes app here.
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:16.079
Um uh I use a sheet of paper or whatever.
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:17.759
Sometimes I just I have a notebook.
00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:20.880
I'm gonna talk about that next week and for next week's episode.
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.119
I don't want to give that away.
00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:33.920
But my notes app is where I keep all of my notes, and it's synced to my computer so I can work on the computer if I you know if I'm sitting here doing stuff and like, oh, I have a one, two, three, shot it down.
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:42.559
Um and what's important to understand is don't edit yourself.
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.680
Nothing is wrong, nothing isn't right.
00:33:45.920 --> 00:34:00.880
It may not fit with what after you review what you've written or what you want to do, maybe it doesn't add up or it doesn't make sense, or you know, you edit it and fix it, but it's not wrong and it's not incorrect, and it's not all of that, everything that's synonymous with wrong.
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:06.079
You know, it's what's coming here, you're trying to express it, formulate it and put it out there.
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.760
Have no fear, don't be afraid, just do it.
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:26.559
So which brings me to the uh tech part, but before before I do that, I just want to make sure I'm not leaving out because all of everything now is being is what's the word?
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:31.760
Um on the fly, I guess it's not prepared because I had to change this.
00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:36.400
And there's also another issue uh or uh possibility.
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:40.559
You might have to change things on the fly as you go because you want to stick to a schedule.
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:44.239
That's a point of of conversation.
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:47.039
Sticking to a schedule, being consistent.
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:54.800
Because I know for me, when I was doing the other posts, staying consistent was the hard part.
00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:58.000
Where do I carve out the time of my day to do this?
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:05.679
Um, so now I'm doing this uh this morning, and I'm gonna edit and then and then post it and make sure it's you know scheduled and ready to go.
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:22.800
And there's a lot of tools in the in the programs that you're gonna use, whether it be uh YouTube, Facebook, um uh, Instagram, you can schedule these ahead of time where once you get it done, post it, time it, and then keep it moving, you can move on to the next thing.
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:28.719
And that's a great tool to have, and I'm glad we have them because it helps stay on a schedule.
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:35.760
Um, and it will remove any barriers where you you might like, oh, I gotta do this or I gotta do that, and what do I gotta move around?
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:39.920
If you know you blocked out this time of day to do this one thing, you're good to go.
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:41.519
And there's a lot of content creators.
00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:54.239
I'm gonna put their links in the show notes so this way you can look them up because I've been inspired by many of them in this way, um, and in stuff that I'm working on that I want to do for the new year.
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:56.960
So it could be helpful for you.
00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.000
The scripting is important, drop your notes down.
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.559
Um, and you can also put, you don't have to do this the way I do it, where I'm recording this now.
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:06.239
I'm gonna edit it later and then post.
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:12.719
You can do it on the on the fly where you're going live or you're you record a video and then you just post it.
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:16.960
Hey, I'm in Times Square, and there's a great blah blah blah blah blah.
00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:18.159
Show it, show it, show it.
00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:25.840
See you out there, post that that gorilla kind of shooting is kind of fun too to watch.
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:31.119
Like, oh my god, I was just there, I missed that, you know, or oh, let me, I'm down the block, let me go check that out.
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:36.400
Um, yeah, it can be exciting, and you have to keep it fun for yourself.
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:44.639
And I don't know, I'm I'm an entertainer, I'm an actor, I'm I'm I like to to do weird things, different things.
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:51.760
Um so this falls into the my creativity.
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.400
All right, so the next thing up is the tech to help you get started.
00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:06.000
Now, a lot of people I was stuck in this this spiral too, like, oh, everyone looks so professional and it looks so good.
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:07.519
How can I do that?
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.599
I don't I don't have the right equipment.
00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:15.280
And you know, working in film studios myself, I know what goes, you know, from from photographers.
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:21.039
I would I worked with Mike Ruiz uh on a couple of projects.
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:21.920
He needed a PA.
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:26.960
And you know, I studied uh photography in high school and college, so I was familiar with the setup.
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.960
Although back then we used dark rooms and chemicals to expose film.
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.079
Um he's a great digital photographer, but basically he needed someone on hand to help.
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:45.519
I learned a lot watching that, and I've been on film sets like for you know the skin flicks and with my uncle when he was making films.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:48.719
I'm familiar with the process and stuff that I've done myself.
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:49.199
Okay.
00:37:50.159 --> 00:38:00.159
A lot of the equipment was so advanced and so intimidating that I thought, oh my gosh, this is incredible and scary and in and intimidating.
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.239
Um, but you don't need all of that.
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:07.920
So right now I'm recording on my iPhone 11 using the front-facing camera, and I have three lights.
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:11.679
I have a holder holding the camera, and above it is a light.
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:22.800
To my left is a ring light that I use for my laptop when I'm doing like zoom calls or I have um an audition or I have you know class and we're all zooming.
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:23.840
I had that light there.
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.400
And then I have a little light on the side over here.
00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:37.760
Um that came with um uh handheld uh tripod thingy for outdoor shooting to give yourself some light.
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.480
Um, so you have your three points of light.
00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:46.320
Nothing fancy, but it gives me the great look that I want that I want for the video.
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:48.320
Uh all inexpensive.
00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:50.320
I think this thing was 12 bucks.
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:53.519
That was 20 bucks, I think.
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:54.639
I don't know, I remember.
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:59.840
Um, that came with the the bundle, so it was basically the bundle fee.
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:08.079
Um killed the dam bone.
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:08.880
Oh my god.
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:10.639
I gotta tell April.
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:17.119
Now it's squeaking like it's dying.
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:17.840
All right.
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:26.159
Um so it doesn't have to be that expensive and put you know, kill the bank or whatever if you only have a few bucks to do.
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:33.199
Um and of course, the mic that I use before I had um this mic that I'm giving away.
00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:45.760
So I had this one, and um, I took the foamy part off, put the wind muffler here, and I had pins here, and the receiver was plugged into the phone there.
00:39:46.400 --> 00:40:05.599
But I sort of upgrade because it was there was a sale, there was a sale, and so I got this the hologlands, and it comes with two mics and a receiver, the receivers and the phone there, and it has a lot of great features that that doesn't have, but that I discovered has a noise cancellation feature that's automatic, you don't have to turn it on.
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:08.320
So um, there's that.
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:12.559
So your lighting, your mobile device, just set it up, you get something like this.
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:15.679
Make sure your background looks kind of cool, you know.
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:25.599
Have your pets around making weird noises, um, and do that.
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:27.679
So that that's that part, your setup.
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:28.239
There it is.
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.119
Okay, if you want something a little bit more elaborate, you can do that.
00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:44.960
You can get bigger lights, put them in your living room, and you know, set up set set up a spot on your on your sofa and you know, do do it that way, or you know, turn up, you know, different side of your room or wherever, make it your recording space.
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:46.559
Um, or maybe outside.
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:50.000
If you're gonna be outside and do this, just know this.
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:57.920
There, you have to be really comfortable talking to your phone and having people watch you do this and not where not worry or care.
00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:09.199
Um, try to get someone to help you out because you might need help angling and and because going back and forth, like I remember that one time I was recording the whole time, but I never mind.
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:10.800
I screwed it up.
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:18.480
Um, and uh be wary of sound because you're you're gonna pick up a whole bunch of noise.
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:30.960
Um so cameras digital versus your you know uh an icon or a canon or anything like that.
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:49.920
I think that the right now the way that our devices are evolved have evolved to these incredible um cameras, because they're really not just communication devices anymore, they've really made them into you know storytelling devices that you can keep in touch with people with in many aspects.
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:53.599
The back facing cameras, of course, every generation is better.
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:57.519
Um, front-facing cameras are getting better and better as we go along.
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:05.280
Um, I don't think it really matters, it just depends on what you're trying to do or what you're interested in doing.
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:09.920
Um, Steve Connell, who has uh Think Media, check him out on YouTube.
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:20.880
I followed him from the very beginning, many, many, many years ago, when I was trying to figure out lighting and the most inexpensive uh things that hit his tips and tricks to get you started, right?
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:27.360
So there was so much that I could do with the minimal stuff that I had that I did it all.
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:37.920
I mean, I shot um the web series on my iPhone 6s Plus, you know, and um we basic lights.
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:41.519
I had you know a little bit of, you know, I had a tripod, I had a we did it all like that.
00:42:41.599 --> 00:42:42.880
A little bit of editing and lighting.
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.199
We were, you know, that was our story, right?
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:49.760
Um so I don't think I don't think it really matters.
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:56.239
It's just using the features that each phone comes with and it would really catapult your your content.
00:42:56.559 --> 00:43:04.079
Um so dive into what your cameras offer, whether it be something like a handheld Canon, whatever.
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:08.159
And I'm saying these names, not any particular reason why.
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:15.039
Um, or your your device, your your iPhone or your your Android device.
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:20.639
Um look into what each one feature all the features they offer.
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:31.440
And I know a lot of the Android devices have so many more features than iPhone cameras can do, so explore those because they might really be beneficial for you.
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:35.679
Above all, audio is king.
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.159
100% king.
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:43.039
Whether it picks everything up or you want to drown out the background, your audio is king.
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:51.679
Because the video can suck, but if people can't hear it right, or there's wind blowing on your microphone and you don't have a uh wind muffler covering it up.
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.199
I mean, it's the worst.
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:57.519
I have really I mean, someone's got a great video going.
00:43:57.760 --> 00:43:59.599
I'm like, I just can't focus because I can't all hear it.
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:03.280
It's distracting.
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:10.320
Um, and I I've been there, so that's that.
00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:13.199
So, yeah.
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.239
You don't need a lot to start, my friends.
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:20.159
You just need the chance to do it.
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:22.480
You just I think that's not what I wanted to say.
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:24.960
You just have to believe in yourself to do it.
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:25.679
Just do it.
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:26.960
Just do it.
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:31.039
No, you know, reference to the sneaker company.
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:32.559
You just have to do it.
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:38.719
Just feel no, there's no wrong, there's no right, there's just your your point of view, your expression.
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:41.280
You know, and if that's what you want to do, do it.
00:44:41.519 --> 00:44:44.400
Um, and you don't have to be on camera like I'm being on camera.
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:47.360
You can, you know, do things like you know, the tutorial stuff.
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:52.559
There's a lot of people where they have everything, like Flossie Carter, who I watch all the time for tech reviews.
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:55.440
He does mostly phones and devices now.
00:44:55.519 --> 00:45:03.360
I mean, I miss his sneaker head videos because I'm a sneakerhead, and I miss his backpack and bag because I love backpacks and bags.
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:11.760
Um, but he's all you know behind the camera, all of his like review and delving into every aspect of that one product.
00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:13.519
Um, and he's a great resource.
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:17.039
Flossie Carter, Steve Cannell.
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:22.639
These are two video, um, and they're not paying me to reference them.
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:27.360
Um, so there's still time.
00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:38.639
I mean, I since no one sent quit the the whole idea was I was giving away these uh things as giveaways for uh an AMA, right?
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:41.920
So you have here a microphone with the charger, right?
00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:59.360
You have the the uh receiver, which is also a power um USB power through to charge your device as you're recording, as well as a handheld tripod, like I was talking about earlier.
00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:02.480
It's a carabiner clip, you can carry this anywhere with you.
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:07.360
You can set it up with the legs, the legs open, and you can hold it up like this.
00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:11.840
Um, there's still a chance for you to win this or get this.
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:24.239
So, this is what I'm gonna do next week is the finale episode, and I'm just gonna go through all of my followers, and I'm going to pick.
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:26.480
So, there's two of these, right?
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:34.559
So, I'm gonna pick one from Facebook, one from Instagram to get these, and my YouTube followers.
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:44.000
Um, you're gonna get the double bundle, which is two microphones, a receiver, uh that has USB and a lightning adapter, just in case.
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:45.360
So, that's in here.
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:50.239
So, you get the double that, and that's that.
00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:58.880
So, may the odds ever be in your favor, which reminds me.
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:08.480
Um if you missed this and this is for the the re review of the week.
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:12.639
I'm I guess this is uh spontaneous episode, folks.
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:13.679
Spontaneous episode.
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:17.440
Did you all hear about the American Hunger Game starting?
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:29.679
Apparently, the best athletes from every state are gonna come together to compete somewhere, somehow, for some reason.
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:32.239
So, my question is what sport?
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:34.559
What at the athlete in what?
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:35.920
Isn't that the Olympics?
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:40.639
There's so many different sports, there's so many different kinds of athletes.
00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:45.519
What are we what what are we gonna do?
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:46.639
What are we gonna what are we gonna do?
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:49.280
Are we gonna cord North Central Park and make it?
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:53.840
And then they were like, no, it's not the Hunger Games.
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:57.440
I mean, what the actual F is going on?
00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:02.400
Like, who in the and I don't think it's from him, I think it's someone in his administration.
00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:08.800
You know what would be really cool if we got like all the athletes from all the states and got them to come compete.
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:12.159
Um, we have stuff like that already.
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:13.519
I believe.
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:25.360
There's the gymnastics competitions, there's little league, there's the baseball, there's football, there's fencing, there's swimming, there's diving, there's everything.
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:33.519
There's running, there's bodybuilding, there's weightlifting, there's arm wrestling, there's wrestling, there's MMA.
00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:38.320
Hey, let's get one of those idiots from the off Oval Office in the octagon.
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:49.119
If it wasn't such a farce, it would be really scary, but it's scary and still a farce.
00:48:49.199 --> 00:49:00.400
So all right, so like I said, next week I'm just gonna announce just uh few, you know, one winner from YouTube, one from Facebook, one from Instagram.
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And uh if you don't if you don't see this and you you just get a random message from me, hey, hey, I'm giving this away to you, you're a winner.
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Congratulations.
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Uh so alright, folks.
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Um, have a great week.
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Um, merry, merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa.
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And uh, if you got made it this far, uh put a Santa emoji or Mrs.
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Claws emoji or Santa hat emoji.
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I don't think this is a Santa hat emoji.
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Um put that down here.
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Oh, remember last week I remember I was talking about this hat and I found the snow, the this old-timey snowman.
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That's the one I was talking about.
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Yeah, so I started this has started a trend where I put a snowman on it.
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Um so yeah, have a great holiday.
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Feel free to share this.
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Please follow on Facebook and uh Instagram and YouTube and like and comment and share and all that jazz.
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If you're listening, you know, give me five stars because it's helping raise me up in the algorithm and um you know uh downloading it helps best.
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Um, but yeah, five stars just because I'm cute and funny and dopey and all those weird things.
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Um all right, I can't believe we're almost there, folks.
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Next week is the season finale.
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I hope you'll be there.
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It's gonna be a great episode.
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I think it's gonna be a great episode.
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So again, first day of winter, one bundle up.
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If you're in New York, it's kind of like spring, so hey, wear shorts.
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Uh Merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa, and I will see you later.
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Peace out y'all.
