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HHBSO 101: Nightly News Edition · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to He's Hot, But something is off.
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Oh, man. I've got a list of things I want
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to go through. And usually, you know, I don't
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usually write any ideas down for a lot of the episodes of this
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podcast because usually I have so much stuff I can just talk
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about. I can usually open my mouth and
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stuff just like falls out. But you know what?
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The weird thing, a super weird thing happened this week.
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I was talking to my therapist yesterday or two days ago, just
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comes out on Thursday. I have my therapist session on
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Tuesday and we've been making good progress on working on
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stuff. And I think for the first time
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in a very long time, maybe in my life, I ran out of things to say
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in the therapy session. It's an hour long session and
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about like just over halfway through, like 35 minutes into
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it, I was like, I don't think I have anything more to say.
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I guess that's like the ultimate sign.
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Therapy has helped me slash changed me.
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I I'm using the word help as I'm assuming the therapy is helping
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as a giant helicopter flies by again.
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I was recording an episode of the gay Crewson travel podcast.
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It was like 2 episodes ago and a helicopter flew right over.
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I don't think the mic picked it up as I'm using a like a podcast
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mic, so it doesn't really pick up any background noise.
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Sometimes in West Hollywood, they just fly the helicopters
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real low because there's a suspect that's on foot.
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A suspect that's on foot. Anyways, back to the original
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point. Yeah, I just, I ran out of stuff
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to say. I was just sitting there with my
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therapist on the video conference call and it's like,
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I, I think I, I, I think maybe I've gone what I want out of
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therapy. So yeah, I'm going to, well, I
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guess we are going to like wind it down.
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I'm now afraid when I see him next week, I'm not gonna have
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anything to say. You know, I've done therapy once
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before, but it wasn't like it. I don't think it really worked.
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The last time I did it, and that was like a few years ago.
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It was I, I think I didn't like click with that first therapist.
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It wasn't that he was a bad therapist.
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I think I just wasn't able to connect with him on a deep
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enough level to really have the therapy be of like that much of
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A benefit to me anyways. But I do get along well with
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this therapist and I've been able to like, open up a lot.
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And yeah, so I think I'm able to, you know, wind down the
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therapy, which was going to therapy is really weird because
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I have no idea what I was really expecting.
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I was really stressed back in January.
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That's when I started. And I've been kind of sort of
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thinking about therapy and like the back of my head, it's like
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party #72 out of the all the things that Joey needs to do.
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But then I was so stressed coming back from that trip to
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Asia and Sydney and Australia, and I've been doing better hope
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since then. So yeah, I'm sure I'll have an
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update on that once I wind that down.
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But I, I don't know how this was started.
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The way I was going to start this podcast was talking about,
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I've got a list of things written down that I want to talk
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about today. Therapy was not one of them.
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But I just had to bring that up because, yeah, it's just so
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rare. You, all of you listeners on the
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podcast, all three of you know how I just talk and talk and
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talk These podcasts I always aim for to be like 20 to 30 minutes.
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I always run over. OK, anyways, I did want to talk
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about a few things today and I was writing when I was writing
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down the the bullet points, I was thinking this is kind of
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sort of like a like a Morning News or like even Evening News
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type of a thing. You know, when you watch a news
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program these days, which by the way, I haven't watched any news
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program in many, many years, but my recollection of how a typical
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news program kind of goes like the Evening News, right?
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They start with like the headline news, the big hitting
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news. And then if they get to like the
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smaller news and then eventually if it, you know, but not every
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day there's enough news to fill like 30 minutes or an hour or
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however long those news programs go for, they'll eventually
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graduated to talk about quote UN quote lifestyle type things like
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5 tips to make sure you wash your vegetables properly or how
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to tell if your, if your pet has ticks or something like that.
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It's not news, but it's just fodder.
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You know, it's just like random stuff to talk about.
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So I've got kind of sort of that same type of thing.
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I've got one headline news thing I want to discuss and then we've
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got some more minor things to talk about.
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So when I was writing, I got 3 bullet points like, oh, this
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looks like the flow of like a typical news program on TV.
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Anyways, the first thing I wanted to talk about the, the,
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the actual news and actual current event that's impacting
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actual people in the world is the Apple versus Epic lawsuit.
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So some of you that follow tech news probably know about this
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already. It's been brewing for it's the
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litigation and the lawsuit has been going on for quite a while.
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But it does have impact for listeners of this podcast.
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And it definitely has an impact for people thinking about or
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already subscribed to my Patreon, which is why I bring it
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up today. So I've got, I've got AI to
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basically summarize everything. But basically the dispute is
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every time you buy something on a Apple device, it goes through
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the App Store. Like you want to install an app
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on your iPhone or your iPad, You have to go to the Apple App
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Store, you find the app, you download it.
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OK, Sometimes apps are not free. There are some paid apps.
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And if you're going to download a paid app, the payment is done
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via Apple's systems because you're at Apple's App Store,
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which Apple controls the App Store, and then the payment goes
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to Apple. Basically, you don't.
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You're not actually going through the payment directly
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with whoever created the app. Same thing for if you make some
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sort of purchase within an app on an iPhone or an iPad.
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Maybe you're playing a game that you've downloaded from the Apple
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App Store. Then within the game you can
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like buy tokens or stickers or whatever kids buy these days in
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games. I don't play games, I don't know
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any of this, but whenever you buy something within an app that
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you downloaded from the App Store, it also go through Apple
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system, OK, So all these types of purchases, Apple takes a cut
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and they take like a 30% Commission.
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OK, So if you buy a $10 app, OK, But you want to download an app,
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it's it's a paid app, not free. It's $10.
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Three dollars goes to Apple, $7.00 goes to the developers of
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that app. So Epic basically sued Apple and
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say this is not legal, blah, blah, blah.
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So the latest ruling is that Apple has been ordered that they
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cannot enforce. Apple cannot enforce the
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collection of fees on purchases made outside of apps and cannot
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restrict how developers can direct users to external payment
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options. What that means is previously
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Apple would not allow app developers to direct people to
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pay for anything outside of Apple's system.
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OK, take Spotify as an example. Way, way before you could pay
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for a Spotify plan like Spotify Premium from within the Spotify
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app on an Apple device like on your iPhone.
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OK, you can download Spotify, the app itself for free and then
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have it installed on your iPhone.
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That within the Spotify app, you can then subscribe to Spotify
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Premium. Since you're doing it from
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within the app on your Apple device, that would have to go
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through Apple's payment system. Therefore Apple would take a 30%
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cut of whatever the price is. OK, some developers basically
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stop offering in app payments within the app, like Spotify
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eventually stop allowing users to subscribe to and pay for
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premium from within the Spotify app on Apple devices, therefore
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preventing Apple from taking the 30% cut.
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So that's like something developers can choose to do.
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But what what also is happening at the same time with the old
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Apple rules is that Apple prevents app developers from
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referring users to bypass Apple's own payment system.
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So in the Spotify example, Spotify, they were not allowed
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within their own app to direct users and tell them, hey, you
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can go to our Spotify website to subscribe for Spotify Premium.
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Because apparently just advertising a different way to
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pay for something related to that app or platform.
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Spotify in this case goes against Apple's rules.
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So how it released to Patreon, because I have a Patreon page
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boost can subscribe to the within the Patreon app.
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People can subscribe to my Patreon, but it would have to go
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through Apple's systems, Apple's payment system, and then Apple
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would take like a 30% cut. You know, in that case, it kind
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of sort of affects me at the end because like if Apple take takes
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a cut from Patreon, then Patreon, they kind of sort of
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need to make it up from somewhere.
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And there's actually a setting for Patreon subscribers to
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actually set different pricing for people who subscribe via the
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Apple App and actually have that enabled.
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So Patreon says it is creators either no, you can charge
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everybody the same amount, but then you would earn less from
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people who subscribe after Apple takes their cut if they're doing
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it from the app with on an Apple device.
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Or you can charge more for people who are trying to
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subscribe via the app on an Apple device.
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Therefore, your creator earnings are going to be the same no
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matter what, but then the user pays more.
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It's like a tariff. It's kind of sort of like a
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tariff, like someone has to pay more.
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It's just an extra tax. One of the very first things I
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did when I launched my Patreon is highlight this extra.
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I called it the Apple tax. It's a PIN post at the top of my
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Patreon. It still is and it's always
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there. And I just wanted to educate
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people who are going to subscribe to my Patreon that,
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hey, like if you can, don't pay for the subscription from within
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the app. If you're using an Apple device,
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do it from like the patreon.com website.
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I had to say that, but it's Patreon.
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They were not allowed to say it in the Patreon app on behalf of
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it, the creators, because of Apple's rules, Apple prevents
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them from advertising a different payment method that is
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not Apple's payment method. The latest ruling that just came
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out like this past week or like a week or two ago, the judge
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basically says Apple can't prevent developers from
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advertising other forms of payment, other methods of
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payment. So now Spotify just released a
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new version and update of their app that allows Spotify to tell
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its users, hey, you can sign up for Spotify Premium and pay for
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it on our website. And they can now say this within
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the Spotify app within the iPhone.
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I saw the update on my iPhone, but I Spotify, I don't pay for
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Spotify, but I use Spotify for podcasts, but I just use like
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the free plan because that's all I needed it for.
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I use YouTube Music for the actual music.
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And then I just noticed that oh, I get pop ups within the app
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telling me that I can basically it's advertising premium, not
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the premium plan. And it says, oh, I can go sign
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them on the website and do all that blah, blah, blah.
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So there's a new Patreon app, Patreon mobile app that's being
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updated that is basically doing the same thing where Patreon can
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now actually tell it's users, hey, if you want to go subscribe
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to this creator or this page, you can go to thepatreon.com
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website and do it there. And therefore, you know, like
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escape the 30% tax. So that's why you might be
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seeing a lot of people use Spotify.
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A lot of you probably use Spotify, the three of you.
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So that's why you're seeing some of these things.
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Yeah. And I just pointed out because
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like I said, you know, I, I run a Patreon page and I do charge a
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subscription and I've been personally not super for the
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30%. It's like, yeah, like, you know,
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Apple provides the app source a service.
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I mean, it's debatable where they should be doing it for
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free. I feel like it doesn't cost them
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that much on the grand scheme of things.
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Like, they don't actually, I don't think Apple actually needs
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to charge anything for the App Store because the amount of
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return on just the amount of money they make on having people
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stay within the Apple ecosystem and the App Store is a very
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significant part of that. They don't need to be charging a
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30% Commission because their return on investment in terms of
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just having something like the App Store and just not really
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charging much for it, definitely not 30%.
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I think it's like already, you know, worth more than their
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investment into building the App Store.
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But just like the fact that you have this ecosystem concept that
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I mean, all the big tech companies have it.
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Apple wants you to use all Apple stuff when you have an iPhone,
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it's iMessage, it's FaceTime, it's App Store, it's your Apple
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account. Same for Microsoft, same for
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Google. Like all the companies are
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trying to do it. Honestly, it's not just like
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you're using the device, you're using all of their stuff, you're
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using their ecosystem now. So just by having this ecosystem
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concept, like I think it's already kind of enough of a
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return really. But obviously these are all for
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profit companies. But yeah, so a a little bit of,
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I don't think I've ever delivered actual proper hot
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hitting news before on this podcast.
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It's not a news podcast, but I bring it up because, yeah, for
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some of you that might be interested in my Patreon or
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anyone's Patreon, any creator's Patreon, that's a change that's
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coming out that I'm that I'm glad to see.
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And it's also affecting other apps as well.
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Yeah. So that's, I think that's going
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to be the the one time of the year where I deliver actual
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headline news along with some user consumer advice.
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get off the news. It it feels weird to deliver
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news. I don't think I'm great at it,
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but let let's just move off the news.
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The other weird thing that's been happening in my world
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personally is my condo was listed on the MOS, the multiple
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listing service, which is like the one system that all the real
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estate agents use for listings and you put on the MOS.
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It kind of sort of goes everywhere like Redfin, Zillow
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to all the actual agencies, etcetera.
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And I was talking to my realtor a week ago.
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We've been keeping in touch. Obviously, the place has been
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listed for a few months now. The market is just not good.
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The housing market is not good. You know, with all the
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geopolitical and economical issues, wink, wink, especially
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here in the US, barf, it's just not a good time to sell a condo
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because it's no one really wants to buy, make a big purchase and
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a house is pretty much the biggest purchase that most
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people could imagine buying. So decided to not sell the
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condo, just pull the listing for right now because it wasn't
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getting any bites. And I was like, you know what,
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if it's not getting any bites after we lowered the price for
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like a whole month, I rather just not list it.
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I'm just going to stay here for a while.
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I made my peace with it and I rather stay here for a while
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longer, even if that means like several months or even another
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year or two years or whatever and sell when the market gets
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hot again. You know, housing market is
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cyclical. I don't know when the market
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will become hot again. But I mean, it, it it's, it's
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we're at a low right now. I don't know when this low is
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going to lift up. But yeah, it's just a horrible
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time right now. But it's just so much
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uncertainty. I was like, any other time than
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now will be better to sell the place.
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So we pulled the listing. And The funny thing about
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pulling a listing because I've never sold a place before.
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I don't know. This was my first place that
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I've ever bought and I've never. So I've never sold any other
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place. Apparently if you pull a listing
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without selling it, you get tons of calls and text messages from
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other Realtors trying to get your listing.
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So literally like within hours of US pulling the listing, the
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first like random phone call or text message that came in was
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like two or three hours. However, you pulled the listing
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after I signed the paperwork to pull the listing because I
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signed it in the afternoon. Like one or two calls try to
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come in. I was like, and I never pick up
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random calls. And it just was like, OK, I got
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a couple calls in. I was like, OK, weird.
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And I didn't answer them and didn't, I think one of them just
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texted me. I was like texted my realtor.
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I was like, OK, I, I assume this is not related to you, but I
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just got this like random realtor try to call me.
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I didn't answer it. And he's like, Oh yeah.
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When listings get pulled without selling, other Realtors try to
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like come in and get it the next day, starting from the next
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morning, from like 8:00 AM in the morning, from like 8:00 AM
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to 9:00 AM the next day. I got like 4 calls.
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I had to put my phone line. The actual line itself, the
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phone number. So I had to put on do not
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disturb. It's still on do not disturb
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that way. Like none of the calls make.
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Like my phone doesn't ring because that first full day
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afterwards, like I must have gone like 15 calls.
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I've never gotten so many calls in my life who call who uses
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phones anymore? Like who calls it that?
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I don't remember the phone number for anyone.
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Like no one, no one calls anyone else.
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Honestly, everything for me, it's like, oh, it's WhatsApp,
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it's Instagram. It it's some sort of app.
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It's not like an actual phone number.
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Like I feel like phone numbers are kind of old fashioned.
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You know, people sometimes try to trade numbers.
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So I I guess with iMessage, people will still swap numbers
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because iMessage is you can do numbers or you can do an e-mail.
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But like, I don't use iMessage. I've never used iMessage even
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though I have an iPhone or like intentionally, OK, I don't want
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to be locked into the ecosystem. Yeah, but I got never gotten so
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many phone calls before. My phone was crazy for like a
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couple of days. I will like they, they, they got
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a hold of like not just one of my phone numbers, they got a
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hold of like 2 of my phone numbers.
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I've got like a few different phone numbers for like a few
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different things. And they got a hold of two of my
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emails somehow. So they are really good at like
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scouring publicly available information slash the dark web
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at like, oh, with this person, oh, what kind?
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What phone numbers are associated with that?
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I'm going to call them all. It was forward.
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They didn't just call once. They call you multiple times.
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A lot of them, a lot of the numbers that popped up, they'll
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call twice and then some of them will text you as well.
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It's like it's ferocious. I've never had that happen to me
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before. My phone is still on DND.
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Like, no, I never pick up calls. Usually I don't recognize any
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phone numbers. Honestly, the only time it's
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like a once in a year event that someone calls me out of the blue
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that I'm not expecting them to call and it's someone I actually
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want to talk to. Like I've got a couple of
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friends that might call me like an actual regular phone call,
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not on like not calling me from like a messaging app or from
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Instagram or whatever. It's only like once or twice a
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year that that might happen. But then their number is
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actually in my phone book and then they come up on the caller
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ID 99% of calls I get don't come up in my caller ID and I never
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answer them because it's almost always spam.
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I don't usually get a lot of calls.
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It's rare for my phone to go off.
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The only other time my phone goes off from a phone call is if
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it's like the intercom from the front of my building, but that's
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in my caller ID too. So like it pops up.
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So Oh my God, scanning so many calls.
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It was so annoying. And it not just phone calls.
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I'm getting mailers too. You know when you when you list
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the house again, it's on the MOS it's in like it's for the public
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to see. Anyone can see the listing so
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they can also detect when your listing comes off.
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I've gotten extra spam mail from Realtors and agencies just like
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in the area. Like I don't, I don't read any
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of them, but I noticed that, you know, when you go check the your
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stale mail, you can kind of see who it comes from.
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I don't open that stuff. It's all junk to me, but it's
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like it's from a bunch of like real estate agencies.
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So yeah, that's I, I've never been, I've never gotten so many
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phone calls and I, I don't think I'll ever get that many phone
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calls ever again. It's just so weird.
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Anyways, the last little thing I wanted to talk about I'm I'm
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loving how organized this is. You know, I just sat down at my
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computer, but it's one of the things I talk about with my
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realtor, by the way, this attention, but we're going to go
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with it. One of the things I realize
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that's contributing to my laziness and procrastination
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with work stuff is there's so many, there's so much work stuff
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going on that I have to do, but none of it is organized.
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So it's just like this haze of like I know behind that haze,
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it's like a bunch of stuff to do and my mind subconsciously kind
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of sort of just like tunes out. It's like I'm being overwhelmed
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without really knowing. I'm being overwhelmed by the
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sheer amount of work that I don't even know how big the
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amount is. I just know that it's not, it's
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just not a light amount of work. It's not like a simple task AB
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and C to check off. But I'm so unorganized about it
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that I don't even know behind the haze how much work I have to
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do. So part of tackling that feeling
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of being overwhelmed and therefore leading to the
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procrastination is just getting a lot more organized about, OK,
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what are like the actual tasks I need to do and actually writing
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them down. So actually just spent this
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afternoon like trying to set up a system of like, OK,
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visualizing the actual task I have to do for all the different
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businesses and actually have them all in one place in like a
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really nice visual format. That way, you know, even if it's
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multiple things I need to do, at least I can see them all in one
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place and I can organize them and actually make a decision.
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OK, today I'm going to do three of these things and then we'll
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just drag them over here and then we'll do these two things.
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At least it feels manageable. So I was doing that.
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I have no idea how I took this random tangent but anyways most
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so I want to tell you about Shield and Slay DP which is a
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Labs. The last thing I wanted to talk
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about I was walking to the Trader Joe's as I do a lot of
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the times after I go to the gym, right as I actually took a photo
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of this. I'll, I, I guess I'll post it on
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something later, but I, I what right when you walk in in the
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middle of like the like entryway, there's a giant
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chalkboard sign. You know, a lot of shops they've
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got like a fold out sign that they put on the sidewalk and
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it's just like this giant chalkboard that they put
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whatever like, oh, today's cupcake specials or whatever it
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is. So Trader Joe's has one of those
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and I'm going to bring up the photo so I can read you verbatim
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exactly what it said on the sign because I saw it and I was like
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thank fuck God. It says oh I I'm looking at the
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photo. It's a blackboard so it's black
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and then bright neon yellow. Bold, large bright neon yellow.
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Print All caps surface. Animals welcome, pets not
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allowed. And the knot has, the knot has 2
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hyphens on either side of it. It's like, you know, to
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highlight it's not allowed. One of the things I don't
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understand, there's a lot of things I don't understand about
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this world that is like, I have no idea why people do this.
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This is one of those things where I can actually kind of
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understand bringing your pet who's not a service animal into
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a place where they sell food into like a grocery store or
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supermarket. I kind of understand because
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when I dock sit for my friends here and I just need to go to
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the grocery store, sometimes I wish like, yeah, it would be
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kind of nice to be able to like bring bring my bring the dog
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with me to like just just because that way the dog gets
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out. You know, it's kind of sort of
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like a walk for the dog yard walking the dog that way.
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But on the flip side of it, in a grocery store, they have shelves
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of stuff and the shelves, they start from like the floor going
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on up. You know, dogs are going to like
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sniff and lick and paw at shit. And I don't think dogs should be
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in that environment where they can like be licking at something
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or pawing something or like whatever.
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Because, you know, like there are foodstuffs that are like on
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the bottom shelf of stuff, right?
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I don't know if there are any actual bylaws or anything of
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that nature, at least here in Hollywood, I've never looked
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into it. But like that, yeah, I can like
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I I generally understand not having pets in a, in a sort of
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like a servant animal goes through a lot of training.
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A service animal is not a service animal is there to serve
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like a very important purpose, you know, for the humans that
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they're assisting. A service animal is very
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different, but like a random pet that is not a service animal.
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It's like, I don't know, like I was literally like a few days
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ago, someone was they were actually they're outside the
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Trader Joe's. So they were going into the
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Trader Joe's or they were probably come out the Trader
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Joe's just some random person with a dog.
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And then there's like these two, two women that don't know this
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person, this pet owner walking the other way.
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And like, I guess these two women, like they like dogs.
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So like they stop to like pet the dog or something.
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And a dog's trying to just jump up on them.
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A dog that's not trained, like professionally trained as a
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service animal. Like when you go, when you take
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them into a store, you don't know what they're going to do.
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Are they going to poop? Are they going to pee?
30:21
Are they going to be like trying to jump up on some fruits and
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vegetables? Like you don't know, honestly.
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So yeah, I don't like it when I see pets in and anywhere that
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has food that is like serving food, selling food.
30:39
And a lot of just right, at least in here in LAA lot of pet
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owners that when I do see them in like a grocery store, they
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are absolutely not paying attention to what the pet is
30:50
doing whatsoever. They're on like half the time
30:54
they're on the phone. So people think, who is talking
30:57
on the phone all day long? Like, are you so bored when
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you're shopping for groceries that you have to be on the phone
31:02
the entire time? Like buy a fucking Bluetooth
31:05
headset. They'll be like on the phone,
31:08
not looking where they're going, definitely not paying any
31:12
attention or noticing anything that the dog is doing.
31:15
And then they're like, you know, grocery shopping.
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So it's it's kind of sort of it hits one of my buttons, as you
31:22
can clearly tell by now. Yeah, I, I just don't, it's
31:26
already bad enough that people that are on phones that are not
31:28
looking where they're walking. I've talked about this before,
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you know, like, who are you talking to That is so didn't
31:34
ever talk about anything important.
31:36
I can tell you right now, but I can hear them talk, but they're
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they're talking out loud on the phone.
31:40
It's like, oh, Jennifer. Oh, she's just such a whatever.
31:45
It's it's, it's I'm not the kind of person to like talk on the
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phone. I don't talk on the phone.
31:58
If I want to actually talk to a friend, like like talk, talk to
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a friend. I tend not to be like grocery
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shopping while I do that. Because if I, if I'm talking,
32:08
talking to a friend, it's probably something about, it's
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probably about something that's not super casual.
32:14
We're not just be like, oh, hey, what's going on?
32:17
But I don't talk on the phone for that.
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I'll message them and be like, and hey, what's going on?
32:22
Me and my friends were too busy to just randomly have a phone
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conversation in the middle of the day for no reason.
32:27
All right, We're not so bored with like grocery shopping or
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just like walking from A to B that like we have to be on the
32:36
phone and talking to someone and be distracted, like running in
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to be on the sidewalk, not stopping at stop signs, not
32:43
caring what our dog is jumping up and down on while we're
32:46
buying milk. We're we're not, we're not that
32:49
kind of people. Gross.
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So I I just don't understand if I'm talking, if I need to talk
32:55
to a friend about something on the phone, it's probably
32:59
something where I need to pay some amount of attention.
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And if a friend calls me when I'm out and about, I'm probably
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like stopping what I'm doing to like actually pay attention to
33:08
that phone call because it's probably something kind of
33:11
important. It's not just like, hey, what's
33:14
going on? I'm calling you, but I'm bored
33:18
with my own life. I'm bored on you with your life.
33:22
ANYWAYS, less envy podcast there because as I was, as I've been
33:27
working on with my therapist, you know, replace those negative
33:31
thoughts and more positive thoughts.
33:35
Yeah. So we will leave it there.
33:38
By the way, I do have a Patreon that is open for subscriptions.
33:41
And now that Patreon has updated their app, you don't have to pay
33:45
that Apple tax. So there you go.
33:48
There are bonus episodes of this podcast is called Uncut and it
33:53
comes out every week for my Patreon subscribers and I also
33:58
post some vlogs over there. So the vlogs, can you hear that
34:05
chime in the back? I don't think the microphones
34:13
picked that up, but I'm right by by kitchen and at the rice
34:16
cooker on it's the rice sometimes takes a while.
34:19
The rice is very the rice finished way too fast today.
34:22
So maybe the the rice cooker is I didn't push the right buttons.
34:26
Anyways, the rice cooker makes this loud obnoxious chime when
34:29
it's done cooking. Yeah, but yeah, I've got travel
34:32
vlogs on my Patreon as well. The travel vlogs that are coming
34:35
out right now is from a road trip that I did to Vegas back in
34:42
March. The 1st part just went up.
34:44
Yeah. So a lot of fun content and I do
34:46
a lot of like little posts on there as well.
34:49
And I love interacting with my subscribers.
34:51
I use Patreon like how normal people might use Twitter, you
34:57
know, Twitter the way I mean, people still do that.
35:00
They just post like random little short updates and photos
35:04
of things like that. I, I've never gone into
35:07
tweeting, so I, when I looked at the only time I tried to use
35:13
Twitter as it was intended to do little short updates was back in
35:17
like 2016, 2017, 2018. And it's like I kind of suddenly
35:21
did it. I never got into it for some
35:23
reason. Like posting on Patreon is like,
35:26
I'm a lot more engaged with Patreon, but I guess it's not
35:30
just getting random comments from random people on the
35:31
Internet, but it's just like actual subscribers that want to
35:35
see my content and they have thoughtful comments on it and
35:38
they interact with the stuff I actually post.
35:41
Yeah. So I post a lot of stuff there.
35:42
So feel free to go check that out.
35:44
And also the links to everything else that I do, including my new
35:48
YouTube videos. There'll be more new YouTube
35:51
videos coming out. By the way, everything is linked
35:54
down below. But until next time.
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Bye all.