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wed, April 22, 2026 - facebook live: crapping on AI is a privilege · faafo with courtney

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I think, yeah, I have been experimenting. Therefore,
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for those in tribe who have been on the porch
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and the tap and all the things as guests, specialists,
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guides, y 'all know we don't have a problem with
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going live. But I think because I have absolutely
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no idea who I'm talking to now, I think that's
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the weird part. But I have been experimenting.
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And so what I discovered is that. I have like
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200 and something followers. A couple of weeks
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ago, I realized that a person isn't able to go
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live on their page anymore unless they have like
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a certain amount of friends or followers. And
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being that I have two Facebook profiles, one
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with three friends and the other with six, I
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didn't qualify anymore. And I don't have any
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pages or any groups or anything like that. It's
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telling me my connection is slow, which is probably
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because I am in a different room. I should probably
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switch rooms, but I'm going to roll with this.
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So good morning, whoever has started following
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me that has given me enough people to allow me
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to go live and pop my shit. So here we are having
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coffee this morning. And it's still going to
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take me getting used to looking at the camera
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over here on the right. As opposed, I will never
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forgive the company that made this tablet who
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put the camera on the right and there's not a
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camera up at the top because it's just odd looking
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over here or looking at myself, which I don't
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even know what you all are saying. So we're all
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experimenting and learning together, especially
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for those of you who are. How do I want to say
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this? Especially for those of you who are. Maybe
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thinking about monetizing your content on Facebook,
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which I can't believe I just said because I don't
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believe in that. But that's going to be some
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of the things that I talked about and the experiment
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that I actually learned by accident. So me being
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me, I return to social media, get back on Facebook.
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I see all these different features and options
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and things telling me to. Look at this and look
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at that and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So
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I just start pushing buttons. And when I start
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pushing buttons, I accidentally turn this personal
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profile page into, I guess, a content creator
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page, which then ended up giving me a shit ton
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of access to metrics and analytics that I didn't
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know I had. So when I clicked on it, all of my
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six friends disappeared and then I see 200 and
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something followers. So here I am live taking
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advantage of this opportunity. But I actually,
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I do well at rambling. And this is what this
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talk is actually about. Rambling, trusting your
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intuition as opposed to following the rules because,
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because, because. First, I want to show you one
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of my favorite things that I absolutely love
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here in. Brazil. This is what we... Oh my gosh.
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So I'm going to have to tag... Okay, this is
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funny. I hadn't thought about this. But I know
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she's not awake. She may be awake. But I'm going
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to have to tag Miss Hines. Because Miss Hines
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came to rural America with me. And remember the
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beanbag toss to win like $1 ,000? That's basically
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what this is. I don't know if Brazilians have
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beanbag tosses. Okay, so here in Brazil, this
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is one of my favorite things. This is like a
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sandbag or a bean bag. And I got to get my glasses
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now. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Yeah, I'm going to
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have to just put my glasses on anyway. So listen.
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Hi, I could see. You could see me. All right.
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So let's see here. Oh, I don't know what this.
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I'm clicking buttons again, so I don't want Q
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&A. So here I am. And, uh. It's not going to
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let me tag anyone. I can't because I only have
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a couple of friends out here, which is the funniest
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thing. So if I'll tag her later in the... Oh,
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I know what I can do. Which is the funniest thing
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because I'll tag her when I'm done. So I don't
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know how many minutes I'm in. Oh, it's got a
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bunch of little things. So there is like a poll
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down here. So I'm going to tell you what you
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can see now. I'm going to tell you what you can
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see that we weren't able to see when we used
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to do lives all the time. There is a poll option
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on here. There is a question and answer option.
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There is an invite viewers to broadcast. I go
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live with you, I guess. There is. invite friends
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to watch but because i only have three friends
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on here that's not gonna work i know people are
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like three friends again i have more followers
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than friends on here because i'm known to be
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unfriending people and oh then there's like a
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comment section okay so i'm going to tag my other
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self and then that's me and my profile oh will
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it show my other profile okay yeah okay oh so
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okay so on this profile i have 249 followers
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and on my other profile i have six friends and
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36 followers so i am going to go ahead and send
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a message to myself and talk about the bean bags
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so that i can market okay so these are little
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sandbags and you can buy these pretty much at
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like might be the equivalent of like the little
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corner store or the bodega or whatever so that
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your doors don't slam now this is even funnier
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because everybody keeps their windows open there's
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no screens on the door and depending on where
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you live you get a good airflow and the doors
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slam shut and i just think these are the cutest
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thing because they're just like simply made and
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it's like patchwork material and for those of
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you who know me know that i used to really love
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using nana's little patches of material to make
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things and so yeah but i didn't even i only have
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one of them where i am right now but if i had
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this in the bathroom i probably wouldn't have
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gotten stuck in the bathroom a couple of weeks
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ago and i would not have been needing to get
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rescued but They're very similar to the things
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that we use or people, I don't, you know, when
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they do beanbag tosses. Okay, but that's enough.
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So let me talk about the things that I want to
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talk about today. So I had to buy a ton of Band
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-Aids. First, I didn't have any Band -Aids. I
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had like, you know, like a couple of Band -Aids
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and the travel Band -Aid thing that you get.
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I ran out, not like I used them. I think when
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I put it in my travel bag, I only had one. And
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me being me, clumsy, I needed a Band -Aid. But
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I wasn't even being clumsy in this situation.
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I went to my apartment in the interior, in the
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gumbo, in the countryside. And I was a little
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happy, got a little happy. i got a little outside
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of myself and i pulled a rookie move and i didn't
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spray with bug spray now i have lived in places
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where mosquitoes are very bad before florida
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what i haven't seen here are like the no seems
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haven't experienced that but i'm familiar with
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mosquitoes it's not anything new to me or whatever
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i've received tons of mosquito bites and never
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had an allergic reaction when i first moved here
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and then moved to the combo i had the worst allergic
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reactions to mosquito bites when i first when
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i got my first blister i thought that i had burned
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myself because i was messing with some hot water
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it splashed on me and i thought it was like a
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hot water burn blister no come to find out later
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on that it was a mosquito bite So then when I
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went outside and I'm there in the countryside,
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I cover up. So how I dress in the city is completely
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different than how I dress in the countryside.
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The two different communities and people and
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friends would not recognize me. So much so that
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I took one of my friends to the compo with me
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a couple of weeks ago and I had told him, I was
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like, the way that I dress here in the city is
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not in the compo. In the compo, everybody thinks
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that I'm a... They think that I'm a rich rancher
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woman because I have my jean shirt on, long sleeves
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and jeans and boots and socks. And I have my
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hat on because I'm trying not to get eaten up.
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And yes, I still spray. And yes, they still get
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me. Because yes, I get the bad mosquito bites
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and the allergic reaction. However, that's not
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going to stop me from going outside, outside.
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So that's how I dress in the countryside. But
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when I went a couple of weeks ago and took them,
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I just had on a sundress. Wasn't even thinking.
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And then I get there and I'm outside and I'm
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just like so happy to see the water, to see the
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trees. And I'm just taking my shoes off. Delightful.
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And then I start itching. The ants, yeah, they
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get me. I knew some of them were ant bites or
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whatever and probably some random spider bites
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and whatever. But then I just start itching.
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Like my butt starts burning. My ankles start
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burning. My shoulders start burning. And I'm
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like, shit, I forgot that I didn't spray before
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I got here. So I go to my apartment and I end
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up spraying. But by that point, it was too late.
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The next morning, I'm back in the city. I wake
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up. Horrible blisters. Rash. I had welts on like
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my butt and other parts that I won't mention.
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And all I was thinking was. Oh God, please don't
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let this turn into blisters like it did last
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time. Thankfully, the one on my behind and other
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parts did not turn into big blisters except for
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the one that was on my ankle. And I was like,
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gosh, because the first time that it happened
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to me last year and I got the blister on my leg
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and my somewhere else, I still have the scar.
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They're like little, perfectly little round coin
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size marks, right? I shit you not was like at
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least this big, this fucking big. And I was like,
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I don't do well with Uzi. I don't like seeing
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my own blood. I don't like seeing like I look
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fluids, bodily fluids ain't my thing. So I was
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just like, I really don't want to deal with this
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or whatever. Right. So I put the one little bandaid
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on that I had. And over the next few days, it
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got bigger and bigger and bigger to the point
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where I ended up having to get some toilet paper
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and a band -aid or some tape or something to
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cover it up. I had to leave the house, go to
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the pharmacy, and find bandages and a cream because
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I needed an anti -itch cream or whatever, right?
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I have all of this stuff back in my other apartment,
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but I don't have it here because... city like
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where do i need band -aids and ointments and
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all the things for because i'm not really going
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outside outside and i'm not getting bit by bugs
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but it's always helpful to have band -aids in
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case of an emergency but i didn't have those
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so anyways i get to the pharmacy and i'm talking
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to her and i'm telling her about the cream and
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she's like Oh no, that is a spider bite. You
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are probably going to die. Your leg is going
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to like turn black and fall off. And I'm like,
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oh my God, like, please don't tell me that. She's
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like, no, you need to go to the hospital. I'm
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like, yeah, I'm not going to the hospital. I
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don't need that in my life either. I literally
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just managed to stay off the news from getting
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rescued out of my bathroom. So I'm not going
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to the emergency room for whatever this is. This
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is going to heal itself or whatever. So I convinced
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her to give me the cream. I already knew that
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I was allergic. I had looked it up. It's like
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Jeter juice or whatever, right? Just, I don't
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know what it is about this certain mosquito that's
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here, but it causes me to have really bad blisters.
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You can look it up for yourself. Allergic reaction
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to mosquito bites. And you'll see these things
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that look like horrible fucking boils. Anyway,
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I get the bandages and it took about a week.
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before it stopped growing and then it did its
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thing and then it decided that it was going to
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release and then in the points of releasing I
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was grossed out the whole time so now it's just
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to the point where it's flat and whatever but
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it looks like gross and I had to go buy some
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more band -aids and so once I bought the first
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box of band -aids I was like I'm going to go
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back to the pharmacy and I'm going to get more
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band -aids. And I was telling a friend here,
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I was saying, I feel so adult because I have
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band -aids in the house now. And not only did
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I buy band -aids, I bought like alcohol and,
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you know, the things like that to clean sores.
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I have other alcohol, but that's a whole different
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story. I miss rambling. So. the other day when
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i had to open a box to get a smaller band -aid
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because the thing is smaller now and you want
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you know one size doesn't fit all i was like
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why am i so giddy about having band -aids like
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this just excites me having band -aids and i
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was like oh this is like courtney's seven -year
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-old self who like five six seven who's like
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playing and hurts her leg on the bicycle and
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my grandma or great grandma or my mom or somebody's
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putting a band -aid on me it just makes me feel
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playful so that's my band -aid story so this
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morning it's rainy it was very rainy and windy
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last night and rainy this morning that's the
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weather today that is the weather report but
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the sun will probably come out it was beautiful
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yesterday yesterday was a holiday The day before
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that was a holiday. And I think Thursday is going
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to be another holiday. If you lived in New York
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and you've been in Jewish communities and there's
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a holiday like every other day, it's kind of
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like that here, but not as bad, but almost. And
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you don't know until you go somewhere and you're
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like, oh, there's a holiday. So what else do
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I have to talk about? So tomorrow I am going
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to go live on YouTube because I keep having people
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ask me about the skincare products or just. mentioning
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my skin, I'm going to always say that I have
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good genes. So there's that. I'm not going to
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lie to anyone and say, oh, it's because this
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and that. And I haven't had any work done or
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anything like that at 51. No. But when I arrived,
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the skin cream that I was using, which was nothing
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more than shea butter and coconut oil, haven't
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been able to find coconut oil here. I mean, little
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things, but like, you know, in the U .S. we can
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get the big thing of coconut oil or whatever.
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And the shea butter was too heavy. So I needed
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to find skincare products. But because I had
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already spent so much money trying to find other
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products that I like, I was like, I'm not going
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to waste money. Trial and error with skincare
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products. So I asked my Airbnb host at the time
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if he could recommend an aesthetician for me.
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And he was like, yeah. It was a black lady. And
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so I went to her. She's great. She doesn't speak
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English, but she's amazing. She's been in Forbes
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and she's from Brazil. And I don't know if she's
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from Bahia. She's located in Bahia. She's located
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in Salvador. But she recommended a product. I'm
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not going to tell it here, but the product that
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she recommends, the brand that she recommends
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and the different lines in that product, I absolutely
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love. And so I'm going to talk about those tomorrow.
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And I did reach out to her because we follow
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each other on Instagram and she actually has.
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One of the few people that has a website. She's
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great with her social media and things of that
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nature. And I asked her if it was okay if I mentioned
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her and the products that she gave me. She said
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yes. So I'm going to do that tomorrow. So if
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you're going to ask me, I'll talk about that
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tomorrow on YouTube. My friend's birthday was
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yesterday. And yesterday? This weekend. And so
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he is amazing. Jefferson. And I love him. bits
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and i'm hoping that we can do an interview together
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because i want everyone to see the chemistry
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and then go into how we met serendipitously and
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then how we met ties into where i actually live
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right now because this is a complete courtney
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only only you courtney story right um i have
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been looking at the windows so i have always
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wanted to live in a place where there's like
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floor ceiling windows that dream has come true
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However, I didn't think that through when I was
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thinking about it because somebody has to clean
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the windows, and I really need to clean my windows.
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I can see outside of them because I can still
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see the neighbor who gets up in the morning naked
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to come out onto his patio, the neighbor in another
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building who comes out onto his patio but asks
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naked to have a cigarette. And even when he doesn't
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have a cigarette, I'm interrupting myself right
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now because this is interesting. One of the things
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that I have on my list to talk about is the energy
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of Facebook and social media in general, specifically
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Facebook, that I felt when I first came back
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on here about a week or so ago. And I am feeling
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absolutely exhausted right now, energetically
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exhausted. Unlike when we used to be in the porch
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and you get that high in your energy or whatever,
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like my pits are sweaty. There's like this lack
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of reciprocity energetically or whatever. So
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let me just go ahead and talk about one of the
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things that I did have on my list as it relates
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to that. So the floor to ceiling windows, that
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dream has come true. But now I have to clean
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these windows unless I get a housekeeper, which
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I'm not going to do. And I'll talk about that
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later on. So AI and the algorithm. As for those
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of you who know me, know that I will just vanish.
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I will unfriend people. I will disappear for
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a while. It might be a couple of days. It might
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be a few weeks. It might be a few months or whatever,
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right? People get in their feelings about that.
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Yeah. Where is my pen? People. People get in
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their feelings about that or whatever. And I
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don't know what to tell you, but y 'all really
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need to take longer breaks or take breaks from
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social media. Because when I come back, especially
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on Facebook, it's like this Groundhog's Day loop.
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This energetic wormhole or vortex or something
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that's just like... The days look different for
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people, but the... It's like the days look different,
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but people are doing the exact same thing that
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they did 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. It's like I've
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never seen the Truman Show, but maybe that's
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what it's like. So it's like people might have
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a different job, but it's still like this loop
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of the same kind of job, like no significant.
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I don't want to use the word growth, but no significant
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integration of the things being learned or whatever.
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Like even people that I've just started following
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years ago and because they, you know, did something
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or whatever. I don't know. And I look, I can
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disappear for a year and come back and it's like,
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yo, it's like the same conversation. It's the
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same thing. It's just the same thing. Energetically,
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it's literally the same thing. And even if it
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kind of looks different energetically, it's the
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same thing. So I got to thinking about this and
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I was like, you know, people shit on AI or whatever.
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I've written a blog post about my thoughts, my
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take on AI. You can find that on one of our websites,
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sexdeathpower .com. It's a two part. People shit
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on AI, but don't realize that the algorithm is
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not that much better. And even if you feel like
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you don't play into the algorithm, you do so
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much so that what you see is literally scripted
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by the people who are showing up more frequently.
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Right. So one of the things that I've learned
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now that I have this. access to this um i don't
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know different analytics and things of that nature
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is when so it'll show me a notification and i'm
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thinking that it's like a message or a notification
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from someone that i know i click on it and it's
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a message from meta facebook or whatever telling
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me oh you should try this these are suggested
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topics and blah blah blah blah blah like if you
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want to if so you don't monetize right away like
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it it turns it into like this little game or
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whatever right like if you want to monetize your
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and i'm just summarizing in my language you're
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10 steps away from monetization so if you do
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this today you earn a point if you do this three
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times this week you earn five points oh you're
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getting closer so it turns it into like this
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gamification of monitor to gamification towards
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i'm going to coin this it turns it into something
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like gaming gaming because people brain works
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that way right reward for the action like dogs
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with treats animals with treats when you're training
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animals or whatever right towards monetization
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and so many people hear success stories about
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how people are making money on facebook and this
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and that but what they're not telling you is
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that they're over here like circus animals jumping
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through hoops doing these things that facebook
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and meta or whatever is recommending on the back
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inside i ain't doing that so you are being gamed
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no matter what side you're on if you're in here
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facebook all of these social media apps or whatever
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whether you're actively participating creating
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content or if you're actively engaging or even
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if you are passively observing you are playing
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a role in the algorithm which is not any different
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than ai again ai is just the name to allow something
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to allow people to allow people to complain about
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because you can't complain about something if
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you don't have it a name but whatever we artificial
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intelligence has existed for longer than people
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realize and wow throat chakra like tighten it
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up like it's like stop talking about this shit
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or whatever right like i'm not gonna stop talking
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about this shit so so yeah I love experimenting.
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And I know some people who don't know me are
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watching this and like this, which is crazy.
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And like, this is funny. The algorithm. The other
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thing about AI, to be able to complain, list
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your reasons for not liking AI is a privilege.
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And I am going to tell you why. I'm going to
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tell you why that's a privilege. So let me just
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get my little pen and notepaper out here, right?
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AI algorithm and the privilege people have about
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crapping on AI. I bet some of you have never
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thought twice about the fact that you... it has
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been a privilege for you to know and be aware
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that there are house cleaners of all different
26:09
cultures, races, right? So if you've had the
26:15
privilege to be able to afford a house cleaner,
26:18
whether it's frequently or infrequently, or if
26:21
it was gifted to you or whatever, right? The
26:25
person who showed up at your house, Maybe black,
26:28
maybe white, maybe Latino. Here's one thing I
26:33
do find interesting. We are in the year of 2026.
26:36
How many of you can say that you have seen or
26:40
hired a male house cleaner? We can talk all of
26:44
this shit about progress and we can do all of
26:49
this work around liberation and all the things.
26:54
Listen, let me tell you something. I have a short
26:57
list of things that I know that the world has
27:02
not changed until I see a male house cleaner,
27:07
meaning I call a company and a male house cleaner
27:12
shows up at my door. Even better if it's a white
27:16
male house cleaner, because that's going to break
27:18
down all the stereotypes. So I don't want nobody
27:20
telling me about you doing liberation work until
27:23
we are at that point in society. And that's a
27:26
norm. But I digress on that. So in the United
27:31
States, it's not anything to see house keepers
27:36
of different colors. And depending on where you
27:39
live, you are more likely to find if you call
27:44
a professional service, you're more likely to
27:46
find that the house cleaning company that you
27:51
find online or whatever is. Own and ran by a
27:57
white woman, right? Which means white women like
27:59
Molly maids, white women don't show up at your
28:02
house and clean your toilet. You're not going
28:06
to be there like, oh my God, like Karen is cleaning
28:10
my toilet today. No, she's going to clean your
28:13
toilet. She's going to make some good money,
28:15
ask for a referral, send you to Google review
28:17
and then reschedule you for the next one or whatever,
28:21
right? Efficiency. Have you ever considered that
28:27
there are people who not only have never seen
28:32
someone other than a black woman clean their
28:36
house, but has never even thought about any possibility
28:43
or potential outside of black housekeepers? Now,
28:50
color and things like that gets a little complicated
28:52
here because Let me just keep this short and
28:54
I'm just going to give you a quick overview.
28:56
The people here who consider themselves white
28:58
or the people here that people consider white
29:00
would never be considered white in the United
29:02
States. At best, they might be considered Dominican
29:06
or Puerto Rican or Cuban at best on a very good
29:10
wintry day or whatever at best, but they would
29:13
never be considered white. So let's just say
29:15
that. So with those people, they many have most
29:20
a lot here. And when I say here, if we were to
29:24
do the numbers, population -wise, more people
29:28
have house cleaners like they do in other countries
29:33
than people do in the United States. It just
29:36
is what it is. And when I say house cleaners,
29:38
that means somebody that's coming in at least
29:40
once a week or twice a week or whatever, right?
29:44
And they will probably... My ear is itching.
29:47
There's so much more to talk about when it comes
29:49
to this. this house cleaning thing or whatever,
29:51
right? Because there's still apartments that
29:54
have little room that have the house cleaner
29:56
that used to stay in there and some of them still
29:58
do that or whatever. But the laws state basically
30:00
that you can't have a house cleaner come to your
30:02
place more often than two days a week unless
30:05
you start paying them benefits or whatever. So
30:08
some people will have two different house cleaners
30:11
to bypass that law. But that's not the point.
30:14
My point is this. It dawned on me a few months
30:18
ago, I was telling one of my friends who was
30:22
born and raised here, I was, it hit me. I was
30:26
like, yo, he's never had a meal cooked by anyone
30:29
other than black women. Like he's never had a
30:33
meal cooked by a white man. Like how it's nothing
30:36
for us to go into a restaurant and the owner
30:38
or the cook might be white and or the chef or
30:41
the waiter that might be white. You ain't gonna
30:43
see that here or whatever, right? He was like,
30:45
no. And I was just like. You're in your 30s.
30:51
These are the things that I'm talking about,
30:54
right? We don't know what we don't know. And
30:56
this is the shit that's not shown on social media
30:58
or television or whatever. But you don't know
31:01
what questions to ask because it's just so far
31:04
from... It's just so far or whatever, right?
31:12
So when I got to thinking about this, then I
31:14
was just like, yo, many of them have never seen
31:17
a white maid. Many of them have never seen a
31:21
male maid house cleaner or whatever. Right. So
31:26
I was like, OK, bet. Let me change this because
31:30
representation matters. Right. I'm not going
31:32
to go out and wrangle up some white maids or,
31:35
you know, white cooks or anything like that because
31:38
that wouldn't serve the purpose or whatever.
31:40
So I started thinking about all the things that
31:43
hit me that they have never seen. Just. in everyday
31:49
life that's a norm to us that we take for granted
31:52
and asking them had they ever seen it and then
31:58
the look on their face like you know when somebody
32:01
has like that awakening moment that aha moment
32:03
it's just like yo and like for them trying to
32:06
wrap their head around it I was like bet let
32:09
me go and let me let me let me fix this so I
32:13
went and made a series of videos of switching
32:18
around the roles in the role -playing thing or
32:22
whatever right and i said to my black friends
32:24
here or the ones part of the mixed looking folks
32:32
or whatever right let's just we we right here
32:36
okay i'm not going cold talk right so And so
32:41
I think, so one of them was a person in construction
32:44
because I know a guy that's in construction here
32:46
who's black, like that's his dream or whatever,
32:48
right? To get into whatever. And then another
32:52
one as a spiritual leader. And then another one
32:57
who is, she is a designer. And so I made a video
33:02
of her running a design, a big design. manufacturing
33:07
i haven't thought about these videos in so long
33:11
it's some funny shit i'm gonna have to go find
33:13
them um i made a video of her in her factory
33:19
and um there's nothing but white seamstress like
33:24
an old seamstress white men and women and i know
33:29
this might sound the r word That I can't say
33:33
because I already have gotten in trouble. I've
33:36
only been back on Facebook like a few days and
33:39
I've already gotten in trouble, but whatever.
33:41
They said I said something that I didn't say,
33:43
but if I did say it, it was out of context. I
33:45
wasn't promoting the thing. I was just making
33:47
mention of it or whatever, but basically I got
33:49
warned. So I know this may sound the R word.
33:55
But it's no different than the movie propaganda
33:58
shit that we've been forced to watch most of
34:00
our lives. And so because I don't have a large,
34:03
I don't have, you know, Tyler Perry production
34:08
money or whatever, and I have no interest in
34:10
making movies like that or whatever. I just use
34:13
AI to flip the representation and insert it.
34:19
my friends who have never seen someone in the
34:22
things that they do on a small scale or whatever
34:25
right because ain't nobody and even the producers
34:27
that make the movies like yo they still be trying
34:30
to still constantly pushing the very stereotypical
34:34
black movies movies for black people on us when
34:37
there's so many different topics that they could
34:39
talk about or whatever but so the other video
34:43
that i made was um A boardroom with black people
34:49
and or maybe it was in a kitchen. I can't remember
34:51
what the setting was or whatever. And it had
34:54
white like housekeepers serving them on beautiful
35:00
trays and things of that nature. And then I had
35:03
I probably shouldn't even be talking about this
35:06
online, but whatever. And then I had one where
35:12
there was people. of a certain color in a tobacco
35:18
field and a woman, a black woman on a horse overseeing
35:23
them working the tobacco fields. And then there
35:27
was one where there was a black woman in a luxurious
35:31
bathroom. And she was basically telling a woman
35:36
that was not melanated to, um, she missed the
35:42
spot and cleaning the bathroom or whatever. Right.
35:44
So, Don't come at me about AI because it's a
35:51
privilege to be able to shit on AI when many
35:55
people don't have the privilege to even have
35:57
the imagination or have never seen a representation
36:02
of anyone outside of themselves playing subservient
36:06
to someone else. Social media. Social media is
36:16
no longer social. Social media is just, I don't
36:22
know. Like I, when I look at my analytics, I
36:27
see so many views and people watch all the way
36:29
through reels, videos or whatever. Very few comment.
36:34
That's not being social. So hi lurkers. But y
36:38
'all, these social media breaks are very important.
36:41
They also help your algorithm. That's a free
36:44
tip. I already talked about the profiles and
36:50
what they tell you to do. Children. So I want
36:52
to talk about children. Okay. If you don't know
36:55
me, I hear so many people say, well, I can't
36:59
because I have kids or she can do that. It's
37:02
easy for her to say that because she doesn't
37:04
have kids or her son is an adult or I didn't.
37:08
Even people who kind of do a thing or whatever,
37:10
but they only do it to a certain limit. People
37:12
use your fucking kid. Excuse me. Sorry, Facebook.
37:16
People use their kids as a lot of excuses for
37:20
a lot of things. So, hi, my name is Courtney.
37:23
What you don't know about me, yes, my son is
37:25
an adult now. However, I went through hell when
37:29
my child was younger to maintain my sovereignty
37:33
and to get free. Side note. I got my services
37:40
page set up. So if you would like to hire me,
37:42
you can go to getfree .faafo .app. I just got
37:49
that up yesterday. So anyway, yeah, don't come
37:54
at me. Don't use, look, I don't want to hear,
37:58
well, it's easy for me to say or easy for her
38:01
to say or easy for him to say, me specifically,
38:05
because I have been there. Many years ago, I
38:10
have the court papers and the battle scars to
38:13
prove it. So I did not use my child as an excuse
38:18
for getting not getting free. Okay. I got that
38:24
done. I'm going to have such a productive day
38:27
because I have all I got. I'm going to be able
38:29
to get all of this shit off of my chest because
38:31
y 'all be walking around with. A long ass to
38:34
do list of things you want to say and you ain't
38:36
working your throat chakra and then you can't
38:38
figure out why you're not feeling well and you're
38:41
not getting things done. Speaking of getting
38:44
things done. OK, on the porch and tap or whatever,
38:49
you know, we always used to talk about doing
38:51
something different. I have this long talk, this
38:53
long lecture about people say that they're different
38:56
yet. Every morning you get up out of bed on the
39:00
same side of the bed. You drive to work the same
39:02
route. You do the same shit every single morning
39:05
talking about you're different. You're an enigma.
39:07
You're a unicorn. You're awake, awakened, enlightened,
39:12
a whole, but you are still on this pattern. And
39:17
I would say, do something different. Break the
39:20
pattern. Drive a different way to work. Roll
39:23
out of bed a certain, a different way. Sleep
39:26
at the foot of your, sleep with your head at
39:27
the foot of the bed. Do break up the pattern.
39:31
Break up the rhythm. Be the glitch in the matrix.
39:38
The other day I was watching YouTube and I was
39:42
watching this video of a woman who has a huge
39:45
following. Like I got like 96 followers on YouTube
39:47
or whatever, right? Or it's 96 subscribers. She's
39:51
got like, I don't know. 300 000 or something
39:53
like that or whatever right but it was so funny
39:56
because i'm listening or whatever and she's talking
39:58
she was like yo everybody she's like i had an
40:01
epiphany she was like they keep us trapped and
40:05
they keep us in in this loop of things that we
40:08
can't even see because we don't do anything different
40:12
and she literally said we wake up on the same
40:15
side of bed every single morning we as if almost
40:19
word for word from what the shit that I've been
40:21
talking about since 2016. Don't make me pull
40:24
out my receipts. And I just started laughing
40:27
and I was like, yo, people are finally fucking
40:28
realizing that this, this, this shit, like wake
40:33
up, break up the pattern, be the glitch in the
40:37
system, in the code, in the matrix. It knows
40:41
when you're going to log into Facebook and who
40:44
you're going to look for, what you're going to
40:45
look at, and what caused you to go peek at this
40:47
thing, who triggered you in your real life that
40:50
you needed to go and escape on Facebook, why
40:52
you deactivate, why we deactivate. They know
40:55
before you know. Be the glitch. Do something.
41:01
Be the glitch. And it doesn't even matter if
41:03
you get banned. you then start to train the universe
41:08
i've talked so much about like bend it to your
41:11
will but you've got to play with it and you're
41:13
going to make some mistakes and you're going
41:15
to get your ass spanked a little bit but then
41:17
you and the uni you got a sparring partner and
41:21
then y 'all will have you know you'll start to
41:22
form an understanding and then it'll become a
41:26
dance or whatever as opposed to you just being
41:29
enslaved to all of this or whatever none of this
41:33
is real I talked about my naked neighbor. The
41:41
weather. Oh, so I have a bunch of podcasts. So
41:46
I have several different podcasts. So I have
41:48
a podcast that's called for that, you know, matches
41:51
the YouTube channel, which is move to Brazil.
41:57
And then I have one behind closed doors. Brazil
42:02
behind closed doors. And then I have FAA. F around
42:07
and find out. with courtney that's my explicit
42:09
one that's like where i just need to cuss and
42:12
get some off of my chest or whatever that's that
42:16
one and then i have one for the family tree and
42:19
that's the um the franklin bell family uh whatever
42:25
i'm trying not to show all of my goods under
42:27
my dress because my leg is falling asleep but
42:30
um I just totally distracted. That means it's
42:42
going to be an interesting day. I have so many
42:44
stories to tell you all. My podcast. I have a
42:49
lot of podcasts. And I feel like somebody specifically
42:55
is watching me right now. But I have a lot of
42:58
different podcasts. And you can find those on
43:01
all streaming platforms anyway. So check those
43:05
out. I'll have to put the links in the comments
43:07
section. All right. Oh, so I did a two hour YouTube
43:16
video the other day, testing some things out,
43:20
testing some people out. And that taught me to
43:25
stop listening to these experts about what I
43:28
should do because recorded, uploaded regular
43:30
videos to YouTube. do not work for me and it
43:33
takes so much damn time to edit and i was like
43:35
i'm not doing this just to get like one or two
43:38
views if that mind you right like that just doesn't
43:43
work for me i'm not i don't do well with structure
43:46
i do well with rambles which is interesting because
43:50
someone might watch me ramble and they might
43:53
be confused and turned off but energetically
43:57
it works energetically Rambling works for me.
44:01
It works for me quite well. And so I rambled.
44:06
And me rambling for two hours and 22 minutes
44:10
and I think seven seconds on YouTube the other
44:12
day was a breakthrough. And it proved that I
44:17
am always going to trust my intuition over the
44:22
rules. Somebody needed to hear that today. And
44:25
out of that... I was able to get some good stats.
44:29
So now I can adjust who my audience is. Oh, so
44:38
I talked about rambling. So there's some people
44:40
who feel some kind of way about Courtney being
44:44
in Brazil. And maybe I'll do, I'll come back
44:48
and do a different video about that. I'm going
44:51
to circle that and come back to that later. Would
44:56
you all like to know who my typical audience
44:58
is? I will share that later also because surprisingly
45:03
but not surprisingly. I talked about the band
45:06
-aids. I talked about tomorrow doing a live about
45:10
the products that I use here. I talked about
45:12
my friend's birthday and how I want to do an
45:15
interview with him. I talked about the floor
45:18
-to -ceiling windows. I talked about cleaning
45:20
those Florida sailing windows. I talked about
45:23
cleaners and the numbers here and kind of went
45:25
into a longer ramble about that. One of the things
45:28
that you'll hear people say about Brazil is that,
45:31
oh, it's such a relaxed, laid -back environment.
45:35
One. The people saying that are either coming
45:41
on vacation, tourists, or they make enough money
45:47
to be able to hire. house cleaner black women
45:52
house cleaners for next to nothing so what people
46:00
pay here for house cleaning is like how much
46:03
it for four hours right because that's like the
46:06
minimum is like how much it's costing some of
46:09
y 'all to fill up a small car full of gas So,
46:16
yeah, it's easy to say that there's a laid back
46:18
culture. And so here's the thing. Even those
46:22
that are service workers, which is the majority
46:25
of the population in, let's just say, Bahia,
46:29
the state that I live in, they do relax. It's
46:32
kind of like that work hard, play hard. They
46:34
work very long days. What no one is talking about
46:38
is their long commutes. In the United States,
46:44
a commute isn't really bad, right? But you're
46:46
in your car and you're at maybe 45 minutes an
46:50
hour, an hour and 30 minutes one way. That's
46:54
like that breaking point where someone is deciding,
46:56
am I going to take this job? Am I going to keep
46:59
this job? Even in New York, like on the subway,
47:03
if you are like, I got to commute 45 minutes
47:06
to an hour, you're really thinking hard about
47:09
life at that point. And like, is this job worth
47:11
it? And that's on the subway. You're not driving.
47:14
You're not doing anything. You may or may not
47:16
be cramped. But if you're on the subway for 45
47:18
minutes, you can pretty much assume at some point
47:21
it's going to either be empty when you get on
47:23
and starts to fill up or it's going to be emptier
47:25
when you get off. None of you are on a city.
47:31
No person watching this in the United States
47:34
has sat on a bus for two hours each way on a
47:40
bus to go to work. So these people who are saying,
47:45
oh, it's such a relaxed culture and this and
47:47
that and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A lot
47:51
of these people are getting up at four o 'clock
47:53
in the morning to get on a bus by five to get
47:58
to the city center to be on their feet all day
48:03
for two hours. So five to be somewhere by seven
48:08
or eight. Right. Two hours. And then get off
48:13
at work at 5 o 'clock. And then on the bus again
48:17
for another two hours. Not getting home until
48:21
7, 8 o 'clock. Let me tell you something. If
48:27
that was me, guess what I'm going to want to
48:29
do when I get home? Not a damn thing. Especially
48:33
when I've been servicing wealthy tourists all
48:37
day. I'm going to go to the local watering hole.
48:40
I'm going to listen to some fucking music. Sorry,
48:43
Facebook. I'm going to listen to some music.
48:47
And I'm going to chill. So, work hard, rest harder.
48:56
Critical thinking skills. Stop listening to everything
48:59
everybody says. Ask questions. Ask why. Housing.
49:13
I don't know what I have. Don't want to talk
49:17
about. I'm not going to talk about housing right
49:19
now. I'll talk about housing in a different video
49:21
and how that compares. But I'm going to come
49:23
back and I'm going to talk about all the lurkers,
49:25
all the people feeling salty, feeling some kind
49:28
of way about Courtney being in Brazil. Because
49:30
y 'all the same of those who are some of the
49:33
same people who have watched me have some of
49:35
the biggest battles in my life. Live somewhere
49:38
with no running water or no electricity. Y 'all
49:43
forget the things that I put up with and have
49:48
dealt with and would do again. And a lot of reasons
49:51
just to prove a fucking point. I'm sorry, Facebook.
49:55
Just to prove a point. So good morning. Nice
50:01
to see you again. Ciao.