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Episode 200 - 2025 Road Map · My Third Place Pod

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Is there a way to celebrate a milestone episode?
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I mean, I asked myself this for the past month while worrying if
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I should post more bonus interview episodes from the past
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year. The answer is yes.
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Yes there is. You make a milestone episode so
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epic it's worth listening to. So what happened to mine?
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I'll tell you exactly what happened to mine.
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See, the last time you heard of me was the last week of November
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of 2024. We just finished recording
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another episode of Cobra Kai and December was coming up.
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But you know, we're all busy that month.
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Or so I thought where we're going to be busy that month with
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the holidays. I on the other hand wanted to
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take a mental health break and that very same week that I got
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that break a game came out called Marvel Rivals.
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For those that know me know I love a good video game.
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I think back to 2020 when we were all stuck at home because
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of the COVID pandemic and I bitch played Marvel Avengers, an
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online game on the PS4 and I wanted to get all the stuff on
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it, the skins, everything, the extra stuff I had.
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Of course I you know, money, money was the issue here.
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We were all let go of our job. We were all getting paid by the
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government. Of course I wanted to play put
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more on my money on this game and I did I well on some other
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things as well. But I this is like this game,
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this game, this game. The only problem with that this
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game is Dallas Fall was also due to the pandemic.
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The creators and developers of the game Idols Montreal were
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working from home at the time. They couldn't work with the
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actual work computers to fix the bugs right away.
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They were a lot of bugs, man. Like we, yeah, it was horrible.
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It couldn't give us new characters until a few six
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months later and didn't give us a new missions until the next
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year. It was doomed.
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It was bad. Fast forward to 2021, the
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developers thought, let's make a game a new game and see if the
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fans accept it. Marvel's Guardians of the
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Galaxy, again, another game, another good game where you can
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roam around and shoot and do all kinds of crazy stuff.
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I barely started playing it in 2023.
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Don't ask me why, but I was late for the game.
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I wasn't. I'm still not into it.
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I'm just like, whatever. So you just imagine my surprise
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when earlier in that year, that Marvel Rivals was announced.
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It came out the week we were on break from the podcast A6 versus
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6 shooter game with currently 37 characters and free to play on
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multi platforms. I dare you to look on social
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media and not see a single thing about this game.
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I dare you. Come on, do it.
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Do it. You're sitting there listening
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to this. He's talking like that again.
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He's talking like that. His changes Kelly, he changes
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cadence again. He's talking like that again.
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What is he going to do? Nothing more.
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The game reached 10 million players worldwide within 72
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hours. Furthermore, it peaked at 400
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and 89190 concurrent players on Steam on December 8th, 2024.
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It surpassed 20 million players as announced on December 17th.
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Throughout its first month, the game maintained most of its in
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game player count. The Chinese games industry
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research website Game Look estimated revenue of about $135
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million across all platforms in this period.
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Yes the game started out with a Season 0 easy to play with a
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bunch of skins for characters and yes you are able to buy the
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battle pass. At the time it was affordable to
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the gamers come and play this game and winced up along the way
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as well as a rank up in the process.
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I was in love in a way. I went to play this game, I even
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bought in on the battle pass and thought I was going to stop and
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join this game in a few weeks. Boy was I wrong.
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Now for those that know me, what happens when I enjoy something a
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little too much? I stick around Tumblr live and
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yes everywhere I turned even on YouTube is I've seen short clips
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of people having fun on this game.
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It has me going to twitch and watching gamers play this game
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just so I can get a drop and show up under my game.
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It's safe to say that I am enjoying this game as it is.
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I am having fun meeting new gamers on here and or adding
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them just by watching their streams on social media.
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So to answer the question as to what happened to the 200th
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episode, Marvel Rivals happened. I went and wanted to take a
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mental break towards the beginning of winter.
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I don't know about some of you, but it helped with my
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depression, being able to play a game that makes me happy.
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But of course I heard all the questions of when episode 200
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was going to be and those that truly mattered and cared about
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my depressive moments told me to post it when I'm ready.
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I am playing a game and that's something that has helped with
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my mentality. I'm still in the process of
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playing this game. I have not stopped playing.
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I've lost sleep trying to play this game.
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I've lost friends trying to play this game and lost friends like
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I clocked in at at least 100 hours of gameplay on this game.
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Come on, are you with me here? But currently I'm taking a break
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because I needed to get this episode out.
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Currently in the game, season one has just come out and yes I
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bought that battle pass again. But now I have gotten all the
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fights out of my system and waiting for new characters to
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emerge so I can go play again. I'm going to I'm going to get
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lost again. Sorry guys, as soon as this
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happens I am out. This game characters have
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annoyed me so much that I have decided to listen to podcasts
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instead so I can be in the zone. OK I you've ever been in the
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zone while playing the game for hundreds of hours and then that
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zone takes you away because all these characters, their voices
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start getting to your head. You sleep and you dream about
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these characters saying the most random phrases that they're
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saying in the game. Chaos is chaos.
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I tell you, in the words of the Scarlet Witch, it is chaos.
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It's Spidey time. And then like, of course,
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there's always that one good boy.
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The good boy. That is the shark, Jeff, the
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shark. It's that's how my ADHD works.
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OK, I'm listening. I'm just playing games now and
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instead of listening to them say their catch phrases, I'm
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listening to podcast. And I've been been listening to
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these podcasts and I'll tell you which ones a bit later, but for
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right now, hi, I'm Evo, and I like to welcome you all back to
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the 200th episode of my third place podcast.
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It's not as epic as I was going to make it out to be, but I
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figured a few months from now we can celebrate another milestone.
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And not just because it is a 200th episode, but because at
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the end of 2024, I was hit with the goal of 20,000 downloads.
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And again, if you're wondering why it took me this long, I
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wanted to do it in January and that's the 20th, the 200th
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episode, and the 20,000 download on the anniversary of the
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podcast. That's three things in one.
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I like to welcome you all to Season 3 of the M3P Podcast.
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So a lot of things happened while we were on break and I
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wrote all of these things down just in case something like this
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would happen where I just like, hey, and this week just
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happened. I'm going to do the episode this
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week. OK, No, didn't happen.
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And then another thing happened this weekend.
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I'm going to do this episode this week and didn't happen
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again. It it just doesn't happen at
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all. All right, so first of all,
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debuted on Netflix. I'll have to I'll have more to
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say on the next episode when we do predictions for the Royal
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Rumble, so stay tuned for that. We're I'm I'm, I'm coming right
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back. OK, give me a few days get to
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know what's going on and get to watch Saturday night's main
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event and then we can talk about the Royal Rumble.
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All right, what else happened? Spotify sent out the 2024 Rapt
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and gave us a whole bunch of analytics because why not?
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I love knowing that I'm on the 0.0056% on someone's level,
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artist fan. I don't know what it was about.
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If you listen carefully to the AI version of Podcast up your
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Spotify wrapped, they they called you out.
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They call you out on stuff, but I also believe that maybe they
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may have gotten something wrong as they listed Taylor Swift as
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one of my top artists of the year when also in 2024 I was
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listening to Eminem new album when it came out, The death of
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Slim Shady. Is it the death of Slim Shady?
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Yeah, it was a death of Slim Shady because I listened to it
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the forwards and backwards so and then the I get Taylor Swift.
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That's my top five. OK.
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And not only was I jamming that in the car, but I was also told
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to listen to Electric Cowboy because myself and podcast
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friend Alexandria from No to Sentence podcast asked me to
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rate their album and pick 5 songs.
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And it's something that I'm still considering on doing with
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her. We just haven't had a chance to
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do it. And this has been like since
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before October, probably September or August around
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there. I don't remember.
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Another thing Spotify Rap forgot to do this year is tell me how
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many hours I've accumulated in the podcast.
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I remember it told me two years ago when I first started that
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last year as well, and I happened to have last year's of
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5034 minutes, 83 hours of content.
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Compare that to what I did this year.
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It didn't tell me. So I'm a big numbers guy.
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I had to go back and log in the hours and minutes of every
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episode I've ever done. Yes, I did.
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Evidently, it came out to 91 hours.
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So if you were to bench listen to the whole year of 2024, the
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catalog list of my podcast, you would have been listening to
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that 2024 episodes for three days and 19 hours.
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Yes, yes. Now, I have no idea how many
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hours you'd be listening to if it was like 199 episode or 200
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now, but it's it's a lot. It's a lot.
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It's going to take weeks for that one.
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I'll have to add it up then, I guess.
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But while we were gone, the podcast got a few new listeners.
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Thanks for making Spotify your preferred method.
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And I believe I told the person that they were following #150
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also another country is listening to us.
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So let's give a warm yen Benito welcome to El Salvador Gracias,
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pues cucharnos, Salvadoranos. And also I'm taking, I'm leaving
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and on Spotify. I want to leave it on Spotify.
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I wanted to make this show, this podcast exclusively for for
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Spotify because I don't have an iPhone, I don't check for the
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Apple. I don't check Apple at all
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iTunes at all. And so toward the end of
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possibly the month, in a few, maybe in a few weeks here and
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there, I'm going to start deleting all the other audio
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media and just focus more on Spotify and of course, YouTube.
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So you're going to get the boat. You're going to listen to the
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episode and then you're going to watch the episodes.
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You're not going to be able to watch this episode.
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Maybe I'll give it a chance and have you watch it.
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It's just me and my face. I guess.
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It's usually just me and my face, to be honest, unless
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Menace is in there. But you know, Oh well, so you
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know, let's just not have any more YouTube videos on it, but
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just put in the audio on the at the YouTube channel.
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And just recently it was a big reason why I waited this long.
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Another reason there's there's lots of reasons and I'm taking
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out ability for them, but there's lots of reasons why it
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took me this long to do the 200th episode.
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Tiktok was banned. Yeah, yeah, I know.
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It's not a big deal for some of you.
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It wasn't for me. Shout out to all my Tumblr live
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fans. Tumblr live people, actually,
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yeah, shout out to those people. Those, those, those are the big,
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big ones for me. That's where I was more, I guess
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you could say like, oh, hey, I feel their pain.
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I was there once last year in 2023, obviously, of course.
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And when looking back at when I was in 2023 when I was over
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there, you know, live streaming and doing the podcast over
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there, I happen to come across some Tik tokers who said they
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didn't like Tumblr live and the whole reason and all that stuff.
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And lo and behold, I go and check up on them.
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Me being petty, go and check up on them and they're all crying
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because Tiktok is leaving and I'm just sitting here, hey, that
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sucks for you. Whatever.
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Oops, yeah, it wasn't a big deal that for me that Tiktok was
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getting supposedly banned because I, I know I was not
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getting banned. We survived the 2020.
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I survived the first time they tried to ban it in 2020.
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But this time around was a big deal for most as they have made
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a life living career on this app.
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I saw a lot of tears over the past week and of course we knew
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it was coming around November. So you had your time to like
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grab your stuff, grab your data and move it around other
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socials. But here we are at the last
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minute. You're crying, you're live and
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you're crying on live and you're saying, what?
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Where am I gonna put this stuff? Hey, we, we did the same Tumblr
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live. Just shout out to Tumblr live.
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It's the anniversary of the death of Tumblr Live.
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By the way, just in case, shout out to all of my Tumblr live
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people. I there's your shadow right
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there. I mean, OK, when it was
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announced, I was a little worried for my community as a
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content creator. I had to do something.
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So I created, I content created. I looked around for other live
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streams. I mean, I have Riverside right
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here. Like you can come into the chat
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and just watch me and listen to me.
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But some people have said they couldn't get in to get in the
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chat. So I guess bucket and the
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process gate TikTok getting banned.
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A few developers have come out with a beta version of a new
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apps that will be coming soon in the next few months.
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Can't wait for that. So even though President Trump
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gave us the extra 90 days extension to enjoy the app for
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what it is, America talk, because it ain't the same, it
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ain't the same anymore. Nope, America talk, have fun.
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And while the hashtag TikTok refugee was trending all week
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long as the masses flocked over to a new a few new apps, a few
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other apps, a few other old apps that were around.
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I know some people went to Clover to see to there's
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Clapper. That was too dull for me.
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There's likee I'm already getting community guidelines
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over there. There's fan base don't like it.
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And even the Chinese app Red Note can't go live there.
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So what would like to do if all my friends and listeners that I
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met on Tiktok, we're going to be in separate places, what is a
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creator to do but create? I'm a content creator.
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I think I already said that earlier, right?
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I must think of something, you know?
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I must content create. I can't do discord because I
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still don't understand it and I've had some bad experiences
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with it. I want everyone under one roof.
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So incomes beehive newsletter? Yes I created a newsletter so I
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can keep everyone that I know under one place and if anything
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like what just happened with TikTok app is again, then I can
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just look for another streaming site or take them all to
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Riverside. But instead of messaging them
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one by one and looking for them separately in separate different
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DMS, I can just do a mass message and it will show up in
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their emails. Problem solved.
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Honestly, as of this broadcast, I still don't know what I'm
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going to do with it. I created it.
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I still don't know what I'm going to do with it.
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I could just like send links. OK, that's, and honestly, that
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was my only thought. But if you're subscribed to me
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already, please subscribe to the newsletter and get first dibs on
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the podcast when it comes out because maybe I'll make a blog
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out of it. I have Tumblr, but maybe I'll
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make a blog out of this in instead of going somewhere and
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put it here. Maybe I'll post the stuff that I
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forgot to say in the podcast. Or maybe since I can't edit
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stuff in anymore like I used to saying anchor for like anyway, I
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will put those in the newsletter as well.
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So go ahead, subscribe. I got a few subscribers already
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from just this past week after putting the link to Beehive on
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the socials. Check out the link, check out
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the bio, it's in the link tree as well.
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Post the link tree in the show notes and it's already in the
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link tree. So go check those out and
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subscribe to the newsletter. Let me know.
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Let me know there there was a lot of stuff that I wanted to
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make episode 200 about, but I just didn't want to be I just
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wasn't able to do it. So instead instead, let's just
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celebrate a milestone for next time this episode, much like the
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first episode of the year in 2024 from here and out as well.
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Let's make it the road map or goals for the year because why
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not discuss what's ahead and what's coming and what I have
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plans for and my goals for it. You know, road map, road map it.
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As you all know, every year I make a new goal as to how many
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listeners or download I would like to have by the end of the
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year. The fact that I made it to 20 K
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just in time before the year ended speak massive volumes.
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Thank you to whoever has been listening and will continue to
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listen from here on out. You guys are the MVP.
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You guys are amazing. You guys are deserve so much.
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Thank you very much, I appreciate you all.
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Words cannot express how I'm feeling. 20,000 downloads hit
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that one night after I did that episode.
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November and I just bought wait not November at the end of
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December. Towards the end of December like
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around the 28th I think. I don't forgot but I posted on
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Instagram but I bawled. I was so happy and I still AM.
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This is a great big thing. The podcast is currently sitting
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at 20,225 downloads. So what's my year end goal?
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So I would just for goal for next year, the goal for next
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year, it's going to have to be 50,000 downloads.
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Shit I barely made in 2024 with 10K and 10 more.
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So let's see if I can, if it can happen and increase it by 30 K.
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Let's you know, let's let's reach for something that's
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unattainable for me and work my ass for it.
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It will give me the motivation. That's what I like to see.
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That's what I like to happen. So let's do that 50,000
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downloads by the end of the by next year, by this year, I mean
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50,000 downloads this year towards the end of the year.
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Other goals that I want to happen more interview with
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friends. Yes, we're still doing wrestling
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episodes and I'm going to get more interviews with friends on
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that as well as music interviews.
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A big interview that happened last year was on a Friday 13th
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in September. Y'all remember that?
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Where a friend of ours Lordfield released his second Seagull SEC
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Where a friend of ours Lordfield released his second single.
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So let's do a follow up on that as well as more artists on other
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forms of social media. Check out that single on
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Spotify. Check out Lordfield on Spotify,
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you'll love it. I know I'm more of a TikTok guy
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but due to what's happened lately I want to branch out to
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other forms and see what they got going out on there.
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Going on out there? Geez.
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I can't speak today guys so cheers to that.
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Let me put this in there as well.
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I miss drinking my C4 also big thing that's going to happen.
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I started last year, late last year, actually doing walks
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around the neighborhood, you know, working out with my my
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health and all that stuff because why not?
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And because of of diabetes and stuff, you know, wrestling with
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diabetes stuff. So this year again, once it gets
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cooler, cooler, once it gets warmer around here, once it gets
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warmer around here, I'm going to start walking again.
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I'm going to start doing push ups.
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I'm going to start doing all that stuff.
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I'm going to take out ability for all the actions that I've
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taken. Reach out to people and have
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walked with me. You're going to hear more stuff.
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I know I said this early last year, 2024 that we would do like
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challenges for push ups and all that stuff, but never happened
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and then later on in the year it did happen.
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So it's going to happen again. Let's just get a warm warmer
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back up again and then we'll see how everything goes.
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OK, Also late in December since I already talked about my goals
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late in December of last year when I saw I was going to the
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Epic 200 episode, I asked the M3P community about their goals
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and they came with answers. In here they are not for the
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week. Vanessa says breaks are needed
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and necessary to be continued on my goals.
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I haven't lined them up yet. Cheers to crushing your goals
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friend Brandy. You know, I'll listen to on the
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Cobra Kai stuff. So excited for you.
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Congratulations, goals, writing more, finishing my story,
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finding a way to get my eye surgery.
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I need a way to cover it and overcoming my fear of having it
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done. So if you see Brandy, tell her
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to get her eye surgery. It's Andy.
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She says becoming better financially.
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A friend of the podcast Cindy seconds this.
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She says yes JC my goals continue fighting for my family
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kickboxing, be even healthier and better, working harder, try
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to forgive better and not allow anyone to steal my piece.
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Proud of you. Don't ever let anyone steal your
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piece. Robbie Dock says.
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Here's my goal. Once the vehicle is paid off
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that I bought with my ex in October, I'm going to start my
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goal plan for retirement which to which is to buy a land in
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Erie PA, put up tiny home on it, start out by building it up and
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use it as a vacation home until I retire in 19 years.
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I found land lots for as little as 8 to 10K.
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I've seen prefab winterized tiny homes for about 10 Ki.
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Basically want to retire near Presque Isle State Park.
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Google it OK Bet not broken says Congrats.
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My goal is to be able to continue nursing school.
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I'd also like to work more on myself this next year health
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wise and mentally, Willow Hashi says.
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Working on getting new doctors, establishing, setting up some
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surgeries to better my health next year.
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Sky the Panther she said try to have more income and get a place
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again with my fiance. Graceless Dace says you know
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what, in 2025 my goal is to do all these little things that
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bring me happiness and dispense with the BS that inherently does
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not. Jackie Ann says Congrats, my
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goal is to become the best version of myself that I can
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ever be and she says congratulations 2025 goals are
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to bring more peace into my life.
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Amber says my goal is to try and drink more water and exercise
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more, which I always fail, and also try to work my way to
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becoming a teacher or work as a teacher's aide.
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Speaking of the topic of water, let's drink that water, OK?
29:46
Woody says my goal is to get JT out of power and be a stronger
29:50
and better Canadian and person. Yeah, Crystal net two says more
30:01
followers. Obviously he's talking about her
30:02
TikTok account and Tiger Wolf says Congrats, goals, getting
30:07
running with wolves healthy and getting financially stable.
30:10
We're working on that as well. All right, thanks everybody for
30:17
doing that. I know it's late now it's like 2
30:19
months later on it. It's a we're almost at February,
30:24
like January is the longest month of the year and it sucks.
30:31
But thank you for everyone who lands with that last year in
30:35
December and waited this long and I appreciate you guys and
30:40
you guys are awesome. OK, Late last year, probably
30:51
around October, maybe November, the Lives started getting a
30:56
surge of new people, and with that, a surge of new listeners
31:01
for the podcast. One in particular was a friend
31:04
of the community who had a job in the food and beverage
31:06
industry and would tell us a restaurant story so outrageous
31:10
we didn't even believe them. No, so over time she got
31:15
comfortable with us and became part of our community.
31:17
So I asked her to send me one of those stories and I would read
31:19
it on the podcast. This is something that should
31:23
have been done in December, but I took that break.
31:26
So I will let you know what the outcome was at the end of it.
31:30
This comes from her name is Sabrina and she wrote in
31:39
November 18th. It was a wind free day I should
31:42
have known. Sigh.
31:44
Well it started off very well. My coworker I will call her Jay
31:50
who was going to be my partner, cake decorator lasted 3 days.
31:54
Said she couldn't work for an Indian man.
31:57
I know how it sounds but it's how it's happened.
32:00
She walked out at the end of her lunch.
32:02
Before she walked out she handed me her apron and her hat.
32:07
I gave it to the boss and he said where's Jay?
32:09
I said. She left.
32:10
He said oh for the day. I said no for the life.
32:16
He got up his chair so quick and asked if he could talk to me
32:20
outside. He was trying to explain himself
32:22
and asked me if I knew any information and why she didn't
32:25
talk to him. I told him I knew nothing even
32:28
though I knew so much. The cherry on top for her was
32:31
him having us put our towels that we used for the day in the
32:35
dishwasher for two minutes, carried them to a sink, wring
32:40
them out and hang them to dry to use the next day.
32:43
When he talked to me, I let him know that was one of the reasons
32:46
why she couldn't do it. The next day he let us know that
32:49
we were getting a towel service. Mind you, we only see the towel
32:53
service twice a month and we're open six days a week, so they
32:57
still hand wash towels in the front.
33:00
Oh my God. November 22, the day after Jay
33:07
quits, he hires a New Girl right away.
33:10
We will call her Sal. Hello, Sal.
33:13
She said she knew how to decorate cakes, she knew how to
33:16
cook, she knew how to do everything, but for some reason
33:19
the cake layers were messed up, or the frosting wasn't working
33:23
right, the specials weren't working right, etcetera.
33:26
She didn't know how to fucking decorate shit.
33:29
You know she's pissed off. She's working with us for about
33:32
5 days until he texted her firing her.
33:35
He told her it was because of budget but the truth was he was
33:38
scared because she told him that he was in her way and that he
33:41
smelled and she went outside and was breaking down boxes with her
33:45
fist. She came in the next day to get
33:48
her stuff and saw two new hires. He hid in the office until she
33:51
left. December 2nd.
33:53
One of our 2 cooks, the one who comes in the morning looks at me
33:56
and says this is some shit. I said Yep and I guess that
33:59
triggered him because 45 minutes goes by and the Baker comes in
34:02
and says hey where's the cook? I said I don't know he should be
34:05
over there. Why?
34:07
And she said he's not there. I said, what do you mean he
34:10
wasn't there? He's not there.
34:12
He was there earlier and said she said he was in his car, it's
34:17
not here. So I asked the boss, The boss we
34:19
will call Chip Dip because he smells like corn chips.
34:22
Oh, sweet Christmas. Yes, like flocking corn chips.
34:27
By the way, I can no longer eat corn chips now.
34:31
So Chip Dip told me he had a family emergency and had to
34:35
leave. So Chip Dip was trying to look
34:37
at the pictures to figure out how to cook the food because he
34:40
had no idea. So you look at pictures, you
34:50
don't look at videos. So the dishwasher runs over so
34:54
chip dip can teach him how to cook.
34:56
The dishwasher is wow even though he doesn't know how to
35:02
boil water. Wow.
35:05
Before I left that day, the dishwasher, the runner and chip
35:08
dip were trying to cook. So three people were trying to
35:11
cook and there was at least 7-9 plates that came back and they
35:18
only served about 14 people. How's how is this restaurant
35:27
still open the next day? Both cooks were supposed to be
35:30
there at 8:00 AM. No cooks showed up to the
35:32
dishwasher and the runner were cooking some of the items.
35:35
They basically sold down the kitchen.
35:37
Funny thing is our barista bartender white dude super cool
35:41
we will call him E. When people would call he would
35:44
tell them don't even bother we don't even have cooks you'll get
35:48
mad if you come here. Lol.
35:53
Laughing emojis. Payday end of December, Are you
35:56
sitting? Are you all sitting?
35:58
Is anybody listeners? Are you all sitting?
36:01
So the end of December? On November 18th we gave our
36:06
direct deposit information and we were told that it should only
36:10
take 14 to 28 days to direct deposit to hid in our bank.
36:13
Until then we would get paper checks.
36:16
Mind you, he writes them out from his personal account, which
36:19
is already weird. Oh shit.
36:24
So right now we're in the month of December.
36:26
We Fast forward a little bit, the bank I have the deposits go
36:29
through at night and next morning at AM it will be
36:32
depositing to the bank no later than 8:30 AM.
36:35
It never changes, it's just how my bank works.
36:37
So 8:15 AM he's still not at work.
36:40
Chipped it finally at about 8:25 chip that pops in the building
36:45
and I asked him after a couple of minutes a while he is helping
36:48
the dishwasher cook with a new guy in his sandal slides and
36:51
gold chain. All right, for those of you that
36:59
work in the restaurant industry, what do you guys make of this so
37:02
far 'cause I, it's a lot, it's a long story, but what do you guys
37:09
think of this so far? If you guys do work in the in
37:12
the restaurant industry or if you don't like, did you think?
37:16
Yeah, no. What?
37:24
She asked him what time's the direct deposit going to hit?
37:26
He said, oh, this his guy is on vacation.
37:31
Oh my God. I said, what does that have to
37:33
do with me? He said, I'm going to write you
37:35
out a paper check. I said OK how long because I
37:38
will have to go deposit into my bank.
37:41
I was looking forward to direct deposit and my rank is going to
37:43
take out. I don't want it to overdraft.
37:46
He put his finger up and says wait a minute, is she saying
37:51
this right now? She like wrote it down, let's
37:54
pause for a second. He put his finger up and says
37:59
wait a minute, let's pause for a second.
38:00
He put his finger up and said wait a minute.
38:04
Who in the actual fuck does this salty person the real smelling
38:10
courtship sake he's talking to? I got so mad.
38:14
I said I don't have a minute, this has to do with my money.
38:18
He said you're going to get your money, you need to wait.
38:21
I said even louder, you have 5 minutes or I'm walking out and I
38:25
am done. After 5 minutes I walked
38:29
outside. Are you all eating your popcorn?
38:34
Everybody eating their popcorn for this because this is
38:37
ridiculously crazy, she continued.
38:41
I called my boyfriend to try to relax and then after I called my
38:45
dad and my dad calmed me down way more saying don't let my
38:48
emotions 'cause my actions. So I took a breath and I went
38:52
back inside and I was working like a turtle for like the next
38:55
10 minutes. I love that she calls her
38:57
boyfriend first because the boyfriend will pipe her up but
39:02
the dad would be like no think think think gradually about this
39:08
say gradually the boy would be like Nah fuck that fucking and
39:13
the dad like been there all right she can do this.
39:18
Chip dip came in the room super nervous and scared that I was
39:21
going to leave because I was moving my stuff in one area and
39:24
he told me he would sell me my money so that I don't have leave
39:29
him. So for the first time in my
39:30
life, I got zelled my whole check from a personal account
39:33
from an employer. Anybody.
39:38
Do you guys relate to the others?
39:39
Do you guys anybody at all? Are you guys out there?
39:43
Kim, send me, send me some feedback on here.
39:46
Let me know what you guys think. MPP network@gmail.com Let me
39:50
know what you got out of this story.
39:53
It's still going. But let me just just let you
39:56
know. Let me know now.
39:58
Because of business account didn't have funds in it.
40:00
How is he going to pay everybody if his business account?
40:04
Didn't have funds and he paid me from his personal Couple hours
40:11
go by and the other two Americans who worked for this
40:13
business asked did you guys get paid The did you guys get paid?
40:19
The Baker we would call her B said no but Sabrina did.
40:24
The cook said I will flip all this shit over.
40:30
So Sabrina gets paid but not me. Let's flip some fucking tables
40:34
over. He came into my little closet.
40:38
Yes. By the way I work in the old
40:40
soda closet. That's where she put all her
40:44
stuff for her belongings. I have one table.
40:47
He asked me why I was paid and no one else was and I told him
40:51
the situation. He said I'm going to text him
40:53
and tell him to run me my money. After a couple hours he did come
40:57
back and he did issue checks to the Americans.
41:00
His people have only been paid one time and they have been
41:04
working since the first week of November.
41:07
And the only reason they've been paid the one time because he
41:10
overheard me talking to them saying that it was illegal.
41:13
And that afternoon he came into my soda closet and told me that
41:17
I had crumbed in. The health department was going
41:18
to shut us down because of the crumbs I had in my mini fridge.
41:24
Oh my God. Mind you, there has been a box
41:29
of onions on the floor for about 15 days and cake mix bags on the
41:33
floor as well for about 3 weeks. Chicken in the sink, no water
41:37
running. And don't get me started about
41:39
the guy who with the sandals with his uncircumcised sausage
41:45
toast retaliation is my boss's best friend.
41:52
Oh man, anybody, anybody out there is laughing at this?
41:58
Oh shit, Chip, they've decided to hire another person who's
42:01
going to be his cook, one of his people.
42:03
Of course he had shoes on, that was a plus, but turns out he got
42:07
let go at the end of the day because he decided to keep
42:09
touching his feet while he was cooking on the line.
42:11
Oh my God, that's so disgusting. Also, as soon as January 1st
42:16
hit, our other cook, the one who won his money ran quit.
42:23
Today, January 3rd, no cook shows up.
42:26
Just a dishwasher, sausage toes and chip dip.
42:29
We all have given them nicknames.
42:31
She has given everybody nicknames.
42:36
Baker replacement. So let's talk about the second
42:40
American Baker who got fired a few weeks back and is apparently
42:44
calling CNN. She got replaced by one of his
42:47
people. Let's call her Cash.
42:48
She doesn't know how to do anything.
42:50
She asks a million questions and she curls her Rs so hard.
42:54
Well, we asked today. We almost fought.
42:57
Well, technically I almost just beat her ass.
42:59
I don't know why everyone's so afraid of me.
43:01
Ha ha ha. Laughing every time I Cash needs
43:05
to get through. It doesn't matter if you're
43:07
holding 1,000,000 things she said.
43:09
Excuse me, I need to get through more than three times.
43:12
Like I said, if you're just going to throw everything in the
43:14
air and jump out of her way for her, Oh my God.
43:19
I was trying to get cake layers to take them to my mini fridge.
43:21
She needed to keep passing me because the kitchen is very very
43:24
small. I moved about four times.
43:27
By the time the 5th time came I said no bro, you need to fucking
43:31
wait a minute. I'm not going to keep moving.
43:34
You wait one minute, me not move.
43:36
She got so scared. She's like, I'm so sorry.
43:40
So Sabrina, I left so quick. I wanted to flip the whole rack
43:47
of shit. I had to go stand outside and I
43:49
go back inside now Here, Sabrina a Sabrina a Sabrina, can I have
43:56
a piping bag up? I said yeah.
44:01
She said can you hand it to me? I looked at her like emoji and
44:08
she said oh OK I will get it. I'm like oh Lord said help.
44:13
Fast forward to the day 1/3 of was better day.
44:18
Only a Fast forward to the day, January 3rd.
44:20
It was a better day. Only a couple plays get
44:22
returned. Still no cook.
44:24
The Baker took a day off because she worked so much, but the cash
44:28
replacement for the second Baker she couldn't even Bake Off some
44:30
cakes. She asked me to check them and I
44:33
did and they were raw. I told her to put them back in
44:35
the oven. She said OK and then stared at
44:37
me and the cakes just sat there. So I'm pretty sure I'm coming
44:40
into raw cakes tomorrow. Oh and the chicken was still in
44:45
the sink when I left, with no rudder, with no water running.
44:50
Oh my God. OK.
44:53
And that's all she wrote for that time.
44:59
Update on this situation. This past week she was let go.
45:03
Her boss asked her to decorate a cake and after she was done, she
45:06
was no longer needed. She had said she wanted to
45:08
destroy the cake right then and there.
45:10
I would have destroyed the kitchen instead.
45:15
You know, leave the cake alone, but destroy the kitchen.
45:19
I leave you. Your job is right there, so
45:24
shout out to Sabrina for maintaining it cool and not
45:26
destroying the cake. That was amazing.
45:32
That was awesome. Hopefully we get more restaurant
45:41
stories from her. Or if you're in the restaurant
45:44
industry, I know a few of you. I work with a few of you, send
45:50
me your stories and you know, I'll probably like, I got to
45:54
like think of stories that happened a while back, but I'll
45:57
send you some of the stories as well.
46:00
But that's all from Sabrina and the restaurant stories.
46:06
And I think that's all for me as well.
46:08
I'm trying to think if I'm forgetting anything.
46:17
Gaming was happening. I was listening to podcast,
46:20
podcast, podcast, podcast that I was listening to.
46:30
Yeah, I podcaster listens to other podcast, some that I have
46:35
met along the way and others who have yet to meet.
46:38
Either way, I want you to give these podcasters a follow.
46:44
Rivals Assemble a Marvel Rivals podcast.
46:47
This one I accidentally happened to have come across when I typed
46:50
in the search bar on Spotify, Marvel Rivals.
46:53
And the first one that popped up was this one and it was the
46:56
freshly made. So I started listening to it and
47:00
going along with the news and leaks that was happening in the
47:02
game. They also talk about each
47:05
character in the game and their origin story, so it's awesome
47:08
getting to listen to the other characters I know nothing about,
47:11
like Psylocke or Jeff the Shark. The good boy things I didn't
47:17
know either, like Squirrel Girl is voiced by the AT&T girl Lily
47:21
Adams, whose real name is actually Milena Ventrup, and
47:26
Jeff the Shark is voiced by our good friend John Bailey.
47:30
Epic boys guy who showed up on my live that one time and I act
47:34
like a fanboy. Yeah, that happened.
47:38
So check out Rivals Assemble if you haven't yet.
47:42
If you're into Rivals, Assemble if you're into Marvel Rivals.
47:46
It's a pretty fun podcast. Shooting the weed was a weezy
47:49
blonde. If y'all don't know who she is,
47:51
she's an amazing content creator.
47:53
I first heard about her through the IWC the Internet wrestling
47:55
community, which is toxic and all in herself, but she's a good
47:59
thing that came out of the toxic IWC.
48:02
She's on Twitch and she's had her podcast for a while but it's
48:06
now just coming back to publish episodes.
48:08
If you're a wrestling fan you probably know who she is, or if
48:11
you're not, she's one of the awesome faces easy reacting to
48:14
epic wins like CM Punk's comeback and Tiffany Stratton W
48:17
women's title win. Definitely listen to her
48:19
episodes, she's awesome. Love her.
48:23
Another awesome podcast, Law and Disorder.
48:25
Sergei, who's become a friend of ours for a while, has been
48:29
coming to the stream and hanging out with us.
48:31
A radio DJ, side host, and a job as well as a car salesman.
48:37
This dude does it all. Check out his podcast.
48:40
Their latest episode was about weird Christmas traditions from
48:43
around the world, so he needs to update a new episode.
48:48
And finally but not least, define the Odds with Abby Vaden
48:52
Define the Odds as a compelling, empowering platform that offers
48:55
a unique blend of personal experiences, practical advice,
48:58
and inspiring stories. Abby's resilience and unwavering
49:02
hope shine through in her storytelling, empowering
49:05
listeners to find strength and courage in the face of
49:07
adversity. By sharing her own journey of
49:09
overcoming health challenges, embracing life joys, Abby
49:12
invites her audience to join her in a space growth connection and
49:16
inspiration. And that's it.
49:20
That's what I've been doing lately.
49:21
Marvel Rivals and podcasting are listening to podcast.
49:26
I'm going to need to ease back into this platform again.
49:29
I may have missed a few things like my health, you know?
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I'll update that in a few weeks from now and when it's
49:37
springtime when I was wrestling stuff, of course, and other
49:46
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