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HHBSO 39: Buying & Selling Cabins on a Gay Cruise · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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  Hello. Look at the He's hopping.
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  Something's off with me. Just Joey T, some of you.
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  Just a little housekeeping right off the top.
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  Some of you were not able to find last week's podcast.
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  I just someone messaged me about it.
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  And last week's podcast was about a more mature subject.
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  So David and I, we talked a little bit about sex and about
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  cruises and about orgies. So because of the way that
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  YouTube keeps taps or different types of explicit content, that
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  video had to be marked as age restricted on YouTube.
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  That means when it's age restricted, it doesn't show up
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  on the search results. It might not just come up onto
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  your regular YouTube feed like your homepage on YouTube where
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  YouTube recommends various videos to you, including videos
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  from channels you subscribe to. So you basically you had to
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  either had a direct link to it, the YouTube video from last
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  week, which you probably didn't have, or you would have had to
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  go directly to my YouTube profile, my YouTube page, and
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  then look at my uploads. And then you would have seen
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  that video there. Even when you clicked on that
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  video, it would have given you a little prompt from YouTube
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  saying there's like mature content or blah blah blah.
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  You have to click into it if you were just listening to it as a
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  podcast, not from YouTube, from Spotify or Apple podcast or
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  wherever else that doesn't come up.
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  So it's just due to the unique way that YouTube manages its
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  content. So you can post a lot of
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  different things on YouTube to be really honest.
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  But YouTube, because it's owned by Google, and the way Google
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  makes the vast majority of their money, it's via ads, which means
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  there are a lot of ad related restrictions on things you post
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  on YouTube, which for most people, most types of content,
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  you know, people that are doing cooking videos or tech videos or
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  gadget reviews or car, you know, whatever those types of things,
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  it's fine. But if I want to talk about sex,
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  then no, some advertisers are not so cool with that.
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  So yeah, that's why on YouTube, do you have to really look for
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  it to find last week's video. Because David and I did talk
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  about sex anyways, I'm thinking maybe I should make a podcast
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  that's more about the cruises because those are always the
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  episodes that are little bit more popular.
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  So to kick off today's podcast I will touch on one Atlantis Gate
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  cruise related topic that I have some advice on.
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  And I touched on this a little bit on previous episode recently
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  with David. It was last week or the week
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  before. And that's to do with when you
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  have a room on the cruise booked with Atlantis, but for whatever
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  reason you wanna sell that room for some reason you can't or
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  don't wanna go anymore. And this advice is also helpful
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  for those who wanna get on a cruise and for whatever reason
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  you can't book through Atlantis directly or you cannot book
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  through a travel agent. Maybe that cruise is sold out
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  and that's why you can't book. That's usually the main reason.
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  So you're looking at the Facebook groups or you're
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  looking at other people posting about the crews who are already
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  booked and you see some posts about people selling their rooms
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  and you're thinking, oh, I can just buy a room off of someone
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  who's already booked on this possibly sold out cruise.
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  So the thing I want to explain here is that the rates for the
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  cabins change over time and a lot of the cruises, they start
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  going on sale 9 to 12 months before the actual sale date.
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  So when you buy a cabin on a cruise 9 or 12 months in
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  advance, the rates are the lowest at that time.
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  So for the different rooms and as we get closer to the sale
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  dates for that cruise, Atlantis overtime cranks up the rates for
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  those. They don't make any big huge
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  announcements that the rates are going up.
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  It's kind of sort of done silently, OK.
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  But if you were to kind of just track the prices on their
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  websites or through a travel agent, whatever, over time the
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  rates do go up. So a lot of the times, people
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  that are selling the rooms are the people that have booked 9 or
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  12 months in advance. And because the earlier you book
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  the cruise, the more time goes by and that means there's more
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  of a chance that something in your life will come up for
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  whatever reason. Maybe you booked with a partner
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  and your partner can't go anymore, so you are not going to
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  go either. Maybe during the 9 or 12 months
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  between when you booked it and when the cruise happens, you got
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  a new job and you have them move across the country.
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  Or you know, something happened, like life happens, right?
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  You know, the longer period of time goes by, the more chance
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  that life is going to throw you a curveball.
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  So a lot of times people that are selling the rooms on the
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  Facebook groups or wherever they've had the room booked for
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  many, many months, the for the people that are trying to get on
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  the cruise and they are not able to book it directly with
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  Atlantis or with a travel agent that's usually weeks before the
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  cruise. Like if you look maybe just two
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  or three or four weeks out for any cruise, you look at the
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  Facebook groups, that's where you see people that are trying
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  to get on the cruise, that can't get on the cruise because it's
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  sold out. So because of that difference in
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  time between the people who want to sell the room that have
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  booked it many months before and the people who are the potential
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  buyers looking just maybe 2-3 four weeks before the cruise,
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  the rates at that time when it's like a month before the cruise
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  are going to be different from the rates of the people trying
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  to sell the rooms when they booked it like 12 months before.
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  And the problem is the seller has to pay the prevalent rate
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  that Atlantis has at that time. So let's say someone is selling
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  the room and they booked it nine months before the cruise and
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  they the rate they got was like $2000 for that room.
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  OK, now it's a month before the cruise and these people, they
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  decided they can't go on to the cruise anymore.
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  They don't want to go and they want to sell the room and they
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  advertise the room for $2000 because that's what they bought
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  the room for. I'm kind of excluding like the
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  port fees and the gratuities and everything.
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  Just to make that a little bit easier.
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  They post it on to Facebook or wherever.
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  And then someone who wants to get on the cruise kind of last
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  minute, just a month before the cruise, now they see this person
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  post their room for $2000 and they're like, oh great, I will
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  contact that person and get the room for $2000.
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  Well, you know what? The room is not $2000 because
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  that rate was the rate that the room was at 9 or 12 months ago,
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  a long time ago, and that is likely not the current rate for
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  that exact same room. So if these people would try to
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  call Balancis or e-mail Atlantis and try to do the room transfer,
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  Atlanta's going to be like, oh, the rate for the room is not
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  $2000. It is now, say, $2500.
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  And that is the price that the seller has to pay for that room.
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  They're not going to honor the original rate.
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  That was the $2000 rate. They're probably not going to
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  honor that. So the new rate's going to be
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  $2500. And on top of that there's going
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  to be a name change fee. Usually it's like $150.00, give
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  or take. That also has to be paid on top
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  of the new higher rate for the cabin.
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  So the more of the story here is that if you have booked A room
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  and you are trying to sell it, when you advertise the room for
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  sale and you're going to include the price for the room, you
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  probably should contact Atlantis and just double check what the
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  current rate is for the room that you have already booked.
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  So that when you advertise your room out, you're advertising the
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  accurate figures and numbers because especially if you've
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  booked a room a long time ago, months has gone by and now you
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  try to sell the room, it's likely that the rate for your
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  room has gone up. And to prevent, you know, false
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  advertising, you should contact Atlantis and just double check
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  what the rate is for that particular room so that when you
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  advertise it to the potential buyers of the room, they're not
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  going to be any surprises. And the flip side of that is if
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  you are trying to get on a cruise, especially if it's like
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  a little bit last minute, like, you know, 2345 weeks before the
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  cruise set sail and you're looking for people that are
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  selling their room so that you can buy it.
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  Just know that not everyone's selling their room knows about
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  this change in the rates. So just make sure that when you
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  see someone advertising the room that they want to sell whatever
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  numbers that they have, you have to just double check it with
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  Atlantis at that time to make sure that it's really what
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  you're going to pay. Because if someone hasn't sold a
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  room before, they don't necessarily know about this rate
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  change and they're just going to advertise it for however much
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  they bought it for X months ago. And that's not necessarily what
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  you are going to pay for it. But yeah, so that's a little bit
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  of a tip, something to be aware of if you're trying to sell your
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  room, if you've already booked as well as if you're looking to
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  get on a cruise and potentially buying a room for someone who is
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  looking to sell it. In addition to that, if for
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  whatever reason there was a line item discount that the seller
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  has gotten, for example, Atlantis will give out discounts
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  to alumni. Or sometimes they do a onboard
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  booking discount where if you book for next year's cruise
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  before you've even like disembarked on this year's
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  cruise, sometimes it's popular to do that and they give a
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  discount for that. It's like an onboard discount.
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  It'll show up as a line item in the reservation, basically
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  discounts like that. Line item discounts like that
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  usually do not transfer over to whoever you want to sell your
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  room to, to the new buyer. So that's also something to be
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  aware of. A lot of people will screenshot
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  the line item of the numbers in their existing reservation that
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  shows potentially some discounts.
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  Those don't usually transfer, so that's also something to be
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  aware of as well in terms of how payment is handled.
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  Everything should go through Atlantis or like your travel
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  agency. So using the example of if it's
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  going to go through Atlantis, the name change they are going
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  to charge you the name change fee, the name change has to be
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  done otherwise you don't really own the room when you buy it.
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  And the payment is also done through Atlantis or maybe the
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  third party travel agent that you're going through as well.
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  Don't PayPal or like send money to someone you don't know
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  because that's very, very dangerous and it's not the way
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  that it should be done. So if you get in touch with
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  someone you're looking to buy A room, you see someone posting
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  their room for sale, you should the two of you should basically
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  reach out to Atlantis directly. Atlantis should be able to
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  basically facilitate both the change of the name, which is why
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  they charged that fee. And Atlantis will basically
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  reach out to the buyer of the room, and Atlantis will charge
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  the buyer directly for however much money they need to pay.
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  And then they Atlantis will also handle refunding.
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  I don't know if that's exactly how they do it, but basically
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  refunding the money to whoever's selling the room.
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  So all the payments should be done through Atlantis directly
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  or via the travel agency if the room was originally booked
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  through a travel agent. Cool.
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  So hopefully that clears up some of the possible confusion around
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  the payment and around the numbers.
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  For those of you who are looking to sell your room or looking to
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  buy a room, especially on a cruise that sold out, that was
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  something I had to learn for the first time because I sold my
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  room early this year for that general cruise in the Caribbean
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  out of Florida. And I didn't know about a couple
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  of those things. So I thought just a little bit
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  of APSA here for y'all cool. Yeah, if you guys want me to do
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  just like cruise specific topics on the podcast, yeah let me
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  know. When I started this podcast I
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  envisioned it as just a forum that I could basically just talk
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  about anything that I want. This is my podcast, but if y'all
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  think a cruise specific podcast would be something you find
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  entertaining and fun to listen to, yeah just let me know.
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  The only way I take comments right now is just on the YouTube
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  comments section for the YouTube version of this podcast that
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  goes up. So prove it.
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  A comment there. But I think I'm OK to making
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  that change. Switching gears a little bit
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  because I'm gonna start getting into Tiktok, which I I am a
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  little excited for, but I'm also dreading at the same time
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  because I'm not really a Tiktok person.
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  To be really honest, I don't have a presence on Tiktok.
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  I try to post a few of the videos, little snippets of the
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  podcast from previous episodes onto my Tiktok channel.
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  But I am getting onto Tiktok for like marketing reasons I
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  mentioned before that or a couple of the businesses that I
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  have. Marketing is very important, you
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  know, like when you are the product or like you are trying
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  to sell our product or service yourself, you need to market
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  that shit. So I need to be where the
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  audience is and a lot of the audience is on Tiktok and
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  they're also on Instagram. So I'm gonna keys together a
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  strategy is in the works. Right now I'm learning a little
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  bit about it. I just need to have a presence
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  on Instagram, which I kind of already have a presence already.
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  I have some followers there and also on Tiktok where I have
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  nothing. I'm like starting from scratch.
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  So basically requires me to post regularly on both platforms.
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  And I was looking into Tiktok and I had this.
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  I had this notion that I I'm not on TikTok, so I don't really
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  look at any of the videos. But some TikTok trends and
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  videos have gone viral to the point where even being not
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  really on TikTok, you kind of hear about those videos, those
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  viral videos. And you also hear about some of
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  the trends that are going around on Tik toks, like video trends,
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  like people doing certain types of videos, for example.
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  A lot of the trendy things on TikTok I don't care for to be
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  really honest. I feel like a lot of videos that
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  people make on social media these days are of very little
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  substance and are misleading and are of advice that are not
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  really based in that much truth. And they're pitching opinions as
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  advice. So to take an example, I read an
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  article recently and they were talking about how people wanna
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  be influencers. I didn't even wanna call them
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  actual influencers, wannabe influencers, or just like
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  regular users on Tiktok. The thing they try to do is come
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  up with new catchy phrases of like various things.
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  So one phrase that there some of these tik tokers are trying to
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  make happen, but like, you know it's not gonna happen.
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  Stop trying to make fetch happen is loud budgeting.
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  I don't even know what it is, but it's like just one example
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  of like the many, many different catchphrases, quote, UN quote
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  that people on social media, especially TikTok, are trying to
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  make like a thing like a phrase in like the lexicon of like
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  popular culture these days. But the flip side of that is
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  like, people would try to like make these things just to go
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  viral, like just for not even 5 minutes of fame, just for like 5
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  milliseconds of fame. And then it's like old news and
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  then like the Internet moves on to something else.
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  So apparently there's like, somewhat recent catchphrases
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  that have been made popular literally for five seconds and
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  then like, we don't even talk about them anymore.
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  So that's not the type of content I want to make.
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  I am not trying to get onto TikTok now, and I'm not trying
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  to post content to go viral. I have no desire to go viral.
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  You can quote me on this in this podcast.
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  Right now, I do not have a desire to go viral.
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  I want to be on, I want to post regularly and have a presence on
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  TikTok and Instagram because that's where the users are.
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  And I'm trying to market a product or service and I need
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  to, like, have a presence there. Like if you try to market
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  something, you need to like, you know, have ads or have a
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  presence somewhere. That's all I want.
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  Being viral is definitely not the goal here.
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  And a lot of people on Instagram are, yeah, they just want the
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  five seconds of fame and I don't really want that.
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  If I didn't need to market these products or services, I wouldn't
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  be trying to go on TikTok to be completely honest.
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  And my Instagram, the just Joey T Instagram.
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  I started it like how a lot of other people started their
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  Facebook or started their Instagram.
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  It was just the post, like photos, right?
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  Of things they found interesting, you know?
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  And there wasn't really A to share with friends and to to
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  share with the world without any ulterior motive of like, making
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  money. And my Instagram is still like
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  that today. I don't post a lot of photos on
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  my Instagram to be really, really honest.
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  And then TikTok, just all videos and videos is a medium I'm
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  familiar with from my YouTube time.
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  My time on YouTube. Yeah, it's.
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  So that's where I'm coming from with the TikTok thing and I'm
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  thinking I'm OK with making the podcast more of like a cruise
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  related type podcast. There's no demand for it.
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  I don't mind doing that and I'll just move my.
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  Rambling. To be completely honest, I can
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  do that. On Tiktok I used to vlog all the
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  time. I used to vlog twice a week like
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  8 or 10 years ago back in like the YouTube vlogging heydays.
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  And I was doing like diary style vlogs, as was popular on YouTube
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  at that time. I could just do that on Tiktok
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  and it would even be like a little bit easier because it
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  wouldn't be these like 8 or 10 minute vlogs I would post twice
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  a week like I did before you. The TikTok videos would just be
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  like so short like 10/15/20 seconds.
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  But I did hear recently that TikTok wants to expand into long
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  format videos and maybe that's coming.
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  I'll see. I'm trying to come up with like
• 20:44
  a strategy for anytime I post any sort of content.
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  I don't just like turn the mic on, but this, this is the the
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  podcast is the exception. But it's the podcast.
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  I had meant for it specifically to be like a hobby somewhere
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  where I can just talk and talk and talk and I don't care if
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  it's successful or not successful.
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  It was just a way for me to, like, talk.
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  So that's why I had to come into this podcast recording studio.
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  I can just hit record, turn the camera on, and I can just talk
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  and it's like whatever comes in my mouth.
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  Sometimes I do have certain topics I want to talk about, but
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  it's totally unscripted otherwise.
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  With all the other content that I create, which is all like the
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  video centric content, does anything that you see on my
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  YouTube, anything that you see on my only fans?
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  Yes, I've got the only fans. You all know where it is,
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  anything of that nature. It's very, very planned out.
• 21:45
  Everything that I want to film, I have idea for what the final
• 21:49
  product is going to look like before I even turn the camera
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  on. There's like a vision and a
• 21:54
  strategy for all of the video content that I create, no matter
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  what kind of video content it is and no matter where it ends up,
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  what the distribution medium is, what platform is going to go on.
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  So same for a TikTok. I don't want to start a TikTok
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  and not have any sort of like strategy for it.
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  If I did TikTok for fun, purely for fun, the approach would be
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  very different, right? A lot of people do take that for
• 22:22
  fun. That's great.
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  Live your best life. Same for people that do reels on
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  Instagram, they post photos on Instagram.
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  I follow a lot of people on Instagram, and they're mostly
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  just people I've met in real life.
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  They're people that I know, and that's how I follow the
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  Instagram and they post like for fun, like I can.
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  I know that they're not trying to be like an influencer.
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  They're just posting things that they do, places that they go,
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  things that they see. And that's great.
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  And a lot of people do that because they're doing it just
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  for fun, you know, They're just doing it to like share with
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  their friends and whoever else cares to follow them.
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  Photos are taking videos that they're taking and there's no
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  like end game beyond, which is great, which is awesome, which
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  is like what my Instagram is right now.
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  But like I said, I'm trying to get on Tiktok particularly,
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  basically market myself like I'm on only fans now and I'm the
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  product and there is kind of like A2 full purpose to that.
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  Yes, I need to mark it myself and that's why I'm going to go
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  on like Instagram and also like that specific Instagram channel
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  that I have for the other persona.
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  But The thing is, there's also a bit of a demand from my fan
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  base. It's so weird to use the word
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  fan base like I have like fans, but there there's a, there's a
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  small little fan base where they want to see more of me outside
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  of like just the Cruise, like just the Cruise videos where I'm
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  talking about Cruise topics or I'm making these Cruise movies.
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  And also outside of the explicit, only fans, content
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  that's just like that only lives in behind the pay wall and also
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  like a little bit on Twitter. So even for people who work in
• 24:12
  the adult content industry, right, people that do only fans
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  I think is a great example that will do it as amateurs, if you
• 24:19
  will. Amateurs, quote UN quote,
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  they're still making money from it.
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  It's great to see the like porn because that's probably what the
• 24:29
  vast majority of their fans are there for.
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  But it's also nice to see sometimes for certain fans.
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  Some people don't want to see how the sausage is made and they
• 24:38
  don't want to see anything else besides the porn.
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  But it's also nice to sometimes see oh the creator is a real
• 24:45
  person, and it's nice to see what they're up to outside of
• 24:50
  like, getting fucked, you know what I mean?
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  Not everybody wants to see that though.
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  I feel like, you know, sometimes with porn stars, you just want
• 25:02
  to see them in porn because that's the fantasy that they
• 25:09
  create for you. And to see any part of them
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  outside of porn breaks that fantasy, and that's completely
• 25:17
  OK. But sometimes, on the other
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  hand, sometimes it's nice, especially for people that do
• 25:24
  like only fans that are more like they're amateurs.
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  They're not like the professional studio level kind
• 25:29
  of porn stars. It's kind of nice to see.
• 25:31
  Yes, they do the videos, but it's also nice to see them in a
• 25:36
  context that's not porn. For example, it's very popular
• 25:40
  to follow like thirst trap Instagram accounts and follow
• 25:44
  like the hot pretty people or whatever on Instagram.
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  There are a lot of those types of photos and videos on
• 25:51
  Instagram, right? And that's not porn.
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  But it's like it's thirsty content, thirsty yet not
• 25:58
  explicit content. Facebook and Instagram really
• 26:02
  like have a very clear relying on that.
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  So by the way, just make sure you don't step that line because
• 26:09
  if you get your Instagram, Facebook account or whatever
• 26:13
  banned or blocked or deleted or whatever, it is very hard if not
• 26:18
  impossible to get your account back.
• 26:21
  So just make sure you're not posting anything too Thursday on
• 26:27
  your Facebook slash Instagrams all run by meta.
• 26:30
  So it's like kind of probably like the same content moderation
• 26:33
  teams. It's not that uncommon for
• 26:36
  people to have your Instagram account deleted or just like,
• 26:40
  yeah, it's deleted basically, or like, banned.
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  And I always hear people say, oh, my account got banned and I
• 26:46
  don't know why. And like, I know exactly why.
• 26:49
  It's because you're posting, like, extremely thirsty content.
• 26:53
  And it was just like, borderline questionable whether this is
• 26:57
  like sexually arousing content or not.
• 27:00
  So with Instagram and TikTok, Facebook, those types of things
• 27:06
  you can't be, you can't post any content, especially photos and
• 27:12
  videos that are like too suggestive, too sexually
• 27:15
  suggestive. So you just got to play like
• 27:17
  pretty conservative over on those platforms.
• 27:20
  And honestly, that line that you can't cross gets more and more
• 27:24
  conservative by the day. And it has over the years.
• 27:27
  That's all the can of worms I'm not going to get into.
• 27:29
  Yeah, but anyways, yeah, so that's why I'm going to go on
• 27:32
  TikTok. It's I'm the product now, you
• 27:35
  know I do only fans. I'm the performer or the model.
• 27:39
  I'm the product. And yeah, it's nice to have a
• 27:44
  presence outside of just only fans or just for fans or
• 27:48
  whatever the wherever the host, the paywalls are.
• 27:52
  But some people do. Wanna follow their favorite
• 27:57
  performer or actor or OF person or whatever outside the confines
• 28:02
  of just the porn videos? And they, you know, what?
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  Am I having like a shirtless picture from you once in a while
• 28:10
  on your Instagram or like a or a thirst trap from you on
• 28:16
  Instagram or like a shirtless video from you doing like
• 28:20
  whatever on their TikTok? So yeah, that's why I'm doing
• 28:26
  the TikTok and I'm gonna do like Instagram reels and things like
• 28:29
  that. But it has to be from the
• 28:31
  content creator side of things. I'm not the kind of person that
• 28:35
  I can just like randomly take a video of throw it out there.
• 28:38
  I have a very methodical process for any sort of video content
• 28:43
  that I create. So yeah, there's going to be
• 28:46
  like, if you want to know how the sausage is made, there's a
• 28:50
  posting schedule that I have, Like for my only fans, for
• 28:52
  example, there's a schedule. I've got a calendar and it's all
• 28:56
  color-coded. I've got a spreadsheet of every
• 28:59
  single video I've ever filmed and edited and have posted so
• 29:05
  that I can keep track of like every single video, everything
• 29:09
  that I post on my Twitter, which is explicit, not safe for work.
• 29:12
  There's a posting schedule for that, like different days of the
• 29:15
  week. I post different things.
• 29:16
  If I want to run a promotion or something that goes on the
• 29:19
  calendar. So I look at a calendar and I
• 29:20
  look at my list of all the content that I have and then I
• 29:24
  look at, you know, all the platforms that I have and I'm
• 29:27
  like, OK, we have this new collab that it's coming out,
• 29:31
  It's going to post it on Friday, OK.
• 29:34
  We need like the teaser clips, like the 10 second teaser clips,
• 29:37
  like 32nd teaser clips. OK, the 32nd PC clip will go on
• 29:41
  like to go into the only fans, the free only fans page and then
• 29:46
  it'll go on to this other Tencent clip will go on to
• 29:50
  Twitter and then this other clip will go on to this other
• 29:54
  platform platform for marketing or whatever.
• 29:57
  So there's a lot of business like marketing especially, and
• 30:03
  branding and a lot of like content management and managing
• 30:06
  the social media. There's a lot of that that goes
• 30:09
  on behind the scenes. Filming the video is the easy
• 30:13
  part. Actually editing the video
• 30:17
  editing takes a lot of time. Some people like it, a lot of
• 30:22
  people don't. I'm like neutral about it.
• 30:24
  But then all the work that goes into selling and marketing that
• 30:29
  video out, it's it's a lot of work and it's not particularly
• 30:37
  sexy. It's not as sexy as the end
• 30:40
  video product for sure, but I kind of find the whole business
• 30:44
  of it, everything overall to be very interesting.
• 30:48
  I'm pretty interested in the business side of things and I'm
• 30:51
  learning a lot about various marketing and sales things that
• 30:57
  I had zero experience or skills in before.
• 31:01
  So like I said, that's a very long way of me explaining why
• 31:06
  I'm going to be on TikTok and why, Yeah, why I'm going to be
• 31:10
  there. You know, like the the reasons
• 31:12
  behind it. Yeah.
• 31:13
  So we'll end the podcast there. Yeah baby, maybe I should make
• 31:19
  the podcast more cruise specific because while this goes on to
• 31:24
  the YouTube channel, the YouTube channel is pretty much just all
• 31:27
  about the cruising and the parties.
• 31:28
  And then I can take my non cruise content rambling over
• 31:34
  onto TikTok where I'm going to be under a different name.
• 31:38
  But I feel like they're just Joey T branding.
• 31:41
  It's very strongly associated with the cruise videos because
• 31:45
  people come to me like oh are you just Joey And yes I am.
• 31:48
  So yeah, let me know what you think.
• 31:51
  Branding is like so important in today's world and I would love
• 31:54
  to just have the just Joey T branding just be about the
• 31:57
  cruises because all everyone kind of sort of associates that.
• 32:00
  Anyways, that was just my personal, like, username for my
• 32:06
  online social media accounts from like 12 years ago, and it's
• 32:09
  evolved into the YouTube videos. So everyone associates just Joey
• 32:13
  T with Cruise videos, which is fine.
• 32:16
  And then maybe I would just take my other persona, which is the
• 32:20
  key in Persona and maybe that's where I'll have like my own
• 32:25
  personal whatever stuff that's like not cruise related.
• 32:29
  What do you guys think? We've had a comment down on the
• 32:31
  YouTube channel below. Yeah, but until next time, I.