Talking Videos

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um well I guess let me tell you about

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let me tell you about it first um I've

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told you a little bit about it before

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but I've been I've been working really

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hard on it like putting a lot of time

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into it and it's it's really flourishing

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into something cool

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um like I don't have any like friends

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really or people to share my stuff with

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so I'm kind of at the mercy of the

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algorithms like uh the Youtube algorithm

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which is actually kind of a cool thing

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because it it takes a while but if you

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have like niche type content it it does

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help you find your audience like it

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might take a while

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um so I wanted to tell you first about

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my YouTube um channels uh I'm quite a

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prolific content creator um on my main

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uh so I've

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got I've got um well over 30 channels um

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like

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the it's kind of complicated like

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um

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um I guess before become like doing uh

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video creation I was a really prolific

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writer like I have I have

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um like just Stacks and stacks of

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notebooks and and journals and I used to

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make like tons of websites like about

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content like that I would create so it's

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taken me um well only really been doing

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the the youtubing

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for um since I've been on my own I mean

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I started it while I was with Shayla but

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been on my own you know for I've really

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really kicked it into high gear I guess

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um like spring uh last year

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2023 and you know I kept creating more

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and more

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channels um without even having clear

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ideas of what they would become like

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they they they take time to evolve and

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my my thought of having lots of channels

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was you know I could have them all be

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very specialized and special you know

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content for different kinds of channels

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right and and you know establishing

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Channel History and getting in the

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algorithm is it it it it's kind of like

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it's kind of a fun game and it's um and

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you know this it's kind of like the

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lottery or gambling even social media

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because you get you know I get you get

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excited when you get views and comments

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and stuff you know yeah and

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um oh dopamine burst yeah yeah so I

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wanted to tell you about it I guess I

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I'll I'll just share the top couple of

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channels my primary channel is sunset

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guitarist and it's a it's a channel I've

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actually had for 17 years

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now since 2006 and um that's like long

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as YouTube has even been around right I

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know I've been using it I'm really old

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but um um that's my main Channel and I

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pretty much upload most of the content

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to that channel so it it's a bit

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complicated it's got a lot of stuff

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going on um kind of aned Channel yeah

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but then all the other channels are more

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specific so I've got my my other primary

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two channels are science God and and

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that's is my most serious channel that

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is the channel That is mostly

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exclusively about um science and

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philosophy and

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Theology and you know purpose and

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meaning and um astronomy the fmy

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Paradox philosophy right right so so

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that's that's science God uh I like that

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one 

and then Oblivion cocoon is my other

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um like primary that's like where I put

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all my good stuff

 fun fact Shayla actually was insulting me one day
and she said that"you live in a cocoon of Oblivion" and
I was like who that's cool and I made um a channel out of it 

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where I post you know my my my best

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content and um some of the other top

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channels are Sunset piano which is

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really blooming because I've been

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playing a lot of piano

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lately um and there's a sunset channel

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of just videos of sunsets it sunset is

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really my theme if you've noticed I've

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got a sunset psychology Channel I've got

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um

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um wow I'd have to look at the list

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there's so many it's kind of confusing

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to keep them all you know and I've been

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modifying and working on them so on my

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main Channel Sunset guitar I'm actually

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really proud of this because um I just

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broke over 500

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subscribers which oh cool took a while

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actually I got 20 subscribers just since

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yesterday so it I'm getting better at

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whatever I'm

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doing um

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and you know so that channel has

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um almost 1,500

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vide um talk about excessive right uh

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mostly

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guitar um covers and um and my originals

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and I wanted to talk about my originals

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a little bit so that's really where the

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Oblivion cocoon channel is and so I've

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got two really good videos I've made so

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far like two really good ones

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um and maybe I maybe those if I share

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anything with you maybe I I I would

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share that with with you um yeah the one

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is actually I'm super proud of this song

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I wrote this amazing song like it's like

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really really good like I didn't know I

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could have write original songs U I had

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to learn I practice hundreds of covers

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in order to like you know build musical

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skill and whatnot but I did a uh so it's

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a parody kind of of um Billy jeles We

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Didn't Start the Fire um but in

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2023 so it's captures the H I guess the

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zist that's a good word um the the uh

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the culture um the political culture and

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you know the the cultural fears and just

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the odd times that we're in um if we

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have time I'll even share some of the

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lyrics with you because they're a riot

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it's a great song like it's a really

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freaking good song I'm really proud of

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it and and now like now I can do it I

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can write more songs like I didn't know

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I could be such a good songwriter so I'm

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still kind of waiting for that one to

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get traction cuz you know new songs you

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know sometimes they never they don't

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even become popular while you're alive

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which is sad like it might be like a

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huge hit when I'm when I'm dead I don't

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know um and then the other really cool

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video I'm proud of is I made a parody

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interview video and this is kind of a

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niche subject so you might have no idea

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what I'm talking about but you ever have

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you ever heard of To Catch a Predator

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with Chris Hansen yeah oh yeah yeah all

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right um well have you seen Hansen

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versus Predators it was a one that he

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made in like 2015 it's pretty old now

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it's but um there was this one guy on

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there named Jeff soal and he brought a

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pizza to to meet the uh the child and so

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I I took the video of him interviewing

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Chris Hansen and I edited it and chopped

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it up and it's actually it's funny

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because it took me over two years to

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like conceive the idea and then write

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the script and I actually I wrote most

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of the script while I was in uh doing my

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masters while I was in class I was

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writing the script for this Jeff soal

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interview video because I had to because

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I could only work with whatever answers

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he gave so I had to come up with

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creative questions right and so I I made

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it like he's trying to marry a pizza and

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it it's really quite funny uh I think

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and um yeah who would have known I'm

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actually quite good at comedy as well uh

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the um [ __ ] fire is the name of the song

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the The Billy Joel parody song so the

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[ __ ] fire song is pretty funny too

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and so you know as I develop all the

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channels like the science God Channel as

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I um oh last week I told you I was is

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working on um well the the video about

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the existence of Free Will and I told

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you about Pascal's wager and the week

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before I was telling you about how I was

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doing a video on um chapter 11 of Mark

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Twain's mysterious stranger where um

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Satan is having a conversation with

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young Theodore oh that's a video I'd

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like to share with you oh that it's

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classy it's so

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good I I found somebody else that did a

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narration with some piano music and I

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made the visual and it's just right on

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like like I'm getting so it's taken me

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years to figure out how to do the

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channels how to come up with videos how

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to do editing how to you know do

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channels like they're kind of

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complicated you know the algorithm and

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you know the metadata and the

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descriptions and hashtags

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and oh yeah I mean just the fact that

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you can create the content like writing

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a song playing music singing or writing

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stories or comedy and then like that's a

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whole set of skills in of itself and

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then it's getting it on the internet

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creation it out there I mean that's this

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is all you know really cool hobby that

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yeah I knew that you did some of this

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but I didn't realize how big of a part

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of a life it was for you well I got

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really not much else to do I sit around

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and play guitar and piano all day anyway

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so uh that's why there's so many good

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yeah that's why there's so many guitar

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videos um but I would also mix in um

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cute animal videos of Well my two dogs

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and sometimes I would you know take

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other people's and modify them um and

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um I I don't know sadly those are by far

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the most popular like nobody want my my

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music not very popular but cute animals

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like I I did a video of U it was only a

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12 second video of Marty

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um but it was really cute he was sitting

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looking out the window with his legs

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spread it was really cute and he was

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watching the traffic and I posted it I

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think uh about 48 hours ago and just

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last night it ended up hitting the

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algorithm and it got um 10,000 views and

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I got like 20 subscribers from it yeah

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it's pretty satisfying because I like

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looking at the statistics uh the

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Analytics

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um of the videos and so I published one

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12 second video and within two days it

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has already racked up over 50 hours of

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view time so that's 50 continuous hours

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like of TW 10,000 people watch 12

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seconds and and most people watch it

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more than once because when it's in the

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YouTube short format it Loops you know

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what I mean you just W so that's that's

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actually um kind of the

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like I'm not really proficient at making

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really really cool videos yet so that's

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kind of where you start is you start

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with shorts which are vertically fil

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vertical videos that are less than a

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minute and you know it's kind of like

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Tik Tok and you know on Facebook it's

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called real um so it's a good way to get

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exposure and you know I make lots and

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lots of shorts and what's cool is that

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they you know

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um you know cuz really good video like

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if you have like a 10-minute video that

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should be taking probably at least 10

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hours to make one 10-minute video right

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like you to put a lot of time to get

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some really good quality that then a lot

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of people watch

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and my shorts are really really good so

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some of them and then I can take them

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later and incorporate them into other

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more complicated videos so I can spend a

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lot of time making really fancy

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shorts um plus that's how you get in the

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algorithm you know now I'm in 10,000

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different people's uh you know video

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history watch watch

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History you know whether they subscribed

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or not I'm more likely to pop up you

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know yeah and that's for more exposure

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and more growth yeah so I um I just I

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just that's really cool yeah just

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yesterday I organized actually from my

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collection of thousands of videos uh so

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on my channel if you look at you know

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videos that they're going to be Pro

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posted in chronological order as I

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posted them and that might be

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overwhelming to some people the you know

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like what where do you start so then

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there's uh you know there's other tabs

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there's shorts and then there's podcasts

and there's also

playlists and um 

so just uh yesterday I

actually organized all the cute animal

videos into one like convenient

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playlist um I could share that with you

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too I mean you know that's not even

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really about me so much but you might it

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might make you smile I mean it's really

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cute so I've got quite a few different

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things I could share with you and I

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would prefer YouTube but I'm also if you

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prefer I could share with you on

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Facebook Instagram Tik Tok or Rumble I'm

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actually I do Rumble also

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and I don't know if I've ever heard of

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Rumble yeah it's it's um there's no

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rules over there it's kind of

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nice uh that's where I posted all of the

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um the narcissistic Abus Ive wife uh

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documentary series which which ended up

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being like 5H hour

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documentary pretty good actually yeah if

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I gosh well depending on how much time

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you're willing to watch some of my

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content I would rather you watch the uh

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[ __ ] fire video or the Jeff soal

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interview and then and then the

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Satan the Mark Twain mysterious stranger

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video uh or the um cute animal videos uh

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but if you really had time and if you

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really want to

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like um I don't know do some like

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Advanced like doctor stuff you could

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watch some of the documentary because

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there's videos of Shayla and how she

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treated me and that might be insightful

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for you to to to treat me better like

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yeah like I'm still in a haze from it

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man

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like it it it [ __ ] me for a while

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like it like I had to relearn how to do

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stuff it was really like I just recently

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have been getting into cooking like it

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took me over a year and a half living on

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my own to like connect going to the

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grocery store planning a you know a meal

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and buying all the ingredients for the

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first year I did all like frozen dinners

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like but yeah I'm blooming I'm really

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good at making uh burritos and uh nachos

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and I think I might have told you about

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my uh brushetta oh I make a really good

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brushetta um speak speaking of diet I've

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been eating a lot of salad lately like

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kind of crave salad I think it's cuz

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actually that's something else I wanted

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to mention I've been having some stomach

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issues and I don't know if it's it might

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be the sakil man like doing stuff to my

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stomach and I might need more medicine

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like a a stomach medicine or something I

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should probably talk to my primary care

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um yeah whoever is prescribing the Sak

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if it is Rel well that's Flora Arnold

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which um she is super nice so I had my

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appointment with her the other day and I

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told her I didn't have air conditioner