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Speaker 1: Good morning from hell.

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Speaker 2: I don't have to say that because this is behind

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the scenes. So this is our first little supplemental piece

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while we take a break and refresh our brains.

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Speaker 3: You see, Chris died recently, Yes, Eternal Tunishment. It's been

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the rest of Eternity doing Yes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So we're going to.

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Speaker 2: Kind of talk through in this bit how we kind

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of came up with the show, how we kind of

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developed it, and then how we launched it. I'm Chris.

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I play the voice of Chris. We all work at

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a company called Rooster Teeth based in Austin, Texas, and

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I do writing, directing, a lot on camera, kind of

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hosting acting stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm Blaine. I play Clayton. I am also

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a writer director at Rooster Teeth. I've been there for years,

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longer than Chris and Eric and Nick. I got them

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all their jobs there at the company, is true. I'm

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a founder, I'm a father, I'm a lover.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, I'm Eric.

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Speaker 4: I'm the director of Broadcast Creative at Rooster Teeth. I

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just produce shows and make sure the wheel stay on

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and help this show get off the ground and get made.

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Several characters, Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've done.

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Speaker 1: Some characters. I don't remember who they are, right brothers,

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and I was the right.

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Speaker 4: I was one of the right. I was Ringo, A.

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Speaker 1: Bunch of people in heaven, a whole bunch of people,

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like four people in heaven.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then most and then laughter in the background.

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That's pretty much. That's kind of how it that's how

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Speaker 3: It's interesting because like whenever we were training making the show,

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where like, you know, Eric, you got to calm down.

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You're asking too much to be on, Like we'll find

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an episode for you eventually, but you got to chill

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out because you're asking too much.

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Speaker 4: You know, me can't get enough of it.

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Speaker 1: And we also have here at Nick. Hi have Nick.

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Speaker 5: I am the director of audio production at rus Teeth

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and very happy to have This is our first audio podcast,

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and I oversee all of our audio podcasts that we

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are currently doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just put that in context, he says, audio podcasts.

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Roos Teeth does a lot of podcasts as a company,

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but we haven't done a lot of audio only podcasts,

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and so this was weirdly enough, even though the roos

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had been video for so long, but yeah, this was

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the first that the company did oddly enough. Yeah, so okay,

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on my bullet point, I'll mark through intros.

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Speaker 1: We did that all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Chess Chess.

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Speaker 4: So if you guys wanted to peel that curtain back

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and see how it works recording episodes of Good Morning

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from Hell, it's mostly like this.

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Speaker 1: Next on the bullet is conception.

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Speaker 3: So when a mommy and a daddy love each other, they.

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Speaker 1: Make a baby's So, yeah, we get.

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Speaker 2: I mean Blanket asked us a lot, like how do

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we come up with the show? How did it come about?

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The I think the initial kind of seed for the

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idea was like twenty sixteen or something. I was trying

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to think of different shows, and I thought I was like, oh,

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it would be funny if there was like a talk

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show in hell or a podcast in Hell where it

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was all these like evil people talking to each other

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like But in my initial idea, it was like more

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like a news thing where they would comment on all

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the horrible things happening in the world as if they

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were like good things. But it's almost a little too real.

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Speaker 1: So it was just like that was it.

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Speaker 2: I just marked it in my idea thing and didn't

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think about it again for like several years. And then

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there was this other show at ra Shtith called On

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the Spot, which is like an improv game kind of

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like whose line is it anyway?

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Speaker 1: And Blaine and I were on that.

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Speaker 3: I think we had been exploring like characters because with

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that show, like improv is fun, but like it had

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think a lot of the talent we're getting bored with

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just going on and just playing the games. So I

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feel like at one point, like you and me decided

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where it was like based in Hell, and so Blaine

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and through that kind of like talking through that and

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coming up with jokes, we thought it would be funnier

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if he played Satan's little brother, Clayton.

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on that idea as creative in that like we could

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get like someone to do my makeup and then like

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boiling water and it was just like a fun premise

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and just like this fun little like world to kind

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of live in with these two characters that like, we

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had a fucking blast. That was like, by far one

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of my favorite episodes of On the Spot that we did, And.

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a character who is somewhat all powerful but not really

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because he's like the younger brother of the all powerful one,

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you know, yeah, but still has all the power over

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this other person. So we did that, We did those characters,

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at ruche Stie's Convention RTX in the summer of this

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is what year was this twenty eighteen or twenty the

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Summer of love that's twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Things groovy, we're remaining on our bodies.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: It was fun, and then we were writing a sketch

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show Arizona Circle, which I guess that would have been

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like twenty eighteen, right the fall of twenty eighteen brow

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no idea, And so me and Blaine were spending a

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lot of time together just kind of writing. And I mean,

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one thing I like doing a lot is just like

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telling longer form stories. And it just sometimes with like

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any writing thing, it can be so hard to get

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something made because of just budgets and like time, and

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getting a five million dollar budget for something's a lot

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harder than coming up with a cool idea. And so

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be funny to do like a narrative podcast because then

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that could get made, And then kind of came to

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Blaine is like, well, what if we took the characters

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I said it was a shit idea, and

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listen to some similar like formats, and I was like,

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it's improvised, and I don't know, this is a format

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that exists on podcasts and they're like okay, cool. And

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of ideas blamed somewhat resistantly, and then like a couple

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show and so we didn't get a ton of time

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was broadcasters looking for more shows.

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Speaker 4: I think it was just sort of a I don't

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want to say, like a right place, right time thing,

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because it really felt like we were trying to for

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my entire time here, I was trying to push audio

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podcasts to be a thing it just felt like a

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thing that we weren't doing that people were hungry for.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: So when you guys were.

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like let's try it, Like, let's record. I think we

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we're just trying some stuff or whatever. And then man,

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it was just trying to get it moved forward.

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guys for really pushing super hard to be like, no,

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make the show. What do we need to do to

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you know what, figuring out what hoops we have to

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jump through? You guys really set that off to go

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friend Andrew and he played in the first episode. Can

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I say who it is because we might bring him back?

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sturdy sturdy that is a sleep paralysis demon. We went

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you chimed in. You're like that was a lot of fun,

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to record next one, another one, And I think I

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much prepared and you're like, don't even worry about it,

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you got enough, just like just have fun, go play

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in that space. And it was so much better.

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Speaker 4: And the first test, which I don't think we should

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Speaker 1: Is I want to release it definitely.

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like it doesn't have that sort of like gravity or

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like the fun that the regular episodes have. And I

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think that's what it took was now, let's do one

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where we can just like riff and everyone can just play.

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you guys felt like, oh, we can just do this

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a funnier joke, we can go, oh say this, say

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this and really kind of like feed off that energy

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people are talking to Chris and Clayton. And then that's

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why they're there, That's why they're talking, that's the conversation.

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Speaker 1: It was like fun. It was just I don't know

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this is definitely chilled out. Since then, we have like

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a vision for like where it should go, and he'll

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trim it down and stuff like that, because like we

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thirty five minute edit. But like we started getting so

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because we wanted it to be perfect, Like we wanted

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to sound to be like excellent, and everything to be

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what we really excel at in that improv and everything

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is organized chaos and having sort of like things fall apart,

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things go wrong that big sort of like crazy energy

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and when you start having to put you know, notes

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on notes on notes to like find that you're not

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really finding it and you have to. And I think

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you guys have found a really fun way to figure

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out like what the production like what the final product

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is going to sound like in the production instead of

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in the post production.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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episodes like oh, these have to be perfect, and then

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also like creatively, you know. But it was weird though,

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because I do we recorded those two test episodes and

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like early spring of last year. Yeah, like it was

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Speaker 1: We want to make this, we want to make this show.

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present mini presentation on why we should do audio only podcasts,

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and then uh and then you made.

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board things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then uh yeah, then it was just like

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nothing for like I don't know, like five months.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was just people going like sort of just.

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some things work sometimes is that like people can't see

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that vision. And that's why I have to give you

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guys all the credit in the world for like seeing

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it through, because I think a lot of people would

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just go like fuck it, never mind, and you guys

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really kept pushing to be like we want to make this,

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Some of that is, like you ask, like the difference

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between like working at like a smaller company or a

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bigger company, or even uh, just doing it. Like I mean,

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people a lot of people are like, well, how hard

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is it to do a podcast? It's like, well, it's

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not hard to necessarily make the podcast, but to you know,

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get it approved and what's the what's the distribution plan,

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how's the how are we going to market it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? How does it make money? How much time does it?

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Speaker 2: You know, like we got it, well, we got to

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do you know, figuring all the nitty gritty that's the

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stuff that took up time.

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go go, go, go go. And that first the first

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two months were they were nuts because we were dress

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because we'd been like waiting for I don't know, five

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to six months, I don't know howevery it once, and

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to it was like two weeks three weeks away, and

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we hadn't recorded any episodes and hadn't done any marketing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, really like trying to get the word out. Again.

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don't know what you're supposed to do, so you just

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kind of like start trying and swinging and doing whatever

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to grab whoever, to do whatever you can to get

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the word out. And I think that's I think that's

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pretty much what we did here right, Like it really

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was just sort of yell until people go what are

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they yelling about?

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Speaker 1: And then go, oh, oh this podcast?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I think it was fun to

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kind of like do all the come up with ways

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to promote the show. If you've only listened this on podcast.

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the characters and kind of announced that we wanted to

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make it an actual show, and then we did like

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a live action like short, an RT short. It's up

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on YouTube. The kind of like mini side story. I

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don't know if it's canon or not. Is it canon?

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Speaker 4: I think this is what I'm talking about. Like you

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guys just so wrapped up and like, let's figure out

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if this is canon.

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Speaker 3: I think it's prob.

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Speaker 1: Fine.

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Speaker 3: I think you can just say yes or no and

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that's probably all right. But uh, no, say yes or no.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I'd have to watch.

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Speaker 3: Ready, here we go, Here we go, go for it, Blaine,

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all right, cut us down, Eric, Okay, here we go.

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One to start start countdown? Countdown?

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Speaker 4: Okay, three two, one?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, oh wow, Well I'll set up a meeting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to meet about this, Eric.

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Speaker 2: Uh but yeah, I mean one thing I really like

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doing is like the social media aspect of the show.

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being able to like post like I love it when

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people do art, and I'm getting to like repost that

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and interact with people.

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Speaker 1: The cool stuff that people who listen to the show.

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Speaker 3: That you mentioned fan art, and we received a piece

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that was so fucking cool from Katie Simrel or Simral,

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and we were so impressed by it that I think

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we reached out to her because she's one of our like,

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you know, big community members, and we're like, can you

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make our art for each episode? And she's made I've

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lost count of how many episodes. We have an email chain.

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It's the longest email chain I have, and it's just

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it's every single week, three or four emails back and

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forth of us talking artwork with her.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because at some point we're like, man, how do

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we like promote something that has no visual representation other

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than like the little photos that we took that one time,

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you know, So it's like, oh, if we could get

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art made before the episode, then we actually have stuff

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to post on social.

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Speaker 1: And thumbnails and all that good stuff. And that's really fun.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you haven't seen any of that, then

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go to the Instagram or Twitter or something.

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Speaker 1: It's all cool. It makes it feel real.

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Speaker 2: But also I love it whenever people do their own

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interpretations and send those to us.

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Speaker 3: One of the aspects that I enjoy about making the

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shows the networking because like we were, you know, we've

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got like a pretty big stable of talent at you know,

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Rooster Teeth, the chieve one hundred Funhouse, and we used

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a lot of those guys and We've used a couple

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of them a couple of times because they have just

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such you know, a variety of like voice, you know,

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they have such range. But then like we'll also you know,

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collaborate with like dead Meat podcast and the Cult podcast

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and you know, kind of funny and like being able

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to Freddy Wong, like being able to reach out to

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these creators that we all like really enjoy and admire

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has been really fun. And I've made a lot of

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like fun cool friends, you know, in doing that. So

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that's pretty rad.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, do we have anything else we want to

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talk about? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Look at your list that you kept telling right, all right,

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I'll read through the list.

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Speaker 2: We got intros done, we got the conception of the

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show done, the development of the show well that that

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was done, and then the launch.

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Speaker 3: We talked about that we had looked back on a

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Slack conversation Chris and I like, what was the first

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mention of it?

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Speaker 2: And like as a podcast, it was like I think

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it was like this it was in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: It was because that was the conversation right here. It

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was a conversation with Chris on December between Chris and

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Hannah on December seventeenth, twenty eighteen, because she's in development

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and he was asking about if we did like a

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dumb hell podcast with the characters from on the Spot. Yeah,

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so I mean this is that had been so then

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when we finally launched, she was like October twenty nineteen, so.

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Speaker 1: Like it was a good it was a year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was about I mean probably the most suggestating well,

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and that's not counting like the characters and the kind

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of initial concept that you know. So it's like sometimes

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it takes something takes like four years to get made,

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like from an idea to the right execution of it.

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Speaker 1: At what point what it did? Were you excited about it? Blaine?

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Speaker 2: Was it after we actually recorded test episodes?

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Speaker 1: Is that what made you?

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Speaker 3: The moment we were done with the tempest test episodes,

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it was like in the midst of the test episodes,

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like I think that that first one was like it

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was fun and like the fun thing about like Clayton,

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and it's actually it's I have to like this is

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gonna sound a like fucking oh. I have to get

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you know, into character and method. But like whenever I'm

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doing Clayton, it's such a weird form of improv because

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I'm just I'm shitting all over Chris. It's not yes,

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and it's no butt and and like that's like part

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of that relationship is that they are, you know, Clayton's

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such a dick head to Chris, and that was like

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a really fun character to play. But then I also

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noticed that, like over the past couple of months, I

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just dunk on Chris and write your content as like

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you and me, and like people are calling me out

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for it, and I have to take a step back

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every now and then be like I need to not

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do that, Like I'm so mean to Chris and it's

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too in character justified. But yeah, when I'm in that character,

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he just get a shit all over you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, well this I feel this is a good

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place to stop where you shitting on me. So yeah,

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we are going to have another one of these where

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we answer a bunch of questions that people send us

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on the internets about actually how we make the show,

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how much is improvised versus outlined or written, the technical aspects,

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how we get guests, all that kind of stuff that

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will be up next. But that's the end of this one.

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Thank you, so much for listening and supporting the show.

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Speaker 1: We are walk Counters what, Yeah, you're welcome. Yes, we're

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working on new episodes. We just why did we do

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this break?

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Speaker 3: Blamee because we want to like not kill ourselves. I

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don't know. Yeah, it's not for lack of creative We

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have a going list and like a bunch of guests

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that we want to have on. But god damn, this

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quarantine is just sucking us dry. And I know that

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you need a break because you'd been doing double duty

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between this and Black Box Down.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just needing a mental yeah, getting it

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being able to go on vacation, take a break without

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getting really far behind. But so yeah, thanks for listening,

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and please, please please please tell all your friends about

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the show and share it because that means a lot

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to us and we like making it.

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Speaker 3: You know, A big thing too, that you guys could

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do for us is if you promote us to your

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favorite creators. You know, like if there's somebody that you

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guys want to see on our show that we should

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collaborate with, you know, like hit them up on Twitter

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and like get those conversations going and we'll notice all

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with us.

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Speaker 2: With us because we do want there's more people who

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want to collaborate with, and like, if you're people that

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you like, let us know, let them know. And yeah, okay,

479
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good strong strong finish guys, strong finish. All right, I'm

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going to write that down on my spreadsheet. That's a

481
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wrap up. Great, nailed it, all right, Thanks by go

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go get go, get some of our merch Please BUYE.

483
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Speaker 3: Sounds like you're falling down a tunnel.

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Speaker 2: H