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(Auto-generated)Hey guys, just a little update for you. Once again, we find ourselves with fewer and fewer

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could help videos being released, and you may or may not have been wondering why. I'm gonna tell

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you anyways, but there's two big announcements on that front. Also, if you've been wondering why

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there haven't been new episodes of the podcast, well, there's news there too. So regarding the

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podcast, I was trying a bunch of different formats for the could help channel, like the

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will help some megal, which seemed popular, and this could help. And I'd definitely like to do

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more of those as well as re-edit them for the podcast release, but this most recent project

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has been a rather ambitious one. I do all the work on the show. I am my own cameraman. I do all the

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editing. I do all the writing, yada yada. That's me. It usually only takes a day or two to do all

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the shooting and the writing of an episode, but it takes like weeks to edit a single episode.

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I work full time, and so I only get a couple hours, you know, a night that I can do editing.

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And while I've gotten better at it and quicker at it, it is still a massive time drain. So I

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looked at what other content creators are doing, the successful channels, and it came down to really

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one of two things. Either I can quit my job. That's not really an option right now. Or I can

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hire an editor full time. Unfortunately, I picked a job. Well, I mean, fortunately for me, but

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unfortunately also for the situation, I picked a job that genuinely helps people, but

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it pays like it genuinely helps people, which is not that much. It doesn't leave a lot of room for

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buying equipment, which I do out of pocket, or, you know, especially hiring on an editor. And

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that's when I had an idea. So for some time now, I've had this kind of daydream about doing a

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channel that's just separate from the could help channel, just something for fun, you know, do

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stuff that's fun to do and entertaining to watch and let my comedic comedy flag fly. My on the spot

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improv comedy skills are pretty solid. And I used to crack people up all the time when playing

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online. I had people hitting me up every time I showed up online going, join our party, join our

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party. Oh, you love it. You love it. And I would love to have a channel where I could just sit down

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and play some couch games with some of my friends, specifically ones that have a great rapport with.

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So to generate revenue for could help, the idea was born for, are you ready for this? Could Play.

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Yeah, it's basically a channel just where we do let's plays and reaction videos, try not to laughs

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and honestly, just really anything that's fun to do and would be entertaining and fun to watch.

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Admittedly, I'm not really breaking any molds here, but it would be fun to record without all

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that pressure. And it would be something that I'd be okay with monetizing as I've remained adamant

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that the could help channel will not run ads. Now, if you see an ad in one of my videos, that's

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because I used a copyrighted song that I'd much rather use the right song for the right moment.

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And let them run an ad on it, because I'm not concerned about getting demonetized.

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Anyways, I got to work buying equipment like a capture card and already recorded several

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episodes with co-hosts like Hunter and Aaron and Charles and my best friend Martin. You guys know

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Martin. Well, you've heard him. You've seen his camera work and several of the videos.

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You know, when I originally read the line, I read it. I read it in droopy dog.

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Wow. Wow. That's not what you want to do.

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Thank you. Proud, proud of myself. So why am I like, why am I lamb? Whoa, Betty.

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Don't overthink it. Just be natural. Be will. Good point. Why is will? Cause will can help. Let's go.

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I know I miss him too. Martin moved down to state last year and I haven't seen him since we,

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I mean, we talk, we FaceTime, but several of Martin's episodes for the could play channel

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were recorded right before he moved to another state last year as he was wanting to start his

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own channel, uh, the gaming and reviews and everything, but he didn't have any of the

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equipment to do so at the time. So yeah, most of my time and energy this last month and a half has

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gone towards trying to schedule episode recordings with others, setting up the could play channel,

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learning the software we'll need to successfully run a gaming channel on YouTube and Twitch.

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At any rate, it is my great pleasure everyone to announce the launch and birth of could play.

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I accept last night. I had a very, very serious conversation with God and which it was pointed

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out to me that while I was hoping to generate revenue to support could help through could play

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mainly the could play channel was rooted in my own vanity of my comedic abilities and simply a

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desire to shift my focus into something that was more fun for me. During this conversation with God,

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I was shown this kind of pulled back view of what was happening with the could play channel.

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I saw that the could play channel would take and consistently take considerable amounts of time

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and effort to run and create content for not to mention the considerable amount of self-promotion

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that would require to generate enough revenue to hire an editor or to help the could help channel

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really in any way, leaving very, very little time to no time for could help or to invest in getting

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the laughing matters published, which is another big thing that I need to get done. And I'm sure

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you guys can imagine just how small of a sliver of YouTube gamers are making enough money from

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their ads to hire an editor. Guys, I've dedicated the last 11 and a half years of my life to getting

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this message and these concepts and these discoveries out there into the world, and I cannot,

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I cannot start cutting the legs out from under it now. And I think I, you know, that's definitely

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part of it. You know, if I'm really honest with myself, could play was wanting to do something

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that just didn't have such high stakes attached to it. Something that was free form and fun,

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which is pretty much the reason that I got started doing custom lightsabers.

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After my little brother's suicide, I just, I needed something to do that wasn't all that important

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instead of inducing dramatic realizations about human behavior and our place in the world.

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But as nice as that would be, that is not the path that I am on. So it is on the same day

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that I announced the birth of could play. I am officially announcing the death of the could play

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channel. I know, I know. I was really, really looking forward to this guys, but who knows,

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you know, if could help takes off and the book finally gets published, maybe there's time for

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could play. Maybe that's something that we can come back to. Also, I have been setting up the

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Twitch channel for could help. You can already find me on there. And my thought was that I could

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give advice live, you know, to show you guys that I really am doing it live, but I'd like to have

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something else on the screen that's other than my pretty boy face. You know, so maybe we could do

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some video games on that and that get my hands something to do and part of my brain something to

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do. I've got one of those weird brains where I have to have it engaged in something to like really

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focus in on something else. But if you guys have suggestions, as always, I'd love to hear them.

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After all, you guys have your own unique facets that you see the world through differently,

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and you'd likely consider stuff that I'd never think of.

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So that still leaves us with what to do about the money.

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I still want to avoid running ads on the could help channel if possible, so you guys don't have

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to deal with them. And it was at that thought that I found myself facing a piece of advice someone

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gave me that caused a really startling moment of self realization. And I was like, I'm not going to

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that caused a really startling moment of self realization. You see, I have this habit of wanting

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to do for others, because I get that that's where true happiness resides. And I genuinely care about

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other people and love opportunities to show that I care. I love to help shape somebody else's

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happiness to help bring happiness where there was none. It's that meaty savory happiness that,

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you know, versus that flimsy knockoff happiness you get when you do for yourself. And the problem is

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that I have a tendency to decline kindness that's offered to me to order to be overly apologetic

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when asking for help. I didn't and I still don't like the idea of someone putting themselves out

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for me. But my girlfriend at the time called me out on it so hard. I mean, cut to the quick.

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She said, you go on and on about that. She's an amazing person. So I don't want to make fun of her

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here. But she goes, you go on and on about how real happiness is obtained from others and from

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doing for others and that nobody gets to happiness on their own. But by the same logic,

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you're denying others the opportunity to get the same kind of happiness that you so enjoy and that

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you are telling everybody to go after the happiness that they would get from doing for you.

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Let other people help you if you really want for their happiness. That was a bit of a gut punch

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that I never really recovered from, you know, and I still, I still have to actively stop myself from

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declining kind offers when they offer. I gotta watch that overly apologetic part because I do

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want people to get that same happiness. And so in the same effort, I'm going to get out of my own

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way and offer an alternative to anybody that's ever seen the value of this channel and what's

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being taught here. And in some way, you know, maybe wanted to show kindness to the channel or

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myself in the way of support, no matter how big or how small. So while the could play channel is

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recently dead, patreon.com slash I could help lives on and now you too could help hashtag I

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could help. Thank you guys so, so much for all of your support so far. You know, your comments,

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subscriptions, your shares of the videos and channel shout outs, Rudy, you sexy beast,

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and Dennis is an extra special thank you to you guys. I will be releasing the first episode of

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could play from the could help channel so that we can all personally lament what might have been.

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We've also got more episodes of will help so mega underway and Oh, be expecting new episodes of the

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laughing matters podcast as well. And that's it for this update. So thank you so much for tuning

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in and remember be good to them, be good for them. And you're going to be fantastic. I'm will help.

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You're the fantastic you will see you guys next time. Bye, everybody.

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Oh, that's just separate from the could help channel just something for fun, you know, do

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stuff that's fun to do and entertaining to watch. Let my comedic comedy flag

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and let my comedic comedy flag ride and let my comedic comedy flag fly.

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I don't know why I said ride like three times.