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Hello.

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I actually have something to talk about.

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Stuff keeps happening was an accident.

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I didn't mean to do this.

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Oops.

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This all originally started as a blog that I titled What's Going On.

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It eventually became a TikTok series because I found that it was easier for me

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to just talk to the camera than it was to get my thoughts out in text always.

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And now this is my job.

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It's been an incredible journey and I've met some amazing people and I am

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floored by the support from the community here.

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It's, it's, you're outrageous.

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You specifically are outrageous.

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This silly little guy.

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Um, and this is not me.

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I'm not announcing that I'm going away just to be clear.

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This is not, this is not me being like, and so I'm stopping.

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I do want to say, and I'll just, I'll just rip this bandaid off.

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I'm going to be reducing my production schedule down to once a week.

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I have noticed that I have not really been able to do the things that I need to do

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recently. I've been working way too hard.

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I'm working more hours than I ever have before.

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I've been basically trying to play catch up ever since I had COVID and I'm

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still not caught up.

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And that was over a month ago.

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I'm producing Stuff Keeps Happening.

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I'm hosting and producing on the Atlas Loom.

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I stream three times a week.

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I have a major new project that I'm going to be announcing later this month.

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And that's not even getting to like having a life, trying to like work on my

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mental and physical health, get that under control in the slightest, you know?

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And last night, right before I went live on stream, I realized that like I just

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completely missed two major bullet points for work that I needed to do

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that just fell through the cracks.

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And that's happening too much recently.

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I'm making mistakes.

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I'm getting sloppy.

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I'm messing up some stories and I've had to post and then delete things

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because I caught issues after I posted it.

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I don't want that to be the norm.

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I don't want to make low quality stuff.

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I never liked rushing to be the first to talk about a certain subject.

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I want to be able to form my thoughts and understand what I'm saying before I just

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am reacting to things.

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And so I don't want to continue to veer towards feeling as though I have to.

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And so here are the changes that I am making.

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Stuff keeps happening will be produced and published once a week on Mondays.

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What that means is the newsletter, the YouTube video and the podcast will all go

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out the normal time every Monday.

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The mobile clips like TikTok and Reels and whatnot, those are going to be posted

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on like probably like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, just like throughout the week,

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basically. The next thing is that you're hopefully going to see more random

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content from me because I really miss just doing whatever was on my mind.

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Virtually all of my content production time is just like one of two things right now.

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And I miss being able to post fun clips from my stream or random ideas and gags and skits.

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So hopefully you'll see more of that in the future.

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And ultimately I'm planning for that once a week stuff keeps happening to be a little bit bigger

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and hopefully higher production quality, maintaining all the things I'm currently doing.

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So captions and all that stuff.

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I'm hoping it's going to be a good change.

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I'm hoping I will have more energy.

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I'll be able to deliver properly what I want to deliver while also having

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any time and any energy whatsoever to do anything else.

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If something critically important comes up like out of band like throughout the week,

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I'll talk about it.

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I'll like make a one off ad hoc video and post and whatnot.

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But I don't like contributing to the constant cycle.

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It's just not it's not worth trying to be on top of it constantly.

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I'm gonna work really hard and try to keep making like fun shit.

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That's not stopping.

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This is this is again not an announcement of me stepping away.

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This is not an I'm burnt out video.

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This is a I'm identifying that if I don't make a change, I will be.

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This is quite the opposite.

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I am more excited than ever at the opportunities that are laid out in front of me.

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I cannot wait to dig in.

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And if I want to be able to make this work as a long term thing,

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I need to listen to myself and actually respond.

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It feels very strange to do this next part.

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Given that I'm basically saying, Hey, everybody, I'm going to do less stuff.

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But let's talk about support.

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I thoroughly appreciate any and all support sharing my content around just engaging with

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my content and then, of course, financial support.

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You all have been amazing.

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And the fact that I'm making more than $1 off of content that I'm making is just ridiculous.

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It means the world.

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If you want to support me financially, the best ways to do that would be Patreon,

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patreon.com slash endeavorance or head to my merch store shop dot endeavorance dot camp.

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You can also subscribe on Twitch or get a stuff keeps happening or atlas loom subscription.

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There's a bunch of different ways.

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The most direct is Patreon or merch.

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If supporting financially is not in the cards perfectly fine.

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I cannot overstate how valuable just sharing my content is that like I don't I like I that's

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valuable. Anyway, I don't want to leave you hanging too much.

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So let's do a very sloppy lightning round.

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A 62 year old man in Germany got 217 COVID shots and he's fine.

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The guy who leads military documents on discord to win an argument with like military nerds

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is going to jail for 16 years.

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There was a wildlife trafficking bust at an airport in Bangkok and among other things

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they found a red panda in a suitcase, which sounds adorable, but it was a trafficking operation.

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US Congress is going to vote today on trying to ban TikTok again.

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Stop it. Epic Games got hacked by hackers and then it turns out that the hackers who hacked Epic

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Games didn't actually hack Epic Games and just made up that they hacked Epic Games.

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And it turns out that the hackers who said that they hacked Epic Games actually wanted to sell

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hacking software to other hackers to hack other hackers.

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That one was hard.

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The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can be on the ballot in all 50 states.

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They haven't ruled if he's not a criminal.

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There's a SpongeBob Xbox now.

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Nintendo sued the developers behind a switch emulator,

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winning $2.4 million and shutting the emulator down.

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Nikki Haley won DC and Vermont GOP primary elections,

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making her the first woman to win a GOP primary.

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And then she dropped out of the race.

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And finally for today, there was a major outage of all meta services, Facebook,

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Instagram, threads, etc.

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And the world was a little brighter for a little bit on Tuesday.

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Thank you all so very much for your support.

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I will be back on Monday.

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Take care and be well.