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Quick thing before I get into anything else.

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Everything in this episode is my opinion. I mean,

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it's my show and it's from my point of view.

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Nobody signs off on this. Nobody had to. So just

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getting out out there on the front end. All right.

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So today I'm going to be talking about changes.

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We're going to be making some changes. And here's

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here's how here's where I'm going to start with

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this, because A few weeks ago, I had this epiphany,

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I guess you could say. I got home from work,

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you know, a few weeks back, and I sat down to

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record one of these episodes. And about, I don't

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know, four or five minutes in, I stopped talking.

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Mid -sentence. Because I realized... I was kind

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of just describing the exact same thing that

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I had just spent eight hours doing at work. The

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same stuff. And I remember sitting there thinking,

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this is supposed to be my thing, you know, something

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that's mine. And it kind of wasn't. It was like

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a second shift. I mean, with really bad lighting

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and my dogs barking in the background and my

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kids running around screaming about whatever.

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I'm Tyler. Welcome to the podcast. I'm talking

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about where this show goes from here. Because

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I'm changing it. Again, yeah, I know. And I'd

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rather tell you why than just quietly do it and

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hope you don't notice. Because you probably will

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notice. Now back in January if you've been following

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for a while back in January, I rebranded the

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show from fully modulated to the Tyler Woodward

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project because It was supposed to be more about

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myself who I am what I'm thinking what I'm feeling

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what I want to talk about not so much about What

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I do during the day job. I mean I changed a name

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I told myself I was widening the scope. I was

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going to talk about more than just radio stuff.

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And I did for a little bit. Until I didn't. I

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went right back to what I had already been doing

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every single episode. Nobody made me. It's just

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what was, I guess, comfortable and familiar.

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It's like that tool. that already fits your hand,

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that you're already used to, and you stop asking

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if it's the right one for the job. Right? That's

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the best analogy I can make. I've got a whole

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list of stuff I actually want to get to that

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has nothing to do with anything broadcast related.

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Things that used to work and don't anymore. Legitimate

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complaints from my generation. And I'll own the

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label, alright? I was born in 1986. I am 100

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% unapologetically an elder millennial. And I've

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got opinions about what got quietly taken away

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from us, people my age, while everyone told us

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to be grateful we still had jobs at all. None

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of that is obviously a radio topic. None of it

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was supposed to be Now I don't dislike my day

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job by the way, I want to make that clear most

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days I actually like it. I mean everybody's got

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complaints about their day job. All right It's

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not it's not a complaint. I eat sleep and breathe

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This stuff it's who I am and it's who I've been

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since I was like five years old and I got my

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hands on my first AM FM cassette recorder, all

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right? The complaint is I noticed I don't have

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a version of my life that isn't tied to my job

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or my title anymore. The job kind of became my

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personality. The hobby became an extension of

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the job. And somewhere in there, those two things

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fused into one long shift that I I never get

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to clock out from. And to me, that's just not

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sustainable. It's enough to burn someone else.

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I mean, that's burnout with a microphone. I need

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something that's mine that's a little different.

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A hobby that's also your job stops being a hobby.

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It's just unpaid overtime with... better branding

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Now I already know that Some of you are probably

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typing right now in the comments You just did

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a guest spot on this week in radio tech, you

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know a few weeks back an hour on RBDS And I did

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I picked up a nice little bump a new followers

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off of that. How you doing Tommy and now You

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know what? You want to blow the whole thing up

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right after that landed? Yeah. Yeah, I do. And

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I get how the timing looks. I do. But this has

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been nagging at me long before that interview.

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Well, since January. Since the week I changed

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the name and I mean, I didn't change anything

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else about the show, I guess. Mean I did do some

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other general tech stuff and then I slowly came

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right back to radio The interview with Kirk that

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didn't start this it just happened to land in

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the middle of You know this whole thought process

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that I've been doing I kept telling myself ah

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It's fine, but you know the more I dive into

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it. It's like it's it's not fine So Here's what

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here's what's gonna change about the podcast

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me and the podcast this becomes less of a Purdue

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show and more of a Not a vlog, but like an audio

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blog an audio journal. It's it's me It's still

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one continuous take still whatever's on my mind,

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you know that week And I'm really done at forcing

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every episode Into a shape that pretends it needs

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a tidy explainer bow, you know on top of it Some

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weeks it'll be It'll be that I mean some weeks

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it'll just be me talking out loud about something

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that's bugging me since that Tuesday or whatever.

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Oh also Videos out too. I never liked doing video

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I'm not going to pretend otherwise. I mean, I'm

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an audio guy through and through. That's, that's

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the format. That's the whole format. A lot of

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these so -called YouTube and podcasting gurus

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will scream about that because, Oh my God, you

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have to do video to be successful nowadays in

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podcasting. And maybe that's true, but you know

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what? I ain't looking. to be some big podcasting

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star. I do this for fun. If it works out that

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way, I'm not complaining, but that's not the

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goal. And if the work becomes more than a hobby,

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where I dread doing this, where it's no longer

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fun, I mean, what's the point? Oh, also too,

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because Side side tangent. I made a I made a

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neat little tool Available to everyone at woody

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FM comm where where you can make an audiogram

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for your podcast You know, it's got audio. It's

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got images a waveform that reacts to your audio

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upload Nothing lives on my server. It's all done

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in the browser through Java. I Mean, it's bare

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bones, but it looks nice. At least I think so

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Check it out play with it if you want again at

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woodyfm .com because I'm still going to be uploading

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clips and snippets to Instagram and YouTube for

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the Reels and the shorts, maybe not my face plastered

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on it, but my voice for sure and social media

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is shrinking down to Mainly because I hate social

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media almost more than I hate video I don't want

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to manage 10 different social channels trying

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to keep pace with 10, 13 algorithms that change

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the rules every six weeks anyways. That's not

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fun. That's more work on top of everything I

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do day to day already. That's a second unpaid

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job and social content distribution. I'm keeping

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what works though, trimming the fat. And if that

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means a smaller reach, Fine, whatever. I'd rather

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have a small show that's actually true to me

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than a big one that's slowly turning into the

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exact thing I was trying to get away from. I

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don't have any of this stuff figured out and

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I'm going to be honest about that upfront. Instead

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of acting like I have all this figured out or

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I rolled out of bed one morning with a five -year

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plan, but you know, I know what this podcast

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isn't going to be anymore. And I think that's

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enough to get started. Oh, also, I want to mention

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you might have noticed I'm running ads in the

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podcast from RSS .com's paid program. I recently

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switched the podcast hosting over to those guys.

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I'm trying it out to see if I can at least cover

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enough to pay the hosting fees. RSS .com also

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allows improved bit rates over Riverside, who

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I used before, which, I mean, did the video and

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everything all at once, but because I'm doing

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audio, I switched to RSS .com to get those improved

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audio bit rates, which Riverside was a measly

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64 kilobits per second MP3 in today's age. Yeah.

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RSS has 128 kilobits per second, and I think

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I could do stereo on there as well. But I mean,

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mostly this is spoken word, so I don't really

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need stereo. But an improved speech quality?

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Hell yeah. But back to the ad stuff. Full disclosure,

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and there is a link on the website for values

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and ethics. Some of the and categories that I

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blocked out right is gambling and casinos because

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I hate that that crap Pregnancy related stuff

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that was already in there by default from rss

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.com. I couldn't tell you what that category

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pertains to but I mean you're probably not coming

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here to look for Pregnancy ads, I think maybe

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I don't know if you are let me know I'll put

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it back in there anything sexual related, you

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know Definitely politics, um, whatever non -standard

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content means. That was another default one that

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RSS had in there. And obviously illegal content

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beyond that. I don't see the ads before they

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run. And I mean, I don't endorse them. It's not

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me talking. I didn't write the scripts. Just

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a little extra income. Maybe it'll probably end

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up being like a few cents, but if you want to

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subscribe and support the podcast. Subscribe

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over on Apple podcast It's like three bucks a

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month. I priced it really low or something like

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I think it's 25 bucks a year but it gets you

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the The podcast ad free and eventually once I

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get up and rolling on this new format It'll have

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exclusive content. That's just meant for those

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members as well. So there's that perk as well

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and That's the show for this week. I just wanted

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to Let you know what's happening, give you a

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little update on the life and the podcast, and

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next week kicks off brand new era of the Tyler

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Woodward Project. If you want to keep up with

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it, subscribe wherever you're listening, and

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you can find everything else at tylerwoodward

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.me. If you want to buy me a cup of coffee, you

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can also do that. The link's at the top of the

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page at tylerwoodward .me. Talk to you next week.

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Until then, stay cool, because man, it's going

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to be hot. especially over the northern part

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of the country and the upper Midwest where I'm

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at. Oof. I'm not built for that heat. All right,

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that's it. That's all I got for you this week.