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It's really just the most helpful thing you can do. So pretty boring week, right? Am I right? No? No? Oh, it was the most chaotic week of all time. That's what it is.

Okay, well, one day, one day I'm going to sit down and record an episode and I'm going to say, wow, what a boring week and it's actually going to be true.

So obviously this was not a boring week. This was a very chaotic and at times scary week here in the US.

I don't need to recap any details. I'm also not a hard-hitting news source. So I'm not going to let you in on details that you can't find anywhere else and from somebody smarter and much more reputable.

However, I do want to offer a little bit of commentary because there's always the conversation, whenever anything like this happens, there's always the conversation just laughing because I'm laughing because this I can say the sentence whenever something like this happens.

And I find it so interesting that a lot of influencers take the route of saying something like, this is not who we are America.

That we have a lost sight of what it means to be an American. A lot of people say that, but it's interesting because if you say that every two weeks, can you really say this isn't who we are because it seems like it's kind of our personality now.

Like at first we were dabbling in it. It's like a girl who starts dating a guy and she starts to get into his interests and then all of a sudden it becomes her entire personality.

Like that's what America has done with everything. So there is some commentary going on about what an influencer's role is when things like this happen.

I don't know if there's a set rule. I am the type of follower and consumer that I appreciate it when influencers do say things.

I have decided to talk about how I feel on Instagram about some political things, usually when there is a clear black and white like this past week had with the thing that happened at the Capitol.

That felt pretty black and white that I felt entirely comfortable saying how I felt about what happened.

And some influencers don't want to say anything and some influencers want to say, hey, we're not talking about that here because Instagram is an escape.

And I want this to be a place of peace love and joy. It's just up to you what you want to follow. A lot of people are going to tell you that you can't follow people for X Y and Z.

But that is that is your choice when you follow somebody on Instagram. You are casting your vote pretty much for their success.

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