Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker Podcast. Today is August 23rd 2018, otherwise known as

Intergalactic National, International, Local, Whatever, Maker Brand Co-launch day.

All right.

Whoo!

Big day.

It is a big day, right?

I mean, it's a very big day.

It's a very big day. It's been eight months leading up to this.

Yeah, I'm going on the Wikipedia for August 23rd and making sure that this day is in there.

Gotta make it super official. That's awesome. Well, before we get into all that kind of nonsense, let's talk about like what's been going on with everybody. So Chris, you want to lead us off?

Sure, and actually you know because I haven't been doing much lately, so I'm actually going to dedicate my time to somebody else.

Wow. No, actually I was just thinking about this. So you guys know Johnny builds.

He participated in the challenges, been doing good work for a long time so he had

this video this week that like blew up like at the time of this recording over a

million views in less than a week it's probably at two million views by the time this is coming out. But the reason

that I bring him up is because some of you guys might remember, I don't know how long ago it was,

maybe like six months or so, when the whole YouTube thing changed where you had to be at a higher level to monetize,

and he actually wrote in, I can't remember if we were talking directly and I brought it up on the show or if he wrote into the show with a question

about like he was right there on the fringe so he was kind of one of those people that I guess you could say

like had the rug pulled out from him or whatever and I remember my advice to him at that time was like,

don't even worry about that because you're making good stuff,

keep doing that, keep getting better, keep making good stuff,

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