darkness washed over the dude like Black Spears Tukas on a moonless summer night.

Hello and welcome to the Fizzle show.

This is the Fizzle show.

The word Fizzle has two meanings.

Folks, one, to fail in a weak and disappointing way and two to buzz or crackle like electricity

and through the show we explore why many small businesses fizzle out and why others seem to crackle

and buzz with energy every friday we publish another conversation about entrepreneurship

building a thriving audience and the battle of supporting

yourself doing something that you care about.

So if you're into that kind of thing, welcome home.

Your hosts are, if this one comes from listener, if we were the original starters for

Pokemon, Corbett would be Squirtle, a tough outer shell, but still cool and refreshing like his water type.

I love where this is going.

Chase would be Charmander, so enthusiastic, so full of energy, that his little tail is literally on fire.

And Barrett would be Pikachu, because he was only added as a starter in a later release of the game.

I was more of a pog guy myself.

But thanks James Holder for your thing.

Listeners write these things and I love to read them out.

Send us an email at a hey guys at fizzle.com.

Listen, in this episode, imagine this.

It was a successful business.

It was making good money, a few thousand dollars a month, and then suddenly,

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