Well, hello, everybody, and welcome back.

You guys ready for a Friday episode?

I'm ready for a Friday episode.

Four questions, just double-checking here on my computer and make sure I know oftentimes, I guess, and I'm usually wrong.

I'll see if I can make it through all four of them.

I think two of these, yeah, relatively long.

Before I get into answering the questions, it's a, it's very humbling, actually,

that people reach out and ask for my opinion on things. But I do want to remind everyone,

and please keep this in mind at all times, that I'm, I'm largely a functioning idiot. And I

will give you my opinion on things, but just understand that I have a good amount

experience in some areas and almost no experience in others.

And I try to do my best to explain when the pendulum is swinging towards either of those.

But I'm not an oracle.

I don't have all the answers.

I appreciate the questions. I'm doing my best to work my way through them all. It would be impossible for me to do so, even though I am trying. And yeah, you know, just take what I say with a grain. I'm not an expert. There may be a couple things that I might have flirted with at times of being an expert, but I'm not even current in those things

anymore. So let's get into the show. What do you think? Before that, you know what I'm going to say.

Give me two minutes. Let me pay the bills. Let me turn the lights on and off so I can keep bringing the show to you for free.

I really like the brands that I work with. I say no to brands that don't align with who I am or things that I don't want to do.

People would be shocked to the number of things I say no to regardless of the dollar figure associated with it.

I'm just, I don't care.

Money doesn't hold that position in my life anymore.

And I'd rather be true to who I am than untrue to who I am and have a larger bank account, which wouldn't

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