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Welcome to the Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of Stream snipers.

I'm your friend David Pierce and this is the third episode of our mini-series

looking at the business of being a creator.

I wanna start this episode by telling you about a new nightly routine that I've developed.

TikTok has been the app that I look at right before bed for a long time now.

I really don't recommend this, by the way.

It's really aggressively too easy for just a quick TikTok scroll

to turn into like two hours of watching

and me suddenly getting too little sleep for no good reason.

But I do it anyway.

And recently, the thing I found myself doing a lot

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