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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show, Mr. Matt Christensen.

Thanks for having me.

It's absolutely a pleasure.

As we were just discussing before we started recording, you're one of my OGs.

I've been watching you for as many years as I think I've been watching anybody back when

you were doing your solo, sort of breaking down, whatever the news was of the day on.

I think your channel had a different name before you went with Matt Christensen.

Am I correct there?

Well, you're probably talking about what was like an awkward phase in my YouTube time.

Because I started out doing video game stuff and it was all,

all the duty stuff.

And then that kind of, I moved away away from that but I still wanted to be on

YouTube so I used my gamer tag and my gamer tag was Skag 3 S K-A-G-G-3 so the channel was that and I was

still working like a a job that I didn't want to I didn't want them to catch on, you know, so I went by, you know, I went by a different name. And then, um, once I decided to go all in, then I just, I just went by my name, yeah. But yeah, you're talking like 2015, 2016. So thanks for sticking around for as long as you have. It's, you know, you make it easy. But I think, I think it's lot of, we're around the same age. I'm probably a little bit older than a few people in this sort of game. But yeah, I think a lot of people went through a very similar kind of evolution from that time, 2014, 2015, as I said in my last show, you know, I was that sort of normie. I voted for Trudeau. I live in Canada. I was that guy. And thanks to creators like yourself and other people who, you know, I think you've done you've done a great job of, again, this is kind of one of the reasons I really wanted to have you on the show because you're one of my favorites. But you're one of my favorites because you've had that very sort of straightforward, analytical, honest approach of like, I just want to know what's going on and tell the truth.

And watching what, if you are paying attention, what's really going on and then how it's

being projected in the media and how those can be two completely different worlds.

And then that sort of ends up shaping your perspective on stuff and leads you to places

where you're like, okay, what am I?

And I think, yeah, well, it sounds like maybe we're coming from a similar spot then because

of course my mind was changed.

Really in the window that you're talking about when you were watching my channel under the

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