Welcome back. It's episode 104 of the My Maria 777 podcast. We are live. It is Monday night. It's what I'm,

it's somewhat of a manic Monday. I guess isn't every Monday manic manic. At least it is for me.

But it's Monday. If you're joining us later in time, welcome.

Time traveling back to us now. But we are live on YouTube right now. If you haven't listened in a while,

maybe you don't know, but these podcasts are now in video format on YouTube. You can find me. It's weird. I don't like it. But if we're going to make this a full-time job,

we got to hit it, y'all.

And maybe in a second I'll see what your beautiful little views here

have resulted in on a monetization level, which I just find fascinating,

you know? And if you're ever on social media these days, if there's like any sort of,

there's just so many gurus, especially on TikTok. There's all these fucking

gurus who want to sell you something that they have done well, and now they're selling like

classes on it. So many fucking gurus. Anyways, what was I saying? Oh, what I find interesting,

though, is they're always talking about how much money they make.

Like, oh, I'm making $10,000 a month doing like Amazon, whatever the fuck.

Or I work four hours a week and I write product reviews and I make $6,000 a week or something crazy like that.

But nobody ever actually shows the back-in.

There's like a little bit of back-in stuff on TikTok.

I will be an open book.

Should you ever, should we ever have questions?

So I just, all of this to say, I find the monetization side of YouTube.

Fascinating.

And I don't quite get it quite yet.

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