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entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Welcome to the Whatever Dating Talk podcast where we try to make sense of the modern dating hellscape.

I'm your host, Brian Atlas.

A few quick announcements.

This podcast is if you're supported, we rarely do sponsorships.

And, you know, when you talk about some of these subjects, you know, you're going to, you know, you're talking about dating relationships and what that entails.

You know, you're going to get with some demonetization. So we, yeah, there it is, a bunch of, you know, little yellow monetization icons on YouTube.

So that we can continue to not be beholden to megacorp advertisers.

Please consider sending a tip through streamlabs.com slash whatever instead of soup chatting as

YouTube takes a brutal 30% cut.

So instead of sending it through YouTube, like I said, they take like 30%.

Send it via streamlabs.

Streamlabs.com slash whatever.

Streamlabs messages get priority.

To read a message during a break is $100 and up.

If you want to jump into the convo nearly instantly, consider sending a TTS text-to-speech message.

$200 and up triggers TTS.

TTS is via stream labs only.

There's a moderation delay with the TTS.

Also via stream labs, you can mute the microphone, pop a ball of champagne,

or if you're a real ball or real G, we have crypto options, full details in the description.

Now, if you want to just tip and have 100% of your contribution go towards us, no platform fees,

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