All right folks, it is Bill and Zo the virtual duo.

Hey, actually, yeah, I probably shouldn't say it like that because that sounds a

little bit too much like that Saturday Live skit the ambiguously gay dudo yeah

that's that's all right yeah yeah yeah I gotta find another way to sing that I'll

work on it you'll figure out hey so folks we're feeling chipper because you know

sometimes we get some of that you know that email and folks come in showing some love, man.

And we got one bill from, actually, I didn't get his permission if I could use his name or not.

Okay.

But he'll probably know who he is by the gist of, you know, what we're talking about in this episode.

And, you know, he gave us it was it was lengthy, right?

Yeah, he said he says, I've been wanting to write this for a long time and I guess it kind of showed.

And but don't even wrong, we read every word and it hit home and you know he gave us some like historical examples and things like that of the stuff that we're going through.

And, you know, and just wanted us to be encouraged.

Now, the, I hate, I don't want to find an area of contention with somebody who's trying to give us some encouragement.

But one of the things that he wanted us to feel encouraged about is that with the shadow banning, he says, hey, don't let the shadow banning get you down.

Of course, you don't want to let anything get this down, but don't let the shadow banning get you down because the numbers aren't real.

And I appreciate that.

However, and Bill, we, like me, you've probably heard people on a few occasions say, man, but those numbers aren't real, man. They're artificial. And you're reaching more of this than you think. A lot of more people are hearing your message than you know. And I'm like, okay, I I appreciate that you're saying that the numbers aren't real however however you can't say that the numbers aren't real

when when it impacts you so financially your brand gets gets destroyed. Your finances get destroyed.

Your so your ability to promote even even even who you are outside of the internet

you become a ghost right at least I know I have man I tell you what I used to be it used to be

where I couldn't go like two feet,

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