Well, hi everybody, welcome to the Stratzfer Lounge.

This is your host, Bill Whittle.

I hope everybody's doing well, and it's good to see you.

So some interesting and important things to talk about tonight, I think, I hope.

Don't even really know where to start about this, but I'll probably just start with how this idea came to me.

So I'd tease this a little bit before, and I just, at the beginning, I'd just like to stress,

it's got nothing to do with the major Mace-Maddingly stuff.

That stuff is going on completely independently of this.

This is something that I've been toying around with that's just completely different and separate.

So a number of times people have said, hey, Bill, you know, you should check out Cameo.

For those of you unfamiliar with the site like I was, Camio is a place where you can have a list of, you know, of celebrities and you can get them to do a recorded voice message for you or say hello or you

know that kind of thing and um i took a look at it uh sort of as just a revenue enhancer kind of

thing uh and what blew me away was just you you know, with just the prices.

I mean, it's like Malcolm McDowellis, like $100.

And I just thought, wow, you know, he can't be doing it for the $100.

I think a lot of the people on cameo are, you know, people have kind of been around the

pop culture for a long time.

And I think, I personally think that most of this is just having a chance to reconnect with fans

and to do all of those things.

But strangely enough, what I came out of the cameo experience with was an idea not to get paid by cameo, but to actually pay cameo.

And that's basically what kind of got this thing going for me.

So in really broad terms, this country is so divided and the politics has gotten so acidic and venal.

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