Reality Radio for a really great future. We're talking real money. Good morning. It's Sunday morning. I'm Don McDonald, and I never do this. I never get up in the morning and do a podcast. Today is an exception for a very good reason.

This is an appeal to you for help, literally an appeal to you for help. Not that it's a

particularly big deal, but it's the principle of the thing

that compels me to do this. If you've listened to the past few podcasts, you're aware that we

went to post Friday's podcast in the form of a video that we did between Tom, myself, and Paul Merriman.

We posted it on our very lightly used YouTube channel talking real money,

where we've had a few podcasts posted in the past,

and we've also put up some classes.

So I posted it on Friday, and within a few minutes, YouTube

had pulled the video down for violating community standards, and then a few minutes later,

they had completely terminated our YouTube channel. Well, after an involved process, and I'm not going to bore you with it,

to appeal it, I finally appealed it with the following statement, because you can make a

thousand-word statement. A few words below that. Here's what I said. We create financial

videos and podcasts, and have done so for years. Yesterday, we created a new video

episode to add to our Talking Real Money YouTube channel. Soon thereafter, I received a notice that my

account was terminated for violating community standards. However, there was nothing negative,

political, defamatory, or obscene in this video. If you'd like to see the video,

it's currently being served at Vimeo, and I gave the address. You can also watch it at

Talking Real Money.com. Please review it and reinstate our channel as its removal could damage

our business. If we somehow inadvertently said something offensive, please give me a chance to fix it. In the future, it would

be very helpful to receive a more specific reason for removal. Please look into this as soon as

possible, and I thank them. This morning I awoke, bright and early, went to my email, as many

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