Homeless Guy talking about WORK on a FRIDAY NIGHT. LMAO. [2024-03-15]

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Description

Just talking about how much better it feels to be working than not. And it doesn't even have much to do with being dead broke or not, because I'm as broke as ever and don't even have the money needed to burn and keep my job. It just feels good to work, no matter how crappy it all is.

Now, with the basic needs covered, how do I elevate toward my actual purpose? Patreon? Freelancing? Subscriptions or a Club? Gotta make people want to give money for my wares. What do I do that's most valuable?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toUz56kalQE

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Hey hey and welcome to the Ice Pooge Daily Channel. Today is Friday, the third Friday of March.

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And the library parking lot is dead empty. Maybe you can see in the background how bright and beautiful it is. This March Day in California. Beautiful, beautiful.

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And yeah, I hope everyone's at a party or something, you know, I hope everyone at all those parties is having fun watching me and laughing at my expense and joking about how they almost invited me psych.

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Who knows what that looks happening, but yeah, anyway, just came on to say, the main thing I want to say is, if you don't have a job and you're looking for work, just get any old job, who cares how much it pays, who cares about the eiki guy of it.

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If they'll hire you, the world needs it, they'll pay you money for it, that's half of eiki guy right there, that's vocation, you're good.

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It feels so much better. I've never even been out well fair, so I don't even know how bad it feels.

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But I've been not working at times and, you know, a lot of what feels not good about not working is not having money.

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I've been on unemployment, which isn't quite well fair. It's paid into by employers.

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But I didn't sit there and milk it. I got off it as quick as possible. I used it for what it was for.

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You know, my salary at the time was like 15,000 a month, USD plus and welfare or unemployment insurance was maxed at 1850 a month.

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So that's like, you know, under 20% of my normal salary that I had to live on. That was horrible.

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But some people might say, 1850 a month, that's a lot of money for doing nothing man.

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It's based on how much you were making. I was making a ton of money.

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Thus, I got max unemployment. And it was 1800 a month and rent was 1850.

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So it was actually still $50 a month more for rent than unemployment.

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I had the cheap, like, the cheapest possible apartment in the city without having roommates.

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I was only paying a couple hundred dollars more than when I did have roommates.

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So just feel so good to support yourself.

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It feel better to support myself based on Patreon and freelancing and stuff like that.

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Stuff closer to what I'm good at and what I love doing.

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But I'm really good at dishwashing and I really love, you know,

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being part of a team that serves high quality meals to people.

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So I'm not losing by working this job and when I was working at the grocery store,

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I was a shopper and I was good at walking around and packing orders and I did it.

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And, you know, the world paid for it, the world needed it or wanted it to the point where they would pay for it.

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So unless you've got, like, a make believe job like HR or something, the world needs and will pay for what you're doing.

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The world really doesn't need HR.

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Maybe aspects of it do, but not the whole world for sure.

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And it might not need to do as much for the company as people have it do.

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But anyway, that's going to be a major difference between working for a big company and a small one is the HR or not.

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And just working at some random company that doesn't have HR is super good.

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And working at some well known company that has really bad, really big HR is really bad.

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I can say factually.

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So, yeah, I'm just saying, if you don't have a job, get one because you'll feel a lot better and the spirit of welfare is the spirit of theft.

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It's armed robbery or threat of robbery if you don't pay your taxes.

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So, yes, by working your paying taxes and supporting the welfare system and how do you like it?

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Now, how do you like being a recipient of it?

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The two are connected.

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So, if you don't like paying into welfare, get the beep off welfare.

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Straight up.

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And I made a video a while back a little under a year ago that describes the difference between welfare and charity.

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And I don't know if I went into busking, which is what people on the side of the street do with a guitar.

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You know, they're playing with their case open, you throw a dollar in there.

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Busking.

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So, that's really what I'm doing with my Patreon stuff is I'm building in public.

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And I've got my guitar case open.

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That's Patreon.

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And people should be chucking in money, but programmers are notoriously cheap.

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And the stuff I make is for programmers for the most part.

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So, I got to find some way to appeal to business owners in a way that programmers won't just take and

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relabel and, you know, open source is great and theory in some ways.

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But then, on the other hand, throughout history, wisdom has been kind of hidden inside of,

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all called groups that just means hidden, all called fraternities in the like.

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And if the fraternity has an oath of secrecy, I feel like that's too far for me.

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But on the other hand, what else is there to protect secrets?

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So, I don't necessarily fault the people who joined those groups to get the secrets and take the oaths.

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But I've even signed NDAs before, non-disclosure agreements for jobs.

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And I really wish I hadn't, but did I commit a moral failure by signing an NDA?

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I don't quite know yet.

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There is some wisdom that some people probably shouldn't have.

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Like, people don't necessarily know when they're drunk on this or that.

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It could be alcohol, it could be, you know, any kind of, you know.

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I have something in particular in mind.

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I just don't necessarily want to say it.

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But, maybe I want to be a beautiful day.

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The sun's absolutely perfect right now.

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We're a little bit before the golden hour.

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The sun's basically that direction, so I get to see the perfect golden hour, perfect.

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You know, the trees, they are redwood.

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Or...

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I want to say they're potentially Sequoia.

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But I don't know 100% know the difference between all the trees in the area right now.

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But just absolutely beautiful trees.

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See, being a homeless person, people are not going to...

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You know, this is a dangerous vibe for a homeless person to be sharing.

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Like, oh, you feel like you should be at the party house.

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I mean, you want to go smoke meth.

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Because you know, all homeless people have substance abuse problems, right?

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Like, as soon as they get their paycheck, they're going to be feeding them out.

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You know, someone will give them a little bit of money.

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But, well, fentanyls like the cheapest possible thing you can buy first of all.

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So if I'm not buying that, that's a good start.

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If I've still got stuff that I can pawn like this microphone for 15 bucks and I have a pawn that.

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Like, that's a pretty good sign that I'm not a drug addict.

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How have I had this car since...

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I've had this car since I was a brand new off the lot.

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Like, how I'm really a drug addict.

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I haven't sold my car for over much money of drugs.

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I'm just a functional addict who has foresight and just knows exactly when to...

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So like, what...

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It's like how skinny and pasty is.

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He's obviously, you know, always just a vegan ice.

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Well, maybe if you just start eating properly,

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buddy, you'd have a little bit more energy.

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Right?

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People are just literally going to throw the opposite of the truth at you all the time.

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And it's probably a projection what they would be doing if they were in my situation too.

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So...

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It doesn't matter.

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There was a good long stretch of my life where I was at the parties and throwing parties.

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And, you know, I had my fun.

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But it's definitely a lot more like high school now where, you know,

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I literally worked as a dishwasher and worked in grocery stores.

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As well.

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And my life is sort of like jazz and reverse.

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Like I was super successful right away.

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And then I've dwindled and dwindled and dwindled back down to being more poor than a high school student.

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Because at least a high school student has their parents' bathroom to use.

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Like I'm sitting here paying 70 a month for a gym membership so I can shower.

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And, you know, I do lift like, you know,

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I'm not without any mass.

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It's just I can't keep mass on if I can't afford to eat.

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Right?

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So that's part of work in.

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So yeah, I get paid halfway through next week, so it's...

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Definitely thank you to all the people who supported when I really needed it.

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Recently, thanks to God for hooking that up.

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That was awesome.

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How many times am I going to have to work and get knocked down?

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Work, get knocked down.

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You know, that's why I always keep my own stuff going on the side of work.

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Like, I haven't quite figured out how to make my own Wi-Fi money yet.

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Like, there are certain things I will not do like affiliate sales,

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even though I know it could be a profitable route.

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Just because being a product builder myself,

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I just feel like it's part of...

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You know, I just don't really want to be incentivized to say something's great

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because I make money off of selling it.

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Like, even Amazon affiliate links or something I've thought about doing

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and it felt like too much to do for a site that's trying to objective...

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Not trying to.

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That is objectively talking about different hardware and stuff like that.

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Like, I just don't want to construe anything as, like,

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oh, also I'm making money if you buy these things that I'm saying are awesome.

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So I wish I could be supported more like a journalist and some fashion,

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like an independent journalist that just works through having patrons who pay for me to do honest work.

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You know, it's not W2 employment, but it's not work either.

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You know, there's employment, self-employment, business and investment.

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So being a journalist is more like self-employment independent,

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where people pay me to keep doing the work.

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And other people might hate me and say that it's not work and why don't I go get a regular job.

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But enough people support me to, you know, make it work is the ideal.

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And I could be doing stuff.

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You know, it's like, if I'm doing that, should I be doing stuff like freelancing?

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Should I be doing stuff like working at a restaurant?

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I think people would say yes working at a restaurant, no freelancing.

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Yeah, everyone's going to have a different opinion.

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But I mean, freelancing is good because it keeps you relevant.

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And it's the short term engagement.

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And you own the work products and you're just licensing it back to them generally.

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So freelancing is a good middle ground between just doing journalistic work and still using what I'm good at and pay is a lot of money.

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And I totally unanswered that sentence funny, like it didn't even sound right.

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But if you just read the text, I think it would be correct.

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So yeah, feels really good to work.

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If you're looking for meaning in life, just get some kind of job, it doesn't matter.

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You'll learn things, you'll meet people to figure out what you actually hate.

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And importantly, you'll make a little bit of money.

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Even if it's less than welfare, we'll pay you.

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It's good, honest money that wasn't stolen from anybody.

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I am morally opposed to welfare.

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I know I can't say that everywhere.

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But it's a fact, I am.

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And I think that you are what you eat.

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So if you're eating food bot with stolen money, it's probably going to have some spiritual repercussions in the long run.

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So.

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Anyway, class.

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I know it's a beautiful day.

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We'll let this one out a little bit early.

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Have a great weekend.

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Even though I'll probably upload more on the weekend.

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Maybe I won't.

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You guys have a great weekend.

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Goodbye.


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