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I think you might have to turn off your video because your bandwidth is so bad . Oh , that might be the one . It must have filled up , see .
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I mean you get to edit all of this after the podcast . That's great . You can make anybody's name fan .
I'm absolutely putting that at the end of the podcast , all right , yeah , just to show how much we flow that up .
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This is Carol , this is Ty .
And you're listening to the Pardon the Interaction podcast , where , of course , we're not pardoning any actual insurrectionists . We're going to save that for Trump , should he be reelected next year . Yay , and we had a bunch of crazy news go on this week , of course , like it's nonstop , endless .
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Today we have a wonderful friend of the show coming to join us . Her name is Tara Dublin , formerly of Occupy Democrats , well known in regards to providing you with political content in that arena . Feel free to pipe in and give us your resume . Hello , you're bonafide .
Using my deep radio voice .
Thank you for this microphone , by the way .
Oh , that's my .
You're more than what . I sent her a microphone , but you're more than welcome . You don't have to put on your sexy radio voice .
Maybe this is my voice all the time you don't know . You have a power cell uses that baby voice part of the time and then the other time she has this voice . That's just like down here .
Yeah , she's got that Michael Jackson thing where she's like hi in public , and then I just started she I mean , she has an adorable child now , or two of them , or whatever and , like , most of the time you're , you're Paris , and she's like hi , I'm a baby woman and I'm 50 , but I talk like this , or she's 40 or whatever she is .
But then there was a video where she , like , talks to her son and her voice is totally normal and I was like , oh , you don't want to confuse your son with two different voices . Why don't you just drop one of them and stick with one anyway ?
This is my regular voice and I also can do other other accents and impressions upon a request , but that's a feel free , do you ?
like a show me , do you do a swarmy British accent , cause we love those , I got to tell you a British accent .
A British accent . But yeah , I can . I mean I , you're putting me on the spot . I don't I don't want to offend anybody with like a not good British accent .
No , it's totally fine . When the queen died , we absolutely slaughtered like the British accent on this podcast , like we destroyed it .
I mean it's fun to make fun of it and like do a bad one on purpose or like if you're making fun of love actually , which everyone should absolutely do you make fun of everybody , cause there's like a bunch of different accents and love , love . Actually .
Most of the time is like I can make fun of the way people speak , like my relatives , like my , my Aunt Eva , my , you know , like old Jewish relatives . I can do their accents or I can do like character-ish voices and stuff like that . I don't necessarily do impressions .
It's like one or two I could probably do , but I mean , if you've got a Trump impersonation , we'll take it , no matter how limited .
I don't I mean no , no , I just have a . Trump block going back to 2015 . That's that's what I have .
I don't .
I don't try to pull off a Trump impression . I don't think that's necessary . I mean , I you know , what I could do is a is a Lara Trump impression , though , and I am , hit us with it . Try to sing .
Oh , no , no , no , no , no , no . I take it back , we don't want to hear it . All right , so we had , we had a .
I mean you can go strangle a cat . That's what Laura Lara Lee .
I mean she sounded like you know , those guys at the mall she's saying I won't back down , I won't back down by Tom Petty .
And then she got mad badly . She sang it very badly , even with auto tune and all the effects you can put on the thing and still recognize it as perhaps a somewhat human voice , but she's like .
And then she , she did some Australian chat show where the host asked her to sing live and that was a very big mistake , because hearing her without the assistance of auto tune .
It was you know . When dogs are like you know they dogs are howling .
there was a , there was a creator on TikTok who , like , put the thing together where they're , like had her singing and then a dog over there and it was like the dog is my better .
Yeah , carol , you have her singing . Oh man , it's perfect . So like .
I only want to see the one with the dog , yeah .
The thing , about that .
that makes it even more cringe . Like it's bad enough that she's pushing and then she won't listen to the Tom Petty estate and everyone telling her to shut up . Is that she's just so willing to throw herself and be like this human , subhuman sacrifice for the rest of the Trump panel , like to take the heat off of the rest of them ?
She's like I know you're all crying . I'm over here with my box of wine and I'm drinking in a mall booth and I'm singing into the small singing booth and that's that's what everyone should be paying attention to , not my father in law and court , not my husband and his brother and his sister .
you know fighting , I'm just happy to be included .
I mean finally , because for years Trump didn't even know her name .
We didn't either .
She was . I mean , we mostly , most of us didn't .
But we thought her the other one .
She was an interior decorator . She's the one with the dead eyes .
Yeah , Well , and she got new . She got new Kim Guilfoyle fish lips recently too . You got to take a look , they're horrible , but there was some event at Mar-a-Lago where , like she was talking and Trump pointed and goes who is that ? And it was . I was like dude , that's Eric's wife . He had no idea she was because she's that not memorable , but somehow like .
But she's like the remaining member , she's like the only member of the Trump family who could go on maybe a mainstream show stills . Look at Ty Ty . I just saw that Ty was getting some sugar over there .
Ty , you got to unmute your microphone . I didn't see you .
I know people who were listening can't see that , but there was a man who leaned in and gave her a kiss on the mouth .
Yeah , thank you for telling all the secrets .
I'm going to talk in everything .
This is an audio podcast . You can edit that out .
You can edit that out .
No one ever would have known . No , we're absolutely going to embarrass Ty Megan .
Megan out of the middle of the podcast . I want to see you on the screen . Anyway , that's not OK . No , I don't do a Trump impression .
going back to the original , See , is our designated Trump reader and we have yeah , I have a limited fake Trump impression that I use .
You want to hear it . Well , I so yeah , yeah , I need to practice . I haven't done it in like a month , but , yeah , I usually like tune up to like two , two names like Hillary Clinton , barack Obama , and then I like go from there because , like you know , once you get that inflection on those two , you can kind of do anything . Yeah , it's yeah .
But you do the little accordion at the same time because he's like that many accordion .
Yeah , I do the same with the hands and , yeah , purse my lips up when I do it , but yeah , we'll say that for another time Well junior , when , when juniors really coked up , he can't say Joe Biden's name is like Joe Biden .
Well , I think I .
All right , I take it you've been watching his Well .
I don't know . I'm going to make a thousand air quotes because I'm so cool .
Joe . Biden ever present when he is not coped up .
No , it's why he stands like that oh did you see that ? Photo of Trump was walking , like on this catwalk to go to I guess he was doing a wherever he did his last speech and he's walking on the catwalk and he's like holding juniors hand . Yeah like juniors down on the floor and they're holding it so like he won't fall .
But if you go close up on the hands , he's barely holding juniors hand , like , oh , I don't really want you touching me , but I need you to hold my hand or else I'll fall .
Yeah , his leg was all fucked up . It was a lot of weird shit going on in that picture His leg looked like .
It's like all like you know , when old men like start like shrinking and like I think he's shrinking , but like one body part at a time .
One leg is going Well . He probably has like a thousands of curses on him .
I mean one of them has to work . Right , right the Colette , so you're the collapsing vertebrae , vertebrae spell .
So it's like the voodoo doll with the shrinking head . That's what happened to his leg . I don't understand .
Maybe that's maybe that's why his pant legs are so big and floppy and shiny , so that they can disguise the fact that he's got , like voodoo doll , stick legs in there .
Maybe I think he just has on your rating into dust . He's got that Ron DeSantis insecurity about his height . So he's on still . Oh my God , Ron .
DeSantis . There aren't boots high enough to make Ron DeSantis as tall as Gavin Studley . Newsom , oh , did you ? Oh , the optics , right before we came on , I like caught , I caught a few minutes of the debate , wow , and like it's like it's like two dipshits thought they were going to beat up on the smart kid and it's not working .
Like the two kids from shop are like an atropic kid in the hallway and it's like well , actually I'm going to read you now , but I knew some is just like no wrong , this is the fact , this is the math that it at the back , but like there was a shot where they tried to have an angle , where it made it look like that Ron DeSantis might be in the same
height vicinity as Newsom . It was like on an angle .
Right .
So like it was cheating , you know , like forced perspective , so like when someone's in the forefront but someone's in the background .
Yes , I've seen all of Tom Cruise's movies .
Exactly so , like . So like there's Jack Boots McFlarty in his lips .
And then you have .
Studley Newsome wearing just like basic flats because he's six fucking foot three of studliness .
You seem like you have a thing for Gavin Newsome .
I mean , if you don't , you're dead . And like I am on the other side of menopause and even Gavin Newsome makes my insides go , we're still here .
It's totally fine . Like I'm usually not in the guys , but I would do Gavin Newsome and .
Lord the hair . And here's the thing Kim Guilfoyle . He was married to Kim Guilfoyle , and then she had that I wouldn't do Kimberly . He got to climb that tree and then she went to junior . Really , cocaine is money on the planet and she's like she looks like Say that again Ty , what was that ?
I said cocaine is the hell of a drug and it .
But I mean , and like she's got , she looks like a blow up doll that a junior cast decided she was like well , I need to look like that . So he pays attention to me . I don't know .
But he didn't look like that . She used to look like a real girl .
She's to be really pretty .
I don't know about that Pretty and it was very pretty she was naturally pretty , very , very pretty .
And then she became like she started Kardashian , kardashian-ing herself or whatever Kardashian-ing herself . And they're all doing it . Ivanka did it . She bought herself new lips and new cheekbones .
They all go to the same shady Fifth Avenue part , you know you know , but she bought herself like a , like , a new pair of like I don't know tires , and now that's , that's probably Melania .
Well , no , but see here To a side by side . I think that Kimberly Guilfoyle took a lot of that one hundred and eighty thousand dollars that she's being paid to turn herself into Melania 2.0 so that junior can pretend he's banging his step mommy , because that's you all know . He wants that , didn't ?
Tom also say he wanted to . He was interested in Kimberly before junior started dating her .
I wouldn't be surprised . But now that you mention it , you're . You're absolutely right . Kimberly has done a lot of work to start to try to look like Melania .
Oh , I mean , it's not like . I mean you know . You know he's not . If he does as nearly as much cocaine as we suspect , I don't think she has to worry about him getting on her . But that is true , right . So there's that , which is why she's like here do more cocaine off of my kidneys . I'm going to go get some more Botox .
I'm not against the children of presidents doing cocaine , because you know we also have like a similar set of circumstances with the current president .
But he's clean by the way .
I don't mind Hunters not out here . Trying to bang his mom is no .
God , no , no , no , no , no , no hunter hunters trying to live a nice , normal , quiet life . And because Donald Trump's father didn't love him , they have to go after Hunter Biden . They are so jealous of how much Joe Biden loves his children .
From the pictures that Okay , yes , we're on the same page .
I mean yes , we're all talking .
Yes it's very big Well , baby like . Aside from Mary None , all of those Trumps have daddy issues because their daddies don't love them . So , like Trump , chasing approval from all of these terrible people is trying to , is that's his daddy issues of ? Please somebody love me , and then he doesn't . I mean he loves Ivanka and he loves her special .
Maybe he doesn't as much anymore now she's gonna be testifying against them so much .
But I don't think he loves Ivanka .
Loves her special .
Yeah .
He loves her the way , the same way Don Jr Loves his mother .
Yeah the whole family is fucking sick and Disgusting and twisted and terrible and they all belong in prison together . They the real punishment would be locking them all in a room together for eternity .
They'd have to have a conversation , they'd have to be a real family .
So they didn't spend Thanksgiving together this year . You know they did not sorry , what'd you say Ty ?
No , I said I would love to see a saw Trump edition , a movie with all 45 gotcha I would love 45 with all Today we could change to this gold toilet .
That's what I'm assuming . I don't know . I've never seen a saw movie . I'm not into the torture porn .
We already live in it , so I don't need to watch it , you know I feel about like any movie that isn't a comedy .
Basically , if they go , it's about like this post apocalypse no , that's regular life , I don't need some kids go to a cabin in the woods . No , I don't want extra stress . There's let's life .
I watch all the scary horror movies to have something to look forward to once we escape the 2020s . That's how I feel about this .
So you're saying the horror movies ?
There's a there's a fine line .
Yeah , I'm just like , yeah , it's a little pick me up , little perky , perky earthen real life that's . That's how I tend to look at things like oh you know , I was so too bad , so .
I Like . I like the a Mike Flanagan stuff that he does on Netflix , like the fall of the house of usher , is amazing .
Oh yeah , fantastic show .
He's a master . He's an incredible storyteller . I love his adaptation of dr Sleep by Stephen King from the Stephen King book . It's so good . If you have to get the , you have to watch the dr Sleep the , the director's cut version , because it's like three hours and it's . It's so good . What's that ?
can we spoil it for people ? Because it's ?
it's practically a sequel to the shiny yes , I mean , and it is , it is . It's about Danny , all grown up and him still having the shine and him connecting with a little girl who does , and they , they fight , they join up together to fight this group of horrible people who go across the country eating .
During kids and they're shine dr Sleep dr Sleep and they do a really great job Recreating the imagery from the shining . So if you're a fan of the shining , the movie they recreate a lot of the overlook and it's there's . There are moments where you think , if you look quickly you think it's Jack Nicholson , like it's amazing Like absolutely .
But when it comes to horror , like it needs to have a real , like the torture porn stuff , I don't like the slimy see cutty stuff and I need psychological aspects of my horrible .
I don't want the body horror Once you get it .
I know I can't do body horror or anything too gross , he's just . You know , as a mother there are things that watching people be hurt for someone else's pleasure , I can't do it , I just again .
We've lived through that for four years . I don't want to go back exactly that's .
Yeah , the cruelty was the point of that . And and watching , watching the after effects and the way that I keep saying it , the the way the MSM is PTSD from TFG and they can't seem to still fucking figure out how to cover Joe Biden and Donald Trump properly . You can't cover Joe Biden like you cover Donald Trump .
They're not the same person and they're not like each other , and it's I'm so frustrated when you see like many has son lost his job today . And Then there's all of these old tweets popping up where he was like , well , joe Biden can't be Donald Trump and from like 2019 . He was . He was in 2019 . He was tweeting . They like I don't know not .
And then he was like bringing terror . Read on , I don't remember any of that from 2019 . I think , because I think I had the PTSD from and I don't want to remember anything from those four years .
But I mean , yeah , like I couldn't . I don't remember any of like in at the time . This all just seemed like a drop in the bucket . But when you're looking back at it , yeah , as a screenshot of seven different tweets , it seems like a lot .
Yeah , and it's the other . The other thing is people come , you know , the , the mainstream media is sitting on television reporting on Trump and wondering why they have to keep doing it . Like Stephanie rule . The other night and I made a Tick-tock stitch about it she's like why won't Trump go away ?
Most presidents they just right off into the sunset barely heard from again , but not Trump . It's like why the fuck do you think ? Hey , dr , dr Frankenstein complaining ? Why is my , why is my monster not behaving ? It's like you created this . Now you're complaining about it . Like the fuck really , stephanie rule .
Like not just you , stephanie person , like the entire MSM . You got addicted to the rage cycle that created a lot of ratings for you , didn't it ? And you were to go back to 2015 and 2016 and see yourselves , see how you were reporting on Trump and how you did not give Hillary Clinton nearly the legitimacy that she deserved .
And then you come and you say why won't he go away ?
I like that I can do . I like that we can just bring you on and let you speak for us . It's fantastic .
Well , I mean , I know I'm not saying anything , y'all haven't tweeted or thought or shared or whatever , but it's just , it's fascinating to me what , what voices are getting heard and what voices are not getting heard it right now , particularly with what's happening with Twitter and Elon and suppression of voices , if they are , you know , critical of of Elon , and we
watched him literally melt down in real time yesterday .
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Which was , by the way . I mean , I didn't watch it , but somebody caught .
I watched about 50 minutes of it .
So , Elon Musk at this thing yesterday with the New York Times .
He was at this big conference . He was being interviewed by Andrew Sorkin .
So from Israel , yes , probably has been slept in 15 days or whatever , and he's on his constant diet of his caffeine free diet , coke and Adderall . So , diet Ketamine .
Yeah .
Ketamine ? I don't fucking know .
Yeah , he's probably doing cocaine and ketamine . So how he even ended up in Israel in the in the first place was fascinating . But to watch him come back immediately from that and like double down on the things he was saying before he left was fucking incredible . And then my favorite part is when he got Andrews he was like I'm only here because of you .
Tim Jonathan , jonathan is like Andrews , my name is Andrew , so awesome .
And then to say fuck the advertisers . The advertisers can go fuck themselves .
Yeah , that's really gonna make him he literally said .
She asked why . I'm like what are you 12 ?
So I just said they're going to blackmail me for money . Blackmail me for money , like I just like just . It's not what blackmail someone using money against the richest men in the world was such an affront to him .
But then he immediately said after that that it was going to cause the platform to go broke .
And he's like no , you're doing that , you fuck face . And then here , here's the most beautiful part of all this . I mean , I only found out about it after the fact in a Twitter follower of mine sent it to me , but during the event I liked a tweet that it says and it wasn't even a tweet I wrote , it's just .
I liked somebody's tweet who said that Elon Musk is like it's a Howard Hughes joke . So it's like Elon Musk is gone full Howard Hughes , something I don't remember . I'm talking to you . I can't look at it right now , but maybe I can , but it just was like a joke I think I sent it to you actually , or it's . It's on my Twitter .
But , just like a thing , think critical of Elon Musk above his head as he's melting down , but it's a reference to Howard Hughes which makes it really really perfect . Wait , I know I have it .
Yeah , I got to look it up too . I want to see it .
Yeah , we look things up . During too , I was like yeah , that's what it says .
It says liked by Tara . Dublin wrote an awesome book . Yes , I did .
Elon's on a .
Howard Hughes speed run . Elon's on a Howard Hughes speed run and I caught him in like mid like and he's wearing that stupid bomber jacket too , and you know , again , he is that big moon pie face . When you open up a moon pie and it's nothing but marshmallow . That's what you know . Like in me , he's just like it's awful . So , yeah , so I caught him with .
I caught a screenshot of that Like to imagine you're sitting at an event that's supposed to be promoting your app , which you're actively destroying and saying you don't care if it dies , and then above your head is a reference to you essentially turning into Howard Hughes . I mean , I could not have asked like an instant meme .
I'll have that forever Like me owning . It's just this right there . It's so perfect so everybody can use it . By the way , I'm absolutely sure he's probably he's pissing in water bottles as we speak .
Right , like I mean . You know his I probably only because he has to have his hands seen in public .
He's probably cutting his fingers . I don't know what his toenails look like . Blastang yeah that in the rampant anti-semitism . Don't tell me you're not an anti-semitic when your response to an anti-semitic tweet is that is literally the truth and that anti-semitic tweet and his response saying that is literally , that that is the literal truth are still up there .
Well , yeah , that's , that's part of his problem for blaming advertisers , right ?
It's one thing to be like oh , it's media matters fault and all the advertisers are fleeing the platform . Ok , well , how do you explain , like your own tweets , and you keep saying things that are very extreme ? Yeah , because it's their fault for responding to his actions . Oh , logic , that's like the ultimate entitled men act .
So I don't want to make it gender specific , but entitled person actions . I mean entitled billionaire , nepo baby .
It's OK , as a man I can . I can say it for you .
Men suck . A lot of us do , and I apologize . I mean , I mean , this is a specific kind of man .
We're talking about that , we're talking about a very privileged white man who has not really been challenged in his life . We're no one to say no to him , and if he does , he'll just assault them sexually and then buy them a horse to shut them up . I mean , I mean , when you have a person , I mean he is the product of unchecked white privilege .
And so Trump I gotta tell you .
No woman has ever offered to buy me a fucking horse . I would take it like all right . I guess if I gotta rub one out for you , I will .
Well , the circumstances were a little different there To sexually assault . Spacex employee was sexually assaulted by Elon and he offered her a quarter . He paid her a quarter of a million dollars and bought her a horse to stay quiet and then she still didn't say quiet as she should never have had to stay quiet .
No woman should ever feel like she has to stay quiet if she's been sexually assaulted by a man in a position of power and he tried to buy her silence and it didn't work and fuck him for that and people need to . I feel like more people need to be talking about that and along with all of the other things that are horrifically wrong with him .
I tried . I'm like a one-man army on fucking Twitter trying to point out all this shit .
You know it , but I see you .
Yeah , I mean , I can't do everything by myself .
I do it the best I can . Yeah , you made me not wanna use the platform , so I'm not .
Well , that's the point right . The point was for him to destroy it by running all of the people off who kept at the truth . They want the truth . They want another echo chamber .
I think the point was initially that he thought he because you know , look , the right-wingers have this conspiracy , they see , like social media in general , some kind of like left-leaning platform , and because the people who created it are left-leaning , just by the thing flip a switch and turn everyone into a Republican .
And then he bought it and had the real-life experience of , oh no , like you absolutely have no control over people in like such a direct fashion whatsoever , and you know , railing against that , he ended up destroying the platform , right ?
I mean because you know , obviously his intention was to I think there was intent there , though .
I think there was intent from the beginning to see not only to sow chaos , but also to get people to not trust sources , because we were already entering into , you know , like just kind of piggybacking on Donald Trump , creating this mistrust in the media by calling everything fake news . Everything he didn't like was fake news .
Everything that made him look bad is fake news . So Elon's gonna silence anybody who's a critic because he doesn't like it , or he doesn't like this , or he doesn't like that because he owns the place now and he can do that , and that's you know .
I think it was intentional , though , because Twitter was the , is , it's still , the largest , most used app on the planet , and for anyone to like to singularly take credit for that , he and Linda can't take credit for the usage . Now .
People use it by habit and people use it because , like you , they've grown a huge following and the idea of starting it is exhausting anywhere else or really hard to do anywhere else , or you're not gonna get the exposure anywhere , or whatever your reasons are .
Oh yeah , well , you say that , but I think I'm doing okay on these other platforms now .
I mean great . I'm so tired from self promotion . I mean , maybe they'll come a point where I'm just totally understand .
You've been hammering out on Twitter nine stop ever since you've released your book , which , of course , I would love for you to tell us about , by the way .
Yes , absolutely . But just to finish that , one thought with Elon before we move on . I believe it was an intentional way to so discourse and mistrust , discord and mistrust on Twitter itself , because it was so many people's primary source for news , and then to create this kind of environment where it's like another version of Telegram or GAB or you know whatever .
Instead of buying Telegram or GAB doing that running us , the intention of running us off so that they can have full reign of the place , and I don't know that they anticipated the kind of pushback that they're getting . I'm not gonna let a Nazi run me off If I know you're not .
No , so I think one of the other people are gonna stay . One of the other issues they probably didn't plan for , which seems in fucking possible , but like it's not the platform that made Twitter amazing , it was the massive amount of people . I mean and his problem there is like you can just clone the platform the same way Facebook did with threads .
Boom , you have an instant audience . Now If everyone moves from Twitter to threads . He spent $44 billion on GAB . It's fucking insane .
Yeah , but that's only a theoretical consequence because , as you see , as Tara pointed out , it's exhausting to keep creating all these platforms we're already at . I'm already at burnout with that . I have so many platforms I don't wanna post on any of them now because I'm burnt out . So you say that we could all just move to another one , but we haven't .
You have .
If you're not listening , go fuck yourself . This isn't like a plan to you , it's not an encouragement .
Okay , I've managed to migrate to threads and I don't quite use it super regularly . I do have like I mean I don't wanna . I just copy my XChan posts , yeah , that's what I do , like I'll copy paste the posts from Twitter to whatever else I wanna use it on and like on threads . I'm like I got like 25,000 followers over . What ? Yeah , oh , oh .
I can't even be on threads because I don't have an Instagram account .
Oh yeah , that's the thing .
Remember , I told you so . I had an Instagram account for a lot of years , for a lot of years , and then when I started getting harassed because I don't like Donald Trump , which is a great reason to harass a woman online ? Absolutely . I kept show , I kept using my Instagram to try to warn other people . Here's a user who thinks it's okay to do this .
Here's a user who thinks it's okay to say that . And of course my posts get reported and there's no humans you can talk to at Instagram to make the distinction between I'm the person being harassed and they think you're doing it so fine , fuck you Instagram .
Then I just lost , you know , the nine years of photos of my children and whatever else I was doing , and just whatever . And I did try . The guy who , whatever his name is , adam Massari is on Twitter and I kept , when I still had my real blue check , back in the pre-Elon days , begging him . I'm like dude , this is who I am .
I mean , like I tried to get verified on Instagram for this exact reason and you wouldn't verify me on Instagram to protect me there . So you know , at the time I was just like , well , fuck you , I'll stay where I have my audience and I have a blue check and I'm protected there . And I didn't do Facebook for a while .
But now I went back to Facebook because my former employer let me know that I was gonna be able to earn some extra money doing reels and I was like , okay , fine . And then that never happened .
But so , and which is also why I joined TikTok and I did both of those things like a year ago , and so I have more of a following now on Facebook and I have almost 6,000 TikTok followers .
So oh , how close are you I don't know .
I don't think 6,000 sounds impressive . On TikTok , I don't think .
I have like four . I feel like if you don't use it , there are 1,000 , or just four , four , four . I feel like if you use it fairly regularly and you have 6,000 , that's pretty fucking good , because there are people , I mean I have zero .
But the weird thing about the TikTok algorithms and people are making videos about this now it's gotten so widespread To get out of this . People get into this weird thing where their videos are only getting like 250 to 275 views and then they just crap out , unless I've had a few that have gotten like a lot of one of my .
One of my videos about Joe Biden got 80,000 likes on it because it was like Joe Biden drinks your milkshake and people got mad . Yeah .
But the thing is you get a few . If you have a few of those , go off they get mad man yeah . Well , they do .
If I make videos about Joe Biden or Taylor Swift , they take off . I make a video about my book , it's like 200 views . So I you know , I don't know how to go viral .
I feel like the way you have to use TikTok is like a funnel . So you you put whatever out there that gets the , the views and the likes and the shares or whatever , and then you have to like funnel them somewhere else to sell your thing .
I'm exhausted dude . I'm exhausted from I've been promoting myself , for I mean , I was on the radio for five years here in Portland and then I lost that job in 2009 . And I have been self promoting myself ever since , and it's fucking exhausting when you don't have an agent , or you don't have a real gig , or you don't have anybody behind you except you .
And I'm sure everybody who's listening can relate , because everybody who is listening has some sort of thing that they are doing where maybe it's not their main thing , it's their side thing , but that's what they wish would be their main thing , and they've been . They know that that's their passion and what they're the best at .
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