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Good afternoon from Southeast Asia. It's a problem. I can clear my throat 27 times.

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And then when I start to speak, really? Clear my throat? It's probably psychological. I don't know.

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Normally, about here, we would say this would be episode number such as such of the, you know,

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whatever, AlienAnalProbe.com podcast or the Southeast Asia podcast or whatever.

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This podcast isn't about anything like that. This podcast is just an observation of something that's

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been bugging us for a really long time. Here's the background on it. The background is, for quite a

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few years now, we have produced Alien Report podcasts. And we go through a long list of

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reports of alien probings and stuff like that. AlienAnalProbe.com. And we pick them apart,

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we make fun of them, and we look for some serious content too. And we find lots of both,

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lots of bullshit and lots of stuff that might be true in an alternate universe. And then we

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also do the Southeast Asia podcast. Those are designed to help people decide if they want to

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move to Southeast Asia, you know, escape the matrix from some Western country like the USA,

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whatever. And we do other podcasts also. We have monetized them only in cases where somebody has,

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some business has sought us out and said, Hey, would you mind mentioning our product? And we're

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like, okay. And we get a little bit of money. We've done that some number of times. We have

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never sought out monetization ever, not once. We don't advertise them. We just put them on the

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website and people find them. That's it. Now here we are years later. We're up about 300 podcasts.

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And people are increasingly bugging us, you know, viewers and subscribers. They're saying,

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what are you doing? Why don't you put these on YouTube and monetize them? And for years,

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we've just said, no, we don't want to. We don't like that. We're just doing them for fun. And

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pretty much that's the case. And every time we have thought about YouTube, we remember, man,

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like a lightning bolt down through the top of the skull. We remember many years ago,

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we had a YouTube channel. We were doing okay. And we trademarked the name, trademarked,

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formally trademarked with the R in a little circle, trademarked. Cost us a lot of money

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to trademark it. And it was our product. It was our brand. And we went along on YouTube and

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everything was okay for a while, but it was a pretty cool name for a trademark. And other

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YouTubers just started using it. Just started using it all over the place. Probably, we're

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probably seeing, I don't know, between five and 20 new YouTube videos per day using our trademark.

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And we just couldn't believe it. And we started issuing takedowns to YouTube. Say,

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this is our trademark. Here's the proof. This guy's using it. Here's the proof. Take them down.

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It's infringement. And for a while, like a month or something, YouTube was like, okay, okay,

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yeah, no problem. They just take it down, take it down, take it down, take it down. It didn't

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seem to slow these guys down at all. They were just pimply faced little punks. And then they

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stopped. And YouTube stopped. No, the punks didn't stop. YouTube stopped. They just started saying,

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well, we just don't really want to. We don't really want to take down, take that down.

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You know, it's, yeah, that's your trademark. Okay. Yeah. We acknowledge that. Yes, they're

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using it. We acknowledge that. We're just not going to take it down. We're not going to do

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anything at all. And we tried arguing with them for quite a while. Zero, zero result. And we finally

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turned it over to the attorneys who had trademarked, done the trademark work on our brand. And they were

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like, what the hell? What is YouTube thinking? This is insane. This is blatantly black and white

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infringement. What were they doing? And so we said, go get them. And they went after YouTube and

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really got on them. Well, first of all, they started out polite as all attorneys do because

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they want to waste a lot of time and make more money, you know. So they'll go through the motions

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of issuing 10 polite letters, you know, just wasting time. And YouTube just said, no, we're

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not going to do anything. Sue us if you want to. You can sue us. And our attorneys would say, what is your reason?

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What is your reason for this? And YouTube never once gave a reason. It was just bizarre. It was like,

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you know, going to sleep, waking up on Mars, something like that. And we finally, you know,

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we didn't know. To sue somebody is horrible. We didn't want to do it. But we didn't have any choice.

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We told the attorneys, sue them. Sue them. File it. How much money do you want? And they messed around

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for a day or two and they came back and they said, okay, if you want to get it on the docket,

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this is not to prosecute the case, but if you want to just get it on the docket, file it,

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get it on the docket. Send us a check for 150,000 books. And we're like, what? We've sued people

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before, even for copyright infringement. And that was like a thousand bucks to start it, you know.

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Why, why you want $150,000? What is this crap? And they said, well, you know, you can Google it.

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You can look around and see, but that's just what it's going to cost you to get a trademark

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infringement case into court. Trademark infringement cases just require that much. They just do.

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And we thought about it for a while. We thought, geez, well, you know, we make payments on it.

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And then we thought, okay, let's say we go through this and probably another hundred grand to

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prosecute the case. Let's say we go through it. You know, it looked just black and white. We would

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win it. And then what? And then what? Yeah, we'd win. We would get an award against YouTube,

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some amount, some amount to compensate us for damages. How much would that amount be? Well,

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it wouldn't cover the cost of the court, not even close, because it was a brand new channel

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and was barely making any money. We didn't know if it ever would make any money. And we

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couldn't gamble 150 grand on something that might only return 50 grand in a year, you know.

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So we lost it. We lost the trademark. We lost that business. We lost... We didn't have the heart to

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restart it because we just didn't know who we could trust. Okay. So that was our initial

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experience with YouTube. We've dabbled at it, teensy tiny little bits over the years. Never

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liked it. In any way, never liked it. And we developed a pretty nasty opinion of YouTube. Okay.

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So what we're going to do in this really short little video is we're going to look at the other

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side of it. Now, let's say you're sitting there at your computer and you got an idea to make

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some money, start a business, and you're thinking, okay, what do people like to do? They like to

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watch stuff. They like to watch videos. Okay. It's fair. They like to watch all kinds of videos,

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mostly porn probably, but who cares? There's other kinds of videos in the world, you know,

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really there is. And so you're thinking, okay, how can we provide videos to people to watch?

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Well, that would require billions of videos. I can't make them all. You're thinking to yourself,

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it would take 77,000 lifetimes for me to create enough content. I couldn't do it anyway. So I

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got to get people to upload their videos to my server. And you're just, you're thinking this

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through. Let's see. Let's see, we could do that. Yeah. Okay. I got a big old server somewhere. You

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know, we've got several, pretty cheap. Hook them up. You advertise around and you say, hey,

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did you make a video of your dog playing with a frisbee? Put it on our channel. You know,

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we'll call it what? I got to be quicker. We'll call it flop tube. Okay. That's our service. That's

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our video streaming service. Flop tube. Now somebody can go get that domain. Okay. So you

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go ahead and do this. You get yourself a server. You know, I mean, grandma died, you know, she

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left you the house. She sold the house. She got 300 grand on the bank. That's enough to start up

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some little thing. And so you get a server. Maybe you think maybe two, you know, maybe quite a few

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people are going to upload their videos to your server. So you get two servers. You rent space in

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a server farm, you know, like that. And you advertise little by little. People start sending

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their videos of the dog playing with a frisbee. A lot of them send you porn. You know, you just

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scream out. And you think, well, this is okay. And then pretty soon your servers are full. And

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you're thinking, well, hell, you know, I got 89,000 videos on there now. Now the servers are full.

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And I got 700 million other people in the queue wanting to upload their videos, but the servers

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are full. What can I do? I'll have to get more servers. Well, how many more servers? I think a

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hundred more servers. Well, that's going to be expensive and I can't pay for it. That's too much.

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And the administration of it all. Holy crap. So you're thinking, whatever can I do? You got to figure

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out a way to get some money. So you're thinking, okay, the people who are uploading their videos.

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Yeah, I know. That's what I'll do. I'll make them pay. I'll make them pay to put their videos on

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my server. That's what I'll do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you try that. You put up a little notice. You

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say, okay, yeah, here, you can upload your video here and please send us, you know, 25 bucks. And

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we'll keep it on there for five years. And what happens to the number of people who were in the

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queue to upload the videos? Well, it goes from 79 million to eight. And then your business is dead.

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You're done. So you got to think of another plan. And you're thinking, okay, now let's see. Lots and

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lots of people are watching these videos. That's pretty cool. Maybe, maybe we'll get some advertisers.

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Yeah, we'll do that. We'll go around to Ford Motor Company and the Tide Laundry Soap and all that

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shit like that. Arby's and McDonald's. We'll go to those people and say, hey, we got a thing going

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on here. It's kind of like a TV show, you know? I mean, you pay to advertise on a TV show, right?

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Oh yeah. God, we pay millions. Oh yeah. Barely worth it. Okay. Well, we got these little mini TV

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shows going on on our servers. And some of those are getting a hell of a lot more hits than the TV

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show, you know? And we can set you up with advertising on those little videos for a fraction of what

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you're paying to advertise on, you know, Twilight Zone or something like that. Results will be just

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as good. You're a viewer is a viewer is a viewer, you know? And the company's like, huh, maybe. I

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don't know. Oh hell, let's try it. I mean, you know, let's try a few and see what happens. Okay,

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so the company's trying. They buy advertising space. They pay you to set up a little mechanism to

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insert their ads for Ford Motor Company and McDonald's into these little mini video things,

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podcast things, you know? And so you do it and you collect that money and you're happy.

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And you go along like that for a while and then it gets overwhelming and you need more servers

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and more servers and more admin people and it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And the

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people uploading the videos, those numbers are kind of trailing off a little bit because they're

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thinking, well, yeah, you know, it's kind of fun. I uploaded my video to this service and that's fun.

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And this service, you know, put some ads on there so they're getting a lot of money from my videos.

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And it's cool, you know, but I can put them on Facebook too for free. Twitter, I can put them

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all kinds of places for free, you know, and they won't put ads on them probably. Maybe, I don't know.

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Now this guy's making a lot of money on my videos and that wears on them. And they start

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thinking, you know, maybe I should get a little portion of that revenue, that advertising revenue.

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And you, as the owner, you're watching your video subscriptions dwindle, I mean, not subscriptions,

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uploads, dwindle, because there's so many other places to upload them now. There's everything,

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there's Instagram, there's just everything. Every day there's a new one popping up and you're

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thinking, man, I got all kinds of advertisers and I don't have enough videos now. What the hell?

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Okay, okay, okay. Let's see. What can we do? Let's see. God, I don't want to do it. I don't want to

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do it. I think I'm going to have to pay these uploaders just a little bit of money. Oh, that

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sucks. You know, that means that I'm no longer making 341 trillion a year. I'm only making 250

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trillion a year. That's terrible. Oh, look, bastards, greedy bastards, you know. Now they

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want to be paid for their content. And you extrapolate it out. You have a board meeting

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and you realize, well, let's see now. If I don't have any uploaders at all. Oh, oh my God. Then

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I don't have any advertisers either. Oh, what would happen then? Oh, I would go bankrupt. Oh,

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suck. I guess I better pay them. Shit. Oh shit. Okay. So you organize this whole scheme where you

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can monitor, where uploaders can monetize their videos. And they're thinking, well, that's okay.

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You know, the uploaders are happier than they were. You know, they're getting pennies, but if they

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get pennies at all, but they're trying, you know, and it's bringing you a hell of a lot more.

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Uploaders, content providers, content creators, they're in on this thing now. They're going,

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you know, they're just generating content. Oh God. And advertisers are advertising and they're

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getting results. Hell of a lot cheaper than TV. And you're skimming off the top and you're getting

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money. You're paying for all your servers and your admins and you still got some leftover.

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You're making money, maybe a lot of money. And you're thinking, man, this is a pretty good model.

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And then what happens is the advertisers, let's say it's McDonald's, whatever, it doesn't matter

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which one it is. They start getting complaints from groups of customers who would normally buy

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their product. And they're saying, Hey, we just saw your ad on this YouTube channel. And this,

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I mean, flop tube, flop tube, shit. I mean, they're similar in any way. We just saw this

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we just saw your ad on this flop tube channel. And it was, it was porn. It sucked. It was,

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Oh, our kids were horrified. You know, they were, they were amazed, you know, but they were horrified

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also. We were more horrified than they were, but you know, that's okay. So now we hate you. You're

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a bunch of pornographers and baby killers probably. And we ain't buying your product ever again. And

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we're going to tell everybody in the world not to buy your product. And the advertisers like, Oh,

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Oh hell, oh hell, oh hell. This is bad. This is bad. And so they have a little board meeting and

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then they decide they can't be advertising on channels or videos that feature stuff that might

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harm their brand anyway. So they go to you and they say, Hey, hey, Paisano, you're putting our

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ads on videos that are hurting our brand. And we know like it and you can't do it anymore. Or we're

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going to pull our advertising and let's see, what did we give you last year? 123 mil. So if you want

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to lose that, just keep it up. And you're like, Oh, shit, what the hell? Oh my God. Okay. That's

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enough of that crap. And so you go through all the channels, all the videos, all the channels that

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might possibly offend these advertisers and you unplug them. You banned them from having ads on

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their videos and from making any money. And then now they're just there. They just exist. They're

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inert. They're just sitting there on the server. People can watch them, but nobody can advertise

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on there. And you sort of ghost them. You make sure not really, hardly anybody's watching them.

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Because if they're not making you any money, then you know, don't care. Push them into the

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corn. Don't care about it. Maybe you've got some channel that's not yet making you any money,

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but it might in the future. So you watch them and maybe you would coach them a little bit and say,

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Hey, you got some content there. You showed the baby's ass just for a second. I mean,

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the camera flipped by it. You know, I know it was Ethiopia where people were starving,

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but just for a second we saw a baby's ass and oh God, you can't have that. No, no, no, no. So,

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little by little content producers, they got the idea. Well, you can't do this and you can't do

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that. For a while you cut out all swearing because advertisers are saying, well, you know,

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we're not going to advertise on any video that has swearing. So you cut out any videos that have

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swearing, you demonetize them and you ghost them. And then the amount of up-letters plummets.

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Plummets because everybody swears it's part of adult life, you know, suck it up. And so you start

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thinking, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God. Well, Oh shit. Well, if I don't have any content providers,

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then I don't have any advertisers and then I don't make any money and my whole thing falls

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through the floor and they're, Oh, well, Oh God, you know, the advertisers are going to hate this,

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but we're going to have to allow some amount of swearing. So you tried that and you write up all

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these terms of service. You got to agree to before you can upload and you do all this crazy crap.

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You want to maintain ultimate control over who can upload what. So you make your terms of service

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really nebulous, just confusing and vague. And that way you can interpret them any way you want.

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Somebody's doing something that's perfectly legitimate, but you don't happen to like it or

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your advertisers don't happen to like it, even though it's perfectly legitimate. So you just,

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you know, you thumb through your terms of service and you say, well, let's see, I think I can apply

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this one, number 321 B paragraph. Okay. You're up. Advertisers didn't like it. You're out. And

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that's how it goes. Now, have you done anything wrong? Well, lots of people would say, first and

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foremost, you've got to stay in business. Cause if you don't stay in business, then nobody's got

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anything. The content providers don't have an outlet. The advertisers don't have a place to

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advertise. You got no money. Nobody has anything if you're out of business. Some people would say,

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well, you should have a little bit of backbone and a little bit of more fiber and you should stand up

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for things that are right. Like the right to produce and post content that's controversial.

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But by now you're a public entity and you got a board of directors and you got shareholders and

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stockholders and shit like that. And your responsibility is no longer to what is right or

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morally correct. Your responsibility is to them. And they don't give a rat's ass what's right or

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morally correct. Usually they just want the money and they don't care how you get it. So if you had

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any more fiber or backbone at all, you just like you pluck it out. Just like bone in a fish,

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you take it out, throw it in the trash. It's gone. It doesn't exist anymore. You don't think about

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it even in your most private thoughts. You can't afford to. So you do what works. You constantly

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pull the advertisers. Well, they'll let you know anyway. You say, well, what do you like? What do

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you like? Where do you want to advertise? Cause yeah, the content providers, they're giving you

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the product to sell, but if nobody buys it, it doesn't matter how much great content they give

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you if nobody buys it. And the customer is the advertisers. So you want to know what the advertisers

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like and you'll cater to them almost to the death. If they become too, you know, retentive and picky

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to the point where you're starting to lose your product, your uploaders, then you might push

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back a teensy little bit, but that's not from any moral fiber that you suddenly grew. That's simply

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from the standpoint that if you don't have advertisers, you're out of business. Yeah. If

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you don't have content, you're out of business. Yeah. So you got to do this little dance. You got

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to do this balance thing. And you don't care who's right or wrong. You don't give a rassass. You're

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just trying to do the balancing and keep the money flowing at the most peak levels you can.

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And that's called FlopTube. Okay. That's... I don't know what that was. We have motorcycle crashes

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down there once a week. They're crazy in Southeast Asia. They just are really, really crazy.

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Okay. So that's how FlopTube operates. And coincidentally, I've heard this rumor also that

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there's another company that operates like that. It's called... What is it? YouTube.

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Yeah. I heard them before. Yeah. Right. They operate the same way. Okay. So

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now we hate, loathe, and detest YouTube. We hate it mostly because of what it did to our brand years

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ago. We hate it for the fact that... God, I don't know. Pretty much all of our content is controversial.

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We talk about taboo things pretty much every single time. This might be the only podcast we

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ever did that isn't taboo. It probably is anyway. We talk about wars and alien probings, and we talk

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about the various nationalities of people you meet in Southeast Asia and what they're like. Well,

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that's all hate speech. So if we tried to monetize anything on YouTube, the advertisers would very

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quickly say, oh, this guy, these people, they're engaged in hate speech. They're devils. They're

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Satan. They're horrible people. We can't advertise there. And YouTube or FlopTube or whomever would

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say, oh my God, you're right. Yeah. Jerk him. Jerk him. Jerk him. Get him out. Get him out. Okay.

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Instantly, our channel would be banned or at the very least certain episodes would be demonetized,

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which means pretty much all episodes. And then they would be ghosted, which means even the ones

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that are still monetized aren't going to get any views because everything gets ghosted. And

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okay. So that's the other reason we have never done anything on YouTube. We've got just a small

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smattering of just a handful of little things on there now. I don't even know why. Just to take

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advantage of the channel, I guess. I don't know why. We don't advertise them. We don't put

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thumbnails on them. We don't put anything. They're just there. They just exist as these inner lumps.

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But we're under an awful lot of pressure to begin to monetize these things by people who want to

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see them go around everywhere and be more readily available instead of just on our server or in the

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RSS feeds or something like that. And for the first time in all these years and years and years,

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well, let's see, it was our first bad experience with YouTube was, I do know, probably,

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20 years ago. And we gave no thought to ever trying to do anything serious on YouTube ever again.

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It just killed it. It killed it in us. Now people, I get two or three, four messages every day saying,

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look, look, look, you got to get with it here. You got to get these on YouTube. You got to monetize

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them. Thinking, I don't know, maybe, maybe. If we were to do that, the only way we could do it would

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be if we posted all of our episodes 300, if we posted all those and tried to monetize them one by

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one by one by one, we would have to do it again. And then we would have to do it again. And then

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we would have to try to monetize them one by one by one by one. Well, I'd probably just ban the

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whole channel because it's all controversial. For instance, in an upcoming podcast of the Southeast

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Asian Chronicles on stockphotosworldwide.com, the next episode is going to be a whole discussion of

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hot and the Khmer army, what it did to Cambodia in 75 to 79, right around in there. And it's going

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to be horrific. It's going to be shocking. It's going to be stunning. It's going to make you sick.

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It's going to make you cry. I hope it makes you cry. It makes me cry. I'll be lucky to get through

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it without crying because I've been there. Then I dug up the bones. Right. Got one through my shoe

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one day walking. About three million people he killed in Cambodia, southern Cambodia.

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And I know that whole story intimately. And so there's going to be a whole hour and a half,

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probably 90 minute podcast on that. Well, there's no way on the face of the earth,

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probably not even one paragraph would ever be accepted onto YouTube because it would be,

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I don't know, it would be hate speech or it would be war speech or it would be

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grisly and ghastly and disgusting. Well, it's all of the above. It's true.

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I hate Pol Pot. Okay. That's hate speech right there. That one thing right there that

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disqualifies it. Well, that shit's probably going to disqualify this one too.

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I'll have to go through and bleep out that one word.

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Are the snowflakes at YouTube snowflakes? Yeah, they are.

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I wish they had some backbone, but they don't. I understand why they don't. And that's what I've

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tried to convey here. They don't have backbone because they're in it for the business,

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not for the morality or the correctness or the logic. They're in it for the business.

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Or the logic. They're in it for the money. Okay. I get it. I get it. I have done a few things in my life

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for the money that weren't morally correct. Very few things. And I regretted them when I did them.

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And I regret them to this day. They're wrong because without morality, you don't have society.

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You don't have humanity. And for those very few, just two or three times,

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very minor things. I abandoned all that. And I said, I want the money more than I want society,

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more than I want humanity, more than I want honor or anything. And I took the money or the perk or

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whatever. In fact, in most cases, it wasn't even money. It was perks. And it was wrong. It was wrong

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for me to do that. But I did it on those few occasions and I learned and I'll never do it again.

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YouTube, well any corporation is under no such obligation. I wish they were.

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The world would be a vastly infinitely better place if they were.

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And the advertisers would just have to suck it up. Okay. Now we're at the end of this thing

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and we can see how YouTube or FlopTube or whatever, we can see how they have handled the situation.

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They simply demonetize and ghost anything that advertisers don't like or might not like. Okay.

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That's how they handle it. Okay. Now, when I looked at this logically, which I did really the first

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time for the first time a few hours ago, I got to this point and I thought, well, let's see now,

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whatever could they do to solve the situation, both for the advertisers and the content providers?

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What could they do? And the solution took, it took a little longer than usual for me to come up with.

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It took 10 seconds. I had to think about it quite a bit. The solution helps the advertisers

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immensely. It also helps the content providers immensely. It helps you as the owner of FlopTube

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immensely. It's win, win, win three ways. It's win, win, win. And it's easy. Okay. But YouTube or

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FlopTube or Hooms, whoever, won't do it. They just won't do it. And I, is it because they haven't

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thought of it or is it because there's something I'm missing? I don't think I'm missing anything.

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An awful lot of corporate people are not the brightest bulbs in the Christmas tree light

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string. They're not. They don't have any real words. They don't have any real words. They're

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not. They don't have any real world experience. They've never had to solve real problems, life

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and death shit. 321 rescues in the Northeast Pacific for me and 131 shipwrecks raised. I

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learned to solve problems or die. And that's an incentive to solve problems, you know, more than

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it is for the corporate mentality. Here's the solution. You take what somebody wants to upload

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a video to YouTube or FlopTube or whatever. You make them voluntarily grade it. Okay. Is it Disney

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rated? Is there just absolutely not one single thing in there that's going to offend any

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advertiser ever on the face of the world? No, Disney is pretty offensive. Lots of people won't

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advertise with Disney anymore. Anyway, is your content just squeaky clean? It's just beautiful,

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shiny, gleaming and jelly. Crystal and perfect content that everybody is going to love. It might

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be boring as a ratchet, but is it going to ruffle any feathers? Check the box if that's the case.

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If it has sexuality, check the box. If it has war discussions of grisly, nasty, bloody things,

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check that box. If it has hate speech, okay. I hate millennials. I'm sorry. I hate them.

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Check that box because that's hate speech according to the FlopTube. Okay. And they can have all these

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boxes and the categories and shit. Okay. Maybe you have to pay a $25 fee, maybe $50 fee, maybe

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$100 fee to have what you claim vetted by FlopTube. Okay. One-time fee. If they find that you marked

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no pornography and there's pornography, real pornography, not picture of your girlfriend with

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the top off, come on people. Then you get hurt in some way. You get penalized in some way. Your

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brand, your channel gets penalized. And then from that moment on, that check box stays possible

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pornography. Okay. Still allowed. Can still be monetized. What do you think would happen to the

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number of uploaders? It would skyrocket. Skyrocket. Because people wouldn't have to be

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wringing their hands worrying about what can I say? What can I not say? What can I show? What can I

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show? What can I not show? A red flag, a red line is going to be copyrighted material. That's not

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accepted no matter what. You can't check a box and say, yeah, this has copyrighted material,

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unless you're permission to use it. So there's a few things, you know,

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are just strictly red line. They're just out. But if it's stuff that the rest of the world

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accepts pretty much, then you categorize all that stuff together. Okay. So suddenly you are

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swamped with uploaders. YouTube becomes the premier source of absolutely any and all content

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for the entire world. It's pretty strong right now, but it's not the entire world.

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So the uploaders are happy. They can create. They have the freedom to create. Nobody likes it.

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Nobody likes it, but they got the freedom to create it and put it out there. Okay. Now,

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what about the advertisers? Advertisers can choose what categories they want to advertise in.

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If they only want squeaky clean, you know, pre 2000 Disney,

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then they check that box. Okay. I only want my ads to go on squeaky clean channels,

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where they're going to talk about sewing and puppies. Okay.

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So what they want is what they get. It's easy. It's just a database solution. It's just a database.

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You know, ads from Brand X, check. They only go on squeaky clean. Check. Done deal. Okay.

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If an advertiser wants more controversial, real life

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content to be advertising on, and it says, well, let's see, what can I, what can I deal with?

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War stuff. Well, God, there's a lot of war stuff, a lot of war stories stuff.

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Like that. It's grisly. It's bloody, but it's part of real life. Yeah. Oh, that's okay. I can advertise

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their pornography. Well, I don't know. Maybe there's grades of pornography. One, two, three, like that.

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Yeah. I can, I can, that little bit of pornography is okay. Not, you know, not really nasty gross,

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stupid crap, but a little bit, you know, titties are titties are titties, you know, come on.

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Some countries have basically taught us grow up.

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Hate speech? Well, it depends. There could be grades of that.

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Are you saying you hate people because of their color? Well, then check that box.

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And probably nobody's going to advertise with you. If you're saying you hate millennials,

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check that box. And then you can advertise your own content.

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And then you can advertise with you. If you're saying you hate millennials, check that box.

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Probably most people would advertise with you. The edge of your content can be more productive anyway.

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Easy solution. It's easy.

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And it's win, win, win for all three parties.

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And I don't know why they won't do it or some variation of it. I don't know why they won't do it.

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Right now, as it stands for advertisers, it's black and white. It's on or off.

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Yes, I'll advertise on FlopTube. No, I won't.

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Okay. Maybe I'm just really, really stupid and there's something I'm missing here, but I don't think so.

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And I see plenty of other people offering the same solution, but over years and decades and decades,

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FlopTube just ignores it. And they just keep stumbling on their brand is suffering because of the

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censorship that they do. The mindless, illogical, stupid, counterproductive censorship that they do.

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Their brand suffers from that. They have almost no credibility. They've lost our business for the

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last 20 years because we didn't want to deal with their insanity and their nonsense.

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We just x'd them off our list of viable entities to do business with.

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And so far, that's where they remain. We're still not doing business with them.

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I don't know if we will or not. I don't know. I don't want to because of the shit they've done

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in the past and the stupid decisions they've made and the stupid policies.

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Okay. So that's it. That's my rant for today. I intended this to be 12, 13 minutes,

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but it's not a completely simple issue. So, okay, we're done. These will forever be hosted on

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stockfotasworldwide.com. Probably the RSS feeds as well. And then we'll get back to the

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world wide.com. Probably the RSS feeds as well. I don't know. I don't like them. Maybe FlukTube?

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I don't know. Don't know. I don't know. I'm not willing to go through this one and

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get it to the point where I have to bleep out the two or three instances of the word hate

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just before millennials. I'm not going to do it. It's insane. It's antisocial. People need to hear

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everything and they learn from it or they reject it. Well, even if they reject it, they learn to

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reject it. Okay. It's called real life. It's adults in real life, you know.

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The corporate wieners need to learn to understand that and the advertisers need to learn to

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understand that also. Grow up. Okay. We'll be done for now. Until I drink a bunch more whiskey and

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then wound up again. All right. Thank you very much and good evening from presently in Manila.

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It's hot. It's hot. It's hot. Monsoons. It's hot. Wet. Sticky. Nasty.

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I'd like to go someplace dry like Miami.

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All right. Thank you very much and good afternoon and day, I guess.

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