Important YouTube Update

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Attention Attention. If

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you listen to this podcast on YouTube, you need to

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really listen to this episode. Attention to all YouTube listeners.

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You need to listen to everything I'm going to say

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in this episode, or well you may not hear any

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more episodes. All right, so are you ready to listen?

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I hope so, I hope I have your attention. Attention

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all YouTube listeners. It is Tuesday, October fifteenth, twenty twenty four.

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It is currently two forty five pm Central Time, and

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I am coming to you live from the Theology Central

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studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now coming either

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this Thursday or next Thursday. There seems to be a

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little bit of confusion, but either this Thursday or next Thursday,

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something dramatically is going to change for those who listen

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to me on YouTube. What's going to change is you're

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not going to see any new content. It's just no

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new episodes are going to be uploaded. And I don't

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even really know what's going to happen to the old episodes,

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but there's going to be some Well, if you want

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to listen to me, You're gonna have to find another way.

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Let me explain what's going on. I'm gonna give you

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some options and tell you what may or may not happen.

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All right, are you ready? All right? So if you are,

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if you listen to me on YouTube, here's what's about

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to happen. I received a notification from our podcast hosting site,

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which is spreaker. Now, for those who listen to me

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on YouTube, you may not realize how this works, but

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the way we ended up on YouTube was not because

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I'm like, well, we've got to get our content on YouTube.

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I never even thought about YouTube as really being an

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option because YouTube is typically for well videos, correct, And

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I'm an audio podcast. I don't have any desire to

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set everything up to try to do video. I don't

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really have any desire to do that, right, So, and

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I think for most listeners, I don't know. Do a

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lot of listeners sit there listening to a podcast just

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watching some person talking into a microphone. I mean, is

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that like, oh, I've got to watch the video of

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this guy talking into a microphone. I don't know. I mean,

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I know a lot of podcasters do that. I don't

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to me, audio just makes more sense because you can

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hit play and then you can be doing whatever you're doing.

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I said, I'm like, I'm sitting there watching a video.

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So I just never thought I had no desire to

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do video. I had no I didn't really think about

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being on YouTube. I didn't really I just didn't really

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give it a much thought or consideration. But our podcasting

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hosting site, Spreaker, contact to us and said, hey, do

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you want your content on YouTube? I'm like, well, I

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mean maybe. They said, well, we can just automatically send

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your content there. You don't have to do anything. We'll

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just automatically send it there. You just do your typical broadcasting,

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your typical uploading, and we'll take care of it. We'll

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send it to YouTube for you. And I'm like, okay,

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can't hurt. So they started sending it to YouTube. And

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it's been there now for year, you know, for I

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don't even know how many years it's been there, and

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we never give it any thought. Well, they contacted me

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this week and said, hey, YouTube has changed its policy

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and starting either this Thursday or next Thursday, we can

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no longer just automatically send your content to YouTube. So

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if you want your content there, You're going to have

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to find a way to find a file and the

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right format. It's going to have to be in a

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video format, and then you're going to have to manually

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upload it to YouTube. You're going to have to take

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control of it. You're going to have to take charge

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of it. You're going to be responsible for it. We're done, right,

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We're finished. Because YouTube has changed the policy, we can

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no longer just automatically send your content there. And I'm like,

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oh boy, so what do I do? Well, I have

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a couple of options. Well, option number one it's just say, well,

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you know, hey, guys, it was a good run. We

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were on YouTube the end. If you want to hear

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my content, here's the other options. Option number two is

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find a way to upload a video file format, even

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though it's just audio, but it's in a video file format,

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upload it to YouTube, and try to maintain it right,

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which will require a lot of extra work, extra time,

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and extra effort. And I'll tell you some of my

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reasons for not doing that. So that's kind of our options.

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Just be done with YouTube or find a way to

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keep it going. Now here are my issues with trying

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to keep it going. If I look at my statistics

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for YouTube right like, if I look at my statistics

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right now for US sermonadio dot com. If I look

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at my statistics right now for.

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Sermonadio dot com, sermonadio dot com right now, at this moment,

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for October the first to October the fifteenth, so a

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little less than fifteen days, we've had twenty eight thousand,

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six hundred and eighty four downloads and streams.

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Twenty eight thousand, six hundred and eighty four. All right, okay,

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If I go to YouTube right, if I go to YouTube,

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and the last twenty eight days, we've only had five

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hundred and ninety three views. I mean, it's not even

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in the same ballpark, right, And if I look at

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my numbers for all the other podcasting apps, we're well

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over twenty eight thousand and fifteen days, so twenty eight

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thousand for sermonadio alone, well over twenty eight thousand on

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all the other podcasting hosting sites and YouTube five hundred

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and ninety three. So how much effort should I put

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in for five hundred and ninety three? Well, in some cases,

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you want to do everything you can for the people

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who listen on YouTube, but I'll explain why is it

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really worth it? And this is where the numbers get

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even more depressing. If I look at the content that

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has been downloaded, right, if I look at it all, right,

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here's what you're going to find. The average view duration

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for our number one downloaded one in the last twenty

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eight days, which is the Christian and Complete Armor. I

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don't know which part it was viewed for one minute

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and sixteen seconds. If I look at John MacArthur the

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Master Seminary, I don't know what I was referring to

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about on that episode seven minutes and thirty nine seconds.

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If you look at first John No. Part two two

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minutes and thirty two, thirty seven seconds, Trump, what's next

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eleven minutes and twelve seconds? What is that demonstrating? What's

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demonstrating that? For the In most cases people are looking

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on it and realizing it's not video and immediately turning

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it off, or they just hate the sound of my voice. Okay,

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but I think most of them thinking oh, this is

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going to be a video, they see it's audio and

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they're done. Well I'm not. I'm not going to be

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able to change yet unless I go to a video

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podcast and I have no desire to go to a

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video podcast none zero, I don't. I have no desire

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to do that. It's much. I just prefer the audio.

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I just prefer the audio. I think it's much easier

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for people to listen to while they're driving or doing

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whatever instead of a video. So so that tells me

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the numbers are not great. The time people are actually

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listening is very very short on average, there's always the exception.

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So is it worth in the extra time and effort

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it would require to take to fight to get it

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in a video format and then upload it directly there.

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I don't think. I don't think it's really worth it.

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Now why one of the reason, Now, that's that's one

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of the reasons that's not worth it. Another reason it's

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not worth it. And I think this, I think this

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is fair. Hey, YouTube listeners, you can hear this podcast

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on every podcasting app on the face of the planet.

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Right We're on Spotify, We're on Pandora, We're on Apple Podcasts.

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We're just name the pocket cast castro, you just name

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the podcast app. We're on every single one on earth.

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We're on the Serious XM app. If you have the

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Serious XM app. Theology Central is available on a We're

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available everywhere, so it's not like, well, now some people

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may do this, Well if you're not on YouTube, I'm

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just not gonna listen. Well, there's not much I can

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do about that. But we're available everywhere, and just listen

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to this when I am done with this broadcast. When

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I am done with this broadcast, it will literally be

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somewhere between two to five minutes after I'm done that

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this episode will be available not only on the Spreaker

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podcasting app, but most of the podcasting app. Somewhere between

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two to five minutes pocket cast, it shows up relatively

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quick overcast, relatively quick castro, relatively quick serious XM app,

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probably within about ten minutes. So if I even if

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I was to stay on YouTube, you may get a delay,

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and I think even fair between thirty minutes to an hour,

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if not days. Because what I have to do to

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get it on YouTube starting on Thursday or next Thursday,

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when whenever our podcasting hosting site stops sending it there

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automatically is I'm going to have to go to Sermonadio

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find the archived the archive archive file of this broadcast,

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which is recorded in a video format. Then I'm gonna

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have to upload the video archived file to sermon audio.

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So then it's on video. I have to wait for

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that happen. It's slow. Once it's uploaded, then I have

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to download the video file, then go to YouTube and

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then manually upload it. Well, if I'm busy or doing

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something else, that's not going to take place, and so

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you're gonna get along delay why. I mean, you can

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get the content immediately on any other podcasting app. So

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I just don't know if it's worth it. I may

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try it just to see how much time is involved

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and look at it. I just five hundred and ninety

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three views and twenty eight days versus twenty eight thousand

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and fifteen days versus I don't know, forty fifty thousand

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and fifteen days on the other apps, like you know,

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come on now now. The reason I may think, the

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reason I kind of want to stay on YouTube is

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because it's considered the number one search engine. Right. If

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people are searching for things, they search for it on

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YouTube other than say TikTok. Well, I don't want to

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be on TikTok because there's no way This podcast trend

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slates to five minute video segments. It just does not that.

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It just does not fit that format right YouTube. It

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may fit other for the fact that you know it's

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long term. You know long it's a long format. But

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even there, I mean, we're not a video format. So

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do I do all that extra work for I mean

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and now something? Now, to be fair, there are some

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twenty eight twenty eight day periods where I can get

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close to one thousand or maybe even close to two

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thousand views on YouTube. But you know what I have

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to do. I gotta find the sensational. I gotta find

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the controversy, the scandal. Right the famous pastor who recently

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you know, got removed from ministry because of his sin.

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If I would have blasted his name and my titles

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and talked about it and talked about it, I probably

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would have well over a thousand. But I would have

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to be using scandal and someone's fault all for my

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own benefit. And what what what really information are you communicating?

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I've been watching the YouTubers talking about it, and it's

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just like, who we found out this, and oh we

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found out this, and oh we found out this. Oh

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it would come on? What do you do other You're

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just using gossip in the window scandal for your own benefit. No,

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I no, I'm not playing that game. So I have

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to be controversial. I have to be I have to

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be sensational, you know. I have to talk about Trump.

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I have to talk about the election. I have to

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talk about you know, scandal. I have to have to

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have sensation, sensational titles, and then I can get that

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number on YouTube, well over one thousand. And then what

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I have to do is make sure when someone makes

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a comment, I come right back in and if they're snarky,

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I'm snarky and I because if I can create a

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little controversy, then I can get the numbers. But do

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I want that? I I I don't necessarily want that.

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So there's a high probability. I think this is to

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fair to all YouTube listeners. There's a high probability that

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probably within two weeks you may see the YouTube channel disappear.

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So what would I challenge you to do? Well, any

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podcast app, any if you're a SERIOUSXM subscriber and you

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use the app, boom, there you go. That's an easy way, right.

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If you use Spotify, Boom, there you go. I'm right there.

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If you use any other. If you use Pandora, I'm

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right there. If you use any other podcasting app, just

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do a search for Theology Central. You will find us right. Also,

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we would highly recommend downloading the Church one app. Church

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O n E all run together, Church O n E.

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access to millions of sermons. But do a search for

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content will show up under your feed tab. That's an

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Sermon's two point zero. Those are all great ways. You

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can go to the sermon audio website and do a

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so I would suggest you do that. It'll be interesting

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the Those numbers are pretty depressing.

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me when I can just look on the other platform,

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the sermon audio platform, and we're almost at a We're

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almost at thirty thousand and fifteen days, and I can

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the other podcasting apps, well over thirty thousand, So you know,

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you know, hey, do I spend all this extra time

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where the average time is about four minutes of engaging

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my content. Or can I go to all these other

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podcasting apps where it's in the thousands and thousands and thousands, we're,

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in the top five percent of all podcasts on the internet. Well,

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that's not because of YouTube, all right. That's we're not

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in the top five percent of all podcasts because of YouTube.

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I can tell you right now, hang on, give me

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logged out of our podcast hosting site. I can tell

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All right, here we go.

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I can go to my podcast. There is Theology Central.

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I can click on that. I can go to statistics,

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I can go to more. I can go to.

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Sources. Apple podcast hands down, hands down is number one.

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number three, Pandora, So are the where people listen to

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us the most is Apple Serious XM. Those numbers are

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crazy for Serious XM. Just today for Serious XM is

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three thousand, five hundred and sixty nine. That's nuts, all right, Yeah,

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we're for for We're we're at uh wow, we're okay. Yeah,

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you know we're close to five hundred thousand, okay, So yeah,

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so I mean that's where that's where that's crazy. I

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didn't know, Sirius XM was way up there. So yeah,

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that we've got we're available on a lot of places,

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and so I just don't and like if I even

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look here, YouTube does not even show up. Like if

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I look here, no.

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Yeah, YouTube is not in the top one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

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sixteen seventy.

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It's not even in the top twenty ladies and gentlemen.

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So yeah, there's no Yeah, that's I'm kind of convincing myself.

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But to say it all this, I will just wrap

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it up this way because I didn't want to, you know,

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do this anyway. But the reason I'm doing this now

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is where this will be uploaded to YouTube, so that

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YouTube listeners know what's going on, because after Thursday or

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next Thursday, it's going to be hard for me to

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let you know. So I'm trying to let you know.

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So all attention, all YouTube listeners. If you appreciate the

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Theology Central podcast, I mean, you would like to continue

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to listen to it, please consider a podcasting app. It

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can be Apple, it can be Spotify, Pandora, pocket Cast,

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you name the app, we are there. If you are

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a serious exem subscriber and you use the app, please

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look for Theology Central. You can listen to us there,

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or you can download the Church one app Church O

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n E. Do a search for Theology Central. You can

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download the Sermons two point oh app. Look for Theology Central.

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You can go to the sermonaudio website look for Theology Central.

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And if you need any help, you can always contact

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me and I will do my very best to help

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you find our content. So, if you are a YouTube

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listener and you're like, well, I want to keep listening,

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where can I find you? You can email me at

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newsif at yahoo dot com. That's news if news, if

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newsif at yahoo dot com and tell me what you

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have available, and I will help you find our content.

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I hate that because my philosophy has always been make

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our content available on every platform on earth. But at

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the same time, you have to just look at how

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much time and effort you're going to put into it

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and what you're getting out of it. Right now, YouTube

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is not even it's not even scratching the surface. So

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we're probably going to say goodbye to all of that,

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and then hopefully we'll see a increase, Hopefully we will

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see an increase of people listening on the other.

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Platforms, hopefully, hopefully, we are hoping.

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It'll be interesting to see how many people on YouTube

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even care, right So, I bet you between three to

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five three people, three three to five people, that's what

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I think. And I think most others are not going

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to care, And I think most others are not going

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to follow us on YouTube anyway. I think we're just

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kind of a curiosity there and that some people are

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searching for things find us and kind of go, oh, well,

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this is not video. I don't care and there's nothing

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I can do to fix that. And you say, well,

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but if you uploaded, it would be in a video format.

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It wouldn't be it would be in a video format,

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but it would still just be audio. So and you

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could say, well you should do a video podcast. No

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I'm not ex so there you go.

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All right, there we go.

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There that's that's the update. So if you have any questions,

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let me know. Everyone, have a great day, continue to listen,

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continue to listen. And for anyone listening, I do love

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to know how you found us, like was it a

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YouTube search? How did you find us? And how do

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you listen? We always love that information. I always love

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it because that gives me some idea like oh, this

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is the platform, or I haven't looked at the statistics

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in forever. I had no idea that SiriusXM was had Wow,

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look what is going on there? Like what's happening there?

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That's I mean, I always thought it would be cool

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to be on SiriusXM. I always thought it would be cool.

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I had no idea that now is number two and

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the Apple podcasting app that's that's still our number one platform.

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That's still the number one. So that's that's awesome. Hey,

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And for those who listen on the Apple podcasting app, Hey,

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please give us five star rating? Please oky, please please please, please,

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please please please. I was asking Ai about the Theology

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Central podcast and it was saying, hey, you're well, you

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know you're on this list. You're on this list, you

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know what, not saying me because a I didn't know

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it was me at the time, so it was just saying,

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the Theology Central podcast is doing very well. However, it's

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only got like I think three point five stars on

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Apple Podcasts, and I'm like, come on, now, come on,

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maybe you don't like the podcast, do you have to

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give it only three one star? Come on? Can we

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get to five stars? Come on? Please? All right, but

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the rating, even if you give me a bad rating,

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the more ratings, the more activity and the algorithms pick

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it up. So if you use, if you listen to

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us on Apple, please give us five stars. Spotify I

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think now has thumbs up or thumbs down or star ratings.

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I think as well. And then Pandora. Whoo, the thumbs

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down on Pandora. Those numbers are astronomical. Those numbers are done.

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I don't even look anymore. They got so depressing because

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people get they don't like what I have to say,

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which you know that's kind of normal. All right, there

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you go, everyone, Thanks for listening. Everyone have a great day,

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and if we get a chance, we'll do some more

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broadcasting today. Maybe I don't know. Things haven't quite worked

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out today, but I wanted to at least get this

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out of the way, so everyone have a great day.

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If you have any questions, let me know. Attention, YouTube listeners,

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go find a different platform because YouTube has changed its

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policy and the way my content is now put there

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is by our podcast hosting site, which does it automatically

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for me. That's no longer going to happen, which means

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I don't know if any more content is going to

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go there, and I don't even know what's going to

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happen to the old content. So if you like this podcast,

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go find another place listen. And we greatly appreciate anyone

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who supports it. To the listener in Ohio who just

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sent a check, I'm very appreciative of that and I

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need to get that deposited in the bank as soon

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as possible. But thank you so very much for that.

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It's always beneficial and helpful. All right, everyone, have a

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great day. God bless