The Wrighter’s Block Episode 76 – Erin Edwards Gets Wrighter’s Block

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yes everybody is me matt right i am here live with you on a thursday evening uh
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for another fantastic episode of the writer’s block uh i appreciate that you guys decide to spend your thursday
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evenings here with me because there are a lot of things that you could be doing on a thursday and you choose to spend
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them watching me so thank you to each and every one of you out there also thank you to the narcissist cookbook for
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allowing me to use his music at the beginning and end of every episode of the writer’s block and allow me to thank
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i don’t even remember who gave this to me uh benjamin daniel morris chestnut the 14th
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for the cava i am drinking on today’s episode to everybody that i just mentioned and all of you watching
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bulavanaka so sorry we didn’t have an episode of
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the muddied waters of freedom or my fellow americans this week scheduling issues uh but not to worry
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we’ve got a whole slate of great content coming out to you in the coming days
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but so be on the lookout for that um but
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tonight we have a milestone guest coming on this will be the first
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time somebody has been on the writer’s block three times
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she is the very first three-time guest of the writer’s block and
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for anybody who’s been watching the show since the beginning knows that she needs absolutely no introduction for everybody
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else please welcome with me the wonderful the fabulous mrs aaron edwards i almost said miss and
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i was like no that’s not right anymore this is aaron yeah yes you are officially a missus
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yes sir got it in the got it on the diamond there so thank you so much for having me
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on i feel so honored to be a veteran of uh of the writer’s block that is
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just so cool and i’m so happy to be a part of it i apologize for this awesome
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angle right we it’s you know you’re
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currently just so our so everybody knows you are at uh float fest in in gauze texas so we’re
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yeah you’re you’re using your phone you know you’re out trying to run this entire event that we’re going to get
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into in a little bit but so yeah for technical issues i am certain that
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everybody watching uh is going to be no we get it she’s she is a busy person let
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no i appreciate i appreciate the leniency there um if people try to like come into my
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podcast studio we actually have a live podcast studio which we created just for this event and honest to god all this uh
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my equipment is just decoration for me at the moment um so but yeah no it’s very exciting i am
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thrilled to be here at floatfest 2022. hey uh i have a live audience guest here
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and uh yeah it’s just it’s the second year and the first year we threw it together in 60 days
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um and we had about 300 people attend which was awesome and they came from all over the u.s which was incredible and i
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even had people come from mexico as well this year is an entirely new ball game
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um i have just under 800 people coming wow and
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i literally i’m just like the the eventbrite notifications on my email
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i’ve just been flooding in i literally got like 70 70 sign ups just today since 10 a.m so
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um sign ups are open if you guys want to go or come to float fest if you are in the texas area you can go to
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floatfest.com and sign up it’s free to walk in uh and do day passes and then if you want to
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camp it’s just a hundred dollars per vehicle that is awesome now
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here’s a fun little fact for anybody who hasn’t been watching the show as long as aaron has been on it um the first week
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that aaron was supposed to be on the show was she was going to come on the day before
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uh a las vegas bitcoin meetup and she was so busy she had to cancel on
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me and you can see that she really likes putting me in right before she has really big events
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okay to be fair i thought i was coming on last week and uh and brian was like
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no actually it’s it’s next week and i’m like oh [ __ ] i will literally be athletes that the the first show that we
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ever did together uh that was yeah right before anarcho vegas which is my first conference i was ever throwing
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and uh i i was way more stressed out back then i’m not stressed at all now
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so i’ve learned yeah i remember when i remember you calling me that day and saying hey
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can we cancel i have to go pick up like nine people from the airport and i was like yeah i was actually shocked you
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wanted to do it today but okay i see here’s my problem and it’s a problem i had in 20 when did when did we
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do that 2019 sure yeah 29 yeah i have the same problem where i uh i
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can’t say no to the people that i like just know so
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so what so what is it that got you into uh got you into being the uh anarcho vegas
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the bitcoin meetup uh leader the the floatfest uh
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organizer what how did you start there what were you doing that brought you into that world
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so i i was at so i was actually throwing bitcoin meetups at the time and um and
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we were just getting a little you know like we did one every um every month
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at that point and i was doing them from 20 well my first bitcoin meetup i ever threw was
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2014 and uh and then 2015 was the year i i started doing them
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regularly every month so 2015 2016 2017 2018 and i just got a little bored and i
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was just like you know what i think i need a little bit more of a challenge so um
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[ __ ] it why not i can curse on this that’s great you would ask forgiveness later
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yeah no so i was just kind of like all right well screw it i’m just gonna kind of dive head first and and
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see if anyone wants to come to this conference because freedom fest actually was happening
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and i was like well the only people go to freedom fest are really just like really old people who are kind of republic republican and uh you know like
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let’s let’s actually throw a freedom conference in vegas and so sorry mark skelson don’t shoot me
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um don’t come for me but uh yeah honestly i
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no i appreciate the freedom fest guys i really appreciate what they do they are i’ve never been to their conference but
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uh but it’s huge every year and they’re just only getting better and better but i wanted to throw an anarchy conference
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i wanted to throw something really centered around the idea of freedom nice and so that’s that’s
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what i did and uh and it was great it was awesome we had like 500 people show good sponsors uh we
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had great speakers and then i wanted to do it again in 2020
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and then the world shut down and i was like and then everything closed right and then and then that stuff everybody
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lost their collective minds in government and most of them never well most of them never had it to begin with
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but they still haven’t found it um and all the banquet staff in las vegas were fired so i was like well
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this i couldn’t even throw this thing if i wanted to because there’s no staff so um yeah that was really a challenge i
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literally remember being at pork fest in new hampshire um and i was waiting like i was it was down
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to the wires like two weeks out and i was like i am not [ __ ] canceling this conference i don’t care i will not
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cancel this conference no matter what and then the hotel was like well this isn’t gonna work and here’s why i was
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like well [ __ ] i guess we’re canceling this conference and i hate that that was a hard pill for me to swallow i don’t
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like people telling me i can’t do something gee an anarchist doesn’t like being told what she can’t do um that’s so weird uh
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so let’s let’s talk about float a little bit and kind of the history of it um
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for anybody out there who doesn’t know which i’m certain that most of the people who are watching are listening are on float um
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what is float for anybody out there who hasn’t heard about this yeah like what what is it and how did it become where
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did it go from what it is to having these events
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so float started out so we actually were in the middle of creating a um a cryptocurrency wallet
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that was easy to use right like most cryptocurrency wallets are like made by engineers for engineers
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and they’re not very user friendly and so we were just like okay let’s let’s try this and we have ideas so let’s
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let’s put pedal to the middle let’s do it and then we got accepted into a startup accelerator
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in 2019 and uh and then we kind of flipped once we saw like everything like once
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alex jones was thrown off of the internet we were just like okay
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something needs to happen something needs to be done and why not throw our hats in the ring to do it like first
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what we did was we obviously did our research and we went to mines we went to gab we went you know we went to all
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these social media platforms and we tried them out and we’re like well this is missing that this is
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missing this you know it’s not the platform that i would want to use and so ultimately what
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we decided to do is launch float which was a social media startup and now it’s kind of evolved into so
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much more we launched july 2020 with a mvp and we actually just
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rebuilt our entire infrastructure from scratch to scale and uh
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and now you know it’s really evolved into this more than a social media platform i mean we have the best
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community and it’s you know all these platforms like gab and mines and you know you you can go on
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it you feel a little lost no one’s there to greet you right um no one’s there to show you around no
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one’s there to kind of welcome you into an established group and so you’re kind
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of just like one of those lost voices on float you come on myself or kingsley
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will always take time out of our day to go on slow and welcome new users and repost them and introduce them to the
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community and our community is just so welcoming um and i mean there is content
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that you can look up as you know there’s anarchy content there’s libertarian content there’s um
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republican content there’s dog content dogs of float was hashtag and trending
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for a long time um you know like there’s homesteading uh
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tool man tim has a channel that he live streams and tells us about all the projects i mean there’s it’s a small
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knit community we have about 70 000 users and um
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you know like we’ve really taken the time and put in the money to build out this infrastructure we’re not
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big tech things are not being built overnight they do take time but ultimately you know our next big
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project is groups um you know a marketplace and everything that we
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want i know that you’re basically just like staring me in the eye you’re like i want embedding live
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stream [Laughter] well i will get that to you as soon as i
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can too i appreciate it yeah i’m not gonna bring it up this weekend because i know you have a lot
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going on but i have been having trouble live streaming to float recently so i was gonna need to talk to you about that
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uh but i’m not gonna do that this weekend because i know you got a lot going on so currently
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the ability to talk to the owner about a problem you’re having on a social media site i think is unprecedented and i
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think that i think that’s kind of what separates us away from the rest of them oh absolutely it is one of the greatest
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things about it is i know that if i’m ever having an issue i can shoot you a message and be like hey
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uh i can’t figure this out and you will walk me through it and it’s a fanta it’s a fantastic user experience
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um so currently you are the chief community officer of flow correct
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yeah aka i’m floats mama okay i was gonna say can you explain what that is for me because i have no idea yeah yeah
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okay so in all fairness before you go into this explanation i just finished watching the show we crashed about the
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wework people and i kept thinking that you were like
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uh adam new newman’s yeah his wife whose name i’m blanking on
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right now who was there because she was the soul of the company and i was like
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that’s not i don’t i have to find out what this is
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i i mean i will say that i i don’t know i wouldn’t brand myself as the soul of
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the company um but i i am a huge part of it you know because i think that the rest of our
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team is very focused on delivering a great user experience and
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um you know infrastructure and you know bringing in money and focusing on marketing and i think that’s all great
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and that’s really important but where i come in is i bring that human element back into float and so i do
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you know the reaching out and customer support and really making sure that people feel like
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they are talking to a human um you know and so i’m not i’m not 12
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1200 bots on the internet being like you know it’s that’s not a fun experience for anybody
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and honestly like floats community is my goal and so and these in-person events
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that i like to throw yearly um it started off as a way to
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you know just to connect with our users but now i think it’s really grown into connecting user to user and building
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community not just online but in person you know because i really feel like community is very understated and it’s
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the most powerful force i think that we have uh in our toolbox i think having a
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community who you have on speed dial if anything goes down you can call your community and say look
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this is the problem i’m having and i need help i and i expect i fully expect if i
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did that i would have 50 60 people backing me up when i need it and i think that’s important for
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every community to have and so that’s my goal with this conference i want to connect user user you know like it’s
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free to walk in and peruse because it’s free to vent and i want people circulating money in this
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community i’m not looking to get rich off of this you know i want to put money in people’s pockets i want connections
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to be made genuine connections real relationships and so you know that’s those are my goals as chief community
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officer very cool and so we actually one of the comments um
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one of the comments we got is from a regular listener watcher viewer i don’t know what they
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call these people she’s a wonderful human who pays attention to me when i speak um charla ray allen hi sarah
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i know what to call her and she’s also watching but uh charla rae allen she says that she’s clueless
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on this uh is there an app or is it a site so before we answer that do you
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want to give the history of what happened with that okay uh so
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tldr uh the long story short is google threw us off their app store um for not censoring
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our users because they sent us an email and basically said hey
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um here’s they just sent a screenshot like they just said this account has violated
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community standards they didn’t tell wouldn’t tell us what community standards they violated how so
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um nothing specific at all just hey you need to do something about this account or you’re going to be thrown off
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the app store um and so it took all of our team like about 10 seconds to
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talk about it and to come to resolution and we’re just like we’re not playing this game like i am not going to let
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google play whack-a-mole uh you know and send me accounts to censors so just so i can stay on their
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stupid little app store um i’m not i’m not doing that and so
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you know it was a very popular choice in our community i think we received a whole lot of positive
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feedback and so ultimately we are web-based only um so you can access our
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website at joinfloat.com yeah and that was the other like i
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wasn’t sure what the new uh web address was yeah i mean float.app will also send you
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over there okay i wasn’t sure i wasn’t sure and i didn’t want to like
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just throw it out there and you’d be like no that’s not a thing anymore um yeah no it’s still a thing it’ll it’ll
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get you where you need to go but joinfloat.com is the public url that we are promoting gotcha okay joinfloat.com
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cool um so obviously a lot of things have been in the news about free speech and social
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media over the last week um with elon purchasing twitter or agreeing
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to purchase twitter um do you think that this is going to have a huge change in free speech for the
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internet as a whole i would like to say yes
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but um i think i’m a little too realistic for that i think that a lot of people are idealizing
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this uh elon buy i think there could be i mean listen if it’s
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true and and if his intentions were pure and he really does care about free
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speech which i think he might i think it could be a possibility that he might but also you have to understand how many
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accounts and how much user data is on twitter right now and so being in charge
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of all of that data is a very powerful thing um i personally
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i mean i think elon musk is funny um but i don’t trust him
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and that’s fair and i you know i wouldn’t go so far to say that i trust elon but yes i do find him hilarious and
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i enjoy that he’s very entertaining i mean when he was dangling dogecoin on a stick like
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that was hilarious my entire family i mean people i have been talking to about crypto since 2014
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i’m trying to tell these people like this is a thing and you better get on board they
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literally all called me at the same time telling me to set up a dogecoin i’m sorry a dog coin wallet that’s what they
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called it and um you know did they really have to have that power by simply
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tweeting i think i thought that was hilarious you know but ultimately i do i don’t know i don’t think that
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i think that this whole free speech thing might blow over um you know free speech twitter thing might blow over in
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like a month um i think that they’re going to lose a lot of market share
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um [Music] i don’t know yeah it’s i mean it’s very interesting it’s and it’s fun to watch
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but if people genuinely care about free speech then they’ll seek sites like float like mines like
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gab now one of the questions people who care about free speech are already on those
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platforms absolutely that’s that is a great talking point that is hey well that is a good job i like that
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um but yeah no but it’s true like when when they said that elon’s gonna buy twitter and that he’s not gonna kick
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anybody off for uh saying things he’s you know it’s going to promote free speech all that kind of stuff i think i
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thought does he have a float because that’s already a thing like that’s a thing
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that’s already exists um but when he did when he did purchase it
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the first thought i had the very first one in muddy waters media tweeted it because it was the account that was open
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at the time was since elon is saying that there’s not going to be any censorship of free
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speech is he going to get the same treatment that uh that float got from google play store and the app store from
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apple and i i think that is a very interesting question
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um i think it would be hilarious hilarious if they did that from what i
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understand they’ve already sent a letter saying he’s gonna have to do content moderation
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well i mean one can only hope i mean really one can only help if if twitter
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gets taken down from the app store i think that would just be [ __ ] chaos like i
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really think it would be absolute chaos and i hope it does truthfully i really hope it does because first of all
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there’s so much toxins to be on that platform uh and i don’t know i think it might it might
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even the playing field a little bit and i can i can see that i would think that
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i i would personally hope that it doesn’t just because then you can say hey if you’re not taking them off you
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have to let us back on but i don’t know if i want to be i mean i
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know it’s probably best for the company if we were to be led on back on it’s just it’s
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having google’s intentions and contradictions shown in a light like that and i have to
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commend elon musk for for basically putting them on the spot because
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he’s kind of backing them in a corner a little bit you know so it’s it’s interesting to see and uh and honestly
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if google did say that we could come back i’m not sure that we would
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because look what they did the gap look what they did the parlor look what they you
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know like oh yeah they have a history of not letting free speech apps on these platforms and so
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if we can be successful without them then like i have no intentions on crawling back to google you know
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take the johnny depp route where it’s like i wouldn’t go back to pirates of the caribbean now anyway because [ __ ] disney
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um sarah sarah superfan sarah andrag says moderate for proper grammar and
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typos and i’m you know i am not a
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i’m not opposed to to that kind of moderation for typos typos and proper grammar
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just but that’s what makes float so great is because we have an edit feature now so
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if someone [ __ ] up their typing uh i can just say hey you [ __ ] up and then they’re like oh
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cool i can edit my post on like twitter and just fix it in two seconds and then
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you’re you’re good to go that’s fair though that’s right it’s self moderation on tight on grammar
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on grammar issues and typos um so as float’s been growing like obviously
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asphalt’s been growing you guys have dealt with a ton of headaches because i had from uh the apple app store i had the uh
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the tester app or whatever it was the beta app yeah test flight yeah tesla that was what it was tesla app i had the
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test flight app and then one day you were like yeah that’s just not coming back um the main thing that i want to see
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from my float which is still on my it’s on my home screen just i’m going to show
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everybody nice i’m going to show everybody it’s right there um
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can we get notifications to that yeah it’s a it’s a goal um that’s that
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is uh something that i’m really going to push sorry i don’t mean to show you my cleavage i just have bad balance um
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yeah it’s it’s definitely a goal of mine and i have my cto here this weekend and
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we’re going to be basically doing like a float round table uh here with our cto or cxo our ceo or cco which is me and
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our ceo um and are also our blockchain developer not developer uh
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business i can’t even think i’m i’m brain dead right but anyway
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right you’ve been very busy recently but anyway so um
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basically we’re going to be doing a public round table here where everyone here can kind of give us our ideas and
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the things that they want to see on float and then we can basically add those to our roadmap and prioritize
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efficiently to get people what they want because honestly we are
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not here building a platform and having people join and
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that’s the way it is like what we’re doing is we are building a platform we are building the platform that people
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want to use so we listen to our user base do you want this do you want that what
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don’t you like tell us what you don’t like why don’t you like it okay that’s valid you know like
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i love getting user feedback and my team loves getting user feedback because without that
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like i just it wouldn’t be as fun like i all these platforms are so rigid
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right and they’re just like this is our platform this is the way it is this is a new feature that’s coming out
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hope you like it you know right and
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as i have been watching because i’ve been around with flo god i don’t even i don’t even know when we joined the
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float but it’s been a while that we have been on it 2019. you guys are one of the first accounts on there which we really
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appreciate oh well that was when we learned that we could live stream whatever we wanted to you guys and not get
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dinged by youtube or cnn or anybody else and that became a
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great place for us to do that and it was we we would do all of our debates on float and we would do all of the uh
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we would do like the democratic debates on float because the democrats will sue you if you re-show their stuff
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um yeah so true but honestly you guys were um you guys were og’s of the site
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and we are going to um send you guys a gift for that in the
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form of float tokens so i appreciate it yeah i appreciate everything you guys have done had us on you know multiple
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times i mean three times on the writer’s block alone um you know i i’m just
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we really appreciate your guys support spike cohen is such a great guy he wrote a letter on
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behalf of kingsley’s dad um when you know when he was running for vice president
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under joe’s campaign and that held a lot of weight and so the the support that you guys are behind us is amazing and
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we’re just really really grateful for it for anybody who uh doesn’t know we’ve talked about kingsley’s dad on the um
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the muddied waters of freedom a lot uh his name is michael edwards he is a he’s
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here in florida and he has been in prison since 1993. i believe yeah
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1993 and i if i it’s been a while since i’ve talked about his for like two grams of cocaine that he had but it was his
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third strike so he was uh and his ex-girlfriend kind of set him up uh and we have been working
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diligently to get him out um and we’ve all been helping and he had a um
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the clemency hearing thank you clemency hearing i was like parole board no that’s not it clemency hearing uh that
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he was supposed to have during covet but then they canceled it because of covid and then i think he he got through but
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then governor desantis nixed it yep yep yeah so we hit his clemency board
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meeting was set for march 2020 um and they moved it twice because
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i don’t [ __ ] understand why you can’t do a video conference and how
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whatever whatever it’s it is absolutely just the dumbest thing i’ve ever seen but uh so anyway they moved it
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twice and the third time they moved it was kingsley’s birthday uh september 23rd
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uh 2020 and kingsley stayed up all night and he was so excited because we had a
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shot we really had a shot the clemency board uh offender review basically gave michael a
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recommendation that he’d be released and in typical fashion
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the governor and the clemency board always listen to the offender review board there and you know that
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recommendation really carries weight so we thought we had it in the bag you know i mean he had 60 years sentence he
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served the last 30 years and so we were like there’s no way there’s no way they keep him in prison
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and uh and although that fire has had been sitting on ron desantis’s desk for six
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months uh he basically said i need more time to
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to give an answer and we’re like more time you’ve had this file sitting on your desk like are you kidding me right for
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six months and he’s been in there for 30 years and he’s been in for 30 years i was 27
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years at that point um you know so it just it was insane and speak of the
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devil folks who do we have here hey what’s up kingsley how are you doing
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everybody kingsley edwards talking about your dad oh yeah but uh
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but anyway it took ron desantis uh seven to nine months after he said i
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need two and a half weeks to make a decision uh he came back and said no
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looks like that that is phoenix that is absolutely like that is the
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biggest travesty and one of the reasons that i will not be voting for ron desantis in
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november yeah i mean he’s doing he’s done a lot of good things don’t get me wrong i
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think he’s a strong governor um but the mere fact that he will not let a man who has been
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sitting in prison rotting in prison for 30 years because of a non-violent drug offense with 30 more years to go on his
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sentence right and that’s that’s inexcusable basically it wasn’t because he got
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caught with a cell phone in like 2009 or something he got caught with yeah he got caught
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with a cell phone that wasn’t even working he was using it as a calculator
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i didn’t know that part i just knew that it was in 2000 like it was in 2009 or something like that
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um i mean it and they just and honestly like when you call them for an update i
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remember like we would call and just say like do you have an answer yet does the governor have an answer yet his
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secretary would answer and just like treat you like an absolute hostile i mean like these people are soulless they
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genuinely do not have souls that’s absolutely true especially when it comes to the lives of somebody like like
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michael who i’ve been waiting for the day that i can talk to him in person um but when it comes to somebody he’s been
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in there for 30 years he was set up by his ex-girlfriend who was just trying to beat a charge and
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set him up instead was like yes [ __ ] him and quite literally ended up ruining the
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rest of his life uh and he can’t get it doesn’t give him the chance for redemption and that is one of the
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biggest things that we believe in is the chance for redemption and so having it where
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the governor finally could give him the redemption and say okay yes he has changed because of a stupid infraction
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at the time 11 years prior uh he was like i don’t know he hasn’t been a perfect prisoner well nobody’s perfect for 30
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years nobody not even you ron i’m certain i’m not 100 sure but i’m certain
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um i am certain you haven’t been perfect for 30 years so let the man out just let him go yeah um
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but yeah people in the comments are saying very upsetting and uh it is but since we aren’t here to talk about
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that let’s because well before we end that chapter on that topic i wanted to offer um
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hi toshi if you set up a jpeg account um basically i can get you guys to do an
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interview you and michael if that’s something that you’d be interested in i would i would love to talk to michael
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okay let’s get you on his visitors list and then that way you guys can and can
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uh conversate in in an app called jpeg okay we’ll talk about it yeah we’ll talk
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about it we’ll talk about it uh after it didn’t i’ll i’ll i’ll contact you next week
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after you’re done with all the businesses after all of this yes
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but no i’m very excited i’m very excited to uh do that that’d be amazing um so
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let’s go back to float fest we have 800 people that are going to be descending upon gauze texas over the next what three
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days two days yeah uh tomorrow is the first day okay so tomorrow’s the first day we’ve
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got 800 people coming to gaz texas what sort of things are going to be happening at flow fest i know that you said that
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you got your round table with everybody there but what other things i know that spike’s there and he’s gonna do his little spike show but i i’m certain
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there are other huge names that you have coming yeah so we have uh spike cohen of course
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is coming uh we have dr andrew kaufman who is coming and speaking uh we did
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have max egan on the list but he’s run into some visa issues um so unfortunately he won’t be making it um
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but man there are so many speakers like too many speakers to list we have um derek rose
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coming uh john fush of freedom cells texas freedom cells and
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so they’re going to be basically coming and doing a workshop we have sam tripoli and eddie bravo
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coming and doing a comedy night on a saturday and so there are a couple of
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local comics coming as well to open for them um man i i literally there’s i have
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35 speakers coming um that’s a lot and so ultimately
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would they all be listed would they i was going to say are they all on the website yeah you can go to www.slopefest.com
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and they’re there listed there under schedule why not we have our cxo who just walked in hi chuck how are you how
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are you doing chuck how you doing um so uh
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how do you we’ve kind of covered this a little bit but compared to the init to the inaugural float test to the first one
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obviously we’re looking at bigger we’re looking at a lot more guests that are going to be there a lot more events happening
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but you’re you seem much more calm than you did last year when i talked to you right before flip fest
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well i took a beta blocker no i’m just kidding no it’s i don’t know honestly i feel
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very confident this year um i’ve called my ceo twice in the last like 48 hours
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and i’m like do we need more bathrooms do it you know and he’s like no
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i’m like oh okay if you’re not if he’s not stressed i’m not stressed um and that’s kind of my
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i’ve really tried to get a better better handle on my stress levels uh in the last like
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year or two and so i’ve realized if the people around me are not panicking then i won’t panic either um everything is
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fixable everything is figure out able uh we are not too far off the grid we are
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an hour outside of austin and uh and yeah i mean it’s awesome let me if you don’t mind i would love to
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just kind of give you a little bit of a tour absolutely so you guys will be seeing it i kind of
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i wanted to come but we the kids are still in school so it’s like we couldn’t take the time off and then work and
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we’re saving up for a wedding so like just i totally get it i understand
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i’m i’m so excited for you by the way i was so happy when that happened i was like
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they’re getting married so was i i was very happy when that happened like i knew the answer to the question but i
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was terrified that she was gonna be like no no you’re a man-child
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uh
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you know that’s scary i
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you are frozen right now if you can hear me um but everybody uh
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yeah i was terrified when that happened um okay you’re back i’m back i’m sorry so yeah so this is
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the uh the property so and this is kind of like our stage area
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and then if you move out here this is where this field will be covered with
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rvs tiny homes uh renovated schoolies
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so it’s gonna be really exciting everyone’s starting to kind of pile in early
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tonight and yeah it’s gonna be awesome no i’m i’m excited
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if people happen to be in the gaz region of texas uh
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would they still be able to sign up if they went to floatfest.com and just show up yes
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yes yes so if you go so the address is not public because it is a private property
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however if you go to floatfest.com and sign up and register for a ticket
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uh you will the address should show up on the confirmation email so come on out
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i mean it’s gorgeous you have your beautiful texas sunsets that is that is a that that it beats a
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florida sunset oh i don’t know i think i’m i’m half and half on that i love to
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i love florida sunsets even though i hate the pacific coast i
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like their sunset so much more that i like florida’s i don’t know i think it’s the smog i think it’s all the pollution
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um i think it makes for a beautiful sunset uh yeah so
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we people in the comments are saying that they’re gonna their goal is to be there next year so hopefully a lot of people come next year uh hopefully sarah
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and i can make it next year as well uh because that would be an amazing time to hang out with you and king
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and uh just get a chance to uh experience float fest for everything it
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is instead of like i see all the pictures online and i’m always like man that looks so much fun um
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absolutely so uh before i let you go is there anything that you want to next year it’s
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going to be so much bigger go ahead
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no no i just i’m i hope to be excited
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so uh before i let you go is there anything you want to push i know that you are oh my god this is
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um yeah so just floatfest.com i’m sorry there’s a little bit of a delay but yeah
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floatfest.com and uh and if you want to check out joinfloat.com as well we’d
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greatly appreciate it but thank you for having me on i’m sorry people are yelling my name from afar so i get it
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you’re you’ve got to go you’re a busy woman and i understand that i appreciate you taking the time today to talk to me
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uh have a great time this weekend let me know how everything is and i will talk to you can i get it on this podcast
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sure what’s your name this i’m alex this is alex alex sorry
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let me know i didn’t mean to bomb your uh no you’re good you are the chief operating officer
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from muddy waters media matt how you doing doing well i’m glad i’m glad to see you see this i i have you in the i have you
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in my notes you’re the chief operating officer uh yeah that’s me yeah
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are you is he coming to the thing no this is spike’s co-host okay all right on yeah
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um
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oh yeah i appreciate y’all uh have a great time this weekend and uh i will talk to you next week let me know how
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everything is all right i’ll talk to you soon awesome bye
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guys all right that was amazing uh love it every time that erin
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can come on um i totally didn’t look at what the rest of the schedule is this
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week even though i told you that it was uh happening uh hang on one second while i
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looked that stuff up because i should know these things uh to share jason nope
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not that one so jason lyon has a show tomorrow
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uh of mr america the bearded truth and i hope everybody out there got a chance to
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watch uh got a chance to watch mine and jason’s episode of muddy america which aired on sunday
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if you didn’t get a chance to watch it if you become a subscriber you can go and
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to anchor dot fm slash muddy water slash subscribe and
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you will have access to that uh to that show tomorrow
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and week of the 25th tomorrow jason has elizabeth cokeyard on
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his show uh at 2pm eastern so tune in for that it’s going to be a great time
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spike’s at float fest all weekend long so i’m certain some stuff’s going to be coming out about that uh and then next
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week i believe on tuesday
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at roughly our normal time there should be an episode of my fellow
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americans or no of muddy waters of freedom uh i don’t know about next
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week’s wednesday let’s see wednesday there is not going to be an episode of
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my fellow americans next week and you aren’t going to believe who my guest is next week you are going to have to
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tune in to find out um so be sure to tune in for all of that
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thank you all so much for uh joining me on a thursday evening as i’ve said multiple times uh it’s a thursday
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there’s literally thousands of things you could be doing and i appreciate that you choose to spend it here with me
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uh your fun fact of the week in 1936 jesse owens
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who’s famous for making hitler really mad uh beat a horse in a hundred yard dash
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and the horse was given a head start
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fun fact for you thank you all so much uh tune in tomorrow for mr america the bearded truth next week tuesday for uh
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the the muddy riders of freedom then next thursday for the writer’s block and uh until then have
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just a fantastic weekend um and remember no matter if you are skinny if you’re
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