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holy handmaids higher side shatters what

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a wild two weeks it has been stressful

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to say the least but if you've been

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hearing me in the wrap-up portion of the

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show here and there for the last few

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months I've been talking about this

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great new higher side consolidation plan

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where I've been working with a company

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who's been tasked with folding Plus back

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into the main domain at the higher side

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shots calm and there are a lot of

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reasons to do that conforming to

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Google's standards and it's better for

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ease of use for you guys and it also

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helps to not cannibalize your own web

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traffic with two separate websites yadda

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yadda yadda most of this stuff is just

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technical and some aspects of it are

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more important than others but a big one

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has been the higher side chats show

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archived new plus members go back to the

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beginning of the plus archive and it

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just stops and it is wise to just put

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the whole thing beginning to end under

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one umbrella it really is better for the

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long term but ripping off this band-aid

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has been quite painful tear people let

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me tell you we were all set to launch

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the new web site on August 5th as I

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talked about several times and when it

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went live some of the plus and free show

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wires got crossed in a bad way and

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anyone who subscribes to th sees free

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feed ended up getting like the last few

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months worth of plus shows popping up

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out of nowhere if they were to hit

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refresh so Merry Christmas if you did

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happen to check out any of those plush

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shows I'm gonna know about it and I will

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send you that invoice it's coming don't

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Jack me around here no I'm kidding but

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you looked out and I hope while you

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could you did check out some of the

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plush shows because they are so much

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better and I always cut the free show to

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sound complete I don't tease you with

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some gimmick like here's my last

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question for our guests but you've got

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to sign up dear the

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answer no I want both versions of my

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show to sound complete and high-quality

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so I don't do that to you and I have

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gotten a lot of feedback over the years

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from people who say wow I didn't realize

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how much more awesome the Plus shows

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would be because the free show sounds so

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full and complete so maybe it's not the

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best for business but out of respect for

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the guests it has to sound complete on

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its own but I also have to survive

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without advertising or relying on random

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donations and we've had that

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conversation but all that said the plus

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shows extra hours are just as awesome I

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promise you but I didn't create this

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little update to be a commercial I'm

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just hoping that maybe there is a silver

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lining and it wasn't a total loss and

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maybe some people heard those full plus

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shows and thought wow this really is

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better and maybe those people actually

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follow through and sign up and something

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good comes out of this mess but I

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definitely did have a freak out moment

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when I saw that happen and I kept

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telling my people hey I'm exposed here

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you're giving away my show for free this

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is how I live this is not good guys and

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I reverted back to the old site told the

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team to get that plus out of the

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free feed ASAP and whoever was on that

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part of the project really went for the

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nuclear option and pulled the entire RSS

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feed down just killed it and removed us

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from the iTunes store entirely and when

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we reverted back it also did something

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to completely unaligned Plus member

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payments and their access so I have

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maybe 150 emails I need to get through

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after this but I couldn't really help

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them out or make any changes to the Plus

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database because we've already folded in

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that plus stuff to the main domain and

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so the fix wouldn't carry over does that

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make sense you know I've just kind of

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been stuck in limbo since the fifth

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and I'm thinking wow this is pretty

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scary half of my plus people are getting

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angry because their access is revoked

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and my entire free feed is just down and

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a fair chunk of my premium content just

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went live I mean this is crisis level

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stuff right

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thank God I waited for the space weather

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to clear up or who knows what could have

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happened so they kept working on the

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site these plus member emails kept

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pouring in and we are dealing with

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something like this you just don't know

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how long it's gonna be here okay it

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looks like it's gonna be tomorrow oh

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wait we need another day oops this isn't

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let's try again Friday but the point is

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I didn't want plus people to go over a

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week without a response but every other

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day I'm thinking okay we're gonna get

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this thing launched and then I'm gonna

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go to work on fixing these plus accounts

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and then I can email people back with

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actual information and say that it's

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really fixed because I don't have like

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an email guy or anything I could use an

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email guy but this is all me and also at

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the same time I'm still booking guests

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and studying for shows and recording

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these interviews and so every extra day

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this is taken I'm saying to the team we

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got to get this thing up because my

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problems are stacking pretty high at

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this point we're on the 12th 13th the

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15th of the month and there have been no

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shows I got to get some out you

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know so here we are

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I feel the issues we had warranted a

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totally separate update because I didn't

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want to just shoehorn it into the

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beginning or the end of such an awesome

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show with nassim haramein

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because a month from now a year from now

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three years from now people don't need

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to hear about my two-week digital

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nightmare because it will have been long

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past and we will be quite comfortable in

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greener pastures amen

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I will say despite the hiccups the new

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THC website is really really nice we

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still have a couple of tweaks and broken

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lengths and small things that got to get

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fixed but as I said I prioritize just

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getting the thing up and we'll sort out

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those small details as long as everyone

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can get some sweet sweet THC in their

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system but go ahead and check out the

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site for me both free and plus people if

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you see anything weird or something that

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doesn't work let me know email me and

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we'll add it to the list but the main

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thing is if you are a plus member you

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can sign in and all the shows will

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switch over to the two hour versions

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like butter and your archive is now

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going to include all those old shows

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right back to the beginning with Michael

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stuff we should say those first 10 THC s

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we just don't worry about those but it's

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nice to have the whole family of shows

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back together again they're not all in

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the RSS feed I don't think because those

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RSS feeds are going to display the last

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300 shows and the interest of trying to

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keep the feed lean and easy for everyone

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to load up but it's nice to have a full

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website archive and like I said go to

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the site the higher side chats comm

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check it out for me

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check it out on your phone check it out

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on your computer if you're not a plus

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person and you somehow access a plus

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show let me know that we have a hold of

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plug also anyone can now rate the THC

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episodes there it was just a plus thing

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but now anyone can do that but I'm still

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leaving things the way they were where

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you need to login to leave a comment I

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don't want to have to police the

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comments section or constantly delete

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bot posts and spam so keeping comments

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closed to people with plus accounts it's

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just so much easier but that's not a

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change that's how it's been for a while

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but the rating thing that's the point go

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there tell me what shows you liked and

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that helps me to

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kind of determine which directions we go

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higher side chats in the iTunes Store I

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know you can subscribe with the feed URL

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and I hope people who have been

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subscribed for years are still connected

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because that would be pretty devastating

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if we broke all those chains but I would

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also hate to lose all the ratings and

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reviews that I've gotten over the years

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and have to start that from scratch

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I don't even really want to think about

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it being that bad but if it happens if

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you do see us showing up on iTunes in

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the next 24-48 hours and it looks like

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we've lost some reviews or all of them

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give me a hand there I don't ask for

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ratings or reviews very often really at

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all I'm more of a play at where it lies

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kind of guy in that regard I just want

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to focus on making a good show and

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rating should come just from that

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process but this might be a special

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situation where we really need to get

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back in the game quickly and

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re-establish that dominance as for the

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RSS feed URLs the free show is still the

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same the higher side chats comm slash

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feed slash podcast and of course the

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of the website is different and it's

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slash feed slash THC - plus

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which I will link to in the show notes

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for you to do an easy little copy-paste

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and we're never gonna mess with that

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again but as of right now that is major

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issue number two is it's not accepting

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credentials for Plus members via the RSS

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feed everyone I think can log in on the

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site itself but a firewall on the server

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might be blocking something or needs to

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be reconfigured it's the first thing

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that I'm asking them to address and

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they're working on it as we speak

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and so that's the story I didn't get

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attacked or censored just a complex

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consolidation that had some kinks to

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work out

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THC is a big machine that's changed a

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lot over time getting it all lined up

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probably isn't the easiest job but I did

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see posts out there on public forums

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where people are saying he got

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compromised he got attacked

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he got outed as a shill and I'm all for

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jokes I mean let me have it but when you

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make those kind of declarative

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statements you just confuse everyone

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that does not help if you're a

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truth seeker don't contribute to lies it

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makes you a hypocrite at best

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but here we are hopping back on the

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conspiratorial main stage and hitting

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you hard with a great show after a

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lengthy break and too many daily heart

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attacks for myself but a great show with

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Nasim Hara mean and spoiler alert

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wouldn't you know it he thinks the earth

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is hollow too and I got several more

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heavy hitters in the chamber as well but

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we're gonna leave something the

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imagination and I'm gonna get out of

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here sorry for all the confusion and the

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disastrous site launch and the lack of

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communication but I'm getting back and

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I'm feeling good maybe you can help me

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get these next few shows out there with

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a little more share juice maybe you can

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comment on any threads you see related

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to this mess and speculation and help

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them get back in sync with me too just

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so anyone who did get disconnected to

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the RSS feed and maybe isn't getting the

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updates will see some of these posts out

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there and reconnect with me in the

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digital ether we want people to know THC

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is alive and well and open for business

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so let's do the damn thing with a new

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show coming at you and I promise before

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the next time a grading alarm clock

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wakes you from your peaceful slumber

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I'll be there

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thanks for keeping the faith I'm sorry