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On the Run - Episode 17
13 Plays5 years ago
Is there anything else we can talk about besides the coronavirus? I'm sharing a story about the indian girl that ran from the authorities and other great insights in life in the Post apocalypse world.HELP OUTHey guys, if you enjoy my work then you can support it with as little as $2 (one time or monthly. It goes towards paying for equipment, time, all my comedy work including the podcasts, youtube videos and live events I do and MOST IMPORTANTLY towards my family. Help me feed my child here:www.patreon.com/join/salmanzq
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Introduction and Pandemic Frustrations
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Hey everyone, this is Salman Qureshi on the Expat Brat Podcast.
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How are you guys?
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Still alive?
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That's great.
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Great to know everybody is still alive.
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Well, not everybody.
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We've lost a lot of people.
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This thing, I'm sick and tired of talking about coronavirus, but I'm still talking about it.
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It's on social media.
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It's on all the news.
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It's in our air.
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It's in the people we usually meet but shouldn't be seeing right now.
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everywhere it's everywhere people and so those of you who still think we shouldn't be panicking man people are stupid right there's a lot of there's a lot of stupid in this world i would think i swear to god i think you know i i don't know if you guys have read this stat that there's enough food produced in the world tell me if i'm wrong about this all right
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But there's enough food produced in the world for everybody so that no one sleeps hungry, right?
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But we still have world hunger.
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You know why?
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Because we have more stupid than we have food in the world.
Coronavirus Threat Perception
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That's the truth.
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A truth bomb right on you, people.
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And it's the same thing with this coronavirus.
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I think people just don't realize something is bad until it happens to them or someone they know really, really well, really close.
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Until then, it's all just a fairy tale.
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It's all just something someone else has said.
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It's something that happens to other people.
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It's like it's inbuilt reality.
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in human beings to do that with any kind of problem and this coronavirus like you know i i admit to it i i wasn't taking it seriously but now with all the stats and everything that's been going around in some of the countries take it seriously folks and there's a reason because we've been saying it over and over people have been telling you over and over
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It's because you might recover, but there are some people who aren't.
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And this thing is spreading faster than my podcast.
00:02:23
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That's not a good comparison because my podcast isn't growing at a very high speed, which says something about you guys listening and not sharing my shit.
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But we won't go into that today.
Impact on Events and Human Behavior
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We're going to keep it light.
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Yeah, we're good.
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So I'm kind of tired of talking about coronavirus, but what else is there to talk about?
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We've killed sports.
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We've killed events.
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I got no shows coming up.
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There's a lot of stuff that's canceled.
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We've been starting to cancel private parties as well.
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We're in the UAE and we're kind of on a half lockdown kind of thing.
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So what do you talk about?
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What am I supposed to talk about except if not this?
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So how are you?
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All I can do is ask you how you are coping with this stuff.
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Yeah.
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So I want to hear about how you guys are doing with this and what have you guys been up to?
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And for those of you who answer that with I've been out and about God help us.
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god god even god's like i don't know man i i don't know i send a disease to make you guys think you know what's gonna happen there's been some great change i like i like all these positive people who go oh but the air is cleaner in china and the water in illy it has it has i don't know swans again some like that all right and it's all very good and nice but the but my lack of faith in humanity
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Probably means that as soon as this shit dies down, most people will go back to doing the same stupid shit, same stupid kind of things that we've always done, our habits.
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Even if this thing lasts four weeks to a month.
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Everyone's talking about how, oh, this will change us spiritually.
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This will make us nicer.
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It's time to reflect on how things are going.
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It's not true.
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Half of us is still going on as if our life remains the same.
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It's like unless the government literally locks you up inside your homes, we're still going to keep on doing the shit we do.
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I heard people are still going to try to go and have a night out.
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I passed by a mall and I was forced to.
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And people are just chilling there,
Coping Mechanisms and Public Response
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right?
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Just out and about.
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And you're like, oh, seriously, man.
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We're not going to last.
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Humanity, what are you going to do, man?
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And I get it, though.
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I get why people are doing it because we're not used to free time anymore.
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Any place where we might have free time where we could allow our mind to wander or just think or just be in the quiet, we get scared.
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So we filled it up with sound.
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If you're in the car, there's always music on.
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There's always a podcast on.
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There's always an audio book on.
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I say podcast.
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I'm like, okay, that doesn't mean you stop listening.
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All right.
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It's not that that's not what I mean.
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Okay, you got to keep listening because that's all I've got going on right now, especially right now.
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But we do it.
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We overdo it right at home.
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We've got the TV on.
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We've got some music shit on.
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We were always talking to people.
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How much time do we actually spend quietly or letting our mind have some thoughts?
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And for those of you who meditate, screw you.
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I'm talking to the rest of us who, I mean, we keep talking about doing meditation, but we don't, right?
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So it's just one of those things that people do and people talk about and we don't do.
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So maybe things will change.
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Maybe things will change.
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I don't know.
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Let's see what happens, all right?
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And I also don't understand people who are just like, oh my God, this is so difficult.
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This is so hard.
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It's not.
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Sure, you have to stay at home and watch Netflix.
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Don't tell me you weren't already doing that.
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Most of us are like, oh my God, my life has changed.
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Cabin fever!
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But it's not true.
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You just are doing what you're meant to.
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Just because we've told you to stay indoors now, everybody's like, no, no.
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All right.
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And there's crazy people out there.
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There's a story in India of this girl.
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Oh my God.
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If you haven't heard of this one, it is ridiculous.
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So this girl, as far as I remember, it was on Twitter.
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It was on the news.
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And this girl goes to...
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honeymoon
Irresponsibility and Personal Stories
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with her husband obviously and this couple to go on a honeymoon i think they went around europe and they come back to india and the husband tests positive for corona right they they take him in and the girl's father they're in a different town i think they're in agra where the taj mahal is and the father from their hometown the girl's father calls up and goes hey where are you
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and she's like you know they ask him to come in and get checked he's like nah this is gonna bother you just just come home so she ran away she got on a train and other modes of public transport and got home and then her family tried to hide her when these guys tried when the government tried to track her down and bring her in for testing they law they lied they they said she's not here eventually
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They got like a court order to inspect the house and had to drag her out.
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Like she fought her way.
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Like she was fighting it off to not go and had to drag her and get tested.
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And she turned out to be positive.
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which is insane.
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Probably her whole family is positive now.
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And all the people she interacted with or was around and close to on public transport in India, which if you've never been, is very crowded, right?
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So it's this stupid shit like that that people are doing that make me go.
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And these are educated, but she and her husband were like an educated middle-class couple.
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Not some, you know, when you want to blame people on being just poor and illiterate and whatnot.
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No.
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It's our educated people thinking we're too good to be tested.
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So that's what we're dealing with, people.
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That's the stupid end of humanity that we're dealing with.
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And then it's hard to tell who's stupid and who's smart anymore because I'm looking at people.
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I'm looking at myself.
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I have big plans for 2020.
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We should do like a list and laugh about everything we had planned.
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Like I had big plans.
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I was really pumped up this year.
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I'm not going to lie.
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More than the last couple of years.
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This year I was like, I am going to make a change.
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I'm looking in the mirror and the man in the mirror is going to make a change.
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That's what I was thinking of.
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And then everything has crashed.
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I was thinking of changing how much work I get, what my finances are like.
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I'm going to build on my beautiful relationships.
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And
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Oh, there's some things I can still work on, but oh my God.
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Wow.
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I set a 10-year plan, guys.
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I set 10-year goals this year.
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I was like, and I broke it down to one year.
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I did the whole manage your life, goal setting, life management, life coaching shit, whatever you want to call it.
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I put it down this year and I'm just laughing at that now.
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I'm just like looking at it and going, well, that was a week wasted of my life planning on this crap.
Personal Impact and Podcast Promotion
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You can only laugh about your misery, right?
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And that's what we're doing right now.
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So...
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Stay safe, guys.
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You know, I don't want to go on and on about this.
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So I hope I've got more to talk about.
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Listen, I'm going to be podcasting more frequently instead of a week thing.
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So do listen in and share it.
00:09:31
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It does go a long way.
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And I'll be honest with you guys.
00:09:33
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Right now, I've got no work, like zero.
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Okay, so work has dwindled to nothing right now because the two kind of work I normally do is training and events.
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the boat being like canceled till the end of time.
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And God knows if we come back, will there be enough people to attend my events to make it successful?
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You know what I'm saying?
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And so, yeah, so do please share this, get my podcast going, give it some traction if you may.
00:09:57
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It'll really go a long way to helping me out.
00:09:59
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And also, just like always, I do have a subscription plan that you can go on the link to this podcast.
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There'll be a link in the description.
00:10:07
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If you go on it, you can subscribe.
00:10:09
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It's as little as $2 a month.
00:10:11
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I know right now even that sounds a lot for people who are worried about their jobs and stuff.
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So if you're in that category, don't worry about it.
00:10:17
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But for those of you who feel a bit safer and $2 a month don't matter to you, do subscribe on.
00:10:23
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It helps me to keep this thing going, all right?
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Thank you very much for listening.
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I'll catch you guys very, very soon.
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Take care, guys.