3 Year Retrospective

In this episode, Frank and Andy share their thoughts on three years of podcasting, stoicism, and climbing Mount Royal.

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hey Andy how it's going good how are you

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good I'm seeing a black screen and for

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some reason the audios being piped

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through you know are you input should be

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my my camera does on the pair of B let

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me try turning it off and back on again

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I know you have a call so for those of

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you joining us on YouTube and our

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Facebook live page Andy and I are doing

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an experiment and what's data science

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without experiments right Andy so true

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so how's my audio your audios awesome

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okay could you hear

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all right I've turned my camera on main

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using the app that came with it so the

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software that we were explaining for

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folks and for you Andy I'll bring our

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listeners into this the image we haven't

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started three years ago plus or minus a

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few weeks we wanted to hold off on the

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celebrations for a number of reasons and

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we originally envisioned this show to

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become a video podcast so technology and

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costs have come down that if Sumi Annie

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gets his camera going we will be able to

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do there we go I see yeah I am here I

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found the Settings button awesome so

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this is good this is good so we have the

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ability now to kind of do something more

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long a lot to think what we were

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originally envisioned so as awesome as

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you may think the show has been we

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actually had even we had even grander

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plans so this is just an experiment

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might even put this live on the feed is

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kind of like a

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call it a data point how about that Andy

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I like it I like that a lot because the

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advantage is that because I'm using a

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product called restream that I can pipe

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two different output so this is actually

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going to Frank's world TV YouTube

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channel our Facebook live feed and

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because of the magic of automation this

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is also going to be I'm actually going

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to once this ends will see that it

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should pick up the arm the video feed

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from Facebook and then pipe that into an

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mp3 file which should be ready for

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upload to the scene so again it's data

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science right in data magic it's not

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science

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I told that to customers a lot like you

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know it's ok to fail because it's called

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data science it's not in Dean in the

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perfection so you know and and silently

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calling it science what you say well it

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failed but you know we weren't sure it

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was gonna work so it's kind of so how's

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it going I know you have a call in like

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five minutes but yeah it's I'm I'm

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waiting on someone and if they if they

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don't show up that that's ok they're

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busy it's a regular call with with

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someone who subcontracts with me and

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he's older but he is a data scientist as

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well and he sometimes gets distracted

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heads down that's why you pinged me

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about five minutes till the call I was

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like well I got a call in five minutes

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five let's do it

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I was upstairs drinking coffee when I

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messaged you and I'm glad you did

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this is our oh I like this Frank this is

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you're right this is our vision that's

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why we registered data-driven dot TV so

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okay there's another reason we want to

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register theirs right there's a reason

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why we're distr dot TV but the real

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reason we didn't do coms because it was

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taken so well there was that full

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transparency minor and convenience minor

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inconvenience I turned it into a

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potential opportunity to make it into a

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video podcast but the and

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look here we are so don't give up on

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your dreams kids that's right no things

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are things are going good here today

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Franco a little busy it's um it's an

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interesting time to be an entrepreneur

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right in technology it's it's usually

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feast or famine but there's a lot of

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factors kind of weighing in on all of

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that today

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I think 2020 has been that kind of year

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where it's just been you know one thing

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after after another but Frank you and I

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are both people of faith right and what

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I say when it's good times and bad times

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is you know we're in God's hands and a

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lot of people don't like us mixing that

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kind of stuff that way if you're if

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you're don't believe in God then you

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know you can take the stoic approaches

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um anyway I mean well and we have you

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know we had I remember a couple of

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people that we interviewed brought that

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up brought up the stove approach Brent

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those are stands out right right

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Raven the last one so and in Bob Ward

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spoke a lot about his face right all

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right at the end of it and I'm gonna go

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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I

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still believe this room I mean something

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I read it might have been from talev but

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wasn't in one of his books it might have

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been like a tweet or something like that

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you know that wars and plagues happen so

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frequently in human history yet we're

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still surprised when they happen yeah

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and that kind of that kind of stuck with

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me and and you know if you are person of

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faith Amen that's cool if you're not

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that's cool too we all have to live on

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the same planet we did until Mars is an

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option then we'll share too but I mean

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you know as someone you know you all

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know I mean I don't not everyone knows

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but you know I was at the World Trade

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Center I had PTSD

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and one of the lasting legacies is a

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PTSD is kind of the the overreaction to

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stress now to say the 20/20 has been

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stressful here both for family reasons

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I'm kind of side this is an

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understatement and you know I you know I

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it's it's it's very easy to cower and

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kind of like just zone out and I've done

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that like you can figure out when that

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happened when if you would look at the

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blog when kind of the post kind of

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dipped as well as the podcast when we

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didn't record but kind of I had this

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moment of of clarity that you know

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reading reading uh things you know about

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stoicism it was a really good book

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called the obstacles the way yeah and

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you know there are two things in this

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world right there's one way to look at

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I'm paraphrasing but basically things

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you can control and things you can you

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know so things you can control

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well you know laying in bed all day it's

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not kind of fix it right and things you

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can't control

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you can't do anything about it so at

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some point I kind of this thought that

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how can I make this how can I be a

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better person despite all this how can I

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be a better father how can I be a better

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technologist not gonna be better like

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human being just in general right

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because you know I I've listened to a

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lot of Tony Robbins over the years and

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some people like him some people hate

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him but one of the things he says that

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the quality of your life is largely

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determined by the questions you ask

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yourself and we're really off topic here

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that's okay we live in a very odd year

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but I mean you know if you ask yourself

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constantly why is this happening or why

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is this being allowed to happen by you

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know some divine entity you you're going

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to get answers that lead I think to

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despair but if you ask your

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self questions of how can I use this to

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be a better person what can I learn from

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this you're gonna put your head in a

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better place now I'm not saying that's

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gonna magically solve everything but

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honestly and if falling apart isn't

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going to help anyone

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it's interesting the where you know

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where the euler's overlap between

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stoicism and and faith and where they

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don't right and I think it's you know

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it's a it makes it's important

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distinctions and I think there's

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different flavors of both stoicism enter

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or is it a Venn diagram well I think

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this would that you could probably get

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away with a ban on this although since

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we're doing experiments let me try this

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let me try this yeah do your pen thing I

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see your pen I got my pen and let me

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make sure customer notes I had a huge

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customer engagement yesterday which is

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why my LinkedIn live feed yesterday was

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kind of like it was short because I had

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to pick up the one of the kids from

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daycare but okay I leave my frame was

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pretty much melted I miss Frank and and

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while you're bringing that up no I don't

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know if the our listeners know it or not

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but I've been doing twitch yes oh you

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see that screenshot I said I I think I

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did well you send me a bunch Frank let

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me finish this fuck I spend I spend a

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while stop forehead let me scroll up the

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one I think I said there whose is it's

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not the profile one is it no let me

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finish this is one of you on art there's

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another view on live there you are

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alright update assurance I want to do a

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joke okay do a joke so this is your

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right I think it is ven em no no I

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spelled it I spilled it all out because

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you'll see okay bad movies diesel it's a

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joke

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I don't know

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yeah it is it is actually then and I

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think it's to ends but this is cool so

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we can actually do we can go further the

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original vision in terms of you know

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doing architectures and stuff because

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when you're talking about data

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engineering aspect especially in some of

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the more esoteric kind of mathematical

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concepts around data science in AI I

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think having that whiteboard will...