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I do not know how this keeps happening. We had a day last week. Last
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week, a couple days ago. I don't know. What day is it? Do you know?
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I don't know. One of those days. We had a day last week where we
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got 4,000 podcast downloads in one day. And
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it makes me wonder if 4,000 of you have any idea
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what you're doing or what you're getting yourself into. And I
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need you to know that as soon as I saw it and it,
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like, I just happened to refresh late at night, not like I was refreshing all
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day, because nobody does that. Who does that? That' totally nobody does that.
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I don't do that all the time. And I refreshed, like,
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late at night because I was still working. And
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it said, like, 4023 downloads. And I was like. So I like,
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immediately. Actually, I think I waited till the next morning to text our producer because
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he's five hours ahead of us, and that would have been really mean. And also
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probably, like, make his wife raise an eyebrow. Like, why is somebody texting you in
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the middle of the night? It's just me, which is not threatening at all.
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And I was like, what did you do? He was like, what do you
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mean, what did I do? You have a podcast and people are downloading it. I
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was like, no, what did you do? That cannot
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possibly be the answer. You did something. And he's like, I
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edited your podcast and put it on the Internet. That is what I did. That
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was basically the equivalent of his response, to which that was
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unsatisfactory to me. And I don't understand, like, the tubers and
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dots behind how podcasts work. And, like,
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what black market podcast dealer he's selling this thing
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to. I don't understand how this works. But if you're one of those 4,000 people
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plus, because there was not a similar. I don't think it was as many, like,
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immediately afterward. Still, more than any person with almost no goal
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should be getting. Like, it's not like I'm here, like, I'm going to use
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this for. Or I'm a marketing strategist
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parading as a monk. Like, none of those things
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are true. It's just me yapping into a
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microphone and somehow there are a lot of you here as a result.
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And that I cannot. I still can't reconcile that.
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Here's the thing. Like, we ended last year with over a hundred thousand
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downloads in, like, just over six months. Which
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again, what, How? How
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What? I'm not saying these things to brag, because I want
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people to know I'm saying these things because I am genuinely, completely
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and a hundred percent in disbelief. That is we started
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this thing and I was like, do you think we could get like, do you
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think like maybe like a hundred people will follow? I was like, I don't know
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if you've heard my voice. There's nobody who's going to voluntarily show up to listen
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to it. It's not a great experience. And so I'm saying this because
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how in the world, like what timeline are we in? This is the
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strangest timeline. So maybe that's what happens in the strangest
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timeline. We kidnap pseudo
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dictators and I have a successful podcast. That's what happens in this weird
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timeline. I don't know. But anyway, thanks for being
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here and for, you know, giving me a modicum of self
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worth based on these numbers that I have no control over. And I
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appreciate you very much Internet.
