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...