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nager sizes and adult that it would be seen as a product for people under 18. So I'm not going to defend Target, but it looks like more of a mistake than some kind of a strategy to turn teens into something. So my current take is that if you would like, hold on, if you would like to in your secret thoughts believe that Target did this intentionally, I have nothing to argue against that. Are you o…
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So likewise with the live streaming. What I thought I was presenting was some entertainment that people would watch for an hour or whatever. But what I'm quickly learning is that some kind of a, I don't know if community is the right word, but there's sort of some sort of non-traditional support group that got accidentally formed through the just normal interactions of whatever this is. And one of the weirdest outcomes is the number of people who quit alcohol or got off drugs. And there's a number of people who have helped each other. So it's not just an audience. It's an audience that is literally involved in the betterment of the other members of the audience. Which is unexpected. So I certainly did not create, I did not start out to say oh I'll create an audience where everybody's trying to help each other. It becomes like a virtual support group. Wasn't my plan but it happened. Like that's basically a big part of my audience is people who are here for the other people in the audience as well as, you know, I'm an organizing principle. But I didn't see that coming. There's no way you could have planned that or I don't think you could have made it happen. I don't think you could have pushed it to happen. It just sort of evolved that way.
So when I see that comment, somebody who got off heroin changed their life, you're not the only one. And a lot of it has to do with the fact that people feel some common support. And then when I say things that are let's say useful it gets reinforced by the other people who say yes that's useful. And then I think it makes it more powerful. So effectively it creates like a peer influence that's positive because your peers in a sense, or the other people who are in the audience, and if the other people in the audience are happy with you quitting drugs, as
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you saw, you couldn't see the reaction on YouTube, you couldn't see the reaction in the locals platform, but they were delighted, just delighted that there's somebody here had changed their life and it was hard but it worked out. We all want to hear that. So more of that. If anybody else has any winning stories bring that up next time and we'll call you out. Happy birthday to Frank. Gonna say goo…
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