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only rational path that will be left to him. And of course he will do it. So those things we can predict with clarity. But if you hear the Democrats say, if they start talking about he said Mexico would pay for it, you know they've lost. If all they have left is the part of the campaign promise that was more really a joke and marketing than it was serious at least in a direct way, if they're argu…

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adcast from wherever you are. But as Jack was describing on Joe Rogan, that people like me started using it for podcasts which was not an original application that was originally assumed. And because people started using it for that, so the way I'm using it is more like a podcast. And so because people started using it like that they started adding features to satisfy that market.

So in other words here again Periscope started with a certain application and market in mind but they listened to the audience and they moved where the audience wanted it to go. Same with, I'm pretty sure you could just go down the list and you could find company after company that started as one thing and became something else.

You know who is Google's customer? Everyone. Who is Apple's customer? Well it's everyone who has money, right? Because their products is a little higher end than the competition. Well it's basically everyone.

So I'm trying to square these two things. Oh and let's take Dilbert for example. Dilbert started out as just being a comic for people who had the same sense of humor as I did which turned out to be a small audience. But the audience told me hey we like it when he's doing workplace stuff. So because the audience told me I moved Dilbert to a workplace comic and then it succeeded.

So what I observe, and by the way we've got a feature change on my Interface by WhenHub app that's out now. And when you see the feature change you're going to see this effect. So we're adding the feature and I'll tell you about it when we release it I think in a week or so. That is completely dependent on what customers wanted and it's a completely different application in addition to the things that it already does.

So you're gonna see that there are two ways to get where you want to get. One is to have a specific customer and really chase that customer and that's the way you can get funding more easily. But once you're chasing a specific customer you end up listening to the audience and then adjusting your product in a variety of different ways until it becomes a different product and the audience tells you what that is.

So the wisdom of people who fund startups is almost directly opposite of how we observe the world to work and I've never quite squared those two things, how they can be.

Somebody said their daughter went on there as a script doctor. That's a good use. So the script doctor is somebody who looks at a script that's been written let's say for a movie or a TV show and they know how to fix it from a raw form into something that's punchy and good. That would be a perfect use for the app actually.

Okay I'm just gonna tell you what the feature is. You ready? Yeah should I tell you? I wonder if my partners will get mad at me if I tell you. I'm just gonna tell you. We're adding a donate button.

So in other words if you sign up for the Interface by WhenHub app and you have a profile on there you won't need to be live. In other words you don't have to be available for a call and people can still donate to you. So if you are a let's say a conservative artist and you don't want to be on Patreon or you don't want to be on, let's say you got defunded on other platforms, you'd have one more option. So it would be one way to make sure people could donate to you with no friction. I think it would take 30 seconds or well not 30 but it might take you a full 60 seconds to add your profile to the Interface by WhenHub app and then you just tell people to go search for your name and hit the button and they can donate to you.

Now why did we add this feature? And it's not that way yet so you have to wait. I'll tell you what, it's maybe a week or so. It's been I believe it's been tested and already submitted to the App Stores. But the reason we added it is because largely people on Periscope asked me for it. So you're actually seeing, you see how these platforms interact. So because I'm on Periscope I get lots of comments. You see them going by and quite a few of you commented here and in other ways that people reach me. A lot of people said the same thing. They said hey why don't you add a way on your app that people can donate to artists who are being deplatformed on other sites or just want another way. You know even if you're not being deplatformed you might just want another way that people can give to you. And so we added it.

Now if you talk to me a year from now am I going to tell you that that's the biggest use of the app? Maybe. I don't know. Might be. But it would be based on what the audience asked for.

Can I be a parent expert? I don't have kids but yes you can. You can be a parent expert and you can set your price.

No Super Bowl ad for this app. Yeah those are pretty pricey.

You can hear a lot more about the app in the next week or two. We've got some exciting things besides that. That's just one of the things happening but there's a whole bunch of really important things happening that I'll tell you about.

Do you have stats on what different experts are cha

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rging? I don't believe we know. I don't think we capture that. It would be easy to capture. We have the raw data so we could but I don't think that's on the dashboard that we look at our data. But it's easy for you to just scroll through it. You can scroll through the experts. You can see the prices. Somebody's saying will I allow Alex Jones. So here's the thing. We're an open platform like a tel…

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