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Campfire Chronicler as the boss https://www.youtube.com/@campfirechronicler
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00:00I learned a new skill, and it cost me everything.
00:07I learned a new skill, and it cost me everything.
00:11I only signed up for the experimental education program because I was desperate.
00:16I'd been out of a job for four months, and I had no savings left.
00:21I was going to be homeless in a matter of weeks, so I started lying on my resume.
00:27I put whatever I thought companies wanted to see.
00:31Eventually, I scored an interview, and they actually gave me the job after I confidently walked in and bullshitted my
00:37way through.
00:38A handshake sealed the deal.
00:41I would be making 200 grand a year with peptides.
00:45The only problem, I was due to start in two days, and I had no idea what peptides even were,
00:52let alone how to work with them.
00:53My whole life was about to implode, so, naturally, I sat around drinking beer and scrolling the internet all Saturday
01:01night.
01:02It was there that I saw a sidebar ad for the experimental education program.
01:08They claimed that, using virtual reality, I could learn a new skill in under three minutes.
01:14Not just a new skill, but any skill, regardless of complexity.
01:20Right, impossible, sure.
01:23Drunkenly, I responded to their ad with an email, asking if I could learn molecular biology in under three minutes.
01:31It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday night, but I received an immediate response from Dr. Jensen, claiming that,
01:39yes, that was possible.
01:41Right, sure.
01:44Rolling my eyes, I signed up for one of their prototype trials the following morning.
01:49I awoke, hungover that Sunday morning, to an alarm that my past self had set.
01:54It read, Learn Molecular Biology, 1215.
01:59God, really?
02:01Well, I had nothing to lose.
02:02I dragged myself out of bed, showered in a funk, and drove out to the offices of experimental education.
02:10Parking outside that nondescript office building near downtown, I remained ready to bolt out at the first sign of a
02:18multi-level marketing scam.
02:20The parking lot was astoundingly solitary and lonely under that gray, dazzling overcast, which I took, paradoxically, as a good
02:29sign.
02:30If there'd been dozens of other people heading in, then we were all probably marks for some PowerPoint pitch.
02:37As I approached, a bespeckled older man in a white lab coat stepped out from the automatic glass doors.
02:44Through his medical mask, he said,
02:47You're late.
02:48I looked at my cell phone.
02:49It's 1216.
02:51The process only takes three minutes.
02:53He chided me.
02:55I could have been a third of another appointment if we were fully booked.
02:58Oh shit, sorry.
03:00I awkwardly followed him into the building without further protest.
03:05The halls within were standard art deco, and had definitely been rented by his team rather than built for this
03:12purpose.
03:13I might have even been there before for something else years ago.
03:16It was impossible to tell.
03:19He showed me through a door, where an office full of medical equipment waited next to two impatient nurses.
03:25They were both wearing masks, just like the doctor, but I was not.
03:30I reached in my pocket, pretending to look for a mask, but they ignored my attempt to save face.
03:36One nurse guided me to the central chair, while the other prepared a syringe of neon green liquid.
03:42It was the doctor himself who handed me a clipboard with several sheets of paper on it.
03:47I briefly scanned it, noticing some medical terms and molecular biology, written in cursive halfway, but he shoved a red
03:56pen in my hand.
03:57I asked,
03:58Is this the waiver?
04:00It's the contract.
04:01He said flatly.
04:03You're already late.
04:04Please just sign it.
04:05Both nurses stopped and stared at me.
04:08Feeling intensely pressured, I awkwardly wrote my signature in red on the bottom, and handed it back to him.
04:15He stashed the clipboard, then returned with a helmet that looked straight out of a science fiction B-movie.
04:21Confused by its colorful lights and exposed technological hardware, I asked,
04:26Is that the virtual reality helmet?
04:29As he slid it over my head, he said,
04:31No matrix jokes, please.
04:33My senses went black as the helmet covered my eyes, ears, and nose.
04:39Where are the controls?
04:40Nobody answered me.
04:42Instead, I felt a jab in my arm.
04:44I could only figure that the nurse was injecting me with that neon green liquid, but it was too late
04:50to ask why.
04:51A white light appeared in my vision.
04:54First an intense dot, but then expanding into an all-encompassing flare that simultaneously numbed me
05:01and made me feel like I was rising out of my body.
05:04Heat needled every inch of me, and then I sat up.
05:08I was in a white-walled room, only slightly bigger than my college dorm room back in the day.
05:13The bed underneath me was thin and uncomfortable.
05:17Had something gone wrong?
05:18Had they brought me to somewhere else to recover?
05:21I shakily stood, finding myself clothed in a basic white shirt and basic white pants.
05:28Both were thin, like hospital gown material.
05:31A nearby sink was made of white porcelain, and I walked over to it.
05:36No mirror.
05:37I think that was what first tipped me off.
05:40Mirrors were a processing cost that most games weren't willing to pay.
05:45And it was even harder in virtual reality, where the coders could never guess what the protagonist looked like in
05:52real life.
05:53The next thing that tipped me off, there was no door.
05:57There was no actual way to enter or leave the white-walled room.
06:01The only other thing present was a white table stacked with books.
06:06Out loud, I said,
06:08Holy crap!
06:08Am I in a virtual reality right now?
06:11My voice sounded normal.
06:13My hands and arms seemed to be my own.
06:16My legs even ached a little.
06:18If this was a virtual reality, it was insanely good.
06:22I actually felt like myself, just cast into a new environment.
06:27Maybe the injection had been some sort of hallucinogen?
06:30Maybe the helmet's visuals weren't really this good, but I was perceiving them as realistic?
06:36If that was the case, then learning a new skill might be difficult.
06:41I approached the table and sat in the only other furniture in the room, which was, of course, a white
06:47chair.
06:48The books were all thick texts pertaining to molecular biology.
06:53Okay then, this is what I'd signed up for.
06:56This is what I needed.
06:57And it looked like it was really happening.
07:01Opening the first book, I started reading.
07:04It was heady and complex stuff that tired my brain quickly.
07:08After about half a chapter, I sighed, looked around, and decided to take a break.
07:14Screw it.
07:15Nap time.
07:16I awoke in a blink, feeling as if I had never slept at all.
07:20Hmm.
07:22That wasn't good.
07:23I returned to my textbook, and made it through to the end of the first chapter.
07:28Okay, I now vaguely know how a cell worked.
07:32I was feeling better, actually, which I chalked up to my hangover fading.
07:36I continued on for another chapter, before breaking from the textbook with bleary eyes.
07:43Time to eat.
07:44I stood and looked around.
07:47No food.
07:48Simulating hunger was a new thing I'd never expected, and I was honestly wondering why they'd
07:54programmed that in without providing any food.
07:56I turned on the sink, but the water that came out was black and stank of rotten eggs.
08:03Mortified, I shook my head and backed away.
08:06I reclined on the bed and slept again.
08:08But I woke up with a start, feeling like only a split second had passed.
08:13The only indicator that time had passed was that the rotten egg smell had faded.
08:18I was still hungry and tired.
08:20As great as this simulation was, it was terrible in certain very fundamental ways.
08:28Maybe that was up to me to point out when I gave feedback.
08:32After all, this was the prototype.
08:34I returned to my textbooks, pushing through what learning I could until my hunger, thirst,
08:40and tiredness became too distracting.
08:43They'd created something amazing here, and I was indeed learning molecular biology.
08:48But, was I supposed to read this entire stack of textbooks while starving, parched, and sleep-deprived?
08:55I needed to do this for my new job, so I kept at it, forcing myself to focus.
09:01I actually finished reading and understanding the first entire textbook,
09:06before the screaming inside my body became too overwhelming to continue.
09:10Maybe the information from the single textbook I'd read would be enough to fake my way through a Monday morning.
09:16I had to give up on this.
09:18Standing, I tried to speak.
09:20Instead, I coughed.
09:24I hadn't spoken in...
09:26How long?
09:27I couldn't tell.
09:28After a few more coughs, I said weakly,
09:31I'd like to leave now.
09:33Nothing happened.
09:34End the simulation.
09:36Still nothing.
09:37Okay.
09:38Computer.
09:39Freeze program?
09:40Nope.
09:41I shouted.
09:43Existence is paused.
09:45Just silence, and white.
09:47The long-shot quote had failed.
09:50My heart hammered painfully in my chest as I began to realize that there was no way out.
09:55I'd entered this experiment to learn molecular biology,
09:58and that was what I was going to have to do.
10:01As I sat and forced myself to read,
10:04I started fearing a time limit.
10:06My body was slowly but surely getting weaker and shrinking from starvation.
10:12The hunger burned,
10:14making me aware of the very engine of life inside myself as it consumed calories.
10:19I wasn't dying because this wasn't real,
10:22but the thirst was driving me mad.
10:25I turned the sink on a few times,
10:28desperate to drink the black water that stank of rotten eggs.
10:31But I couldn't make myself do it,
10:34even in the darkest depths of my agony.
10:37Sleep was pointless.
10:39I became a husk.
10:40I sat,
10:42I studied textbooks,
10:43and I flipped pages slowly with emaciated fingers.
10:47That was all I was,
10:48for what felt like months.
10:50It wasn't enough to read the textbooks.
10:53I had to understand them too.
10:55Learning while mostly insane from hunger and thirst and insomnia
10:59felt like a monumental task.
11:01I was certain that I was never going to escape.
11:05The program would never end.
11:08This would be it,
11:09for me,
11:10forever.
11:11I spent an entire week screaming,
11:14to no avail.
11:16Let me out!
11:17No!
11:18I want to get out!
11:19Ah!
11:19I need to go!
11:20I raged at the walls,
11:23chipping away at them,
11:24just uncovering more white plaster.
11:26I was perpetually dying,
11:29but never actually ceasing to exist.
11:32I broke the sink,
11:33and the black rotten egg water spewed onto the floor,
11:37then down,
11:38a hard-to-see white drain.
11:41I sat in the stench,
11:43my feet wet,
11:44and continued to learn.
11:46What other choice did I have?
11:48This was never going to end.
11:50I flipped through pages for eternity,
11:53truly giving up on the concept of escaping,
11:56right up until I closed the final book.
11:59When the helmet lifted away,
12:01and I found myself in that room with the two nurses and a doctor again,
12:06I sat in a disbelieving daze.
12:09The doctor asked,
12:11How was it?
12:12I stared down.
12:14My hands were normal again.
12:16My arms had their former strength.
12:18I touched my face,
12:21finding that I was not a husk.
12:23Wide-eyed,
12:24I fixated on his question.
12:26It was horrible.
12:27I was starving and thirsty and tired the entire time.
12:31He nodded.
12:32That's a manifestation of the cost of thinking so rapidly.
12:36You've just experienced seven months of intense thought,
12:39and learned in three minutes.
12:41He nodded at the empty syringe in the nurse's hand.
12:45That liquid we injected you with,
12:47contained concentrated neurochemicals,
12:50electrolytes,
12:51vitamins and the like.
12:52We were hoping it would lessen the pain involved.
12:55I grabbed his arm.
12:57It was the worst thing I've ever been through.
13:00Yes,
13:00but you did learn molecular biology like you wanted.
13:04Thinking it through,
13:06I realized,
13:07I had.
13:08Then that's a success.
13:09All that's left is refining the technology.
13:12I let go of his arm and grimaced apologetically.
13:16Rising shakily,
13:18I wandered for the door.
13:20They didn't even lead me toward the front of the building.
13:23The three just went about their business,
13:26readying the room for their next subject.
13:28I wasn't even sure how I got home.
13:32I just lay there all evening and all night,
13:35staring at the ceiling as intense trauma rushed around the edges of my awareness.
13:41When my alarm went off to wake me up for the first day of work,
13:45I was still just lying there with my eyes open.
13:49But I did know molecular biology.
13:52I was already dressed.
13:54I just dragged myself up,
13:56drove to my new office,
13:58and floated through my first day at my new job.
14:01They gave me some training,
14:03and I actually understood the science.
14:05What I didn't understand
14:07was how experimental education's technology was even possible.
14:11The naive young version of me that had gone into that building
14:15would have never questioned the fundamental technologies at play,
14:19but they just forcefully taught me everything I needed to know.
14:22All day long, instead of doing my job,
14:25I thought about just how powerful that neon green liquid would have had to have been
14:29to do what they claimed.
14:31The brain was the most expensive engine in the human body,
14:35and running it for seven months would require far more than a syringe,
14:40no matter how densely packed the contents.
14:43That night, I remained awake,
14:46still staring at the ceiling.
14:47I hadn't slept in seven months,
14:50so closing my eyes and trying to do it still felt unnatural.
14:55The nightmare I'd gone through felt simultaneously like an eternity,
15:00and a mere instant.
15:02I just kept coming back to the same question.
15:05How?
15:06I tried to ignore that persistent question,
15:09and I did manage to take some fitful naps
15:12filled with flashback sensations to that white-walled room,
15:16but I only made it two more days before I couldn't take it any longer.
15:21That Wednesday,
15:22I drove back to that office long after it had closed.
15:26The front door was locked,
15:28but the signs for experimental education were still up.
15:32Returning to my car and fetching a tire iron and a bag,
15:36I carefully crept around the corner,
15:39along the shadowed side of the building,
15:41and toward the back.
15:43There, in the darkest and quietest corner of the alley,
15:47I found a low window that would serve.
15:50Was I really going to do this?
15:52I had to know.
15:53The tire iron shattered the window with just a light tap.
15:57I winced.
15:59Somewhere,
15:59a dog barked.
16:01I waited,
16:02but nobody human seemed to have noticed the sound of falling glass.
16:07Stealing my resolve,
16:09I carefully lowered myself into the basement.
16:12In the dark,
16:13I felt my way past stacked chairs,
16:15tables,
16:16and other generic office equipment.
16:19Nearing the dim light of the stairwell,
16:22I felt something soft,
16:24warm,
16:25and wet.
16:25It was fabric,
16:27but
16:27it was a dead person.
16:29He groaned,
16:31and I hurriedly backed up.
16:32Standing there,
16:33in the dark,
16:34I waited,
16:35terrified.
16:36I was busted for sure.
16:38Someone had found me,
16:40right?
16:41When he didn't say anything,
16:43I sensed that something was very wrong,
16:45in a different way than I'd expected.
16:47Moving further,
16:48I found a light switch,
16:50then turned around to look.
16:52A tan-skinned man,
16:54of vaguely Middle Eastern appearance,
16:56was hanging by both arms,
16:58from two thick chains,
16:59embedded in the ceiling.
17:01He was wearing a black business suit,
17:03that had been sullied by assault.
17:06And long trails of blood,
17:08both dried and fresh,
17:10ran from his head,
17:11ears,
17:12and neck.
17:12It was immediately obvious,
17:14that someone had beaten this man,
17:16half to death,
17:17and chained him here,
17:18in the basement,
17:19of this office building.
17:20But knowing that,
17:21only made me feel,
17:22even more frightened.
17:23He blinked awake,
17:25and his eyes settled on me.
17:27I would have expected him,
17:29to seem hopeful,
17:30but his gaze,
17:31held only defeated apathy.
17:33Noticing his silence,
17:35I moved forward,
17:36and pulled a bald cloth,
17:37from inside his mouth.
17:39He spit blood,
17:40then looked at me,
17:41with sullen askins.
17:43I prompted,
17:44um,
17:45do you need help?
17:46I couldn't place his accent.
17:48He said simply,
17:50release me.
17:53Yeah, of course.
17:54I said quickly,
17:55I'll go get help.
17:56No.
17:57He responded wearily,
17:59sorry,
18:00what?
18:00You don't want me to get the police?
18:02You have to make the choice,
18:04to release me yourself.
18:07I hesitated.
18:08What the hell does that mean?
18:10Of all the responses,
18:11he could have given,
18:12I didn't expect to laugh.
18:16His tired snicker,
18:18echoed throughout the basement,
18:19setting me on edge.
18:21There was something,
18:22very,
18:22very wrong here.
18:24Something,
18:25very,
18:25very wrong,
18:26with him.
18:27I had no idea what his relation was to experimental education, if he even had one, but I backed away
18:34with an increasing urge to run.
18:36He just stared at me, never blinking.
18:39I found the stairwell and stumbled my way up, keeping my eyes on him as long as I could.
18:46When I finally closed the stairwell door quietly behind me, a palpable primal fear drained out of me.
18:53Something about that chained man had frightened me in a way that was deeper than logic, and deeper than mere
19:00emotion.
19:01After I was done here, I was going to call the police, and I was never going near him again.
19:07I moved through the dark hallways lit by red exit signs until I found the room I remembered.
19:12The equipment was all still inside, and, after waiting and listening for another few minutes, I dared enter and turn
19:20on the lights.
19:21Quickly, I moved to the biohazard container.
19:24A whole pile of used syringes lay within, and I could see neon green glimmering in most of them.
19:31I picked out a handful and threw them in my bag.
19:34I could take them to someone for analysis later.
19:37Next, I found a stack of waivers.
19:39No, not waivers.
19:42They were contracts, exactly as the doctor had said.
19:46They were written in odd archaic legalese, and while I could recognize some language pertaining to learning skills and to
19:53amenities provided, that mentioned a bed, a table, and a sink, the rest made no sense to me.
20:01What the hell was I reading?
20:03Why had I been asked to sign this?
20:05Stuffing them in my bags as well, I moved on to the crown jewel of the room.
20:10The virtual reality helmet.
20:12Lifting it high, I examined it closely.
20:15I looked for cords, but there were none.
20:18I opened the back panel, but it only contained a few batteries to power the lights on the outside.
20:23Prying at a bit of the outer hardware, I plucked off some pieces that looked like computer chips.
20:29They weren't connected to anything.
20:31None of it was connected to anything.
20:33The helmet, the goggles, the ear covers?
20:36It was all fake.
20:37It was nothing.
20:38The helmet looked like a B-movie prop, because it was.
20:42Then what the hell had I experienced?
20:44I had absolutely gone somewhere.
20:46I had spent seven months starving and thirsting and sleepless.
20:50I'd learned an entire field of study in three minutes.
20:53Or had I just imagined it all as part of some mental experience?
20:58Of course, it wasn't virtual reality at all.
21:01It had to be some sort of new super drug.
21:04The neon green liquid would hold the answer.
21:07Clutching my bag, I readied myself to escape the building, which meant another encounter with that man in the basement.
21:14I stepped quietly down the stairwell, but he already knew I was there.
21:19He watched me with icy eyes as I passed.
21:22I paused below the window, wondering if I could really just leave him here.
21:27He said with genuine hate,
21:29Your suffering will be legendary.
21:33I turned, locking eyes with him.
21:36His anger turned slowly into an understanding grin.
21:40Oh my.
21:42It already was.
21:45Wasn't it?
21:53His mocking laugh followed me as I climbed out of the window and ran through my car.
21:58I didn't call the police.
22:00Something about him had been far too strange.
22:03I just sat at home the rest of that night, catching what nightmare-filled sleep I could,
22:08and then brought some of the neon green liquid to a co-worker the next day for analysis.
22:14Then, I did my best to get on with my life.
22:17My sleep was tortured.
22:18I was constantly on edge, and I was fearful at random times.
22:23But I finally had a job.
22:25My landlord was coming around asking for rent.
22:29I told him I'd found a position and was about to get paid,
22:32but he reminded me that I was already extremely behind and very close to eviction.
22:37No problem.
22:39It was almost payday.
22:40Except, when payday came the next week,
22:44I opened my paycheck to find a statement for zero dollars.
22:49Of course, I went to see my boss,
22:51who then looked at me with confusion.
22:53He said,
22:55Didn't you read your hiring contract?
22:59Training is unpaid.
23:01And you're training for the first month.
23:04I had not read that.
23:05No.
23:06I tried to argue, but he dismissed me.
23:09I went home with a gnawing sense that my life was about to implode.
23:13When I faced my landlord and told him it'd be another few weeks,
23:16he grew angry.
23:17And he told me I was done.
23:20I argued that he couldn't do that.
23:22But he told me to read my lease,
23:24and he took my key right from my hand.
23:27What else could I do?
23:28I wandered onto the street and found a bench to sit on.
23:31I had no money and nowhere to go.
23:35How the hell could this have happened to me?
23:37I'd always tried to work hard and do my best,
23:40but now I was sitting on a park bench, homeless.
23:44The world seemed to know somehow.
23:46Every dog that passed barked at me as if it was afraid.
23:49I got up and tried to go to the church for charity.
23:53But the door wouldn't open for me.
23:55Strangers seemed to get chills if I stood too close to them.
23:58I simply felt wrong.
24:01And somehow, I wanted to blame it all on experimental education.
24:05It didn't take many days like that for my boss to fire me.
24:10When I asked why, he said,
24:12No, your work is fine.
24:16You just smell, and you look like shit.
24:21You come off like a homeless guy.
24:23I am homeless because you're not paying me, asshole.
24:26I shot back, finally snapping.
24:28Why should I pay you?
24:30He asked.
24:31I'll just keep getting free months off people,
24:34since they can learn the skills to do this job in three minutes.
24:38Just like you, you're completely replaceable.
24:44He made a noise of disgust and stalked off
24:46after threatening to call security if I wasn't out in ten minutes.
24:50He knew about experimental education.
24:53He knew I'd gone.
24:55How?
24:55I gathered my few things in a box,
24:58wondering how my life had come apart so forcefully.
25:02On my way out of the building, my co-worker stopped me.
25:05Hey man, you know that green stuff you gave me?
25:07I took a look at it.
25:09It doesn't matter anymore, I told him, too overwhelmed to care.
25:13He briefly gripped the edge of my box.
25:16You should be more careful with that stuff.
25:18It's lethal.
25:19I froze.
25:21Lethal?
25:22They used those chemicals in executions.
25:24He insisted.
25:26Pulling my box away from him, I shook my head.
25:28I was injected with that.
25:30I'm still alive.
25:31No way.
25:33This stuff induces brain death almost immediately.
25:36You'd need to have a counter-injection in like three minutes or less,
25:39or you're not coming back.
25:41What?
25:42Three minutes?
25:44That knocked me out of my darkness.
25:46I told him I'd be careful.
25:48Then, I hurried to my car.
25:51Something was snapping into place for me.
25:53Experimental education hadn't been using virtual reality at all.
25:57The truth was far darker, and more twisted than I could have ever guessed.
26:02I drove back to their office building and waited until I saw the doctor and nurses leave.
26:06The back window had been hastily patched with wood, but I removed it with my tire iron.
26:12Then, I slipped inside.
26:15The strange and frightening man was still chained within.
26:18His head was leaking fresh blood from a recent wound, but he was smiling as I approached.
26:24I held my contract in my hand.
26:26I read it.
26:28Good.
26:30He said with a grin.
26:32What did you learn?
26:34Now that I finally understand what they're actually doing, the archaic language makes sense.
26:40I told him.
26:41They're killing people.
26:42They killed me.
26:44At least, for a little while.
26:46Then they brought me back with a counter-injection.
26:48But I signed a contract for the experience I would have while dead.
26:52I pointed at his head wound.
26:54The red pen.
26:55It was filled with your blood, wasn't it?
26:58His grin widened into a smirk.
27:01Hmph.
27:02You're beginning to understand.
27:05Those assholes.
27:06I replied.
27:07Filled with equal parts admiration, disgust, awe, and hopelessness.
27:12They actually managed to commoditize the human afterlife.
27:15They actually managed to turn hell into a product.
27:19Just another way to make us even more expendable.
27:22He nodded.
27:23His eyes filled with animal fire.
27:26If I free you...
27:28I said slowly.
27:29The same fire raging in me.
27:32What will you do?
27:33I'll kill them.
27:35He replied, genuine in his anger.
27:39Then I'll kill their masters.
27:42And their masters.
27:44Right up the chain until I reach the true monsters.
27:49I will topple this world.
27:51One brutally torturous murder at a time.
27:54I will burn it all down.
27:58And sink humanity into a lawless age of darkness.
28:03I didn't need to look for the key to his chains.
28:06In a sense, I already had it.
28:08I touched my contract to the metal links, and they rusted away.
28:13All I had to say was, good.
28:17The following YouTubers helped to voice tonight's video.
28:21Dexter as the prisoner.
28:24Campfire Chronicler as the boss.
28:27Sir Daunting as the concerned co-worker.
28:31And WeAre818 as the doctor.
28:35Each of these YouTubers have a horror narration channel of their own that I personally listen to and recommend.
28:42You can find links to them in the description.
28:46I also want to thank Miyu and Morgan Goodman, whose music I used.
28:52And M59gar, who wrote the original story.
28:58Lastly, I'd like to bring everyone's attention to the fact that another YouTuber has been demonetized.
29:04This time it was Macabre Horror.
29:07And just like with all the other narration channels that I've been talking about in this whole messed up situation,
29:12they are a real person, and there's really no reason for them to be demonetized.
29:17For anyone interested in helping me help them out, I'm going to put their YouTube, Spotify, etc. in the description.
29:25If you could swing by and show them support, that would be much appreciated.
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