WEBVTT 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:15.420 Before we get started and we get into this I want you to know that this is not 00:00:15.420 --> 00:00:18.000 a full episode of the First Church of Lorenzo. 00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:21.100 There will be no sermons here today. 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:25.780 What I'm doing is I'm dropping in here today to talk to you about where I've 00:00:25.780 --> 00:00:30.060 been the last couple months, why I've been gone, and what my fucking process 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:35.980 has been to get back to where I am right now talking to you. 00:00:35.980 --> 00:00:38.260 A couple months ago I got kicked in the nuts. 00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:44.000 Hard. By Spotify. And I'm going to really launch into detail on that and tell 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.740 you the who, what, why, when, and where on what happened with Spotify. 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:51.560 And I'm going to try to do it in as linear a fashion as possible. 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:57.900 But I don't know how good a job I'm going to because in a very real way I'm putting 00:00:57.900 --> 00:00:59.260 it together in my mind. 00:00:59.260 --> 00:01:01.280 All I can tell you is this. 00:01:02.180 --> 00:01:08.240 If you're listening to this right now, and you heard it, my efforts for the last 00:01:08.240 --> 00:01:10.120 two months have been successful. 00:01:11.380 --> 00:01:14.680 What I've done is I've taken myself off the corporate teat. 00:01:15.100 --> 00:01:17.540 I have taken myself and this podcast, 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:24.960 I guess you could say, as off the grid as you can possibly be and still be on 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:27.180 the internet. Allow me to explain. 00:01:27.660 --> 00:01:31.400 I've been gone. So last time I took an extended leave of absence. 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.900 It was because things got so crazy at the job and I couldn't keep up. 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:36.460 This time it's been a little bit different. 00:01:37.100 --> 00:01:44.060 The first part of September I started getting emails in volume from Spotify telling 00:01:44.060 --> 00:01:49.420 me things like, This particular episode violates copyright. 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:52.900 That particular episode violates copyright laws. 00:01:53.380 --> 00:01:58.400 And then this particular episode here violates their terms of service and then 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.200 that one over there violates their terms of service. 00:02:01.340 --> 00:02:07.040 And so what they started doing was systematically taking each episode of misanthropy 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:13.240 radio and subsequently the First Church of Lorenzo down off of Spotify one at 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:18.160 a time. So then they say, okay, but if you want to dispute this claim, go ahead 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:35.860 and click this link and then go through the process to dispute the 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.400 I started going through the process on each one of the episodes that they had 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:50.940 taken offline and started disputing this claim or that claim or that claim, or 00:02:50.940 --> 00:02:55.580 this claim, uh, with the episodes of First Church of Lorenzo, they took issue 00:02:55.580 --> 00:03:01.040 with me using Mars, uh, the bringer of war, performed by the Air Force Band. 00:03:01.580 --> 00:03:07.620 they took those two episodes off off of Spotify i then had to go and provide 00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:14.020 documentation to Spotify that Mars, the Bringer of War by Gustav Holst was public 00:03:14.020 --> 00:03:19.980 domain and the fact that it was performed by a military service band also made 00:03:19.980 --> 00:03:26.900 it public domain no copyright was infringed and I had to send those up and so 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:33.140 on and so forth for all 30 episodes I had to prove that I had the right to use 00:03:33.140 --> 00:03:38.080 the music or I had the right to use the sound and I also on two episodes had 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.820 to prove that the bit that I did was my own intellectual property and I didn't 00:03:42.820 --> 00:03:48.300 take it from wherever they said I took it from every single fucking episode of 00:03:48.300 --> 00:03:52.380 Misanthrope Radio and then the two episodes that I had produced to that point 00:03:52.380 --> 00:03:57.580 of First Church of Lorenzo got struck by Spotify. 00:03:57.580 --> 00:04:03.280 And I had to fight for each fucking episode on its own, each particular fucking 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.400 infringement on its own to get it cleared, to get them back on to Spotify. 00:04:08.980 --> 00:04:15.560 So I go through that process and I get everything cleared, but two episodes and 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:16.620 they just wouldn't hear it. 00:04:16.660 --> 00:04:17.560 They were having none of it. 00:04:17.640 --> 00:04:19.760 They would not take my explanation. 00:04:19.840 --> 00:04:24.760 They would not acknowledge the email that I had received from the copyright holder 00:04:24.760 --> 00:04:29.360 saying that I could use this particular piece of music for Misanthrope Radio. 00:04:29.420 --> 00:04:30.920 And it really gave me pause. 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:32.240 It was a fucking kick in the nuts. 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:36.360 I get done with that process and I'm sitting there and this again is over the 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:41.500 course of a few weeks, I'm fighting back and forth with Spotify every day, several 00:04:41.500 --> 00:04:48.040 times a day over the course of a few weeks trying to get my show cleared and 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:53.540 back on the service so then after the process is all said and done and I have 00:04:53.540 --> 00:04:57.620 everything cleared but those two episodes that they just would not fucking clear 00:04:57.620 --> 00:05:02.120 I found myself one night sitting in my basement staring at the wall like kind 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:07.500 of milling it over in my head because it had been a frantic three weeks I'm gonna 00:05:07.500 --> 00:05:12.260 say where I was just constantly in the fight in the fight in the fight proving 00:05:12.260 --> 00:05:17.960 this proving that arguing this appealing that trying in my arsenal to make them 00:05:17.960 --> 00:05:23.300 see that what I had done with Misanthrope Radio and subsequently First Church 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:27.980 of Lorenzo, I was not violating anyone's fucking intellectual property. 00:05:28.380 --> 00:05:30.720 Everything was fine. Everybody was getting their credit. 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:33.240 Everything was on the up and up. 00:05:33.700 --> 00:05:36.300 And like I said, so I'm sitting there and I'm staring at the wall and I'm just 00:05:36.300 --> 00:05:41.380 kind of working through the previous three weeks in my fucking head. 00:05:41.380 --> 00:05:48.800 And I'm getting more and more angry and I didn't know why because I'm a very 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:50.120 fucking logical person. 00:05:50.340 --> 00:05:53.880 I didn't understand why they had done this to me in the first place. 00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:57.220 But then once I thought about it and I was going through the process, I thought, 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.420 okay, you know, yeah, I get it. 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:03.700 They're trying to make sure that I am not infringing upon anyone's rights as 00:06:03.700 --> 00:06:09.900 copyright holders and I'm not out here making what I'm not making any money on 00:06:09.900 --> 00:06:11.020 it. So what am I doing? 00:06:11.180 --> 00:06:13.600 Gaining popularity, using someone else's work. 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:19.400 I get it. Through the whole process, I'm just trying to prove that everything 00:06:19.400 --> 00:06:23.980 I do is either A, from my fucking brain, or B, I am allowed to use. 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:29.060 But there was this fucking anger, like this fucking rage just brewing in the 00:06:29.060 --> 00:06:33.060 back of my head and I just I couldn't put my finger on why I was so fucking mad 00:06:33.080 --> 00:06:36.260 about it. I was mad that the two episodes never got cleared. 00:06:36.660 --> 00:06:40.160 I was mad that three weeks of constant fucking bickering back back and forth 00:06:40.020 --> 00:06:43.260 with Spotify had to be done in the first fucking place. 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:47.240 But I didn't understand why I was so fucking angry. 00:06:47.820 --> 00:06:52.420 And then all of a sudden, like a fucking epiphany, like a ray of light shown 00:06:52.420 --> 00:06:57.060 down from the heavens, it occurred to me why I was so fucking mad. 00:06:58.180 --> 00:07:00.540 Because no other platform does this. 00:07:01.640 --> 00:07:06.300 Not a single one. Misanthrope Radio and now First Church of Lorenzo is on 00:07:06.300 --> 00:07:12.120 every single podcast platform, everyone that you can fucking think of. 00:07:12.880 --> 00:07:17.120 I'm on, and I've never heard a peep out of anyone, not even YouTube. 00:07:17.540 --> 00:07:19.060 I've never heard a peep out of YouTube. 00:07:19.380 --> 00:07:20.920 Never heard a peep out of Apple. 00:07:21.400 --> 00:07:25.340 Never heard a peep out of Amazon or Audible or any of these, any of the other 00:07:25.340 --> 00:07:26.180 fucking heavy hitters. 00:07:26.180 --> 00:07:29.000 It was just fucking Spotify. 00:07:29.700 --> 00:07:33.340 They're using AI to crawl everybody's content and they're just yanking them off 00:07:33.340 --> 00:07:38.780 their fucking site. And even now I'm having a hard time quantifying why exactly 00:07:38.780 --> 00:07:44.080 that made me so angry, but I think it really boiled down to this. 00:07:44.980 --> 00:07:45.400 Fuck you. 00:07:46.820 --> 00:07:50.500 I mean, here's, here's my issue with Spotify. 00:07:50.500 --> 00:07:52.620 This has always been my problem with Spotify. 00:07:53.180 --> 00:07:57.120 If you. Remember OG Misanthrope Radio from fucking back in 2019. 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:03.080 And then the brief stint with my podcast called Unmoderate that I think is gone, 00:08:03.880 --> 00:08:08.540 that has faded out of the fucking public ether and all through Misanthrope Radio. 00:08:09.220 --> 00:08:12.340 My problem with Spotify has always been the same. 00:08:13.380 --> 00:08:19.980 When you deal with a company like Apple and Audible Apple and iHeart and all 00:08:19.980 --> 00:08:26.660 of these other major, major, major podcast distributors, they don't treat you 00:08:26.660 --> 00:08:31.720 any kind of way. But I have to treat you some kind of way, it's with a degree, 00:08:31.960 --> 00:08:34.220 the slightest degree of gratitude. 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:39.440 And again, it's not much, you know, don't get me wrong, Apple podcasts have absolutely 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.080 no idea who Lorenzo is, I can tell you that for sure, right? 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:47.580 Same thing with iHeart and and and Amazon and none of those motherfuckers know 00:08:47.580 --> 00:08:52.240 who I am I'm not anybody important, but they don't treat you that way They either 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:57.100 ignore you entirely or if they have to communicate with you in any way shape 00:08:57.100 --> 00:09:03.720 or form They do so with a degree of gratitude or at least polite business in 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:06.080 difference You see what I'm saying? 00:09:06.560 --> 00:09:12.160 Spotify on the other hand treats their content creators completely differently 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:16.360 now I'm sure Joe Rogan has a different experience than I do. 00:09:16.900 --> 00:09:22.060 Joe Rogan. I'm just little fucking Lorenzo sitting in my sweaty basement. 00:09:22.280 --> 00:09:30.540 But even all the way back I I first released Misanthrope Radio version 1.0 I 00:09:30.540 --> 00:09:36.220 had the hardest fucking time getting that Spotify they just would not approve 00:09:36.220 --> 00:09:40.920 it they would not approve the podcast they wouldn't fucking do it and then once 00:09:40.920 --> 00:09:45.540 they finally approved it it wasn't there it wasn't searchable it wasn't available 00:09:45.540 --> 00:09:51.060 I could pull it up on their fucking content creators portal and see that misanthrope 00:09:51.060 --> 00:09:55.700 radio version 1.0 was live and and it was out there, but you couldn't fucking 00:09:55.700 --> 00:09:57.560 find it. You couldn't search for it. 00:09:58.020 --> 00:10:01.800 It was un searchable, unfindable, unknowable. 00:10:02.880 --> 00:10:09.940 I finally gained enough traction with it wasn a blip in Spotify's algorithm. 00:10:10.540 --> 00:10:12.280 Fast forward to Unmoderate, same thing. 00:10:12.700 --> 00:10:18.060 Fast forward to Misanthrope Radio 2.0, same fucking thing, until the downloads 00:10:18.060 --> 00:10:22.780 and I guess the, what, the search requests or whatever, got to the point where, 00:10:23.160 --> 00:10:25.900 where it any longer in in their fucking algorithm. 00:10:25.900 --> 00:10:27.560 And then they put it out there, right? 00:10:27.580 --> 00:10:30.680 And they got it to where Misanthrope Radio would pop up. 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.180 Uh, when you were searching for comedy or you were searching for commentary, 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:39.880 for whatever you happen to be searching for on the Spotify engine, misanthrope 00:10:39.880 --> 00:10:41.740 radio 2.0 would show up. 00:10:41.740 --> 00:10:47.360 So whatever milestone I had to reach in order to be important or, or moderately 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:53.420 important to Spotify, as far as their algorithm goes, I eventually reached and 00:10:53.420 --> 00:11:01.380 then. became searchable and knowable and findable in their suggestion algorithm 00:11:01.380 --> 00:11:05.840 thingy i don't know all the fucking technical terms, okay? 00:11:06.740 --> 00:11:11.740 but then once I got to a point where you could easily find Misanthrope Radio 00:11:11.740 --> 00:11:18.860 on Spotify here comes the fucking strikes systematically systematically, one 00:11:18.860 --> 00:11:22.420 after the other, taking down each and every one of my episodes. 00:11:22.280 --> 00:11:28.740 But then anytime I've ever had to deal with Spotify in the past, all the way 00:11:28.740 --> 00:11:35.700 up to this recent issue here, it's always been, as a podcaster and content creator, 00:11:35.940 --> 00:11:38.940 you're always made to feel like they're doing you. 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:40.420 some kind of service. 00:11:41.340 --> 00:11:46.480 Never mind the fact that I'm giving you hours upon hours upon hours of the fucking 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:51.760 fruits of any time And any time I've ever had to deal with Spotify, in the past, 00:11:52.420 --> 00:11:56.440 all the way up to this recent website I was always made to feel like they were 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:02.380 doing me some kind of favor allowing me to be on Spotify Why? 00:12:02.680 --> 00:12:04.760 Like I should just be happy that I'm there. 00:12:05.560 --> 00:12:11.020 Like I should just be happy that they are allowing me to sully their fucking 00:12:11.020 --> 00:12:16.080 app with with my filth and ineptitude. 00:12:16.780 --> 00:12:21.720 Now I'll be the first one to admit that Misanthrope Radio and subsequently First 00:12:21.680 --> 00:12:27.000 church of Lorenzo is likely what you would call high in moral fiber. 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:31.760 Okay. Nope. We're not educating people over here. 00:12:32.060 --> 00:12:34.460 I'm not teaching you life skills. 00:12:34.540 --> 00:12:36.500 All right. This isn't a botany. 00:12:36.780 --> 00:12:40.600 podcast. I'm not teaching you how to survive in the fucking wilderness. 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.880 I'm not doing anything over here to enrich your life in any way, shape or form, 00:12:44.880 --> 00:12:47.240 but I am making you laugh. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:49.740 And that's not nothing. 00:12:50.260 --> 00:12:52.740 That's not nothing at all in 2026. 00:12:53.180 --> 00:12:58.260 you have the ability or a place where you can go to fucking switch off the grim 00:12:58.260 --> 00:13:04.720 horrible fucking disgustingness that is our reality and zone out for 20 or 30 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.360 minutes and listen to me fucking tell dick jokes and talk about poop stories 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:13.940 and stuff like that that's not value less and Spotify always treated me like 00:13:13.940 --> 00:13:19.460 they were doing me some kind of allowing me to spew my filth on their fucking 00:13:19.460 --> 00:13:24.880 app. They never came out and said it, but anytime I had to deal with them, that 00:13:24.880 --> 00:13:27.500 was always like an underlying thing. 00:13:27.760 --> 00:13:30.260 They were this giant giga corporation. 00:13:30.780 --> 00:13:33.220 We are Spotify, you are trash. 00:13:33.400 --> 00:13:38.320 If you want to be part of our service, you gotta do this, this, this, this, and 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.040 this. And then they'll come out of the other side of their mouths and say, Why 00:13:42.040 --> 00:13:44.540 are you paying for a hosting service? 00:13:44.920 --> 00:13:48.300 Lorenzo, why don't you allow us to host for you? 00:13:48.420 --> 00:13:49.600 It's completely free. 00:13:49.980 --> 00:13:53.660 We just want every podcaster in the world to host with Spotify. 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:56.160 And I fell into that trap for a while. 00:13:56.400 --> 00:13:59.300 And then I eventually migrated over to Audioboom. 00:13:59.900 --> 00:14:02.780 Now Audioboom, in fairness, didn't ever do anything to me. 00:14:02.900 --> 00:14:07.360 They were delightful to deal with actually in that I was ignored just like I 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:12.600 was by Apple and Amazon and audible and all of the other big boys. 00:14:13.020 --> 00:14:15.780 They provided me a service I paid for it. 00:14:15.880 --> 00:14:19.640 And that was it. Again, Spotify was the only company that made me feel like I 00:14:19.640 --> 00:14:24.180 was fucking garbage and I should just fall down on my knees and suck their green 00:14:24.180 --> 00:14:29.720 circle dicks every fucking day and be thankful that I'm allowed to put my fucking 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:31.580 trash on their, on their website. 00:14:31.860 --> 00:14:38.120 But that Spotify episode really left a fucking bad taste in my And it made me 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:43.040 realize just how easily we can all be fucking deplatformed, thrown away, forgotten, 00:14:43.380 --> 00:14:46.520 and cast aside. It was Spotify today. 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:49.600 But it could be any of them tomorrow. 00:14:50.220 --> 00:14:55.160 So what do I do? Well, the first thing I did was I sent an email to Spotify and 00:14:55.160 --> 00:14:57.400 told them to fucking cancel my podcast. 00:14:57.560 --> 00:15:00.500 Take it off their fucking website, I don't want to be a part of their network 00:15:00.500 --> 00:15:03.880 anymore. Which they said that they were going to do. 00:15:03.880 --> 00:15:06.160 I haven't looked to see that they did it. 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:08.560 Let me check. I'm gonna open up Spotify. 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:18.000 right now and see if First Church of Lorenzo is still on their service. 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:22.900 No it is not. If you search for First Church of Lorenzo or Misanthrope Radio 00:15:22.900 --> 00:15:26.740 2.0 on Spotify it is no longer there. 00:15:27.180 --> 00:15:28.340 So that's the first thing I did. 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.100 I told them get my shit off your fucking service. 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.760 I don't want to have anything to do with Spotify any longer. 00:15:34.220 --> 00:15:36.580 But that was just the first part of the crash out. 00:15:36.920 --> 00:15:37.120 Step 00:15:38.560 --> 00:15:41.000 of thought and a lot of planning and a lot of research. 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:44.060 And that's why I've been gone for so fucking long. 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:50.420 What I decided I was going to do is I was going to try to figure out a way to 00:15:50.420 --> 00:15:56.320 put out this podcast in the way I want to, when I want to, how I want to, while 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.640 relying on as few entities as possible. 00:15:59.700 --> 00:16:02.380 Now there are certain things you're not going to be able to get around, right? 00:16:02.380 --> 00:16:09.000 I have to rely on Apple Podcasts in order to allow me, to be part of the Apple 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:14.660 podcasting network. Similarly, I have to rely on Amazon and Audible, which is 00:16:14.660 --> 00:16:18.560 the same entity. I'm still just geeked that my shit is on Audible. 00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:21.140 It's like one of my favorite apps of all time. 00:16:21.980 --> 00:16:27.780 iHeart and then Overcast and all these other podcasting apps, I have to rely 00:16:27.780 --> 00:16:32.100 on the fact that they are going -to allow me to distribute my shit on their service. 00:16:32.680 --> 00:16:34.440 Okay, so there's nothing I can do about that. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:38.920 Same with YouTube. If I want to be a podcaster, I have to have a fucking platform 00:16:38.920 --> 00:16:44.800 in order to Distribute my shit on to and those are the fucking entities that 00:16:44.800 --> 00:16:48.780 I have to rely upon There's nothing I can fucking do about that. 00:16:48.780 --> 00:16:55.570 But what hosting that was my next thing I was up until a few days ago So I'm 00:16:55.570 --> 00:17:00.190 having my hosting go through a company called Audioboom, a British company. 00:17:01.050 --> 00:17:05.450 What have we learned lately about the British idea of what freedom actually is? 00:17:06.170 --> 00:17:10.710 Motherfuckers over there are getting jailed for saying shit that is a little 00:17:10.710 --> 00:17:12.410 bit untoward on social media. 00:17:12.870 --> 00:17:16.870 Maybe I don't want to fucking host with them, but what other options did I have? 00:17:17.190 --> 00:17:20.730 And I searched and I researched and I researched and I researched and I don't 00:17:20.730 --> 00:17:21.870 like fucking Podbean. 00:17:21.870 --> 00:17:23.850 I wasn't gonna go back to Spotify. 00:17:24.050 --> 00:17:27.790 They can fucking eat a bag of dicks as far as I'm concerned, right? 00:17:27.890 --> 00:17:29.770 I didn't want to pay through the nose. 00:17:29.910 --> 00:17:34.150 I wasn't gonna do Riverside So they were all of these different things and it 00:17:34.150 --> 00:17:39.630 finally occurred to me one day How hard can it fucking be to a my own podcast? 00:17:41.050 --> 00:17:43.630 Well, as it turns out, it's not hard at all. 00:17:43.670 --> 00:17:48.170 So that's where I've been That's what I've been doing for the past shit couple 00:17:48.170 --> 00:17:52.250 months is is figuring out a way to do my own hosting. 00:17:53.090 --> 00:17:56.750 Well, I originally, in the midst of my crash -out, decided I'm going to get some 00:17:56.750 --> 00:18:00.710 fucking server racks and I'm going to fucking get the T1 line and I'm going to 00:18:00.710 --> 00:18:04.350 dedicate and I'm going to host it all from my fucking house, man. 00:18:04.770 --> 00:18:05.890 Totally self -sufficient. 00:18:06.050 --> 00:18:07.890 I'm not going to rely on anybody for anything. 00:18:08.970 --> 00:18:11.810 But then I realized that that wasn't really all that practical. 00:18:11.830 --> 00:18:18.950 So I looked at Ubuntu and I looked at AWS and I looked at quite a few. 00:18:18.950 --> 00:18:24.150 And I ended up settling on a company that allows me to host my own podcast, to 00:18:24.150 --> 00:18:29.530 set up my own fucking buckets and all of that stuff and distribution feeds and 00:18:29.530 --> 00:18:37.930 all of that shit and hosted all on their cloud server system thingy. 00:18:37.950 --> 00:18:44.990 And then it gets distributed out to all of the different podcast platform services. 00:18:44.990 --> 00:18:49.790 And so I started reading and working and I'm working with Grok AI as a matter 00:18:49.790 --> 00:18:55.030 of fact Grok Bot is fucking amazing by the way and Getting it all set up and getting 00:18:55.030 --> 00:18:59.070 it all worked and being very specific about how I wanted things done and then 00:18:59.070 --> 00:19:04.770 I rebuilt the website I cancelled my fucking website with pod page and Created 00:19:04.770 --> 00:19:07.170 my own on the same cloud server 00:19:08.510 --> 00:19:13.710 Incidentally all of this was free Not a fucking dime invested. 00:19:14.110 --> 00:19:17.450 I bought the domain names, but lorenzosucks .com, I always owned. 00:19:18.110 --> 00:19:21.570 I I always owned that. 00:19:21.910 --> 00:19:25.830 But the actual setting up of the cloud server and the website and all of that 00:19:25.830 --> 00:19:27.810 stuff, that was all free. 00:19:28.070 --> 00:19:29.590 It's not costing me a fucking dime. 00:19:30.010 --> 00:19:34.150 And so at the end of the day, here I am sitting down in front of you doing a 00:19:34.150 --> 00:19:38.470 test run to. See just if this is going to fucking work. 00:19:38.470 --> 00:19:42.810 If it's really going to work, because I just got it all set up, put the finishing 00:19:42.810 --> 00:19:44.510 touches on everything this morning. 00:19:44.510 --> 00:19:49.870 As a matter of fact, Grok Bot and I have been constant companions for weeks now 00:19:49.870 --> 00:19:51.470 working on this project. 00:19:51.510 --> 00:19:53.210 And this is the test run. 00:19:53.290 --> 00:19:58.090 What you're hearing right now, if you're hearing it, it means that it all worked, 00:19:58.730 --> 00:20:01.410 dude. And I can continue. 00:20:01.530 --> 00:20:06.750 I can get back to work doing the business of being fucking stupid on the internet, 00:20:06.750 --> 00:20:11.410 but without the fucking hassle of Spotify, first of all, go fuck yourself. 00:20:11.550 --> 00:20:15.750 And without the fucking constant nagging at the back of my mind that I'm going 00:20:15.750 --> 00:20:20.070 to violate somebody's fucking term of service and get deplatformed. 00:20:20.070 --> 00:20:20.970 Just. Just like that. 00:20:21.110 --> 00:20:25.050 I have my own cloud server hosting set up. 00:20:25.050 --> 00:20:28.970 I have my own website that I'm not paying anybody to fucking run. 00:20:29.430 --> 00:20:33.790 I'm not paying for the privilege of having a fucking website on their whatever 00:20:33.790 --> 00:20:37.110 the it's called. I'm not paying for any of that shit. 00:20:37.330 --> 00:20:41.630 It's all mine. 100 % of it belongs to me now. 00:20:42.270 --> 00:20:46.670 I don't have to rely on anybody anymore for anything. 00:20:47.190 --> 00:20:50.730 So again, I say all of that to say this. 00:20:50.950 --> 00:20:52.570 I was gone for a while. 00:20:52.590 --> 00:20:54.470 I got kicked in the nuts by Spotify. 00:20:54.970 --> 00:21:01.070 It hurt. And after I got through fighting with them, I reassessed and then I 00:21:01.070 --> 00:21:07.730 got mad. And then I completely changed the way I do everything involving this 00:21:07.730 --> 00:21:10.630 fucking show. And now here we are. 00:21:10.790 --> 00:21:15.070 Me putting out an episode, it's just a little drop in, but me putting out an 00:21:15.070 --> 00:21:19.910 episode to you, basically to see if this still fucking works. 00:21:20.110 --> 00:21:22.930 And if it does, we are off to the races, bitches. 00:21:22.970 --> 00:21:24.930 I'll never be on Spotify again. 00:21:24.930 --> 00:21:29.390 And I know in the world of business, you're never supposed to say never. 00:21:29.390 --> 00:21:35.590 I don't see a scenario where I would ever fucking allow myself to be put on Spotify 00:21:35.590 --> 00:21:40.050 ever again, and I'm never going to pay for another fucking hosting service And 00:21:40.050 --> 00:21:44.230 I'm never going to pay for another fucking website service I'm never gonna pay 00:21:44.230 --> 00:21:49.070 for any of that shit again because it is all property of Lorenzo from this point 00:21:49.070 --> 00:21:53.870 forward Anyway, thank you for joining me for this drop -in episode of the first 00:21:53.870 --> 00:21:59.270 Church of Lorenzo be looking for actual no shit real back -to -fucking -business 00:21:59.270 --> 00:22:03.350 -of -business episodes of the First Church of Lorenzo moving forward. 00:22:03.810 --> 00:22:09.010 If this works, and you're hearing this right now, then this fucking experiment 00:22:09.010 --> 00:22:14.250 that I've undergone over the last few months has been a huge success and I will 00:22:14.250 --> 00:22:18.030 be super energized and ready to get back to fucking work. 00:22:18.910 --> 00:22:20.290 Alright, until next time.