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Speaker 1: far as possible, then let me apologize to you for

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Speaker 1: the next album. For the next hour, I'm Jacob Goldstein

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Speaker 1: and this is What's Your Problem, the show where entrepreneurs

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Speaker 1: They've been viewed billions of times, but John wants complexly

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Speaker 1: And so during that period where my work was like

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Speaker 1: want to like get him ready for that. As for

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Speaker 1: what my two ten self would say to me, now,

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Speaker 1: that is a really interesting question that I have never

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Speaker 1: why are you still working? Why are you still working?

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Speaker 1: I feel very adrift. So I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: point of life is. I don't know what the point

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Speaker 1: life feels pretty empty when I'm not writing. And I

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Speaker 1: mean because most of what I do is writing, even

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Speaker 1: if it's writing a crash course or I'm still I'm

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Speaker 1: still writing. And so my life when I don't write

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Speaker 1: feels pretty not good. So that's what I would tell

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Speaker 1: my two thousand and ten self is just like, we

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Speaker 1: gotta do this man. John Green works in educational video.

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Speaker 1: Today's show was produced by Edith Ruslow, engineered by Amanda

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Speaker 1: kay Wong, and edited by Robert Smith. Special thanks to

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Speaker 1: Kate Parkinson Morgan for her help on this episode. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jacob Goldstein and we'll be back next week with another

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Speaker 1: episode of What's Your Problem