WHAT AM I DOING

good morning John there are some days when I know like exactly what my job is and some days when I definitely don't and like It's Not Unusual to finish cancer treatment and then take a little step back and be like what is this what am I doing is this my life that's also not that unusual when you turn 43 and I turned 43 the day before I got diagnosed with cancer so like this is new and I don't love it side note if you found yourself thinking over the last few months Boy Hank shirt has talk about his cancer a lot yeah just imagine what it's like inside my head anyway we've done a lot of different things on this YouTube channel there was a fairly long period of time when we were trying to figure out whether or not our docon pooped in our Nintendo when we were children we've also tried through a number of high impact strategies to reduce the barriers to higher education in America those are two pretty different things we don't have like a shortage of things we're trying to do like last week I announced that during chemo I had very meticulously designed eight pairs of socks delightfully patterned socks that I spent a whole lot of time trying to make perfect and now we're selling them so that more people in the world can have access to cancer treatment cuz let me tell you having access to cancer treatment is great it's so good also just FYI if you do not live in the US and you want to get these socks or anything from good do store or the amazing complex Le calendars or indeed anything from dftba.com or ma merch.com or the Dropout TV store this is the last day for a standard shipping order to be guaranteed by Christmas so like maybe after this video you want to go shopping even if you are in the US you might as well cuz it's not like you don't have people that you'd like to buy gifts for also for people in the US today and tomorrow you get free shipping on any order over $50 at dftba.com and we sell for a ton of amazing creators so trust me it's not hard to find $50 of stuff to buy but that's not what this video is about because even after all this time I feel like this is all so new like all of this stuff that we're that people are doing on the internet that there are lots of ways to do things that people literally just haven't thought of yet which brings me to another thing that I did while I was getting chemotherapy I kind of like impulse bought a piece of a mobile game now if I had impulse bought a mobile game on the App Store that would not be weird that's not what I did I saw this amazing Gameplay trailer on Tik Tok and I reached out to the developers and I got Early Access and I played it and I loved it and it was so delightful and then I got on the phone with the developers and they told me that publishing a mobile game is really difficult and fraught and they were really close to the finish line but it was really hard and I said y' I love your game how about I buy 10% of it you'll get some money so that you can make sure the game is perfect before launch and then I will get 10% of the game's Revenue forever and I'll donate that to the foundation to decrease World size and so everyone I own a piece of gobbin I was told to not make any significant serious decisions while I was going through chemo I don't get a new car you're not in your right mind but I did pay I don't know around the price of a new car 4 10% of a mobile game and yeah some people did try to talk me out of it but look I wanted to be alive so everybody download gobbins cuz look I don't regret this it's kind of amazing basically nerd Feria has a game that's ours now like we not all ours but it's some hours and it's a great game and we didn't have to develop it we had extremely talented artists and developers that did that and they'd already almost finished it when I came along it's so fun and 10% of whatever money it makes is going to go into the money that we distribute as part of the project for awesome and it gets better if you could believe that cuz you have a chance to actually add to the game how's that work gobbin is a word game and when you make a word and then clear it it'll pop up with a nice little message congratulating you but sometimes those messages are different they're little Easter eggs for example if you put in Obi it will say you're our only hope there are hundreds of these override words that's what they call them at the studio so three things if you could do this for me one download gobbin it's a free game there aren't even any ads you only get to play once per day unless you pay six bucks I suggest you pay the six bucks it's a lot of fun you get like cool in-game prizes when you play but you can also buy in-game prizes they're not necessary to play the game though they're just fun things two when you finish playing you can make a postcard here are some of the postcards they're amazing if you post the postcards people will see the postcards and they'll be like what's that from and you could tell them or you can just use hashtag gbin people will see it more and more and they be like I need to play this game and that will be good for us and third in the description I have put a form where you can add a suggestion for override words basically you just submit the word and the message that pops up when you get that word obviously humans will curate this list so know that we'll be looking at them before they get put in the game we're not going to pick everything but it is going to make the list of override words much longer like maybe instead of hundreds of words it will be thousands of words but you have to do it in the next week I'll be taking the form down after that gobbin is on IOS and Android it's the number two word game in the app store right now it's the number 14 free game in the app store right now which is amazing I mean honestly why don't we just do this together right now do you have your phone it's probably nearby my phone is right here here's my phone open up the app store did you open I'm not joking around have you opened the App Store now you're going to type in the search bar in the App Store you're going to type in gubb and it's going to autofill to Gin and or the Google Play Store on Android that's also a thing you can do after the advertisement because it wants me to download toun Blast which I'm not going to do I'm going to go click on Goin and I'm going to download gobbin which I've already done did you do it did you do it did you do it it's a lot of fun and the entire project is a thing that definitely to me in this moment of a little bit of existential anxiety and confusion is my job like I have other jobs but that doing something like that that's my job and that's a pretty dang good job John I'll see you on Tuesday also everyone in the description there are links to the various stores where if you are not in the US you have only today for standard shipping with guaranteed delivery by Christmas including various good dot store holiday boxes which are anywhere from $25 to $99 you probably know this but all products on good. store donate 100% of their profit to help make the world a better more Equitable place and we are already running out of some Styles and sizes of the cancer socks so if you want to get those there's no time like the present

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Length: 6min 14sec (374 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 17 2023