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all right you
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ready well uh we need to
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talk all right so it's not as serious as
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I made it out there in the intro we
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really wanted to have just like a
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conversation that's why the mics are
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here and we're like at a table we're
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imagining in our heads like a press
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conference right we're taking questions
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yeah later back you in the
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yeah uh no it's it's not that serious
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guys but we did want to share something
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that we are doing which is uh taking a
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small break from YouTube first time ever
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yeah so I mean we've just done at least
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a video there's a period we were doing
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two uh a week for years at this point
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and uh the time has come uh for some
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reasons that we're going to get into for
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us to take a little bit of a break and
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when I say a little bit I'm talking just
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a few weeks here uh we're this isn't
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going to go on for months or anything
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like that there's there are things on
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the calendar that would uh completely
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prevent that uh so if you are new to the
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channel or you've been around forever uh
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you don't have to worry about like we're
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not going anywhere uh none of that
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stuff's happening but we do need to take
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uh just a short break from YouTube from
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the production time from the editing
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time from the filming time and scripting
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and all that stuff uh to accomplish this
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other thing that uh that we're going to
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be working on so Joe if you want to let
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them know a little bit of why it is
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we're doing this yeah YouTube videos
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take a lot of time and a lot of work and
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we have this side project that we've
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been working on for several months now
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yeah like pretty hardcore for hours a
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day uh and so yeah it's been it's been a
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lot it's been a lot it's been a lot of
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work and it's finally ready and we just
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need to take a little bit of a break
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from YouTube so that we can really focus
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on this launch and really give it our
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all right you know we've spent so much
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time getting this thing ready we've
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thought through oh my gosh so many uh
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little things with this it's just been
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so much yeah it's been a lot and every
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time we think we've got it it's like
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there's another thing to think what
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about this and what about that we feel
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like we're finally in a good spot and
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ready to ready to launch this thing but
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it's going to need a little bit of TLC I
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think the first few weeks that it's
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launched and so we need to find time
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somewhere and it makes most sense I
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think to to pull that time from YouTube
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and I want to point out like we're
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taking a break from publishing on
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YouTube but chroman boxed is not going
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anywhere no please hear that we are
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still going to be publishing on the
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website we're still going to be
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podcasting we're still going to be
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sending out newsletters and posting on
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social media we're just not going to be
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publishing on YouTube and you know I
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think it's important to note too like
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we're we're not burnt out on YouTube
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yeah please hear that too this isn't the
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we're quitting YouTube You've maybe seen
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some of those videos and to be fair We
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we played into that a little bit here
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the thumbnail the title the intro like
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okay yeah we played into that but rest
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assured that's that's we have Robbie
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hinted at it but we have several things
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on uh the calendar that are really
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exciting we have several awesome
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projects coming up on YouTube that we
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can't wait to get back to after the
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Hiatus but for right now we just we we
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got to take some time to focus on this
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launch and really give it uh the
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attention that it deserves so I guess at
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this point like we need to explain what
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it is that we're actually doing this is
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us telling the internet the first time
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this is the official announcement we've
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hinted at it over on the podcast but
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this is the
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official announcement so what is it that
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we've been working on um you all
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probably have heard us talk about proof
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golf uh it's been a little over a year
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since we kind of launched that brand and
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we did some different media around it so
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short form media we did try a couple
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long form things uh we've done some
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website stuff and and the whole goal the
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whole uh purpose behind proof golf was
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always to try to shine a light on
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simulator Golf and so it's this like
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Confluence of tech and golf and it's
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just a spot that is just really near and
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dear to my heart for sure um and and I
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know Joe even as a as a disc golfer uh
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this all this stuff is really kind of
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near and dear to him too it's it's
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competitive it's fun there's just all
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these great things and we want people to
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know more about that so at first we
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thought it was a a media gig yeah we
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thought we could do what we were doing
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with choman box yeah we we'll we'll take
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that same model and we'll apply it to
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this new thing right and so that was
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that was what we started with and I that
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may have worked but you know some things
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changed uh last year uh Google algorithm
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was a mess and there was The Helpful
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content update there was a bunch of
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moving parts that happened in 2023 that
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made it um very important that we stayed
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focused on chroman box and it was like
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we we'll get back to proof golf at some
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point and we'll try to figure out what's
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going to work cuz nothing had really
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taken off at that point and uh it was a
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few months back 3 four months back we
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started having some discussions about a
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couple different things that then led us
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to the point where we thought you know
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what it would be really cool as if we
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could create a space um where
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there's there's all this desperate stuff
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going on with with golf simulator so
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there's um there's different Hardware
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there's different um software that
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people use and all this kind of stuff
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and there's these people playing
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simulator golf usually at home a lot of
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times they they' built this thing in
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their house and they're excited then
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they're by themselves and golf is a
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communal sport it's it's a sport best
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enjoyed with people around and so we saw
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that kind of disparity and thought what
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is it we could do to kind of help fix
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that and and what feels like a bit of
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the Wild Wild West right now uh it feels
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very much like when we first started
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covering Chromebooks like it's things
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are everywhere and so we sat down to try
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to figure out between matchmaking and
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tournaments and leagues how could we
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bring these desperate communities
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together and that has launched the proof
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Golf Club so through proof Golf Club
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you're going to be able to connect and
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compete with other indoor golfers around
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the globe yeah and and I want to
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interject here like I I do this already
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there there are ways to do this they're
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just not clear and easy and so a lot of
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people don't take advantage of them and
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so I've done this where I've played with
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guys in Netherlands play guys in
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Australia and it's crazy yeah there's
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like one piece here there's one piece
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here but but nothing really bringing it
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all together and that's what we want to
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do we want to create a community of
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simulator indoor golfers so through this
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you can do matchmaking uh online through
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different uh software you can play in
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just kind of fun casual Leagues with
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people in the club all around the world
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you can do money leagues where you're
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actually competing putting some cash up
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and hopefully going to win some cash if
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you play well and then we're even doing
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a full-blown tour with tournaments and
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these are going to be high stakes
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competitive rounds that you're going to
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be able to play on your simulator and
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win some pretty significant prizes yeah
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I mean the minute we get some some
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decent membership there's going to be
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some serious money on the line and don't
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forget there for for our members there's
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also prize leagues so there will be
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leagues where you don't have to other
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than your membership fee you don't have
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to contribute anything else there's a
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prize at the end of it uh gift card kind
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of thing and you know you'll get to go
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in and and just play with those you
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don't have to put up any additional
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money so there's just all these
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different things and so we had to figure
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out all of these different formats how
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are we going to keep scores how are we
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going to keep people honest how are we
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going to you know divvy up the money how
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are we going to pay people out and how
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are we going to organize these
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tournaments and what are the levels on
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it and how do we do memberships and then
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how do we get them signed up and it has
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been so so much work that that initial
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idea was like oh yeah we just you know
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create Community cool and then as the
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questions kept coming day after day
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after day it was just more and more work
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to put all this together and so now that
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it's together you can see why we're
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pretty excited about you know how this
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has all turned out and excited to get
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this thing out in the world and I want
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to also mention there is a free tier of
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this too if you just want to connect and
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chat and and talk about your simulator
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setup ask questions there's a free tier
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of this that that is that kind of basic
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Community um and so you can do that one
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if you don't want to join as a member or
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as a pro uh but those additional you
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know those top two tiers are going to
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give you all sorts of other cool
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benefits yeah and the the middle tier
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will be uh we'll have a 30-day trial as
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well and a monthly option so uh there's
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an easy way from the free and then the
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monthly option the free month trial to
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get in there and see like and I know
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look I know for our audience like you
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guys watching this right now some of you
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probably already checked out we're like
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ah golf don't care there's going to be a
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lot of people like that but we know that
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there is some overlap and more
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importantly we know that there are maybe
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people in your circle of influence that
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really into golf and really into
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simulators and all that kind of stuff
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and so that's you know part of the
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reason we wanted to announce this here
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first yeah and and you know we know that
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not all of you all are going to join
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proof Golf Club but we do just ask that
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you engage with this video like it if if
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you want to support Chrome unbox and
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unbox media and everything that we do
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just just give us some give us some love
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uh like like some of the content that we
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put out maybe go follow us over on
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YouTube uh go check out the website give
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us feedback let us know and if you can
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do that that'll help to get this project
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started and and really kind of be the
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Catalyst to hopefully get this thing out
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into the world yeah cuz at the end of
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the day I mean when people go to look at
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this if they see a social following say
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on x/ Twitter or Facebook and they see
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that there's tens of thousands of people
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following it then they're going to just
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feel way more comfortable getting
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involved and so even though you may not
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be that interested I mean heck give us a
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follow and then you can uh mute it if
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you don't if you're not that interested
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in it uh but it's a way that you all can
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support kind of what we're trying to do
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here and I want to be very very clear in
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this uh other than this little Hiatus
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we're going to take from YouTube there's
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no plans whatso like we've been doing
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this like hustling on the side for
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months at this point putting in probably
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way more time than we will have to once
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it's launched uh to get this thing going
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so there's zero plan U zero still doing
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box zero thought that Chrome andbox is
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going anywhere that anything's going to
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change the YouTube content's going to
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keep flowing the website content the
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podcast all that stuff's going to keep
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going so you don't have to worry about
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any of that stuff we're just asking uh
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our existing audience like look this is
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a tangible way for no money for very
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little effort that you could really help
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give us a boost so uh again go to proof
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golf.com uh at the top there you can see
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all of our social stuff just you know go
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give us a follow give us a like you know
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interact a little bit with some of our
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stuff and it that's going to go a huge
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long way towards helping us uh find
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those golfers find those guys that have
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uh simulators in their homes or in their
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offices that want to connect and be part
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of something a little bit bigger and
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compete and and matchmake and all that
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stuff and that's what we're excited
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about with proof Golf Club so there it
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is that's proof golf club and that's why
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we're taking a quick break here on
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YouTube we're so excited to finally have
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this out in the world and if you are
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interested go check it out proof
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golf.com all right guys so there you
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