Michael Smoak

And it just sort of goes to show how rare consistency is.

and um yeah if you want i want to be in the top percentile of all podcasters ever okay just do 21 like they can be shit do 21 and you have already won and yeah consistency is not sexy and it doesn't really fit very well on an instagram reel because it's not a quick fix so yeah it doesn't surprise me that

It doesn't surprise me that people don't want to do it.

I think another element, a lot of people didn't get to where they are because of a lack of support.

So I think the Lonely Chapter thing was for a very long time, still maybe deep down now, uncertain.

Am I doing this right?

Is it okay for me to want to do this thing?

And I basically have a lifestyle-wide praise kink.

And if you just say to me the thing that encouraged me, that is a really good fuel source for me.

But that means that in the UK, somewhere which is quite disparaging if anybody wants to do anything different, it's the opposite.

And I know that the Lonely Chapter thing particularly resonated with people in the UK because it's one big fuck-off Lonely Chapter.

And that's also one of the reasons, I think, that we've got such millionaire exit, like the whatever it's called, brain drain, this millionaire flight that's happening from the UK.

Because if you're the sort of person that wants to make

a lot of yourself.

It's not a wonderful culture to be in.

And I really would love to change that.

The praise kink is a super funny way to put that.

Lifestyle-wide praise kink.

Good boy.

Don't you do it.