The New Direction of This Channel

What's up everyone? Hope you guys are having a great Saturday. Um, let's do a little bit of uh housekeeping first. I've got my Black Friday sale which continues on until the 30th which is is it tomorrow?

Yeah, tomorrow at midnight. So, you can get all seven of my courses for $129. That's the Black Friday special. Um, or you can buy each individual one for just $49.

You can go to rickbata.com. So, um, I've been thinking about this a lot that, you know, I was, um, it's interesting. I read a Mr. Beast post the other day.

You're probably thinking like, why are you reading Mr. Beast post? I read a post on on I don't know why I saw it on X, but um the few times that I actually go on the internet and look at stuff. I saw a thing where he writes, "After some reflection, I want to say that I think some of our newer YouTube videos haven't been as good as I wanted.

I apologize. your boy's going to go into alternate ultra grind mode and make the greatest content of my life in 2026. I was like, why is he writing that? And he would never get on YouTube and make make a video about it, which you really should.

Like, why go on a different platform and talk about what you want to do on your YouTube channel? It's like this is why you come on here is to do this. Um, and over the last couple years, I've really focused my channel in the into the uh direction of doing interviews and stuff like that. And so much of my content has been that.

And I'm probably sitting on about I'd say 15 to 18 different videos. They're not all they're not all interviews, but a lot of them are. And at this point I have interviewed almost everybody that I want to and the people that I still have left the Paul McCartney's Jimmy Page you know Herby Hancock Stevie Wonder uh Pete Townsen Ringo Keith Richards these people you know they're either going to happen or they're not. It's very difficult to do that.

You know, I turn on I see something on uh the post with stuff on network TV that gets people like Ra Robert Plant I just saw on a network TV thing. ...