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Hello all. One thing you all know about Wimkin, is that you'll get full transparency of the inner workings and happenings with the platform. This AM, I worked w/ representatives of Mr. Carlson regarding Wimkin becoming a first or secondary outlet for the newly planned show. We set up nicely for their needs in terms of extremely long video uploads, live streaming for up to 3 hours per stream, our nearly unlimited text in comparison with Tweets, and our model being much more like Facebook than any other platform that is nearly fully uncensored. In short, we did very well in terms of all of their tests on features and no censorship. Quite frankly, where we fall short is on budget and audience size. Theoretically, he can take his show anywhere he wants on big tech and receive massive amounts of money. However, he'd be bringing his own audience via an announcement. The only real way to accommodate this would be for viewers to pay a subscription fee, which is what I believe is the plan at Twitter. We'd have to write a coding plan that would pay the money directly to him, which we could do. The second problem would be the cost of streaming. It is otherworldly expensive to stream live broadcasts in live viewers, and replays. I estimate the cost of having his show here, would cost the platform over 1.5 million dollars per year in stream costs alone. We have ample server & database power, bandwidth and resources, but we'd have to monetize the show in terms of covering platform costs. Again, the only way to do this would be to offer him a subscription fee. We could always offer a basic free version of Wimkin, then tier subscriptions to where more platform features are added per tier, and then a final tier offering unlimited access to all shows. One final resort would for me to significantly reduce my ownership and offer investments into the platform which I'm definitely willing to do. If anyone has any thoughts, please feel free to email me directly at jsheppard@dreamteamwebdesign.com. I will keep you posted on further developments. Thanks!