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- URL: https://andys.blog/new-dummies/
- Published: 2026-09-11T08:51:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T08:51:40.000Z
- Author: Andy Trattner

and you just subscribed to andys.blog in the last 3 months

text me 262 204 7212

thanks!

i love chatting to random curious people aroudn the world

esp teaching young folks age 10-29 about the world. i didn't know about the world until i was around 25 then 25-29 i built businesses make $1M+ revenue like shuffle.dating and talked to the CEO of Tinder [Elie Seidman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elieseidman/?ref=andys.blog) then

now i'm 30 so if you are curious about how the brain works. just text, i love getting these texts!!!! 

but be careful who you text on the internet or then creepy pedo people put your number on public blast too

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/86/cd86d82c-7ac7-4970-a6aa-07c9f50c77ba/content/images/2026/09/image-37.png)

so safest is to just email only

tratt@hey.com

then if you are under 18 and you text me Andy Trattner you know you are not texting a pedophile because you only emailed the guy.

watch out kids.

do not make the same mistakes i did when i was 16 lol.

there was this creepy girl who was 19 and she liked me.

it was horrific.

when i was 16 i lived with my aunt and uncle in Wisconsin they stole about $40k from my dead mom's Roth IRA and then we had less money for college.

so i had to graduate MIT a year early to save $60k cuz college is expensive.

true story ask anyone esp my friends who are on zscore.info the interviews there are all on youtube it's fun

theandypod.com also :) 

[and 4 previous podcasts](https://andys.blog/old-pods/)

oh and happy 9/11 that's sad we should all be sad today.

happy Friday!

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throwback to blog posts from January so good :) little poems :)