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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've mentioned this many times. If I was younger, I
probably should be doing it now. Certainly, if I was younger,
I would have been thinking every day, how what can
I come up with to put on YouTube or snapchat
or whatever and become rich because the gold rush is
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back on. You can discover gold if you will. Anybody
can and become wealthy practically overnight in a way that
has never been true in human history. And you don't
have to sail around the Horn to California or the
Yukon to do it. You just need to come up
with an idea with your computer in your bedroom. And
everybody ages twelve to thirty in America around the world
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knows this, but that's no reason not to give it
a try. No, and everybody can do it in a
variety of I was watching a guitar lesson on YouTube
the other day and I caught onto this guy. His
name is Paul David's. If you're a guitar player, you
probably know who he is by now. I caught onto
this guy early on. I remember when he was trying
to get to a hundred thousand followers, and he was
very excited when he hit a hundred thousand followers. He
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quit his job. I think he lives in Sweden. He
quit his job as a music teacher and he was
gonna full time do the YouTube thing. And he talked
about how scared he was and all that sort of stuff,
and he would put together his YouTube videos clearly in
a small apartment with his one guitar and everything like that. Well,
now he has three million subscribers. He does his his
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videos from this palatial home that he apparently lives in
now with a wall full of classic guitars. I mean,
he changed his life in was that three years. He
went from a guy who was giving lessons to kids
at a public school to a gazillionaire just by coming
up with really clever videos. But he has a skill.
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That's what's holding me back. Maybe I could do a
YouTube channel how to be sarcastic about the news, but
the skill might just be the sarcasm. Being good looking helps. Um,
there's the reviews of everything, and if you can come
up with a clever angle, you can become rich overnight
reviewing anything. It's there there. There are limitless ideas out there.
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I find I find it fascinating. Or you can do this.
You can just kind of be infamous and cash in
on it. Somehow it started on Dr Phil years ago.
She was an out of control teenager. Mom didn't know
what I how to handle her, and mom wisely decided
to put her mouthy daughter on Dr Phil's show to
get some parenting advice. And this is how it went.
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So what do you think is going to happen when
you happen to steal somebody's car that disagrees with that
and decides that they're going to drop a hammer on
you and prosecute you to the time, That's what I
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was doing. They never catch me. A nobody going catch
me because you're too street wise. In audise word lass
and life soul funny. She's talking about the audience got
the laughing hour? Did you say that the hose are laughing?
So the audience are a bunch of hopes? Kicks me out?
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How about that? Get you outside? What does that mean?
What I just say? Catch her outside and she'll go
outside and see what she has to do. I was
tired the first time I heard it years ago, and
I'm still tired now. Although I predicted, you predicted, we
all predicted. She was just going to have a very
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sad uh life with probably an early violent or sad
ending and I certainly didn't expect her to become rich. Well,
she just yesterday paid cash for a six point one
million dollar home in Florida. I'm looking at a picture here.
It's enormous. It looks like your town library with a
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giant pool behind it. It's it's nine yep, it's square feet.
It's in Florida. It's not easy to pay six million
dollars cash for a home, especially when you're three point
six seven million dollar home you still own it. So
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she's gonna put that up for sale now. So she's
upgradeace and and she's got so much money she doesn't
need to sell her four million dollar home to come
up with the cash to buy the six million dollar home.
She could, you know, buy the other one first and
then sell this one. So that's the There's a picture
of her hair standing in front of her new home
with what looks to be a bentley. Her name is
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Danielle Brigoli. If you don't remember, she's also known as
bad Baby. She's a singer or rapper or something spelled
b h A d b h A bi bad baby behavior.
Yes ye launched to online stardom on Dr Phil quite
a few years ago. Now, as she was, I think
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in that thing. And she's nineteen now she's crazy wealthy.
She has sixteen million Instagram followers. Oh my gosh, Well,
I was just mentioning the guitar guy if he if
he's making the kind of money he appears to be
making off a three million subscribers on YouTube. Sixteen million
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followers will make you quite a bit of money. She's
nineteen years old, so she closed on the seven bedroom,
seven bathrooms spread just the other day. Pretty seems to
be pretty proud of that. She has landed several multimillion
dollar deals thanks to her manager, who set her up
a deal with Atlantic Records as a singer. And but
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she's or is anybody actually listening to her music? That's
not how she's making her money, is it. It's mostly
on time online retailers like Fashion Nova and Capy Copycat Beauty.
I don't know these, but she promotes their products to
her sixteen million, sixty million fans. Yeah, I'm looking at
her Instagram account and she has very large breastas very
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tight pans, so do a gazillion other women. Well you
can say that all day long, old man. She's got
sixteen point three million followers. You rounded her down three
hundred thousand followers. Yeah, her own indie music label that
she's got worldwide. Her music has been streamed more than
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one point five billion times. Well, you don't have to
make much money per view if you got one point
five billion streams going on there. Perhaps her most controversial
source of income, though, is her Only Fans account, which
she debuted the moment she earned eighteen because otherwise it
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would have been against the law. That's a subscription platform
where people want you can have an Only Fens account
where you do anything. Um. I think they're mostly famous
for like scannily clad women, but you could have one
where you shot a repair of washer if you want to.
She made a million dollars in the first six hours
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of her Only Fans account when she was eighteen years old.
To give you an idea where money is coming from,
she made a million dollars in the first six hours.
She uh, she's scantily clad, so it's not like porn porn,
it's just her and laundry. I guess she's been to
rehab a couple of times. She's only nineteen years old.
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I still think she's gonna end up sad and dead,
but you know, so far, she's doing better than I
ever have her ever will financially. You know. It's funny.
There are two stories that have come across today that
are of kind of your your pop culture, you know topic,
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and I can't figure out. Maybe you can help me
with this. So I hear that had behavior, who's a
sap of a juvenile delinquent um is making zillions and
zillions of dollars because people are so number one, if
I'm gonna be charitable, selling youthful rebellion is at least
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a century y old, Okay, huge industry for pop music, movies, whatever.
Rebel without a cause. It just it changes shapes and
dialect and lingo and the rest of it. But it's
more or less the same thing. So I guess I
get that. But I mean the fact that sixteen million
plus people hang on her every picture or word or whatever,
and then when she pitches a particular brand of hoe
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trousers or make up, make up or what have you,
people people flocked me up, people flock to buy it.
I mean, that's that convinces me that the public as
an ass to quote was that Mark Twain or I
can't remember anyway. Uh so, And I believe that, to
my soul, that which is the most popular is almost
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never ever that which is the best. There are occasions
when they intercept, or interact or overlap, I guess that's
what I'm trying to say, But usually the popular is
the crappy. I'm an elitist. Who are you people that
how many different people do you follow? I don't follow
anybody on Instagram or Snapchat or any of those things,
and I follow like three people who guitar lessons on YouTube?
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So who are you people that are giving these gazillions
and gazillions of following? Where follows to either Elon Musk
or Kim Kardashian or bad Baby or whoever. On the
other hand, came across this story, you know, the the
new uh what's his name? Walberg. I'm not good with
movie stars because I don't give a crap. Mark Wahlberg,
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um And and Mel Gibson are in this Father Stu
movie about this tough the amateur boxer brawler guy who
becomes a Catholic priest. Yeah, they're both very religious people.
Walberg in obviously Mel Gibson, so anyway, but this priest
a spoiler Alerty. He also has a disease, but he's
trying to redeem himself. He's trying to live a good
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life and help people in spite of his rough background.
The rest of it Rotten Tomatoes, a dismal forty four
rating from critics. About seventy five film critics have weighed
in a dismal dismal rating Real Human Beings nine people
love it, and their comments are generally uh pleasant change
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from the rest of the movies. Available. Excellent acting, profound message,
great message, amazing performances. It teaches us how to be
tolerant and persistent at the same time, humanized priest and
faith life. Relatable, highly recommended, on and on and on.
But the critics hated it. I'm not surprised that half
the critics didn't want a religious, positive religious movie to
be successful, right. But so here I am. On the
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one story, I'm like, the public is an ass And
on the other story, I'm like, you know, the public
knows good when they see it. It's these pretentious critics
there you go. I see, So I don't know what
is it? Is? It just there's probably a sweet spot
between the unwashed masses and the elite normal people, by which,
of course I mean people like me. I suppose that
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even though sixteen million people is enough followers to help
you buy six million dollar homes in Boca a Tone,
it's a tiny percentage of the population, so you only
need to appeal to a tiny little slipper. That's a
that's like five percent of the population, isn't it though,
that's an s load of people. I thinking maybe maybe
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they're not all American. I don't know. Oh yeah, that's
a good point. It is a global platform. Good point.
So I don't Again, I don't am I hypocrite or
I just don't like people on either end. Maybe that's it.
Actually I don't like many people at all, but um,
maybe that's it. I don't think it's hypocritical. It's just
there's there's somewhere between unwashed, uneducated people who are like
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crap and the elite, the real elite. If I drove
a nail into my eye and I became the guy
who's got a nail in his eye, could I get
immediately get twenty million followers on everything and become incredibly wealthy.
I mean you just need a hook, right, You're gonna
put the hook in the other eye or what. That's
what people of a tweet at you. Hey, take out
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your other eye, you coward. Unfollowed wouldn't take out his
other eye. Cannot recommend