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In all seriousness this is the best channel I have discovered in the past year. The dedication to being thorough and showing your sources is so important for my enjoyment. Keep it up!
Idk if anyone has ever commented on this before but Sean has a fantastic reading/teaching voice. Perfect cadence, not grating or dull. A good exemplar for educators
You can tell he’s an academic who utilizes his knowledge practically ! Sometimes people know a lot and can not share information for the life of them. 😅
I think MLM history should be required learning in public schools. Your videos on the subject are incredibly interesting, educational, and digestible. Thank you for letting us watch them for free!
@@TheKeksmuzhexactly. There are also a lot of current and former congressmen and women, in addition to other staffers [including former cabinet members of a certain former president(s)] who are directly linked to MLMs who have considerable influence within public education. MLM history will not be in the curriculums anytime soon unfortunately 😟
Pilot here. Learjet is an airplane manufacturer, rather than a type of jet. There are private jets made by other companies, like Beechcraft (Beechjet) or Gulfstream. Turners fleet were called Learjets not as a result of the time period but because they were all Learjet-35s. I only made it 2 mins into the video before commenting so disregard if you address this in the latter 2 hours
bill lear is a fine example of an actual american success story of creating actual wealth through actual entrepreneurship and innovation of making things better(both in form of companies and in improving inventions).
My parents were in Koscot when I was a small child in the late 60's. They lost their shirts and the house. I remember going to the endlessly boring wig parties. Mom did the grunt work and dad did the fast talking trying to woo new clients. It was a train wreck.
I drank the Amway Coolaid in my 20s, luckily I didn't bring in anyone else and even made a bit of money. It lasted less than a year because my upperline kept pestering me to bring in new recruits which I didn't want to do. One thing that can be said about Amway (or at least could be said at that time) is their products were quite good actually.
People in our church sold Amway soap. The products were actually good however the crap you went through to get the soap was horrible. All the pitching and the connection to God turned me off.
@VictorianMaid99 Funny, in Eastern Europe it had nothing to do with religion as far as i know. A voluntary cultist pyramide scheme among people well-versed in pyramide schemes (most had experience) distributing job offers first, catalogues second. And we were a religious bunch too..
Heck yes thank you Sean I’ve been desperate for another legitimate Anti-MLM video, and no one else has came close to touching the subject like you do nor has there been any worthwhile documentaries at least not any easily found
Excellent work Sean! I work the night shift and your videos keep me alive!!! So much more nuanced than the average pop history videos you see here, you take your time to provide balanced and detailed coverage and I cannot thank you enough!!! Love from Dallas!
If you wish to continue this series on pyramid schemes, I'd reccomend looking into the Albanian pyramid scheme debacle. When it came to a head, 2/3rds of the country embroiled in a pyramid scheme and it was so evidently bad that it prevented them from joining NATO for a while. They did end up joining in 2009 along with Croatia.
I've heard of that, just not how bad it was.. North-Eastern Europe was swept by pyramide schemes too, especially the late '90s (same as Russia). Ever heard of "Bank Baltija"? They were official banks then, having savings of most pensioners. Never again..
@@will0705 My Romanian friend used to joke that only 4 people in Romania have legal jobs and everyone else sells them and each other black market goods. Of course he was older and he lived through the soviet times, the dictators overthrow and the aftermath so who knows if he was just being facetious about the economic state of the country or if criminal enterprise was that big. I mean of course he's being hyperbolic.
Watched this and the Amway tools scam video multiple times-spine tingling to think how much power they had over government and impact on where USA is right now. Great work Sean
Thanks a lot for this space-themed MLM story. This also has some "Stranger in a Strange Land" vibes with a megachurch replaced with an MLM. And kudos for the Iron Maiden t-shirt.
My parents were drawn into Holiday Magic. They rented space from the local beauty shop in the new Mall. When it all collapsed my parents were devastated! It was a hard time in my family!
I’ve been consuming antiMLM content for quite a few years now, and your videos have been some of the absolute best. Your ability to place the events within the wider historical context really sets you apart (in addition to your rigorous research). I know MLM isn’t the focus of your channel, but I hope you continue to make these videos.
It’s incredibly impressive that you are able to put together these multiple hour videos and release them every month. Most other TH-camrs I see who do long form content will release like 4-5 times a year! Amazing work!
Amazing work and storytelling mate. My jaw legitimately dropped when as I started thinking about how this influenced the current mlm scams 50 years later. All I could think of when you mentioned dare to be great cassette tapes is all the mlmers who’ve hopped on master resell rights!
I've been marketed to on separate occasions. Once, a fellow student high on EST got me to attend an introductory seminar. The high pressure nature of the presentation did not appeal to me. Also while a student, I got the AMWAY 'mystery' product presentation. It sorta backfired on my would-be benefactor. He was so cagey about the product he convinced me he was selling drugs. He was a teacher.
Of all the history channels I watch, yours has rapidly become my favorite. Your depth and delivery are just so damn good! Early congrats on 100K subscribers, Sean!!!
I love the way you structure your videos, especially the little detail of always ‘setting the scene’ by explaining what else was going on culturally and politically at that time. I’m not from the US, so that’s extra helpful. I also appreciate your very clear and calm narration.
Thank you for documenting this journey of yours. They've passed on but over the last 20 years my parents have been in and out of various multi-level marketing schemes and I tried to grapple with fact-based refutation of some of these scams and I always came up a little bit short and I couldn't convince them to step back and take a look at how bad things were. I feel better now that my instincts weren't crazy and that there's documented examples of how this all began. Thanks again for making this a video.❤
The professional and academic level of your writing is unbeatable. You have no idea the service your doing for people who may never step foot in another classroom! I’m a teacher so that isn’t me but man this is really some of the best work available at this level. Thank you as always you’re fantastic!
Losing pounds of weight on a diet of brown bread and sauerkraut under detention in Germany. Good detail. Interesting tale of conmanship, interactions of connivers and victims, the involvement of lawyer Bailey and his involvement with the con. Well written and very well narrated.
Once again, Sean; you have hit it out of the park. The level of detail and deep dive makes a topic that in all reality I could care very little about is amazing to the point where you inspire me to care about it. Spending a lifetime in church, I’ve always been aware of various different MLMs in operation. Some (like Avon) seemed more legit than others. Some friends and relatives have gotten involved in a few to varying degrees of success, but I don’t really have any horror or success stories. Either way, GREAT WORK and keep them coming! You are still the only single youtube channel that I am subscribed to. I do enjoy others from time to time (like those WW2 history videos by that British historian), but your channel is the only one that I want to see every newest video as it comes out. Bravo!
been binging antimlm content so a long video about something i haven’t heard about yet is just what i needed!! so appreciate the research that went into this, and the narration is top notch as always
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a video on the Crimean War!!!! It's kinda like WW0 and it really doesn't get talked about much. I went to public school and not once was the Crimean War ever mentioned and in any social studies classes
I never understood the cachet of Florida. It is notoriously uninhabitable,with horror show predators, a hotbed of tropical diseases and voracious insects, hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding. Why, i ask, would anyone live there? Why in the world would we send our vulnerable elderly there to die? To die? My oldest sister spent her final years there, (though my middle sister spent her final years in Alaska!?). Call me a coward, but after living up and down the East coast, i am happy right back here in the sensible midwest where we only have tornadoes and sense enough to provide ourselves with basements.
Well, older adults have agency, we don't force them to go to Florida. And the Midwest's got more than that lol... everywhere does now with global warming
Fl my whole life its really not that bad. The media and social media make it out to be a lot worse than it is. Hurricanes are sporadic and really only affect the coasts and panhandle. Just use bug spray and don't swim in a lake with gators. The only tropical diseases you will get is spending too long breathing miami air Edit: actually no its awful dont move here and tell everyone else moving here to stop buying all the houses
I’m a Florida native. I don’t understand your comment. That is like asking why anyone at all lives in a tropical climate - like Caribbeans, pacific islanders and southeast asians. For one, the landscape is far more beautiful and vibrant than the midwest (particularly here in South Florida) and plus we never have to worry about dangerous winter weather like you do. There are pros and cons to every place. Old people (snowbirds) choose to come here, they aren’t forced. I actually miss the way this state used to be before it became heavily overpopulated.
Not from Florida, but many would say the same about bland boring midwest! Every climate and region has its pros and cons. Plus, outside factors impact where we live besides the terrain.
Dr. Munger your channel is going to blow up even more than it has. I can feel it, and you deserve the success. Your videos are well researched and put together. I also love the fact that there are so many out there like me who actually care about these topics to help you blow up your channel. Keep up the amazing work.
YAY!!!! I'm strapping myself in for this...with the big red straps! This documentary is going to...DARE TO BE GREAT! And it *is* great! Thanks for filling in the many gaps in my knowledge about the Glenn Turner phenomenon. In the mid-'80s I found his LPs YOU CAN BETTER YOUR BEST and DARE TO BE GREAT! along with several loose audiocassettes, but solid information was scant in the pre-internet era and the few random news reports and magazine articles I read didn't flesh out the story for me...till this. I wonder if mail fraud is a Florida Man pursuit--cheesy film producer Herschell Gordon Lewis did prison time for it in the '70s.
I am always amazed at the detail and care that is in every one of your videos and delivered in a manner that is easy to understand and extremely re-watchable. 👍💯
Got to say, I love your stuff Sean! It's great to put on in the background while doing mindless work, always interesting hearing about stories I know nothing about!
Sometimes when I'm listening to long form history the narrator will say something that'll make me wanna rewatch the last 2-3 minutes for better context and to be thorough. To your credit that hasn't happened. You're very good building on concepts, never leaving something in the background for too long. Admittedly, I might notice more because of my small attention span
This is a really fantastic critique, that happens to me often with long form content and I usually chalk it up to me being distracted or having a fleeting memory. But like you said these videos kind of naturally flow from point to point and I’m able to connect everything without much thinking
Just stumbled upon this video. Clear, concise information about an interesting subject without a bunch of over edited fluff. Thank you for the excellent work, I look forward to browsing the entirety of your video catalog.
Oh. My. Goodness. I have been fascinated by Glen Turner since I was a child! We had a summer home in FL, and everything about GWT, Koscot, and even his castle was practically hypnotic, and I got my family to even agree to visit CFL in October so I could visit the Jaycee’s haunted house in Glen Turner’s castle, and one of the girls I knew and was friends with there’s mom sold Koscot Cosmetics, and I spent hours and hours for a few years talking with her mom. I don’t know why I was so fascinated; if I had to put it all into words, it was because child me had a hard time believing GWT existed and figuring out how he fit in to the schematic structure I was building that describes how the world worked. His talks I got a hold of (cassette tapes) whenever I could, and my parents asked a few times if I was believing this stuff, or what, and after I convinced them that I simply found him fascinating, they chalked it up to one of my weird niche hobbies. Thank you for covering him! It’s amazing to me how GWT just slipped away into obscurity; he was the kind of person who I would have thought would keep turning up like a bad penny for the entirety of my life.
I have a foggy memory from when I was a kid. The first time I saw Amway, I recall telling someone that detergent was already sold in stores. I've never seen it in my friends houses, and it would have to be everywhere for people to make money. I'm pretty sure that person was my mother
My sister's husband tried to "better his best" when they first got married. He could never talk anybody into joining under him. They even made me go to a meeting once. I was, like, 15, and bored stupid.
I clicked on this video because the tile sounds exactly like the plot of the Apple TV show I watched with Billy Crudup called "Hello Tomorrow". Great video!
Great episode Sean. Some stylistic feedback, I wasn't a big fan of the AI portraits used as placeholders when a real picture of a person wasn't available. Thanks and keep up the great work
I would like to add that the cartoony rocket was a bit jarring after all the real-life footage, which I really enjoyed. I listened to the rest of the video like a podcast, so not sure if there were more cartoony looking snippets.
Awesome a new 2h video! Making my weekend that much better. Super glad I caught this early! Its awesome to see your channel growing since you are one of my favorite history youtubers.
Man, it sure is awesome that you're seeing success practicing honest-to-god History without turning it "pop" or dumbing it down (that much). This subject especially is important with the manosphere being so prominent among boys and young men, it's pretty crazy that they've gone from hucksters like this, to motivational speakers like Tony Robbins in the '80s and '90s charging you to come see him speak, to Andrew Tate-style gurus simply selling online zoom meetings for the same price as an actual event. There really is a sucker born every minute.
@1:41:40 There's a saying among lawyers: "The Attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client." - Even professionals are at a disadvantage when representing themselves because their emotions can get in the way of their own choices.
I accidentally renewed my TH-cam premium with an email I don’t use for TH-cam and I was so worried I had ruined my chances of finding my usual content. I never once saw this channel pop up on my old one and I’m happy now.
I love your videos, and have been binging on them during the last couple of months. They are essentially a master class in critical thinking. Well done!
Another fascinating film, Sean. I'm definitely now going to make the effort to get hold of your fiction as well. This one was totally unknown to me apart from, I might add, things that I've seen in your other films. And this is from the person who put together the thousands of readings in the "Disinformation Collection"!
You are one of the best creators on TH-cam I have to say you are exemplary in your use of visuals your voice is so relaxing and interesting and your videos are just very well done I could not applaud you more
Thank you so much for videos like these! I love your in depth political history videos but topics like this are just as important. You’re incredibly engaging and it makes these 1 hour+ videos a breeze! I look forward to each upload 😊
As always, a very well researched and told tale. I appreciate the clarity of Sean's storytelling, even in this, the notoriously murky, convoluted world of pyramid schemes.
I initially subscribed after binging some of your presidential videos but I truly love and appreciate everything you put out. Between you and a couple of other channels, I was encouraged to add a history minor to my studies!
OHHH YESSSSS LETS GOOOOO I genuinely get excited each time a see a new upload, I swear to god you could make these forever and I would watch every single one HOW CAN YOU MAKE THESE ONCE A MONTH??? I follow so many video essay changes that do stuff in a similar vein, and it can take them Half a year to put out something of this length and quality, Are these young TH-camrs just lazy? Do you just have the work ethic on lock? This is probably the best new YT channel I have discovered in the past 2 or 3 years I’m a history NERD, but you always manage to find some crazy interesting, relatively obscure topic to do ridiculous deep dives into Congrats on 100k, it happened fast, here’s to another, or maybe even 2 before the end of the year!
Thanks! I wouldn't call anyone else on TH-cam lazy, as getting a viable channel going is a huge amount of work. I don't have any secret, really. I just plan out what I want to do, research it, and make it as good as I can, and I work diligently at a video until it's done. Maybe someday I'll do a video about my process.
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In all seriousness this is the best channel I have discovered in the past year. The dedication to being thorough and showing your sources is so important for my enjoyment. Keep it up!
Sean’s work is the finest. Researched, nuanced, patiently and thoroughly explained.
Solid agreement over here. I couldn't have said it better myself.
Totally agree with the only exception being the "Oswald Acted Alone" episode. ;-)
Honestly if a youtube can't even do the bare minimum and show their homework I don't even bother anymore
Absolutely the truth
Idk if anyone has ever commented on this before but Sean has a fantastic reading/teaching voice. Perfect cadence, not grating or dull. A good exemplar for educators
You can tell he’s an academic who utilizes his knowledge practically ! Sometimes people know a lot and can not share information for the life of them. 😅
Feels like I am in a lecture hall when listening, it’s great.
Agree!
Sean is an excellent speaker.
i really appreciate how clearly you speak!! i have an auditory processing disorder and the clear speech is helpful!
Isn't his style of delivery EXCELLENT????
seconded, and it's so easy to stay focused too 😊
and a good pace too.
Agreed!! 🙏
I think MLM history should be required learning in public schools. Your videos on the subject are incredibly interesting, educational, and digestible. Thank you for letting us watch them for free!
Sadly there would be massive pushback from the modern MLM lobby if any curriculum tried to implement this.
Too many teachers probably sucked up into them just trying to make ends meet.
@@TheKeksmuzhexactly. There are also a lot of current and former congressmen and women, in addition to other staffers [including former cabinet members of a certain former president(s)] who are directly linked to MLMs who have considerable influence within public education. MLM history will not be in the curriculums anytime soon unfortunately 😟
Republicans would never allow it. Ripping people off is all they know.
Multi Level Marketing , sounds similar to an economic system called CAPITALISM. 😮
Pilot here. Learjet is an airplane manufacturer, rather than a type of jet. There are private jets made by other companies, like Beechcraft (Beechjet) or Gulfstream. Turners fleet were called Learjets not as a result of the time period but because they were all Learjet-35s.
I only made it 2 mins into the video before commenting so disregard if you address this in the latter 2 hours
Not to mention: Learjet was the maker of 8 track cartridges
Had lunch a couple times with Bill Lear. Classic inventor type.
bill lear is a fine example of an actual american success story of creating actual wealth through actual entrepreneurship and innovation of making things better(both in form of companies and in improving inventions).
IDK but for me Learjet was a bit like kleenex or Google or Bandaid, a brand name that refereed to all similar objects.
Remember "I think I need a Lear jet" from 1972" Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Oh hell yeah new Sean munger video
My parents were in Koscot when I was a small child in the late 60's. They lost their shirts and the house. I remember going to the endlessly boring wig parties. Mom did the grunt work and dad did the fast talking trying to woo new clients. It was a train wreck.
Jesus. At least Amway had soap.
It's absolutely wild, isn't it? They were not even really hiding, that it was a scam from beginning to end 👀
I drank the Amway Coolaid in my 20s, luckily I didn't bring in anyone else and even made a bit of money. It lasted less than a year because my upperline kept pestering me to bring in new recruits which I didn't want to do. One thing that can be said about Amway (or at least could be said at that time) is their products were quite good actually.
People in our church sold Amway soap. The products were actually good however the crap you went through to get the soap was horrible. All the pitching and the connection to God turned me off.
@@adilsongoliveirasame here. Anyway was a religion.
@VictorianMaid99
Funny, in Eastern Europe it had nothing to do with religion as far as i know. A voluntary cultist pyramide scheme among people well-versed in pyramide schemes (most had experience) distributing job offers first, catalogues second. And we were a religious bunch too..
Glad to see your channel blowing up. Some of the best content on this platform. o7
Thanks!
Same here. I binge watched every video in your channel in about 2 weeks.
Please tell me that o7 is supposed to be representing a little guy saluting lol
I just wanted to say I really appreciate the time you take to call out and label clearly the ai generated content. I wish others were so transparent
It'd be fine if he didn't too. Great video though.
Not really. I’m interested in the human experience and opinion. Not some approximation. I don’t mind it being there, as long as it’s clear
Heck yes thank you Sean I’ve been desperate for another legitimate Anti-MLM video, and no one else has came close to touching the subject like you do nor has there been any worthwhile documentaries at least not any easily found
Excellent work Sean! I work the night shift and your videos keep me alive!!! So much more nuanced than the average pop history videos you see here, you take your time to provide balanced and detailed coverage and I cannot thank you enough!!! Love from Dallas!
Overnighter here and I share the same sentiment.
If you wish to continue this series on pyramid schemes, I'd reccomend looking into the Albanian pyramid scheme debacle. When it came to a head, 2/3rds of the country embroiled in a pyramid scheme and it was so evidently bad that it prevented them from joining NATO for a while. They did end up joining in 2009 along with Croatia.
I've heard of that, just not how bad it was.. North-Eastern Europe was swept by pyramide schemes too, especially the late '90s (same as Russia). Ever heard of "Bank Baltija"? They were official banks then, having savings of most pensioners. Never again..
Romania had Caritas at this time.
....when MLM stops an entire country from joining NATO...smh
@@will0705 My Romanian friend used to joke that only 4 people in Romania have legal jobs and everyone else sells them and each other black market goods.
Of course he was older and he lived through the soviet times, the dictators overthrow and the aftermath so who knows if he was just being facetious about the economic state of the country or if criminal enterprise was that big. I mean of course he's being hyperbolic.
Watched this and the Amway tools scam video multiple times-spine tingling to think how much power they had over government and impact on where USA is right now. Great work Sean
Thanks a lot for this space-themed MLM story. This also has some "Stranger in a Strange Land" vibes with a megachurch replaced with an MLM. And kudos for the Iron Maiden t-shirt.
My parents were drawn into Holiday Magic. They rented space from the local beauty shop in the new Mall. When it all collapsed my parents were devastated! It was a hard time in my family!
I've become a massive fan and been watching the back catalogue. Amazing work, Sean. 100K will be well deserved.
I’ve been consuming antiMLM content for quite a few years now, and your videos have been some of the absolute best. Your ability to place the events within the wider historical context really sets you apart (in addition to your rigorous research). I know MLM isn’t the focus of your channel, but I hope you continue to make these videos.
Thanks so much!
It’s incredibly impressive that you are able to put together these multiple hour videos and release them every month. Most other TH-camrs I see who do long form content will release like 4-5 times a year! Amazing work!
Amazing work and storytelling mate. My jaw legitimately dropped when as I started thinking about how this influenced the current mlm scams 50 years later. All I could think of when you mentioned dare to be great cassette tapes is all the mlmers who’ve hopped on master resell rights!
The replacing S with $ in the promotional literature is just simpons level cartoonish behaviour
I've been marketed to on separate occasions. Once, a fellow student high on EST got me to attend an introductory seminar. The high pressure nature of the presentation did not appeal to me.
Also while a student, I got the AMWAY 'mystery' product presentation. It sorta backfired on my would-be benefactor. He was so cagey about the product he convinced me he was selling drugs. He was a teacher.
Of all the history channels I watch, yours has rapidly become my favorite. Your depth and delivery are just so damn good! Early congrats on 100K subscribers, Sean!!!
I love the way you structure your videos, especially the little detail of always ‘setting the scene’ by explaining what else was going on culturally and politically at that time. I’m not from the US, so that’s extra helpful. I also appreciate your very clear and calm narration.
Thank you for documenting this journey of yours. They've passed on but over the last 20 years my parents have been in and out of various multi-level marketing schemes and I tried to grapple with fact-based refutation of some of these scams and I always came up a little bit short and I couldn't convince them to step back and take a look at how bad things were. I feel better now that my instincts weren't crazy and that there's documented examples of how this all began. Thanks again for making this a video.❤
“That new sean munger just dropped” 🔥🔥🔥
Correctly pluralizing "attorneys general" earned you my subscription. Thank you for your attention to detail and proper grammar 💖
"Attorney-generals" is also correct.
Respect for calling out these scammers with facts and evidence. It's disgusting to me that mlm is legal.
The professional and academic level of your writing is unbeatable. You have no idea the service your doing for people who may never step foot in another classroom! I’m a teacher so that isn’t me but man this is really some of the best work available at this level. Thank you as always you’re fantastic!
Thank you so much!
Between L. Ron Hubbard and Glenn W. Turner, 1960s Florida seems like a grifter's paradise! Excellent video again from Dr Munger!
Losing pounds of weight on a diet of brown bread and sauerkraut under detention in Germany. Good detail. Interesting tale of conmanship, interactions of connivers and victims, the involvement of lawyer Bailey and his involvement with the con. Well written and very well narrated.
Once again, Sean; you have hit it out of the park. The level of detail and deep dive makes a topic that in all reality I could care very little about is amazing to the point where you inspire me to care about it. Spending a lifetime in church, I’ve always been aware of various different MLMs in operation. Some (like Avon) seemed more legit than others. Some friends and relatives have gotten involved in a few to varying degrees of success, but I don’t really have any horror or success stories. Either way, GREAT WORK and keep them coming! You are still the only single youtube channel that I am subscribed to. I do enjoy others from time to time (like those WW2 history videos by that British historian), but your channel is the only one that I want to see every newest video as it comes out. Bravo!
Imagine having the absolute balls to write someone a check for $0.00 and then sign "God bless you" on it.
Congrats! Almost at 100k! Been here since your Iran-Contra vid and look forward to each new one!
I've said this before, but this channel is the gift that keeps on giving
been binging antimlm content so a long video about something i haven’t heard about yet is just what i needed!! so appreciate the research that went into this, and the narration is top notch as always
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a video on the Crimean War!!!! It's kinda like WW0 and it really doesn't get talked about much. I went to public school and not once was the Crimean War ever mentioned and in any social studies classes
As an American of Russian 🇷🇺 descent I approve and appreciate this comment!
Salut
It really isn't like WW0 as it's not considered a precursor to WW1.
Appreciate all of your hard work on researching these topics and then sharing with masses via storytelling! You the best!!!
youtube rookie of the year is back
Your channel is such a gem. Thank you for all the work you put in 😊
One of the best Video Essay Channels out there. Congrats on the 100.000 subs, Sean!
I never understood the cachet of Florida. It is notoriously uninhabitable,with horror show predators, a hotbed of tropical diseases and voracious insects, hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding. Why, i ask, would anyone live there? Why in the world would we send our vulnerable elderly there to die? To die? My oldest sister spent her final years there, (though my middle sister spent her final years in Alaska!?). Call me a coward, but after living up and down the East coast, i am happy right back here in the sensible midwest where we only have tornadoes and sense enough to provide ourselves with basements.
I like it here in Baltimore. I haven't even been shot once!
Well, older adults have agency, we don't force them to go to Florida. And the Midwest's got more than that lol... everywhere does now with global warming
Fl my whole life its really not that bad. The media and social media make it out to be a lot worse than it is. Hurricanes are sporadic and really only affect the coasts and panhandle. Just use bug spray and don't swim in a lake with gators. The only tropical diseases you will get is spending too long breathing miami air
Edit: actually no its awful dont move here and tell everyone else moving here to stop buying all the houses
I’m a Florida native. I don’t understand your comment. That is like asking why anyone at all lives in a tropical climate - like Caribbeans, pacific islanders and southeast asians. For one, the landscape is far more beautiful and vibrant than the midwest (particularly here in South Florida) and plus we never have to worry about dangerous winter weather like you do. There are pros and cons to every place.
Old people (snowbirds) choose to come here, they aren’t forced. I actually miss the way this state used to be before it became heavily overpopulated.
Not from Florida, but many would say the same about bland boring midwest! Every climate and region has its pros and cons. Plus, outside factors impact where we live besides the terrain.
Dr. Munger your channel is going to blow up even more than it has. I can feel it, and you deserve the success. Your videos are well researched and put together. I also love the fact that there are so many out there like me who actually care about these topics to help you blow up your channel. Keep up the amazing work.
Congrats on hitting 100K! I've been saying that pretty often lately. Awesome that people I love watching are getting noticed!
Great job once again Sean! Would love to see one on Carl Rehnborg and the origin of Amway. It's talked about in Ponzinomics but def deserves a video!
Thanks Marco!
love when my favorite historian has good editing chops and music taste
In my opinion, a developed nation intelligence can be measured by MLM popularity, also countries governance qualities by MLM regulations.
YAY!!!! I'm strapping myself in for this...with the big red straps! This documentary is going to...DARE TO BE GREAT!
And it *is* great! Thanks for filling in the many gaps in my knowledge about the Glenn Turner phenomenon. In the mid-'80s I found his LPs YOU CAN BETTER YOUR BEST and DARE TO BE GREAT! along with several loose audiocassettes, but solid information was scant in the pre-internet era and the few random news reports and magazine articles I read didn't flesh out the story for me...till this. I wonder if mail fraud is a Florida Man pursuit--cheesy film producer Herschell Gordon Lewis did prison time for it in the '70s.
I am always amazed at the detail and care that is in every one of your videos and delivered in a manner that is easy to understand and extremely re-watchable. 👍💯
“I got challenged to provide a source… it’s in the description.”
Just cementing your legitimacy day after day. Keep em coming Sean and thank you.
Iron Maiden, Ensiferum, Mastodon spotted! Congratulations on 100k, Sean! You deserve all the attention and success 😊
Got to say, I love your stuff Sean! It's great to put on in the background while doing mindless work, always interesting hearing about stories I know nothing about!
I love and appreciate what you are doing for people who LIVE for each and every minuet detail involved in a story. Thank you Sean.
Really impressed by the amount of work that goes into these. Just looked over and saw that the counter is at 100k. Congrats.
Sometimes when I'm listening to long form history the narrator will say something that'll make me wanna rewatch the last 2-3 minutes for better context and to be thorough.
To your credit that hasn't happened. You're very good building on concepts, never leaving something in the background for too long.
Admittedly, I might notice more because of my small attention span
This is a really fantastic critique, that happens to me often with long form content and I usually chalk it up to me being distracted or having a fleeting memory. But like you said these videos kind of naturally flow from point to point and I’m able to connect everything without much thinking
Fantastic video, I have no idea why it popped up on my timeline but was worth every minute. Gonna check out your amway video next.
Just stumbled upon this video. Clear, concise information about an interesting subject without a bunch of over edited fluff. Thank you for the excellent work, I look forward to browsing the entirety of your video catalog.
I wish I could consume hours and hours of your style of content. Youve inspired me to start reading again!
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers! I’ve learned so much I never really knew about from this channel.
Oh. My. Goodness. I have been fascinated by Glen Turner since I was a child! We had a summer home in FL, and everything about GWT, Koscot, and even his castle was practically hypnotic, and I got my family to even agree to visit CFL in October so I could visit the Jaycee’s haunted house in Glen Turner’s castle, and one of the girls I knew and was friends with there’s mom sold Koscot Cosmetics, and I spent hours and hours for a few years talking with her mom.
I don’t know why I was so fascinated; if I had to put it all into words, it was because child me had a hard time believing GWT existed and figuring out how he fit in to the schematic structure I was building that describes how the world worked. His talks I got a hold of (cassette tapes) whenever I could, and my parents asked a few times if I was believing this stuff, or what, and after I convinced them that I simply found him fascinating, they chalked it up to one of my weird niche hobbies.
Thank you for covering him! It’s amazing to me how GWT just slipped away into obscurity; he was the kind of person who I would have thought would keep turning up like a bad penny for the entirety of my life.
I have a foggy memory from when I was a kid. The first time I saw Amway, I recall telling someone that detergent was already sold in stores. I've never seen it in my friends houses, and it would have to be everywhere for people to make money. I'm pretty sure that person was my mother
My sister's husband tried to "better his best" when they first got married. He could never talk anybody into joining under him. They even made me go to a meeting once. I was, like, 15, and bored stupid.
I clicked on this video because the tile sounds exactly like the plot of the Apple TV show I watched with Billy Crudup called "Hello Tomorrow". Great video!
Its amazing how many other scams and crimes that Koscot touches . Its truly the Kevin Bacon of crime.
I just discovered this channel and am now wondering what else did I miss out on?! What great content!!
Great episode Sean. Some stylistic feedback, I wasn't a big fan of the AI portraits used as placeholders when a real picture of a person wasn't available. Thanks and keep up the great work
I would like to add that the cartoony rocket was a bit jarring after all the real-life footage, which I really enjoyed. I listened to the rest of the video like a podcast, so not sure if there were more cartoony looking snippets.
The depth of your discourse more than compensates for the length of the presentations. Keep it up! Thanks
Wooooo 100k Subs. Congratulations! Keep up the long format videos! I love them!
just bought a vr headset and am going to watch this on an imax sized screen. thanks sean!!!
Definitely one of the most informative, creative, and original channels on TH-cam. Keep up the Magnificent work Sean!
Never heard of you before but this is such a thorough video, added a sub.
Awesome a new 2h video! Making my weekend that much better. Super glad I caught this early! Its awesome to see your channel growing since you are one of my favorite history youtubers.
Babe wake up, new multi-hour Sean Munger video just dropped
I’ve never been this early before! Been waiting for this one! 😁
Thank god i was recommended this video, this channel is a GEM im so happy you made this!! Thank you so much for your entertaining and amazing work!
You are hands down my favorite history teacher. I love the subjects you choose to talk about.
Man, it sure is awesome that you're seeing success practicing honest-to-god History without turning it "pop" or dumbing it down (that much). This subject especially is important with the manosphere being so prominent among boys and young men, it's pretty crazy that they've gone from hucksters like this, to motivational speakers like Tony Robbins in the '80s and '90s charging you to come see him speak, to Andrew Tate-style gurus simply selling online zoom meetings for the same price as an actual event. There really is a sucker born every minute.
Great day when your video drops! It’s always a well-researched and fascinating ride. 😊
Another ANTI MLM Video from Sean Munger I am so excited about this. Sean Munger is the Greatest Anti MLMER on TH-camr.
But he doesn't mention the 99.7% failure rate, how can that be?
Oh yeah, one of my favorite long format creators dropped a new video. My Saturday night is made, thank you thank you!
I am truly impressed by your videos. The depth, the presentation, and the novelty of the subject matter make your channel top-notch. Well done!
@1:41:40 There's a saying among lawyers: "The Attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client." - Even professionals are at a disadvantage when representing themselves because their emotions can get in the way of their own choices.
Your JFK two part series was the best out on TH-cam. Have you done Franklin expedition yet?
I accidentally renewed my TH-cam premium with an email I don’t use for TH-cam and I was so worried I had ruined my chances of finding my usual content. I never once saw this channel pop up on my old one and I’m happy now.
I love your videos, and have been binging on them during the last couple of months. They are essentially a master class in critical thinking. Well done!
Fascinating topic. I didn't know, this kind of thing existed so far back on such a big scale!
Another fascinating film, Sean. I'm definitely now going to make the effort to get hold of your fiction as well. This one was totally unknown to me apart from, I might add, things that I've seen in your other films. And this is from the person who put together the thousands of readings in the "Disinformation Collection"!
mic audio is too close in volume to the music during the intro but bro this video is sweet please keep this up
You are one of the best creators on TH-cam I have to say you are exemplary in your use of visuals your voice is so relaxing and interesting and your videos are just very well done I could not applaud you more
Thank you so much for videos like these! I love your in depth political history videos but topics like this are just as important. You’re incredibly engaging and it makes these 1 hour+ videos a breeze! I look forward to each upload 😊
As always, a very well researched and told tale. I appreciate the clarity of Sean's storytelling, even in this, the notoriously murky, convoluted world of pyramid schemes.
I initially subscribed after binging some of your presidential videos but I truly love and appreciate everything you put out. Between you and a couple of other channels, I was encouraged to add a history minor to my studies!
New subscriber here!
Thanks for doing something right algorithm!
I would love to see you cover more of these types of stories!
My algorithm suggestions were on point today! Love this channel
OHHH YESSSSS LETS GOOOOO
I genuinely get excited each time a see a new upload, I swear to god you could make these forever
and I would watch every single one
HOW CAN YOU MAKE THESE ONCE A MONTH???
I follow so many video essay changes that do stuff in a similar vein, and it can take them Half a year to put out something of this length and quality,
Are these young TH-camrs just lazy?
Do you just have the work ethic on lock?
This is probably the best new YT channel I have discovered in the past 2 or 3 years
I’m a history NERD, but you always manage to find some crazy interesting, relatively obscure topic to do ridiculous deep dives into
Congrats on 100k, it happened fast, here’s to another, or maybe even 2 before the end of the year!
Thanks! I wouldn't call anyone else on TH-cam lazy, as getting a viable channel going is a huge amount of work. I don't have any secret, really. I just plan out what I want to do, research it, and make it as good as I can, and I work diligently at a video until it's done. Maybe someday I'll do a video about my process.
@@SeanMunger that would be wonderful. Great stuff.
Always happy to see an upload from you. Thanks for putting these super detailed videos on topics and people I never would have known about before.
Almost to 100k, well deserved!! So glad I found this channel and I appreciate the hard work.
Excellent and educational! Thank you so much! 👏👏👏👍🏻😊
That brilliant , informative and very useful .Well done .Keep them coming man