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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!

@brianarbenz1329

5 ай бұрын

Sean’s work is the finest. Researched, nuanced, patiently and thoroughly explained.

@loganpeters7543

5 ай бұрын

Solid agreement over here. I couldn't have said it better myself.

@johnfitzpatrick3703

5 ай бұрын

Totally agree with the only exception being the "Oswald Acted Alone" episode. ;-)

@ahennessy7998

5 ай бұрын

Honestly if a youtube can't even do the bare minimum and show their homework I don't even bother anymore

@audreybiggs4388

5 ай бұрын

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

@caswillsaveme

4 ай бұрын

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. 😅

@FiftiesDad

4 ай бұрын

Feels like I am in a lecture hall when listening, it’s great.

@lisafrank6513

4 ай бұрын

Agree!

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

@philismenko

5 ай бұрын

Not to mention: Learjet was the maker of 8 track cartridges

@tricotdiko1435

5 ай бұрын

Had lunch a couple times with Bill Lear. Classic inventor type.

@lasskinn474

5 ай бұрын

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).

@Aquatarkus96

5 ай бұрын

IDK but for me Learjet was a bit like kleenex or Google or Bandaid, a brand name that refereed to all similar objects.

@Mute_Nostril_Agony

5 ай бұрын

Remember "I think I need a Lear jet" from 1972" Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

i really appreciate how clearly you speak!! i have an auditory processing disorder and the clear speech is helpful!

@suzbone

5 ай бұрын

Isn't his style of delivery EXCELLENT????

@migoreng7789

5 ай бұрын

seconded, and it's so easy to stay focused too 😊

@deesmith4800

5 ай бұрын

and a good pace too.

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!

@TheKeksmuzh

4 ай бұрын

Sadly there would be massive pushback from the modern MLM lobby if any curriculum tried to implement this.

@johnking5433

4 ай бұрын

Too many teachers probably sucked up into them just trying to make ends meet.

@Pretermit_Sound

2 ай бұрын

@@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 😟

Jesus. At least Amway had soap.

@raraavis7782

5 ай бұрын

It's absolutely wild, isn't it? They were not even really hiding, that it was a scam from beginning to end 👀

@adilsongoliveira

4 ай бұрын

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.

@VictorianMaid99

3 ай бұрын

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

3 ай бұрын

​@@adilsongoliveirasame here. Anyway was a religion.

@dannydetonator

3 ай бұрын

@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..

Oh hell yeah new Sean munger video

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.

@dannydetonator

3 ай бұрын

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

4 күн бұрын

Romania had Caritas at this time.

Glad to see your channel blowing up. Some of the best content on this platform. o7

@SeanMunger

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@jasonsoares326

5 ай бұрын

Same here. I binge watched every video in your channel in about 2 weeks.

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!

“That new sean munger just dropped” 🔥🔥🔥

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

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

@beecee793

5 ай бұрын

It'd be fine if he didn't too. Great video though.

@Davethehedgehog

5 ай бұрын

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

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

I've become a massive fan and been watching the back catalogue. Amazing work, Sean. 100K will be well deserved.

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!!!

It’s incredibly impressive that you are able to put together these multiple hour videos and release them every month. Most other KZreadrs 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 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

@MelissaThompson432

5 ай бұрын

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’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.

@SeanMunger

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

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.

@moth.monster

5 ай бұрын

I like it here in Baltimore. I haven't even been shot once!

@Heyu7her3

5 ай бұрын

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

@confusedlocal

5 ай бұрын

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

@Rowanda7361

5 ай бұрын

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.

@infoskrimp420

5 ай бұрын

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.

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!

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

@JimiKGB

4 ай бұрын

As an American of Russian 🇷🇺 descent I approve and appreciate this comment! Salut

@Mechanomics

3 ай бұрын

It really isn't like WW0 as it's not considered a precursor to WW1.

Correctly pluralizing "attorneys general" earned you my subscription. Thank you for your attention to detail and proper grammar 💖

@Mechanomics

3 ай бұрын

"Attorney-generals" is also correct.

Hearing Donald Trump’s name in this was equally surprising and predictable!!!

Its amazing how many other scams and crimes that Koscot touches . Its truly the Kevin Bacon of crime.

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!

@SeanMunger

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

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

@mingus8257

5 ай бұрын

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

Your channel is such a gem. Thank you for all the work you put in 😊

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.

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

youtube rookie of the year is back

One of the best Video Essay Channels out there. Congrats on the 100.000 subs, Sean!

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.

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!

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!

I've said this before, but this channel is the gift that keeps on giving

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!

Appreciate all of your hard work on researching these topics and then sharing with masses via storytelling! You the best!!!

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.

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.

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. 👍💯

Babe wake up, new multi-hour Sean Munger video just dropped

love when my favorite historian has good editing chops and music taste

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.

Wooooo 100k Subs. Congratulations! Keep up the long format videos! I love them!

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.

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!

Almost to 100k, well deserved!! So glad I found this channel and I appreciate the hard work.

Congrats on hitting 100K! I've been saying that pretty often lately. Awesome that people I love watching are getting noticed!

Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers! I’ve learned so much I never really knew about from this channel.

First video of yours I'm watching and I am now a subscriber! Thanks for the great deep dive and docu style editing!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.❤

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!

The depth of your discourse more than compensates for the length of the presentations. Keep it up! Thanks

You are one of the best creators on KZread 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

Have you considered joining Nebula? Your channel would fit right in there.

@SeanMunger

5 ай бұрын

I would love to join Nebula. Maybe with 100K subscribers I can finally get their attention!

just bought a vr headset and am going to watch this on an imax sized screen. thanks sean!!!

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!

mic audio is too close in volume to the music during the intro but bro this video is sweet please keep this up

I’ve never been this early before! Been waiting for this one! 😁

Never heard of you before but this is such a thorough video, added a sub.

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 just discovered this channel and am now wondering what else did I miss out on?! What great content!!

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.

Oh yeah, one of my favorite long format creators dropped a new video. My Saturday night is made, thank you thank you!

Really impressed by the amount of work that goes into these. Just looked over and saw that the counter is at 100k. Congrats.

I accidentally renewed my KZread premium with an email I don’t use for KZread 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 wish I could consume hours and hours of your style of content. Youve inspired me to start reading again!

imma take a bong hit in my old dorm room to celebrate u getting 100k

I think the best part of this video is the various state agencies all going 'me too me too!' once the first block of the tower was taken down.

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.

My algorithm suggestions were on point today! Love this channel

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!

Respect for calling out these scammers with facts and evidence. It's disgusting to me that mlm is legal.

This was such an insightful and well composed video - just yet another in your awesome catalogue of work!! Huge congrats on 100k subscribers, the higher that number goes the better the world will be, it’s really disheartening how often someone in my life gets caught up in a scheme one way or another so hopefully these kinds of videos will help more people avoid the traps. Love your work🩶

Another Sean Munger banger drops! The best channel I have discovered this year, thank you so much for these amazing videos

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 😊

Great day when your video drops! It’s always a well-researched and fascinating ride. 😊

Fantastic video, and it's so great to see both proper citations and time stamps on a video this size.

So, I love history on topics that I haven't heard about before, and I especially love your deep dives into things like this. I didn't really KNOW about Amway, and I didn't know about this. I absolutely want to see more of things like this.

You are hands down my favorite history teacher. I love the subjects you choose to talk about.

Iron Maiden, Ensiferum, Mastodon spotted! Congratulations on 100k, Sean! You deserve all the attention and success 😊

Between L. Ron Hubbard and Glenn W. Turner, 1960s Florida seems like a grifter's paradise! Excellent video again from Dr Munger!

In my opinion, a developed nation intelligence can be measured by MLM popularity, also countries governance qualities by MLM regulations.

This channel is amazing! I just saw the amway tools video and u just earned a new subscriber!👊🏽

This is my first time here on the channel I'm loving it so far! I'd love to hear more about Florida's development boom and the major players that were part of it, like Disney. I was recently in Orlando and was fascinated by the city's history

Congratulations on 100k subscribers!

That brilliant , informative and very useful .Well done .Keep them coming man

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.

Great video, Sean. Thanks for your hard work and research!

11 pm and a new 2 hour long Sean Munger video essay drops, guess tomorrow is a sleeping in kind of day...