PATREON VIDEO AMA #2

00:07 Ever thought about doing the drip again?

01:24 What's your favorite cheese?

02:15 I love the quality and integrity of your investigative journalism. Any tips or tricks on how to get started in that field if it's something I'm interested in? Recommended schooling, skills to have/learn, etc?

03:42 How do you take care of your beard?

04:19 What did you do pre-YouTube? What was the transition from Pre-YT to full-time investigator/tuber like?

06:05 1. Why is the BaristaBot not around much anymore? 2. Do you have any issues with YouTubers who don't really create, instead they take other creators work and comment on it. Seems kinds lazy to me just compiling and commenting.

07:40 What's your favorite genre of music

10:56 (TEAM ANSWER) What has been the most challenging case to research? We can include your editor and CGI artist too, for Harry, what was the hardest video to edit and for ED what scene what the hardest to create?

19:10 Have you ever had to abandon any stories? Why? Does law enforcement/prosecutors ever reach out to you to gather evidence? Do you want to grow your channel by hiring investigators to help you? Or do you prefer to do all investigations yourself?

21:28 With how much depravity and greed you see so many people participate in, how do you stay hopeful and passionate about the work you do?

23:42 Alot of lore in the coffeezilla movie in the far future will we see a expansion of the lore? Would love to see more of the coffee break cinematic universe, not now for obvious reasons.

24:47 I feel like I speak for a lot of people when I ask: Why didn’t you decide to sell coffee mugs?

25:21 As a CPA I am impressed by your literacy in a field you didn't formally study in. You present information in an engaging way. Every year there are new and impressionable high school kids, young adults going through college, and post college graduates that can become susceptible to predatory and/or disingenuous 'schemes' to make money. I hope you understand the profound impact that you have on helping people and continue to create content to help educate our youth on the financial dangers targeting them. Do you plan on going back to content on warning others about the deceptive get-rich-quick operations(e.g. MLMs, ForEx, Dropshipping, Day trading, Online Courses, Celebrities etc)?

27:31 I would like to know what inspired the cyberpunk style world in the previous studio. It was extremely well done and the production was beautiful. Keep up the good work! You’re one of the few who are genuinely great.

29:17 As someone who works in a law school: have you ever considered getting a degree in law or at least pursuing some form of legal education to help further understand the legality-or lack thereof-of some of these scams?

29:59 Any plans for a Congress Insider Trading video?

31:06 Who are your favorite authors, outside of the scam-related world? Any favorite books?

32:50 Some of your investigations get pretty complex to follow, but you and your team do a great job of visualizing the complexity to sort it out. Have you ever abandoned an investigation because you thought it would be too hard to sort out in a video?

34:56 With your investigations getting bigger and you start having to deal with much more powerful people, are there times where you and your wife have had talks about concerns towards both of your wellbeing? Any time where you legit felt threatened personally towards your own safety rather than financially?

37:07 I need a coffezilla coffee mug, when is that happening?

37:14 Hi, I would like to learn more about how to leverage data within the context on financial crime. In your video with Lex, you alluded to some tools that you've learned or used. I have a background in finance (CFA) and have been working with data (data pipelines, visualization, etc.) in my career but I'm sorely missing the skillset within the context on buzz language like blockchain, cyrpto, etc. Where do you recommend I start educating myself on these topics? What are some buzz words I can google myself to begin this journey for myself? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated as I try to pivot my career to one that aligns more with my values.

40:06 Any more fake guru where are they nows planned? I would love some more old school scammer nostalgia

41:29 A few weeks back YouTuber Lawyer Runkle of the Baily covered the lawsuit against you on his Friday night fight-club stream 07-05-2024. In it Runkle disclosed he met you IRL once at an event but did not feel like it went well and thought you were left with a bad impression of him. Time stamp 7m:30s. Care to share your side of that story and any chance of you two patching things up?

44:24 Hey dude. With all the craziness of the last couple of months, just wanna ask. The stress must be through the roof. You ok? Respect you and your work.

44:50 How dangerous do you feel the modern day use of lawsuits is, to the "younger" up and coming journalists who are already in a discouraging field as it is?

47:33 We know your main focus of your investigations is financial scams, frauds, and misconduct but are there any other topics you would like to investigate and produce videos for in the future?

48:18 Do you often get recognized in public?

50:01 I've noticed that your stories tend not to target larger public or private companies and the frauds possibly being run there (e.g. John Oliver's hospice show this week, Hidenburg claims against Adani). Not that you've lacked for material, but any reason for this? thanks for the great work!

53:39 Whatever happened to the Coffeezilla cups? I remember those being part of the merch list back during 2021/2022 for Patreon but I don’t see them now. Lemme sip!

54:01 How much feedback/gratitude do you get from the victims of the stories?