00:00 Devon in Little Rock Arkansas's asks how can I easily tell when something's crooked generally speaking many of the crooks and criminals you see on YouTube pitching a product or service especially if they are celebrities are already rich so why is this person pitching this particular product or service the reason is that greed has taken them over because the greed the hoarding of money gives them power they love that power and are corrupted and contrary to popular belief it's not being rich that inherently corrupts its

00:37 power I'm going to say some unpleasant things but that's why you listen to me because you manifest in your life what you think and if you never think anything new you never manifest anything new and at some point I believe an intelligent person would have to ask why do I keep seeing and doing the same old dumb [ __ ] the answer to that is because you won't stop manifesting the same old thoughts so that's what I'm here to do challenge your old beliefs by introducing new and better ones to

01:17 improve your life many westernized people and Americans in particular are very skilled consumers many people will go to outrageous lengths in order to to get what they perceive to be a bargain yet at the same time they can be very foolish when it comes to value and that's actually not surprising because they are not raised to be that way we have all been raised to be consumers and I believe it's no exaggeration at all to say that much of the time us American consumers can be very Pennywise but pound foolish as the

02:04 old saying goes now the first thing to understand before we even start examining something or someone for their potential crookedness is to ask yourself if you are really paying attention to what the potential crook is saying for example how do you know I'm not a crook well I suppose I could just admit it I am a crook because I relentlessly am always trying to steal your attention did you get that but being a bit more serious I'll tell you this it's very important to pay attention to the actual person trying to

02:52 sell you the snake oil because in that sense it should give you a really good idea when something is crooked because only a person who is crooked wouldn't really give a damn if let's say a product their pedaling actually does what they claim or not healthc care products have always been the domain of the unscrupulous and the unethical but there is one huge difference between the snake oil pedlers of old and the ones currently around the snake oil pedlers of old old could literally be put in jail or even

03:33 hung if their cures actually really harmed someone so the general tactic of snake oil Peddlers of old was to come into town sell everything they had in one or maybe two days then get the hell out of town as fast as possible heading for the next town modern snake oil Peddlers though generally don't have to worry about consequences very much either jail time or being hung for that matter so as a consequence there are many many of them because just like so much else in America today there is no real penalty

04:18 phase for being a crook or for harming others hell for that matter you can be one of the greatest [ __ ] artist and flimflam Men in the world and instead of going to prison you end up becoming the [ __ ] US president hey it's a [ __ ] joke okay so all you Mega hat wearing trumpsters put your pitchforks down besides it's not my fault if it happens to be true so mainly all you have to ask yourself is why is this person doing this service or selling this product and chances are I'm talking overwhelming

05:06 statistical probabilities here the chance that the product or service is crooked is directly proportional to the ethics of the person pitching the product or service and that is the big first red flag but it's not the only one because even if the person pitching the product or service is unknown there's the very often practiced scam of borrowing your money let me explain to you how that scam Works generally this works with some kind of health related product Health ointments and Rejuvenation creams are a

05:50 perfect example and this form of thievery is a multi-billion dollar industry let's say for example I somehow put together a very special body cream let's call it Earnest man's ass lift extraordinaire and it is absolutely positively guaranteed to lift your ass to look like that of a 20-year-old or your money will be refunded no questions asked because if your ass isn't as firm and lifted as a 20-year-old just let us know and you can even keep any unused product and we will return every cent you paid back to you

06:40 guaranteed you've probably heard this kind of AD dozens if not hundreds of times but it's a scam and anyone and I do mean anyone yes and that includes the Beloved Doctor Steven gundry who's putting this across to you is a [ __ ] crook and in older and more honest times Crooks doing this would at least be tired and feathered but for me personally I would never want to do such a thing I would never want to Tar and feather modern snake oil marketing criminals as I consider it a punishment far too mild so so I'm going to wrap up this

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08:36 refund request but even concerning the ones who do actually request a refund even if they do in fact honor that request you'll notice they're going to take their own sweet time doing it and it's typical not to get your money back for at least 30 days and here's why remember that all of those product sales amount to millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars so what they do in that 30 days or perhaps even much longer before you get your refund that money doesn't just sit around in the criminals bank accounts they use

09:18 that money in multiple different ways it could be real estate Commodities investment portfolios you name it and they get to use that money for free that's right absolutely free money that they don't have to pay taxes on or pay any interest want to talk about a truly sweet scam it doesn't even get any better than that and that's the real purpose of the entire scam it's completely immaterial if the snake oil works or not the entire point of the scam is to get the free use of multi millions of

10:02 dollars so Devon I hope that answered your question and then some as for the rest of you I hope this information was helpful and I'd really like to know your opinion so drop me a line in the comments section or contact me via my email link both are in the description below and of course subscribe and hit that notification Bell so you will never ever miss any of my incredible episodes which also helps the channel grow Compliments are always appreciated but the best compliment you can ever give me is to tell a

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