hey guys welcome back to an extremely
specific rant that almost none of you
will care about there's nothing i love
more than a good
documentary if all the schools in the
country replace their boring-ass
textbooks with really well-made
documentaries
i would have been a straight a student
but they didn't
and i was so imagine my excitement when
i saw netflix release a new documentary
about minimalism which is something i
find really interesting it's this
increasingly popular mindset that if you
get rid of all the junk in your house it
adds no value to your life you will feel
freer
and happier that's an overly simple
definition but there's a spectrum to it
right some people take it to the extreme
and they get rid of
everything they live in a tiny house and
some people just want to try to avoid
buying things they don't need in the
first place anyway i was excited to
watch this documentary and so i did
and i was uncomfortable the entire time
and i couldn't figure out why and even
when i was done it kept nagging at me so
i went online
read some reviews saw that other people
were uncomfortable too and i was like
that's good i'm not alone
and now i have to make a video about
this i want it and i want it
now the thing is i love the message that
is at the core of this documentary
there's a ton of valuable information in
here
about rampant consumerism that's taken
over our lives how all our devices are
connected and they listen to our
conversations so they know what products
to advertise to us and we buy things we
don't need because we think they'll make
us happy but then they don't all of that
i agree with
100 and i thought i would love this
documentary but
these two guys are so [ __ ] weird
minimalism is the thing that gets us
past the things
so we can make room for life's most
important things
which actually aren't things at all
i feel like while watching this i'm
being indoctrinated into a cult how
might your life
be better with less they're standing in
this dimly lit
room wearing all black speaking with the
cadence of a pastor giving a sermon
about the dangers of hoarding
of course most of us aren't hoarders
right
no and that's when moses turned to god
and said god
i have too many fidget spinners i might
have been living
the american dream but it wasn't my
dream
and it took getting everything i thought
i wanted to realize that
maybe everything i ever wanted wasn't
actually what i wanted
at all i can't tell if i'm listening to
like slam poetry
or if they're auditioning for a school
play mom and i moved 20 miles south to
a suburb of dayton which sounds nice
right the suburbs
but it wasn't really nice at all at all
at all sometimes it sounds like they're
about to burst into songs our memories
are not in our things our memories are
inside us
and then this guy keeps talking about
his mom but when he refers to her he
doesn't say
my mom he just says mom like she's all
of our mom
i know mom certainly did a phone call
from mom don't even get me started on
mom's bedroom but like i said it's not
all bad there's some really cool
infographics in here with
some pretty insightful information and
then
some that is not so much each year we
spend more on shoes
jewelry and watches than on higher
education like that's a pretty
interesting statistic if
you don't think about it very hard like
wow we're so vain we value
clothes more than education we really do
live in a society but like
you don't go to college forever i'm
proud to say i didn't spend any money on
college this year
because i stopped going now that i think
about it i did buy shoes
damn it where are my priorities they
send us advertisements
that make us subconsciously feel like we
are inadequate
um if we don't have this product so i
will not be loved if i don't have this
toothpaste my children will not value me
if i don't have this dish soap my wife
is gonna leave me if i don't start
jaws or sizing my husband is gonna leave
me if
he finds out about my wife my wife and
my husband found out about each other
and now they're having
sex these are the kind of ads you see
online i want it now then after about 10
or 15 minutes of pretty interesting
information that i was enjoying hearing
about it just kind of turns into the
josh and ryan show
josh goes to his childhood home and
walks around in slow motion
because it's sad he's like wow can you
believe i used to live in this
crap hole can you believe a guy with
this amazing hair and an
awesome podcast used to live in this
stinky shack
by having fewer sentimental items we're
able to enjoy those sentimental items
much more
this doily always makes me laugh i guess
what's also a little off-putting about
this is they spent a lot of time talking
about the futile pursuit of stuff
she owned a lot of stuff stuff stuff
stuff stuff stuff
stuff how we think things will make us
happy but they don't which i agree with
but they're like you know what will make
you happy
is minimalism i asked him a question why
the hell are you so happy
he spent the next 20 minutes telling me
about this thing called
minimalism touting it is almost an
end-all be-all to happiness and that's
where it starts to get a little
cultivated in a way they're kind of
doing what they accuse all of those
targeted ads of doing by pointing out
like here's a problem in your life
and here's what will fill the void there
was this
gaping void in my life
so i tried to fill that void the same
way many people do
with stuff there was a void in my life
uh so i tried to fill it with
stuff but i still wasn't happy so i got
rid of the stuff
and then i was happy but
why you're right back where you start
zero plus one
minus one is still zero i may not have
been a straight a student but i can
still do math baby they also spend way
too much of the documentary just talking
about themselves which is uh what a lot
of the reviews complain about too
now we have the privilege of sharing our
message with millions of people
every year we started a blog and we got
millions of
fans and they love us and they give us
money and we don't buy anything with the
money
obviously like that's cool i'm happy
that they were able to find success but
most people who clicked on this
documentary don't really care about that
and it kind of detracts from your
message
when you make everything about you it
would be like if you went to church and
the whole sermon was just about how the
pastor became successful amen
now you guys aren't gonna believe this
but i actually used to preach at that
dinky little church down the street have
you guys been there
that place is disgusting that place is
filthy they paid me in nickels now i'm a
millionaire
you know mommy always told me i wouldn't
amount to anything guess what
you were wrong now i'm so rich i could
buy a new mommy if i wanted to so then i
was intrigued after watching this i
wanted to learn more about these guys
coming to find out they have
another documentary from about six years
ago and that one
is exactly the same they tell
the same stories why the hell are you so
happy why the hell are you so happy why
the hell are you so happy there was this
i had
this gaping void in my life in my life
please tell me you appreciate the irony
here that these guys
travel around the world preaching about
the importance of consolidation and
simplifying your life and yet they
created two
full-length documentaries that are
identical they've also written
four books all about the same thing they
also had two ted talks and i realized
this must be why they talk the way they
do there's just too much stuff
to go at it alone they're speaking as if
they're giving
a ted talk it's a very specific
style of speech and they're talking that
way because they literally
are giving their ted talk it's
practically verbatim maybe some people
might find value
in my story there might be some people
out there who
would find value in my story i started a
blog started a blog when something
amazing happened something amazing
happened 52 people visited our website
in the first month
52 people visited our website in the
first
month 52. i realize that might sound
unremarkable at first i realized that
might sound
unremarkable at first so now i'm like
wait who was this documentary for it's
all about them
so i thought okay maybe this is for like
their fans to hear more about their
lives but if you're a fan of them
already
going into watching this you already
know all this [ __ ] so it's kind of a
waste of time or maybe
these guys are the ultimate minimalist
10 years ago they wrote down like four
pages of information
and they haven't had to add anything to
it that's brilliant and there's also the
underlying theme of hey money's not
important it doesn't buy happiness you
can be rich and have
no possessions at all but if money's not
important then why are you charging
sixteen thousand dollars on patreon not
per month but per
podcast episode of which you upload
about five per month
so that's like eighty thousand dollars a
month from your patrons holy [ __ ]
and why are you selling a fourth book
about the same topic why did you release
a second documentary that's the same as
your ted talks that inspired your first
documentary where you breed a bunch of
excerpts from your book but even while
rome is burning
there's somehow time for shopping at
ikea by their own logic
they should be cutting things out of
their life that add no additional value
but
everything they're doing is superfluous
i'm not saying these guys aren't allowed
to make money off this
i think it's great that they're
successful but even some of their long
time fans are starting to call them
grifters because they haven't really
evolved the way they monetize their
message has evolved but the message
itself has not there's ways for them to
branch out
in this genre i mean the director of
their two documentaries is a great
example of this matt davella who's a
youtuber a lot of you probably heard of
him actually i've been subscribed to him
for over a year
he's made a bunch of videos about
minimalism but they're all about
different
specific aspects too he also has videos
about a million other topics so it's not
like he's just you know singing the same
song every week these guys have been
doing this for over a decade it would be
interesting to hear them
talk about how things have changed like
now that they have kids
right how do you explain to your kid
that they can't have a lot of toys kids
like to have
stuff and they're not going to be as
keen on the idea of minimalism as you
are
because they're like five so it'd be
interesting to hear about that
conversation
or you could you know show specific
examples of you going to someone's house
and helping them declutter they don't
really get into
specifics in their documentaries
everything's very vague they throw in
some random testimonials from people
about how minimalism has changed their
lives in seemingly unrelated ways
i got rid of 14 pairs of pants i don't
think i had that feeling since i was
maybe four or five years old
minimalism it changed my life
i used to have terrible erectile
dysfunction
and then i got rid of my stamp
collection and now i'm having the best
sex of my life
thanks minimalist the first documentary
is better than the second one but it's
also super vague they spend most of the
time talking about the problem without
getting into enough specific details
about the solution
that you can actually take something
tangible away from it going to become
a minimalist it would be like if someone
said i smoked cigarettes
for years and then i stopped smoking
cigarettes
and now my life is great so you should
stop too no that that's awesome really
but how did you quit i just stopped cool
i'm not rooting against these guys i
don't think they're bad people
i just wanted to talk about this because
i was disappointed by the documentary
and according to reviews a lot of other
people were too if this is a topic
you're interested in which for a lot of
people it is
there are way better resources out there
like matt's channel for one uh there's
also a subreddit i found called no buy
where people help each other
deal with their shopping addiction
because that's a real thing that people
go through that needs
actual solutions before your credit card
debt ruins your life and if you're in
that situation you're not going to fix
an addiction by hearing two guys talk
about how successful they are
and then give you a bunch of vague
platitudes you need like real action
items
anyway that's pretty much it i don't
have anything else to say about it so
i'm only going to be releasing
seven more videos about this every day
for the next week be sure to completely
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till after this commercial break because
i'm going to be telling you about my
secret to permanent
unwavering happiness we'll be right back
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week our memories
are not in our things our memories are
inside