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Rusty's avatar

Ben is quite obviously a clandestine shill. The entire production felt extremely slimy. I wonder what his cut is on these real estate deals when these desperately stupid proles sell everything to drag a camper out to an expensive little plot of land in "the valley of the sun". Cult vibes and the PAYtriot in the teemu johnny cash outfit with the star spangled aviators was just a little over the top...

Robe Warrior's avatar

Yeah, it's unfortunate he's gone down that road. I value his Space Weather insights but his ego and obsession with click-bait doom porn are annoying.

Korpijarvi's avatar

I didn’t read your comment before posting mine, in which I felt like the video—which promised to be a documentary on space weather trends—was actually trying to sell time-shares.

Korpijarvi's avatar

I got about 2/3 through, hitting the advance key regularly.

It reminds me of the video presentations that used to be shown to retirees to get them to invest in time-shares.

I gave up. Also the editing was terrible, and one never knew who the talking heads were—they’d identify themselves minutes into their spiels—and I ended up just wanting to watch the New Zealand kakapo nest cam.

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