https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_afBbeabtQ

Look back at Brian's video - Self Reliance Is Fake

Watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPq58XOhtw

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Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

When I'm holding up here is currently my most watched video on YouTube. It is nearly two years old. It was back when I was in the orange office, you can if you go far back enough and watch the old, old episodes, you can see those taken in the orange office, I'm sitting there with my son, Lucas.

You can go back and watch this video, the name of the video is, Self Reliance Is Fake.

It's not a great video. But there's something about it, what gets people to click on videos. And there's a there's a few things here that I can point to. This is an odd one, I'm going to go through all the details of why I think this one has gotten through.

It's probably not what you think, first off, the title I have on this self reliance is fake. Now, it's not that I'm tying, that I'm tearing down the concept of self reliance.

But I'm being very specific, I'm using a very provocative title to pull people in so that I can go about up about talking about self reliance and how there's really a great misconception over what the term means.

That's what I'm really talking about there. But that saying that something is fake, especially two years ago, that was really still a very hot term, really made popular by the president of that time.

It was one of those things that everyone was tossing around, is this fake? Is this real is this fake, fake news, all that type of thing. And so I played along with that, and calling in calling self reliance is fake. It's also self reliance is one of those things, especially in America, in the United States of America, where we don't oftentimes tear down that term, it's it has very positive connotations within America in general, and I wasn't tearing it down.

But at the same end, I was playing with the emotions there with that title, you can have a provocative title, something that is counterintuitive, or something that says well, I wonder why he or she thinks that.

If you can have a title like that, a headline like that, it'll pull people in, whether it be a video on YouTube, or an article somewhere or a blog post, it's the same thing that headline can truly pull people in.

Now this cover image, there's nothing special about it, there's nothing written on it. The one thing that's a little different from my other videos is I've got my little kid sitting there. And he's a little he's a little under the age of one there actually, he's he's hardly more than a few months old there.

He was a little guy, even for his age use very much what we used to call peanut. He's just a little tiny guy. And he's sitting there making noises as I'm as I'm talking. And I'm comparing the situation with being a parent versus being a child in how self reliance plays into that. So that's kind of why he was there.

It was also one of the situations where I was just trying something different in my videos by having one of my kids with me, which I've have numerous videos where kids and with me, but for some reason, this one hit a chord. The interesting thing about this one, it did not take off right away.

This took probably a good year before I started seeing play off of it, and then all of a sudden started getting a few comments.