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Confidence as the Real Skill, Then Sign-Off

from Behind the Youtube (with Joe Santagato) · #52

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4 min

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They discuss confidence (citing TJ Miller's stage presence) as more important than raw talent, joke about Joe's tiny secondary YouTube channel with 74 dead subscribers, and Tim runs through his tour dates and plugs Joe's Basement Yard podcast.

In this bit10 moments
  • 1:28:55Tim argues that confidence is the key to success.
  • 1:29:08Watching TJ Miller's HBO special, Tim was struck by his confident stage presence despite not being a huge fan of the material itself.
  • 1:29:23Most people are sheep and will follow anyone who projects confidence, which is why it works.
  • 1:29:38Tim emphasizes you have to be real with yourself—if you're not good, you need to accept criticism and improve rather than delude yourself.
  • 1:30:15He takes information from anybody regardless of their follower count because they might offer something valuable.
  • 1:30:33Tim plugs his YouTube channel, joking that listeners should check his subscriber count because it's phenomenal.
  • 1:30:49Guest asks if it hurts Tim that he's a very influential member of the American Nazi Party.
  • 1:31:09Tim's YouTube channel has 74 subscribers and they're all dead—subscribe and you die like The Ring.
  • 1:31:32Tim jokes that Joe's podcast is only the third most listened to in the country, behind Two Dope Queens and Guys We Fucked.
  • 1:31:56Sign-off with live tour dates and social media plugs for both Tim and Joe Santagato.
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