Hey everybody, how's it going? Hope you

having a lovely day. Today is going to

be a different video than the type of

videos I usually do on this channel.

This is going to be maybe more of the

core philosophies type of playlist stuff

I used to do 10 years ago. I've always

had this belief that if I'm telling the

truth and I'm doing the right thing,

that whatever happens is the best

possible thing. I don't look at life in

terms of outcomes and I don't try to aim

for a specific outcome. There's this

book called the Start With No by Jim

Camp and I think it's a really great

book. He talks about how saying things

like I want to be a millionaire, that's

an invalid goal because you're focusing

on that particular outcome rather than

something else. So for instance, a valid

goal would be I want to provide plumbing

services for the same price, same

quality, but much faster than everybody

else in this local community. And if as

a result of that, if you happen to

become a millionaire, that's great, but

you became a millionaire as a result of

having a valid goal rather than just

saying "My goal is to become a

millionaire." That's a meme. And I see

this the same way with a number of

different things in life. I am not

usually focused on the outcome and I'm

open to doing things even if everybody

around me thinks that what I'm doing is

massively [ __ ] stupid if I believe

that I'm telling the truth and I'm doing

the right thing. So a few examples of

this. When I started my YouTube channel,

it was not my goal to have millions of

subscribers. In fact, I thought in at

the time, my best case scenario for

YouTube if everything went right, was

that if I'm really lucky, I may have 300

subscribers because every weird, very

niche repair shop that I've heard of

that does what I do around the country

would happen to watch my stuff and also

agree with it and like my stuff enough

to subscribe, maybe 300. And as you can

see, in the early days, the videos that

I did, they were not the best production

quality. It was usually 20 or 30 minutes

of me ranting into the camera about

stuff that was on my mind at the time.

And I just believed if I'm thinking

this, maybe somebody else out there is

thinking the same thing. I wasn't

thinking about advertising my company in

a traditional way. I wasn't thinking

about like how do I get the most clicks

to my website? Somebody told me that I

should be making videos so that I can

show that I have social media and stuff

like that. And then the moment I started

doing it, they would just looked at it

and facepalm like not like this. Not

this way.

Not like this.

Not like Louis, this is not what we

meant when we said that you're supposed

to be doing videos.

>> Yeah, that

I was told very clearly, Louis, this is

not what we meant.

>> And I did a lot of videos like that and

I doubled down on them. You know, the

people that don't get burned out as

technicians. And when I first got that

camera, this video is sponsored,

store.rossmanngroup.com. When I first

got that camera, I did this video

doubling down on the way I did videos.

Follow your heart, [ __ ] everybody else's

advice. Definition of a real

professional. And I started doing videos

showing how to do motherboard repair.

And as you can see when you look at

these videos and how to do motherboard

repair, you'll notice I don't have the

[ __ ] sterile clean room [ __ ] I'm

I'm not trying to be something that I'm

not. I'm not going out of my way to

paint my office as something that it

isn't. You could see that I have a

recycled paper towel box over there.

This box has Mr. Clinton's cat food in

it. I think I was feeding him Wellness

at the time. It's the back office of a

[ __ ] tiny repair shop. I wasn't

trying to be anything else other than

what I was. Now, a lot of people

suggested that doing videos in the

manner that I would was going to damage

my business. And I even had somebody who

was a business partner for a very, very

short period of time before making that

go away. And Eli the computer guy

actually answered a question that I did

on this a while ago. This is almost 10

year, 10, 12 years ago. Yeah, it was

December 2014. Will creating YouTube

videos that show what I do damage my

business? Some of them thought that this

is stupid because as people are going to

look at your videos and then look at

this shiny beautiful environment that

everybody else pretends they have and

not want to use you for business. Other

people thought, well, other people are

going to see how to do what you do and

they're going to just do it themselves.

You're just going to teach all your

competition how to do everything and

you're going to go out of business. And

Eli the computer guy had said, well, no,

it's it's very it's the opposite. People

are going to see that you have an honest

view into how you do business and that's

going to make them more confident in

using you. And he wound up being

correct. When it came to right to repair

and lobbying, I had a lot of people

saying that I'm supposed to play the

game the normal way. I'm supposed to

show up, give my testimony, talk about

my side, never make fun of the

opposition, never make fun of the stupid

[ __ ] that they say, don't make it

personal, and whoops.

When they would say that parts that did

not exist inside of a microwave or why

right to repair shouldn't pass, I would

point it out very clearly. When you had

people say that right to repair is a

solution in search of a problem that

doesn't exist, I would find their

personal Twitter where they said that

their phone was experiencing issues and

if only they could find somebody to

repair it. And when lobbyists said that

if right to repair passed, people are

going to install TikTok on your phone, I

called him clueless and pointed out in

my own personal way that the companies

that he represents were actually

pre-installing TikTok on customer

phones. There's a pattern that goes on

here is that I get called an idiot for

doing things my way and then things work

when I do them my way. And it's not

because I'm doing it my way, because I

have any sort of special way of doing

things. That's not what it is. I'm not a

genius. I just tell the truth and I

believe that whatever occurs is the best

possible thing, even if I don't actually

get the outcome that I was looking for.

In this case, I wanted to just share

what some of my thoughts were with the

community and that was it and just see

where it went. And again, I wound up

with over 2 million subscribers and a

company that was known around the world.

Here, I just wanted the [ __ ] that

lying lobbyists said to get shared with

a couple of people that were in my

industry so that we could laugh over the

stuff that these people made up. I

wasn't expecting it to turn into a

international movement where I was

internationally renowned as the right to

repair guy. And over here, I was not

necessarily trying to get a bill passed.

I was told that if I did things my way,

I would not get a bill passed. And in

the end, not only did I wind up getting

$1 million to push for right to repair

from the co-founder of WhatsApp. We also

wound up getting a bill passed. Now,

what happens when I don't tell the

truth? What happens when I don't do the

right thing because I'm told by the

people who are supposed to know better

that that's the way things are supposed

to go. The Farm Bureau said on an email

and then in a recorded phone call that

farmers don't actually want to fix their

own tractors. That's not really what

they want. And I talked to my lobbyist

about it and I thought, "Wow, this is

crazy. I mean, these are the people that

are supposed to be for farmers and

they're pushing against the right to

repair bill. I want to tell everybody

what's going on here in the hopes that

we can, you know, get something going.

And my lobbyist says, "No, you don't

want to do that. You know, I may have to

work with this person in the future on

other things. You may be seen as

undermining the bill or whatever else."

I forget exactly what he said. I went

over it all in this particular video,

"Why I hid the truth for a year and why

I regret it." I was paying a lobbyist

over 10 to 8 or 10,000 dollars a month.

I forget exactly what it was at the

time. And that lobbyist told me all this

advice and why I shouldn't do that. I

have to take the safe path to get a bill

passed. So, I kept my mouth shut. Not

only do I not have a bill in the state

of Maryland, but I also hid the truth

from my audience for over a year.

And I don't have a bill. And the thing

is, I got exactly what I deserved. I

listened to the experts rather than do

the right thing. I didn't tell the

truth. I listened to them when they

said, "Listen, do you want to get a bill

passed or do you just want to have a

YouTube video?" I listened to that

lobbyist who's supposed to be the expert

rather than do the right thing. And in

every single one of these cases, the

people that were advising me to do

things their way, in my opinion, were

tended to be concerned more about their

reputation, their issues, their worries,

rather than mine. In the case of the

lobbyist, that lobbyist would have had

to work with these politicians and

legislators in the future. And he would

have also had to work with people from

the Farm Bureau in the future. So, if I

pointed out that people from the Farm

Bureau are backstabbing pieces of [ __ ]

that were lying to their own paying

constituents, that would have hurt that

lobbyist. He was much more interested in

that not happening than he was in

helping me potentially get a bill passed

that may have not passed anyway. He did

not have interest in my cause. He didn't

have interest in uncovering the truth.

What he had an interest in was

protecting his own ass. Keep that in

mind. Now, if I'm going back to the

videos that I was doing on motherboard

repair, think about what the interest of

the other competing repair shops in the

area. If I am showing other people how

to do things, they believe they they

they don't have the same belief that I

do. They don't believe that if we

increase the size of the pie, we

increase the number of people who know

how to do these repairs, that maybe

that'll mean that more people will use

us in general. No, they were thinking in

terms of, "I don't want other repair

shops doing this so that I have more

competition. It's in my best interest if

Louis isn't show this to other people.

So, when they're telling me that I'm

going to tarnish my good name by putting

out videos where you could see that my

office looks like [ __ ] and I'm cursing

and I'm doing things in the way that I

do them, they're not really interested

in protecting me. What they're

interested in in that time was

protecting themselves. When I was saying

these things, when I put this lobbyist

is clueless in the thumbnail, when I'm

pointing out that these lobbyists are

literally erasing their own experiences,

I'm pointing out on their personal

Twitter that they're saying the exact

opposite of what they're saying in a

[ __ ] Senate hearing, I'm going to

really piss them off. It's not just I

oppose the bill, I'm for the bill. It's

now you have no integrity. And the

people that I was listening to advice

from at that time were people that would

have going to have to deal with them

again on other issues and I was going to

make that much more difficult for them.

So, sometimes it's really important to

understand that the people that are

going to tell you not to release the

truth are going to tell you not to

release the truth because it actually

hurts them in their own personal

ambitions in life. And I found every

single time I tell the truth and I do

what I believe to be the right thing,

regardless of what everybody else says,

things just tend to work out for me. And

I don't believe that that is just a

non-stop streak of luck because I have

had so much bad luck in my life I it's

[ __ ] ridiculous. I've had a dump

truck worth of bad luck. But, what makes

up for it, what out balances it, is that

I routinely do the things that other

people tell me are [ __ ] stupid or

ridiculous or only a dumbass would think

this is going to work, are you nuts? And

then it winds up working out for me

because of those two principles. I'm

telling the truth and I'm doing what I

believe to do the right thing and I'm

not caring about the outcome. Over here,

I didn't care if I got a bill passed. I

didn't care if right to repair passed

over here. I wasn't laser focused on

that committee voting in my favor or in

future committees voting in my favor.

This guy, I'm not kidding, he told the

committee, "You know, we would have

worked with you on right to repair, but

that guy put the word clueless in the

thumbnail. I don't like him." He

actually told the committee, "You know

what? We would have worked with you on

right to repair, but because you put the

word clueless in the thumbnail, I'm not

going to work with you guys anymore."

[ __ ] you. You were never going to work

with us to begin with. You lied about

the fact that we pre-installed TikTok on

people's phones when your own members

are pre-installing TikTok on people's

phones. You have no integrity. Why

should I believe you when you have no

integrity? It makes no sense. The way I

saw this at the time was simple. If I

get a bill passed, great. And if I don't

get a bill passed, then at least I've

exposed the truth to people and I've

gotten more people galvanized to my

cause because they know how much

[ __ ] is happening. I wasn't

laser-focused on the sole goal of get a

bill passed. I also thought it would be

a victory either way. I like playing

life in terms of if I win, I win, and if

I lose, I win. This is what I'm doing

with the Hulu bounty program right now.

This is what I was doing with Apple and

schematics of what about 10 years ago

when they filed takedowns to my videos.

It was what I do with my board repair

and if videos and it's what I do with my

advocacy work. I always believe that

there's not just one path to winning.

So, and this helps me stop trying to

control the outcome so much. And you're

going to understand why this is

important once I get to my point. One of

the people who told me that I shouldn't

be releasing videos showing other people

what they're doing because he was so

concerned for me was somebody who had

also reported me to the local

authorities for something that I didn't

do because try to get me in trouble

because he was jealous of the fact that

I had opened up a store in his area. I

learned this from some of his

ex-employees that I had hired at a later

date. I don't buy that. The same way

that I should have never bought that if

I hid the truth and I just didn't say

this because it would get me seen as

mean or petty that maybe I'll get my

right to repair bill passed. I should

have seen it for what it was. This

lobbyist that I paid for has a greater

interest in protecting his own

reputation and his own ass than he does

in actually exposing the corruption

that's keeping right to repair from

passing in Maryland.

I did what was selfish in that instance.

I cared about the outcome. And because I

cared about the outcome, I got nothing.

And I deserved it because I abandoned

the principles that I had been using to

get to this point over the past 10

[ __ ] years.

What the [ __ ] am I talking about?

What the [ __ ] is Louis talking about?

What is he rambling about?

I listened to this hearing again.

Jennifer Gibbons tells senators running

a Minecraft server is illegal.

Listen to the whole thing.

Now,

there are people that are there are

allowed to speak, and there are people

that are not allowed to speak.

The first time I listened to it, I got

mad because I was listening to what was

said.

And then, I listened to it a second

time.

And I listened to what wasn't said.

What wasn't said was much louder than

what was said.

There were people there that could have

rebutted the many lies, the many

mistruths that came out of her mouth.

None of them were rebutted.

Here,

Stop Killing Games made a big mistake.

They accepted the premise of [ __ ]

And they posted this in their subreddit.

We're not pleased with Eris's behavior.

We've received reports of serious

threats towards individuals. This

behavior does not reflect SKG's values,

and anyone found to be doing this will

be banned immediately.

As if they're coming from here?

Is there evidence that they're coming

from here?

Why are you accepting the premise that

this came from your community when

there's no evidence, when there's no

police report filed, when there's not

even a complaint filed with the state

legislature?

Who asked you to post that?

Who asked you to post that?

Was the person that asked you to post

that

the same person that said nothing as

Jennifer Gibbons lied for 10 to 15

minutes?

I know what it feels like.

I know what it feels like when you pay a

lobbyist 10 to 12,000 dollars a month

and they're supposed to be helping you

get a bill passed, and they actually

care more about protecting their own ass

and reputation than

I know.

I know.

And I know what they probably told you,

too.

They probably told you, "Well, if you

want a chance next year, you got to go

along to get along. You got to post this

shit."

You know why they told you to post that?

Cuz they care more about their own

reputation. They don't care if they

throw you under a bus

if it means that there's an even 1%

chance that they don't get dust on their

shoulder.

The right thing to do

three or four years ago, the right thing

to do in this instance, would be to

accept that the money that I had spent

on that lobbyist was money spent down

the drain. Sunken cost fallacy. I don't

have support in this state and I never

will and I'm going to have to come out

here and explain that I don't have

support in this state. I have none. The

person that I hired to help me and the

person that I thought was on my side is

not actually on my side at all and we're

going to have to try again another state

or try again in the state next year. Or

maybe that state is just off the list.

I was weak.

I didn't do what I know needed to be

done. You know what happens when I do

what's needed to be done?

When I point out the lobbyist that lie

in their personal Twitter, when I point

out that the lobbyist is clueless

because he literally has his own members

doing the exact thing he's accusing

Repair of doing, we get a bill passed.

Now, it may have taken five years

but we got a bill.

I think the Stop Killing Games people

know exactly what I'm talking about.

I think you know who I'm referring to.

And I think you know what to do.

You have to accept the sunken cost

fallacy.

And you need to understand that you may

have not had the support that you

thought you did after all. There are

many politicians, there are many

lobbyists, there are many activists that

will happily attach their name to a

cause if it believes it will boost them

later.

Doesn't mean they actually have to get

it.

Doesn't mean they care if it gets

anywhere. What they actually care about

is preserving their reputation while

being able to claim that they're on the

side of the consumer. You're not losing

support by coming out with the truth, by

explaining what actually happened there.

What you're doing is you're shedding the

support that you never had to begin

with.

It's an illusion.

There are many people that will attach

their name to a cause when they don't

give two shits of a [ __ ] about that

cause because it makes them look good.

But the moment there is dust on their

shoulder, they will throw you under a

bus.

And that comes in the form of asking you

to tank your reputation and to hide the

truth.

Who asked you to make that post?

And why?

Was it the same person that said nothing

to rebut 15 minutes of lies from the

ESA?

You don't have their support. You never

did. It was an illusion. And you need to

believe that when you tell the truth

that whatever happens is the best

possible thing. Maybe

a bill is not introduced in the same

exact way next year. But maybe instead

of having a group with 1.5 million

supporters, you have a group of 2.5

million supporters. And one of those

extra million people is able to help you

move something through in a way that you

wouldn't have had it move through

otherwise. Who let her lie for 15

minutes and go unchallenged?

Who asked you to tarnish your own

reputation by falling for the oldest

trick in the book, "Senator, do you

still beat your wife?"

Yeah, there's some cleanup that's got to

be done there.

I don't think the people that you think

are on your side are actually on your

side.

Who asked you to write this post? Cuz I

know that didn't come from you.

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

I'm not saying that you're going to have

the exact same thing happen that I did.

I didn't assume that by keeping these

videos up that somebody who's a neighbor

of a billionaire would find this funny

and then tell their billionaire

neighbor, "Hey, you should help this

guy." I didn't think that was what's

going to happen. I didn't think that by

pointing out that there's a lying

lobbyist that a bill was going to get

passed. I didn't think that by talking

about drop shipping and stocking

inventory and fixing boards with a fever

with boxes of Mr. Clinton's cat food in

the background that I would get 2

million subscribers or be known as like

one of the most famous border pair

people in the country.

That's I I I'll I got to with you, I

didn't have that aim. But what I've

noticed time and time again in my life

is it's just a pattern. People tell me

that I'm a dumbass for telling the truth

and doing what I know to be right.

Check.

It usually results in the short term, a

little bit of pain. Long term, things

just work themselves out.

At the end, everybody says, "Oh yeah, he

That was his plan all along. That was

his evil plan."

When you were the same person that told

me I was an idiot for doing things the

way I was doing them.

It's kind of like when people talk about

Joe Biden, it's like he's he has

Alzheimer's, but he's also this man

that's like g- a genius rigger of

elections and can [ __ ] everything up for

everybody, but he also can't find his

cane.

Like I I'm either a genius or a dumbass.

And maybe it's neither. Maybe I'm just a

person that doesn't focus on the outcome

at the expense of the my ability to look

in the mirror and live with myself.

I don't know what it's going to be like

for you. I'm not going to tell you that

you're going to get a million dollars.

I'm not going to promise you that you're

going to get a bill passed. I'm not

going to promise you that fame or

anything else. All I can tell you is if

you hold things in, if you don't say

what needs to be said, what you know

needs to be said,

not only will you not get your outcome,

but you won't get everything else in the

meantime.

I don't have Right to Repair now as a

bill that I would like that gets me

everything I want for my repair company.

But what I do have is a megaphone and an

international movement of people that

now care about and know about this issue

that didn't know about it before.

I'll accept that.

You have to be okay with not controlling

the outcome. You have to trust that if

you tell the truth and you do the right

thing, that whatever happens is the best

possible thing. And even if what happens

sucks, it's better than what would

happened otherwise. You have to have

faith in that. And it's crazy cuz I will

speak to people that I have had as

friends since high school. They've

watched me do this for over 22 years.

And even now, they will still fight back

when I give them advice on some basic

stuff. They will ask for it. They will

talk my ear off for 30 minutes, and then

when I give them the advice, they'll

say, "You don't understand, Louis. If I

do that, then I may not get this to like

You don't know. You don't understand. I

don't care. I'm not trying to control

the outcome. I never have been. I have

faith

in telling the truth and doing the right

thing leading to the best possible

outcome.

Maybe you lose a bill sponsor. Maybe you

can't introduce it next year.

But maybe you get so much press off of

the issue

that you can really introduce it in

another state next year. Maybe your

movement goes from having 1 and 1/2

million people to 20 million people off

of the interest that's generated. I

can't tell you what it is. I can't

predict the future. That's not what I

do.

Nor can I control other people.

All I can do is tell you

that when you tell the truth

whatever happens is the best possible

thing.

And I hope you'll sit on that.

It's a lesson that I've had to learn the

hard way over and over and over again.

And every single [ __ ] time I don't

listen to what I know to be true, and

sometimes it's hard to,

I get [ __ ]

I believe the same will be true for you.

Please do learn from my mistakes.

From the progress that you've made in

the very short period of time that

you've you've been working,

I think that the people in the Stop

Killing Games community, the people that

are running this are far smarter than I

am.

Learn from my mistakes.

That's it for today.

And as always, I hope you learn

something.

I'll see you in the next video.

Bye now.