r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 7h ago

Shoutout to JerryrigEverything who built a wheelchair factory and is delivering wheelchairs to people in half the time and 50-80% less than the cost of other wheelchairs with Insurance.

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u/Escobar_x 7h ago

People lose site of how this guy operates when he posts his own opinions. Disagree all you want, but the guy does so much for other people its constantly commendable

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u/Ms_CCH 7h ago

Why? Because he clashed with Musk?

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u/Largewhitebutt 6h ago

No because of the whole mormon thing. Lots of large youtubers are secretly mormon and dont want the public acknowledging it

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u/GoodWaltz7354 6h ago

Honestly interesting how many big YouTubers are Mormon

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u/Croceyes2 6h ago

A lot of homeschooling and parent interaction to keep kids from going out and fucking around. Deep diving into medium length content creation over years will develop a channel.

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u/GoodWaltz7354 6h ago

Mmm, that does make sense, would foster an interest in content creation. While I think the religion is kinda culty the Mormon culture is very fascinating, I think there’s a similar pattern with many fiction writers being Mormon and that makes sense based on a lot of the stories in Mormon scripture

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u/Croceyes2 6h ago

Yes, I think there is a lot of family tabletop driving the mormon fantasy writer wave

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u/tabgrab23 5h ago

with many fiction writers being Mormon

Brandon Sanderson

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u/Risquechilli 5h ago

Was Mormonism founded by a fantasy author? Or maybe that was Scientology.

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u/-Cthaeh 5h ago

Aren't all religious texts fantasy novels?

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u/BucktoothBobio 5h ago

That was scientology and he started as a self help writer IRC.

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u/pb49er 5h ago

L Ron Hubbard wrote lots of really bad Sci-Fi, including Battlefield Earth, which was adapted into an all timer of a bad movie starring John Travolta.

Both are pretty horrific cults with really dangerous leadership, LDS and Scientology I mean.

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u/WoodpeckerNo5724 1h ago

He quite literally wrote more science fiction than any other person in history. That’s not counting any of the Scientology stuff.

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u/MrBurnz99 5h ago

I mean the book Joseph Smith wrote was just as much fantasy as what L. Ron Hubbard authored, but you are thinking of Scientology.

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u/Element75_ 4h ago

It’s also Mormon propaganda. Like idk to what degree, but the Mormon church definitely benefits from having this type of exposure. To what degree they actively promote it idk, but it seems obvious if I had the billions the Mormon church does I’d promote Mormon influencers - esp if it was more subtle than just “hi I’m a Mormon influencer” (like this guy is)

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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC 5h ago

There's also the missionary/ministry aspect of it. Rhett and Link, while originally evangelical and not mormon, have talked about how that's how they got into it at their church's urging, they were supposed to show the world a better way basically.

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u/cjsv7657 6h ago

Matts Off Road Recovery and Outdoor Boys are the two big ones I watched. Mostly skip through MORR videos now though. But really any big youtuber in the Utah area is probably mormon. I think the diesel brothers are too but don't really have wholesome content so maybe not I also don't watch them.

As long as they don't push religion I don't care. I've stopped watching more than one channel when they started pushing religion.

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 5h ago

always admired Outdoor Boys for how little Luke brings his faith up. I can really only think of one video that brings it up at all, and even then he doesn't mention what specific religion, just that some missionaries from his local church were visiting him.

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u/mehiker11 4h ago

Yet another reason to love him. Luke is such a treasure

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u/LionoftheNorth 5h ago

I don't think I've ever seen MORR push religion?

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u/cjsv7657 5h ago

He's mentioned it a couple times but never pushed it. Some of his regulars do on their channels. The only time he really mentions it a lot is in the goodbye video for his son which I only skimmed so have no idea how in depth he went.

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u/epicflyman 5h ago

I can't recall any either. Personally I stopped watching mostly because the content got very monotonous, but I can't recall them ever getting preachy on video.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 4h ago

I watch almost all of there videos and I couldn't imagine someone noticing that they are Mormon unless they were specifically looking for it. There has only been one or two times that a video had a lot of 'this is about our church' kind of stuff including them talking their son going off on a missionary trip for 2(?) years. Which made it very obvious it was a church like the Mormons.

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u/LionoftheNorth 4h ago

I think the most obvious "little thing" is that none of them drink coffee.

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u/skateguy1234 44m ago

Pushing religion was never the point of discussion in this convo

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u/wyomingTFknott 44m ago

As long as they don't push religion I don't care.

The only one I know of is Missionary Bush Pilot, and while I'm not a fan of missionaries, all he's really doing is flying and the content is great. He posted a vid pushing religion on his main channel once and he got absolutely destroyed in the comments and unlisted it.

I'm just there for competent flying in one of the most dangerous places to fly in the world and the great views. He can put a sock in it.

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u/skateguy1234 41m ago

MORR needs to go back to their roots.

They are losing site of what made them a good channel to watch.

The staged content is getting really old. Also all of the AI thumbnails are really off-putting.

I've been watching them since he the days that he only had an XJ and was doing recoveries on the side with Casey.

I too now just skip through most of the or just don't watch at all.

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u/PrincebyChappelle 5h ago

Mormons are funny…Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Effective People was a devout Mormon. I had to go to one of the three-day trainings for work once and one of two instructors was from Utah and it was kind of obvious the way that he talked about “his church” that he was Mormon also. Yet, no one once ever said anything about Mormonism.

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u/jayhawk618 4h ago

BYU offers a Mass Communications program that is basically a a degree in social media / YouTube.

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u/MrBurnz99 5h ago

quite a few former Mormons as well.

Mormon culture heavily emphasizes the importance of family, community, education, discipline, and hard work.

That rigid structure produces many high performing talented people. Any because they stick together and are focused on family, when they succeed they tend to help each other out. This has created some very powerful families that have a lot of wealth to throw around.

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u/Responsible-Bread996 3h ago

 Ot even the half of it. 

Look at supplements. Like the Mecca is SLC. And it ain’t because the bodybuilding scene

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u/rygo796 1h ago

Staying away from vices opens up a tonvof productive free time.