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Harley Morenstein

Co-Creator and Host, Epic Meal Time · 1 appearance on the record.

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Harley Morenstein is the creator, producer, and host of the YouTube series Epic Meal Time, known for extreme, high-calorie meals. He also starred in the television spin-off Epic Meal Empire and has hosted comedy podcasts including Double Dusted.

13statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 4.31/5average certainty → 1.54/5average debate potential →

1 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 5 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Harley argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time co-creators spent two years in court before settling
“At the end of the day, I ended up going to court, and we ended up settling this as co-creators of the brand, and he's a guy I talk to now. He's just an old friend of mine, and his name's Sterling. We had a falling out back then. We went to court for like two y…”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 18:22 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Harley Morenstein on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Harley Morenstein said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Morenstein: 300 live stream viewers are worth more than 300,000 YouTube views
“300 viewers that will watch you when you go live. Every time that 300 viewers is literally worth more than 300,000 views on YouTube. 100,000 percent. Because these 300 people are like, they're all ambassadors. They're sitting here for hours, dude. They didn't …”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 46:54 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Insight
Morenstein: Creators who drop out of school lack the chops to succeed
“Anyone who leaves school or quit school to become a YouTuber, you don't have it, buddy. I'll tell you right now, if you cannot be in school and do your YouTube, you're definitely not built for it because you're not going to compete with the type of people that…”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 1:03:43 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Insight
Morenstein: Founders must clarify business relationships with friends before finding success
“You better figure out your relationship before success, though, because the problem with Sterling and I was before we figured out what our business relationship was, success came in.”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 19:41 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Insight
Morenstein: Strongly critical responses signal top fan behavior
“It took me a long time to realize it, but like, that's like one of your top fans. That is the behavior of literally a top fan.”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 52:50 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Insight
Morenstein: Negative Game Discourse Dominates Because Satisfied Gamers Are Playing
“The people that like the game are literally playing it. So the people that don't like it don't have a competing force on Twitter to be like, no, it's great. Cause they're literally playing it.”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 57:37 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Assertion Partly supported
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time was Canada's top YouTube channel within 18 months
“Within like a year and a half, it was the number one most subscribed channel on in Canada, and within two years for a period of time, it was in the top five most subscribed in all of YouTube.”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 14:20 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Assertion Supported
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time co-creators spent two years in court before settling
“At the end of the day, I ended up going to court, and we ended up settling this as co-creators of the brand, and he's a guy I talk to now. He's just an old friend of mine, and his name's Sterling. We had a falling out back then. We went to court for like two y…”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 18:22 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morenstein: Early YouTube MCNs guaranteed $4 CPMs while independent rates fluctuated
“Other people that I knew would sign to these MCNs that existed, these multi-channel networks, and they would guarantee people like four dollars CPM no matter what. And us, it could be sometimes 60 cents CPM to like six dollars CPM.”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 22:27 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time sold 60,000 'bacon strips' t-shirts
“We made this shirt said bacon strips and bacon strips, and we sold 60,000 of that t-shirt, like of that design.”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 23:21 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Disclosure
Morenstein: Netflix Paid Epic Meal Time $60 Per Free-Trial Signup in 2011
“Netflix gave us 60 dollars us per person.”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 28:26 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Disclosure
Morenstein: Turned down $150,000 offer to fight on KSI boxing card
“Then I got offered to box on the KSI card, which is on the 27th of this month and I was offered 150,000 dollars to box one match in that card, and I was like, nah,”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 42:08 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Disclosure
Morenstein: Facebook Gaming offered an exclusive 3-year deal dwarfing Twitch income
“They offered me a contract that per month dwarfed The biggest, best month I ever had on Twitch, because it's like Facebook money, and so they gave me this deal to stream exclusively on Facebook for three years and I did that. I streamed on Facebook for three y…”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 47:42 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein
Assertion Partly supported
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time reached 1.5B views and 7M YouTube subscribers
“We have like 1.5 billion views and seven million subscribers on YouTube.”
Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 14:36 How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How To Monetize On YouTube With Harley Morenstein Sep 15, 2022 39m
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