Ep 609 - Mega Heider (feat. Corey Heider & Nate Marshall)

Corey's job as a contractor involves breaking into foreclosed homes, which are often filled with extreme filth, including trash, diapers, dead animals, and sometimes even decomposed human bodies. He carries brass knuckles and a gun for safety, as he never knows who might be inside.

So, I'm a contractor by trade, right? But all the houses... is filled with shit and diapers and dead things." (08:23) "When you go in there and there maybe has been a lady laying face down in the kitchen for 11 months, you might not know right away.

Corey attributes his ability to remain unfazed by gruesome discoveries, like dead bodies, to a "messed up childhood" that forced him to develop strong compartmentalization skills. He frames it as a choice between "getting real messed up" or "becoming the life of the party."

Yeah, I didn't care. Um, I forgot you're glazed over. I'm in I see I had a real messed up childhood that we're not allowed to talk about ever... compartmentalization is like, boy, she's on point, bro. If if it wasn't, I'd be in therapy right now.

Corey describes an encounter in a hoarder house where trash was piled eye-level, and he discovered a morbidly obese woman who was "landlocked" and unable to leave her home due to her size exceeding the doorway. She was living amidst the filth with her dog.

The whole house is a canyon of hoarde... eye level trash... I get into the living room and the lights are on. It's warm... this Chihuahua Yorkie mix... starts just like Simba in the Lion King like prouncing over this shit canyon towards me barking... I hear a voice... 'Did Martha send you?'... big girl living in the trash, bro. That's She can't leave cuz you know, you eat your way and you can't leave cuz once you get bigger than a door, 36 in.

The host describes an individual who uses AI (ChatGPT) to generate "very sad, messed up stories" and then another AI tool to create videos based on these stories. The strategy is to spam these videos online, with the expectation that one will eventually go viral and generate significant income (e.g., $10,000 a month).

This one guy, I was watching his video and he said he just like has chat GBTs like write a very sad messed up story and then he gets the he like looks through him. He goes, 'Yeah, that's pretty messed up.' Then he goes, 'Sawyer, make a video about this.' And then he just has AI just write these like clickbait weird or like write the story. Then has a thing AI do the video. And he just spams them online. He goes rich. One of them's going to hit and go viral. And you make like 10 grand a month off of just one.