Tyler Oliveira: Exposing Somali Welfare Abuse, Republican Hypocrisy & the Group You Can’t Criticize
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Thank you for doing this. Thanks for having me. I was looking through your YouTube numbers, which I don't normally ever do that with anybody, but... I think you were. You're flattering me. Yeah. Well, it's real. Well, you're a lot bigger than me.
I'll tell you that.
So a lot bigger. So I'm amazed and impressed. So before we get into how you, I think, kind of accidentally stepped into this controversy. Yeah. Where are you from? How did you start doing this?
I'm from Modesto, California. I started doing this. You say that with such verve and relish. Yeah, meth, auto theft, and what meth, theft, and auto theft. Farming? Farming, almonds, a small agricultural town in the central valley of California. For people who are not familiar with California ag, what's an almond? I think it's an almond that has yet to fall from the tree. I actually couldn't be bothered. I'm not fully certain. It's an L-less almond. So you're from Modesto. Yeah, we shake the L out of it, whatever the hell it is, right? I'm from Modesto, California. I went to college for three months, dropped out. I was doing YouTube full-time, sort of accidentally walked into the field of investigative or gossip journalism.
How many kids in your class at UCLA were doing YouTube, quote, full-time? Was that like a... Not that I'm aware of.
That was not a major? No, no. That was not a trendy thing to do.
How'd you decide to do that?
I don't know. I just didn't want to go to college. I wanted to get out of there at any cost. God bless you. So I was charging those Lime scooters and then filming videos, and then I just dropped out and left forever.
How long did it take you to support yourself or feel like you had a real job doing this?
I think about a month into it. Really? I had enough money to subsist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, immediately? Yeah, pretty immediately. Amazing. Yeah. Doing what kind of videos? Goofy stuff, Tucker. All sorts of stuff. I sold Big Chungus to GameStop, and here I am in front of Tucker Carlson. You do anything you regret? No. Good. No.
I was young. I needed the money. There's nothing like that in the background.
No, no.
I wasn't shaking on a stripper pole. That was kind of what I was asking. Yeah. Um, so then how did you wind up in this variety of YouTube, like basically doing journalism?
Well, doing journalism.
How did Tyler Oliveira start his career in investigative journalism?
Yeah, we're doing a lot of goofy stuff. Um, one day we saw what happened in East Palestine, Ohio, I think about three and a half years ago, maybe. Yeah. There was a train derailments. A bunch of toxic chemicals had leached into the water supply, from what I remember. And there was kind of a media blackout at the time. And I saw what happened on TikTok. And I was like, what if we just brought our camera there and asked people questions? Where were you? In Austin, Texas at the time. So we drove, I think, into Ohio. And it just started filming people and asking questions and trying to figure out what was going on. And then it sort of evolved into whatever we do now, which comprises of basically amateur documentaries, investigative journalism.
Wait, so you just, you don't work for anyone but you? No, no, I'm fully independent, self-funded, always have been.
No investors of any kind. Zero investment. It's just you and a couple other people.
Me and four or five people behind the scenes putting these videos out.
And you're watching TikTok at your place in Austin and you see there's a train derailment in Ohio. So you get in the truck and just drive to Ohio?
Exactly. Exactly. That's the whole thing. I thought it'd be an interesting video, A. I thought it'd be informative. And we're trying to sort of mature what we were doing on YouTube, make it a little more serious because I was becoming, what, 22 years old. I was like, I don't want to do goofy nonsense for my entire life. What if we did something actually useful? So we showed up and people really resonated with it. It was informative and valuable. And... Yeah. I mean, there wasn't a ton of news crew there at the time. It was somewhat irrelevant in the news ecosystem, but it was fascinating to me. So we showed up.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:04–2:23
2
How did Tyler Oliveira start his career in investigative journalism?
2:23–3:56
3
What led to Tyler Oliveira's interest in exposing welfare abuse?
3:56–26:53
4
What was the reaction to Oliveira's documentary on Somali welfare?
26:53–43:44
5
What experiences did Tyler Oliveira have in Orthodox Jewish communities?
43:44–44:04
6
What justification do some community members give for welfare benefits?
44:04–44:29
7
How do local politicians respond to welfare exploitation claims?
44:29–44:55
8
What consequences did Tyler Oliveira face after his controversial video?
44:55–1:28:02
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