Shadowing Practice: Exposing a $300,000,000 Scam - Learn English Speaking with Video
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My God -given gift was that people are attracted to me.
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People just naturally gravitate towards me.
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My circle of influence started growing so natural.
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Today, we're investigating one of the hardest cases of my career, a $300 million private equity company called Goliath Ventures, where the CEO was taking private planes,
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buying Rolls Royces, expensive mansions while claiming that the whole thing was audited, backed 115%.
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They even took retiree money.
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I mean, what could go wrong?
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And when I was called to investigate them six months ago, I really had no idea what I was stepping into.
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Little did I know, this would be one of the toughest cases of my career.
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So the first time I ever heard about Goliath was actually from another journalist.
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My name is Danny DeHick and I've been investigating Goliath Ventures since the 1st of September 2025.
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That's Danny.
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He's a journalist who's been featured by the New York Times
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and he told me Goliath was a company that had hundreds of millions of dollars invested and something just didn't feel right.
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So my first question to him was, well, who runs this thing?
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The man behind it all Christopher Delgado today's guest is someone real special my friend
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when I heard your story I just zoned into it.
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I'm like I have to have this gentleman on my podcast Not one person
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and I did my I do my research my team does a lot of research We call people
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and not one individual came back negative Chris welcome.
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Thank you for having me KB Chris Where you come from?
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I'm originally from California.
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I'm first -generation Mexican -American My mom was born in Auslanthus, Mexico.
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She came over here in her early teens.
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We grew up in a trailer park in Fontana, California.
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I'm just gonna draw a picture for y 'all.
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You're on social media.
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I follow them very closely.
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Private Jet.
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You see the celebrities.
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You see Patrick David standing next to you at the Yankee Stadium.
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But you come from a trailer park.
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Yeah.
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It's actually, sometimes I look back at myself.
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I look at the things that I've been able to do
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and accomplish and where I'm at in life
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and who is in my circle who I can call his friends And I amaze myself, but I think a lot of
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that comes with opportunity I don't think people really understand the amount of risks
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that I took early on in my life not only my corporate career, but also even with my current company and What I was willing to do
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and what I was willing to lose to get to this part Now, let's be honest.
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If you saw that kind of story anywhere but on this channel, you might say Chris represents the American dream.
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His mom is an immigrant.
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He came from a trailer park.
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He took risks.
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And by his early 30s, he's rich, successful.
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But when I saw this, the first thing I thought was, well, where's the pitch, right?
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I mean, just to state the obvious, this whole lifestyle on Instagram thing, the celebrity friendships, the story of overcoming all odds,
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it's pretty textbook marketing for a pitch, a sale.
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But with Goliath, it was like the opposite.
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No matter how much I watched clips of Chris, I just never found the pitch.
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Was what I reopened, just knocking on your door, hey Chris, have some money, can I invest with you?
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No. So like a private?
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Very private.
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Interesting.
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My money, more of a consulting, even with Goliath.
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It's private.
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It's private.
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Even if you knocked on our door.
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You're not getting in right away.
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Yeah, no, we're a private equity firm.
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We only want to work with certain individuals, you know, and we have a very structured model
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and we don't want to bring people in that want to change that structure.
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This is the success behind the company.
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This is how we're willing to operate and play with you with.
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And if you don't want to adhere by our rules or the structure that has had tremendous success, then you're just not the right partner for us so.
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This is a private equity investment company
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which means shh I've got an investment opportunity this sounds too good to be true
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that is too good to be true that they kept around the friends
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and family they didn't do any public advertising other than Patrick Mendeva's event I should say.
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I could make passive income for myself raise my family
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and basically enjoy life And that's how all these schemes grow is word of mouth.
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Now, Danny's right here.
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Goliath was mostly run on word of mouth.
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And it was tough because of that to find claims early on because this thing was very hush -hush.
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It wasn't until I found someone who actually was on the inside, an investor, that I learned what this whole thing was about, why people were investing millions of dollars.
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I got into Goliath via trust.
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I've heard a lot of stories of other people getting in from trust as well.
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And it was like a chain reaction.
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So I trusted someone who trusted someone who trusted someone that knew the director of partner services there, right?
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Trust can go a long way.
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I remember the day that I was told about the investment opportunity, and that was on February 9th, 2024.
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That was the day I was told about it.
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Tell me what the pitch was to you.
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You know, these guys within this private joint venture fund, they invest the money into liquidity pools.
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And I'm not going to tell you that I know I'm an expert in liquidity pools.
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I kind of knew how it worked.
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Sure, the returns were crazy, but I thought they were onto something.
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And there it is.
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That's finally the pitch we were looking for.
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We discovered that Goliath is a company managing liquidity pools.
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And this is something I'm deeply familiar with from my past work.
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Better yet, my source gave me emails, contracts, and I immediately knew Danny was right.
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Something was wrong.
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Goliath claimed they were making all these profits from liquidity pools on Uniswap, which based on my experience would generate maybe four to 10 % a year.
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Meanwhile, Goliath's contracts with investors said they would be paid three, four, five percent a month, and you could take payouts or you could leave it in.
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You could do something they called hyper compounding.
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Now, obviously those numbers don't add up.
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Goliath would be spending more money than they made.
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But the problem is Goliath is paying out at this point.
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And so no one wants it to stop no one except for Danny, who wouldn't stop digging.
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You need to look into my liquidity partners, because that's where it all started.
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It's a mirror image of Glythe Ventures.
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They registered the domain name for my liquidity partners and Glythe Ventures 20 days apart.
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I think Chris just copied their concepts.
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Well, let's find out.
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Let's look at their website.
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It's dead right now, but pulling an old archive, we do see similarities liquidity pools run on Uniswap, allowing you to hyper compound.
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Then I saw this photo from Danny.
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That's Chris Delgado with Verlin Sanciango, the creator of my liquidity partners who allegedly fled to Dubai.
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Now to be clear, my liquidity partners was found to be a Ponzi scheme.
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Could it be that Goliath was stealing another person's playbook and operating it as a private equity firm?
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I mean, it's obviously a big accusation to make.
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So I started digging through my old Ponzi cases and found another link, Trader's Domain, a Ponzi scheme I investigated years ago.
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I had all their insider emails and I found within them Chris Delgado.
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He was emailing as a special investor, trying to withdraw $1 .3 million from a collapsed scam.
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And this is when all his old claims about taking risk came back to me.
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I don't think people really understand the amount of risks that I took early on in my life, not only in my corporate career,
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but also even with my current company and what I was willing to do
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and what I was willing to lose to get to this part.
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At this point in the investigation, I'm like 99 .9 % sure this is just a Ponzi scheme worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Chris is already involved with some.
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The numbers don't make sense.
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And so I'm thinking, clearly, I'm going to make a video, right?
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But that's when the first lawsuit dropped.
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I have been sued in America.
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And the dumbest thing I could ever do is turn up in America.
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Hello.
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Yeah, but they're going to try to bury you financially.
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I'm already buried financially.
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That's the crazy thing.
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In the lawsuit, my take on it is they're trying to tell me to back up the bus and scare tactics.
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Around about early October, Christopher tried to serve me.
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So do you realise that those papers are from a company that has stolen $500 million from American investors?
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Hey Danny, I have no idea about that.
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You might be 100 % correct Danny, but I've got no control now.
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Yeah.
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So I've just got to give it to you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, sh.
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I gotta figure out what I'm gonna do next.
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I got big problems, Bachel.
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I got big problems!
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Oh, wow.
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Oh, jeez, Coffee.
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Don't tell me you brought a lawsuit into my bar!
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No, no, this is...
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I might get sued.
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This whole complaint, they sued Danny, and now everybody's freaking out.
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I...
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Of course they're freaking out.
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Have you seen this guy's building?
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Chris has a lot of money.
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Well, yeah, obviously, and that's the problem.
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I can't afford to get sued right now.
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But what.. what am I supposed to do?
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This, like, this ruins everything.
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You can always report it to the government, not release a video.
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You don't think that'd work.
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In this era?
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The odds are basically zero.
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Coffee, I don't see how you have any other choice.
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Maybe you're right.
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Maybe you're right.
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I mean, it's worth a shot, right?
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Yeah, you betcha.
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All right, well, thanks anyways.
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Later.
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Wait!
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What about your tab?
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Never pays his tab, always comes out of my paycheck.
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Matter of fact, hold on.
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I'm a sidekick, he should be paying me!
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Yeah, here we go.
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Will Coffeezilla release a video about Goliath Ventures?
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Haha, not anymore.
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Big Maxwell bucks, here we come!
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So, uh, I don't really know how to say this, but it was at this point I decided to file a whistleblower complaint to the government.
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Sort of a Hail Mary.
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I mean, I didn't know what else to do.
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And yes, I know that's rich coming from the crime is legal guy, right?
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But what some of you don't know is I've done this several times before.
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Whenever I have enough evidence, I do feel it's important to not just make a YouTube video about it, but give the evidence to the proper authorities.
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That is continued even as our regulators have been gutted.
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Now normally, I never talk about this activity because one, a lot of times it goes nowhere,
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but also it can be sensitive and so I generally don't talk about it.
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But in this case, it is essential to understanding what actually happened next.
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Because without that whistleblower complaint, I was ready to give up on this case.
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I mean, I literally was like, what am I gonna do here?
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I'm gonna get sued if I talk about this.
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And like, what are my other options?
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But as I started to pull together evidence for this government tip, I got an email archive of Goliath's old newsletters,
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and I start to see more and more of what they've been telling people.
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And I'm just like, I can't believe what I'm seeing.
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I mean, near the top, a financial audit.
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They sent out a newsletter saying that they had an independent audit
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and the independent audit come back and said 115 % of investors funds were secured for the whole year of 2024.
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So to be clear, this is an announcement of an audit sent to investors to reassure them Goliath was backed 115%.
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Now the key question is, who's the auditor?
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Who did the audit?
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Well it turned out it was BlackBlock Management Services.
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Now just the name of that company got people pretty confused right away.
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I was on the phone to a fire lady
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and she was raving on about he's been in Forbes magazine and I'm going, they pay for this.
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It's a sponsored advert.
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No interviewer, no name.
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And the funniest one, well, it wasn't funny, but they said that they are part of, they're invested with BlackRock.
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And I go, no, it's BlackBlock.
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And I said, go to myblackblock, it's very confusing, dot com.
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And it's not, and the contract, you've just misheard it.
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So BlackBlock, a fly -by -night company, not BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is the actual people who audited this company.
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They are led by a guy named Matt Burks, and he's going to be very important to our story because this is when I started to first hear about retirement funds.
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You want to know more nonsense?
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Those retirement funds that they rolled over.
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I'm still actually confused as to how they were able to take other people's retirement funds.
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They took people's retirement funds?
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Yeah.
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So people rolled over their IRAs.
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And I'm not saying this as in I know anybody who did this, But that's what they they also promoted the retirement fund stuff.
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They promoted that?
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Yeah, yeah, as in like they had like this team doing I think
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it was Pierce Curry is from what I've Wealth MD the name.
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Yeah, something like that Now you can see the recognition from me there.
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My wealth MD was this program I had seen pop up over and over again.
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Well, if you go to their page, who do you find behind it?
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None other than Matt Burks the same person behind the audit company BlackBlock is the founder of MyWealthMD,
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and I got a copy of their investment contract.
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What I noticed is it looks very similar to Goliath's, but it gave you lower profits, only 2 % a month for the first million.
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And to make it stranger, Goliath Ventures was nowhere mentioned on their contract at all.
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Not only that, the website was clearly catered to older people, which concerned me.
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Unlike Goliath, they had videos of retirees endorsing the company.
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Definitely recommend them, in particular, for any financial retirement goals.
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Yeah, I'd feel very confident giving his name out to any of my friends or relatives.
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I would recommend to anyone, friends, people I care about.
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Have him meet with them and discuss their issues, because I feel sure he can help.
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Now I guess the question is, is this related to Goliath, if their name's not on the contract?
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Well, that's when Danny found an insider meeting between Goliath and Matt Burks explaining how they'd be managing retirement funds through MyWealthMD.
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It's a trillion dollar market, retirement accounts.
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So on qualified money, yes, essentially the way it works is whatever percentage they get paid, the fee over that just gets split between the referring partner or director.
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and WealthMD, that's how it works.
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WealthMD does all of the work.
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You're responsible for zero.
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It's just half and half, you do zero work.
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Zero work for you.
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This is a room of basically recruiters for Goliath Ventures, and what they're told is they could get retirement money and funnel it into MyWealthMD,
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who would manage the backend and split profits with them.
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And then someone asked, when can we start doing this? For us.
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Wait.
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Right now it's available.
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Real quick.
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Yeah.
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Time out.
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Sit before you.
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Don't get too excited.
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If someone is currently at a job, they have a 401k thrift savings plan, something like that, that money we can't touch.
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If they are currently making contributions into a plan, it is not eligible for rollout in service.
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Retire.
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Okay.
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There is one.
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Get them to retire today.
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This is why if someone has a qualified plan, you say, call Matt.
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I know those questions to ask and so if there's a way to get the money out, I will get it.
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Wow, when I saw this clip, I could not believe it.
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If there's a way to get the money out, I will get it.
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I mean they were scheming to get retirement money, which types they could legally get.
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And from the testimonials on their website, it sounds like they did that.
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We would meet yearly and usually every time I came in, you know, It was a pleasant surprise,
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you know, the accounts going up or they would find new accounts out there
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that I could transfer funds from one account to another and make a bonus money.
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So there was those kind of surprises, but, and there was a lot of them. So, yeah.
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Is this not completely insane?
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They were hunting down retirement accounts to add to Goliath.
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And the same guy running the retirement money is auditing Goliath and saying it's back to 115%.
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Now at this point, I finish my whistleblower report and I send it off to the DOJ program on October 24th, 2025.
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And I'm nervous because even on the best days, it's an uncertain thing.
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It takes forever.
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But I know that Chris Delgado is very well connected.
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I discover he's donated to key figures.
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He went to the White House.
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And guess who we met?
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FBI Director Cash Patel.
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You are so fucked.
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Why did it have to be cash?
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I mean, of all the people, the one guy I've been talking about for months about Epstein, you don't think he actually saw those videos, right?
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Copy, copy, it's a side channel.
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Nobody cares about the Epstein files.
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These videos have like a few thousand views.
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A million views, yeah.
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Yeah, you're fine, don't worry about it.
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Okay, okay, so if you think so, I mean, I'll trust you.
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I just...
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Because it actually gets worse than that.
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I mean, the worst part is that it doesn't stop there.
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He kind of, you know, said that he might have Kash Patel in his pocket.
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I have heard statements from Chris where he reckons that he's got Kash Patel in the bag.
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What does that mean?
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That means that he thinks that if he gets in the s*, that he's got Kash Patel.
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You just have to imagine my morale on this case.
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It is at an all -time low at this point I mean, let's look at the facts.
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Chris has retiree money Supposedly he claims he has cash patel and what do we got?
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Well, danny is getting sued by chris He's already broke.
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I'm being sued in a separate case I'm trying not to go broke and i'm thinking, you know, we can't do this.
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This case is literally david versus goliath The deck is stacked, except instead of David, we have Danny.
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And instead of Goliath as a giant, he has frosted tips and a few hundred million dollars.
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Or at least we thought he had a few hundred million.
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We weren't exactly sure.
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I mean, soon we learned he probably wasn't as liquid as we thought.
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Ponzi schemes have a way of doing that to you.
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We heard from numerous sources that some people weren't getting paid in November.
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And then later on, we found out that it went back to October, that people had actually started missing their dividends.
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So this is honestly the nightmare scenario that we were always trying to avoid
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because when payments freeze This is
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when it starts to hit the retirees the investors the hardest
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they start to panic They genuinely thought this thing was audited backed They were told
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that and then they're scared to talk now too
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because Danny is getting sued So at this point it's November 2025
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and I feel like I don't know what to do
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So I just reach out to Chris Delgado I don't know if I'm gonna do a story, but I demand to see the black block audit details.
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Chris responds.
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He can't show me because he says that auditor is a witness in his case versus Danny.
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I ask how much money Goliath manages.
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Chris responds hundreds of millions.
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Finally, I address the delayed payments.
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Chris claims he had to freeze the funds for a full forensic audit and then says that they're actually gonna be resuming.
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The next payments would come December 15th.
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I was kind of surprised because that was only in a month that we'd find out the truth.
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Unfortunately, I later learned this is also what - the investors were told.
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I think he was just, that was just pulled out of his ass to make sure it wouldn't be awkward at the Christmas party.
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Which we had people inside the event who had got through the security
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and were filming the inside of this event with Jason Derrillo.
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This was like a big $5 million event that was just over the top.
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The people that we had in the event were telling us that it was no expense spared.
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Meanwhile, all money was frozen.
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I think it was on the 12th of, maybe the 10th of December.
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And then Christopher took off back to Dubai on the 15th of December.
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And that was disgusting at that time.
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So right before payments are supposed to come out, they have this big $5 million party with Jason Derulo.
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Investors are feeling good.
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And then, of course, the 15th arrives.
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Nobody gets paid.
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And, you know, I don't know what to do.
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I feel terrible for people.
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But at the same time, you know, nobody's talking.
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There's still this threat of a lawsuit.
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And I've contacted at least probably 100 people for this story at this point who had money in Goliath
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or knew about Goliath.
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And basically, almost all of them are terrified or embarrassed.
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And at this point, I'm wondering, if I can't get people on the record, how else can I establish from 99 .9 % to 100 % that this thing is just fully fake?
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And that's when I did some more digging.
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Specifically, I wanted to focus on a certain map I had seen.
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This is a map of Goliath Ventures money.
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It's something I put in my whistleblower report and it basically explained how they claimed the money would be sent around.
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Basically, people were wiring money into Goliath that goes to Coinbase.
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Eventually, that's sent to Uniswap for liquidity pools, which then they paid people out of.
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And I realized, if this was on the blockchain, we should be able to see proof of this, Like trace it back to these supposed liquidity pools,
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but where do we start?
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Well, I had some victims crypto payout wallets
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that I decided to use I trace them backwards Through the payments
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because in theory
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if Goliath is really using those liquidity pools I should see payouts coming from wallets connected to them right
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and eventually after I had done that what did I find?
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There are no liquidity pools in this scheme Well, there was a tiny little bit what I found was a little over $20 ,000
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But almost all of the money tens of millions of dollars
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was going straight from Coinbase to pay out old investors and Goliath says themselves the coinbase money.
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Where's it coming from?
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New investors so putting this together new money goes to coinbase Which pays out old money and it was at this point?
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I excitedly brought my results to Danny to see what he thought
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so there's no there's no incoming money Where do they have it?
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So it's a graph of a Ponzi scan.
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It's just brilliant.
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So that's fantastic.
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So that's great.
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I mean that there is just everything they have said has just been just undone very simply.
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Which is actually quite disturbing.
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Why do you say that?
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Well they've just lied to everybody.
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They've just said that they were doing something and we've been, I'm not crypto clever.
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And all of a sudden, they've been telling everyone they've been doing pancake swaps.
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And somebody told me to say, oh, well, you know, it doesn't make enough money to do the type of liquidity they are doing.
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And here we are, we've just got a graph in front of us here where it just shows there's no trading.
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It's a straight Ponzi scheme right here.
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By now, I had all the pieces.
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I had the pitch.
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I had the proof.
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I had the Ponzi.
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I had done my best to report this thing, but people are not being paid at this point And I don't care anymore.
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I mean, I'm gonna go public whether I get sued
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or not I've done my best to do all the due diligence I can
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and so it was at this point I start writing the story
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and Right as I do right before I filmed it the
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craziest thing happened Orange County man charged with running a multi
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-million dollar Ponzi scheme posted a million dollar bond earlier today The Justice Department says Christopher Delgado stole more than $328 million,
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but instead of investing it in cryptocurrency, he pocketed the money.
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And only we were there to ask him about it as he left the federal courthouse.
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Mr. Delgado, West 2 investigates.
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Can we talk to you about the charge against you?
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West 2 News was the only news organization outside the federal courthouse as Christopher Delgado left the building.
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An ankle monitor now installed to track his whereabouts pending trial.
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You can contact my counsel.
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I have a blessed day.
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Meanwhile, Delgado left the federal courthouse Wednesday in a Rolls Royce.
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You cannot imagine my shock when I saw this.
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Christopher Delgado was charged with running a $328 million Ponzi scheme.
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And almost better than that, immediately afterwards, I found out that the lawsuit against Danny got dropped in full.
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And this is where I really have to say, I have no clue, honestly, how much or little of my whistleblower report was used.
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I give full credit to the team who actually investigated and charged Chris for chasing down the facts.
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However, what I do know is that Danny was a massive help to everyone.
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The amount of information this guy dug up, along with his team he calls the Avengers, is just staggering.
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And I really have to give them credit.
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But honestly, if it hadn't been for me trying to get this whistleblower report, this video probably wouldn't have existed.
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I would have dropped the case for sure.
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It was only chasing down those last things trying to prove
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this even though I knew there was really nothing I could do
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That drove me to get to this point and given
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that Danny was such a huge part of that I'll link his Ko -fi account if you want to support his work.
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He didn't ask me to say this I'm doing it because I happen to know that financially He's not doing amazing.
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Let's just say investigative journalism when you're being sued is not very easy
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and you need lots of support But honestly this whole thing felt surreal
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and I knew Danny had to be my first call when I heard the news
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Danny da heck We finally got the news That Chris Delgado got arrested today.
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Oh the first person had to call.
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What was that like?
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Emotionally well, I didn't actually could I didn't absorb the information that was just like
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It was just ridiculous
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I did have a lot of interesting parts
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because I was talking to Homeland Security at the same time
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and they didn't know he'd been arrested or
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that it was they couldn't provide me any information about the arrest
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and I said well I've got the document here
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because he rang me because I gave him the actual court violence
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and he said we haven't got
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that yet how did you get it I said I could tell you
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but I'd have to shoot you it's unbelievable I'm shocked they never move this fast
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So John who hits the investigation said he's been investigating for 20 years
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And he said this is the fastest that they've ever got an indictment done.
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It always takes Danny Let me tell you it always takes years
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Even you were just you were I was just interviewing you a Moment ago, and we were both talking.
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This is never gonna happen.
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Oh, you see when I found out I actually burst into tears mate I'll tell you
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Even when I got back to New Zealand, my partner was taking a photo of me walking through and I just burst into tears.
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It's just actually like a tin of bricks, this sort of stuff.
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And even just before we talked to you today, I've just found another lady that's in Canada.
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230 odd thousand, put $100 ,000 in, sold her house, put the proceeds of her house into the investment,
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and also put some credit card money in there
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and now has just realized it's a scam and she doesn't feel like she's got anyone to help her.
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It's brutal.
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This has affected so many lives so negatively.
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I'm so happy that he's getting charged as he should.
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We don't even really want this sort of result.
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You know, it's not why we do it.
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It is actually just trying to make a difference.
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The power of our investigations is where I really am prideful of
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that the team that I have of volunteers is absolutely first class.
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I can't believe we got it, we got it.
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Oh yeah, mm -hmm.
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Yeah!
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What are we, uh, what are we celebrating?
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The bet finally paid off!
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Yeah!
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Wait, you knew about the bet? Of course.
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What do you mean?
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It's your idea go all in okay?
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All right?
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I wasn't expecting you to be
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so cool about it cash came through cash came through That's what I'm talking about all right.
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I never thought I've been making fun of it for a long time saying They got the arrest
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Wait What Chris do got oh they got oh?
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Oh, oh no you pulled it together.
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I'm proud of you.
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I gotta make some calls.
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Yeah, you take whatever call you need champ You take whatever call you need No,
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yeah Yeah, no the deals off the deals off pull out pull out now God uh what Are you crying?
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I can't cry.
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You know I can't cry.
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I'm very sensitive about that.
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I thought you'd be so happy.
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You sold me out.
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You knew the whole time didn't you?
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What happened to crime is legal?
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That was last year.
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I mean this is you know, I guess they catch some of them.
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We were wrong about that a little bit.
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I'm ruined.
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Crime is partially legal.
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I'm gonna have to sell my figure -eats.
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Curse you, Kash Patel!
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Why?
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Why?
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Well, well, well, you made it to the last part of the video, but not the end.
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This is the part where we watch all the fine folks at patreon .com slash coffeezilla who make this show possible.
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You guys know we don't do sponsorships.
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We don't chill out to private equity.
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This is an independent show because of you.
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And actually we have a brand new investigation
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that just went live related to this video we actually had a whole new investigation spawn.
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We opened a cold case that was basically created by a UFC Hall of Famer who exposed a Ponzi scheme.
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Super interesting story.
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And it intersects with this one in a fascinating way.
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You'll see some players from this.
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And it's only available right now on patreon .com slash coffeezilla as are all early episodes ad free.
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So if you enjoy this video, you enjoy content like this, be part of what makes it possible.
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We really appreciate it.
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Sorry, this one took so long.
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As you can see, we put everything into each episode.
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So thank you again.
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And I'm going to go watch and admire, really frankly, the names that could be you.
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Next episode.
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Understanding the Story: A Glimpse into a High-Stakes Investigation
The video dives into a gripping investigation of Goliath Ventures, a $300 million private equity company, and its CEO, Christopher Delgado. Through a conversation between a journalist and Delgado, we explore themes of success, risk, and the American dream—all while uncovering potential red flags. This dialogue is rich with natural speech patterns, making it perfect for practicing shadow speech and improving English fluency.
5 Must-Learn Phrases from the Dialogue
Boost your daily communication with these common expressions from the video:
- "Gravitate towards": To be naturally drawn to someone or something. Example: "People often gravitate towards leaders who listen well."
- "Circle of influence": The group of people who affect or are affected by your actions. Example: "Expanding your circle of influence can open new opportunities."
- "Step into": To become involved in a situation. Example: "I had no idea what I was stepping into when I took the job."
- "Zone into": To focus intensely on something. Example: "When I read a good book, I zone into the story completely."
- "Textbook marketing": A classic or perfect example of marketing. Example: "Using customer reviews in ads is textbook marketing."
Master the Dialogue with a Step-by-Step Shadowing Guide
The shadowing technique is a proven way to improve English pronunciation and fluency—and this video is a great practice tool! Follow these steps to get started:
Step 1: Listen and Absorb
Watch the video once without pausing. Focus on the rhythm and intonation of the speakers. Notice how they stress certain words (like "risk" or "opportunity") to convey emotion.
Step 2: Break It Down
Choose a 30-second clip (try the part where Delgado talks about his trailer park upbringing). Pause after each sentence and repeat it aloud, mimicking the speed and tone. This helps train your mouth to form English sounds correctly.
Step 3: Use a Shadowing App or Site
For extra practice, use a shadowing app or shadowing site to record yourself. Compare your recording to the original—you’ll quickly spot areas to improve, like vowel sounds or word stress.
Step 4: Focus on Pronunciation
Pay attention to tricky words (e.g., "Delgado," "audited"). Look up their correct pronunciation using an online dictionary, then practice saying them in the context of the sentence. This step is key for clear communication.
Step 5: Repeat and Refine
Do this exercise daily for 10–15 minutes. Over time, you’ll notice your speech sounds more natural, and you’ll feel more confident in conversations. Remember: progress comes from consistent practice!
With these tools, you’ll turn this engaging video into a powerful resource for improving your English. Start shadowing today and see how quickly you can boost your fluency!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been investigating · they've been telling · I've been talking |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've been · I've heard · have been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are attracted · was audited · was called |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | someone who actually · someone who trusted · people who audited |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.