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This post has nothing to do with blogging, making money online, SEO or marketing. Today I want to talk about my favorite YouTube video.
One day I was reading some blogs and I found out about this guy called Matt Harding. I saw that he had a few videos on YouTube so I got curious and started to watch the videos. My first thought was: “What the hell is wrong with this guy?” But I kept on watching the videos and my jaw dropped when I finally read the story about this guy.
Matt Harding is a guy from Connecticut who used to work in Australia. One day he got tired of his job and decided to travel through Asia with some friends. His friends know that Matt is an awful dancer and that he does this crazy and stupid dance were he makes a fool of himself.
A few months into their trip, Matt and his friends went to Hanoi, Vietnam. One of his friends told him to do the dance and he recorded him with his video camera. After the trip was over, Matt’s friend decided to upload the video to the internet to make fun of him.
A couple of years went by and the video got very popular online. Millions of people started watching Matt’s stupid dance. One day the people of Stride Gum watched the video and decided to give Matt a call. They asked him if he was interesting in traveling the world doing his dance and he accepted.
Matt went around the world for 6 months doing his stupid dance in different cities. This made him semi-popular and an online video star.
A few months later he went back to Stride Gum and told them about the idea of taking another trip, but this time he was going to dance with people of every city.
This video was a total hit and he got really famous. This guy is not rich, didn’t go to college and doesn’t have a job (except Stide’s Gum sponsorship). The cool thing of this guy is that his videos really inspire people. They use the perfect song for the dance and it really is very motivating. I hope someday I could travel the world like Matt Harding.
Try to be patient and watch the whole video:
If you can’t see this WOP, click here: Where the hell is Matt going to dance next?
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Holy crap I can’t believe how many places he’s been! At one point in the video is was flying through like 30 countries without names and then it continued back to normal.
Amazing what you can accomplish with little or no responsibility in life.
haha no responsability Brian? Well I guess its true but this guy got very, very lucky to get that sponorship contract.
haha what type of this post, so strange
Matt really show some serious lesson on his stupid dancing. One try to be popular seriously and other doing what he want and banggg…the star are for Matt only
Well Bill I guess that this video has a lot of lessons for everybody:
1) It doesn’t matter if other people think you’re stupid if you have personality and you don’t mind what other people think.
2) The whole world can come together when there’s no politics or religion involved.
Asswass! Amazing, Thank you so much for this post! I find it amazing how many people have made something out of posting vids on youtube! I have a buddy who sings in a band, They posted a vid on youtube.com and are now getting a lable! That guy Matt has the best job ever!
That was definitely pretty cool. Finally at the very end he made it to Los Angeles… which was the closest he got to me. I really liked the underwater dancing and the weightless space one too. Thanks for sharing!
More power to him. Because he didn’t CARE what his friends thought and wasn’t afraid to sing his own song, so to say…he made it big for himself.
Great story! Thanks for sharing.
Very nice post and video is too good. i m enjoying it very much. Thanks for a good post…
Thanks Barbara, and thanks for visiting my blog
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Hey Doug, it is a cool video and story. My favorite ones are also the underwater with the whale and the weightless. I also think that the one in North Korea was alse very cool. Let’s see if I can make him to Caracas.
Hey Jose, what’s the name of your friend’s band? He does have the best job ever
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Very inspiring, thanks…
Cool, superb, awesome video..I love dancing..my foot is moving now..hahahaha..
Glad you liked it Maroon
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haha glado you liked it Een. Maybe you should ask him to go to Malaysia.
Yeah..I will ask him to dance at Penang Bridge, Putrajaya, KL tower..those are awesome place in Malaysia…If I could..
Yeah, you can definitely see the Aussie influence and we are well known for turning out talented people. That’s why we’re such a popular tourist attraction
haha that’s right Sire but he’s not aussie he’s american lol.
I know, but you did say he
and sometimes that’s all it takes.
haha ok Sire I’ll take your word for it. I can’t wait to go to Australia.
His band was entropy, I just saw him today and he was telling me how he is the only one who is going to get the label (They want him to play with another band….too crazy for me) Asswass you should do some crazy Hiburrito.com vids of a dancing donkey around Venezula! LoL…..Would be pretty cool!
Thanks JoseGregorio I’ll so some searching on Youtube.
Those videos would be awesome lol but I don’t have any money or time to do it :S.
Asswass, Mybe you can make a Hiburrito logo that can be sent to people via email. Your blog readers can then print it and do a vid/photo of them dancing with it in there country, city, Etc and you can give them links or something for it! (Sort of like shoemoney and T-shirt friday)
That is a viable and great idea. The question is, would you do it? I don’t see any of my readers doing something stupid for Hiburrito. I do want to let people use Hiburrito’s logo to create T-shirts, Baseball Caps, coffe mugs, stickers and a lot more. But I want to know if people want to do it.
By the way, I’m going to Miami as part of my honeymoon next year.
Wow, I wish I can travel around the world too
. Btw, are you good in dancing, Alfredo?
@Jacob It depends of what you call a good dancer lol. How about you?
Haha, I love watching others dance..but I’m noob in that.
@Asswass…..mybe you can do some cheap vids on ur own time! Let me know when you come to Miami…..I know all the right places for you guys to go have a good time!
Jose
Maybe I will Jose. I’m going there the first days of June 2.010. I need some good restaurants and bars.
Brian hit the nail on the head with the first comment on this post, it’s amazing all the places Matt has been. I thought to myself when my kids hit 18 and are out on their own (hopefully) I may have to do a “Where will Extreme John dance next?” .com
Matt Harding is now one of my heroes. Doing what he wants, having fun and making others feel good. It doesn’t get much better than that.
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Hey Brian, he’s also one of my heroes. Just by not being shy and having fun, he inspires a lot of people and travels the world. I wish a lot people in this world had the same vision as Matt.
John If you do those videos I will dance with you for sure. Are you going to kick your kids out when they’re 18? lol