Welcome back to Gary's Economics.

Today, we are going to do a channel update.

Okay, so

we're filming this beginning of April, and the last month

has been absolutely mental for me for the channel.

I feel like I've done just about every single podcast in the world.

I’ve been in just about every newspaper in the country.

The channel has grown unbelievably quickly,

like every single channel YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.

And it's mainly because of the book publicity.

And the first thing to say is that the book was number one.

Most of you probably have seen the post I did on various channels.

The book came out number one, beginning of March,

biggest number one of the year, massive, nearly twice.

Number two,

we stayed number one for two weeks, which is amazing.

It's really hard to stay number one because all of your preorders

count to your first week.

So when you're competing with like other week one books,

they have a massive advantage.

So it was crazy that we stayed number one,

we've been in the top three for four weeks now,

just been beaten by new releases, basically.

I don't know what to say to be honest.

The book is a Sunday Times number one best selling book.

And that's something that

I would be able to take to my grave and tell my grandkids about

if I ever have any.

And that is basically

thanks to you guys who bought the book, basically, we got the preorder numbers

in like a couple of weeks before and the preorders were massive

and like, that would have been enough basically to be number one by itself. So,

yeah, just I don't want to

say really a massive thank you to everybody who bought the book.

It's because of you that the book is number one.

And that's been amazing for me.

It's like a great source of pride for me, so thank you.

It's also just given us unbelievable growth of the channel like the YouTube.

We only hit a hundred thousand YouTube subs

just over a maybe a month ago.

Six weeks ago.

At the moment we're at 173 (thousand) and it's still growing really quickly

and the insta is through 100,000.

We got mentioned

in the House of Commons an SNP MP mentioned

the work in the House of Commons.

We had the the deputy head of the Green Party tweeting about it yesterday.

And so, you know, we’re

getting recognized by politicians recognized all over the world.

I'm getting

recognized in the street about ten times a day.

I've been touring across the country I've been to

Bath, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool.

I went up to Dublin and we've been filling up big rooms in all those places.

And it's just been it's been amazing.

It's been overwhelming.

I don’t really know what to say it's been mad, but yeah,

thank you for everyone who bought

the book who promoted the book, who bought the audio book.

You know, I hope you like my accent, those who bought the audiobook.

Yeah, everyone who's been following the channel for years.

And I hope you guys are enjoying, you know, the growth

in the message and the growth and the understanding of these ideas as...

I was going to say as much as I am.

But to be honest, I've been so unbelievably busy the last

month or six weeks, I haven't really had much time to stop and

take it all in.

I've just been unbelievably busy doing

so much media,

you know, just

newspapers, radio channels, podcasts.

And the book has also been released

in the USA,

Australia, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands,

and I've been doing publicity for those countries as well.

So you might have just seen the UK publicity.

If you watch from the UK,

but I’ve also been doing all this international publicity as well.

I should thank a few people

like obviously you read the book, but behind the scenes

there's like a whole team.

At Allen Lane which is the in-print of Penguin

that published the book, there’s my editors, there's a publicity team,

there's a marketing team, there's a sales team.

They put out work in, and

also like the

the people who work at bookshops and I've been getting sent photos

from across the country of like window displays in bookshops.

And it's not like, for example, it doesn't come down from like Waterstones

head office, like put Gary's book in the window.

It's the individual staff at the stores who decide what goes in the window.

So, yeah, just thank everyone who has helped.

All of the guys who work at bookshops, all the independent bookshops.

All the guys at Waterstones.

I've seen so many massive displays.

Foyles here in London.

On Tottenham Court Road had a massive window display.

So, you know, it's not just me.

There's a whole team of people that work towards

getting this book out and getting, you know, all the publicity

we have that’s down to the publicity team at Penguin who've been amazing.

So, yeah, thank you to everyone

the guys at Penguin, the guys at bookshops, but most of all you guys

for buying the book becaus that's what gets the book to number one.

And yeah, the people who've been supporting the message

from the beginning, I just want to say I've been so busy

with book stuff the last week, the last month it's been quite difficult

to do the YouTube I’ve just been working so hard.

But we’re getting it done.

We're going to keep getting videos out every week on economics.

I just wanna encourage you.

You know, the book is part of the political project.

Like I love the book. I think the book is really good.

I put my heart and soul into it, but it's part of a bigger picture project

and I'm hoping

you guys are seeing the growth in the channels and you’re realizing that, you know

that is going to help us grow the voice.

Yeah so I hope you enjoy.

Those you read the real book, the physical book, the audio book, hope

you enjoyed that and keep sharing it.

I brought some random stuff to show you because you guys would have only seen

the English book but I've got all the different versions here.

So I thought I’d show you them because I get sent them in the post.

This is the UK version, which if you watching in the UK, is the one you bought.

We've also had this one come out in the States.

Also, this is Crown is the imprint

which is part of Penguin as well that's out there in the States.

This is the Dutch version, Spelen Met Geld.

I think its doing well there.

We got some great press in the Dutch, I’ve

been swearing in far too much of my press and there’s a massive Dutch.

I've got the Dutch newspaper which is like something in Dutch.

The only word you can read is ‘fucking’, which is typical of my press.

This is the German version. Very intense.

I've even got, this is a special American this is like an advance proof you get

this is the never got published this one maybe I’ll like

do some sort of give this to somebody on the channel somehow

but yeah I don't know what to say.

It's been mad it's really helped the growth of the channel thanks to everyone

who's bought it

and supported it and people who’ve been following on the channel from day one.

All of the guys who retweet my stuff on Twitter.

All of the guys who share everything.

Yeah, it's

really building up

the political project and it's making me sort of realize

that if we keep going and maybe

we can start to change things.

But yeah, there's a long way to go.

Hopefully we'll get a film or TV series made out of it. I'm

not allowed to talk too much about that, but we've got a deal in progress.

But look, we

do it for a reason.

We do it because, you know,

because we don't want the economy to collapse.

And we've got to try and stop it from collapsing.

So, yeah, keep following, keep sharing and yeah, just like,

just well done to us, to you for everyone

who's been following for a long time and thanks for your support.

And yeah, we'll keep going.

I might take a holiday at some point.

We'll keep going. Thank you.