Of all the things I thought I’d get from watching Meghan’s new cooking show (including, but not limited to, a second herniated disc or medium to severe brain damage), I couldn’t imagine that I would learn a valuable lesson out of torturing myself watching the Duchess of Sausages pretending she knows the bare minimum of cooking.

Anyway, just to be clear, this is not clickbait. On one hand I advise you to steer clear of “With Love, Meghan”, because even salmonella is lovelier than whatever Netflix tried to put on the screen. But on the other, my biggest complain about the Z-list actress’ culinary antics turned out to be a useful insight for my own Youtube channel, and for my plans for 2025. Let me explain…

By this point most TV pundits, journalist and Youtube commentators agree that the worst sin committed by Meghan is being dull and boring. And you never, ever want to be dull and boring, especially if you have the head start of being married into the Royal Family, which gives you like +10 of automatic exposure. That’s actual privilege. Those are eyeballs on you. Wasting it in this beige-infested fauxmentary is criminal.

In my humble opinion, what Meghan lacked was an edge. Something that made her show truly special and unique. I’m sure that Meghan, in her usual narcissistic-driven decision making, thought that she was the ‘edge’ herself. That people were going to enjoy the show because of herself, and that’s it.

And it kind of works in the first 15 seconds of the first episode, because, well, we know people ARE going to watch Meghan’s show, even if just out of pure and simple hate watching. But what if Meghan had included something, anything that set her apart from other similar productions?

The fact is that she played it too safe. There was no authenticity, for one. There was no outrageousness. There was no drama, no ups and downs, nothing that made the show stand out. Even the moments that she pretends to be ‘spontaneous’, like her disturbing dancing here and there, feel painstakingly rehearsed and contrived.

Let’s say that her show is so bad that there aren’t even enough ‘lows’ to make it a “so bad it’s good” occurrence. Not even that.

Now, what did I learn from this?

Well, if you’re here is because 1) you’ve watched my shows and 2) you find something valuable in my emails. And from that, let’s say that you know me a little, or a lot, depending of how long have you been following me and my rants, both written and on video.

The thing is that at every stage of my journey there have been forks, and experiments, and tests, and one of the most critical that I embarked on recently was rebranding my main channel, the Body Language Guy to my own name, Jesús Enrique Rosas. It has turned out to be a wise move. I was wrong about people not remembering my name, after all.

But then, there’s the content itself. You know that I pivoted hard into politics and international news, making so many of you happy, since you thought that I was wasting my abilities in ephemeral stuff like, well, the Montecito morons. Now I’ve jumped all the way to the other extreme, and I guess that the only thing more important than the possibility of a Third World War could be an Interplanetary War, but until then, I’m already here at the edge of the ‘important topics’ spectrum.

But then there’s a problem. And it’s the same thing I observed in Meghan’s show that made me reflect about what I was doing with mine.

The same way that Meghan didn’t have an ‘edge’ to her production, nothing to stand out, nothing to make it memorable, I feel the same was happening with my own production. I’m extremely demanding when it comes to what I do, and I always ask myself the same question:

“What if someone who has never seen my videos, lands on my latest rant? will they find something special over all the noise out there?”

And a big wake-up call was my recent analysis of Zelenskyy and Trump. Not only was my longest, most thorough analysis ever (One hour and 45 minutes long), but I don’t remember the last time I welcomed close to 8.000 new subscribers to my channel, out of a single video. That was insane.

Which, of course, 10 seconds into celebrating these milestones, made me think: And what about the rest of my content? Are the rest of my videos, my tweets, my blog posts as good? do I deliver the same value, if not more?

And the most important insight of all:

I’m still The Body Language Guy.

Yeah, regardless of changing my channel name to fit the words on my passport, the original spirit of the channel still lingers. Body Language and Behavior Analysis, adding a lot of Statement Analysis as well, is what has set me apart.

So, yes, I saw Meghan’s cooking show, noticed that she lacked that ‘edge’ and then I couldn’t help but look inwards.

You might say that I put effort on the entertaining part of my content (and I do), and I’m authentic (something that definitely helps me trigger the ‘wrong’ audience so they just go away), but that’s not enough. And when I say that it is not enough for me, I’m saying that it is not enough for anyone. For you, as well. I don’t know what you do, but maybe ‘being authentic’ is not something that you get to exercise every day, or even want to exercise every day. Because sometimes you have to play into the politics of your circumstances. And that’s fine.

But what WE CANNOT AFFORD TO is to NOT have an edge. A unique set of skills a lá Liam Neeson that sets ourselves apart from the rest. That’s a sin. That’s Meghan’s cooking show Final Sin.

For the past few months I’ve made sure to put out as much content as possible, some days churning out up to 10+ topics, which was brutal. It’s hard to keep up with so many news happening daily, and even harder to disconnect on weekends, something that I do out of force because my brain asks for a time-out, in spite of the strong Fear Of Missing Out I feel.

And that’s important – there is no other way to polish one’s craft than to do an absurd amount of work and putting it out there. But the main issue arises: Of what use is putting out 100 videos in a month, if half of them are no different than other talking heads?

That’s precisely what I don’t like about podcasts. I find them all incredibly boring. It’s like the same ideas, rehashed over and over again, not to mention that usually just a couple 5-minute clips can be salvaged for actual useful content. At least that’s my opinion, and don’t think it will change anytime soon. I just use AI to summarize those two-hour conversations in quick bullet points.

What I see is the same problem: it’s extremely hard to discern what makes a podcast stand out. And that’s the thing with the attention economy – you have to stand out no matter what. That’s why I call Meghan’s misused privilege such a disgustingly wasted opportunity.

Coming back to my show, expect a few changes, nothing too abrupt (at least not yet!), but as every single one of us should do every now and then, I need to sit down, reevaluate my set of skills, realize that I’ve grown in some video production areas and what has worked and what has not.

One thing is for certain: I’ll be doing more body language analyses, and of the ‘important’, Third-World-War-odds stuff.

So, you see? I got something out of watching Meghan’s show, after all. Sometimes torturing yourself can have a good outcome.

Until we meet again. Much Love and Bliss,

Jesús.

The Body Language Guy