He's from North Jersey by the accent and cultural references. At one point he claimed he was a quant on Wall Street and got downsized, which led to doing his show with the emphasis on the stock market and economics.

Having said that, he can't possibly sell enough flashlights to live on the commissions!

His production quality is markedly better now than in his early, amateurish efforts.

I say he's a sergeant in an Army psyops unit. I say this because he mispronounces words any upper-middle class, typical Ivy Leaguer would know as common knowledge. He also doesn't appear to know Republican or "Conservtive Movement" histroy and figures, since he mispronounces their names and misapplies the ;essons learned.

So, Army psyops, enlisted man -- not West Point or even ROTC! -- and probably did have a legit vlogging effort before this became his fulltime gig. Recruited? "Discovered"? Who knows?