Pharma bro Martin Shkreli won't let a little thing like criminal charges stop him from his YouTube show

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Live from New York, it's Martin Shkreli.

The former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO known for jacking up the price of AIDS medicine is currently awaiting his next court appearance on Wednesday after being arrested last month on fraud charges for allegedly running a Ponzi-like scheme during his tenure at MSMB Capital Management and Retrophin.

To keep busy out on bail, he's continued a hobby he picked up in November 2015: livestreaming his, uh, exciting life on YouTube.

On Sunday, Shkreli streamed himself playing a video game for a whopping 11 hours. A livestream posted on Monday showed the pharma bro playing Internet chess, bemoaning his Crest White Strips (hey, he's got to look good for his next day in court), and watching everyone's favorite new Netflix binge Making a Murderer. He's also been livestreaming his Blab conversations, which basically consist of supporters stroking his ego, asking for his investment advice and him answering questions with little enthusiasm.

It's not exactly appointment viewing.

His more than 100 videos aren't going viral, but each does pick up a couple hundred viewers, with some livestreams (including one where the Baruch college alum teaches calculus and name drops El Chapo) gaining more than 1,000 views on YouTube, which in itself is a paltry number when it comes to YouTube stats. So far he's picked up about 5,900 subscribers and a total of nearly 760,000 views across all his videos.

He probably doesn't have a career as a YouTube star ahead. But we're still waiting on that mixtape.

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